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Hillary Clinton takes aim at rivals but has no qualms about playing gender card

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Democratic frontrunner sets agenda and has choice words for Trump as supporters gather in New Hampshire at ‘Women for Hillary’ event

Twenty years to the day since her iconic address on women’s rights in a suburb of Beijing, Hillary Clinton delivered a stirring speech on gender issues in America while casting her Republican rivals as decidedly anti-women.

And for those who might accuse her of playing the gender card, Clinton repeated a simple message: “Deal me in.”

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An ‘Appeal to Affection and Empathy’: Barcelona’s Mayor Wants Spain’s Cities to Welcome Refugees · Global Voices

she also thanked all the families who offered their homes as shelters, whose solidarity “dignifies our city,” and announced that her council will start working on a project very soon, creating “a volunteer families database” and “organizing networks for sheltering and assisting refugees.”She finished by highlighting the human lives behind the refugee quotas with which European governments seem to be bargaining, and the responsibility of cities, families, and citizens to take action:Translation Original QuoteIn Turkey, Greece, or Lebanon they are taking in millions of refugees, [but in] Spain [it’s] barely 2,000, in spite of having many more resources. These are no quotas: they are human lives. And if states refuse to understand this, [then] here we are, the cities and the citizens, ready to take action. Because yes, we can… and we must.

Source: An ‘Appeal to Affection and Empathy’: Barcelona’s Mayor Wants Spain’s Cities to Welcome Refugees · Global Voices

Video: Good Samaritans Lift Car Off Pinned Hit-And-Run Victim: Gothamist

A group of good Samaritans helped lift a car off of a hit-and-run victim in the Bronx on Friday.According to CBS, witnesses say the 69-year-old victim was struck by a car as he was walking in the crosswalk at Boynton Avenue and Westchester Avenues around 11 a.m. The driver dragged him about a quarter of a mile down the block, leaving his clothes tattered and ripped. The driver then left the vehicle and fled on foot.You can see video of seven people, including 73-year-old Orlando Urena, lifting the car off the man below.

Source: Video: Good Samaritans Lift Car Off Pinned Hit-And-Run Victim: Gothamist