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A federal judge banned Los Angeles Police Department officers from using some so-called less-lethal launchers at protests, after finding that the department violated previous court restrictions by using such projectile weapons to disperse crowds at last summer’s mass demonstrations against immigration enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times

With a novelist’s gaze, turn of phrase and instinct for deeply drawn characters, Anderson depicts a restive, pompous and dithering shah, isolated by his royal status and incapable of making hard choices, and his wife Farah, the perceptive shahbanou who pushed back against the confines of the monarchy to grasp what was happening in her country and the need for reforms.

From Salon

And so in the past, the regime was pretty adept at being able to play off one segment of society against another — the more urban and secular against the rural and religious, blaming ethnic minorities like the Kurds or foreign saboteurs.

From Salon

The company offered the shirts at the CBS Arena and Broadgate Square ahead of the Sky Blues match against Leicester City at the CBS arena.

From BBC

He made himself a useful military partner to the West at moments when they questioned his crushing of democratic rights, not least when he contributed significant troops to fight against Islamist insurgents in Somalia in the 2000s.

From Barron's