11 h. ago German cops spark outcry after posing with catfish that was shot dead after biting swimmers

Officers shot the crazed creature after it was 'driven mad by techno music' and attacked five swimmers in Lake Brombach, Bavaria on June 22.

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36 h. ago Woke sexual harassment poster that shows a white woman groping a disabled black person sparks outcry

The sign was put up in an outdoor swimming pool in the western town of Büren with the caption: 'Stop! Grabbing is forbidden.'

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2 w. ago Woman was 'upset' to find brown bread in a white loaf and thought it was 'the plague or something'

A woman was ‘upset’ when she discovered brown bread in the middle of a white loaf in a bizarre mix-up.

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2 w. ago Woman screams after finding unexpected item inside white loaf of bread

Charlotte Hobbs was making herself a sandwich on Monday when she realised part of her white loaf had been spliced with a brown one - but it's left her less than impressed

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2 w. ago Whoopi Goldberg shocks The View panel by claiming living in US as a black person is as bad as living in Iran

Whoopi Goldberg sparked a furious clash with her remarks which came came amid rising fears in the US that Trump could plunge into war with Iran.

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3 w. ago New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander released after arrest sparks outcry – US politics live

New York politicians condemn arrest as ‘fascism’ and ‘political intimidation’New York’s Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearingA memorial outside the Minnesota house chambers displays a photo of Melissa and Mark Hortman behind a table where people are dropping off flowers, notes, a hard hat, a plaid shirt. Signs in front of it read “in honor of our beloved Melissa”. On her desk, a photo and a bouquet of roses.On Monday afternoon, the skies darkened, spilling sheets of rain across the Minneapolis suburbs Melissa Hortman represented. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Go viral for racist behavior, receive $750,000: inside the new extremist crowdfunding campaigns

The response to these online fundraisers signals the rise of more overt, public support for racist actionsShiloh Hendrix, a white woman based in Rochester, Minnesota, went viral after admitting in a video that she called a 5-year-old Black child the N-word while at a local park on 28 April.Though Hendrix was met with widespread condemnation and denouncement after the incident, she also raised over $750,000 on the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo, commonly used by extremists to fundraise for far-right causes. Many contributors to Hendrix’s campaign, which was created to “protect [Hendrix’s] family” after backlash, used racial slurs and Nazi symbols in their donation names. As of 1 June, over 30,000 people had donated to Hendrix’s fundraiser. The support and funding Hendrix received for her racist actions raised alarm bells for many, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which flagged the fundraiser as being used to “spread hateful talking points and legitimize their ideas”. Expe...

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