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According to USA today, a police detective from the New York City Police Department has been transferred after a video went viral, in which he criticized an Uber driver. It reports that he has also been put on modified assignment.

According to NYPD Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, the officer's behavior was not good and it badly affects reputation of the police.

According to reports, the detective, Patrick Cherry from NYPD's Joint Terrorism Task Force, seemed to get angry at an Uber driver. The driver is said to have honked at him for not signaling in a parking attempt. As per reports, at that time, Cherry was in an unmarked car.

The route of Latinos' political influence can't be seen without including Sen. Bob Menendez, who is facing federal charges, after a corruption investigation.

The Department of Justice's, on Wednesday, announced that a grand jury has indicted Menendez on the charges that he has misused his office to benefit a political donor improperly.

The charges have carried along significant ramifications for the Latino community, and will also affect the growing effort to increase the numbers and political influence of Hispanics in Congress.

In 2003, the New Jersey Democrat became the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. He was the first Latino to serve in House leadership, and is one of three Latinos in the U. S. Senate and the only one who is a Democrat.

On Wednesday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa came out with strong words to support the disputed Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that was signed by Indiana's Governor Mike Pence last week.

Ever since Pence signed the law, several public figures and businesses have started criticizing it. Indiana is facing boycotts as the legislation could encourage discrimination by allowing business owners to refuse service to LGBT customers in the name of 'religious freedom'.

An open letter was sent to Pence on Monday by nearly a dozen LGBT and civil right groups which urged him and lawmakers to fix the signed bill.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence yesterday proclaimed that the Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act needs to be fixed.

The Indianapolis Star reported that legislative and business leaders have worked out to place language in the state's ill-starred Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

As per the clarifications the new 'religious freedom' law does not provide authority to a provider to refuse to offer or provide its service, facilities, goods, or public accommodation to any member of the public based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The provider also cannot discriminate its service to any race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, or military service.

On Wednesday morning, Duke University students found a rope noose hanging from a tree in the Bryan Center Plaza. In a region, lynchings were once used to terrorize black residents. Now, the university officials have been trying to figure out who hung the rope noose.

Students, faculty and others gathered in front of the university's Gothic chapel building to express outrage about the noose. President Richard Brodhead told the crowd that their presence was a rejection of that symbol. He said that administrators and campus police have been investing who hung the rope, but it is up to students and faculty to reject racism.

It has been found by a Virginia Tech team of geologists that how continents were created on Earth over 2.5 billion years ago. The team traced that how the continents continued till 70 million years ago and impacted life, climate and landscape on Earth.

The study has been published in Nature Geoscience. It looked into geologic events like volcanic activity 10 million years ago in Panama and Costa Rica of today. It concentrated on the events to reveal the reasons behind continent-building.

According to Esteban Gazel, an assistant professor of geology with Virginia Tech’s College of Science, the complete planet would have become an ocean in absence of continental crust. According to him, the continental masses or areas of thick silicic crust are a unique characteristic of Earth.