Starbucks denies rumors of discounts

Starbucks denies rumors of discounts

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Starbucks Corp. is shooting down a rumor that its coffee shops will give discounted drinks and food to undocumented immigrants Aug. 11.

Starbucks senior vice president of global communications, John Kelly, tells The Associated Press in an email that the rumor is “completely false. One hundred percent fake.”

The company also took to Twitter to shoot down fake advertisements promoting the so-called “Dreamer Day.”

Discrimination in CSX hiring alleged

HUNTINGTON, W.Va.

A federal complaint alleges that CSX Transportation in West Virginia followed unlawful hiring practices to discriminate against women.

The Herald-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit filed in federal court in Huntington by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says that a physical-capability test administered to applicants excludes women from being hired at CSX’s facilities in Huntington and around the country.

The case was filed after applicant Amanda Hutchinson said she was awarded a job at CSX, but was then terminated due to her performance in a physical-capability test.

2 toddlers’ deaths are ruled homicides

WEATHERFORD, Texas

Autopsies show two North Texas toddlers died of heatstroke after investigators say their mother purportedly left them in her hot car for hours to teach them a lesson.

A medical examiner determined the deaths of 2-year-old Juliet Ramirez and 1-year-old Cavanaugh Ramirez were homicides.

Parker County records show the mother, Cynthia Randolph, was arrested in June on counts of injury to a child and remains jailed.

Officials say Randolph originally said her children locked themselves in her car. Temperatures were in the 90s. An arrest affidavit says Randolph later said her daughter refused to get out of the car so she locked both toddlers inside to teach them a lesson – thinking they’d exit on their own.

Israel says it plans to ban Al-Jazeera

JERUSALEM

Israel said Sunday it plans to ban Qatar’s flagship Al-Jazeera network from operating in the country over allegations it incites violence, joining Arab nations that have shut down the broadcaster amid a separate political dispute. The news organization, in turn, said it will take legal action.

Communications Minister Ayoob Kara said he plans to revoke the press credentials of Al-Jazeera journalists, effectively preventing them from working in Israel.

Kara said he has asked cable and satellite networks to block Al-Jazeera transmissions and is seeking legislation to ban them altogether.

Kara, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, gave no timetable for such measures.

Former war-crimes prosecutor quits panel probing Syria abuses

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Former war-crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte says she is resigning from the U.N.’s independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, decrying Security Council inaction to hold criminals accountable in the war-battered country where “everyone is bad.”

In comments published Sunday by the Swiss magazine Blick, Del Ponte expressed frustration about the commission and criticized President Bashar Assad’s government, the Syrian opposition and the international community overall.

Del Ponte, who gained fame as the prosecutor for the international war-crimes tribunals that investigated atrocities in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, has repeatedly decried the Security Council’s refusal to appoint a similar court for Syria’s 61/2-year-old civil war.

Associated Press