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10+ min ago (324+ words) Today is Put On Your Own Shoes Day. What does that mean? Well, according to National Today, that's open to interpretation. Put on Your Own Shoes Day is held annually on December 6. Since the origins are not completely known, the creator has given us free rein to use our imaginations. You could see this day as a metaphor for proudly strutting your stuff or teaching a toddler to put on their shoes. The beauty is that it's up to you. So I just really have to wonder about the person who created "Put Your Own Shoes On" Day " which is every day, for most people who leave the house, unless they are physically unable to do so, in which case this is a pretty rude holiday " and spent whatever they spent on that. I mean, you could pay retail for…...

12+ min ago (428+ words) Ours is a time of provably wrong claims, vociferously stated." It was an easily tested question: Either U.S. citizens have been detained and arrested or they haven't. As it happens, we had a reporter who was tracking exactly that. Nicole Foy had been combing social media posts, press reports and court records and had already found multiple instances of citizens who were arrested or detained. It was enough for a story to refute Kavanaugh's misstatement." In response to questions from ProPublica about the story, the Department of Homeland Security said agents do not racially profile or target Americans. "We don't arrest US citizens for immigration enforcement," wrote spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. This story turned out to be one of our most-read investigations of the year. Congressional Democrats launched their own inquiry, and the number of U.S. citizens detained " more than 170 " turned into a…...

12+ min ago (473+ words) A woman's workout at the gym went haywire when a man unexpectedly intervened. In the viral clip, which has amassed a huge 20 million views, fitness creator Yaz (@y4zfit) did what she always does: set up her smartphone camera to film her workout. However, as she was doing pullups in the gym, a random man appeared and picked up her phone. He then turned off the camera. Yaz then detailed in the video description what the man did next. "This guy took my phone in the gym, went down my phone, started deleting videos, took me a while to realise he even has my phone as I was focused on my workout," she wrote. "I record every single work out to track my form and I have online coaching and always do my best not to have people in my videos. Anyways,…...

12+ min ago (1147+ words) ICE's operation against Minnesota's Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign. As dozens of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement surged into Minnesota's Twin Cities this week as part of a federal crackdown targeting the Somali diaspora, it struck fear in the hearts of community members. It's not just immigrants, however, worried over ICE's presence. The rhetoric behind the operation " notably racist rants from Donald Trump about Somalis at large " prompted legal residents of Somali descent to reel from fear. "This is absolutely a racist weaponization of ICE against an entire community." The operation, announced this week amid a rising tide of vitriol aimed at Minnesota's Somali diaspora, isn't likely to result in booming deportations from Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The Somali community is largely made up of American citizens and permanent…...

17+ min ago (335+ words) Inset: Sarah Vicker (Madison County Detention Center). Background: The Revival Tabernacle church in Richmond, Kentucky (Google Maps)." A Kentucky woman abandoned her toddler without food inside an empty apartment, wrote a goodbye letter to her partner, and then traveled to a church, authorities say. Sarah Vicker, 34, stands charged with abuse of a child 12 or under and the abandonment of a minor, Hamilton County jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show. The sequence of events occurred on Wednesday. At about 9 a.m., Vicker fed her 1-year-old daughter inside an apartment on Villa Drive in Richmond, according to court documents obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader. About two hours later, the defendant allegedly left the child inside of a playpen next to a 65-inch TV without any additional food, wrote a farewell note to her significant other, and left. She did not lock the door…...

28+ min ago (784+ words) Inset: Vito Dambrosio (Nassau County Police Department). Background: The deli owned by the alleged killer's family in Bethpage, N.Y. (Google Maps). A New York man out of Long Island brutally killed both of his parents in a delicatessen long-owned by the family, Empire State police say. Vito Dambrosio, 30, stands accused of two counts of murder in the first degree, according to the Nassau County Police Department. The incident occurred early Thursday at A&A Italian Deli and Pizza on Hicksville Road in Bethpage " a small, census-designated place located within the town of Oyster Bay " the police department said. That day, Angela Pulisciano, 62, the defendant's mother, and Antonio Dambrosio, 70, the defendant's father, were working at the deli when their son started a fight, authorities allege. At some point, the argument turned violent, according to the police department's homicide squad. The defendant's mother…...

28+ min ago (244+ words) President Donald Trump attacked CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent'Kaitlan Collins in a vicious error-riddled rant iin which he called her "Stupid" and "Nasty." The president appears to have awakened to some unpleasant television viewing, as he started off the morning on the attack. A little after 8 AM, Trump went after someone named "Caitlin Collin's": The respected CNN anchor has long been a target of Trump's, and on Friday night's edition'of CNN's'The Source with Kaitlan Collins, she brought up the ballroom in her weekly recap: ON SCREEN TEXT: Thursday, December 4. COLLINS: You see that giant crane that is over my shoulder? That's the latest addition to the construction zone here at the White House, where President Trump's ballroom is going to go eventually. And it comes as we're learning here at CNN that there is actually a new architect…...

41+ min ago (42+ words) Follow our live build-up, with full team news coverage, ahead of our text commentary stream of the La Liga match. Follow our live build-up, with full team news coverage, ahead of our text commentary stream of the La Liga match....

49+ min ago (593+ words) A federal judge on Friday rejected the Trump administration's efforts to dismiss a class action lawsuit brought by a group of immigrants challenging their detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Jan. 29, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum directing the requisite federal agencies "to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity and to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States." By Feb. 4, the first group of immigrant detainees had been transferred to Guantanamo out of Fort Bliss, a military base in El Paso, Texas. The plaintiffs, a group of immigrants led by Yamil Luna Gutierrez, said the Trump administration failed to articulate "any legitimate reason" to hold immigrants at Guantanamo due to the "ample detention capacity" within the United States. Moreover, none of…...

50+ min ago (591+ words) Four civilians, soldier killed in Afghan-Pakistan border clash Disarm Hezbollah 'even if by force', US lawmakers tell Lebanon Egyptian prisoner's death sparks outrage from rights groups Homs: A stability test that Syria's new authorities are failing Iraq 2.0? How UN Security Council put Gaza under US occupation The Mission: A surgeon, a war and the film the world must see An overnight exchange of gunfire and shelling at a major Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing killed four civilians and one soldier, Afghan officials said on Saturday, the latest flare-up of fighting between the two countries despite a ceasefire since deadly clashes in October. Five other civilians were wounded, an Afghan government spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said in a video statement. The local hospital at the Pakistani border town of Chaman said three people suffered minor injuries during the fighting. Each side accused the other…...