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The “Hot Convict” strikes again. 

Model Jeremy Meeks, who went viral a few years ago after his handsome mugshot appeared on Facebook, took the Milan runways by storm this past weekend. Not bad for someone who was released from prison in March 2016.

Meeks modeled two looks at Philipp Plein’s men’s spring 2018 show: 

Earlier this year, the model rocked a similar shirtless look backstage at Plein’s New York Fashion Week show in February: 

Just a few weeks ago, Meeks was making the rounds with his famous friends at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The model hung out with Nicki Minaj, Paris Hilton and Carine Roitfeld, the former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris. He also walked for Plein at his Cannes show. 

Fingers crossed he makes an appearance at New York Fashion Week (Men’s) this summer. 

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A Republican official in Georgia believes his party will win Tuesday’s special election in the state’s 6th Congressional District thanks to last week’s attack on GOP congressmen at a baseball practice in Northern Virginia.

“I’ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” Brad Carver, the party chairman in Georgia’s 11th congressional district, said Saturday, according to The Washington Post.

Speaking after a get-out-the-vote rally for GOP candidate Karen Handel, Carver suggested that the shooting, carried out by a former volunteer for the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was the latest sign of “left-wing extremism.”

“[M]oderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism. I get that there’s extremists on both sides, but we are not seeing them,” said Carver. “We’re seeing absolute resistance to everything [President Donald Trump] does. Moderates and independents out there want to give him a chance. Democrats have never given this president a chance.”

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was still in the hospital Monday after being struck in the hip during Wednesday’s shooting. He was recently upgraded from critical to serious condition and is expected to face a lengthy recovery. Four other people were also injured in the attack; the gunman was shot and killed by police.

Voters in Georgia head to the polls on Tuesday to decide a heated special election for the congressional seat Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price gave up to serve in Trump’s cabinet. Republicans ― including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ― have represented the district since the late 1970s. But Democrats have staked their hopes on Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old, first-time candidate who fell just short of winning the election outright in April balloting featuring 18 candidates. Handel, 55, is a veteran politician who previously served as Georgia’s secretary of state.

A poll taken last week after the shooting showed Ossoff leading by less than two percentage points. Early voting has been heavy in the race, which both parties see as a potential barometer of discontent with Trump.

A special election also is being held Tuesday in South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District for the seat Republican Mick Mulvaney vacated to become director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump.

GOP candidate Ralph Norman, a businessman, similarly has predicted that last week’s shooting could boost his chances at the polls in the district that tilts Republican anyway. He faces Democrat Archie Parnell, who recently released a campaign video that parodies Netflik’s “House of Cards” series.

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WASHINGTON ― A few days after his inauguration, President Donald Trump vowed to “send in the feds” in order to address the high rates of gun violence plaguing Chicago, Illinois.

It wasn’t the first time Trump had advocated for federal intervention to overhaul public safety measures in Chicago and he often references the city when pushing his “tough-on-crime” policy ideals. But crime rates in the United States have remained near historic lows in 2016, according to a report from The Brennan Center for Justice, with the exception of a few major cities that saw spikes in violent crimes ― including Chicago which saw an 17.7 percent increase.

A new report from the Center for American Progress aims to contextualize Trump’s statements to “send in the Feds” in light of the Justice Department’s National Summit on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, which begins this week.

The report, titled “The Right Way To Send In The Feds,” argues that the government should develop and fund crime reduction and prevention policies instead of advocating for a complete overhaul.

A few report highlights:  

• Trump’s budget would cut key violence prevention and mentoring programs in the Justice Department while increasing funding to enforcement efforts. But partnerships with the Justice Department have had positive results in Chicago. One program provided high-school kids with summer jobs and assigned them mentors who helped them manage their emotions and behavior. Results from a random control study of the program showed a 43 percent decrease in violent crime among participants.
• A lack of funding to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms prevents the agency from inspecting gun dealers to make sure they are upholding federal regulations ― a key piece of ensuring safety in Chicago. The report also says there are “onerous restrictions [that] limit ATF’s ability to function in an efficient and modern manner” ― including effectively managing data and revealing that information to local law enforcement agencies.
• Creating a stronger bond between the police and communities, which the report calls “a necessary and effective crime-fighting tool.”

“Contrary to the view of the Trump administration, which seems to recognize value only in stepping up enforcement efforts, the federal government can offer support to local jurisdictions by helping provide what they cannot: support for evidence-based programs to prevent violent crime; regulation of the gun industry to prevent guns from flooding vulnerable communities; and oversight of local police departments to improve communities’ trust in them through accountability,” the report concludes.

“This approach complements rather than supplants local public safety efforts, which is the most effective and appropriate way to send in the feds.”

Read the entire report:

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By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to former President George W. Bush’s attorney general, FBI chief and others, ruling they cannot be sued over the treatment of detainees, mainly Muslims, rounded up in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The justices, in a 4-2 decision, reversed a lower court’s decision that said the long-running suit brought by the detainees could proceed against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign team in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Three of the justices did not participate in the ruling.

The civil rights lawsuit sought to hold the former officials responsible for racial and religious profiling and abuse in detention that the plaintiffs said they endured after being swept up following the 2001 attacks by al Qaeda Islamic militants on the United States.

The suit was filed by a group of Muslim, Arab and South Asian non-U.S. citizens who, their lawyers said, were held as terrorism suspects based on their race, religion, ethnicity and immigration status and abused in detention before being deported.

They were charged with only civil immigration violations. But the plaintiffs said they were subjected at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center to 23-hours-a-day solitary confinement, strip searches, sleep deprivation, beatings and other abuses and denied the ability to practice their religion.

They said their rights under the U.S. Constitution to due process and equal protection under the law were violated.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

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It’s time to stop turning to coconut oil to make your brownies healthier.

Coconut oil, it turns out, is not the health food people think it is. This oil might be stocked on the shelves of your health food store, but a recent report released by the American Heart Association suggests that this might be a mistake. 

You’re not alone in this misconception. An AHA survey found that 72 percent of Americans considered coconut oil a health food. But coconut oil, it turns out, is shockingly high in saturated fats.

In fact, 82 percent of the fat found in coconut oil is saturated ― that’s significantly more than olive oil, which clocks in at 14 percent and canola oil, which contains a mere seven percent. 

The AHA reviewed existing data on saturated fats and found that in seven out of eight studies, coconut oil actually increased LDL cholesterol ― the bad cholesterol ― which is a cause of cardiovascular disease. The findings were so clear that Frank Sacks, the report’s lead author, told USA Today, “You can put it on your body, but don’t put it in your body.” Roger that. 

You’re better off sticking to oils that are lower in saturated fats such as the aforementioned olive oil. Olive oil, some studies suggest, helps good cholesterol do its job. And we can all use help with that.

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