The Daily Populous

Wednesday October 11st, 2017 morning edition

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After hearing multiple women in Hollywood share stories of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, actor Terry Crews was moved to go public with his own tale of sexual assault from a powerful Hollywood figure.

My wife n I were at a Hollywood function last year n a high level Hollywood executive came over 2 me and groped my privates.

(16/end) — terrycrews (@terrycrews) October 10, 2017. »

Catalonia independence declaration signed and suspended

Authored by bbc.co.uk

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain, following the disputed referendum.

A 1 October referendum in the north-eastern province - which Catalan leaders say resulted in a Yes vote for independence - was declared invalid by Spain's Constitutional Court.

The declaration reads: "We call on all states and international organisations to recognise the Catalan republic as an independent and sovereign state. »

Fox Sued for Using Muhammad Ali in Super Bowl Advertisement

Authored by hollywoodreporter.com

Fox Broadcasting has been hit with a $30 million lawsuit for using Muhammad Ali as the centerpiece in an advertisement right before the start of this year's Super Bowl.

Muhammad Ali Enterprises, which owns intellectual property rights associated with the boxing legend, filed its complaint in Illinois federal court Tuesday.

The narrator tells viewers that “in the Super Bowl many have marched towards this same confrontation with greatness" as images of Ali and others are juxtaposed. »

U.S. Senate: The Senate's New Gavel

Authored by senate.gov

Through the center doors appeared Majority Leader William Knowland and Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, followed by the vice president of India.

The leaders guided their guest to the rostrum and introduced him to the vice president of the United States, Richard Nixon.

What Nixon failed to mention was that the gavel had begun "to come apart" thanks to his own heavy hand. »

Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis

Authored by journals.plos.org

Several governmental and nongovernmental databases track the number of law-enforcement-related deaths in the US, but all are likely to undercount these deaths.

If a death is improperly assigned another code, it is considered to be misclassified, which leads to undercounting of the number of law-enforcement-related deaths.

Data Availability: The primary data used to identify persons killed by police are available from The Guardian. »