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CW to produce new Jewish-sounding series with 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' team

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Rachel Bloom poses with her award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for her role in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" backstage at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 10, 2016 (photo credit: REUTERS) The  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend  team is back with a show that sounds even more  Jewish :  I’m In Love With The Dancer From My Bat Mitzvah . The series, which has been put in development by the CW Network, is described as a romantic mystery comedy about a young woman just shy of graduating from college who is romantically rejected. She then becomes obsessed with a dancer from her bat mitzvah and eventually involves her friends in a criminal conspiracy. It’s inspired by true events,  Deadline reports . The show’s creator is Ilana Wolpert, who was an assistant on  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend . Rachel Bloom, the creator and star of  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , will help write and executive produce but not act in the  Feeling nostalgic for “Cr

House passes bill that requires government act against domestic terrorism

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U.S. House of Representatives votes on Trump impeachment on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 19, 2019. (photo credit: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST) “Groups like the Boogaloos, Rise Above Movement and White Nationalist militias across the country are organizing. And so must we.” AdvertisementThe federal government would be required to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism under a bill passed by the US  House of Representatives . The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2020, which passed Monday by voice vote, would authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices in the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, as well as the FBI, to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Illinois, sponsored the  legislation , which had 179 co-sponsors. Sen. Dick Durbin, also an Illinois Democrat, has sponsored a similar measure in the Senate. “Racially/ethnically motivated violent extremists were the primary source of ideologically motivated lethal incidents and vi

Finland upholds ban of neo-Nazi 'Pan Nordic' group

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Finnish neo-nazis start their Independence Day march with swastika flags in Helsinki, Finland December 6, 2018. (photo credit: MARTTI KAINULAINEN/LEHTIKUVA/VIA REUTERS) The NRM is active in five different Scandinavian nations, including functioning as a political party in SwedenFinland's Supreme Court rejected an attempt by a  neo-Nazi  movement to overturn a state prohibition on its activities in the country, The Algemeiner  reported  Tuesday. The ruling upheld an earlier decision, which banned the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), following a recommendation by the National Police Board, with the court citing the movement's hate speech against foreigners and Jews and its use of violence, according to the report. Though the NRM is active in five different Scandinavian nations, including functioning as a political party in Sweden, the movement was first banned in 2018, when the appeals court in the city of Turku ruled they should be shut down due to its militia structur

NEWSFuel pnationwideump/electricity hike: NLC gives update on

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HOME NEWS POLITICS METRO SPORT ENTERTAINMENT OPINION EDUCATION HEALTH INTERVIEW DAILY POST GHANA CONNECT W y   Don Silas The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that it would proceed with its planned nationwide protest with effect from Sept. 28 over Federal Government refusal to reverse the hikes in electricity tariff and fuel pump price. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLC’s Central Working Committee (CWC) on Sept. 17 had issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to reverse the hike in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol or workers would embark on a nationwide protest on Sept. 28. According to Wabba, the NEC after its extensive deliberations resolved to reject the hike in electricity tariff by almost 100 per cent and also reject the fuel price increase in the name of deregulation. “This dec

Buhari Orders Reduction In Price Of Fertilizer

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A file photo of President Muhammadu Buhari.   President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reduction of the cost of fertilizer from N5,500 to N5,000 naira per bag. The reduction was announced by the Vice Chairman of the National Food Security Council and the Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu. He disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing State House reporters in Abuja after the council met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari. Bagudu explained that the Federal Government’s decision to reduce the price was to ensure food security in the country. “You are a living witness to the trend in the country. Before the program, fertilizer was sold for between N8,000 to N12,000 in 2016 and when we started the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative, it was brought down to N5,500 that is the NPK and this has been the trend for three years and now the president decided to reduce it by another N500. “So, you can sell fertilizer at N5000 to the farmers and the factory price

Ex-nigerian Minister Arrest Hotel Staff, Strip Them Naked For Allegedly Stealing

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A former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, who is currently nursing a governorship ambition in Delta State in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, has arrested and charged four of his staff working in his hotel to court for allegedly stealing his N5,000. It was reliably gathered that Gbagi last week Friday arrested the four staff working in Signatious Hotel, Warri, Delta State, after they were striped naked and photographed inside the hotel before handing them over to the police. It was gathered that after dehumanizing the four staff, a male and three females, they were taken to the Ebrumede Police Station to be remanded in custody. Speaking in confidence with our correspondent, a staff of the hotel revealed that his colleagues were arrested by the former minister over the alleged theft of the said amount. He said, "My boss, former Minister of State for Education and owner of Signatious Hotel, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, arrested four of my colleagues worki