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31.08.2020 / 19:43

Brevard SPCA en route to help pets stranded by Hurricane Laura

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – This week the SPCA of Brevard will head to Louisiana to rescue 70 pets from kill shelters and bringing them back to Central Florida to find forever homes.Hurricane Laura made landfall last week along Louisiana’s coast leaving destruction in its wake. According to the SPCA, dogs and cats have started arriving at rural shelters near Lafayette, Louisiana.

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OUC crews head to the gulf coast to assist in Hurricane Laura aftermath

ORLANDO, Fla. – A dozen linemen from the Orlando Utilities Commission are heading to Lafayette, Louisiana to help thousands who lost power on Thursday from Hurricane Laura.Spencer Barnes is the crew supervisor who also volunteered to help."The main thing is to get these people back to some sort of normalcy," Barnes said.Barnes said he's helped restore power after several hurricanes in Florida and this mission will be the first time for some of his colleagues."Our main goal is to be safe first of all and keep your feet dry.

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Former Penn State basketball player says he left school after coach's 'noose' comment

Penn State Nittany Lions guard Rasir Bolton (13) shoots a free throw during the Big Ten Conference college basketball game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Purdue Boilermakers on February 16, 2019, at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, India STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Iowa State guard Rasir Bolton said he decided to leave Penn State last spring because of a comment by coach Pat Chambers, who said the player had a noose around his neck.Bolton, who is Black, disclosed the reason for his departure Monday in a tweet he titled “a noose around my neck.”Chambers, who is white, tweeted an apology the same day.Bolton tweeted that Chambers made the noose comment after the coach returned from a one-game suspension for shoving Nittany Lions player

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Here’s what Kanye West would need to do to run for U.S. president

Kanye West is serious about running for president, the American rapper and fashion designer will face major obstacles to mount a serious campaign less than four months before the Nov. 3 U.S.

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Feds arrest ‘ringleader’ in attack on Andrew Jackson statue by White House

WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested a man in Washington they call a “ringleader” in the recent attempt to destroy the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square near the White House.RELATED: Trump calls for arrests, prison time for vandals targeting monuments: 'There will be no exceptions!'Law enforcement sources tell Fox News that Jason Charter was arrested at his residence Thursday morning, without incident, and charged with destruction of federal property.

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DHS deploys special federal unit to protect monuments over July 4 weekend amid vandalism fears

Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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4 charged in Andrew Jackson statue vandalism investigation

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities have charged four men in connection with a failed effort last week to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House.In a complaint unsealed Saturday, authorities allege that the men damaged and attempted to tear down the Jackson statue, which is located in Lafayette Square, last Monday.

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Researchers develop a wearable patch for melanoma

American Cancer Society (ACS), roughly 100,350 new cases of melanoma will have been diagnosed in the U.S. by the end of 2020.

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Hundreds of National Guard troops mobilized to protect DC monuments amid protests

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of troops with the Washington, D.C., National Guard have mobilized to protect monuments in the nation's capital, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News on Wednesday.Interior Secretary David Bernhardt requested the action earlier this week, as protesters target statues and other historical markers during ongoing demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May.RELATED: Tension overnight after protesters cleared from area near White HouseProtesters on Monday attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square by the White House, and defaced it with the phrase "killer scum," Reuters reported.

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Injuries at protests draw scrutiny to use of police weaponry

NEW YORK – In law enforcement, they’re referred to as “nonlethal” tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly: rubber bullets, pepper spray, batons, flash-bangs.But the now-familiar scenes of U.S. police officers in riot gear clashing with protesters at Lafayette Park across from the White House and in other cities have police critics charging that the weaponry too often escalates tensions and hurts innocent people.“When you see riot gear, it absolutely changes the mood,” said Ron Moten, a longtime community organizer in the nation's capital who was out demonstrating this weekend.

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Kane Brown announces rescheduled Worldwide Beautiful 2021 tour dates

Kane Brown has revealed the new dates for his Worldwide Beautiful tour. The 26-year-old country music singer-songwriter took to Twitter on Thursday to make the announcement.

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Lafayette Park near White House: A soapbox for social unrest

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration's use of smoke bombs and pepper balls to rout civil rights demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House has emboldened protesters and added a new chapter to the site's storied history as soapbox for social and political unrest. “Gas us.

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Volunteers, Smithsonian want to save White House protest art

WASHINGTON – Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators protesting years of black deaths at the hands of police officers. Now, with much of the temporary fencing around the White House coming down, there's an effort to preserve hundreds of pieces of instant American history.

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Volunteers, Smithsonian want to save White House protest art

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Violence gives way to street fair vibe outside White House

WASHINGTON – That massive fence erected around Lafayette Park has become a do-it-yourself gallery of protest art. Messages, posters and portraits, ranging from loving to enraged, almost blot out the view of the White House across the way.

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Trump tries religious gestures to hike support amid protests

WASHINGTON – Cloaking himself in religion for the second day in a row, President Donald Trump sought to seize the moral authority to justify his hard line against demonstrators protesting the killing of another black man in police custody and at the same time mobilize his religious conservative base.

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GOP senators offer rare rebuke of Trump on church visit

President Donald Trump makes a brief address Monday from the Rose Garden after the death of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis police custody has resulted in days of protests, some of them violent, in multiple American cities.

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Virginia county pulls officers from DC after Trump photo-op

ARLINGTON, Va. – A county in northern Virginia pulled its officers out of the District of Columbia Monday night after they played a supporting role in clearing protesters from a park outside the White House so the president could walk to a church for a photo opportunity.

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Amid domestic US unrest, Pompeo hits China over Tiananmen

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is marking this week's anniversary of China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square — a day after federal forces used tear gas to clear peaceful protesters from a park in front of the White House.

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George Floyd protests: Police disperse peaceful protest for Trump photo op outside church

Shortly after addressing the nation on Monday night, U.S. President Donald Trump walked from the White House to St.

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Barr: Law enforcement must ‘dominate’ streets amid protests

WASHINGTON – U.S. officials vowed to “maximize federal law enforcement presence” in the nation’s capital after days of violent demonstrations led to fires across Washington and left scores of businesses with broken windows and dozens of police officers injured.

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Peaceful George Floyd protests tear gassed as Donald Trump makes presidential address

Peaceful protesters across the street from the White House were tear gassed as Donald Trump made his first presidential address since the death of George Floyd.

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Tear gas, threats for protesters before Trump visits church

WASHINGTON – It began with Attorney General Bill Barr standing with his hands casually in his pockets, not wearing a tie, surveying the scene at Lafayette Park across from the White House, where several thousand protesters had gathered for more demonstrations after the police killing of George Floyd.

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Tear gas, threats before President Trump visits church amid protests

President Donald Trump visited the 200-year-old church near the White House that was set on fire as demonstrators clashed with police over the weekend.

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Tear gas, threats before Trump visits church amid protests

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President Trump makes surprise visit to St. John’s Church

President Donald Trump visited the 200-year-old church near the White House that was set on fire as demonstrators clashed with police over the weekend.

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Trump sheltered in bunker Friday as George Floyd protesters gathered outside White House

Secret Service agents rushed U.S. President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.

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Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged

WASHINGTON – Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.

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Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged

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Needing blockers for Tagovailoa, Dolphins draft Hunt

MIAMI – Anxious to keep Tua Tagovailoa healthy, the Miami Dolphins invested in more protection for him Friday.

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