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A music festival in Sweden intended to destroy negative views about refugees with thirty thousand attendees has resulted in many cases of rape and sexual assaults by migrants, including the rape of a young girl in the middle of the audience who was then hospitalized, another reported attempted rape, at least six other sexual assaults, as well as dozens of other complaints of assaults.
See this article, and this article.
Cleveland Browns football player Isaiah Crowell posted and then later deleted an image from his Instagram account showing a hooded man slitting the throat of a police office in a manner reminiscent of beheadings carried out by the Islamic State. Crowell will keep his job with the NFL after issuing apologies.
Crowell posted the image after news was reported of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana being fatally shot by police, but before the five police officers were killed in Dallas last Thursday.
Crowell then released a written apology through the Browns which was initially deemed insincere by the Cleveland police union who threatened to boycott working Browns games, and he later posted a video apology on his Facebook account and pledged to donate his first game check of $35,000 from his $1.54 million contract to a police union foundation, prompting the president of the union Steve Loomis to state “I’m glad we didn’t have to go the route of boycotting Browns games. We would not have enjoyed that. We wanted to give Isaiah the opportunity to make things right, and he did.” Loomis also said he’d love to work with Crowell in the future to help solve some of the city’s problems.
Also see this Cleveland.com article and CBS Local article about the matter.
Following is a summary of this Washington Times article:
Two gay men brought a lawsuit against Spark Networks, Inc., the owner of various Christian dating websites such as ChristianMingle.com and LDSSingles.com in order to force the privately owned websites to accommodate homosexual matchmaking.
The lawsuit cited the California anti-discrimination law called the “Unruh Civil Rights Act” which is a state law requiring businesses to offer “full and equal accommodations to people regardless of sexual orientation.”
The lawsuit was settled by “Spark Networks agreeing that it would adjust searching and profile features to give gay and lesbian singles a more tailored experience,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also reported is that the dating sites previously “required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man,” but now people will simply sign-up as a male or female.
Also Spark Networks did not admit wrongdoing as a part of the settlement agreement but it did agree to pay each plaintiff $9,000 and cover the $450,000 they had accumulated in legal fees.