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The civil rape trial against Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has begun in New York.The lawsuit was filed by Haleigh Breest, a publicist who said the Million Dollar Baby screenwriter lured her to his Manhattan apartment and allegedly raped her after a 2013 movie premiere.During opening statements on Wednesday (19 October), the plaintiff’s lawyer Zoe Salzman told the jurors that Haggis is “manipulative”.“The evidence in this case will show Mr Haggis used his storytelling skills and fame to prey on, manipulate and attack…

Civil avaition has agreed to try to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. UN aviation agency members reached an agreement Friday to try to achieve by 2050 net-zero carbon emissions in air travel—often criticized for its outsized role in climate change. The assembly, which brought together representatives…

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formed a new office designed to help marginalized communities deal with the extra burdens of pollution and climate change, Reuters has reported. The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will be staffed by 200 EPA employees located in the agency's Washington head office and 10 regional bureaus.  "The establishment of a new office dedicated to advancing environmental justice and civil rights at EPA will ensure the lived experiences of underserved…

Tesla filed a countersuit against the California Civil Rights Department (formerly the Department of Fair Employment and Housing) this week. The action comes in response to the state agency’s ongoing lawsuit against the automaker, which alleges that the company has operated a “racially segregated workplace,” at its Fremont, California Gigafactory.The electric car maker has been trying to get out of the suit since before the state even publicly filed its complaint. One day before the case was officially brought to state…

Wanda Sykes, the host of Ring Nation. | Image: MGM Television Amazon and MGM are marketing Ring Nation, their upcoming reality TV show hosted by comedian and former NSA agent Wanda Sykes, as “a new twist on the popular clip show genre.” But over 40 different civil rights organizations are now speaking out against the program for being a dangerous piece of pro-surveillance corporate propaganda and are calling on the studios to cancel the show before it ever sees the light of day. Today, Fight for…

The FBI has declassified its file on Aretha Franklin, the late “Queen of Soul” who died in 2018 at age 76. The 270-page document, which includes reports from over a dozen states, shows the bureau extensively tracked the singer’s civil rights activism and her friendships with Martin Luther King Jr and Angela Davis.The file also includes several credible death threats against Franklin and a potential copyright infringement lawsuit stemming from a Yahoo! Groups message board in 2005. The case, involving a self-proclaimed…

Image: Marvel Studios Captain America: Civil War really felt like the beginning of a new age for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with an ensemble cast with nearly ever Avenger, but its ending has been cause for questions for years: until now. A new fan theory believes it has explained and added extra detail to the the finale of Civil War, and how exactly the Sokovia Accords-breaking Avengers escaped from The Raft prison. None other than Tony Stark’s creation, Vision, was truthfully behind it all. The theorist’s…

Image via Marvel Studios The third installment in the Captain America feature-film franchise, Captain America: Civil War released in theatres on May 6, 2016, succeeding Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). In the MCU‘s 13th film overall, a disagreement over the international status of the Avengers causes a rift between the superhero team, dividing them into Team Iron Man — led by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) — and Team Captain America — led by Steve Rogers…

The MCU‘s Phase Four has a steep hill to climb. Avengers: Endgame wrapped up a decade of storytelling and brought the ‘Infinity Saga’ to a barnstorming end. But now that Thanos, the big bad we’d been building up to since Phase One is gone, where do we go next? The answer seems to have been to push the boundaries of what the MCU can be. There’s been a focus on the multiverse, which has led to both other universes crossing paths with the MCU and variants on existing characters popping up. The current phase also…

via Marvel Studios Despite having a giant green rage monster living within him for close to two decades in Marvel Cinematic Universe canon, Bruce Banner remains one of the most affable and likable figures in the comic book franchise. He’s buddies with basically all of the Avengers, which has led fans to ponder a major question regarding Captain America: Civil War. Pretty much every member of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes was involved in Steve Rogers’ third solo adventure at one stage or another, with Thor and Hulk…