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HUFFINGTON
06.24.12
America’s toughest sheriff has taken
another threat to our national security off
the streets—a six-year-old girl suspected of
entering the country illegally. At the time of
her arrest, the child was reportedly traveling
with 15 other suspected undocumented
immigrants, who claimed to know nothing
about her and were jailed in Arizona by
Maricopa County Sheriff Office deputies.
“We enforce the human-smuggling laws
here,” Arpaio told the Arizona Republic.
GOOGLE CONDEMNS
“ALARMING” TREND
During the second half of 2011 Google
received about 12,000 requests from
authorities to remove content from its
search results, according to its twiceyearly Transparency Report. The number
was an increase of about 25 percent over the first half of the year, and many requests targeted
political speech. Dorothy Chou, the search engine’s senior policy analyst, wrote in a blog post that she
finds the trend troubling. “It’s alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some
of these requests come from countries you might not suspect — Western democracies not typically
associated with censorship,” she said.
MUSHROOM CLOUD
DESCENDS
UPON
CHINA
A giant cloud resembling an atomic bomb
burst was spotted over Beijing, where
the skyline was briefly obscured by the
mushroom-like formation. Residents were
baffled, and the cloud lasted just an hour
before lightning strikes filled the sky. The
cumulonimbus storm cloud was reportedly
unrelated to a recent pollution haze that
settled over the country.