29 h. ago Man sitting at bus stop among two killed in ‘random’ shooting spree by man on e

Adalberto Pablo Cordova Torres, 21, is accused of killing Andreas Samuel Olguin and Marcus Adams

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4 d. ago Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies | Bernadette Atuahene

Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black communityFriday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white person, as required by law. While her brave act brought national attention to the civil rights movement and triggered student sit-ins to end segregation across the south, it also subjected her and her husband, Raymond, to constant death threats. Consequently, like many other Black families fleeing Jim Crow south’s racial violence, in August 1957, Rosa and Raymond moved up north to Detroit.When the Parks arrived in Detroit, they and other Black people did not have to sit at the back of the bus. Nonetheless, the city was permeated by a quieter but no less pernicious type of racism: racist policies, which are any written or unwritten laws and processes that produce or sustain racial inequity. In my book Plundered: How Racist Policies Unde...

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5 d. ago Killer who beat shopper to death in 'random attack' outside Sainsbury's is facing years behind bars as he admits manslaughter

Demiesh Williams, 29, was arrested following a savage attack on Andrew Clark, 43, outside the supermarket in Beckenham, south London, on March 16.

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7 d. ago The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’

The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast‘It worries me that it’s so normalised. He obviously wasn’t hiding it. He didn’t feel this was something he shouldn’t be doing. It was in the open and people saw it. That’s what was quite shocking.”A headteacher is describing how a teenage boy, sitting on a bus on his way home from school, casually pulled out his phone, selected a picture from social media of a girl at a neighbouring school and used a “nudifying” app to doctor her image. Continue reading...

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1 week ago World Trade Center worker who ‘narrowly escaped death’ during 9/11 killed by group of teens in horror attack

A MAN who worked at the World Trade Center and narrowly escaped 9/11 has been killed by a group of teenagers in a bloody and random attack. Roger Borkum, 64, was previously a consultant working on the 77th floor of tower one and lost all of his colleagues in the attacks on September 11, 2001....

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2 w. ago Scots teen dies after falling ill on school bus after 'situation deteriorated rapidly'

A 15-year-old boy has died after falling unwell on a bus in Fife, Scotland - he was pronounced dead at the scene with the incident being treated as unexplained

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3 w. ago 'I'm a female backpacker and you won't believe what I happened on sleeper bus'

Eden Kelly, 26, from Australia, was left gobsmacked by the situation she found herself in after she boarded a sleeper bus in Cambodia. She went online to share the awkward travelling tale

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3 w. ago New playground set for old town centre bus station site in Merthyr Tydfil

Councillor Brent Carter was speaking as Merthyr Tydfil's cabinet backed plans for a new playground on the Glebelands site

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