– Miss Teen USA 2016 was supposed to take a step in the direction of feminism and equal rights as the contest ditched the swimsuits for athletic wear. But in the wee hours following the event that crowned Miss Texas Karlie Hay, the 18-year-old high school senior took to Twitter to do damage control on, well, previous comments on social media. Accused of repeatedly using racial slurs, people began to take screenshots and call her out on it, reports the Houston Chronicle. Hay, her school's varsity cheer captain and yearbook editor, apologized on Twitter at 2am Sunday: "I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for. Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person." Former Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford issued her own message on Twitter: "If you win any pageant—first things first. Clean up your page. Because if you're under 21, you shouldn't be drinking and if you're white, the N-word ain't your word." The Miss Universe Organization, parent company of Miss Teen USA, tells ABC News that while Hay's language was "unacceptable at any age," she will keep her crown because she "learned many lessons through those personal struggles that reshaped her life and values." Meanwhile, E! News reports that model Chrissy Teigen took issue with the final five, who were all white and blond. "Wow how can we choose from such a diverse bunch," she tweeted, later adding, "It's fiiiiiine. Not their fault. I'm sure they are delightful women. Just funny. I'm not gonna write a think-piece on a damn pageant."

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Hours after being crowned Miss Teen USA, Karlie Hay took to Twitter to take responsibility for offensive language found on her Twitter page.

 Many on Twitter claimed that Hay used curse words, issued threats and even used the N-word on her personal Twitter account, which is now protected.

 The 18-year-old returned to the social network early Sunday morning to acknowledge her past tweets.

 In a series of tweets she wrote, "Several years ago, I had many personal struggles and found myself in a place that is not representative of who I am as a person. I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for."

 Hay stopped short of expressing remorse for her past language, but she did say that she's changed.

 "Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person," she continued. "I am honored to hold this title and I will use this platform to promote the values of The Miss Universe Organization, and my own, that recognize the confidence, beauty and perseverance of all women."

 I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for. Through hard work... — Karlie Hay (@RealMissTXteen) July 31, 2016

 The Miss Universe Organization, the parent company of Miss Teen USA, said in a statement to ABC News that though the language she used "unacceptable at any age and in no way reflects the values of The Miss Universe Organization," she will keep her crown.

 "As Karlie stated, she was in a different place in her life and made a serious mistake she regrets and for which she sincerely apologizes," the statement said. "Karlie learned many lessons through those personal struggles that reshaped her life and values. We as an organization are committed to supporting her continued growth."

 Hay was crowned the new Miss Teen USA Saturday night at The Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. ||||| Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay, of Texas, criticized for having used racial slurs on Twitter

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 Moments after Karlie Hay was crowned Miss Teen USA on Saturday in Las Vegas, the Tomball High School senior didn't get the social media reaction and congratulations one would expect. Instead, people searching the 18-year-old on Twitter found a stream of racial slurs on her timeline and began calling her out for it.

 The Houston Chronicle could not immediately confirm independently Hay herself posted numerous tweets including the N-word, however, many Twitter users screengrabbed past exchanges with the former Miss Teen Texas.

 "I admit that I have used language publicly in the past which I am not proud of and that there is no excuse for," Hay posted on Twitter about 2 a.m. Sunday. "Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person."

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 Former Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford was baffled by the discovery because she couldn't understand why Hay was so ill prepared for media attention.

 "If you win any pageant - first things first. Clean up your page. Because if you're under 21, you shouldn't be drinking and if you're white, the N-word ain't your word," Crawford said on Twitter.

 The Miss Universe Organization released a statement Monday saying that Hay will be allowed to keep her crown.

 "The language Karlie Hay used is unacceptable at any age and in no way reflects the values of The Miss Universe Organization," the organization wrote in a statement. "As Karlie stated, she was in a different place in her life and made a serious mistake she regrets and for which she sincerely apologizes. Karlie learned many lessons through those personal struggles that reshaped her life and values. We as an organization are committed to supporting her continued growth."

 According to her interview with E Online, Hay plans to apply at Texas A&M University after graduating from Tomball High School. She says she hopes to become a businesswoman while advocating for people affected by drug and alcohol abuse.

 "I am honored to hold this title and I will use this platform to promote the values of The Miss Universe Organization, and my own, that recognize the confidence, beauty and perseverance of all women," Hay tweeted Sunday. ||||| Chrissy Teigen has something to say about the 2016 Miss Teen USA competition.

 In case you missed it, Miss Texas Teen Karlie Hay took home the top prize at last night's annual pageant held at the The Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The 51 ladies competing for the crown were narrowed down to a final five that included Hay's runner-up Miss North Carolina Emily Wakeman, second runner-up Miss South Carolina Marley Stokes, followed by Miss Alabama Erin Snow and Miss Nevada Carissa Morrow.

 So when the Miss Teen USA pageant Twitter account shared a celebratory photo of the top five finishers, Teigen noticed that each competitor shared a few similarities when it came to their looks.

 "Wow how can we choose from such a diverse bunch," the model joked of the potentially eyebrow-raising moment. |||||


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Utah man Samuel Shaffer dreamed of growing old with the 8-year-old he took as his child bride — but the leader of a doomsday cult will now be aging behind bars.

 Shaffer, 34, was convicted Wednesday on one count of rape of a child and one count of child sodomy. According to multiple reports, he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison — and Utah State Courts spokesman Geoff Fattah tells PEOPLE he will spend a minimum of 26 years behind bars.

 The sentence for the co-leader of the Knights of Crystal Blade, a fundamentalist offshoot of the Mormon Church, comes after Shaffer told detectives that he was married to the 8-year-old daughter of John Coltharp, another cult member. Coltharp, who pleaded guilty on June 13 to charges of child sodomy and child bigamy, said he was married to Shaffer’s 7-year-old daughter, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by Salt Lake Tribune.

 Coltharp’s sentencing is scheduled for August 8.

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 Shaffer told deputies he had been the prophet of the church — which believes in doomsday prophecies and practices polygamy — but had recently passed down the title to Coltharp.

 Police began investigating the situation on Dec. 1 after Coltharp’s ex-wife called police to report Coltharp had kidnapped their four children, according to an Iron County Sheriff’s Office press release previously obtained by PEOPLE.

 Shaffer was taken into custody and told police where they could find two of the girls. Deputies discovered one of Shaffer’s daughters and one of Coltharp’s daughters inside two blue plastic 50-gallon water barrels located approximately 1,000 yards south of the Coltharp property. Shaffer told police the two girls had been placed in the water barrels to hide them from law enforcement.

 Police said the two girls had spent approximately 24 hours inside the barrel in subfreezing temperatures. “These two children were not properly dressed for the cold temperatures and did not have food or water at that time,” the release states. “Shaffer also made statements he had left a firearm behind on the ground next to the barrel.”

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 Police said Shaffer initially refused to tell authorities the whereabouts of the remaining two girls but that he finally did. The girls were found in “poor health with signs of dehydration and acting lethargic” in an abandoned single-wide mobile trailer, police said.

 All four girls were transported by ambulance to the Cedar City hospital where they received emergency medical care.

 PEOPLE was unable to immediately reach Shaffer’s attorney, Troy Sundquist, so it was not clear if he plans to appeal the sentencing. ||||| (KUTV) — Self-proclaimed cult leader Samuel Shaffer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to felony sodomy on a child. Shaffer was sentenced in Sanpete County to 15 years to life in prison.

 Other charges filed against Shaffer in Sanpete County were dismissed, including an additional felony count of sodomy on a child, one felony count of obstruction of justice, one count of child bigamy, a felony, and one count of lewdness involving a child, a misdemeanor.

 Shaffer, 34, was previously sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for first-degree felony rape of a child and one second-degree felony count of child abuse. The sentencing, carried out in Iron County, required Shaffer serve a minimum of 26 years in prison.

 Shaffer's Sanpete County sentencing will run concurrent with the Iron County sentencing.

 Shaffer was the self-proclaimed prophet of a cult group called The Knights of the Crystal Blade. He and another cult member, named John Alvin Coltharp, 34, were married to each other's daughters, who are minors.

 On December 4, 2017, an Amber Alert was issued for Coltharp's daughters. Police began an investigation after Coltharp's ex-wife told authorities that he had taken their four children and fled after losing custody in divorce proceedings.

 Two girls were found in a single-wide trailer; the other two were found in empty 50-gallon water drums.

 Shaffer was arrested in December 2017 on kidnapping charges. Coltharp pleaded guilty on June 13 to charges of child sodomy and child bigamy. His sentencing is scheduled to take place August 8.

 On June 8, a third man was identified as an alleged follower of the doomsday group and charged with child sexual abuse.

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– A Utah man who said he was the prophet of a polygamist sect is headed to prison after his conviction and sentencing this week on a child sodomy charge. Samuel Shaffer is the Knights of the Crystal Blade leader who was arrested in December on kidnapping charges involving his two daughters, as well as the two daughters and two sons of sect co-founder John Coltharp, who was also arrested. On Wednesday in Sanpete County, Shaffer pleaded guilty to felony sodomy on a child and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, KUTV reports. Among the details Shaffer shared with detectives as they looked into his case, per People: that he'd "married" Coltharp's 8-year-old daughter, and Coltharp had done the same with his 7-year-old daughter. Shaffer, listed as either 34 or 35, had previously been sentenced to 26 years to life in Iron County on child rape and child abuse charges; his new sentence will run concurrent with that one. "I sincerely believed that child marriage was a correct principle from God," Shaffer told Sanpete County Judge Marvin Bagley, per USA Today. "And I've seen the consequences of what's happened, and I know that I shouldn't have done it now." But Bagley wasn't buying his excuses. "I'm not aware of any religion in this world that justifies an adult having a sexual relationship with an 8-year-old girl," Bagley said. "Certainly it's a violation of Utah law." Coltharp is set to be sentenced Aug. 8.


After allegedly smoking pot all day, drinking beer and popping anti-depressants, bad-boy pop star Justin Bieber went on a wild pre-dawn drag race in Miami Beach that landed him in jail Thursday morning, police said.

 When stopped by police in his Lamborghini, Bieber barraged officers with a string of F-bombs, babbled incoherently, refused to get out of his car and, when he finally stepped out, declined to take his hands out of his pockets, police sources told The Miami Herald.

 He was booked at Miami Beach police headquarters on DUI, resisting arrest and drag-racing, a police spokesman said. The musicians entourage had apparently used their cars to block traffic on Pine Tree Drive at 26th Street, a residential area, at 4:30 a.m., creating a drag strip for the young star, who had been on a party spree in South Florida.

 Tests showed that Bieber was under the influence of drugs, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez told the Miami Herald.

 The other driver, identified as Khalil Sharief, was charged with DUI, said police spokeswoman Vivian Hernandez. Both will be taken to Miami-Dade jail, where they will be fingerprinted have their mugshots taken.

 "Miami nights ridin thru yo city in that hot wheel," Khalil, who performs under Island Def Jams Records, tweeted on his account earlier Thursday morning.

 Bieber, 19, was incoherent, had his hands in his pockets and resisted arrest without violence, Martinez said. He also did not have a valid license, the chief said.

 "It was a cold night, and it was quiet, so the officers could hear the cars,'' Martinez said, adding that patrols followed the sound of the revving engines. "When the cars are going that fast, it takes awhile to catch up."

 Bieber told officers that he had a beer, was under the influence of anti-depressants and had been smoking marijuana all day, according to police sources.

 When he was stopped by police, Bieber unleashed a barrage of f-words, police said.

 Officers at the Miami Beach police station worked for hours on booking Bieber into jail. He is now booked at the county jail in West Miami-Dade.

 The arrest caps a highly visible week for Bieber in South Florida, where he reported to have blown tens of thousands of dollars at the King of Diamonds strip club.

 The Opa-locka Police Department has also said it is investigating officers who gave Bieber and his crew an unauthorized escort through traffic after landing at the Opa-locka airport.

 Two officers have been relieved of duty with pay, pending the outcome of the probe, sources say.

 His arrest is another black eye for the embattled "Boyfriend" singer, who has had a fondness for drag racing in residential neighborhoods.

 His neighbors in his exclusive, gated Calabasas, Calif., community have long complained about him speeding down their streets. Media reports have said sheriffs deputies have been called to his mansion several times over the past year, and retired NFL player Keyshawn Johnson also attempted to counsel the singer, but Bieber refused to talk to him.

 Earlier this month, a neighbor in Los Angeles accused Bieber and his pals of hurling eggs at his home, causing extensive damages. Officers searched Bieber's home and one person was arrested for drugs. He is under investigation for felony vandalism in that incident.

 This bulletin will be updated as more information becomes available. Follow David Ovalle on Twitter @davidovalle305 ||||| Justin Bieber is facing several charges after authorities said he raced through a Miami Beach neighborhood in a rented Lamborghini, cursed at cops as he resisted arrest and admitted to consuming drugs and alcohol. NBC 6’s Christina Hernandez reports on the pop star's arrest and bond court appearance, and how he got on top of a Cadillac Escalade and waved to the crowd after his release from jail. (Published Friday, Jan. 24, 2014)

 Justin Bieber's Arrest: An Overview From His Alleged Drag Racing to His Release From Jail

 Pop star Justin Bieber is facing driving under the influence and other charges after authorities said he raced through a Miami Beach neighborhood in a rented Lamborghini, cursed at cops as he resisted arrest and admitted to consuming drugs and alcohol.

 Authorities told NBC 6 Bieber's blood alcohol level was under the state's legal limit of .08 after a breathalyzer test, but the singer was unable to pass field sobriety tests at the scene. Results from a urine test are still pending.

 Bieber wore an orange prison outfit for his first appearance in bond court Thursday afternoon. He appeared remotely via video from jail before Judge Joseph P. Farina, who ordered him held on $2,500 bond. He has been charged with DUI, resisting arrest and driving with a suspended license.

 South Florida Fans React to Justin Bieber Arrest

 Fans gathered at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday to see one famous inmate – pop star Justin Bieber, who was jailed on DUI charges. NBC 6's Bobby Brooks has the story from TGK. (Published Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014)

 He posted bond and was released about an hour after his court appearance. As Bieber left the the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, he got on top of an SUV and waved to the crowd.

 His motorcade drove around Miami-Dade for two hours before arriving at the Icon Brickell tower in Miami. On Thursday night fans were gathered outside the Orchid House in Miami Beach, hoping to catch a glimpse of Bieber there.

 The incident began just after 4 a.m. in the area of Pine Tree Drive and West 26th Street, Miami Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez said. After his arrest, the pop star admitted to consuming alcohol and prescription medications and smoking marijuana, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez said.

 The 19-year-old singer, who was in a rented yellow Lamborghini, was pulled over in the area along with a red Ferrari, which was also speeding, police said.

 Bieber's car was being trailed by multiple SUVs when officers gave chase, police sources told NBC 6 South Florida. Two of the cars were apparently being used to block the area off, police said.

 Justin Bieber Leaves Miami-Dade County Jail, Waves at Crowd

 Justin Bieber was released from jail Thursday. (Published Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014)

 He was driving north on Pine Tree Drive at such a high rate of speed it took officers a significant distance to catch him, police said. The officer who made the arrest said the cars were going approximately 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, Martinez said.

 An officer "smelled a strong odor of alcohol" coming from Bieber's car, Martinez said. "The driver had slow deliberate movements and a stupor look on his face," an arrest report said.

 Martinez said Bieber was "a little belligerent" with officers at the scene, questioning why he was stopped. He got out of the car but wouldn't follow the officer's instructions, Martinez said.

 "Why the f--- are you doing this?" Bieber told the officer, according to the report. "What the f--- did I do, why did you stop me?"

 Bieber was asked to put his hands on his car but he continued to take them off, the report said.

 Justin Bieber in Miami-Dade County Bond Court

 A judge has set total bond to $2500 for Justin Bieber following DUI arrest. (Published Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014)

 "I ain't got no f---ing weapons, why do you have to search me," Bieber told the officer, according to the report.

 According to the report, the officer told Bieber if he continued to take his hands off the car, he would be arrested. When Bieber turned around to face the officer, he was taken into custody, the report said.

 Bieber failed a sobriety test at the scene, Hernandez said. The other driver, identified by Miami Beach Police as rapper Crazy Khalil – real name Khalil Amir Sharieff – was also arrested and charged with DUI. He was ordered held on $1,000 bond and later released.

 No one was injured in the incident.

 Video posted to Instagram allegedly showed Bieber's car being pulled over, but police haven't confirmed the video.

 Justin Bieber Arrives at Miami-Dade County Jail

 Singer Justin Bieber was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of drag racing, DUI and resisting arrest in Miami Beach, police said. NBC 6's Bobby Brooks reports from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where Bieber was booked. (Published Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014)

 Martinez said Bieber was cooperative at the police station. The report said he had a flushed face, bloodshot eyes and an odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath at the holding facility. Authorities later released a mug shot showing the teen smiling (photo below).

 He told officers he had been recording music at a studio, the report said.

 NBC 6 has learned Bieber was at Miami Beach nightclubs Set and Miami Beach before his DUI arrest. Witnesses at Set told NBC 6 Bieber arrived at 2 a.m. and was seen dancing on tables.

 Bieber's second court date is scheduled for Monday, online Miami-Dade court records said.

 Video Allegedly Showing Justin Bieber Being Pulled Over in Miami Beach

 Video posted to Instagram allegedly shows singer Justin Bieber being pulled over in Miami Beach. He was arrested on Thursday, January 23, on suspicion of drag racing and DUI, police said. Video courtesy of Instagram/Samanthurx74 (Published Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014)

 Bieber has been spotted in different places around Miami in the past few days, including a Miami Beach skate shop, a photo posted on Instagram shows.

 The Opa-locka Police Department is also investigating an unauthorized escort of Bieber, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

 The arrest is the latest brush with the law for the Canadian 19-year-old pop star, who catapulted to fame in the late 2000s after a talent manager saw a video of him on YouTube.

 A neighbor in Bieber's Los Angeles neighborhood recently accused the singer of causing thousands of dollars of damage by throwing eggs at his home, leading detectives to raid Bieber’s mansion in search of evidence. One person at the house was arrested on suspicion of drug possession.

 Neighbors have also called the cops in the last year with complaints that that Bieber drives recklessly around the neighborhood and plays loud music at parties that last into the early morning.

 In July, officials at the U.S.-Canada border seized marijuana and drug paraphernalia from one of the the singer’s tour buses. Bieber was not on that bus at the time.

 The Grammy-nominated artist has also made headlines recently with comments that he plans to leave the music business. He riled his fan base of "Beliebers" with a late December tweet claiming he was "officially retiring." A source told E! News at the time, "of course it's not true." ||||| Justin Bieber Arrested for DUI Drag Racing and Resisting Arrest

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 Bieber was taken into custody and transported to the police department where his blood alcohol level was tested. Our law enforcement sources say Justin was given a field sobriety test at the scene ... and failed.His was then taken to jail where he was booked and processed.

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 We're told Bieber had just left SET nightclub and was driving a yellow Lamborghini at the time cops spotted him in a residential neighborhood. Our sources say Justin's people actually blocked the street off so Bieber could drag race.Sources say the person Justin was racing was also arrested. We're told that driver was Khalil, a well-known rapper on Def Jam Records. He was in a red Ferrari.Justin had a passenger in the car -- Chantel Jeffries -- a model, who's dated multiple celebs including an NFL superstar The traffic stop was for drag racing and cops determined he was driving under the influence.The photo (below) is Chantel -- the model who was in Justin's yellow Lambo -- and Justin. The pic was NOT taken at the time of the arrest.made a point of showing off his tattoos and his muscles during his court appearance Thursday in Miami Beach.Bieber appeared via closed circuit TV as the judge set bond in his DUI/resisting arrest/driving on a suspended license case.Check out how Bieber rolled up his jumpsuit sleeves. He let his arms do the talking because he said nothing as the judge set bail at $2,500 ... which we're guessing he can afford.It's not exactly a capital offense, but Bieber hired the best ... attorney, who helped William Kennedy Smith beat the rape rap. He's also repped Rush Limbaugh and Kelsey Grammer.Bieber should post bail soon. ||||| Justin Bieber was arrested early Thursday morning after leaving a Miami Beach club, accused of drag racing through a residential neighborhood and DUI. Police allege the pop singer admitted to having beer, marijuana and prescription drugs in his system.

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 His blood alcohol level was .04. That level was illegal, because he is under-age. The standard for someone driving under the age of 21 is .02.

 The singer spent the rest of the night in jail then appeared in a Miami courtroom early this afternoon where a judge set bail at $2,500. Bieber stood silently in the courtroom dressed in a jail jumpsuit as his attorney spoke. ABC News confirmed that "because of Justin Bieber's high profile status," he received special treatment and had his hearing moved up when it should have been Friday.

 He posted bail and exited the courthouse a short time later, jumped up on a car and blew a kiss to a throng of fans as he left. A couple hours later, he was spotted by news helicopters riding around Downtown Miami in a black Escalade that eventually pulled into the lush Viceroy Hotel in Brickell.

 Miami Beach police said Bieber was pulled over for speeding in a yellow Lamborghini and failed a field sobriety test. This is a first-degree misdemeanor, which could get him up to six months in jail and have his license suspended for six months.

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 But he may be eligible for a program for first-time offenders that reduces the charge to reckless driving, said defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh, who is not involved in this case. Florida has zero tolerance for underage drinkers and if the singer enters a program for first-time offenders Bieber will have to steer clear of all drugs and alcohol, as was the case with actress Lindsay Lohan.

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 Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez told the Miami Herald that Bieber was incoherent at the time of his arrest. He had his hands in his pockets and resisted arrest without violence, the chief said, adding that the singer was driving with a Georgia license that expired at least six months ago.

 Police allege that Bieber cursed out the arresting officer then admitted to having beer, marijuana and prescription drugs in his system.

 WHO IS KHALIL SHARIEFF: DRAG RACER ARRESTED WITH BIEBER

 A source told ABC News that Bieber was leaving SET Nightclub on Lincoln Road before he was arrested. After leaving the club, the musician's entourage had apparently used their cars to block traffic on Pine Tree Drive at 26th Street, a residential area, at around 4 a.m., creating a drag strip for Bieber, who was in a Lamborghini, the newspaper reported.

 Bieber was taken to county jail for processing. Miami Beach Police Detective Vivian Hernandez added that under Florida law Bieber had to spend a mandatory eight-hour drying out period in lockup after a DUI arrest.

 Police said that the other alleged drag racer, who was racing Bieber in a red Ferrari, was Khalil Amir Sharieff and he was also charged with DUI. The police report said the cars were going 55 to 60 mph in a residential zone posted at 30 mph.

 The Canadian singer, 19, has faced increasing legal trouble in the past year. He was recently investigated by Los Angeles police after a neighbor accused Bieber of throwing eggs at his house.

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– Some of you have been waiting a long time for this news: Justin Bieber was arrested this morning. Bieber—who was driving a rented Lamborghini at the time, NBC Miami reports—was busted on suspicion of drag racing, driving under the influence, and resisting arrest in Miami Beach, according to police. TMZ reports that he had just left a club, had a model with him in the car, and failed a field sobriety test. Police say Bieber admitted to drinking beer, smoking marijuana (all day long), and taking prescription anti-depressants before his arrest, the Miami Herald reports. He also allegedly cursed out the arresting officers and, as the Herald puts it, "babbled incoherently." He refused, at first, to get out of his car, then refused to remove his hands from his pockets, and didn't have a valid license, according to police sources. In case none of that is infuriating enough, Bieber's posse is said to have blocked traffic in order to create a drag strip for him to use. And this isn't the only controversy related to his trip to Florida; the Opa-locka Police Department is also investigating an unauthorized police escort of Bieber after he landed at the Opa-locka Executive Airport. Bieber's currently at county jail and a detective tells ABC News he can't be bailed out until after noon, because DUI suspects are required by law to "dry out" for eight hours.


– If you've ever wanted to know the effect that liberation has on a person, Chelsea Manning is glad to show you. ABC News reports that the transgender soldier released from prison earlier this year posted a photo Thursday to her social media accounts that shows her smiling at the beach in a red one-piece swimsuit, with the caption, "Guess this is what freedom looks like." The picture was taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who documented Manning for an article appearing in the September issue of Vogue. In that interview, Manning talks about how she's adjusting to being out of jail, her regrets that she didn't come out as transgender earlier in her life, and her future plans, which may or may not include running for political office. "My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go," she notes. Online reaction to the Vogue coverage has been mixed, CBS News notes, with some offering support and others blasting the magazine for highlighting both a transgender woman and someone who many believe should still be behind bars. "This ugly whatever should be in prison, forever," one non-fan tweeted, to which Manning replied, "And here I am," accompanied by her trademark slew of positive emojis. The conservative National Review also weighed in, with a column by David French that asks: "If Bradley Manning had stayed Bradley Manning, would he be basking in celebrity, enjoying fawning photo shoots?" The Guardian notes that Manning's appearance in Vogue isn't the magazine's first transgender presence: Models Hari Nef and Andreja Pejic have both appeared in its pages, and model Valentina Sampaio has graced the cover of the publication's French version.

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 Chelsea Manning, the former US Army analyst turned whistleblower, has graced the pages of Vogue magazine’s September issue.

 Manning was photographed in a red swimsuit on a beach by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the magazine’s 125th anniversary September issue.

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 The 29-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 after one of the most high-profile intelligence leaks in modern times. In 2007, while on leave from service in Iraq, Manning sent hundreds of thousands of classified and sensitive documents to WikiLeaks, including the video known as Collateral Murder that showed US military killing dozens of unarmed Iraqi citizens.

 Manning came out as transgender the day after she was sentenced. Lawyers successfully advocated for her to undergo hormone therapy while in prison. After six years behind bars, she was released from Fort Leavenworth prison on 17 May when, in one of his final acts as US president, Barack Obama commuted her sentence, saying “justice has been served.” Manning has been living in New York since her release.

 Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) guess this is what freedom looks like 😊👙💋🏊♀🚣♀⛴🌅🏖🏙 @voguemagazine https://t.co/g7YYNkcd9l 😎🌈💕 https://t.co/nyAUje52bE pic.twitter.com/n4ixFkIdVn

 In an interview with Vogue’s Nathan Heller, Manning spoke about her childhood in Oklahoma, her parents’ separation, her growing awareness and confusion around her sexuality and gender identity, and her decision to enter the military in 2007 in the hope that it would help her “figure [herself] out”.

 She told Heller she accepted responsibility for her whistleblowing actions: “I think it’s important to remember that when somebody sees government wrongdoing – whether it’s illegal or immoral or unethical – there isn’t the means available to do something about it ... Everyone keeps saying: ‘You should have gone through the proper channels!’ But the proper channels don’t work.”

 She also spoke about her time in prison, the psychological toll of which involved her making multiple suicide attempts and being shut away in solitary confinement.

 Since her release from prison, however, Manning’s online persona has been a font of joy and positivity. In spite of relentless targeting by trolls and detractors, her tweets are frequently peppered with rainbows, hearts and smile emojis.

 Manning is not the first trans woman to feature in Vogue’s pages, with models and trans women such as Hari Nef and Andreja Pejic having previously featuring in the fashion magazine. Earlier this year, French Vogue made headlines when Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio was revealed on the cover of their March issue – the first time the magazine had featured a transwoman on the cover. ||||| One hot, humid early-summer evening in New York, a hired car slows on Bleecker Street, and a young woman inside prepares for her first party out in years. She is wearing a midnight-colored semiformal dress by Altuzarra and Everlane ankle boots with heels. Her hair is trimmed into a pixie cut; her makeup softens, but won’t hide, a dust of freckles. “I don’t know if I’ll know anybody,” she fretted earlier, but she seems to have quelled what nerves remain. She is accompanied by a couple of men who surround her like guards. For the first time in a long time, that’s a welcome thing.

 Chelsea Manning—graceful, blue-eyed, trans—smiles and prepares herself. Since her release from the Fort Leavenworth prison, on May 17, Manning has been living in New York, with a low profile. Tonight she will make her social debut in her own skin. From February to April 2010, while living as Bradley, an Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, Manning sent three-quarters of a million classified or sensitive documents to WikiLeaks. The breach’s breadth was startling, as were its contents, ranging from the so-called Collateral Murder video, showing a U.S. helicopter killing a group of Baghdad pedestrians that included children and press, to hundreds of thousands of “Cablegate” documents, disclosing 44 years of State Department messaging. When Manning’s role became clear, she turned into a polarizing figure—celebrated as a whistle-blower by some, condemned as a traitor by others. In August 2013, after pleading guilty to ten charges and being found guilty of 20, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The day after the sentencing, Manning came out publicly as trans.

 Tonight, a summer Monday, is a different kind of coming-out. To honor the occasion, she has picked an event with a celebratory turn: the after-party for the Lambda Literary Awards, which each year honor books by members of the LGBTQ community. The evening is glamorous; the guest list is varied. Here Manning will reintroduce herself to a community in which she seeks acceptance for more than her heavy past.

 The car stops in front of Le Poisson Rouge, a Washington Square art space. “I’m not sure how to do this,” Chase Strangio, an ACLU lawyer, murmurs in the front seat. A gregarious young man with a trim Clark Gable mustache, Strangio has emerged as one of the nation’s leading trans-rights lawyers, helping represent Gavin Grimm, the trans student in Virginia who challenged his exclusion from the boys’ bathroom at his high school, and successfully advocating for Manning’s hormone therapy in prison. With Manning now out in the world, however, he faces a new challenge: remaining alert to unwelcome attention.

 “I think that looks pretty discreet,” Tim Travers Hawkins, a filmmaker who’s making a documentary on Manning, says, judging the entry. When his project, executive-produced by Laura Poitras, started two years back, he intended to use Manning’s prison diaries to shape a documentary with an invisible hero. Then, in the final days of his term, President Obama commuted Manning’s sentence. “It was kind of unbelievable,” Poitras says. “All the news had been so, so bad.” For Hawkins, Manning’s release introduced new imperatives. “It was a radical shift in the way the film existed,” Hawkins says. Tonight, he’s brought a compact camera along.

 Manning, Strangio, and Hawkins clamber rapidly inside. A Lambda host guides Manning down a flight of steps. The party is just starting. At one end of the space, a platform, slightly raised above the dance floor, is marked off with velvet rope. A plate of crudités awaits; Manning orders a gimlet. She’s extroverted, she says: “I love being around people.” While living as a man, she often went to clubs and parties, even in stodgy Washington, D.C. “People are a lot more open and outgoing in New York,” Manning explains. “In D.C., you really had to, like, know someone.”

 Music pounds through the room, which is dim and bathed in blue and fuchsia light. As the space fills, a few brave souls approach Manning, then a few more. Soon the platform is packed with people hoping to take a flash-bleached selfie.

 “I just wanted to say hello. You’re, like, a perfect hero.”

 “I’m going to give you this card. We’d love to throw a party for your return.”

 Manning seems startled by the attention. “Thank you!” she keeps saying. She is 29 now, with a confidence that, even in a novel city, hits like sunlight at high altitude. Though she’s petite—just a few inches over five feet—she speaks with a clarion directness, as if constantly projecting toward an unseen back row. In prison, she read the fashion press (“I missed seven years of fashion, but I went through every season in a magazine!”), and while she’s embraced her femininity, she eschews what she calls “fertility style”—“bunnies and hearts and stuff”—for more current, gender-neutral garments. While serving out her sentence, she got her hands on photos from Barneys’ 2014 trans campaign, shot by Bruce Weber. “That was a really important thing for me to see,” she says.

 From the stage, the DJ mixes sharpen: “Uptown Funk,” “I Feel It Coming.” But there isn’t time to dance. She’s standing, greeting new faces from all sides, thanking, thanking some more. Her left arm is crossed over her belly, cradling her opposite elbow, which is straight. When Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” begins its climbing modulations, she uncrosses her arms and begins fidgeting—mindlessly, flirtatiously—with the charm on her gold necklace, drawing it back and forth between her thumb and forefinger. She sways. She lets herself lean forward, laughing at a joke. When her newest friend wanders away, she turns around and smiles.

 “I’m starting to loosen up!” she says.

 When Manning was growing up in Crescent, a town of some 1,400 north of Oklahoma City, she struggled to pinpoint a reason she felt so awkward. “I knew that I was different,” she says. “I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys.” She recalls, “I spent so much time wondering, What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I fit in?” Sometimes she felt left behind; at other times, she leaped out in front. Once, she and a group of other kids were allowed to take a field trip to Frontier City, an amusement park known for its loopy, soaring Silver Bullet roller coaster. Other students were petrified. Manning couldn’t wait to get on and boarded the ride all alone: “I’m a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it’s safe to say.”

 It’s a June afternoon, and we are sitting in a park along the Hudson River, a short walk from the sleek Tribeca building where Manning has been living since arriving in New York. Today she is dressed with a mixture of straightforward elegance and function: a casual black sleeveless Marc Jacobs dress with playful paisley lining, a small purse from The Row, Borderline boots by Vetements x Dr. Martens, and—the cinching touch—a black utility belt from 5.11 Tactical, a gear company that supplies law enforcement and the military. “I’ve been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men’s clothing,” she explains. “He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like—projecting strength through femininity.”

 In Manning’s telling, strength was a necessity before it was a choice. When she was eleven, her father, a computer engineer who’d gotten his start in the Navy, announced that he was moving out, effectively ending his marriage. That night, her mother swallowed a bottle of pills, then told Chelsea’s older sister, Casey, what she’d done. On the hurried drive to emergency room, the journalist Denver Nicks reports in Private, his book on Manning’s early life, it was Chelsea’s job to sit with her mother in the backseat and make sure that she did not stop breathing.

 Over the months that followed, Casey and Chelsea, then still known as Bradley, struggled to manage their mother’s alcoholism while also learning to navigate basic domestic chores. Nicks reports that their mother, who’d grown up in Wales and married early, didn’t know how to write a check, let alone pay bills or seek alimony. “I had to learn how to do all of this stuff with my mother and also deal with the friction between my parents,” says Manning. “I loved them both, but they were angry at each other. I always felt like I was doing something wrong and I had caused it.” (Manning’s family members have declined interviews since her release.)

 From twelve to thirteen, Manning grew up quickly. She realized that she was attracted to boys, and considered herself gay. Her father had introduced Manning to computers and programming at a young age, and Manning began to see the Internet—vast, anonymous, and full of answers—as an escape. “I learned that I wasn’t alone. I learned about all these different life possibilities and options,” she explains. She began to find her first natural identity. “Because I would actually be anonymous online, I could be more myself.”

 The Web also held constant through a series of displacements. In November 2001, when Manning was just shy of fourteen, her mother decided to return to Wales and took Manning with her. (Casey had moved away; their father had remarried.) Her responsibilities increased as her mother’s health declined. In 2005, after a fluky brush with the July 7 London bombings—Manning says she was near King’s Cross station at the moment of the Tube explosions—she moved in with her father, his wife, and his stepson. That arrangement didn’t end well: Mounting tension ended with Manning allegedly brandishing a knife and her stepmother calling 911. Manning lived for a spell with a friend in Tulsa, then drifted to Chicago. In increasingly dire straits, she was taken in by her aunt Debbie, in suburban Maryland. She worked at Starbucks and Abercrombie & Fitch; she explored the LGBTQ scene of greater D.C.; she enrolled, briefly, in community college. At nineteen, she started seeing a psychologist for the first time.

 “That’s the part of my life I replay the most: whether or not, living in Maryland and seeing a therapist, I could have finally been able to say, ‘This is who I am; this is what I want to do.’ It was the first time in my life when I really considered transitioning. But I got scared,” she tells me. “I really regret the fact that I didn’t know or realize I already had the love I needed, especially from my aunt and sister—just to seek support.”

 Rather, she made a defiantly different choice. It was the moment of the so-called surge in Iraq. The news on TV was grim. “I don’t know who I am,” she recalls in the park. “Maybe the military will allow me to figure that out.” She looks out toward the river. “It was a naive thought, but it was very real to me in 2007.”

 On the grass behind us, teenage girls are putting together a dance routine: “Five, six, seven, eight!” Not far away, upriver, are the piers where, for years, LGBTQ teens have congregated at the witching hour to vogue under the stars. If Manning had remained in Maryland and been a little braver, she now believes, her 20s could have been quite different.

 Instead, she traveled as a new Army enlistee to Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri; trained as an intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca, in Arizona; and worked for about a year at Fort Drum, in New York, as an analyst with a top-secret clearance. In October 2009, she was shipped to a base outside Baghdad, where she became Specialist Manning: an anguished 22-year-old in a harsh environment, with access to some of the military’s darkest secrets.

 The clock has barely struck midnight at Le Poisson Rouge when Manning’s first night at the ball seems to end. The music stops; fluorescent lights flicker on overhead. There will be a small after-after-party—a loose, laid-back affair—at Julius, a tavern in the Village that is sometimes called the oldest extant gay bar in New York. Strangio has peeled off—he has a family to return to—but Manning decides to continue: The world is new again, and she’s not ready to go home.

 About a dozen people walk the half-mile to the tavern. It is 12:45 a.m. and quiet on the streets; sprinklers stutter softly over the Minetta Green. Manning has no I.D. yet, for arcane reasons—she lost her old one with her old life—but the doorman at Julius is expecting her. For weeks after coming to New York, she wandered all around the city, unrecognized. “It’s not like I’m living in fear or anything,” she tells me. “I’m so glad to be out and about and walking around.”

 Julius’s interior creaks with landmark artifacts: black-and-white photos checkering the walls, posters commemorating the gay-rights Mattachine Society’s 1966 “sip-in” at the bar. Manning alights on a bench underneath an American flag whose stripes are replaced with the bars of the pride banner. Conversation foams around her while the jukebox plays. They are deep into drinks; people are sitting on laps. Manning falls into conversation with January Hunt, a writer, musician, and artist who is also a young trans woman. Manning is describing her trip into Brooklyn for a tech “meet-up” in a derelict building; it struck her, she explains, as “very New York.”

 Manning publicly came out in a written statement, sent to and read aloud on the Today show, in which she asked to be called by female pronouns and expressed interest in hormone therapy. She had thought of making an announcement earlier, she says—she had taken her first outing in women’s dress in February 2010 and had told guards at the detention center where she was first imprisoned that she was a woman—but had been advised that it would complicate the trial. “The opportunity to do it on the Today show popped up, so it happened a little bit sooner and a little faster than I hoped it would,” she told me. Still, she says, she was taken aback by the response. “I was honestly a bit surprised by the outpouring of love and support that I got,” she says. If there was backlash, too (and there was), she doesn’t seem to have registered it—a tellingly upbeat response from a woman who now sprinkles her tweets with hearts and rainbows.

 Prison bureaucracy was another story. Almost immediately after coming to the ACLU in 2013, Strangio—a trans man himself—began work on Manning’s civil case, fighting for her to begin receiving hormone therapy. “Our goal was to get her the health care that she needed,” he explained. “Even when there are legal principles that are pretty unambiguously on our side, there’s so much cultural bias we’re confronting in the courts and in other systems.” Meanwhile, behind bars, Manning sought equilibrium in other ways. “The first thing I learned to do was avoid television,” she says. She took out subscriptions to “50 or 60” periodicals, she says—news and global-affairs publications, science magazines, technical journals, and, of course, fashion glossies. She describes it to me as “like having a printed version of the Internet.” And she read books: literary classics, fantasy series, contemporary histories. She liked biographies: Queen Isabella, Joan of Arc. She read Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, three times. Many of Manning’s favorites seemed to emphasize personal strength or bureaucratic disaffection. She read Catch-22, she says, more than once. “I was institutionalized to such a point where my expectations were limited to, I’m going to eat the next meal. I’m going to go to sleep. I’m going to be here the next day,” Manning says. Before commutation, this outlook had psychological costs; as recently as last October, she tried to kill herself for the second time. Then, in January 2017, the White House phoned the office of one of her lawyers.

 In his statement announcing the commutation, President Obama emphasized that it was not a pardon for her crime. “Let’s be clear: Chelsea Manning has served a tough prison sentence,” he said in a press conference. “I feel very comfortable that justice has been served.”

 On the day of Manning’s release, things happened quickly. She picked her first outfit for life as a woman: a black-and-white striped blouse, with matching sneakers. She stopped at a roadside pizza joint, got a pepperoni slice, and posted a photo of it to Instagram. (“Freest pizza ever!” she tells me.) She had the lawyers who picked her up drive her to the countryside. “I think I spent, like, five or six hours sitting outside.”

 A day after leaving Fort Leavenworth, she posted a new photo (“OK, so here I am everyone!!”) with the coder-inspired hashtag #HelloWorld. She had on a trim black dress by one of her favorite designers, Gabriela Hearst. Her hair was crisply coiffed; she wore a vibrant lip. In a Guardian column, written while in prison, Manning had discussed her nervousness about moving through the world as a woman. Now that she’s no longer worried about being “found out” by the military, she says, the fear is gone. “It feels natural. It feels like it’s how it’s supposed to be, instead of this anxiety, this uncertainty, this ball of self-consciousness that comes with pretending to be male,” she says. “It didn’t feel right. I didn’t know what it was. I couldn’t describe it. Now that’s gone.”

 Poitras, who met Manning for the first time after her release, says she was startled by the young woman’s focus. “There are people who have really put their lives on the line for something, and they come out on the other side of it. You can feel that with her,” Poitras tells me. “Now that she’s free, what is she going to do with her freedom?” She adds, “When I first met Ed Snowden in Hong Kong, he had the same sort of eerie power.”

 Twice during our conversations, and in slightly different ways, I ask Manning what she regrets from the period when she was living as Specialist Bradley Manning. Her leaking of state secrets doesn’t appear on the list, although that decision remains the most publicly controversial of her life, earning her accusations of treason and reckless endangerment. “I’ve accepted responsibility for my own decisions and my own actions,” she says. When we speak, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old intelligence contractor, has recently been arrested on suspicion of leaking information about Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. election, adding to a list of leakers who, like Snowden, have become household names. Manning tells me that she has nothing to say about Winner (“All I know is what I see in the media reports”) but speaks about what she refers to as “the larger issue.” “I think it’s important to remember that when somebody sees government wrongdoing—whether it’s illegal or immoral or unethical—there isn’t the means available to do something about it,” she says. “Everyone keeps saying, You should have gone through the proper channels! But the proper channels don’t work.”

 Manning describes trying to release information to the press before WikiLeaks. “In 2010, I was literally scrambling around D.C. trying to get The Washington Post to publish this stuff, and then I went to The New York Times.” Manning has said that a reporter at the Post with whom she spoke briefly over the phone wouldn’t commit to a story, which she took as a sign of uninterest. At the Times, she says, she left a message on the voice mail of the ombudsman, confusingly called the Public Editor. The editor and his assistant later said that they had no memory of such a message, but explained that they received hundreds a week. “I did this all on leave,” Manning says. “I had only twelve days.” The approaching “Snowmageddon” made it harder still. Manning traveled from public phone to public phone, to avoid a traceable line. “I ran out of time,” she says. Before returning to Iraq, she sent files to WikiLeaks.

 Even so, Manning continues to take her struggle to find an outlet as proof of a systemic problem. “We need to have more ways to talk about what’s going on in government,” she says. I ask what those ways might look like. “I don’t know what’s right,” she says. “I have certain values. I live by those.”

 When it comes to information freedom, those values remain controversial. Many lawmakers bridled at her abbreviated sentence; at the time of the commutation, Paul Ryan said, “Chelsea Manning’s treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation’s most sensitive secrets.” Others argue that her motives, like a public-interest journalist’s, were honorable—or that the actual damage of the leaks was small. Beyond some vocal LGBTQ advocacy (she was a star of the summer’s Pride March in New York, waving from a drop-top Nissan alongside Gavin Grimm), Manning herself has mostly stayed circumspect on issues of politics. Still, in a Guardian column from January 25, a few days following her commutation, she offered a soft criticism of President Obama’s tactical approach: “The one simple lesson to draw from President Obama’s legacy: Do not start off with a compromise. They won’t meet you in the middle.” President Trump, newly elected, lambasted Manning over Twitter: “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!”

 Manning has avoided a rejoinder to the president’s tweet. And to the extent that WikiLeaks of 2017 (which seems to have pursued specific electoral outcomes in France and America and is dogged by the troubled reputation of its leader, Julian Assange) has a different public reputation than the 2010 organization (which claimed more categorical anti-secrecy principles), she has avoided opinions there, too. “I’ve been in prison for seven years! I’ve been completely disconnected from all of that,” she tells me. Her plan is to live in New York until late summer, then move to suburban Maryland, not far from where she was before.

 By then, she hopes to be acclimated to a new life. For the moment, certain habits of this decade strike her as weird. Our phone fixation, for example. “We’re sitting in the same room as each other but looking at our phones constantly,” she says. “Before I was in prison, I was one of the only people on social media. I was a novelty. Now everybody’s on social media all the time!” It’s too much. “I think that’s where a lot of this miscommunication, polarization, friction, and chaos is coming from.”

 Thus, though she tweets and Instagrams, Manning has tried to focus on more in-the-moment pursuits. She still loves video games, though she has forsworn the violent ones. Soon after leaving prison, she began teaching herself the programming language Rust. (“It has a lot of features that weren’t available seven years ago,” she says.) She hopes to begin dating—“I’m not planning to be single!”—but intends to wait until her life settles, in Maryland.

 She is also at work on a memoir. “I’m trying to tell the story as if it was happening now and you’re with me,” she explains. Hawkins, the documentarian, says he plans to stop shooting soon, as Manning’s personal narrative finds its own way in the world: “She’s too young for this film to attempt to be the definitive story of her life.”

 Manning does not know what her career will be. While living as Bradley Manning, she expressed an interest in running for political office. I ask whether that’s still on her mind. “I’m certainly not going to say no, and I’m certainly not going to say yes,” she says. “My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go.

 “I have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion,” she goes on. “Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally.” It’s the lesson, she says, that she wishes she learned earlier. “Unconditional love,” she says. “It is OK to be who I am.”

 In front of an apartment building in the East Seventies, near Central Park, Manning meets up with Strangio to pay a visit to a hero of New York’s LGBTQ past. It’s 90 degrees, clear, and sticky. Manning arrives late, looking addled and a little faint. She had a subway snafu, she explains, and then a long walk. Strangio takes her shoulders and gives them a shake. “Oh, my God—hi!” he says with get-ahold-of-yourself astringency. Inside, they board a tiny elevator that seems as old as the building.

 “Everybody in!” Strangio says merrily as it begins groaning upward. “We’ll just get stuck in here a few days.”

 “I’ve got a flashlight,” Manning deadpans.

 At a time when drag queens were widely shunned, Jack Doroshow, better known as Flawless Sabrina, blazed a trail across Philadelphia and New York with her high-profile drag pageants, forcing the cities to acknowledge and accept their androgyne and transgender communities. Bobby Kennedy helped her book a venue. Andy Warhol helped secure funding for a film on the pageants, The Queen (1968), which went to Cannes. Flawless posed for Diane Arbus, acted for John Waters, and dated William S. Burroughs. Along the way, she was arrested several times and came to be known as a “mother” figure in the queer community. Now in her late 70s, she suffers from various age-related ailments. There are good days and bad days, but today is good.

 The long wall of Flawless’s sitting room is mirrored, floor to ceiling. A desk near the window supports pineapple-esque lamps and on the far wall is a framed canvas that looks like—is assumed to be—a late-period Picasso. Scattered through the room are heads: mannequin heads, papier-mâché heads, other heads, one sporting a costume-ball mask and feather headpiece, another wearing a wig and sunglasses, a third stabbed at the scalp with hypodermic syringes.

 Just then, Flawless enters the room. “Gorgeous!” she says, looking at Manning. “Girl, that’s what I’m talking about.”

 She is sitting in a wheelchair pushed by Curtis Carman, an artist who is Flawless’s partner. She looks old, alert, and not unlike Picasso herself: bald, with a striped shirt and a big, knitted navy cardigan. Carman helps her climb into a thronelike chair behind the desk. “Now, how’s your family?” she asks Manning.

 “They’re all right,” she says. “They’re laying low a little bit.” She hasn’t seen her mother yet, Manning explains. She lives in the care of her family and cannot travel.

 “But you’ll do that,” Flawless says. It’s not a question. “You’re young, aren’t you?”

 “Twenty-nine. I hope that’s young.”

 “You bet.” Flawless allows herself a smile. “I mean, as I look at it, everybody’s pretty new.”

 Flawless brings her palms together. “All I see is a very natural, very beautiful little girl,” she says. “The only jarring thing is that there’s so much power. This is somebody who has changed history.”

 Manning thanks her and keeps talking—about her move to Maryland, and then about her writing. Flawless starts shaking her head. “I can’t get over how beautiful you are,” she says.

 Through the next half-hour, they discuss the military, the Tonys, the past. Before Manning leaves, Flawless is keen to pass on some wisdom. “Think about your story,” she says.

 “I’m not done yet!” Manning protests.

 “No,” Flawless says slowly.

 Strangio says they should let Flawless rest.

 “It’s not easy to change the world,” Flawless chirps. She draws Strangio close. “I am so proud of you,” she says, and gives him a tight hug.

 Manning comes next. Flawless wraps her aged arms around her small frame. “Thank you so much,” she whispers, so softly that Manning may not hear. “Thank you so much.” When Manning stands, she moves briskly toward the door. Flawless’s eyes are wet with tears.

 In this story: Fashion Editor: Phyllis Posnick. Hair: Jimmy Paul for Bumble and Bumble; Makeup: Alice Lane. Tailor: Maria Del Greco for Christy Rilling Studio. Set Design: Mary Howard ||||| Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier released in May after serving seven years in prison for leaking government documents to WikiLeaks, is featured in a bathing suit in the upcoming issue of Vogue.

 "Guess this is what freedom feels like," Manning tweeted with an image, shot by Annie Leibovitz.

 Manning, who was granted clemency in the final days of President Obama's presidency, has been living in New York City since her release.

 The article details Manning's life in the army and after she was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. She came out as transgender one day after the sentencing, and publicly came out to NBC's "Today."

 "I was honestly a bit surprised by the outpouring of love and support that I got," she told Vogue.

 Manning has become somewhat of a social-media celebrity since being released from prison. She told the magazine that she is not sure about her future career plans, but she said she is at work on a memoir.

 The photos and accompanying article, unsurprisingly, lit up social media. Some praised Manning's photo shoot ("simply lovely" and "brave"), but others criticized the magazine for both featuring a trans woman and for featuring a person who was controversially released from prison early.

 This @voguemagazine profile of Chelsea Manning is simply lovely https://t.co/pwbtBHd156 — Emma Gray (@emmaladyrose) August 10, 2017

 Chelsea Manning Is A Hero, And We Don't Deserve Her — Avery Edison (@aedison) August 10, 2017

 VILE: Vogue Magazine To Feature Transgender Traitor Chelsea Manning https://t.co/e8Upe29Ris #tcot — super czar (@Kristokoff) August 10, 2017

 While the September issue of Vogue is traditionally one of the most ad-packed and profitable issues of the magazine, this year's issue was already creating controversy online the same day it was published. The cover featured Jennifer Lawrence by the Statue of Liberty, which some conservative activists took as a criticism of President Trump. In response, one of the editors tweeted that it was shot in June. ||||| If Bradley Manning had stayed Bradley Manning, would he still be in prison? If Bradley Manning had stayed Bradley Manning, would he be basking in celebrity, enjoying fawning photo shoots? Given the magnitude of his crimes, I dare say that he’d be in prison today if he still identified as a man. Then he’d be nothing but what he actually is, a garden-variety traitor — a faithless soldier who should count himself fortunate not to face capital punishment.

 It’s worth remembering what he did. He disclosed, in a gigantic document dump, more than a million pages of classified information, including information about American military operations, American diplomacy, and American allies. The Obama administration was forced to rush to safety foreign friends whom Manning had outed as helping Americans. He broke faith with every relevant provision of the Army’s warrior ethos — he abandoned his mission, he actively aided the enemy, and he acted with stunning disregard for the lives of his comrades. He did so because, acting on his own authority, he decided he wanted to stimulate “worldwide discussion, debate, and reforms.”

 To be clear, this wasn’t whistleblowing. He didn’t identify a specific wrong and expose it responsibly while taking care to minimize the harm of disclosure. He just disclosed documents without regard for their contents. He didn’t know if anyone would die because of his actions. He didn’t know to what extent vital missions or programs would be compromised. He just did what he wanted to do. There was no honor in his action. None.

 And now look at him. He’s the subject of a fawning Vogue profile and photo shoot:

 Chelsea Manning will be featured in Vogue magazine’s September issue https://t.co/zARmVhCca5 pic.twitter.com/SMRR2EAhLT — CNN (@CNN) August 10, 2017

 In fact, he’s an LGBT celebrity now, swarmed at public events and even featured at New York’s Pride March, where he waved “from a drop-top Nissan alongside Gavin Grimm.” When Trump issued a series of tweets declaring a ban on transgender soldiers in the military, media outlets flocked to cover Manning’s response. But one wonders, do the transgender soldiers actually serving look at Chelsea Manning as a poster child for trans service?

 But no matter. For many leftists, Manning offers the irresistible combination — radical criminal acts combined with revolutionary identity. It’s “Radical Chic” all over again, this time through the lens of latest civil-rights fashion, transgender rights

 The radical quarters of the Left have a long history of excusing and celebrating even the most vile of criminals so long as they have the right revolutionary politics. Disturbingly, that celebration leaks even into organizations that are billed as “meanstream.” Recall, it was just last month the Women’s March tweeted its appreciation for convicted cop-killer and FBI most-wanted terrorist Assata Shakur:

 Earlier this summer, New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade sought to honor convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera as a “National Freedom Hero.” Under pressure, he decided to “forgo” that honor, but he was featured in a float anyway — and parts of the crowd gave him a “hero’s welcome.”

 This is what radical identity politics does.

 These kinds of celebrations are not just morally abhorrent; they’re deeply polarizing. They represent the idea that the rule of law — even when the subject is murder or treason — is contingent upon the politics and racial or gender identity of the lawbreaker. Americans on opposing sides of the ideological divide are given a signal — that when it comes to advancing the radical cause, not even human life or national security can stand in the way. There are no lines that can’t be crossed.

 This is what radical identity politics does. It twists and distorts normal moral analysis. It declares that the ends justify the means, and then goes even farther to say, “By any means necessary.” This is an unacceptable ethic not just for a constitutional republic but for any form of civil society. Allegedly “mainstream” media outlets, politicians, or organizations that honor or respect the likes of Manning, Rivera, or Shakur cover themselves in shame.

 READ MORE:

 NR Editorial: The Injustice of Commuting Manning’s Sentence

 Chelsea Manning Is Not a Whistleblower

 Chelsea Manning and the Problem with Pronouns

 — David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney. |||||


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(CNN) A police officer who claimed she killed a Dallas man in his own apartment in the mistaken belief that he was in her home was indicted Friday on a murder charge, authorities said.

 The indictment of Amber Guyger comes more than two months after she was arrested in the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean at the Dallas apartment complex where both lived -- a killing that sparked days of protests.

 Guyger was arrested after the September shooting and charged with manslaughter by the Texas Rangers, the lead investigative agency, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson said at a news conference.

 When asked why the grand jury indicted Guyger on the more serious offense of murder, Johnson replied, "We presented the evidence and we explained the law."

 Johnson said murder constitutes someone "intentionally and knowingly" committing a crime, whereas manslaughter involves "recklessly doing something."

 "At the moment of the shooting it was a knowing ... offense," Johnson said.

 The court records Friday showed both a manslaughter and murder charge entered in Guyger's file, but a clerk of court clerk confirmed that the murder charge is the one prosecutors are moving forward on.

 Robert Rogers, Guyger's attorney, was disappointed but not surprised by the indictment, given what he called an "outpouring of vindictive emotion" in a statement late Friday.

 "This is a terrible tragedy that resulted from a true mistake," he said. "We are confident that a dispassionate jury in a fair forum will objectively apply the law to the facts and find Amber not guilty."

 Guyger had already been arrested again and released on bond, Johnson said at the news conference.

 Dallas Police Chief U. Reneè Hall said in a statement everyone in the department "continues to feel anguish about this difficult and tragic event."

 "We recognize and understand the national discord regarding the relationship between law enforcement and the communities we serve," Hall said.

 She also added that the department has "developed a framework for policy change" by restructuring the Citizen Review Board, revamping implicit bias training and seeking input from employee advisory and community advisory boards.

 "We have more work to do and we remain committed to improving our relationships throughout the city," Hall said.

 The indictment is a "step toward justice" for Jean's family, said Sharon Watkins Jones, ACLU of Texas Director of Political Strategies.

 "The Jean family's loss cannot be restored to them, but we will continue to work to ensure that police officers are held to the same standards as everyone else in the Dallas community and across the state of Texas," she said.

 'He didn't deserve it," Jean's mother says

 Botham Jean's mother, Allison Jean, said during a news conference that she's satisfied with the murder indictment.

 Guyger "inflicted tremendous evil on my son," Allison Jean said. "He didn't deserve it. He was seated in his own apartment. He felt safe and he was violated by her coming in and murdering him," she said.

 Allison said she hopes a proper penalty will cause Guyger to reflect on what she has allegedly done and the pain she has caused.

 Family attorney S. Lee Merritt said the grand jury decision is "groundbreaking, but it is also just a start."

 Officer thought she was in her own apartment, warrant says

 Guyger, who is white, was off-duty when she encountered Jean , an 26-year-old unarmed black man, in his apartment on September 6, police said. Still in her uniform, Guyger parked her car in the complex and walked to what she believed was her apartment, according to an arrest warrant affidavit

 The door was slightly ajar as she tried to use her key, which has an electronic chip. When she opened the door, she saw the interior was almost completely dark, according to the affidavit. She described seeing a large silhouette and, believing there was an intruder in her apartment, drew her firearm.

 Amber Guyger is charged with killing Botham Shem Jean on September 6.

 She issued verbal commands, but Jean, being in his own home, did not heed them, and Guyger fired two shots, hitting him once in the torso, the affidavit said.

 Guyger, a four-year veteran, then entered the apartment, called 911 and started administering first aid to Jean. She turned on the lights while on the phone with 911, and only when asked for her address did she realize she was in the wrong apartment, she told police.

 Jean died at a hospital. Guyger was arrested September 9 on suspicion on manslaughter, and was released from the Kaufman County Jail after posting a $300,000 bond.

 The Dallas Police Department fired Guyger during a hearing September 24, the police chief said.

 Johnson will not prosecute the case. She was defeated in the November election by John Creuzo t, who will take office in January.

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 The shooting sparked days of protest . Police deployed pepper balls on demonstrators a week after the shooting. Protesters angry with the lack of public information in the case interrupted a City Council meeting to demand accountability and more police oversight in general.

 Jean's parents filed a lawsuit in federal court against Guyger and the city last month, alleging Guyger used excessive force.

 Correction: An earlier version of this article said that Guyger was indicted on a charge of manslaughter. The officer has been indicted on a murder charge. The headline and article have been updated to reflect this change. ||||| A former Dallas police officer who walked into an unarmed man’s apartment on Sept. 6 and shot him while wearing her police uniform has been indicted on a charge of murder.

 The Dallas County grand jury began hearing the case against Amber Guyger, 30, on Monday. Guyger was originally charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean. She was released from jail on a $300,000 bond about an hour after turning herself in.

 District Attorney Faith Johnson said that by 3 p.m., Guyger had turned herself back in on the murder charge. Her bond was transferred and she has been released.

 Asked why the grand jury indicted Guyger on a murder charge, Johnson said, “We presented the evidence and explained the law.” She added that the law prohibits her from talking about the evidence presented to the grand jury.

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 She said her office had a “very spirited conversation” with the Texas Rangers, the lead investigators in the case, back in September.

 “They chose to file this case as manslaughter,” she said. “We did our own investigation.”

 She said that prosecutors talked to more than 300 witnesses.

 Guyger has said she mistook Jean’s apartment at the South Side Flats for hers that night after getting off a long work shift, Dallas police said. Court documents have varied on the story of how Guyger got Jean’s door open.

 FILE - This file photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office shows Amber Guyger. A grand jury began hearing evidence Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in the case of Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who fatally shot her unarmed black neighbor in his own apartment after she said she mistook it for hers on Sept. 6, 2018. (Kaufman County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office via AP, File) AP

 Johnson said that at the moment of the shooting, the action was intentional. She was not able to speak about what Guyger was thinking or doing before the shooting.

 For a charge of murder, prosecutors have to prove without a reasonable doubt that Guyger intended to kill Jean.

 Court documents have said that Guyger says she believed Jean was an intruder in her own apartment.

 The Star-Telegram, along with several other media outlets, have requested copies of the 911 call Guyger made after the shooting, along with body camera footage worn by the officers who responded. The Dallas Police Department has declined to release that information and sent the open records requests to the attorney general for final determination.

 Guyger was not wearing a body camera. The department said officers leave their body cameras at work after their shift.

 Johnson, who was voted out of office in the Nov. 6 election, will not see the case through to a trial and said Friday that she “trusts the DA-elect will continue to represent this family (and all of Dallas County) as he seeks justice for victims.”

 Johnson also spoke about why it took her office two months to bring the case in front of a grand jury. She said she wanted to make sure the jurors had everything they needed to “make the right choice.”

 “We thought it was murder all along,” she said. “But we didn’t file this case ... we did what we had to to get this case ready for the grand jury. Justice is never too long.”

 Moving forward, it could be more than a year before Guyger sits in front of a judge and jury. It took 16 months, Johnson said, for the case against Roy Oliver to go to trial. Oliver shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards while on duty as a Balch Springs police officer. He was found guilty of murder.

 Guyger was fired from the Dallas Police Department on Sept. 24. On Friday, Police Chief U. Renee Hall released a statement saying every person in the department continues to “feel anguish about this difficult and tragic event that occurred.”

 “We have developed the framework for policy change, have supported the restructuring of the Citizen Review Board, pushed to exceed the basic requirements of implicit bias training, and have relied on input from our employee advisory and community advisory boards,” she said. “We have more work to do and we remain committed to improving our relationships throughout the city.”

 The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said the indictment is an “important reminder that police derive their authority from the people and it is the people, functioning as members of grand juries, who must insist that police authority be exercised in a lawful manner and who must hold police accountable when they fail to do so.”

 Jean was a native of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. After graduating from college in Arkansas, he moved to Dallas to work for PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

 Jean’s family filed a lawsuit against the City of Dallas and its police department in late October.

 Jean’s family says in the suit that Guyger had a history of violence and used excessive force against Jean that fateful night in September, resulting in his wrongful death.

 The family also says the Dallas Police Department “has a pattern, practice, history, and custom of using excessive force against minorities,” and accuses it of not providing proper training or discipline for Guyger in the use of deadly force.

 “By simply following proper police procedures and the best police practices and not the protocol of the DPD to ‘shoot first and ask questions later,’ Defendant Guyger would have not shot Jean,” the lawsuit states. “Essentially, Officer Guyger was ill-trained, and as a result, defaulted to the defective DPD policy: to use deadly force even when there exists no immediate threat of harm to themselves or others.”

 SHARE COPY LINK The parents of Botham Jean — Allison and Bertrum Jean — sat down with the Star-Telegram on Oct. 17 to talk about their son, who was killed by an off-duty, uniformed Dallas police officer on Sept. 6. |||||

– In September, Amber Guyger, at that time a Dallas police officer, walked into the apartment of Botham Shem Jean and shot the 26-year-old to death. Guyger lived in the same building as Jean and claimed that she thought she was entering her own unit and believed he was an intruder. On Friday, a grand jury indicted Guyger on a murder charge, CNN reports. Texas Rangers had initially arrested Guyger on a manslaughter charge. But Dallas County DA Faith Johnson said at a news conference, the grand jury settled on the more serious charge after “we presented the evidence and we explained the law.” The Texas Rangers “chose to file this case as manslaughter,” she said, per the Star-Telegram. “We did our own investigation. We thought it was murder all along.” Johnson said that murder involves causing a death “intentionally and knowingly,” as opposed to manslaughter, which results from recklessness. “At the moment of the shooting it was a knowing … offense,” she said per CNN. Jean, who was a native of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, went to college in Arkansas before moving to Dallas to work for PriceWaterHouseCoopers. His family filed a lawsuit against the city and police department in October. (This officer was fired for not shooting someone.)


U.S. Backs Away From Offshore Arctic Drilling

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 The U.S. government is backing away from Arctic offshore oil and gas drilling on two fronts.

 On Friday, the Department of the Interior announced the cancellation of two potential lease sales off the Alaskan coast in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement also denied lease extension requests from two companies, Shell and Statoil, that were exploring the seas for fossil fuels.

 The decisions to nix the lease sales, which the statement attributed to "current market conditions and low industry interest," follows Shell's announcement that it will stop exploration in the Chukchi Sea for "the foreseeable future."

 "In light of Shell's announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half," said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.

 Lois Epstein, an engineer for the environmental group The Wilderness Society, characterized the government's decision as reasonable, according to a statement.

 "Because of Shell's failure to find significant oil in the Chukchi Sea, new Arctic Ocean lease sales — which require extensive government preparation and costs — would likely be unsuccessful," Epstein said.

 In explaining why Shell and Statoil were not given permission to retain their leases beyond 10 years, the Interior Department statement said that the companies "did not demonstrate a reasonable schedule of work for exploration and development."

 Epstein praised the move, saying, "We applaud Interior's decision not to continue discussing extensions of their existing leases with Shell and other Arctic Ocean leaseholders."

 The existing leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas will expire in 2017 and 2020, respectively. ||||| Image copyright AP Image caption Shell had leased rigs for the Arctic but said it did not find sufficient amounts of oil and gas

 The US government has announced new curbs on oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast.

 It comes after oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last month stopped its Arctic activity citing "disappointing" tests.

 The US interior department said it was cancelling two potential Arctic offshore lease sales and would not extend current leases.

 The announcement has been welcomed by environmentalists.

 Miyoko Sakashita, of the Center for Biological Diversity, said the decision was "great for the Arctic and its polar bears".

 "We need to keep all the Arctic oil in the ground," she said.

 US government leases are due to expire in the Beaufort Sea in 2017 and in the Chukchi Sea in 2020.

 "In light of Shell's announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement.

 Image copyright AP Image caption Environmental activists have long campaigned against offshore drilling in the Arctic

 Shell has spent about $7bn (£4.5bn) on Arctic offshore development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

 However, last month it announced it had not found sufficient amounts of oil and gas in the region to warrant further exploration.

 It said it would end exploration off Alaska "for the foreseeable future".

 Correspondents say the Arctic is a risky and expensive place for oil companies to explore, and the current low price of oil makes it even less attractive.

 The US Geological Survey estimates that the Arctic holds about 30% of the world's undiscovered natural gas, as well as 13% of its oil.

 However, environmental groups say offshore drilling will pollute and damage a natural wilderness.

 They also argue that fossil fuels such as oil and gas must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid runaway climate change. ||||| Date: October 16, 2015

 Contact: Jessica Kershaw, Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov

 WASHINGTON – In light of current market conditions and low industry interest, the U.S. Department of the Interior today announced that it will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the current five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program for 2012-2017. Today, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) also denied requests from Shell and Statoil for lease suspensions, which would have extended the expiration date of the leases.

 “In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. “I am proud of the performance of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the U.S. Coast Guard and others in ensuring that Shell’s program this past season was conducted in accordance with the highest safety and environmental standards.”

 Under the current Five-Year Program, Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 237 was scheduled potentially for 2016. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a Call for Information and Nominations in September 2013, in response to which industry submitted no specific nominations. Shell recently announced that the results of its exploration well at the Burger J site in the Chukchi Sea did not warrant further exploration in the Burger prospect.

 Similarly, Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 242 had been scheduled potentially for the first half of 2017. BOEM published a Call for Information and Nominations in July 2014, but only received one nomination, thereby raising concerns about the competitiveness of any such lease sale at this time.

 Today, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) also denied requests from Shell and Statoil for lease suspensions, which would have allowed the companies to retain the leases beyond their primary terms of ten years. The leases will expire in 2017 (Beaufort) and 2020 (Chukchi). Among other things, the companies did not demonstrate a reasonable schedule of work for exploration and development under the leases, a regulatory requirement necessary for BSEE to grant a suspension. To view the letters regarding the suspension requests, click here for Statoil and click here for Shell. |||||
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– In bad news for the Alaskan economy but good news for polar bears, the US government blocked new offshore drilling in Alaska's Arctic Ocean and refused to extend two existing leases for Arctic drilling on Friday, the New York Times reports. The Interior Department cancelled auctions for drilling rights in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas while declining to extend the Arctic leases of Shell (expires in 2017) and Statoil (expires in 2020), according to NPR. "In light of Shell's announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease, and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half," Interior secretary Sally Jewell says in a statement. The Shell announcement Jewell is talking about is the oil giant's decision last month to halt its Arctic drilling after accidents, delays, and $7 billion with nothing to show for it, the Times reports. The moves by the Obama administration Friday basically block drilling in the Alaskan Arctic for two years. It's a decision one Alaskan senator calls "stunning," "destructive," and "shortsighted." But Miyoko Sakashita of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity tells the BBC it's great news for the Arctic and its wildlife. "We need to keep all the Arctic oil in the ground," she says. The US Geological Survey believes the Arctic holds about 13% of the world's undiscovered oil, but the Times reports offshore Arctic drilling is declining—due to concerns over safety, cost, and the environment—in the US, Canada, and Greenland.