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riot act: Shakira is Grammy Person of the Year, Wilson Ramos is kidnapped and Penn State students riot over sex scandal

(Frazer Harrison/Getty) Shakira was honored as the second woman to receive the Grammy Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award on Wednesday night for her contributions to Latin music and her educational philanthropy work.
Scientists have built the world’s tiniest four-wheel drive car: a one molecule micro-machine that can travel over metallic surfaces and powered by electrons.
(Jeff Swensen/Getty) Sports columnists around the country are criticizing the "stupid and misguided" protests and "misplaced anger" expressed by hundreds of Penn State students who rioted Wednesday night after head football coach Joe Paterno was fired. Paterno found out his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, was having sex with young boys back in 2002 and didn't do anything about it. This morning another group of Penn State students gathered in support of Sandusky's abuse victims.
(William Thomas Cain/Getty) Despite the criticism he's received for the record number of deportations under his administration, President Obama told a group of Hispanic journalists on Wednesday that he'll win over Latino voters by showing them embarrassing clips from recent Republican debates. "We won't even comment on [the clips]. We'll just run those in a loop on Univision and Telemundo, and people can make up their own minds."
(Greg Fiume/Getty) Venezuela's government said Thursday it has sent its top investigators to solve the kidnapping of 24-year-old Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, who was grabbed by armed men in front of his home in Santa Ines on Wednesday night and taken away in an SUV.
(image via the Rhino Fund) It's official: The Western Black Rhino of Africa was declared officially extinct, never to be seen by anyone ever again. The International Union for Conservation of Nature blamed international organized crime groups, increasing illegal demand for rhino horns, little political support for conservation and commercial poaching.
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brenda martinez:) (not verified)

obama needs to foreals do sum10 abt this s*** todas mis amigas r scared of bein deported nd im pissed abt how americans try to treat us there treating us n raceist matter nd it looks like how they usto treat black ppl back n the day! no history wont repeact its self this time cuz violence will happen se no le paran!! im chicana im from chicago mexican roots nd they look at me nd tell me to go back to mexico.y yo les digo u go back to europe of africa or whereeva u came from depending on wat race told me that. we was here frist anyway nd if not us then it was the natives! watch is basicly still us so if they dont like us here they can GO BACK to there countrys latinos r here to stay!

the football coach must have been famous or something

OMG, God bless Wilson Ramos ! And the black rhino is extinct? uyy...