This Week's Top Five: News of the Week

Here are this week’s top five stories in entertainment, national, global, political, and sports news so that you have something deep to contemplate during your Veteran’s Day weekend.

Entertainment

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A spin off of the popular Disney Channel show, That’s So Raven is underway. Casting has just begun and the show is set to premiere in 2017. Raven Simone announced that she would be leaving The View in order to reprise her role as Raven Baxter, a divorced mother of two children.

Raven’s son, Booker, is kind and naïve, and a complete momma’s boy. While he’s innocent and gullible, he will stand up for himself once he realizes he’s been tricked. Her daughter, Nia, is described to be confident and daring, but often finds herself in difficult situations. However, she always means well and defends what’s right. She’s great at science and the start of middle school just became more complicated as she comes into her own psychic powers.

For more, visit: eonline.com

National

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History was made as Kamala Harris (D) became the second Black woman to ever be elected to the United States’ Senate. Though there are currently 20 African-American women who serve the House of Representatives, Harris is the first black Senator since Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois served from 1993 to 1999.

Topics of Harris’s platform include increasing well-paying jobs, championing family leave and equal pay, reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems, addressing climate change, creating universal pre-kindergarten, and increasing the affordability of college.

Her first time running for office was during her freshman year as an undergrad student at Howard University. Next, Harris attended the University of California, Hastings College of Law to earn her doctorate.

After graduation, she became the Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County, California. Later in 2003, she went on to become District Attorney of San Francisco where she served two terms. Then, in 2011, Harris was the first person of color to be sworn in as the Attorney General.

For more, visit: nbcnews.com

Global

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French intelligence believes they have found the suspect responsible for the Brussels and Paris terror attacks. Oussama Atar, who also goes by Abu Ahmad, is a cousin to the El Bakraoui brothers who were responsible for the most recent terrorist attack to hit the nation, killing themselves and 32 civilians in the process and injuring over 300 this past March. It is believed that Atar lead the attacks from Syria and is responsible for radicalizing at least one of his cousins.

Atar’s brother, Yassine, was also found with a key to the El Bakraoui brothers’ apartment and was subsequently arrested days after the attacks. The authorities connected the attack to Atar due to emails found on a cousin’s laptop linking him to the crime.

The terrorism in Belgium followed just four months after the attack in Paris which killed 130 people in a coordinated, seven-person assault with multiple guns and explosives. It has long been believed that the two attacks had been carried out by the same ISIS group. Two suspects in the crime are currently being held by French custody.

For more, visit: cnn.com

Political

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The Election of Donald Trump has sparked outrage across the nation. Crowds numbering the thousands have moved into the streets and college students are staging walkouts and launching rallies.

Bay Area schools saw numerous students stand up and leave in the middle of class. Over 1,100 students met together at the Los Angeles City Hall to show their disapproval of the new president-elect, going so far as to burn a giant effigy of Trump, halting traffic on the streets of 1^st and Spring.

People gathered by the thousands in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland, Oregon to protest, with some carrying burning flags. In Oakland, California, windows were smashed at five different businesses and trash containers were ignited.  In New York City, many gathered around Trump Towers chanting “Not My President.”

For more, visit: latimes.com

Sports

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Jose Fernandez, pitcher to the Miami Marlins, was given the National League Comeback Player of the Year award posthumously. This honor was awarded by his peers during the annual Players Choice Award of the Major League Baseball Players Association. In 2013, he was the NL Rookie of the year. 

Fernandez passed after a boating accident in September of this year. An autopsy revealed that the 24 year old had an alcohol level double the legal limit and cocaine in his system when the boat careened into a jetty.

Other awarded players include Baltimore’s slugger Mark Trumbo who received the AL Comeback award, Curtis Granderson of the New York Mets who won his second Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award, and Jose Altuve who earned both the Player of the Year and the AL’s Most Outstanding Player awards.

For more, visit: espn.com