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A LaPorte County man's obsession with Taylor Swift escalated into violent messages, a stymied trip in Nashville and stalking charges when he continued to tag her online.Mitchell Taebel, 36, of Long Beach, Indiana, was charged May 31 with stalking, intimidation, misdemeanor invasion of privacy, and misdemeanor harassment.

The head of Spain's national football federation has said the country has a problem with racism following the abuse hurled at Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr during Sunday's match against Valencia.Luis Rubiales, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation RFEF, called for zero tolerance for racism in stadiums.

A Los Angeles woman has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $1 million in damages against Esalen Institute, claiming the Big Sur retreat and its employees violated her civil rights when an instructor repeatedly played a video with racial slurs during a class.Nicole Evans, who is Black, booked a stay at the retreat from Sept. 5 to 9, according to the lawsuit filed Dec. 28 in Monterey County Superior Court.

An aerial view shows cars parked at the Tesla Fremont Factory in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022.Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York, are seeking to form the company's first union, the workers announced on Tuesday, with help from leaders of the Starbucks union effort that has seen prodigious success over the past two years.

Crime His conditions of release include home confinement subject to GPS monitoring and an order to refrain from driving.A Quincy man accused of shouting " go back to China " at an Asian American family before striking one of them with his car last week has been released following a dangerousness hearing Thursday.

Theatre workers are suffering from increased anti-social behaviour from audiences, ranging from sexual harassment to physical assaults, new research suggests.A survey among 1,500 members of theatre union Bectu indicated that incidents have become more extreme following the pandemic.Most of those surveyed, mainly working in front of house, hospitality, box office, stage door, sound and lighting, reported having directly experienced or witnessed poor audience behaviour.

Piers Morgan has apologised to Ed Sheeran after his hacked Twitter account posted abusive messages about the singer.In December, the formerGood Morning Britainpresenter's account shared the posts about Sheeran and other public figures to his 8.3 million followers.Now, the presenter has called the posts abusive nonsense in a tweet sent on Monday morning (9 December).

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie's use of slurs and argued it could teach students that White people hate Black people, according to school officials and documents obtained by CNN.

Disney's anti-racism film Ruby Bridges is the subject of a complaint brought by a Florida parent who claims the movie is not appropriate for second-graders, because it might teach them that white people hate Black people.The film, which tells the story of a six-year-old girl who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of school curriculums during Black History Month in the state's Tampa-area county of Pinellas.

A podcast host on trial accused of stirring up racial hatred has claimed the content of his show was not racist.James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court charged with 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred over a two-year period.Radio Aryan, since renamed Radio Albion, was described as highly racist, antisemitic and white supremacist in nature by prosecutors.

A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate a Black family, according to a news release from the US Justice Department.Axel Cox, 24, was sentenced to 42 months in connection to the cross burning, which happened in December 2020 and violated the Fair Housing Act, the release said, adding Cox admitted that he lit the cross on fire because the victims were Black and that he intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood.

Twitter logo and a photo of Elon Musk are displayed through magnifier in this illustration taken Oct. 27.(Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters)An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday, raising fears of how his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate.

Image In 1997, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in a single World Series game.He was a star on the field, and now he's a star in the documentary Reggie.Credit...Prime Video Star athletes in America are often expected to have brash personalities.This delights or alienates fans to different degrees, and for different reasons.

It all started as a low-stakes tiff about a 6-foot redwood fence, erected parallel to a public road and narrowing the path for those who walked past it to Richmond's popular Keller Beach.But years of neighbors' complaints and regulatory mishaps eventually propelled the dispute into 18 months of vitriolic harassment of the family that owns the home behind that fence, and a raging debate about the minutiae of city permits that played out at the Richmond City Council last week.

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RICHMOND Hundreds of students at Richmond High walked out of their classes Tuesday afternoon to protest action taken against a substitute teacher involved in a physical confrontation with a student.The walkout was confirmed by Lorenzo Morotti, a journalism teacher at the school.It occurred before fifth-period classes.

OAKLAND A 46-year-old man facing charges in connection with two separate assaults will face an additional hate-crime charge, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.At a press conference, District Attorney Pamela Price said Aqweel Akbar Khan, who had been charged with a hate crime in connection with an August 2021 attack against a woman in a Fremont park, would also face a new hate-crime charge based on information added Tuesday.

A series of racist incidents at an elementary school in Upland has sparked outrage from parents, district officials said, after children reportedly targeted classmates with demeaning drawings.The mother of a girl at Pepper Tree Elementary School said her daughter, who is Black, was given drawings with the messages, "You're my favorite monkey" and "To my favorite cotton picker," according to KTLA-TV Channel 5, which obtained images of the drawings.

Toronto police say a man has been charged in the alleged hate-motivated assault of a 12-year-old girl on a city transit bus.Police allege the accused and the girl were on the same bus around 4:15 p.m. on Feb. 2, when the man started to make unprovoked threats against the child, who he did not know, and other passengers.

In his 1920s-set Babylon, Damien Chazelle reprises La La Land's fascination with Hollywood.La La Land played homage to a bygone chapter of Hollywood history with its affectionate evocation of screen musicals, but Babylon is a brasher affair with an 18 certificate to prove it.Playing alongside it are two other releases that memorialise the era of analogue film; Sam Mendes' Empire of Light and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans.

Crime The driver allegedly shouted slurs at an Asian family and told them to "Go back to China" before hitting one of them.A Quincy man is facing civil rights, assault, and reckless driving charges after allegedly threatening an Asian family Friday morning, telling them to "Go back to China" before hitting one of them with his car, officials said.

Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk tweeted that Apple has threatened to withhold the social media platform from its app store for reasons yet to be revealed.According to The Verge, "withhold" could mean a temporary delay in an app update for Twitter or the more final outcome of taking it off the app store altogether.

Elon Musk claims that Apple has threatened to "withhold" Twitter from the iOS App Store for unknown reasons.The news follows a tweet where Musk said Apple had "mostly stopped advertising" on the platform and a poll asking whether Apple should "publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers."

Jonathan Majors in "Devotion."(Sony Pictures Entertainment) StarOutline (2.5 stars) The final act of "Devotion," set during the first months of the Korean War, is unexpectedly moving.The poignancy comes as a surprise because most of the preceding scenes are slack and prosaic.This is a fighter-pilot drama that takes more than 90 minutes to get up to emotional speed.

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Getty Images  There's a great irony in the fact that Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk, one of the site's most prolific, influential, and most-mocked users.Musk's alchemical tweets can turn memecoins into gold, and spark seismic shifts in the stock market, but his sense of humor consists of dad jokes, weed jokesReddit is dead, but not dead.

OAKLAND  Concerned parents are calling on school district leaders to address a racist and violent message directed at Black students that was written in an Oakland hills elementary school bathroom.Parents gathered with elected officials outside Thornhill Elementary School this week, where a week prior someone wrote Black lives do no matter.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) hit back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk on the website on Wednesday after Musk, perhaps bothered by comments Ocasio-Cortez made earlier that week, attempted to criticize her in a tweet.Musk tweeted a screenshot  of Ocasio-Cortez's merchandise website, showing a campaign sweatshirt on sale for $58, with the price circled in an attempt to criticize the lawmaker for selling merchandise at that price point.

Two biggie tech platforms caught our eye in the past week: Twitter and Google.The state of advertising at Twitter is a hot mess.First, Elon Musk writes a glowing endorsement of advertising on Twitter.(The company netted $1.18 billion in revenue in Q2.) Next thing you know, he's fueling misinformation on Twitter and doing a live brainstorm of monetization features on the platform.