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– It turns out the Nazis' vision of the ideal Aryan baby—one that was slapped on the cover of a magazine, on postcards, and disseminated in party propaganda—was a Jewish baby. The Telegraph resurfaces the remarkable story of Hessy Taft (born Hessy Levinsons), a now 80-year-old who in 1935, at just six months, was taken by her mother to a Berlin photographer to have her baby photo taken. Months later, Pauline Levinsons spied her daughter's photo on the cover of the Nazi magazine Sonne ins Hause. Worried their Jewish identity would surface as a result, she hurried back to Hans Ballin, who explained to her that he "wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous"—and so the photographer intentionally entered the young Hessy into a contest looking for the most beautiful Aryan baby, one thought to be judged by Joseph Goebbels himself. The truth of the baby's identity never came to light, though Hessy was kept out of public sight by her parents, who feared she'd be recognized. A short time later the family fled Germany for Latvia, then Paris, Cuba, and finally the United States. Haaretz points out that Taft's story isn't an untold one: In fact, it's published on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website. But it's getting a fresh look after Taft recently gave Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial a copy of the magazine cover. "I feel a little revenge," the Telegraph quotes her as saying. "Something like satisfaction." (In other Nazi news: Was Hitler a billionaire tax dodger?)

Yad Vashem recently received a most-unusual artifact from the Nazi era – a Nazi family magazine featuring an image of the perfect Aryan baby on its cover, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.

 The twist is that the baby was a Jew, whose picture was knowingly submitted in a contest in order to mock Aryan philosophy and whose true identity was never revealed.

 That baby was Hessy Taft nee Levinsons, whose parents had moved from Latvia to Berli to pursue classical music careers and would later flee to Paris and Cuba, eventually landing in the United States.

 Taft's full story has long been on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in the "Holocaust Chronicles" book, but the occasion of her donating her yellowing copy of the Sonne ins Haus magazine sparked new interest in this incredible story.

 As Taft, a professor, recalls, her mother took her to a well-known photographer in Berlin in 1935 to have her baby picture taken and was horrified to see Hessy's image on the magazine's cover months later.

 She was afraid the family would be exposed as Jews, but when she told the photographer, Hans Ballin, he told her he "deliberately submitted the photograph to a contest to find the most beautiful Aryan baby," according to The Telegraph.

 "I wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous," the photographer told her.

 Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels allegedly chose the photograph personally.

 Even though relatives in Memel, now in Lithuania, saw the photograph, the Nazis apparently never discovered the true identity of their perfect Aryan baby.

 The Levinsons family fled Germany after the father was temporarily jailed – and released with the help of his Nazi accountant – in 1938, heading for Paris. After the city fell to the Nazis, the French resistance helped the family escape to Cuba. The family moved to the United States after the war.

 “I feel a little revenge,” The Telegraph quoted her as saying on the occasion of presenting her photograph to Yad Vashem. “Something like satisfaction.” ||||| When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis. Her photograph was chosen as the image of the ideal Aryan baby, and distributed in party propaganda. But what the Nazis didn’t know was that their perfect baby was really Jewish.

 “I can laugh about it now,” the 80-year-old Professor Taft told Germany’s Bild newspaper in an interview. “But if the Nazis had known who I really was, I wouldn’t be alive.”

 Prof Taft recently presented the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel with a Nazi magazine featuring her baby photograph on the front cover, and told the story of how she became an unlikely poster child for the Third Reich.

 Her parents, Jacob and Pauline Levinsons, both talented singers, moved to Berlin from Latvia to pursue careers in classical music in 1928, only to find themselves caught up in the Nazis’ rise to power.

 Her father lost his job at an opera company because he was Jewish, and had to find work as a door-to-door salesman.

 In 1935, with the city rife with anti-semitic attacks, Pauline Levinsons took her six-month-old daughter Hessy to a well-known Berlin photographer to have her baby photograph taken.

 A few months later, she was horrified to find her daughter’s picture on the front cover of Sonne ins Hause, a major Nazi family magazine.

 Terrified the family would be exposed as Jews, she rushed to the photographer, Hans Ballin. He told her he knew the family was Jewish, and had deliberately submitted the photograph to a contest to find the most beautiful Aryan baby.

 Hessy Taft looks through the photographs of her as a child, which were used for Nazi posters (Ohad Zwigenberg, Yedioth Ahoronot)

 “I wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous,” the photographer told her.

 He succeeded: the picture won the contest, and was believed to have been chosen personally by the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

 Frightened she would be recognised on the streets and questions asked about her identity, Prof Taft’s parents kept her at home.

 Her photograph appeared on widely available Nazi postcards, where she was recognised by an aunt in distant Memel, now part of Lithuania. But the Nazis never discovered Prof Taft’s true identity.

 In 1938, her father was arrested by the Gestapo on a trumped up tax charge, but released when his accountant, a Nazi party member, came to his defence.

 After that, the family fled Germany. They moved first to Latvia, before settling in Paris only for the city to fall to the Nazis.

 With the help of the French resistance, they escaped again, this time to Cuba, and in 1949 the family moved to the United States.

 Today the Jewish woman who was once a Nazi poster child is a professor of chemistry in New York.

 “I feel a little revenge,” she said of presenting her photograph to Yad Vashem. “Something like satisfaction.” ||||| A birthday card featuring the picture of Hessy Levinsons, winner of the most beautiful Aryan baby contest.

 Hessy Levinsons (now Hessy Levinsons Taft) is the older daughter of Jacob and Pauline (Levine) Levinsons, both talented singers who came from Latvia to Berlin in the 1920s and studied voice at the Hochscule fuer Musik. The two were married in 1928 in Latvia but returned to Berlin to pursue their careers. In 1932, using his legal stage name, Yasha Lenssen, Jacob signed a contract with the Breslau opera to perform as their leading baritone in a series of 19 operas. However, shortly before the season opened, his contract was abruptly cancelled when he was asked to add his original surname to the agreement, a name that immediately identified him as a Jew. After Hitler's rise to power, the Levinsons were increasingly uneasy about their prospects for the future. They turned for advice to the Latvian consul in Berlin, who assured them Hitler would not last long and predicted a flourishing musical career for them after his demise. As foreigners, the Levinsons were somewhat protected from the anti-Jewish economic legislation that was directed against German Jews. Thus Jacob was able to secure a position as the Berlin representative of a Latvian-based firm.

 Hessy Levinsons was born in 1934. When she was six months old, Hessy was taken to a leading Berlin photographer to have her portrait taken. A few months later this picture appeared on the cover of the Nazi publication, "Sonne ins Haus" [Sun in the House]. Frightened by the possible consequences of their exposure as foreign-born Jews, Hessy's mother rushed to the photographer. He explained that he had known she was a Jewish child and had deliberately submitted her photograph to a contest for the most beautiful Aryan baby in order to ridicule Nazi racial theory, and Hessy was selected as winner of the contest among all the German babies. Several months later an aunt in Memel recognized Hessy's portrait on a picture postcard in a local store and sent it to the Levinsons in Berlin. The card was captioned "Best wishes for the birthday." After the publication of her photograph Hessy was kept largely at home lest she be recognized in the street and her parents questioned about her identity. In 1936 her sister Naomi was born. That same year her father was arrested by the Gestapo on a trumped-up tax charge. He was released only after his accountant, a Nazi party member, came to his defense. Following this incident the Levinsons left for Latvia, where they remained for a year until deciding to move to Paris in 1938. The family had fully reestablished itself when the Germans entered Paris. Jacob applied for American visas but had no way of knowing when they might come through. In 1941, when the round-up of foreign Jews began in Paris, the Levinsons fled to Memac-sur-Mer, a coastal town near Bordeaux. From there they were led by members of the French resistance to Nice. In the meantime Jacob received notice that their American visas had arrived, but that only 45 days remained to get to the U.S. before the visas would expire. Unable to find immediate transport to the United States, Jacob applied for an extension of their U.S. visas. The U.S. Department of Immigration denied these extensions. Jacob then secured Cuban visas for the family and booked passage on the Serpa Pinto, a Portuguese ship that left from Lisbon in early in 1942 for Havana. The family spent the next seven years in the Cuban capital, where Hessy and her sister grew up. In 1948 the Levinsons reapplied for immigration to the U.S. and arrived in New York in 1949.

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"Someone is terrorizing'' Seminole Heights after third slaying in 11 days

 TAMPA — When asked Friday if Tampa police believe a serial killer is stalking the residents of Seminole Heights, interim Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan paused for a moment.

 "We can call it what we want," said a clearly frustrated Dugan, who called a news conference to talk about the discovery Thursday of yet another body, the third person to be shot and killed in the neighborhood in 11 days. "If that brings attention to it, that's fine."

 The latest killing took place about 8 p.m. Thursday, Dugan said. It was both frustrating and hauntingly tragic.

 Anthony Naiboa, 20, should not even have been in the southeast part of Seminole Heights when he was shot, apparently without motive. After he left work Thursday night, he got on the wrong bus. His body was found near the intersection of 15th Street N. and E. Frierson Avenue, just 200 yards from where he left the bus and began walking.

 Police officers who were flooding the area because of the two previous murders heard the gun shots, Dugan said, but arrived too late. The shooter was gone.

 Authorities are releasing little information about their investigation, which is being assisted by the FBI. The three victims, Naiboa, Benjamin Edward Mitchell, 22, and Monica Caridad Hoffa, 32, are all connected by proximity and time-frame, said Dugan, who declined to say whether there is any connection between the type of weapon or ammunition used in the killings.

 As of now, he said, there is no suspect or motive.

 In addition to the FBI's help, Dugan said the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and St. Petersburg Police have offered support. Crime Stoppers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are teaming up on a $25,000 reward for information that leads to a suspect's arrest.

 Meanwhile, the hunt continues.

 "I go from frustration to anger,'' Dugan said. "Now we have someone terrorizing the neighborhood. It's just difficult to see this happen."

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 Naiboa's father began to worry Thursday night when his son didn't come home. He finally called police.

 "We had to regretfully inform him that his son had been murdered," the chief said.

 The father of Benjamin Mitchell, whose body was found Oct. 9, was still grappling Friday with his loss along with the news that someone else's son had been killed. He met Friday with Naiboa's parents and they grieved together.

 "To hear there was a third victim, and for him to meet Anthony Naibo's parents this morning, you can just imagine what's that's like," Dugan said.

 Authorities have said repeatedly that the victims did nothing wrong and there is no connection between them.

 But there are similarities.

 All three victims were bus riders and all three were shot at or near bus stops. Mitchell and Naiboa both attended Middleton High School.

 Mitchell was waiting for a bus at the stop on North 15th and E. Frierson when he was shot. Two days later, Hoffa was killed, but it would be another two days until her body was found on the 1000 block of E. New Orleans Avenue — about six blocks west of the Ellicott Street bus stop on the No. 9 line. A city worker found her body in a vacant lot.

 Naiboa was found at North 15th and Conover streets, a few hundred yards south from the No. 9 bus stop where he had gotten off and where Mitchell was killed 11 days earlier.

 Hoffa did not drive and relied heavily on public transportation, said Caz Taylor, 34, a close friend of Hoffa.

 "Every day she was walking to the bus stop," Taylor said. "That was not unusual. Her main mode of transportation was her feet."

 Taylor met Hoffa when the two were teens and saw each other nearly every day until Taylor moved to Ohio.

 "She was so witty and smart," Taylor said. "She made friends everywhere she went."

 A Celebration of Life service for Hoffa is scheduled for Saturday at the Gonzalez Funeral Home, 7209 N. Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa.

 Mitchell was attending classes at Hillsborough Community College, where he majored in psychology.

 His cousin, Sheree Allen, said the family moved to Tampa from Las Vegas 10 years ago, hoping for a better life.

 "He could be himself here," she said. "He wasn't bullied and kids wouldn't pressure him into things. He kept out of trouble."

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 Southeast Seminole Heights is roughly bordered by Nebraska Avenue to the west, 15th Street to the east, Hillsborough Avenue to the north and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the south.

 In the wake of the shootings, police said they have "blanketed the area" with officers and sent alerts to residents via Alert Tampa.

 Mariah Jackson, 18, described heavily armed police entering her Seminole Heights home shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday.

 "They said they were looking for a body," Jackson said.

 Detectives also are talking with residents, collecting surveillance video and showing the video of a man recorded walking in the area when the first murder occurred.

 Dugan cautions residents not to assume the person in the video is white or black, male or female. Investigators want to know what the person saw and eliminate him or her as a suspect.

 At this point, authorities do not believe the killings are connected to the shooting death of Dontae Lampkins, 25, whose body was found Jan. 26 in an alleyway between E Mohawk and Comanche avenues in the Hampton Terrace neighborhood of Seminole Heights.

 Dugan says residents should keep their porch lights on, stick together and pay attention to their surroundings. That means looking up from smart phones as they're making their way around the neighborhood.

 Residents shouldn't hide in their homes, though, the chief said.

 "Do cookouts, walk your dog," he said. "We're not going to be held hostage by whoever's doing this."

 The chief also had a message for the shooter.

 "Enough is enough," he said. "I don't know what your motive is. I don't know what your problem is. There's been enough carnage. You have severely affected some families."

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 Contact Howard Altman at [email protected] or (813) 225-3112. Follow @haltman. Staff writers Jonathan Capriel and Richard Danielson contributed to this report. ||||| TAMPA, Fla. – The Tampa interim police chief identified a murder victim killed Thursday night in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. It makes three killings in less than two weeks with no arrests.

 Police found Anthony Naiboa, 20, dead on North 15th Street near East Conover Street around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to Interim Chief Brian Dugan.

 "Anthony last night was at work. He took the wrong bus to this neighborhood," Dugan said. "He should not have been in this neighborhood."

 Police are investigating three suspicious deaths - on Oct. 9, Oct. 13 and Oct. 19 - in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. Dugan said police believe the three deaths are related.

 “When you look at the timeframe, the proximity, that there is no apparent motive, that they are alone, the victims are a lot of the time, it's clear to me that they're all linked,” Dugan said.

 Three people have been killed in less than 2 weeks in Seminole Heights.

 "I go from frustration to anger on these unsolved homicides," Dugan said. "Now we have someone terrorizing the neighborhood."

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 On Friday morning, Dugan urged Seminole Heights residents to review video the police department released on Oct. 13. The video shows a man who could help solve the Oct. 9 homicide of Brian Mitchell.

 "Do not assume this is a white person. Do not assume this is a black person," Dugan said. "Do not assume it's a {man}."

 Dugan said Tampa police do not have any leads or motives on the homicides as of Friday morning. He also recommended residents to turn on their porch lights and to stay in groups outside.

 "We're not going to be held hostage," Dugan said.

 Dugan warned people not to walk alone in the Seminole Heights neighborhood after Mitchell's homicide and the Oct. 11 homicide of Monica Hoffa. Police found Hoffa dead on Oct. 13.

 Naiboa's murder happened between 200-300 yards of Mitchell's house, according to Dugan.

 As a result of the first two murders, Tampa police had already saturated the neighborhood. They got to the scene of the Thursday's shooting in minutes. They brought in the dogs and called in the SWAT team. However, the suspect has already gotten away.

 “We instantaneously had a perimeter set up last night. I was convinced that we were going to catch this person,” Dugan said.

 Dugan said law enforcement needed the public's help in finding who is responsible for the crimes.

 "There's no doubt in my mind that this person is out there, and it's frustrating and it makes me angry that they're able to vanish so quickly," Dugan said.

 The shootings have frightened people living and working in the area.

 Just a few blocks away, at a stretch of trendy stores and restaurants along Nebraska Avenue, there is concern customers could stay away.

 “People will be scared to come in,” said Marez George, who works at a local cafe. “Especially, I'm not talking about just this restaurant, the area itself. Like me, I'm scared to come around this area now,” she said.

 Investigators are now checking area houses and businesses looking for security cameras that might have captured images around the time of the shootings.

 Dugan described the shooter as an animal and a terrorist, but stopped short of using the words ‘serial killer’.

 “We are still sifting through evidence,” he said. “We can call it what we want. If that brings attention to this, that's fine.”

 Anyone with information on the crimes is asked to call the police. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Crime Stoppers are also offering an $25,000 reward for tipsters at 1(800)873-8477.

 Last year, there was one murder in Seminole Heights and 14 shootings. From January through September of this year, there were no murders and five shootings.

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– When asked Friday if Tampa has a serial killer on the loose, police chief Brian Dugan didn't deny the possibility. "We can call it what we want," the Tampa Bay Times quotes Dugan as saying. "If that brings attention to it, that's fine." Three people have been killed in the Florida city's Seminole Heights neighborhood over the past 11 days. The victims aren't connected to each other and none were doing anything wrong when they were killed, but Dugan says there's "no doubt" the murders are related. Police say all three victims were shot while they were alone at night. And all three were regular bus riders shot at or near bus stops. The three murders happened within a mile of each other. Benjamin Mitchell, a 22-year-old believed to be the first victim, was shot and killed Oct. 9 while waiting for a bus. The body of the second victim, 32-year-old Monica Hoffa, was found in a vacant lot Oct. 11. And on Thursday, 20-year-old Anthony Naiboa, who was autistic, was killed after accidentally taking the wrong bus home from work and ending up in Seminole Heights. Dugan says police, who had "blanketed the area" after the first two killings, heard the shots that killed Naiboa, but the shooter still managed to escape. He says from now on anyone walking alone in Seminole Heights will be considered a potential victim or suspect, WTSP reports. Police have no motive or suspect, though they are attempting to identity a person seen in grainy surveillance footage. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest or conviction.


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– Detroit police are ushering homeless people out of a tourist area and leaving them miles away—in some cases outside the city itself, the ACLU alleges in a federal complaint. Officers are "approaching individuals who appear to be homeless in the Greektown area, forcing them into police vans, and deserting them miles away," the group says in a press release, citing a yearlong probe into the practice. The ACLU contends those subject to such treatment are having constitutional rights like due process violated. Police say they'll investigate, but opted not to comment further, the Detroit Free Press reports. The ACLU is calling on the Justice Department to get involved and wants the city to explicitly direct police that such practices are illegal. "Often (people are) being dropped off late at night in neighborhoods that they don’t know. Police often take any money they have out of their pockets and force them to walk back to Detroit, with no guarantee of any safety," an ACLU attorney tells WWJ Newsradio 950. An ACLU rep says the organization learned of the practice from one of the city's warming centers. CBS Detroit has the stories of five people who the ACLU says were "taken for a ride": among them, a 37-year-old who says he was once dropped off eight miles from where he was picked up.

DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan says Detroit police are removing homeless people from the popular Greektown entertainment district downtown and dropping them off miles away — sometimes outside the city.

 Following a year-long investigation, the ACLU filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department and sent a letter to Detroit police demanding an end to what they call a “disturbing practice.”

 “DPD’s practice of essentially kidnapping homeless people and abandoning them miles away from the neighborhoods they know – with no means for a safe return — is inhumane, callous and illegal,” said Sarah Mehta, ACLU of Michigan staff attorney. “The city’s desire to hide painful reminders of our economic struggles cannot justify discriminating against the poor, banishing them from their city, and endangering their lives. A person who has lost his home has not lost his right to be treated with dignity.”

 The organization says it started receiving complaints last year and that the homeless are told they are not welcome in Greektown, which is popular with visitors to Detroit. The people are then forced in to vans, driven away and then deserted.

 Mehta told WWJ Newsradio 950 that what police are doing is not just illegal, but inhumane.

 “They’re being approached and harassed by police, not necessarily for anything they’re doing, but just because of the way that they look,” Mehta said. “Often they’re being dropped off late at night in neighborhoods that they don’t know. Police often take any money they have out of their pockets and force them to walk back to Detroit, with no guarantee of any safety.”

 Detroit Police Chief Chester Logan said he will look into it.

 “At the present time, the Detroit Police Department has not received a copy of the complaint that has been filed,” said Logan, in a statement. “Therefore, it would be inappropriate to provide further comment without reviewing the specific allegations.”

 The ACLU listed the stories of five people who said they were doing nothing illegal when they were “taken for a ride” by Detroit police. (Read about them here).

 “One of the warming centers drew our attention to it,” ACLU spokeswoman Rana Elmir told the Associated Press. “We then spoke to the impacted individuals. There are many more stories.”

 Andrew Sheehan, 37, said it has happened to him at least four times since December 2011.

 “I had my back turned to him and I did not see him approaching, and the first thing he did was he kicked me. He didn’t identify himself as an officer and he kicked me and told me to get up,” said Sheehan, in a video posted by the ACLU. “I asked him if I was free to go. He told me no.”

 On one occasion, Sheehan said officers were taking him to a shelter, but instead dropped him off at the boundary between Detroit and River Rouge, about 8 miles away.

 “If you don’t have money, or if you’re poor of if you’re, whatever, they’ve … shown is that you’re not important — you’re not worth protecting, and we’re definitely not going to serve you. We’ll serve you up a field trip,” Sheehan said.

 Another man told the ACLU he was picked up several times by police and on at least two occasions left on the city’s east side. Another said he was dumped in Dearborn, west of Detroit.

 Michigan Thomas, Outreach Coordinator at the Ss. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church Warming Center, said many of these people will then spend hours walking back to shelters, warming centers, and churches where they can get a hot meal.

 “You don’t know where you’re going; you don’t know where you’re ending up. Maybe when you get there you’re abused in some way,” said Thoma. “What would that feel like?”

 In 2010, nearly 19,000 people were homeless in the Detroit area, according to the Neighborhood Service Organization, a nonprofit human services group.

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 The ACLU’s letter to Detroit documents the experiences of five individuals who were doing nothing illegal, yet were subjected to this abusive and unlawful treatment on multiple occasions.

 • Andrew Sheehan, 37, was “taken for a ride” at least four times since December 2011. Andrew has been homeless on and off for several years because of a substance abuse problem. He has since completed a drug rehabilitation program and is now working, living in an apartment, and continuing to attend religious services at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Greektown. Andrew has been picked up several times while sitting on a manhole in Greektown to keep warm. Police have driven him anywhere from five to seven miles away. On one occasion officers said they were taking Sheehan to a shelter, but instead dropped him off at the boundary between Detroit and River Rouge on Fort Street—eight miles from where he was picked up.

 • Dennis B., 54, has been homeless on and off for many years. In 2011, Dennis was “taken for a ride” by officers approximately four or five times. On several occasions, officers approached Dennis near St. Mary’s Church, frisked him for loose change, and insisted that he throw out any money in his pockets, removed him from Greektown and dropped him off around 6 Mile Road on the Detroit’s eastside. In January 2012, Dennis was again standing outside St. Mary’s Church when an officer told him he was not allowed to be in the area and subsequently took Dennis to the corner of Gratiot Street and Harper Street and left him there.

 • Charles E., 58, has had a brain aneurism, experiences seizures, and has an ulcer in his leg. After his son’s death in 1992, Charles began to experience severe emotional and mental difficulties, leading to the loss of his job and home. On one evening in March 2012, Charles and his brother were walking on the sidewalk on Lafayette Street near Beaubien Street when police officers put them in the van and drove them to Buchanan Street in Southwest Detroit. Because Charles was afraid of what he might encounter in that area and despite the significant pain he was experiencing from the blood clots in his legs, he and his brother crossed the Lodge freeway and walked two hours back to downtown Detroit.

 • Elvin D., 46, has been homeless, on and off, for four or five years. In the fall of 2012, Elvin was sleeping in Hart Plaza when, around midnight, a police officer approached him and offered to take him to a warming center. Instead of taking Elvin to a shelter, the officer dropped him off on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn. Elvin walked most of the night to return to downtown Detroit.

 • Marvin S., 37, was standing on Woodward Avenue when two officers with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department pulled up, handcuffed him, and placed him in the back of their squad car. Marvin demanded to know why he was being arrested, but the officers refused to answer his questions as they drove out of downtown Detroit. Eventually, the officers pulled over in Allen Park near the “World’s Largest Tire” near I-94, approximately 14 miles from downtown Detroit, and told Marvin to “get out.” ||||| Detroit police are accused of removing homeless people from a popular tourist spot and dropping them off miles away, sometimes beyond the city limits, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice.

 "A yearlong ACLU investigation uncovered the disturbing practice of officers approaching individuals who appear to be homeless in the Greektown area, forcing them into police vans and deserting them miles away," according to a news release from the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the complaint today.

 In addition to the complaint, the group said that it also ... |||||


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"Something funny is definitely going on. We're getting to the bottom of it," read a message on Fandango.

 Fandango and Movie Tickets were among the sites crashing Monday as users tried to secure presale tickets for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

 Tickets to director J.J. Abrams' highly anticipated film were made available for purchase Monday, hours earlier than anticipated. But some Fandango users got a "site maintenance" message after trying to click on a desired screening time.

 "Something funny is definitely going on," read a message on Fandango's site. "We're getting to the bottom of it."

 Similarly, some Movie Tickets' users saw a screen reading "Web server is returning an unknown error," while an Imax error screen blamed heavy traffic volume and directed users to Fandango and Movie Tickets. Imax had not yet begun to sell tickets, waiting until a new trailer for the film aired during halftime of ESPN's Monday Night Football.

 A Fandango rep did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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 It has a whole lot to offer running at over two minutes, as it highlights many of the main characters we will follow in this chapter of the saga. From new ones like Poe (Oscar Isaac) and Finn (John Boyega) to favorites like Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew).

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 "The Force Awakens" opens in theaters December 18. ||||| Han Solo believes in the Force and the Jedi. Kylo Ren worships at the altar of Darth Vader, which might confirm some spoilers flying about on the Internet. John Boyega may be well on his way to becoming a Jedi, and the junk scrounge Rey (Daily Ridley) is definitely more important than we've been led to believe.

 And Han and Leia -- contrary to Internet rumors -- reunite. At least for a serious hug.

 Disney and Lucasfilm released the third and likely last trailer for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on Monday night, the same night they started selling tickets for the highly-anticipated film.

 While the trailer didn't give away too much, it did possibly confirm some plot rumors while disgarding others.

 The new poster for upcoming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." (Disney via AP)

 What we can see if that that special effects will be incredible while the computer-generated action will give way to real sets and real humans with real human emotions.

 We also see what looks like Kylo Ren dueling Finn (Boyega) with lightsabers. Which could mean Finn isn't the amateur everyone thinks he is.

 And, like the first official movie poster released Sunday, there wasn't much Luke Skywalker in the trailer. We got some Luke in the second one, but his role is still pretty mysterious at this point. The poster and new trailer may seem to suggest the rumors of him spending years in exile are true. Which would probably be a good set-up for the whole "the Force awakens" stuff.

 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" hits theaters Dec. 18. And not a moment too soon.

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– The new Star Wars trailer debuted at halftime during ESPN's Monday Night Football, and immediately became a force to be reckoned with both on social media and ticket sites that crashed during presales for its Dec. 18 opening. Fandango and Movie Tickets both had issues after offering tickets even before the trailer aired for the JJ Abrams-directed The Force Awakens, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Fandango users got hit with a "site maintenance" message, while Movie Tickets customers received an error warning. Imax, meanwhile, waited patiently until after the halftime show to start its selling spree, but also had problems and had to funnel people to the other two sites. Meanwhile, buzz about the movie was one for the cosmos, making it hard to find a non-Star Wars-related tweet for a couple of hours after the trailer aired. The clip—which Business Insider called "glorious" and the San Jose Mercury News deemed "spectacular with surprises"—blasted plenty of computer-generated special effects off the screen, as well as close-ups of newbies John Boyega as Finn, the franchise's new hero, and Daisy Ridley as female scavenger Rey (Ridley got emotional herself watching the trailer). And, to everyone's great pleasure, there was a Han Solo-Chewie appearance, as well as a rumor-busting interaction between Solo and Princess Leia, the Mercury News notes. See the full trailer below. (This couple should have made Dec. 18 their wedding date.)


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 Tawfeeq has been a permanent legal resident of the U.S. since 2013.

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 Tawfeeq’s CNN duties include frequently traveling to the Middle East, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday.“This is a basic request to clarify and assert his rights under the law. We support him in this effort and hope its resolved quickly," a CNN spokesperson told The Hill.

 Tawfeeq was detained Sunday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for additional screening, delaying his entry into the United States.

 “The executive order has greatly increased the uncertainty involved in current and future international travel for returning lawful permanent residents like Mr. Tawfeeq,” the lawsuit states.

 Trump's executive order bars people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days. It also bars refugees from entering the country for 120 days and indefinitely for Syrian refugees.

 Updated at 10:02 a.m. ||||| ATLANTA (CN) – A CNN journalist claims in court he was unlawfully detained over the weekend as a result of President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order banning immigrants from seven countries in the Middle East from entering the United States.

 In a lawsuit filed in the federal court in Atlanta on Monday, Mohammed Abdullah Tawfeeq says he’s traveled abroad for CNN as both a producer and editor for years without incident.

 However, he says, that changed on January 29, as he was returning to Atlanta from Baghdad.

 Two days earlier, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning entry into the country from seven countries. Tawfeeq’s native Iraq is one of seven countries affected by the ban.

 “When Mr. Tawfeeq presented himself for inspection at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the [U.S. Customs and Border Patrol] officer in primary inspection notified him that he could be refused entry under the President’s recently-signed Executive Order,” the complaint says.

 Tawfeeq says the officer scanned his passport and green card, and then began asking him pointed questions about the nature of his trip.

 “CBP officials then told Mr. Tawfeeq to wait because they needed to seek ‘an e-mail’ concerning whether he would be allowed into the United States,” the lawsuit claims.

 Tawfeeq says when he was finally allowed to leave the airport, customs officials offered him no explanation for their decision, no documents relating to his entry, and no one stamped his passport.

 In his lawsuit he maintains the implementation of Trump’s executive order and his detention at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

 Tawfeeq, a permanent legal resident of the United States since June 2013, says that under the Immigration and Nationality Act, his status entitles him “to greater procedural protections than non-immigrants/temporary aliens.”

 “The Executive Order has greatly increased the uncertainty involved in current and future international travel for returning lawful permanent residents like Mr. Tawfeeq,” the complaint says. “Defendants have sent conflicting signals regarding how and whether the Executive Order will be applied to permanent residents like Mr. Tawfeeq.”

 According to the complaint, after Trump signed the executive order, the State Department announced it would apply to all returning immigrants.

 A day later, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus attempted to clarify that it would not affect green card holders, but hours before Tawfeeq’s flight landed in Atlanta, the Department of Homeland Security said “it will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders.”

 The statement, release by Homeland Secretary John Kelly did say the order would not be applied to lawful permanent residents “absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare,” but Tawfeeq says it was and continues to be unclear whether the department’s guidance to its employees matches that statement.

 He is seeking a declaration that the ban does not apply to legal permanent residents as well as an order of mandamus preventing it from being applied to those individuals.

 The defendants named in Tawfeeq’s lawsuit are the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the State Department, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and acting Secretary of State Thomas Shannon.

 Tawfeeq is represented by Theresia Moser of Atlanta.

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– A Trump administration official has called the president's travel ban a "massive success," but a CNN employee may beg to differ. Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mohammed Tawfeeq—an Iraqi national and permanent legal US resident who's an editor and producer for the news network—was held at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sunday evening as he returned after being on assignment in Iraq. Now Tawfeeq, who's enjoyed permanent resident status since 2013, is suing the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies for his detention, which the suit says was illegal. Per Courthouse News, Tawfeeq was returning to the US from Baghdad (he travels to the Middle East often for work) on Jan. 29 when a US Customs and Border Protection officer pulled him aside. Tawfeeq's green card and passport were examined, he was interrogated about his trip, and he was told he'd need to wait for "an email" from the proper authorities to clear him to enter the country. When he was finally allowed to leave, no one offered further explanation, and they didn't even stamp his passport or give him any entry papers. "The executive order has greatly increased the uncertainty involved in current and future international travel" for legal resident such as Tawfeeq, the suit claims, per the Hill. It also adds that, as a legal permanent resident, he should be afforded "greater procedural protections than non-immigrants/temporary aliens." A CNN rep says the network supports Tawfeeq and that his complaint "is a basic request to clarify and assert his rights under the law," per the Hill.


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Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. ambassador to Syria visited the embattled town of Hama Thursday as part of what the State Department called an effort to show U.S. support for Syrians fighting for democracy.

 Ambassador Robert Ford visited Hama "to make absolutely clear with his physical presence that we stand with those Syrians who are expressing their right to speak for change," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

 Hama has been wracked with violence and a general strike this week after a series of peaceful demonstrations, including a huge anti-government demonstration last Friday. A fierce crackdown ensued in the area, with activists and Human Rights Watch reporting many arrests and deaths.

 President Bashar al-Assad fired the Hama provincial governor Saturday and security forces removed tanks to the outskirts of the city, a sign that the tensions there could be easing.

 Ambassador Ford met with over a dozen Hama residents and visited a hospital that has treated some of those wounded in the security forces crackdown, Nuland said, adding that he was greeted with a "very warm welcome."

 The state news agency SANA reported that a Foreign Ministry source accused Ford of going to Hama without obtaining prior permission from the government. According to the report, the Foreign Ministry official said Ford's visit was "clear evidence of the U.S. involvement in the ongoing events in Syria and its bids to aggravate the situations which destabilize Syria.''

 Nuland, however, said U.S. officials notified the Syrian government that an embassy team was traveling to Hama.

 "The embassy informed Syrian officials that an embassy delegation, without specifying whom, would be heading to Hama. And they then proceeded to make their way there and were allowed to proceed," Nuland said.

 Ford's delegation did not include any official Syrian "handlers," Nuland said, adding that Syrian authorities allowed him through check points to reach the town.

 "For him to go personally at this time and stand with the people of Hama, I think expresses in physical terms -- not to mention political terms -- our view that the people of Hama have the right to express themselves peacefully and that we are concerned about the posture that the security forces have taken," Nuland said, adding that Ford plans to stay through protests planned on Friday.

 It is unclear whether Hama residents will turn out for nationwide demonstrations on Friday after Muslim prayers.

 Last month, Hama was the site of violent crackdowns by security forces that killed 60 protesters.

 The city is a sensitive spot for Syrian authorities. In 1982, it was the scene of a brutal military crackdown targeting Sunni Muslims by the Alawite-dominated government of Hafez al-Assad, the current president's late father. Thousands were killed, with Human Rights Watch putting the toll at 10,000. ||||| Reports of biggest crowd in Syria so far in city at heart of opposition, as activists say 13 dead across country.

 More than 500,000 Syrians flooded through the city of Hama on Friday, according to activists, in what they claim was the single biggest protest yet against the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad. The opposition reported 13 protesters killed, including five deaths in the central city of Homs, two in the capital's commercial neighbourhood Midan and six in the Dumair area, east of Damascus. Syrian state-run TV said the deaths in Damascus and Homs were caused by snipers from "armed gangs". An activist told Al Jazeera that Hama, where marchers were seen carrying olive branches, had become a "tangible example of resistance to injustice" in Syria. Hundreds of thousands also protested last Friday in Hama, prompting mass arrests and reports of several deaths when Syrian security forces stormed the city, Syria's third largest, and the surrounding area. "Hama, with all the support it is receiving from all over the country, is becoming a role model for peaceful demonstrations and we are protesting here for all of Syria," the local activist said. Western solidarity Friday's protests followed a visit to Hama by Robert Ford, the US ambassador to Syria, who toured the city on Thursday to show solidarity with residents, the US State Department said. Ford reached the city after passing checkpoints run by the military and Hama residents. A US official said Ford left Hama on Friday afternoon to avoid becoming a distraction during the weekly demonstrations. Diplomats said on Friday that French ambassador Eric Chevallier was also in Hama to show support. Damascus accused Washington of "interfering" in its affairs. "The presence of the US ambassador in Hama without previous permission is obvious proof of a clear evidence of the United States' involvement in current events in Syria and its attempt to incite an escalation in the situation, which disturbs Syria's security and stability," the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement. In response, the US state department said: "The fundamental intention was to make absolutely clear with his physical presence that we stand with those Syrians who are expressing their right to speak for change." In another development, Washington summoned the Syrian ambassador for talks this week after reports that embassy staff had filmed US protests against the crackdown in Syria. Ambassador Imad Mustapha was called in to meet with top State Department officials "to express a number of our concerns with the reported actions of certain Syrian embassy staff in the United States".

 Mustapha met with Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell on Wednesday, according to a State Department statement.

 Fleeing Hama An estimated 1,000 Syrians have fled Hama in fear of another military crackdown on protests calling for Assad to quit and an end to the Baath Party's decades-long grip on power, a rights group said.

 The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the residents had evacuated to Salamiyah, a town 30km from Hama, on Thursday. The rights group claimed that security forces have killed at least 23 civilians there and conducted mass arrests since Tuesday.

 Ammar Qurabi, head of the National Organisation for Human Rights, said on Wednesday that an influx of troops following the massive Friday protest had brought a dramatic escalation of "killings and arrests in the city". But Al-Watan, a state-run newspaper, said on Thursday that the situation in Hama was calm and the barricades erected in the streets by protesters to keep security forces out had been dismantled.

 The newspaper said authorities had told demonstrators to avoid any confrontations and clear the streets so residents could go to work. They also told protesters to avoid a "last resort" military operation, the paper said. Hama has been a symbolic city of opposition since the 1982 crackdown on a revolt by the banned Muslim Brotherhood against then-president Hafez al-Assad, father of the current leader. At least 20,000 people are believed to have been killed in the crackdown. There has also been violence in the city of Hasrata just outside Damascus where three people have been killed and nine injured by security forces, sources told Al Jazeera. Government troops surrounded the Hassan mosque on Thursday and fired at people coming out after prayers, the source said. Police also fired tear gas into the local hospital, according to reports. |||||Summary:

– America's ambassador to Syria visited one of the cities worst-hit by the crackdown against anti-government protesters yesterday, reports CNN. Robert Ford went to the city of Hama "to make absolutely clear with his physical presence that we stand with those Syrians who are expressing their right to speak for change," an embassy spokeswoman says. An estimated 500,000 people joined an anti-government rally in the city last Friday. The Syrian government accused Ford of going to the city without authorization, saying the visit is "clear evidence of the US involvement in the ongoing events in Syria and its bids to aggravate the situations which destabilize Syria.'' An embassy spokeswoman says the Syrian government was told a delegation would be visiting Hama, although no Syrian "handlers" were taken and officials weren't informed about the ambassador's presence. The city has been a symbol of opposition since 1982, when a crackdown ordered by the present Syrian leader's father killed around 20,000 people, al-Jazeera notes.


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 The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public. ||||| Millennial workers, those ages 18 to 35, are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults, according to recently released government data.

 And among the college-educated, Millennials have longer track records with their employers than Generation X workers did in 2000 when they were the same age as today’s Millennials.

 Every two years the U.S. Department of Labor collects data on how long workers have been with their current employer as part of the Current Population Survey. Though the data have been collected periodically since the early 1950s, the present tenure questions began in 1996, so we can only compare Millennial workers with Gen X workers when they were the same age.

 In January 2016, 63.4% of employed Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1998, reported that they had worked for their current employer at least 13 months. In February 2000, somewhat fewer 18- to 35-year-olds (59.9%) – most of whom are today’s Gen Xers – reported similar job tenure. Looking at young workers with longer tenures, 22% of Millennial workers had been with their employer for at least five years as of 2016, similar to the share of Gen X workers (21.8%) in 2000.

 One factor that may be contributing to Millennials staying with employers longer is their relatively high levels of education, which is typically associated with longer tenure. Among 25- to 35-year-old workers in 2016, 38% of Millennial men and 46% of Millennial women had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. The Gen X workforce back in 2000 had significantly lower levels of educational attainment: 31% of male 25- to 35-year-old workers had finished college, as had only 34% of female workers.

 These college-educated Millennials are sticking with their jobs longer than their Gen X counterparts. About 75% of college-educated 25- to 35-year-olds (75% for men and 74% for women) had worked for their employer at least 13 months in 2016. Back in 2000, somewhat fewer college-educated Gen X women (70%) had been on the job that long. Among college-educated Gen X men, 72% had similar tenure.

 The increasing job tenure of college-educated Millennials is consistent with a decline in employer switching among all working-age adults since the 1980s. The reasons for the decline are not well understood. Recent research indicates that the rise of dual-career households, the decline in middle-skill jobs, occupational licensing and the need for employees to retain health insurance cannot account for much of the decline in job-switching.

 The longer tenure of college-educated Millennials compared with that of Gen X workers does not necessarily translate into higher wages or more job security. They may be sticking with their current employers due to a dearth of opportunities to get a better job with a different employer. But, in any event, their reported tenure makes clear that the “job-hopping Millennial” characterization does not fit the broad Millennial workforce.

 The trend is different among less-educated young adults. For example, among Millennials with a high school education, 70% of men and 69% of women had been with their employer at least 13 months. These proportions are similar to their high-school-educated counterparts among today’s Gen Xers in 2000 (72% for men and 71% for women).

 Topics: Educational Attainment, Millennials, Business and Labor, Education, Work and Employment, Generations and Age ||||| Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.

 The Millennial generation continues to grow as young immigrants expand its ranks. Boomers – whose generation was defined by the boom in U.S. births following World War II – are older and their numbers shrinking as the number of deaths among them exceeds the number of older immigrants arriving in the country.

 Generations are analytical constructs, and developing a popular and expert consensus on what marks the boundaries between one generation and the next takes time. Pew Research Center has established that the oldest “Millennial” was born in 1981. The Center continues to assess demographic, attitudinal and other evidence on habits and culture that will help to establish when the youngest Millennial was born or even when a new generation begins. To distill the implications of the census numbers for generational heft, this analysis assumes that the youngest Millennial was born in 1997.

 Here’s a look at some generational projections:

 Millennials

 With immigration adding more numbers to its group than any other, the Millennial population is projected to peak in 2036 at 81.1 million. Thereafter the oldest Millennial will be at least 56 years of age and mortality is projected to outweigh net immigration. By 2050 there will be a projected 79.2 million Millennials.

 Generation X

 For a few more years, Gen Xers are projected to remain the “middle child” of generations – caught between two larger generations of the Millennials and the Boomers. They are smaller than Millennials because the generational span of Gen X (16 years) is shorter than the Millennials (17 years). Also, the Gen Xers were born during a period when Americans were having fewer children than later decades. When Gen Xers were born, births averaged around 3.4 million per year, compared with the 3.9 million annual rate during the 1980s and 1990s when Millennials were born.

 Though the oldest Gen Xer is now 50, the Gen X population will still grow for a few more years. The Gen X population is projected to outnumber the Boomers in 2028 when there will be 64.6 million Gen Xers and 63.7 million Boomers. The Census Bureau projects that the Gen X population will peak at 65.8 million in 2018.

 Baby Boomers

 Baby Boomers have always had an outsized presence compared with other generations. They were the largest generation and peaked at 78.8 million in 1999.

 There were an estimated 74.9 million Boomers in 2015. By midcentury, the Boomer population will dwindle to 16.6 million.

 This post was originally published on Jan. 16, 2015, and updated on April 25, 2016, to indicate that Millennials have officially surpassed Baby Boomers in population.

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 Topics: Baby Boomers, Generations and Age, U.S. Census, Millennials ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| A new study by the Bay Area Council has found the cost of living in the area may send millennials packing, leaving experts to fear the region's thriving tech industry will suffer. Michelle Roberts reports. (Published Thursday, March 30, 2017)

 The milestones of adulthood for today's millennials: economic security and finishing school — not rushing to get married and have a family.

 And once they are married, young women in America are less likely to see homemaking as a career.

 The share of young women 25 to 34 who opted to forgo outside employment in favor of managing a household plunged from 43 percent in 1975 to just 14 percent last year, according to the Census Bureau. Census demographers believe that number could be among the lowest on record.

 It's part of a long-running trend of higher educational attainment for women but also a reflection of changing attitudes among Americans.

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 "We see more young women who have a college degree and are in the labor force, and they are waiting to get married and have kids," said Jonathan Vespa, a demographer at the Census Bureau. Demographers found changing U.S. sentiment in which more than half of Americans now believe marrying and having children are not important signs of reaching independence.

 More young adults than before are focusing first on receiving a bachelor's degree or higher and securing a job. They are still actively pursuing romantic relationships but opting to cohabitate or court mates while living with mom and dad.

 The findings were part of a census report released Wednesday tracking the changing economics and demographics of young adults from 1976 to 2016, with a focus on the current generation of 25 to 34 year olds, known as millennials.

 Many analysts had expected that as the economy improved, younger adults would increasingly move out on their own, either living independently or starting families. But that hasn't happened.

 Vespa said educational gains for women in particular have led to broader changes as to how Americans view work and family.

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 MARRIAGE ON HOLD BUT ROMANCE CONTINUES

 Young adults may be delaying marriage but that doesn't mean they aren't finding love.

 Since 1975, young people living with a boyfriend or girlfriend jumped more than 12 times, from less than 1 percent to 9 percent last year. It's part of a growing cohabitation trend of couples living together before marriage.

 Not only are they living together, but they are doing so at around the same age that previous generations would marry.

 Since the 1980s, the age when people cohabitate has remained steady at 22 while the age of marriage has risen from 22 to 27 for women.

 Still, by and large, young adults were more likely to be living with mom and dad last year.

 About 23 percent lived with their parents, compared to 20 percent who were living with a spouse.

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 SOME MEN FALLING BEHIND

 Women are making some gains in the labor force.

 While the share of young men in the workforce is largely unchanged from 1975 at 84 percent, the level of young women working rose from 50 percent to 70 percent.

 In addition, four decades ago almost all young women who chose not to work cited "taking care of home and family" as the main reason. But by 2016, less than half of young women who were out of the labor force were homemakers.

 Meanwhile, more young men are falling to the bottom of the income ladder. In 1975, 25 percent of young men ages 25 to 34 had incomes of less than $30,000 per year. But by 2016, the share of lower income male earners had risen to 41 percent.

 Women saw some economic gains, with median income of working women aged 25 to 34 rising from $23,000 to $29,000. Among higher income earners of $60,000 or more, the share of women grew from 2 percent to 13 percent. Still, the median income of young women remains $11,000 lower than the income of young men.

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 Millennial shoppers are reaching their prime spending years, and Generation Z isn’t far behind. That has brands scrambling to curry favor with young consumers.

 So far, the companies doing the best job are Victoria’s Secret, Sephora and Nike, according to a report from Conde Nast Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. They ranked highest in a study, which measured the popularity of brands among younger U.S. shoppers.

 A key contributor to the companies’ success is their online presence, researchers found. Among men, Amazon.com was voted the favorite retailer across all categories, and it was the top shopping app for women.

 “These next generation consumers were born with their phones in their hands, they’re addicted to technology and expect a level of efficiency and immediacy in everything they do,” Pamela Drucker Mann, chief marketing officer of Conde Nast, said in an email. “Looking at what they’re doing is like a preview for all shoppers.”

 Companies are increasingly working to make it easier to shop seamlessly online. That will serve them well as more than one-third of U.S. apparel shopping is conducted online, according to the study, which looked at trends in fashion, retail and beauty categories based on a national sample of 2,345 U.S. consumers ages 13 to 34. It was conducted from Nov. 22 to Dec. 15.

 Rank Brand Favorability 1 Victoria’s Secret 56.6% 2 Sephora 38.0% 3 Nike 29.7% 4 Coach 13.4% 5 Kate Spade 13.3% 6 Michael Kors 12.7% 7 Ulta 12.7% 8 Lululemon 11.8% 9 DSW 11.0% 10 Nordstrom 10.0%

 Source: Conde Nast Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

 Traditional retailers are touting their e-commerce efforts whenever they can. Victoria’s Secret parent L Brands Inc. brought up the “online” topic 12 times during its February earnings call.

 Athletic apparel maker Lululemon Athletica Inc., which ranked eighth on the list, has said beefing up its online business is a priority for the months ahead.

 “We will continue executing the immediate and longer-term strategies in place to accelerate our e-commerce growth,” Chief Executive Officer Laurent Potdevin said on an earnings call last month. That will include expanding the online product assortment and launching a new mobile app, he added.

 As for Amazon, the e-commerce giant was the study’s overall “Most-Loved Brand,” placing in the top 10 across all fashion categories.

 — With assistance by Lisa Du |||||

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– It seems to be a rite of passage that "young adults" in the US (classified as those between the ages of 18 and 34, per the US Census Bureau) take a bit of guff from the generations that preceded them. Millennials, ID'd by Pew Research as those born between 1981 and 1997, haven't escaped this fate, but while many label the current younger set as simply hanging out "in the basement playing video games," as USA Today notes, that's not quite the case. The Census Bureau released a population report Wednesday that looks back at the 18-34 demographic over the past four decades, comparing today's young adults to those going back to 1975. "If one theme describes how adulthood has changed over the last 40 years, it is growing complexity," the report notes. A few notable trends stand out, and the internet is buzzing about them: Parents who dread an empty nest can relax, because the Kansas City Star notes your millennial boarders may not be going anywhere anytime soon. In 2005, just 26% of young adults still shacked up with Mom and Dad, but that number settled in at around 34% in 2015—a 30% spike in just 10 years. Per the Miami Herald, millennials seem to look more highly upon a good education than their predecessors, with 37% boasting at least a bachelor's degree in 2016, compared with 23% in 1975. The extra schooling likely explains a drop homeownership among millennials, from 52% in 1975 to 29% today. You won't find millennials starting families as soon as they're done with that schooling, and women especially aren't as eager to be relegated to homemaker roles as past generations, NBC Washington reports. Economic security comes before marriage—and while about 84% of young men are in the workforce (a number that's stayed constant this whole time), that percentage has jumped from 50% to 70% for women since 1975. A separate study finds that the most popular brands among millennials are Victoria's Secret, Sephora, and Nike, reports Bloomberg. Pew Research dispels the myth that millennials are flakes when it comes to holding down a job, pointing out that millennials in 2016 stayed at their jobs for five years or longer at around the same numbers as Generation Xers did when they were the same age—and actually outpaced Gen Xers by a few percentage points when it came to sticking it out with an employer for 13 months or longer. Adulting classes for millennials might not be necessary after all, then?


Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Country singer Jason Aldean visited University Medical Center on Sunday, just one week after the Oct. 1 shooting that claimed the lives of 58 concertgoers and injured hundreds of others at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

 Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany, posted this photo of the couple on her Instagram account on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. They visited patients at University Medical Center on Sunday. (Instagram/Brittany Aldean)

 Country singer Jason Aldean visited University Medical Center on Sunday, just one week after the Oct. 1 shooting that claimed the lives of 58 concertgoers and injured hundreds of others at the Route 91 Harvest festival.

 The hospital announced the visit in a post on Facebook. The post stated:

 “Our extreme gratitude to Country Music Star Jason Aldean for visiting UMC today. Jason spent time with our patients who were critically injured during the Las Vegas shooting. His visit helped heal hearts and cheer those who were wounded in this tragedy. #vegasstrong.”

 His pregnant wife, Brittany, posted a photo on Instagram of the couple embracing and looking towards the Mandalay Bay, which is where Stephen Paddock shot from a hotel suite at Route 91 Harvest Festival attendees.

 “Feels surreal being back in Vegas today,” Brittany said on Instagram. “Visiting some of the strongest people we have ever met… fighting the toughest battle of them all… for their lives. You have helped us try to begin the healing process by seeing the strength each one of you have. Thank you for today. We will never forget.”

 The day prior, Aldean performed on “Saturday Night Live,” declining to participate in a UFC ceremony to honor the victims and first responders at T-Mobile Arena, UFC president Dana White said.

 Aldean was performing at the festival Sunday when the shooting started.

 Contact Kailyn Brown at kbrown@viewnews.com or 702-387-5233. Follow @kailynhype on Twitter.

 Feels surreal being back in Vegas today. Visiting some of the strongest people we have ever met… fighting the toughest battle of them all… for their lives. You have helped us try to begin to start the healing process by seeing the strength each one of you have. Thank you for today. We will never forget. #vegasstrong 🙌🏼 A post shared by Brittany Aldean (@brittanyaldean) on Oct 8, 2017 at 2:55pm PDT |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– Country singer Jason Aldean returned to Las Vegas on Sunday in an unannounced trip to visit some of those injured in last week's mass shooting. "Feels surreal being back in Vegas today," his wife, Brittany, wrote on Instagram. "Visiting some of the strongest people we have ever met." Aldean, who was on stage when the shooting began, visited University Medical Center, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Photos have surfaced of his visit with patients, and the hospital thanked him on Facebook. The day before, Aldean made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live to sing Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down."