Arcos Dorados, the world's largest McDonald's franchisee and the largest operator of fast-food restaurants in Latin America, said in a statement that it will serve exclusively cage-free eggs by 2025, a shift that will impact the welfare of millions of animals.
The new policy, developed in conjunction with Humane Society International, reflects a growing focus by U.S. animal protection groups on securing cage-free commitments internationally. Burger King recently announced a similar pledge for its Latin American supply chain.
Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, refers to caged hens as “the most closely confined, overcrowded and generally miserable animals in America.” In Latin America, where Arcos Dorados operates most of its 2,100 restaurants, conditions for these birds are even worse.
The region's industrial animal farms still subject egg-laying hens to a practice called “forced molting,” which is illegal in Europe and uncommon in the United States.
Birds are deprived of light and intentionally starved for several days to induce stress, which causes them to shed and regrow their feathers. They temporarily stop laying eggs while molting, providing their reproductive systems time to recuperate, and subsequently, they produce better quality eggs.
Egg-laying chickens in Latin America are also packed about 30 percent more tightly than in U.S. factory farms. A typical hen raised in Mexico or Brazil will live out its one- or two-year existence within the space of 48 square inches.
Arcos Dorados said its new policy is aimed at fulfilling growing global demand for more humanely raised animal products.
Eighty-six percent of meat-eating Americans said it was important to them that farm animals were treated humanely, according to a national HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted last year. Concern for the treatment of farm animals spanned party affiliation, income level, sex and race.
Recent campaigns to end the use of battery cages in the U.S. have been the most successful in the history of farm animal welfare, advocates say. In the last two years alone, every major grocery and fast-food chain in the country has committed to selling only cage-free eggs.
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Authorities have issued a warrant for Richard Campbell, 73, of Edisto Island, South Carolina, in connection with the attack, WLOS reported.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Sunday said the state's National Guard is on standby after a night of protests in a low-income, predominately black neighborhood in Milwaukee, triggered by the police shooting of a black man there.
Local police on Sunday said Sylville Smith, 23, had been pulled over on Saturday for running a traffic stop in Sherman Park. When Smith and another person in the car started running, an officer shot Smith in pursuit. Police say he was armed with a stolen handgun.
Even though his identity wasn't officially released until Sunday afternoon, people in the neighborhood knew who had been shot. And Smith's death came as officer killings of black men and women have been met with backlash across the nation. Milwaukee is also one of the country's most segregated cities.
After the shooting, Smith's family had gathered with neighbors and friends at the scene. As night fell, the crowd got bigger, and anger escalated, said Reggie Moore, who heads the office of violence prevention at the city's health department.
“Instead of engaging, [police] decided to disperse. The crowd did not disperse. They took over an intersection,” Moore said. “[Police] definitely took a restrained approach.”
Then people started throwing stones and bricks, smashing windows of police cars and setting four businesses, including a gas station, ablaze.
One police officer was hit in the head with a brick that was thrown through the window of his car, according to The New York Times. Moore said it was the “most violent” he's seen a protest get in Milwaukee.
At least a few police officers and community members were injured, while about a dozen people were arrested, he said.
After the flames died down and people left, police tweeted around 3:30 a.m. that police were “restoring order.”
On Sunday morning, several faith-based institutions and neighbors came to clean up the aftermath, Moore said.
“When people are seeing these regular occurrences, it has an impact. It's not just incidents taken in isolation,” he said.
Walker issued a statement saying that in case of more violent protests, the National Guard will help “upon request.”
“This act of selfless caring sets a powerful example for Milwaukee's youth and the entire community,” he said. “I join Milwaukee's leaders and citizens in calling for continued peace and prayer.”
Mildred Haynes, Smith's mother, told the local newspaper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Smith was the father of a 2-year-old boy.
“My son is gone due to the police killing my son,” she said Sunday. “I am lost.”
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"Game of Thrones" is getting Bran-tastic for book readers.
(Warning! This post is dark and full of spoilers!)
Through Bran, a lot of "Game of Thrones" mysteries are finally getting revealed. In Episode 5 this season, "The Door," fans found out the true meaning behind Hodor as the character held back wights to save Bran from an attack. And Sunday's episode, "Blood of My Blood," may have confirmed one of the most popular fan theories yet:
In George R.R. Martin's books, Bran Stark is helped to the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven by a mysterious figure we know as Coldhands. The character has the look of a wight and has blackened hands from congealed blood. We don't know much about Coldhands' past except that his clothes make it appear that he was a member of the Night's Watch.
Though the character's true identity is a mystery, fans have theorized for a while that Coldhands is secretly Benjen Stark, Bran's uncle who went missing after going beyond the Wall.
This week, a character who seems to match the description of Coldhands showed up and saved Bran from wights. Later, we found out this is Bran's uncle Benjen. The major theory seems to be confirmed.
It's unknown if this realization is show-only or not. George R.R. Martin has seemingly said Coldhands isn't Benjen in the books, and the show has already done major variations in order to adapt the story to the screen.
We may need to wait until Martin's next book, The Winds of Winter, comes out to see if Benjen is Coldhands. But, we're all about it.
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(Reuters) - A federal court has ordered a Mississippi town to consolidate its junior high and high schools in order to fully desegregate its school system after a 50-year battle the town has waged with the U.S. Department of Justice, agency officials said Monday.
Black students and white students in Cleveland, Miss., are largely separated into two high schools, one mostly white and one mostly black, according to the announcement.
The situation is similar with the town's middle school and junior high - one has mostly black students, and the other is historically white, officials said.
As a result of the order, handed down late Friday by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the Cleveland School District will combine the two high schools together, as well as join the junior high and middle school into one, desegregating the secondary schools for the first time in the district's 100-year history.
School officials could not immediately be reached to comment.
The court rejected two alternative plans posed by the district, calling them unconstitutional and saying that the dual system the district has been running has failed to achieve the highest possible degree of desegregation required by law.
"Six decades after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declared that 'separate but equal has no place' in public schools, this decision serves as a reminder to districts that delaying desegregation obligations is both unacceptable and unconstitutional," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
Cleveland, with a population of 12,000, is home to Delta State University and sits in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where many of the early slave owners ran cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.
A railroad track divides the city both geographically and racially, a common occurrence in many Delta towns.
According to the court opinion, testimony from both black and white community members supported the integration of the schools and noted that the perception had been that white students attended better schools.
"The delay in desegregation has deprived generations of students of the constitutionally-guaranteed right of an integrated education," the opinion read. "Although no court order can right these wrongs, it is the duty of the district to ensure that not one more student suffers under this burden."
(Reporting by Karen Brooks in Fort Worth, Texas; Editing by Alistair Bell)
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A tractor-trailer hauling scrap metal flipped onto its side on New York's Tappan Zee Bridge during Friday morning's rush hour, just ahead of a vehicle that captured the horrifying crash on video.
No one was hurt in the wreck that scattered metal cargo and parts from the tractor-trailer over the northbound lanes of the bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Rockland and Westchester counties.
The video shows the big rig, traveling at highway speed, as its trailer flips onto its left side and pulls the tractor over with it. The trailer's wheels and axle roll toward the wreck scene after the rig comes to rest.
Police told the Journal News the crash was caused by a failure in the truck suspension system, sending the trailer out of control. At least five other vehicles were hit by debris, the newspaper reported, but damage was minor.
The crash happened just before 9 a.m. on a heavily trafficked route to New York City. The span was closed in both directions for four hours, creating miles-long backups, FOX 5 NY reported.
Pictures taken by witnesses showed a chaotic scene, with scrap metal from the wrecked truck and a concrete lane barrier that appears to have been slammed out of place.
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WASHINGTON -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the type of leader that makes many progressives think about moving north these days. He's a self-proclaimed feminist with a substantive policy agenda who talks about how government can achieve remarkable progress for its citizens if only people work together.
In other words, he's the opposite of Donald Trump.
"No progressive movement can succeed if it doesn't embrace the fundamental truth that diversity is strength. ... The optimism and the generosity that we see in our communities on both sides of the border -- that's what we need to focus on. You see, fear is easy. Friendship? Friendship takes work," Trudeau said Friday.
The United States isn't the only place where frustrated voters have looked for change. Right-wing movements across the globe have taken advantage of people's economic anxieties and insecurities. And Canada has not been immune to these trends. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a member of the Conservative Party, stoked Islamophobic fears during his time in office.
Trudeau tried to argue Friday during a speech in downtown Washington that it's possible to counter those tactics -- and still win public office. It was a message that the progressive crowd, brought together by the Center for American Progress and Canada 2020, was no doubt reassured to hear.
"First of all, you have to understand, if there's a rise of people being angry and being willing to point fingers at others for their problems, you can't just tell them they're wrong," he said. "You have to look at why is that anxiety there?"
Trudeau argued that people feel like they made a deal with the governments of the past few decades: We will support your pro-growth policies, and that rewards will help not only society but also us as individuals.
"And unfortunately, we've gotten a certain amount of growth, but people are wondering, 'Well, we supported those agendas, but where are the fruits of that agenda to me? How come the growth that has created tremendous prosperity for the wealthiest hasn't lifted the middle class at all?' And there's a danger that people will start pulling away their support for policies that stimulate and create growth if we don't figure out a way of including them in the prosperity that was created by that growth," Trudeau said.
The prime minister said that during the 2015 Canadian elections, the Conservative Party tried to play into this anger through nasty -- but effective -- "Rovian politics," referring to the underhanded tactics made famous by Karl Rove, the former aide to President George W. Bush.
Trudeau said he made the decision to forego that sort of campaigning -- a move that brought skepticism from many progressive who said he just couldn't win without pushing back.
"I said, 'No, it's not that we're not going to respond, but we're going to respond in the right way. And what I heard from Canadians across the country is, we don't like negative attacks. But they work. ... [W]e found that indeed, perhaps Canadians had grown cynical over politics, but they'd also grown very tired of having to be cynical about politics. And preventing a strong, inclusive fearless view of the future in the face of negative attacks was really really important."
Trudeau was in Washington this week for a state visit with President Barack Obama.
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It was the first time a U.S. president has hosted Canada's prime minister at a state dinner since 1997. There was poutine! There was Canadian whisky! There was butterscotch ice cream! And there was FLOTUS, in a stunning Jason Wu gown.
The custom-made strapless dress, which appears to be embroidered with a colorful, floral pattern, looked absolutely beautiful paired with a loose hairdo just a bit shorter than her cut at the China state dinner last year. While the first lady has worn designs by Wu in the past, the choice is especially notable for the Canadian dinner, as Wu was raised in Canada.
Obama's dress wasn't the only style win of the night.
Sophie Trudeau looked absolutely stunning in a fuchsia gown with pink and orange beaded detailing by Canadian designer Lucien Matis that almost coordinated with the first lady's as they posed for photos together.
Sigh. To be a fly on that fancy, fancy wall.
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PBS NewsHour will live stream the funeral of Nancy Reagan, scheduled for 11 a.m. PST. Watch it in the live stream above.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The program for Friday’s funeral of former first lady Nancy Reagan, from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation:
Nancy Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, next to her husband, who died on June 5, 2004. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. local time, with a musical prelude to begin at 10:15 a.m. by the Santa Susana High School Advanced Women’s Choir and Abbe Road A Cappella and an instrumental prelude by the 1st Marine Division Band, Marine Corps Camp Pendleton.
The Rev. Stuart A. Kenworthy, Vicar, Washington National Cathedral, will preside over the funeral.
The program includes:
— “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” sung by the Santa Susana High School Choir
— Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 by Anne Peterson, Nancy Reagan’s niece
— Letter from Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan, read by former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
— “Ave Maria,” sung by opera singer Ana Maria Martinez
— Reading of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 by Barton Hegeler, Nancy Reagan’s nephew
— Reading of John 14:1-6 by Diane Sawyer
— “Pie Jesu-Requiem,” sung by Martinez
— Reflections by James A. Baker
— Reflections by Tom Brokaw
— Reflections by Patti Davis
— Reflections by Ronald Prescott Reagan
— “Amazing Grace,” sung by the Santa Susana High School Choir
— Recessional with bagpipe played by Piper Major Bill Boetticher
— “God Bless America”
Notable guests:
Presidential families:
— Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush
— Michelle Obama
— Hillary Clinton
— Rosalynn Carter
— Tricia Nixon Cox
— Steven Ford
— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
— Luci Baines Johnson
— Caroline Kennedy
Current and former politicians:
— California Gov. Jerry Brown
— Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
— Former California Gov. Pete Wilson
— Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi
— Newt and Callista Gingrich
— Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz
Military:
— Capt. Christopher Bolt, commanding officer USS Ronald Reagan
Albuquerque is at a pivotal moment that could determine whether it becomes more a walkable and transit-oriented city.
Albuquerques BRT project will add center-running bus lanes and frequent service on Central Avenue, the east-westspine ofthe citys transit grid. Map: ABQ Ride
The mayor, a Republican, is backing a major bus rapid transit project called ART along the citys maincorridor, Central Avenue.The project was recently recommended for funding in the Obama administrationsbudget proposal.
The added momentum for the project set off opponents, whopenned an open letteragainst it. A chief complaint is that claimingspace for transit on Central Avenue will slow down cars.
On a commercial street where traffic moves as dangerous speeds, thats a benefit, write supporters of the project atStreetsblog Network memberUrban ABQ:
Nob Hill Main Streetrecently hired Robert Gibbs Planning Group to do a retail health analysis of the Nob Hill retail district and the Central corridor in that area. When discussing problems with the corridor, the first statement from the report, linked here, states that Central Avenue needs to be slowed down. The noise, nuisance, and threat to safety are a major impediment.
Other notable aspects of the report included the portion stating that walk-ability, both as an index and as experienced by most shoppers, is poor; sidewalks are narrow and cluttered, street crossing is difficult and dangerous.
Recommended strategies to fix these stated problems include slow Central Avenue to 25 mphand replace parking kiosks with modern smart parking meters at each space.
Recommended structural changes from the report included wider sidewalks, more pedestrian crossings, more traffic lights, and public spaces and reduce traffic to one lane each way.
The ART project will accomplish all of these goals.
Overall, ART will greatly improve the retail environment on Central Avenue.
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, center, laughs with Sharon Taskey and her son, Todd Taskey, after a short conversation about baseball loyalties after graduation at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart where Scalia gave the commencement address June 04, 2015 in Bethesda, MD. Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia kept your attention, whether you liked him or not.
He was a big personality who rather enjoyed the spotlight, and he did not often shy from controversy.
Scalia deeply influenced a generation of conservative legal thinkers and was a lightning rod for criticism from the left almost from the moment President Ronald Reagan put him on the court in 1986.
A gifted writer who produced gems and barbs in equal measure, Scalia even occasionally took aim at his usual allies if they disagreed with his view of a case.
Scalia died overnight Friday. The justice, 79, would have been 80 next month.
Like all justices, he liked to be in the majority. But Scalia himself said he also liked writing dissents because that justice did not have to pull punches, as the author of the court's majority opinion must sometimes do to ensure his opinion keeps its five votes.
In dissent, Scalia said, he was able to write opinions the way they should be written. He wrote dissents that were entertaining, clear-headed, furious, sarcastic and sometimes just plain mean.
His close friend, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, once said that Scalia was "an absolutely charming man, and he can make even the most sober judge laugh." She said that she urged her friend to tone down his dissenting opinions "because he'll be more effective if he is not so polemical. I'm not always successful."
His dissents in cases involving gay rights could be as biting as they were prescient.
"By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition," Scalia wrote in dissent in 2013 when the court struck down part of a federal anti-gay marriage law. Less than a year later, federal judges in Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia cited Scalia's dissent in their opinions striking down all or parts of state bans on same-sex marriage.
It was a mocking Scalia who in 1993 criticized a decades-old test used by the court to decide whether laws or government policies violated the constitutionally required separation of church and state.
"Like some ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad, after being repeatedly killed and buried, (the test) stalks our ... jurisprudence once again, frightening the little children and school attorneys," he wrote.
Dissenting from an opinion forbidding states from executing killers who were 16 or 17 when they committed their crimes, Scalia wrote, "The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nation's moral standards - and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures."
He could be unsparing even with his allies. In 2007, Scalia sided with Chief Justice John Roberts in a decision that gave corporations and labor unions wide latitude to air political ads close to elections. Yet Scalia was upset that the new chief justice's opinion did not explicitly overturn an earlier decision. "This faux judicial restraint is judicial obfuscation," Scalia said.
Quick-witted and loquacious, Scalia was among the most persistent, frequent and quotable interrogators of the lawyers who appeared before the court.
During Scalia's first argument session as a court member, Justice Lewis F. Powell leaned over and asked a colleague, "Do you think he knows that the rest of us are here?"
He showed a deep commitment to originalism, which he later began calling textualism. In other words, judges had a duty to give the same meaning to the Constitution and laws as they had when they were written. Otherwise, he said disparagingly, judges could decide that "'the Constitution means exactly what I think it ought to mean."
A challenge to a Washington, D.C., gun ban gave Scalia the opportunity to display his devotion to concept. In a 5-4 decision that split the court's conservatives and liberals, he wrote that an examination of English and colonial history made it exceedingly clear that the Second Amendment protected Americans' right to have guns, at the very least in their homes and for self-defense. The dissenters, also claiming fidelity to history, said the amendment was meant to ensure that states could raise militias to confront a too-powerful federal government if necessary.
But Scalia rejected that view. "Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct," Scalia wrote.
He could be a strong supporter of privacy in cases involving police searches and defendants' rights. Indeed, Scalia often said he should be the "poster child" for the criminal defense bar.
But he also voted consistently to let states outlaw abortions, to allow a closer relationship between government and religion, to permit executions and to limit lawsuits.
Scalia was in the court's majority in the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision, which effectively decided the presidential election for Republican George W. Bush. "Get over it," Scalia would famously say at speaking engagements in the ensuing years whenever the topic arose.
Bush later named one of Scalia's sons, Eugene, to an administration job, but the Senate refused to confirm him. Eugene Scalia served as the Labor Department solicitor temporarily in a recess appointment.
The justice relished a good fight. In 2004, when an environmental group asked him to step aside from a case involving Vice President Dick Cheney after reports that Scalia and Cheney hunted ducks together, the justice responded with a 21-page memorandum explaining his intention to hear the case. He said "the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined," if people thought a duck-hunting trip could sway his vote.
Two years later, The Boston Herald reported that Scalia employed an obscene hand gesture while leaving a church in response to another question about his impartiality. Scalia penned a scathing letter to the newspaper, taking issue with the characterization. He explained that the gesture -the extended fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin - was dismissive, not obscene.
"From watching too many episodes of 'The Sopranos,' your staff seems to have acquired the belief that any Sicilian gesture is obscene," he said.
Scalia did not think much of the media, which he generally found to be shallow and more than a little biased against him and his fellow conservatives. He told a visitor to his office at the court that he wished supermarket checkout stands carried the University of Chicago Law Review instead of tabloids. Reporters cared too much whether the "little old lady won or lost" before the Supreme Court. Scalia said, "I couldn't care less, as long as we get the law right."
A smoker of cigarettes and pipes, Scalia enjoyed baseball, poker, hunting and playing the piano. He was an enthusiastic singer at court Christmas parties and other musical gatherings, and once appeared on stage with Ginsburg as a Washington Opera extra.
The only child of an Italian immigrant father who was a professor of Romance languages and a mother who taught elementary school, Scalia attended public schools in his native New Jersey, graduated first in his class at Georgetown University and won high honors at the Harvard University Law School. He taught law and served in Republican administrations before Reagan made him an appeals court judge in Washington in 1982. Scalia and his wife, Maureen, had nine children.
Scalia's impact on the court was muted by his seeming disregard for moderating his views to help build consensus, but he was held in deep affection by his ideological opposites Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. He persuaded Kagan to join him on hunting trips. While on his high school drill team, Scalia carried his rifle in a case on the New York City subways. Decades later, he taught the Upper West Sider Kagan how to shoot a gun.
Scalia and Ginsburg shared a love of opera, and their contrasting views inspired the opera Scalia/Ginsburg by composer Derrick Wang, who said he got the idea while a law student at the University of Maryland.
In one aria, the Scalia character rages about justices who see the Constitution evolving with society.
The operatic Scalia fumes: "The justices are blind. How can they spout this? The Constitution says absolutely nothing about this."
La Loche Community School is seen in an undated photo. Four people were killed in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan Friday. Photo by Raymond Dauvin/Handout via Reuters
Four people were killed Friday in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan, Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
A male suspect was was arrested outside the La Loche Community School in Northern Saskatchewan, and taken into custody. "There's no risk to public safety at this time," Chief Superintendent Maureen Levy of the Saskatchewan RCMP, said Friday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a brief statement from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the annual World Economic Forum. "Obviously this is every parent's worst nightmare," Trudeau said. "The community is reeling and all of us across this country, [our] hearts are going out to the families and to the whole community."
According to its Facebook page, the school serves pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, with approximately 900 students.
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