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Chicago TribuneThunder Road: How long before Kevin Durant and Oklahoma City reign?
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An MSNBC host had an unfortunate on-air mix-up while reporting on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial Tuesday.
MSNBC host Steve Kornacki used former President Bill Clinton’s name rather than Cosby’s while reporting on Cosby’s arrival at a Norristown, Pennsylvania, court, where the entertainer faces allegations of sexual assault.
“We’re going to begin with that breaking news we told you about at the top,” Kornacki said. “Right now out of Pennsylvania, Bill Clinton is set to arrive at a suburban — excuse me, Bill Cosby is set to arrive at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse any moment now for a key hearing in his criminal sex assault case.”
Cosby’s preliminary hearing is part of the criminal case in which he faces allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman after drugging her.
Several women have also accused Clinton of sexual misconduct, allegations presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has noted in recent interviews and at campaign events.
(H/T: Washington Free Beacon)
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CBS NewsLewandowski: Trump campaign gave between $5.5 - $6 million to veterans groups
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SalonEven Glenn Beck laughs at Donald Trump for using Vince Foster conspiracy theory against Hillary Clinton
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Washington PostThe massive scale of the Clintons' speech-making industry
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NBCSports.comB's turf another assistant — Jarvis out, Pandolfo and Cassidy in
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It’s called the Fun City Bowl — just members of New York City’s police department strapping on helmets and shoulder pads as they meet members of the Big Apple’s fire department in a charity football game on Coney Island.
The city’s Finest and Bravest gathering for a friendly game, and all for a good cause — what could go wrong?
Well, after a cop clocked a firefighter with a brutal hit near the end of the game Sunday, the New York Post reported, plenty went awry.
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A pair of fights broke out on MCU Park’s field, the paper said, and much of the action — with images of roller coasters and other amusement park attractions in the background — was caught on video.
One clip caught an image of Bronx firefighter and tight end Tom Slane, all 6 feet 3 inches and 285 pounds of him, the Post said, with a torn jersey and blood streaming down his face and from his left ear.
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“I don’t want to talk about it,” Slane, 33, told the Post on Monday when asked about the fracas.
NYPD’s Finest (in blue and gold) led FDNY’s Bravest (in white and red) 29-13 when the cop reportedly administered his vicious hit — which resulted in FDNY players rushing across the field.
“They hit our quarterback out of bounds, and that’s how things started,” FDNY coach Steve Orr told the Post. “There were a lot of hotheads there.”
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The fighting lasted for several minutes, the paper said, with plenty of profanities flying around before things seemed to calm down. But that was short lived.
After more yelling, another fight commenced in the middle of the field, the Post said.
The announcer tried to diffuse the situation by telling the players they were involved in a charity event. The officials simply let the clock run out rather than attempting to resume the game, the paper reported.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton was in attendance, but a source told the Post he exited the field before the fights.
Check out part 1 and part 2 below. (Content warning: Profanity):
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Many of America’s young adults appear to be in no hurry to move out of their old bedrooms.
For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center has found.
Nearly one-third of millennials live with their parents, slightly more than the proportion who live with a spouse or partner. It’s the first time that living at home has outpaced living with a spouse for this age group since such record-keeping began in 1880.
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The remaining young adults are living alone, with other relatives, in college dorms, as roommates or under other circumstances.
The sharp shift reflects a long-running decline in marriage, amplified by the economic upheavals of the Great Recession. The trend has been particularly evident among Americans who lack a college degree.
The pattern may be a contributing factor in the sluggish growth of the U.S. economy, which depends heavily on consumer spending. With more young people living with their parents rather than on their own, fewer people need to buy appliances, furniture or cable subscriptions. The recovery from the 2008-09 recession has also been hobbled by historically low levels of home construction and home ownership.
As recently as 2000, nearly 43 percent of young adults ages 18 to 34 were married or living with a partner. By 2014, that proportion was just 31.6 percent.
In 2000, only 23 percent of young adults were living with parents. In 2014, the figure reached 32.1 percent.
The proportion of young adults now living with their parents is similar to the proportions that prevailed from 1880 through 1940, when the figure peaked, Pew found. Yet in those decades, the most common arrangement for young adults was living with a spouse rather than with parents.
“We’ve simply got a lot more singles,” said Richard Fry, lead author of the report and a senior economist at the Pew Research Center. “They’re the group much more likely to live with their parents.”
The typical U.S. woman now marries at 27.1 years old, the typical man at 29.2, according to census data. That’s up from record lows of 20.1 for women and 22.5 for men in 1956.
“They’re concentrating more on school, careers and work and less focused on forming new families, spouses or partners and children,” Fry said of the millennials.
Among young men, declining employment and falling wages are another factor keeping many of today’s 18-to-34-year-olds unmarried, Fry said. The share of young men with jobs fell to 71 percent in 2014, the report found, from 84 percent in 1960 – the year when the proportion of young adults living outside the home peaked.
Incomes have fallen as well: Wages, adjusted for inflation, plunged 34 percent for the typical young man from 2000 to 2014.
Other factors contributing to the trend of living with parents range from rising apartment rents to heavy student-debt loads to longer periods in college.
Many analysts had expected that as the economy improved, younger adults would increasingly move out on their own. That hasn’t happened. Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, says soaring rents are discouraging some millennials from leaving their parents’ homes.
Kolko’s research, based on more recent data, has found that the share of young adults living with their parents in the first quarter of 2016 was essentially unchanged from two years earlier.
Median rents nationwide were surging at a 6 percent annual pace as recently as August, though they have slowed since. In fast-growing cities like San Francisco, Denver, and Portland, Oregon, rents rose last year at a double-digit pace.
Heavier student debt loads have sent more young people back to their parents’ nests, according to research last year by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Other economists aren’t convinced that student debt plays a dominant role. They note that the proportion of young adults without college degrees who live with parents is especially high: Nearly 39 percent of those with only a high school degree were living with a parent in 2014, up from around 26 percent in 2000.
That compares with just 19 percent of young adult college grads living at home in 2014. That figure, though, is up sharply from 11 percent in 2000.
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CBS LocalMotorcycle Pursuit Ends In Miami
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A new smartphone app promises to “educate” sexually active individuals by providing a virtual platform through which partners can establish consent “in as little as 25 seconds.” On Tuesday, YES to SEX EDU, which launched May 18, debuted a new feature geared specifically toward college students.
It’s completely legal, and it’s not a hookup app, its founders assure.
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“This is not Tinder at all,” YES to SEX founder Wendy Mandell-Geller told TheBlaze in an email. “It’s not a dating app — It is used to supplement any dating relationship: new, occurring, or re-occurring.”
The app is about consent — facilitating pre-sex conversations about sexual consent, sexually transmitted infections and safe sex.
Mandell-Geller explained that the original YES to SEX app drew the attention of college and university leaders, student advocate groups and Greek organizations, who expressed interest in a feature specifically designed for colleges and universities across the country.
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The new YES to SEX EDU feature, which costs $5 a year, was created in response to this demand for a consent platform compliant with Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination, harassment and assault in federally funded institutions of higher education.
Mandell-Geller, who has three sons of her own, explained that, while the app is not meant to encourage hookups, “every parent knows their child will eventually ‘get with’ someone,” so “why not educate them on safety?”
“I can’t tell you some of the stories [my boys] have told me, but a number of them ended with friends having to get the [morning after] pill or STD tests,” Mandell-Geller told TheBlaze. “This is why I created the app. At first it was educating my boys and their friends, but now it is bigger than that.”
When asked if she thought YES to SEX EDU might perpetuate campus “hookup culture,” the mother of three claimed hookups are “inevitable.”
“Like I said before, teens and adults alike are going to hookup. Why not educate people on what to look for and remind them to be safe? Think of every person from your high school or college that had an unplanned pregnancy, if someone had warned/reminded them where would they be now—” she wrote.
But not everyone is likely to embrace the concept behind YES to SEX EDU, and Mandell-Geller shared that she is well aware of that.
“We expect to receive tons of backlash of all different types,” but, she explained, “that should be expected when trying to change any type of social norm.”
She compared her sexual consent app to Uber, Venmo and Snapchat, three of the fastest growing apps on the market.
“The difference between most companies and the culture we encourage at YES to SEX EDU is that to us, backlash is viable customer feedback,” she wrote. “We use this feedback to continuously grow and better the app and take care of bugs/problems that as a company we are too close to the app to see ourselves.”
She offered no further comments on the potential backlash the company may encounter from some parents and religious groups.
Mandell-Geller, who has been married to her husband for 30 years, shared that she has no real need for the app, but, she shared, “all my sons and their friends use it!”
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MediaiteMSNBC Obsessively and Shamelessly Airs Trump Garbage 'Murder' Conspiracies
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Huffington PostTrump's Gun Views in Spotlight Amid String of Accidental School Shootings
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PHILADELPHIA (TheBlaze/AP) — Bill Cosby is due in Pennsylvania court Tuesday morning for a key hearing in his criminal sexual assault case.
The preliminary hearing will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to send the 78-year-old entertainer to trial.
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Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. Prosecutors said Constand was not only impaired, but unconscious after Cosby gave her three unidentified blue pills. Cosby said they engaged in consensual sexual activities and that he was a friend and mentor to her.
Prosecutors reopened the criminal case last year after dozens of women raised similar claims, and Cosby’s deposition in Constand’s lawsuit surfaced.
Constand had gone to him for career advice. Cosby said he gave her the pills to address her stress.
He settled her lawsuit for an undisclosed sum in 2006, after giving four days of testimony about his extramarital affairs, his pursuit of quaaludes to seduce women and his efforts to hide payments to former lovers from his wife.
The confidential settlement bound both sides to secrecy, but a federal judge last year unsealed portions of Cosby’s deposition on a petition from The Associated Press. The full deposition was later released by a court reporting service.
According to the exchange that took place between Cosby and Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani, between 2005 and 2006, Cosby had sexual contact with two young women, and his agent reportedly paid off one of them so Cosby’s wife wouldn’t find out.
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Cosby said that during filming of one of his sitcoms an agency would send him “five or six” models every week, right to the studio where he was shooting.
He said under oath that he would give the struggling, young actresses “a very, very good meal.” He also described a sexual encounter he had with one of them in 2000.
During the deposition, Cosby was asked about Constand and whether he had sexual relations with her when she was 17.
Troiani asked, “Do you recall serving her amaretto?” He responded, “No.”
“That you told her to sit next to you on the couch and that you put your arm around her and began massaging her shoulder and arms suggestively. Did that occur?” the attorney continued.
“I need clarification on time,” he responded.
Troiani persisted: “She’s 17 and I believe throughout the time she knows you she becomes 18 or 19. On a later occasion you had her masturbate you with lotion. Did that ever happen?”
“Yes,” Cosby said.
He also confessed in deposition to having sexual relations with Therese Serignese, who was 19 in 1976. He said he gave her money through her agent at the William Morris Agency so she wouldn’t tell his wife.
The Associated Press called the agency that Cosby said paid the hush money but received no reply.
Montgomery County prosecutors reopened Constand’s decade-old complaint last summer, after realizing the 12-year window for felony sexual assault had not yet run out.
Cosby has not entered a plea since his Dec. 30 arrest. He would do so at a formal arraignment if the case is held for trial. He is being held on $1 million bail.
Cosby also is fighting defamation lawsuits across the country for allegedly smearing accusers and is trying to get his homeowners’ insurance to pay his legal bills.
Constand is now a massage therapist in Toronto. It’s not known if she will testify Tuesday or if police will instead read her statement about the encounter that night.
Cosby faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of aggravated indecent assault.
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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly faced-off against liberal commentator Kirsten Powers on Monday night, with the two clashing over transgender bathroom policies.
O’Reilly, who called the idea of allowing biological boys into girls’ locker rooms “insane,” argued that transgendered individuals should be accommodated with private restrooms, with Powers pushing back against the broader narrative being advanced by many conservatives.
“What I would say is that, first of all, it’s not a boy who wants to be a girl,” Powers said of a hypothetical transgendered boy. “It’s a person who was born with male genitalia, who experiences life as a woman or a female.”
From there, the two clashed, with Powers becoming frustrated and repeatedly telling O’Reilly to let her speak.
“Let me finish what I’m saying,” she said after the host talked over her, later adding, “I can’t even finish a sentence.”
Watch the on-air battle unfold below:
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comPowers went on to say that, unless the transgendered individual using a locker room that is opposite to his or her biological gender is gay, he or she is “probably attracted to people of the opposite sex,” and questioned whether O’Reilly would oppose a lesbian using a woman’s locker room.
“As long as they’re biologically the same,” he countered, going on to say that he believes in respect, despite disagreeing that people should be able to use whichever bathroom and locker room that corresponds with their self-perceived gender identity.
“Whatever their mental and emotional state is I think should be respected,” he said. “But where are the rights of the 90 plus percent kids from traditional homes?”
Powers continued to push back by saying that transgender individuals aren’t preying on peoples’ daughters and dismissed O’Reilly’s claim that some of the rhetoric being used in the debate is ”designed to make Americans believe there is no difference in gender at all.”
She did say that she understands why some would want a third space for transgender people to use in the midst of transitioning between genders.
“To impose this kind of a situation to young children who don’t understand … is such a violation of parental rights, of children’s rights of everybody’s rights,” O’Reilly said. “And Americans should get really angry about this.”
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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii could become the first state in the United States to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country.
Most people entered in the “Rap Back” database elsewhere in the U.S. are those in “positions of trust,” such as school teachers and bus drivers, said Stephen Fischer of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Hawaii could be the first state to add gun owners.
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“I don’t like the idea of us being entered into a database. It basically tells us that they know where the guns are, they can go grab them” said Jerry Ilo, a firearm and hunting instructor for the state. “We get the feeling that Big Brother is watching usWe get the feeling that Big Brother is watching us.”
Supporters say the law would make Hawaii a leader in safe gun laws. Allison Anderman, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the bill was “groundbreaking,” and that she hadn’t heard of other states introducing similar measures.
Sen. Will Espero, who introduced the bill, and the Honolulu Police Department said Hawaii could serve as a model for other states if it becomes the first to enact the law.
Yet others say gun owners shouldn’t have to be entered in a database to practice a constitutional right.
“You’re curtailing that right by requiring that a name be entered into a database without doing anything wrong,” said Kenneth Lawson, faculty at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law.
Legal experts say the bill could face challenges, but would probably hold up in court. Recent Supreme Court rulings have clarified states’ ability to regulate gun sales, said David Levine, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
The bill will undergo a legal review process by departments including the Attorney General’s Office, which supported the bill, before Gov. David Ige decides if he will sign it into law, said Cindy McMillan, a spokeswoman for the governor.
The cost to enter names in the database will be covered by a fee paid by gun owners, which wasn’t defined in the bill.
Even though other states don’t enter gun owners in the database, Honolulu Police Department Maj. Richard Robinson said it will still benefit Hawaii police. Right now, Hawaii gun owners undergo a background check only when they register a gun, so police have no way of knowing if they’re disqualified from owning a gun in the future unless they try to register a new firearm.
“We were only discovering things by accident,” said Robinson, who helped draft the bill. “They happen to come register another firearm, we run another background check, and then we find out they’re a prohibited person.”
That happens about 20 times each year, he said.
Some local gun owners say the law confirms their fear that the government would know exactly who and where people keep their firearms.
“This is an extremely dangerous bill. Exercising a constitutional right is not inherently suspicious,” said Amy Hunter for the National Rifle Association. “Hawaii will now be treating firearms as suspect and subject to constant monitoring.”
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Los Angeles TimesUCLA signs record-setting apparel deal with Under Armour
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Texas Immigration Facility to Include Special Unit for Transgender Detainees
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DALLAS (AP) — A detention facility for immigrants set to open later this year in Texas will include a special unit for transgender people, the second of its kind in the federal system.
The privately-run facility under construction in Alvarado, Texas, southwest of Dallas, will include 36 beds for transgender detainees, according to a statement Monday from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The facility is expected to open in November.
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The only other such space, in Santa Ana, California, held 28 transgender people last week, according to the agency. City officials in Santa Ana have considered ending their agreement with ICE to house detainees. ICE could not provide the number of transgender people being detained in the entire system.
The agency didn’t provide details about how the facility for transgender detainees would be different than other centers, and a regional ICE spokesman declined to make officials available for an interview.
Advocates say transgender immigrants often face particular challenges, including a higher risk of sexual assault, an inability to get hormone replacement treatments, and dealing with guards unfamiliar with gender identity issues.
A March report by Human Rights Watch on transgender people in immigration found that more than half of 28 women identified in the report were held in men’s facilities at some point during their detention. Half were held in solitary confinement.
According to the report, one Honduran woman held at a detention center in Arizona reported being raped by three men and then being told by a guard, “You are the ones that cause these problems and always call the men’s attention.”
Federal guidelines instruct detention staff to ask incoming detainees about their chosen gender identity and make accommodations based on their preference. The guidelines include instructions on conducting searches, providing clothing based on a detainee’s stated gender identity, and maintaining safety.
The agency said Monday it would work with gay-rights groups in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, just northwest of where the facility is located, to assist transgender people in custody.
But problems persist with the system, according to three experts familiar with transgender issues. They say the best step federal officials could take is to do away with transgender detention altogether.
Carmina Ocampo, a staff attorney at the advocacy group Lambda Legal, said independent oversight is needed for detention facilities, particularly those run privately.
“Without any mechanisms to enforce that, it just seems unlikely that transgender people will be kept safe and not subjected to abuse and mistreatment,” Ocampo said.
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