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 Kim Kardashian West is suing Missguided USA a day after blasting fashion labels for copying her looks

  In documents obtained by ET, Kim filed a lawsuit against the online retailer on Wednesday for allegedly using her name and image without permission

Kim is asking the court for damages in an amount no less than 10 million, disgorgement -- which is the act of giving up something such as the profits obtained by illegal or unethical acts on demand or by legal compulsion -- of Missguided's profits, and for a permanent injunction restraining Missguided from future infringement

 The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star also shared photos of what she claimed were Missguided's "knock-off" versions of her clothing

She also alleges that Missguided "in total disregard of Kardashian's trademark rights and rights of publicity, have repeatedly used Kardashian's name and image without authorization to generate interest in their brand and website, and to elicit sales of their products

" She also claims that Missguided "specializes in 'fast' and inexpensive clothing designs, which are often derivative of other companies' designs if not blatant knock-offs

Missguided has become particularly well-known for copying designs worn by famous celebrities, which it then offers for sale on its sites within days -- sometimes even hours -- of the celebrity appearing in the clothing

"Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner Face Endorsement BacklashKim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner Face Endorsement Backlash The lawsuit states that "Missguided has not only knocked-off the clothing of other designers, but it has unabashedly misappropriated the rights of celebrities like Kardashian in selling these knock-offs on its websites

" Per the suit, Kim is suing for "violation of statutory right of publicity, violation of common law right of publicity, false designation of origin, trademark infringement, common law trademark infringement

" On Tuesday, the makeup mogul turned to social media to blast copycat labels for ripping off the designers who dress her, sometimes in outfits which have taken up to a year to plan

 The series of frustrated tweets came after a website advertised a knock-off of the racy and revealing one-of-a-kind, vintage Thierry Mugler dress, which the 38-year-old reality star wore to the Hollywood Fashion Awards on Sunday evening

 "Only two days ago, I was privileged enough to wear a one-of-a-kind vintage Mugler dress and in less than 24 hours it was knocked off and thrown up on a site -- but it's not for sale," she wrote

"You have to sign up for a waitlist because the dress hasn't even been made to sell yet

This is a way to get people to sign up for their mailing list and make people believe there is some kind of relationship between me and this fashion site

There is not." "It's devastating to see these fashion companies rip off designs that have taken the blood, sweat and tears of true designers who have put their all into their own original ideas," she said

"I've watched these companies profit off my husband's work for years and now that it's also affecting designers who have been so generous to give me access to their beautiful works, I can no longer sit silent

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For more infomation >> Kim Kardashian Sues Fashion Company for Allegedly Using Her Image [Hot] - Duration: 4:48.

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Royal FEUD: Critical difference between Charles, Andrew and Edward and REVEALED - Today News US - Duration: 3:09.

 Prince Andrew and Prince Edward had a luxury not allowed to their elder brother Prince Charles, and that was falling for women whose prior love lives and live-in boyfriends weren't considered impediments to marrying into the House of Windsor

While Andrew's marriage to Sarah Ferguson flamed out in tabloid scandals, Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, will have been married for 20 years this June

Unlike Charles, who had his dynastic responsibilities to consider, Edward was able to date who he wanted

'You're KILLING the monarchy!' David Attenborough's shock royal rant Royal PARANOIA: Charles feared Edward and Andrew were 'plotting his

 Royal writer Ingrid Seward reveals in "Prince Edward: A Biography" that when Edward was in New Zealand in the early Eighties, the Earl of Wessex co-starred with 17-year-old Alison Bell in an amateur production of Charley's Aunt

 Ms Seward claims Ms Bell said: "I remember after the play he came up and gave me a surprise kiss

 "He has lovely soft lips, she said, adding, 'He is defiantly not shy with girls.'" Ms Seward wrote: "Unlike Andrew, whose lusts were straight to the point, Edward was always more attracted to personality than to other more obvious allures

" Prince Andrew was notorious for dating beautiful and glamorous women before his marriage and after his divorce to Sarah Ferguson

 Compared to Prince Charles, Prince Andrew had relative freedom being the spare, and this meant he could date any woman he wanted

 The Duke of York never had a shortage of women following his divorce from Fergie, either

 Andrew never settled down since leaving the Royal Navy and instead returned to cultivating his "playboy image"

 The Prince frequented the social scenes in London and Los Angeles and it was estimated that he has had around 15 girlfriends since he divorced his wife

 In "Prince Andrew: The War Hero from Buckingham Palace" by Jessica Jayne, the author describes how he was labelled a "ladies man" and "never discouraged his Playboy image"

 Charles had numerous rendezvous before settling down with Diana Spencer, but he continued to have one notable affair, with Camilla Parker Bowles

For more infomation >> Royal FEUD: Critical difference between Charles, Andrew and Edward and REVEALED - Today News US - Duration: 3:09.

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Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times - Duration: 4:13.

Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times

The number of hate groups in the United States rose for the fourth year in a row in 2018, pushed to a record high by a toxic combination of political polarization, anti immigrant sentiment and technologies that help spread propaganda online, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Wednesday.

The law center said the number of hate groups rose by 7 percent last year to 1,020, a 30 percent jump from 2014. That broadly echoes other worrying developments, including a 30 percent increase in the number of hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. from 2015 through 2017 and a surge of right wing violence that the Anti Defamation League said had killed at least 50 people in 2018.

Were seeing a lot of bad trends, Heidi Beirich, the director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in an interview on Wednesday. There are more hate groups, more hate crimes and more domestic terrorism in that same vein. It is a troubling set of circumstances.

Ms. Beirich said the increase in extremist activity tracked by her team began in earnest in the early days of the 2016 presidential election, when anxieties over immigration helped propel President Trump to the White House. Before that, she said, the number of hate groups had fallen for three straight years.

Trump has made people in the white supremacist movement move back into politics and the public domain, Ms. Beirich said. He is a critical aspect of this dynamic, but he is not the only reason why the ranks of hate groups are growing. The ability to propagate hate in the online space is key.

The center said in a statement that most hate groups in the United States espoused some form of white supremacist ideology, including neo Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, neo Confederates and white nationalists. It said the number of white nationalist groups jumped by almost 50 percent, to 148 in 2018 from 100.

For the purposes of its study, the center said it considered any organization whose leaders, activities or statement of principles attacks an entire class of people to be a hate group. Violence is not a prerequisite.

The centers findings run parallel to a in the United States that was issued last month by the Anti Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism.

That report said that right wing extremism was linked to every extremist related killing the group tracked in 2018, at least 50, and that jihadist groups were linked to none. It said that made 2018 the deadliest year for right wing extremism since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The law center and the Anti Defamation League both pointed to at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October as a symptom of the increasingly combustible mix of anti immigrant sentiment, violence and online conspiracy mongering.

The white supremacist attack in Pittsburgh should serve as a wake up call to everyone about the deadly consequences of hateful rhetoric, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the president of the Anti Defamation League, said in a statement accompanying its report. Its time for our nations leaders to appropriately recognize the severity of the threat and to devote the necessary resources to address the scourge of right wing extremism.

But the rise in anti immigrant sentiment had also created an equal yet opposite reaction, the Southern Poverty Law Center said. As the number of white supremacist groups rose, so did the number of radical black nationalist groups that espoused anti white, anti Semitic or anti gay and anti transgender views.

The center said the number of those groups had risen to 264 in 2018 from 233 in 2017, but it noted that the influence of black nationalism in mainstream politics was highly limited.

It did, however, point specifically to comments by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who the center said echoed white supremacist myths of a looming white genocide in his rhetoric about President Trump, whom he has accused of planning genocide against African Americans.

Mr. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam have been connected to a organization, two of whose national leaders have been accused of sympathizing with Mr. Farrakhan and privately expressing anti Semitic opinions.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has tracked domestic extremism since 1971, but in recent years conservatives have accused it of politicizing its findings and falsely labeling right leaning organizations as hate groups.

The group paid dollar 3.4 million to Maajid Nawaz, a British campaigner against Islamic extremism who sometimes works with conservative anti Muslim politicians, after it included him on a list of anti Muslim extremists in 2016. Richard Cohen, the centers president, said in a that the inclusion of Mr. Nawaz on the list had been wrong.

For more infomation >> Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times - Duration: 4:13.

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Trump says ISIS bride not allowed back into US - Duration: 3:00.

Trump says ISIS bride not allowed back into US

President Trump said Wednesday he instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to allow an Alabama woman to return to the U.S. after she joined the Islamic State.

I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!

that Hoda Muthana would not be allowed to return to the U.S. because she is not a citizen, does not have a valid passport, or any visa to travel to the U.S.

According to the New York Times, Muthana had an American passport when she left the U.S. for Turkey and was smuggled into Syria more than 4 years ago.

Her family and her Tampa based lawyer insist she was born in Hackensack, N.J., in 1994.

Trumps order comes days after demanding that European countries repatriate and put on trial hundreds of ISIS fighters who have been captured in Syria as the U.S. prepares to withdraw its troops from the country.

The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them, Trump wrote in a tweet Saturday.

We do so much, and spend so much Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100 percent Caliphate victory! he said.

The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them........

....The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100 percent Caliphate victory!

Europe has so far been reluctant to take back their citizens over potential legal challenges.

Muthana surrendered last month with her young son and has been held in a detainee camp in northeastern Syria.

I realized how I didnt appreciate or maybe even really understand how important the freedoms that we have in America are. I do now, to her lawyer. To say that I regret my past words, any pain that I caused my family and any concerns I would cause my country would be hard for me to really express properly.