A hearing set for today in Denver District Court at which U.S. Rep. Jared Polis was to seek a temporary restraining order blocking fracking activity taking place on property directly across the street from his home in unincorporated Weld County has been canceled.
If Trayvon Martin’s family decides to file a wrongful-death suit against George Zimmerman, they could be opening a Pandora’s box, according to Zimmerman’s older brother.
“A myriad of things that were off-limits in a criminal trial would come into play in a civil case. Specifically, things that might not be very flattering to Trayvon or his family,” Robert Zimmerman Jr. said in an email to The Huffington Post.
George Zimmerman, a 29-year-old former neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted earlier this month of all criminal charges in the 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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Following a brief hiatus last month for vocal rest, Chaka Khan has fully resumed her performance obligations and is set to appear in her hometown of Chicago this weekend in honor of the unveiling of her very own street, Chaka Khan Way.
The commemorative celebration adds to list of events honoring the 60-year-old’s 40th anniversary of her illustrious entertainment career, which includes the release of her highly anticipated opus, “The iKhan Project.”
The Huffington Post caught up with the funk/R&B powerhouse as she discussed her celebratory homecoming, in addition to her stance on boycotting Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, and stopping gun violence in Chicago.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio firearms group has raised more than $12,000 to be spent on guns or a security system for George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. But the money could end up being used to pay for Zimmerman’s defense costs and fees.
The $12,150.37 check that the group wrote to Zimmerman is the result of a fundraising effort that was launched because the group believes Zimmerman’s gun rights are being violated by the U.S. Department of Justice. The department has taken all the evidence from the trial, including the gun that killed Martin, as part of a civil rights investigation.
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We have seen our fair share of rumors concerning the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in the past, so much so that we have come up with a Galaxy Note 3 question and answer page to fill in the blanks before an official announcement concerning it is made. Well, we have also heard that its display will first arrive in 5.99”, before later rumors pointing to a smaller form factor? Which is it, really? Why not all three? Now that would be a paradigm shift for sure, as Indian logistics website Zauba that hosts the import/export database for the world’s second most populous country, have noted that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 could arrive in 5.5”, 5.7” and 6” form factors.
After all, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3’s internal model number happens to be N900, and if you perform a search in Zauba for it, you will end up with a whopping 8 different phablet models that Samsung had already sent to India for R&D or Testing & Evaluation purposes, in all three of the mentioned screen sizes. What do you think? Could the 5.5” model actually be the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 mini eventually? Only time will tell.
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DENVER — Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes have given the judge a sealed envelope that might contain the notebook Holmes sent a psychiatrist.
Records released Friday don’t reveal what’s in the envelope but say it relates to a debate over whether a reporter should have to disclose who told her what the notebook contains.
Though she claims she wasn’t part of “cool kids” table during high school, it’s kind of impossible to imagine not wanting to be BFFs with Mindy Kaling. Like most teens, the hilarious star of “The Mindy Project” was no stranger to those awkward teen years — and she doesn’t hold back when it comes to sharing those experiences.
Today, the actress-comedian-author is kicking ass and taking names, starring in her own show and just being awesome/hilarious in general. And even though she didn’t nab that Emmy nomination, we still think she’s the bomb dot com.
From dating woes to figuring out who you are, see below for the best Mindy Kaling nuggets of wisdom on getting through high school.
You think losing a $10 bill is bad? Trying losing $33 billion, and with it your ranking among the world’s richest men.
That’s what’s happened to Brazilian oil tycoon Eike Batista, who last year was quite literally on top of the world. Life was good, he was eighth richest man on the planet, and once he even vowed to overtake Mexico’s Carlos Slim as the planet’s richest man.
It didn’t last, and Batista has since watched his $34 billion net worth plummet some $33 billion over 16 months or so, according to Bloomberg. The big problem? His oil conglomerate, OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA, lost 90 percent of its value over the last year, leaving Batista with a relatively paltry $200 million when including debts he owes to investors.
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They do say that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and a bunch of school going kids in Los Angeles will agree with you, but they would certainly dispute the statement that there is no such thing as a free iPad! After all, it seems that a whopping 640,000 iPads will be given away to eligible school kids in Los Angeles, and all of these without requiring those little ones to fork out a single cent for their iPad. The initial batch of 31,000 iPads will be handed out this year, while the remaining bunch of 609,000 iPads will be arriving next year.
The whole idea of this exercise is to introduce a digital learning experience in classrooms, and if you were to take a look at the purchase price for the first 31,000 iPads, it does seem as though the $31 million price tag is rather exorbitant – since that would mean each of the iPads would cost a cool $1,000. That’d be some expensive software, matey! The Los Angeles School Board of Education will have to secure additional funds in order to purchase the balance, and I guess part of the purchase price will include the software inside, since these iPads will arrive pre-loaded with textbooks and other educational applications, covering 47 campuses across the City of Angels.
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What apparently started out as a unique plan to beat the mid-summer heat could land a young man in hot water with German police.
According to an incident report released by Chemnitz police, a motorcycle cop was on patrol near Chemnitz, southern Saxony, on Sunday when he spotted “a convertible of a slightly different kind.”
“I saw the strangest-looking convertible I have ever seen — a roofless BMW, without registration plates, bordered around the open top with wooden boards and fake plastic flowers. It was also full of water,” the unnamed police officer told Orange News.
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