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'The ex-girlfriend of disgraced pol Hiram Monserrate took another stab at crying in Queens court Friday as jury deliberations began in her samurai-sword case.

It was the second teary day in court for Karla Barba, who is facing up to 25 years prison for a bloody 2016 fight with her fiance in the Jackson Heights home they share with their 4-year-old daughter, Mia.

Barba had burst into tears Thursday on the witness stand, where she claimed that “accidents happen.”
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Her lawyer then began closing arguments, telling jurors again that the pair love each other and that Barba never meant to seriously injure Larrea when she lunged at him, decorative sword in hand, during a domestic dispute.

“She did not unsheathe the sword,” said lawyer Stacey Richman. “It came undone itself” as she swung it a second time.

“This was a crazy, unfortunate accident,” Richman told jurors. “But it wasn’t a crime.”

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'A man was escorted out of a Colorado school board meeting Thursday for naming a teacher who called the wrong Covington Catholic boy part of the “Hitler Youth” on a now-deleted Twitter account.

Mountain Ridge Middle School seventh-grade history teacher Michelle Grissom allegedly named and posted a picture of Covington Catholic student Jay Jackson as one of the boys wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats in Washington, D.C. Jackson was not in Washington with his peers, who were confronted by American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.

“I can’t imagine what drove a teacher to make comments online that were hateful and bigoted, slanderous and vilifying,” parent Aaron Johnson said Thursday. “Now we’re all left picking up the pieces she broke.”

Johnson elaborated to The Daily Caller News Foundation over the phone that Grissom’s actions makes the entire school community look bad.'

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'A Colorado middle school teacher was placed on paid leave and resigned from her leadership position with a local teachers’ union after she incorrectly identified one of the Covington Catholic students and labeled him “Hitler Youth.”

Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Highlands Ranch, tweeted Sunday: “His name is [redacted]. His Twitter account is closed to nonfollowers so we won’t interfere with his training in the #HitlerYouth,” according to screenshots obtained by a local NBC affiliate.
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Ms. Grissom, who also served on the executive board for the Douglas County Federation teachers’ union, submitted her resignation Wednesday, the union’s president confirmed.'

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'The R&B singer Chris Brown filed a false accusation complaint in Paris on Thursday against a woman who accused him of rape last week.

On Tuesday, Mr. Brown was released without charge following questioning by the Paris police over an allegation that he raped a woman at a hotel in the city.

The one-page complaint, submitted by Raphael Chiche, Mr. Brown’s lawyer, asks the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office to investigate the claim as a criminal matter. The charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and a fine of around $50,000. Mr. Chiche did not respond to a request for further comment.'

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'People are entitled to disagree, but what is completely unacceptable is the level of violent imagery directed at kids by adults. The respected journalist Reza Aslantweeted “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” A writer for Saturday Night Liveoffered oral sex for anyone who managed to punch one of the kids in the face. Trevor Noah let these school kids know that not only did “everyone” want to punch these boys out, but he did too. The list goes on and on.
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'The chief executive of the parent company of Gillette, which recently ran an advertisement depicting traditional views of masculinity as immoral and abusive, refused to back down on Thursday.

“It started a conversation,” Proctor & Gamble chief executive David Taylor said in an interview with CNBC’s Sara Eisen Thursday. “There is an issue with tox masculinity.”

Taylor, who spoke to Eisen at the globalist boondoggle in Davos, described the negative reaction to the video as coming from a “well organized but small number’ of people.'

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'Alyssa Milano refused to apologize Wednesday for comparing the pro-President Trump hats worn by the Covington Catholic High School boys to Ku Klux Klan hoods.

The actress and liberal activist penned an op-ed for The Wrap responding to the torrent of backlash she received for tweeting over the weekend, “The red MAGA hat is the new white hood.”
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But not Ms. Milano. She argued the hats the boys were wearing were “synonymous with white nationalism and racism” and that the boys were in Washington “protesting against a woman’s right to reproductive freedom.”

“When I saw that video, I saw boys flaunting their entitlement and displaying toxic masculinity,” she wrote. “It seemed to me like they were reflecting the white nationalism and racism that the hats on their heads have come to represent.”'

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'Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., landed a twofer of criticism on newsrooms this week, claiming the coverage of her appearance on the “Late Show” was both sexist and racist. The response from the national press, which is usually Johnny-on-the-spot with indignant replies to such media criticisms, has been a mixture of silence, indifference, and general agreement.

Host Stephen Colbert asked Ocasio-Cortez Monday whether she gives a “f-ck” about her senior Democratic colleagues who have urged her to wait her turn.

“On a scale from zero to some,” Colbert asked, “how many f-cks do you give?”

Politico describes what happened next: “Ocasio-Cortez reached to her side, as if rummaging through an imaginary bag, and pulled out her hand to make a circle. ‘I think it’s zero,’ she said to laughs and cheers from the crowd.”

Here’s how certain newsrooms characterized the event in their headlines: 

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'Fifty-five years ago, the University of Texas-Austin desegregated its dormitories and dining facilities, allowing black students equal access.

But segregation in the name of safe spaces has become popular on the political left, and one UT student is proposing a separate campus space for women to get exercise.

Daily Texan columnist Sanika Nayak pitched the idea for a female-only “women’s center” in Gregory Gym, the public university’s largest workout facility, in a December column.

“Oftentimes, it can be difficult for some female students to go to the gym” because it “can be seen as an overly masculine place, and women may feel alienated or intimidated as a result,” Nayak wrote.

It wouldn’t be the first time a college has restricted workout space on the basis of sex or gender identity.'

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We are starting the #boyswillbeboys movement on Twitter and Facebook. Please share a photo of father and child doing something fantastic. Make sure to use the hashtag #boyswillbeboys. We want to reclaim the term.

There are hundreds of fathers and boys in Australia doing the same thing. We want to end this feminist attack on men. Join us in showing the world what being a good man is!

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This is what the makers of the Gillette ad were REALLY trying to say.

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'Shouldn’t there be an entire media and liberal outrage cycle devoted to this blatant act of sexual assault?'

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'The account, which had over 41,000 followers, was run by a woman who identified herself as “Talia” and used a fake profile photo, belonging to a Brazilian blogger and model. Talia tweeted criticism of President Donald Trump and also used the account to sell teaching materials.
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Fake photo aside, the @2020fight account appears to belong to a real person: a California teacher who went by “Talia” on multiple social accounts. The now-removed Twitter account’s bio contained a link to a seller profile on the website Teachers Pay Teachers, an online store where teachers buy and sell lesson plans and resources. Using the handle “Teaching in the Bay,” Talia described herself as an “Upper elementary & middle school teacher from the Bay Area,” and offered more than 100 worksheets and lesson plans. She attracted a few dozen followers and buyers who favorably rated her products.'

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'A New Jersey preschool teacher allegedly threatened colleagues that she would shoot up the school, authorities and reports said Wednesday.

“One day, I’m gonna come here and shoot it up,” Gina Schroeder allegedly told fellow teachers at The Goddard School in Elmwood Park on Friday, prompting them to call the cops.

Police briefly placed the school on lockdown and detained Schroeder, who had no weapons on her.

Investigators also searched Schroeder’s Nutley home, where they seized three guns the teacher legally owned, NJ.com reported, citing Elmwood Park cops.'

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'A congressionally mandated commission is weighing whether women should be required to register for the Selective Service System, or whether the U.S. needs a draft registration system at all.

The National Commission on Military, National and Public Service, created in 2016, spent the past year reviewing public service options in the U.S., including the armed forces, AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, federal employment and more.

Members released an interim report Wednesday that offers some radical proposals for the Selective Service System, which requires all 18-year-old men to register for a potential draft.