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OVER A BROKEN BRAKE LIGHT.<\/strong> Judge declares mistrial in Walter Scott murder trial:<\/a> “[Michael] Slager is the former South Carolina police officer who was caught on tape shooting to death Walter Scott<\/strong><\/a>, an unarmed Black man<\/a> who was running from Slager on April 4<\/span>, 2015. Slager had stopped Scott for a brake light that was allegedly not working.”<\/p>\nLAST TANGO IN PARIS.<\/strong> Marlon Brando’s son defends deceased dad against rape allegations:<\/a> “It’s not true. It’s 40 years ago, but why are they bringing it up now? It’s not true. That’s not the human being he is.”<\/p>\n WHITE SUPREMACIST HIPSTERS?<\/strong> Beware ‘stylish’ looking members of the so-called “alt-right”: “Nazis were ‘stylish,’ too.”<\/a><\/p>\n WTAF.<\/strong> Josh Brolin got naked<\/a> on Instagram for Standing Rock? Is that a bad pun?<\/p>\n OSCARS.<\/strong> Jimmy Kimmel is this year’s host:<\/a> “Why it took an almost unprecedented amount of time to arrive at this most obvious of picks — Hugh Jackman<\/strong> was picked on Dec. 12 eight years ago, but most hosts have been chosen much earlier in the year than that — is somewhat hard to understand.”<\/p>\n AT THE MOVIES.<\/strong> New clip from Jennifer Lawrence \/ Chris Platt romantic sci-fi flick Passengers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n TELEVISION.<\/strong> After last night’s Westworld<\/em> season finale, it turns out the show won’t be returning until 2018 (!).<\/a><\/p>\n TERRORISM.<\/strong> Social networks are creating a database of terrorist content:<\/a> “The United States’ biggest social networks are working together to build a database of photos and videos<\/a> used to recruit people into terrorism, the companies said. Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube will create a shared database that identifies images via a unique digital fingerprint, making it easier for the platforms to identify and remove the imagery.”<\/p>\n OUTLINE.<\/strong> Boxer Conor McGregor favors very tight pants.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n PERSON OF THE YEAR.<\/strong> TIME magazine unveils finalists:<\/a> Simone Biles, Hillary Clinton, CRISPR Scientists, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Nigel Farage, The Flint Whistleblowers, Beyoncé Knowles, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n MUSIC.<\/strong> The worst pop lyrics of 2016:<\/a> “Remembering a year of yum yums, dick<\/a> bicycles, and bleached a**holes.”<\/p>\n MISTER MONDAY.<\/strong> Victor Adeniran.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"cy88dasweaa7p-l\"](\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cy88dasWEAA7P-l.jpg?resize=195%2C195\")
MEANWHILE, AT TRUMP TOWER.<\/strong> Al Gore met with Donald and Ivanka Trump<\/a> to find “common ground”: “A full 90 minutes after he entered Trump Tower, the golden elevator doors in Trump Tower’s lobby opened and Gore emerged, according to pool reports. In a very brief statement to reporters staking out the lobby, Gore revealed that he spent most of his time upstairs meeting with Trump himself.”<\/p>\n![\"cashaskew-660x330\"](\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CashAskew-660x330.jpg?resize=195%2C195\")
OAKLAND.<\/strong> Trans artist Cash Askew, 22<\/a>, was among those killed in the Ghost Ship blaze: “According to Scout Wolfcave<\/a>, founder of the Trans Assistance Project, two other trans<\/a> women<\/a> are also feared among the deceased: Feral Pines and Em Bohlka.”<\/p>\n