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professor at the University of California-Berkeley has apologized for “incorrectly” identifying as Native American when she is actually white. The disgraced professor released a public apology for having professed that she was part of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq communities her entire life, per the Daily Mail. Sociology professor Elizabeth Hoover published a lengthy statement on Monday, explaining that she was not a member of the Native American tribes that she had been told she was while growing up in upstate New York. Instead, she said, “I am a white person.” Search 'I am a white person': Berkeley prof confesses her...

Avril Lavigne is being sued by two songwriters who claim that her hit "Girlfriend" sounds like a track their American power pop band recorded in the '70s. Tommy Dunbar, the founder of the Rubinoos, filed the suit in California's Northern Federal District Court in San Francisco on July 2. The suit alleges that "Girlfriend" bears striking similarities to the Rubinoos' song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend," co-written by Dunbar and former Rubinoos' road manager James Gangwer, and released by Beserkley Records in 1978.

Some 500 people have been arrested as thousands of protesters, some of them purposely vomiting on public property, carried out their pledge to cause mayhem in downtown San Francisco to convey opposition to the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. KRON-TV reports roving bands of demonstrators linked themselves with metal chains and occupied intersections, while others sat stoically and then lined up in plastic handcuffs to be loaded into buses amid a backdrop of supporters chanting "This is what democracy looks like" and "The people have the power."