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LeBron James says Donald Trump has allowed racists to operate without fear

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  • NBA star uses Martin Luther King Day to attack US president
  • James praises King for contribution to American society

LeBron James has spoken about the corrosive effects of racism – and aimed criticism at Donald Trump – on Martin Luther King Day.

“The state of racism will never die, but what we cannot do is allow it to conquer us as people,” James said before the Cleveland Cavaliers’ game against the Golden State Warriors on Monday night. “We can’t allow it to divide us. The guy in control has given people and racism … an opportunity to be out and outspoken without fear. And that’s the fearful thing for us because it’s with you, and it’s around every day, but he’s allowed people to come out and just feel confident about doing negative things. We can’t allow that to stop us from continuing to be together and preach the right word of living and loving and laughing and things of that nature. Because would we want to live anywhere else? I don’t think so. We love this place.”

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Trump to cut millions from UN agency for Palestinian refugees – officials

No sense, no morals, no ethics – not a surprise!

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US officials say only $60m of $125m for UN Relief and Works Agency likely as compromise between Mattis and Tillerson and hardline UN ambassador Haley

The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year’s first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely and making additional donations contingent on major changes to the organization, US officials said.

Donald Trump has not made a final decision but appears more likely to send only $60m of a planned $125m first installment to the UN Relief and Works Agency, said the officials, who were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

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Women deported by Trump face deadly welcome from street gangs in El Salvador

It is clear, he does not care what happens to them or El Salvador

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Hundreds of young women are killed every year and many face sexual violence in the world’s most dangerous land. Now the president wants to send 200,000 more Salvadorans back home

Inside an apartment block in San Salvador beneath the shadow of the volcano that dominates the city skyline, 20 girls aged between 14 and 18 are in hiding, fearing for their lives. Recently deported to the country of their birth from the US by Donald Trump as part of his evolving immigration clampdown, the teenagers are wanted dead by the street gangs that make El Salvador the most homicidal place on Earth.

Survival necessitates drastic measures when the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, or its rival 18th Street gang want you murdered. First, the girls – branded traitors for daring leave El Salvador to set up home in America – are given radical makeovers; new haircuts and new clothes along with sunglasses that are rarely removed. Then they learn to talk differently, walk differently. All trace of their previous existence is erased. Travel is arranged using bulletproof cars with tinted windows. Finally, the safe house is placed on a short-term lease; the slightest intelligence that the gangs have identified its whereabouts and they’re gone.

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Mark Wahlberg donates $1.5m reward for film reshoots to Time’s Up fund

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Actor makes donation in name of co-star Michelle Williams, who was paid less than $1,000 for the All the Money in the World reshoots

The actor Mark Wahlberg has agreed to donate the $1.5m he made for reshoots on the film All the Money in the World to the sexual misconduct defense initiative Time’s Up.

Related: Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: ‘He’s a very good actor. It’s a pity’

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Frankie Freeman dies at 101

freeman-frankiesiue*100xx1500-1500-0-38.Prominent St. Louis lawyer and civil rights leader Frankie Muse Freeman has died. She was 101.

Freeman died Friday. She served as the lead counsel and won the landmark case against the St. Louis Housing Authority, which put an end to legal racial discrimination in public housing.

In 1946, she was the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

In 2012, the St. Louis Business Journal named Freeman among the 250 Most Influential St. Louisans.

In Nov. 2017, a bronze statue…

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Suspect in Kansas ‘swatting’ death charged with involuntary manslaughter

And the police? no responsibility for prank death?

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  • Hoax call reportedly prompted by online game led to death of man
  • DA still reviewing possible charges against police officer who fired

A California man accused of making a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in Kansas has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Related: ‘Swatting’ death: accused man has made other false reports to police, officials say

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Referendum II is coming. Farage just can’t bear being a Brexit misfit | Marina Hyde

15 minutes is over – boo

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Nigel backed Steve Bannon, but that blew up. So he’s back for one last job, to settle this thing once and for all. And then perhaps do it again

“So maybe, just maybe,” declared Nigel Farage dramatically yesterday, “I’m reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership.” “We understand more than anything what [the Tories] plan to do,” added his Brexit backer Arron Banks, “unfortunately.”

Related: ‘Which curry house is open late?’: Nigel Farage and Marina Hyde go for a pint

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