People hold up tributes to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting on Jan. 7 during a 1-minute silence in Bordeaux, France, in remembrance of those killed and wounded in the deadly attack in Paris on Wednesday. Gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine
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Graduate student calls Paris shooting an attack on freedoms

When three masked gunmen shot and killed 12 people at a Paris newspaper, a graduate student from France said they took away the freedom of press French people have. The French motto is “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” and Laura Valandro, the graduate student, said the gunmen targeted the freedom of French people to be able to publish what they want.



PHOTO PROVIDED BY PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH
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Students to join climate march in New York

Ball State students will join more than 100,000 Americans from across the country in a march for climate change on Sunday.The People’s Climate March in New York City aims to be the first and largest climate march in history, Lindsay Meinman, media associate for the People’s March said.



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Second journalist beheaded by IS extremists

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State extremists released a video Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warning President Barack Obama that as long as U.S.


Police officers stand to confront a crowd they're trying to break up a demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Earlier in the day police had shot and killed an 18-year-old man. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT)
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Ball State students head to Ferguson, Mo.

A group of Ball State students are on their third day in Ferguson, Missouri, investigating the media’s role in the protests following 18-year-old Michael Brown’s death.“We think the issue is the press and there is nobody to report on them,” Alex Gracie, a senior video production major, said.After seeing reports and photos from journalists who had written and captured the media around Ferguson, where they were seen outnumbering the protestors two to one in some cases, Gracie and his friends decided to focus their efforts on how the media may be making the situation worse, he said.



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Summer Music Recap: Hits, Misses, the Reign of Iggy Azalea

As the fall season draws near, the music of summer plays on into its final weeks. Following previous years’ smash hits like “California Gurls” or “Call Me Maybe,” artists put their best material forward in hopes of claiming the “song of the summer” title.


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5 things to know today (May 15)

Indiana begins adopting 911-texting service; 274 dead in Turkey’s worst-ever mine disaster; Sept. 11 museum is called a monument to unity; Nigeria vigilantes kill Islamic militants; Judge strikes down Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban







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