Two University of Miami football players were arrested on sexual battery charges Tuesday and kicked off the team and campus for an alleged incident involving a 17-year-old girl.
Court and jail records show JaWand Blue and Alex Figueroa, both 20-year-old linebackers, were booked Tuesday.
The two admitted to getting the classmate intoxicated and then allegedly raping her several times in Figueroa’s dorm room over the 4th of July weekend.
Blue and Figueroa turned themselves in.
They confessed to buying several alcoholic beverages for the victim, leaving her “physically helpless to resist” as they allegedly performed sexual acts without her consent, according to an affidavit.
The accuser reported the alleged incident to university police, and the Coral Gables police department investigated.
Students on campus were stunned by the allegations. “I think that’s terrible,” graduate student Liz Chapel said. “I feel terrible for the girl.”
In a statement, Miami athletic director Blake James said Blue and Figueroa have been barred from campus.
“Any allegation of a sexual assault is extremely serious, and the University will not tolerate conduct that threatens the sanctity and safety of our students and our campus,” he said. “We hold all of our students – especially student athletes – to the highest standards of moral conduct."
University president Donna Shalala also issued a statement, stating that the school has “zero tolerance for sexual assault.”
This is the fifth time in the past three years that a University of Miami football player has been booted from the team after run-ins with the law.
Blue and Figueroa have been released on bond and are scheduled to be arraigned later this month
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Stacey Dash: Kanye West Should "Go to Rikers Island" to "Know What Rape Is"
On a Fox News segment discussing celebrities putting their feet in their mouths, Clueless star Stacey Dash may have done just that.
The actress and television personality, 47, was a part of a chat on Fox News' Outnumbered program. During the talk, she commented on the recent slew of celebrities who have compared dealing with paparazzi and fame to rape and war, including Kanye West, who reportedly did so over the weekend in London.
Though she once starred in West's 2004 music video to his hit single "All Falls Down," Dash did not have kind words for her former collaborator.
"For Kanye to say rape, maybe he needs to spend some time on Rikers Island… Go to Rikers for a little while and then he'll know what rape is," she said. "I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job."
While she has yet to further elaborate on controversial words, Dash retweeted a link to an article on the segment, the text of the tweet reading, "Fox's Stacey Dash: Kanye West Should Try Getting Raped in Prison."
The '90s star, who is a vocal Republican, has become a special contributor on FoxNews and continues to appear on Outnumbered.
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Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin acknowledges the crowd during a campaign rally for John McCain at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Ariz., in 2010.
Sarah Palin on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Obama, writing in a Breitbart op-ed that the influx of young illegal immigrants over the southern border “is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, ‘no mas.’ ”
Mixed/careless metaphors aside, this is nothing but bad news for Republicans — especially four months until the 2014 election.
Palin is hardly the first GOP politician to raise the issue of impeachment over the past couple years. Others include Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.), Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.), Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), former congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) and Allen West (R-Fla.), and the South Dakota Republican Party. Not all of these folks called for Obama’s impeachment directly, but all of them suggested that it is or should be on the table.
What none of these folks have, though, is a national following. That’s where Palin comes in. She’s the first Republican of any significant national stature to make this call. And she’s the kind of figure who could potentially recruit others to the cause — people who will want to be heard. Palin surely doesn’t carry the kind of weight she once did in the GOP, but she still has a significant tea party following and is highly popular among the conservative base.
If a significant pro-impeachment portion of the conservative base does materialize — and that’s a big “if” — it will put Republican lawmakers in the unenviable position of responding to questions about whether they, too, agree with the idea of impeachment.
From there, there are three options:
1) Oppose impeachment and risk making yourself a target in the 2016 primary
2) Try to offer a non-response that doesn’t really support or oppose impeachment
3) Support impeachment and, while likely saving your own hide from becoming a target, exacerbate the problem with the larger Republican Party.
So just why is the whole impeachment talk bad for the GOP?
Secondly, it lends credence to Democrats’ argument that Republicans are controlled by the extreme wing of their party. And to the extent that Democrats can make the 2014 election a referendum on the GOP’s conduct in Congress (see: government shutdown), it’s to their benefit.
Lastly, impeachment is a very difficult issue to press. Even in the late 1990s, when an American president had an affair in the White House and then lied about it, support for impeachment was still well shy of a majority — as low as 30 percent.
In Obama’s case, we’re sure there are plenty of people who genuinely believe that what he’s done rises to the level of impeachment. But that doesn’t make their viewpoint a political winner, and their task in convincing the rest of the American people is very tall.
Palin and a growing number of conservatives want to press their luck. It’s a huge and unnecessary risk for their party. But then again, politics isn’t so much a team sport in the Republican Party these days.
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A missile is launched by an "Iron Dome" battery, a short-range missile defence system designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, on July 9, 2014 in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, neighboring the Gaza Strip. Photo: Getty Images
Hamas terrorists launched three powerful rockets at an Israeli nuclear-power plant on Wednesday — a terrifying escalation of hostilities in the increasingly violent conflict.
But a nuclear disaster was averted when Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome defense system shot one of the rockets out of the sky and the other two missed their targets and detonated on the ground without causing any injuries.
Extremists from Hamas’s fanatical Qassam Brigades boasted that they had launched the long-range, M-75 rockets from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli city of Dimona hoping to damage or destroy the reactor, about 47 miles away.
But the Iron Dome — which has had a remarkable success rate of about 90 percent during the recent conflict — and the terrorists’ poor targeting prevented the reactor from being damaged.
The 333-millimeter M-75 rockets have a range of about 50 miles and can reach most of central Israel.
It was the first time that rockets have hit Dimona, one of Israel’s most sensitive areas because of the reactor’s location.
The rockets fired at the nuke plant were among 74 that rained down on cities across the country Wednesday, the Israeli military said.
Crying “God is great,” Palestinians in Gaza cheered as the rockets streaked overhead toward cities across Israel.
An angry Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would continue escalating attacks to stop the Hamas barrage and ordered the military to “take off the gloves” in what it is calling Operation Protective Edge.
“The army is ready for all possibilities,” Netanyahu said after holding a meeting of his security cabinet.
“Hamas will pay a heavy price for firing toward Israeli citizens. The security of Israel’s citizens comes first. The operation will expand and continue until the fire toward our towns stops and quiet returns.”
Hamas also fired a Syrian-made rocket into Hadera — about 78 miles from Gaza, marking the deepest penetration into the country’s interior yet.
‘Hamas will pay a heavy price for firing toward Israeli citizens. The security of Israel’s citizens comes first. The operation will expand and continue until the fire toward our towns stops and quiet returns.’
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
“Our enemies have developed, and it is getting scary,” said resident Maayan From, 25, about Hamas’ ability to strike deeply into the country. “We have to put an end to this.”
Other Israeli leaders warned a ground invasion could be imminent.
“Despite the fact it will be hard, complicated and costly, we will have to take over Gaza temporarily, for a few weeks, to cut off the strengthening of this terror army,” Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s intelligence minister, told Israel Radio. “If you ask my humble opinion, a significant operation like this is approaching.”
An Israeli military spokesman said the rocket that struck Hadera was an M-302 and was similar to 40 others that were found on a ship intercepted by the Israeli Navy in the Red Sea last March.
The rockets — with a range of more than 100 miles — were made in Syria and shipped by Iran and were on their way to Gaza militants, Israel said.
Despite the interception, Hamas still holds dozens of the deadly rockets, which pack lethal warheads of up to 385 pounds.
Israel has attacked more than 560 targets in Gaza during the past two days.
But in an effort to prevent civilian casualties, the Israeli military makes warning phone calls to militants’ homes, telling them to get out immediately because the building is going to be bombed. Warning leaflets are also dropped from the air before specific areas are attacked.
Palestinian medics say 49 people have been killed in Gaza, including 22 on Wednesday.
Israel authorized a call-up of as many as 40,000 reservists, many of whom would be assigned to the West Bank to free up active duty personnel for Gaza, where Israeli tanks are already massing along the border.
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BEIJING (AP) — Nearly three decades after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously instructed his diplomats to "be good at maintaining a low profile and never claim leadership," a new generation of rulers has made it clear that they're ready to shed the humility and show off their country's rising military and political power.
From Southeast Asian waters that may hold billions of barrels of oil to uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, China has stepped into territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines — and in some cases, some would say, provoked them. At the same time, Beijing has pledged to build what it says will be a new security framework for Asia, replacing U.S.-dominated alliances that have defined the post-World War II period.
"We should work for a new architecture of Asia-Pacific security cooperation that is open, transparent and equality-based," Chinese President Xi Jinping told dignitaries from India and Myanmar last month. "The notion of dominating international affairs belongs to a different age and such an attempt is doomed to failure."
Yet despite Xi's depiction of China as a "peaceful, amiable and civilized lion," the country's moves have so far set off alarms across the region and pushed other Asian countries to seek backup from Washington. Promises to build a self-governing Asian community of nations have amounted to little more than words, while the reality has been what many see as Chinese bullying.
Xi, who has shown similar boldness at home since rising to power last year, is at the heart of the new strategy. For the first time in decades, Chinese officials are emphasizing an "active" foreign policy that sets the regional agenda while touting China's maritime strength.
"This is a very strong theme with him," said Christopher Johnson, a former China analyst with the CIA who's now chairman of China studies at the U.S. think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's bound up in his view of himself as not only the savior of the party but kind of an instrument of history, with the goal being this great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
That means showing "strong willingness to counter U.S. influence in the region," said Alice Ekman, head of China research at the French Institute of International Relations. Chinese officials have been especially critical of the Obama administration's touted "pivot to Asia," with diplomats openly mocking America's ability to police the region.
"We are seeing at several levels — economic, institutional, political, security — a reinforced competition between China and the U.S. in the region since Xi's arrival." Ekman said at a recent lecture in Beijing on China's foreign policy.
She said China's growing dominance of the global economy, and its neighbors' dependence on Chinese trade, is central to the strategy. "China's moves in the region are based on the following hypothesis: Time moves in favor of China as long as the economic attractiveness of China will reinforce the balance of power in favor of China," she said.
Xi's immediate goal is to give his country's forces tactical military superiority within what is known as the first island chain off the country's shores, from Japan down to Indonesia, Johnson said.
In May, Chinese officials sent an oil rig into parts of the South China Sea claimed by both China and Vietnam, setting off repeated confrontations between the two countries' ships and sparking anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam. In the nearby Spratly archipelago, the Chinese have been adding sand to reefs and rocks so they can build military installations despite claims to the outcroppings by both Vietnam and the Philippines.…
Farther north, China provoked rebuke from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. in November after declaring an air defense identification zone, which requires foreign planes to identify themselves to Chinese forces across much of the East China Sea. China and Japan are disputing control of a scattering of rocky islands there, and Japan protested after Chinese fighter jets flew close to Japanese surveillance planes observing a joint China-Russia naval drill in May.
China is also locked in longstanding territorial disputes with India along its southern border and has committed itself to defending with military force if necessary what it calls its core interests — chief among them, reuniting with the self-governing island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims, and holding on to Tibet.
China has appeared to be more active in defending territorial claims than it has been in pursuing a new alliance of Asian countries. At a China-hosted summit in May of some four dozen countries and international groups, Xi touted what he said would be a new Asian security network that would exclude the U.S., but he left the meeting with few solid steps to actually building such a framework.
Australian Cabinet minister Malcolm Turnbull said China has found itself largely alone, at least diplomatically, as it shows its teeth to the region.
"It has really no allies in the region, apart from North Korea," Turnbull was quoted as saying at a recent security and economic leadership conference. "And the consequence has been how China's neighbors are drawing closer to the United States than ever before."
With tensions high over China, U.S. President Barack Obama paid high-profile visits to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines in April, where he reassured governments that the U.S. would honor agreements to defend them.
Japanese leaders took matters into their own hands last week when they reinterpreted their pacifist constitution to let them expand the use of the country's military to defend its allies. The move strengthens Japan's alliance with the U.S. but also opens the door to new alliances with like-minded Asian countries.
"In the South China Sea, I think Chinese leaders have one purpose: They want to do as much damage as possible to U.S. credibility," said Huang Jing, a China expert at Singapore National University's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. "China understands that if China appears soft, there'll be no end of it, so China will appear tough and will not make compromises … and (China believes) the U.S. will not come to help when push comes to shove."
In capitals across Asia, he said, China is forcing governments to make a difficult choice: Will they bet on a future dominated by a newly confident China or one based on longtime U.S. assurances
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As de facto party leader, presidents raise political money. Since he makes time for it no matter how pressing world or national affairs are, President Obama apparently likes raising campaign funds. He has attended 34 fundraisers so far this year. What is unusual is how much time he devotes to it, his timing and his lack of judgment.
For example, the afternoon following the Sept. 11, 2012, murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya, Mr. Obama left the White House for a fundraiser in Las Vegas and a campaign appearance in Colorado.
As Russian troops stormed into the Crimea on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Mr. Obama clinked his glass at a DNC fundraiser, declaring "this is now officially happy hour with the Democratic Party. I can do that. It is an executive action. I have the authority." Vladimir Putin must have been amused.
When Islamic terrorists captured Mosul, Iraq's second most populous city, and menaced Baghdad in mid-June, Mr. Obama did not hunker down in the Situation Room. He headed to a Laguna Beach, Calif., fundraiser where 25 people wrote checks of up
After raising money at an event for Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado Tuesday—Mr. Udall bailed at the last minute—Mr. Obama is now completing a two-day fundraising swing through Texas. On Wednesday he attended a barbecue at the palatial Dallas home of plaintiff attorney Marc Stanley. Tickets cost as much as $32,400, with the money going to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Then the president flew to Austin for a fundraiser at the home of director Robert Rodriquez, whose family-unfriendly films include "Machete," "Sin City" and "Planet Terror."
On Thursday, abortion activist Aimee Boone Cunningham will host Mr. Obama at an Austin roundtable with checks made payable to the Democratic National Committee for up to $32,400.
Fundraisers are a priority for this president—he has attended 393 fundraisers since taking office, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, compared with George W. Bush's 216 at the same point in his presidency. What is not a priority is visiting South Texas to see the tragedy unfolding from a wave of illegal immigrants, many unaccompanied children.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says he doesn't need to visit the border "simply because the president is very aware of the situation." Mr. Obama is mistaken if he thinks he would not benefit from meeting with state and local officials and community leaders there.
He is clueless if he doesn't realize his 2012 order halting the deportation of some young illegal immigrants sent a powerful message throughout Central America: If you got your children to the U.S., they are likely to stay.
Mr. Obama also seems oblivious to the value of being seen on the Rio Grande, warning Central American parents not to send their children north because if they survive the dangerous, expensive journey, they will only be caught and returned home.
To deflect criticism over the crisis, Team Obama is falling back on an old tactic. They are blaming President George W. Bush. His sin? The bill he signed in December 2008 that gives additional protections to minors who might be victims of sex trafficking to avoid being sent back to a pimp or madam.
That won't fly. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, less than 4,000 unaccompanied Central American minors were apprehended each year over the past decade. Then Mr. Obama halted deportations of some young illegals in June 2012 and the number of apprehensions jumped to 10,146 in that fiscal year. It then doubled to 20,805 last fiscal year and reached 39,133 by mid-June of this year, with 3½ months left in the fiscal year.
If Mr. Bush started all this, why did it take until 3½ years after he left office for the number of unaccompanied Central American minors crossing our borders to surge? The rush of child illegals began when Mr. Obama suspended enforcement of existing immigration laws shortly before the 2012 election. That helped him win Hispanic voters, but the result of ignoring the nation's laws can be seen across the entire southwest border.
To his credit, Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a stink about Mr. Obama's failure to treat the crisis seriously and insisted on "a substantive meeting" with the president. The administration responded by folding Mr. Perry into a meeting with faith leaders and local elected officials in Dallas on Wednesday, 500 miles north of the Rio Grande Valley.
The July 2 Quinnipiac Poll found 54% think the Obama administration has not been competent at running the government. The flood of child illegals will deepen the sense of the president as distant, callous and unengaged. His party will suffer for that in the midterm election, no matter how many fundraisers Mr. Obama attends.
*Mr. Rove, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, helped organize the political-action committee American Crossroads.
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Dubai plans to build the largest shopping mall on the planet. The new project comes complete with climate-controlled streets, 100 hotel apartments, and the largest indoor theme park and a lot more new things which no mall on earth has.
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A barefoot woman described as harmless was subdued and pummeled by a California Highway Patrol officer in an incident captured on video.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is investigating the incident, which occurred on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Video shot from a by-passing car shows the CHP officer chasing the woman on foot through traffic. In the video, the officer catches up to the woman from behind, spins her around and takes her to the ground. The pair struggled, but the officer ends up on top. From that position, he begins punching her rapidly in the head.
“He is beating her up, yo,” a man filming the incident is heard saying.
“Oh my gosh, why?” a woman asks.
As the officer is continuously punching the woman and grappling with her, another man rushes to help the officer subdue the woman. The CHP officer then handcuffs her.
“She took a left, and the cop, the CHP ran after her, grabbed her to try to subdue her, and then she you know, kind of tried to shove it off…Was she intoxicated? Was she mentally ill? Possibly,” David Diaz, one of the men who filmed the incident, told NBC Los Angeles.
“No one condones when he gets on top of a woman, and this is a big officer, and he punches her repeatedly,” Diaz said. “I think he punched her in the head 15 times.”
Another witness to the incident told NBC Los Angeles that the woman “did not look well, mentally.” As the officer was punching her, “she looked terrified…she just looked gone.”
The witness said that the woman was not wearing shoes and was carrying several bags, indicating that she may have been homeless.
CHP said it was aware of the video and was investigating the incident.
“As a matter of policy, every time there is a use of force by our officers, there is a review conducted to determine whether the use of force was appropriate,” read a CHP statement, according to NBC Los Angeles. “That will be done in this case, however, since there is an ongoing investigation, it would be premature to comment on this specific video segment without reviewing the entire incident.”
CHP did not provide details of what happened to cause the officer to pursue the woman.
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When 21-year-old Army wife Yesenia Ruiz-Rojo went to the hospital in Fort Hood, Texas-almost 4 months pregnant, seemingly healthy, but experiencing excruciating abdominal pain-doctors discovered a gigantic tumor covering more than two-thirds of her liver. She was diagnosed with aggressive liver cancer and given two to four months to live, reports the US Department of Defense. Just save my baby, she said.
But as Raul Palacios, chief of interventional radiology at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, explains, "There was nothing out there we found in conventional medicine that would offer her any hope" of that happening. "We weren't aware of anything in the past that had been tried successfully before."
Its size and location made the tumor impossible to remove, while chemo would likely kill the fetus. So experts from more than a dozen specialties decided to try a new treatment, called selective internal radiation therapy with Y-90. By placing tiny radioactive particles into the artery that feeds Ruiz-Rojo's liver tumor, they hoped to shrink or even kill the tumor, all with minimal risk to mother and baby.
The treatment took six weeks, and Ruiz-Rojo went on to have healthy baby Luke at 32 weeks on Jan. 9; Palacios calls the case "a medical miracle." Ruiz-Rojo's own days are likely numbered-she turned down cancer treatments that "would impair the quality of time she has left with her baby," Palacios says. But "I love spending time with my son; he's beautiful," she said over the phone from a hospice center near her family in California. "I'm so thankful for him." (Click to read about another incredible birth story in the face of a medical challenge.)
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Orphan Davion Only Who Made 'Love Me Forever' Plea Removed From New Home (ABC News)
The orphaned teenager who made an emotional plea last year for a family to adopt him and "love me forever" – and triggered thousands of offers from around the world – has had a devastating setback after he was removed from the home of his potential adoptive family.
Davion Only’s dreams of adoption was disrupted after the 16-year-old had an altercation with a member of his prospective family, according to the Eckerd adoptive agency overseeing Only's adoption.
Only had moved from Florida to Ohio to be with the prospective family this spring for a 90 day trial period. The move was the first step of the adoptive process. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Only was with the family for weeks before being removed. The teen even wrote “I got baptized” on his Facebook page.
However, Only was removed after he had a physical altercation with a child and father, who is a minister, from his potential adoptive family. According to reports from the Tampa Bay Times that were confirmed by the Eckerd agency, Only’s case manager flew to Ohio and took the teenager out of the home and back to Florida on May 30.
The Eckerd agency did not disclose any further information about where Only was or how he was faring.
However, the agency said they still planned to find a “forever home” for Only.
“Davion is a maturing young man whose perspective on life continues to change as it does with most teenagers,” read the statement. “After Davion spent time with a prospective adoptive family this spring, it was determined that the family was not the right fit for him, with that we are asking for privacy during this stage of his life.”
Only won over thousands of supporters after giving an impassioned plea at a Florida church last October asking for a family to adopt him.
"I'll take anyone," Only said. "Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don't care. And I would be really appreciative. The best I could be."
In making his plea, Only said he was looking for someone “To love me forever, I just want people to love me for who I am.”
More than 10,000 people responded to Only's plea and the Eckerd agency was overwhelmed with request from people around the world offering to take in the teenager.
Only made the plea for family after searching for his own family and finding out that his birth mother had died weeks before he looked for her. He said he cried after finding out but decided he would not let his mother’s past, which included drug and theft arrests, to define him.
"I just want people to know that it's hard to be a foster kid,” said Only. “People sometimes don't know how hard it is and how much we try to do good.”
When asked what it would mean to finally have a family, Only said, "It will make me have more courage and it will make me look brighter and feel better in general."
ABC News' Christina Ng and Alyssa Newcomb contributed to this story.
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