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Dozens of Demonstrators Arrested At North Dakota Pipeline

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Protestors gather near a pipeline being built at a construction site in North Dakota. More than 80 protesters were arrested on Saturday after clashing with police near a pipeline construction site in North Dakota, according to the local sheriff’s department, which said pepper spray was used on some demonstrators. The 83 protesters were arrested near … Read more

Stanford Sex Attack Swimmer Freed From Jail

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A student at a top US university whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was widely criticised for being too lenient has been released from prison. Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house. He was freed from the Santa Clara … Read more