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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The newspaper drama "Spotlight" has won best picture at this year's Academy Awards. It's a film about the Boston Globe's investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Best actor went to Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant" and best actress went to Brie Larson, the 26-year-old breakout of the mother-son captive drama "Room." The best supporting actor awards went to Alicia Vikander for the "The Danish Girl" and Mark Rylance for "Bridge of Spies."
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar night belonged to host Chris Rock who launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year's nominees. Rock called the Oscars, "The White People's Choice Awards" and said "Hollywood is sorority racist." But it wasn't the only serious topic at the 88th Academy Awards. Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio used his acceptance speech to talk about climate change.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American student being detained in North Korea is apologizing for trying to steal a political banner. Twenty-one-year-old Otto Warmbier was presented before the media Monday, saying he wanted the banner as a trophy to give to the mother of a friend. North Korea announced in late January that it had arrested the University of Virginia undergrad.
ANAHEIM, California (AP) — Five Ku Klux Klan members who were arrested following a vicious brawl in Anaheim, California, have been released because police say evidence shows they acted in self-defense. Police say seven people who remain in custody were seen beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with wooden posts. Police say the clash erupted after six Klan members arrived at a park Saturday for a planned anti-immigration rally. Police say the Klansmen stabbed three counter-protesters.
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is blasting rival Donald Trump for not rejecting support from KKK Grand Dragon David Duke and other white supremacists. When asked about Duke, Trump said, "I don't know anything about David Duke. OK?" But in a 2000 New York Times op-ed, Trump said Duke was part of a "fringe element" of the Reform Party. Rubio says the GOP "cannot be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan."
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