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Michael Jordan Breaks His Silence On Social Issues, Donates $2 Million

“I look at this from two perspectives — as a current owner and a former player,” Jordan said then. “As an owner, I’m obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views. … As a former player, I’m completely outraged. There is no room in the NBA — or anywhere else — for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed.
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What Are The Rules For Asylum Seekers In Germany?

“On a normal day, this is not how people feel,” she continued. “But because you’ve got some of these attacks perpetrated by refugees, it’s playing into their worst fears.”
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‘Democracy Spring’ Plans Mass Sit-In, Arrests at DNC

“We had a huge sit-in in DC where over 1,500 people were arrested, and I was one of them, and it was completely peaceful. This is a different situation because things in the country right now are heated. But that’s why we have to come together to acknowledge there is a history of nonviolent civil disobedience in this country and throughout the world.”
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Wasserman Schultz Won’t Open Democratic Convention

“I think what the signal was today is that the voices of Bernie Sanders supporters have been heard,” he said. “And other people, frankly, in the party, Hillary Clinton supporters, who felt this was the last straw, that she had to go, and this shows they have been heard and gives us opportunity to move forward toward November — united to deal with the problem of Donald Trump.”
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Turkey Issues Arrest Warrants For 42 Journalists After Failed Coup

At the demonstration, dubbed the “Republic and Democracy Rally,” opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu told the thousands-strong crowd that the country’s reaction was a powerful rejection of anti-democratic forces.
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Suicide Bomber in Germany Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Leader in Video

That was followed by a shooting spree Friday in which nine people were killed in the Bavarian state capital, Munich, before a Syrian asylum seeker killed a woman in Reutlingen, in the neighboring southern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, on Sunday, hours ahead of the Ansbach attack.
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