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Five new arrests have been made over the violence surrounding a soccer game last week involving an Israeli team , Dutch police said Monday. The five men are "suspected of public acts of violence against persons Thursday night," police in the Dutch capital Amsterdam said Monday. The arrests were made over the weekend as part of the "large-scale investigation on the violence committed before and after" the game between Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv and local side Ajax, police said. The violence has been condemned as targeted antisemitic attacks by authorities in Israel and the Netherlands, which authorities said saw small groups on foot and scooters commit hit-and-run assaults on Israeli fans. Dutch police have also said that Maccabi fans attacked a taxi and burned a Palestin...

A racist text message was sent to thousands of Black individuals nationwide the day after the election. While federal authorities are investigating the source of the disturbing message, Southern California families and school districts are reeling from the experience since residents in the Southland were also affected. Among those who were targeted by the text were Black Santa Monica students. While this is a national issue, one parent is calling for local action. Ericka Lesley has been talking about the post-election racist text messages for five days now. When asked if she could read out loud the message her son received last Wednesday, it was too overwhelming. “It really does something to you when you read it when you read it out loud as a parent because I didn’t know wa...