OJ Simpson has been issued a trespass notice at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas after he was seen there Wednesday night.

Details on what, exactly, occurred at the hotel while Simpson was present were scarce, but Simpson's attorney Malcolm Laverne, issued a statement confirming that the former athlete was banned.

"Cosmopolitan exercised its right to issue a trespass notice. Any private property in Nevada has the right to tell any person that you are trespassing and please don't come back, if you come back you are subject to a misdemeanor arrest," Laverne said.

A German Imperial war flag, widely used by the far-right, has been spotted hanging in a Carabinieri dormitory in Florence, triggering an investigation into "a shameful act."

The black-white-and-red flag of the German empire could be seen hanging in the Baldissera barracks of the 6th Battalion 'Tuscany' for several days, according to the Ruptly video agency. Alongside the flag, a poster seemingly depicting a leader of the anti-immigration Northern League party, Matteo Salvini, is visible in the footage.

The Italian defense minister reacted to the video, calling on the Carabinieri General Commander, Tullio Del Sette, to find "quick clarifications and strict measures" in order to punish those behind "such a shameful act." "Anyone who swears to be military does so by declaring loyalty to the Republic, its laws and the Constitution," Roberta Pinotti said.

A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood's seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we'd prefer to pretend that the 'triple-exthnics' didn't exist, but there's no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the 'true blue Jews'.

Chinese authorities have closed down controversial "women's virtue" courses in the country's Liaoning province. The female students were reportedly taught the "traditional" value of being submissive to their husbands.

The school in question, run by the Fushun Traditional Values Association in Liaoning province in the north-east of China, was shut down on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The school's courses offered some unusual training for its female students, teaching them "women's virtue." The training reportedly entailed waking up at 4.30 every morning and spending eight hours doing household chores under the supervision of the tutors, according to local media.

The authorities ordered the closure of the illegal school and dismissed all the students citing a social morality violation. The order was issued several days after a video emerged online, purportedly showing the controversial education process. The footage appeared to show a woman kneeling while apologizing for "wrongful deeds."

It also captured some of the classes with women cleaning the floor and cooking.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday upheld a mother's conviction for swearing at her son, but without reaching the issue of whether her speech was protected by the First Amendment.

The court seemed to take keen interest in the case during oral arguments in September and took 50 pages to render its decision.

A Milwaukee County jury convicted Ginger Breitzman, 44, of child abuse-intentionally causing harm, child neglect and disorderly conduct. The last count was for profanely berating and insulting her 14-year-old son after he burned some popcorn.

The boy had been talking to a friend at the time, who heard the tirade over the phone.

Breitzman, who was sentenced to six months in jail with release privileges, appealed the disorderly conduct conviction. She argued her lawyer was ineffective for not challenging the charge as a violation of her free speech rights. The state argued her lawyer was not obligated to raise such a far-fetched theory.

In the end, the Supreme Court agreed with the state and decided Breitzman's attorney was not ineffective.

California lawmakers gave a green light Monday to a bill that would reduce penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV without telling them, claiming the current felony charge for the crime is discriminatory.

The bill, SB 239, will now head to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature or veto, the Los Angeles Times reported.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who introduced the bill, said the current law discriminates against people with HIV because people who expose others with different viruses get only a misdemeanor rather than a felony.

"Right now HIV is singled out for uniquely harsh treatment as a felony," Wiener said during the floor debate, according to the L.A. Times. He added that modern drugs allow someone with HIV to be noninfectious to others, while the felony charge may discourage some from getting tested.

"These laws do not prevent HIV infections. All they do is stigmatize people living with HIV and reduce access to testing and care."

The student newspaper at Evergreen State College has a section in its opinion pages described as "for people of color by people of color."

"This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective. This is why when we do cover these issues it will be in the context and from the perspective of POC and POC only," according to the section's editors as they reintroduced it to readers in September.

The anonymous column, known as "POC Talk," debuted in the bi-weekly Cooper Point Journal last year and returned this fall to the newspaper's pages following racial unrest that erupted at the public university this past spring.

"Dear White people, please take a step back, this isn't brown-people-answer-white-people's-questions-hour, we're asking specifically for submissions from POC," the section's editors added in their September intro. "As being told no seems to be a difficult concept for some of y'all I await your emails about the Irish, how the term white fragility is mean (great example of white fragility) and how we need to view people through a color-blind lens (just lol). You will 100% not get a response!!!"

Every morning when I wake up I feel a heavy sense of trepidation as I contemplate the complex series of social interactions I will have to navigate in order to make it through the day at work. Being on the autism spectrum makes me instinctively averse to the superficial chit-chat I am expected to engage in in my job as a retail cashier. To my mind at least, small-talk serves no real practical purpose. It just makes me feel on edge and increases my overall stress levels as I expend huge amounts of cognitive energy decoding idioms and non-verbal communication. Unfortunately, retail work is about the only employment option available to me at the moment because my Asperger's Syndrome affects my ability to relate to others. Because of my condition, I am prone to be blunt, sometimes to the point of rudeness, which is a personality trait that tends not to sit especially well with many members of the so-called 'neuro-typical' or non-autistic world.

As a relatively isolated 20-something Aspie with few friends, I decided to take to social media in the hope of finding a community into which I could assimilate and no longer feel like a routinely-shunned outsider. In online autism circles, I frequently came across the term 'neurodiversity', a term used to denote a collective of atypically-minded people with a range of conditions including ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia, and autism. The aim of the movement is to celebrate these distinct conditions as natural variations in the human genome rather than viewing them as pathological disorders deserving of medical interventions and cures.

Police are searching for the driver of a white sedan that has reportedly struck several people in New York City and then subsequently fled the scene.

A car has rammed into a crowd in the Queens area of New York City around 4:45 a.m., killing at least one and injuring three people, the AP news agency reports.

The reasons behind the incident are still unknown, as the search for the suspect who reportedly drove the white sedan is currently underway. The police services are examining the details.

An elderly man was blindsided and knocked out in a random attack while walking on a Los Angeles sidewalk, and now the LAPD have released video of the assault in hopes that the public can help identify the attacker.

In the video, two men are about to pass each other when the man on the right winds up to swing his backpack at the other man walking by.

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