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A video of a young Bernie Sanders being arrested during a civil rights protest will no doubt help him blunt criticism that he wasn't really a civil rights activist.

The 1963 video shows the then 21-year-old University of Chicago student being arrested on the southside of Chicago during a segregation protest.

A senior advisor for Sanders confirmed the guy being arrested is indeed the presidential candidate.

Joanna Krupa can rest a little easier knowing the wolf she so desperately wanted to save has been captured and is headed to a sanctuary.

TMZ broke the story ... Krupa was on a mission to help what she believed was a part-dog part-wolf hybrid named Princess loose in the Hollywood Hills, even feeding it from her hand. Turns out the hard work paid off because she was captured on Saturday.

According to Krupa, Princess was bleeding so she's headed to a vet to be checked out before being sent to be with her mate at the Lockwood Animal Sanctuary.

No more cryin' wolf for Krupa.

Jared Fogle is challenging the judge who sentenced him to more than 15 years in prison, arguing that he's being punished in part for his fantasies ... and fantasies are not a crime.

Fogle's lawyers are appealing the sentence on several grounds, claiming the judge had no right to exceed the maximum sentencing guideline -- around 13 years.

The lawyers note the judge who sentenced Fogle said, "This defendant is obsessed with child pornography and having sex with minors. He fantasized about it in telephone conversations."

Fogle's attorneys say fantasies should not form the basis of a criminal sentence. They quote another court decision, which says, "We are loath to give the government the power to punish us for our thoughts and not our actions."

According to Fogle's lawyers, the fantasies and "requests to third parties" were never acted upon by Fogle, yet they were relied on by the judge in imposing the sentence.

Kobe Bryant suffered a fickle finger of fate Friday night ... a dislocated finger to be exact, that was yanked back into place much to the horror of a female fan.

Bryant and The Lakers were taking on The San Antonio Spurs in L.A. Friday night when Kobe's right middle finger popped out of joint. Bryant's doc gave the finger an ol' fashioned tug and the digit went back to its proper place.

Mickey Rourke's offended by Manny Pacquiao's aggressively anti-gay comments, because he says he's "a little gay" himself.

Mickey went to The Nice Guy in WeHo Friday night, and actually gave Manny a marginal Old Testament pass, though he made it clear the boxer's comments were abhorrent.

Kanye West is stepping up his pool game so much ... he's building a freakin' lake!

TMZ has learned Kanye and Kim Kardashian said screw it, and tore up a perfectly fine pool that used to sit in their backyard -- and will upgrade to a body of hot ice that's more like a small lake, or at least a really big pond.

We're told man-made Lake Kimye will be fully filtered upon completion and at least 5 times the size of any other backyard oasis in the Hidden Hills neighborhood. It's part of the sweeping changes Kim and 'Ye are making to the estate they purchased in 2014.

Of course, Drake recently took a shot at Kanye in his track "Summer Sixteen," saying:

I used to wanna be on Roc-A-Fella then I turned into Jay
Now I got a house in LA, Now I got a bigger pool than 'Ye
And look man, 'Ye’s pool is nice, mine's just big is what I’m saying

Two things come to mind -- 1. Time for a remix, Drake, and 2. So much for being broke, Yeezy!

The Game's Aussie fans have been left high and dry ... because the rapper was sent packing.

Game arrived down under Friday with his crew, but they didn't even get out of the airport. The Dept. of Immigration and Border Protection tells TMZ, they ordered Game to leave the country because he didn't have the proper visa.

The rapper was set to do 4 shows in Oz starting Monday.

Manny Pacquiao is a "f**king idiot" -- so says "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Dave Bautista ... who says he's EXTREMELY offended by the boxer's anti-gay comments because his mom's gay.

The former WWE superstar -- who also happens to be Filipino -- went off on Pacman at LAX.

"My mom happens to be a lesbian so I don't f**king take that sh*t. I dont think it's funny."

"If anyone called my mother an animal i'd stick my foot in his ass."

Carl Bernstein, half of the Woodward and Bernstein duo that cracked Watergate wide open, agrees with the Pope -- that Donald Trump is not a true Christian.

Bernstein, who dined at Craig's in WeHo Friday, knows a thing or 2 about the Catholic church ... he wrote a book on Pope John Paul II.

Beyonce must come forward and tell the world her Super Bowl performance was NOT an attack on cops ... that's what the rank and file in the NYPD want, and want badly.

Our NYPD sources admit they don't believe Beyonce was advocating hostility toward police in her homage to the Black Panthers. Problem is ... they say that's the way it came across for millions of viewers.

We're told cops are bitter and want her to publicly disavow violence or any other type of aggression toward police. While she's at it, they'd also like an explanation as to what she really meant.

All that said, our sources were quick to add they will fully protect Beyonce when she's in NYC.

Kanye West was endlessly entertaining this week, and so were sucky-faces Rob and Blac Chyna. So we gotta ask ...

The two former college football players who allegedly teamed up in at least 7 robberies used violent tactics and weapons on innocent victims including women ... and in one case held a knife to a victim's throat ... this according to investigators.

Big Ang's Staten Island palace, frequently featured on "Mob Wives," is available for purchase for a cool million bucks.

Big Ang passed away from cancer earlier this week and her longtime friend and real estate broker, Laird Klein, is helping with the deal. He says it was listed 2 months ago right before she got her last diagnosis ... that the cancer had returned.

Ang made a lot of renovations to the home -- as seen on the show -- and Laird says it now "reflects her personality, her level of style, her persona for life.”

Kanye West will not take money from fans who dug deep into their pockets when they heard he was deep in debt.

There's currently $7,000 in a GoFundMe account earmarked for Kanye. Jeremy Piatt, who created the account, tells us he was contacted by GoFundMe a few days ago and told he couldn't touch the money himself ... he needed to contact Kanye's people and only they could access the cash.

Our Kanye sources tell us he will NOT take a penny from the account.

So what to do with the loot? Jeremy says he wants to keep a little bit for himself, but the GoFundMe people tell us he's dreaming ... he's not getting a penny.

As for what happens to the money ... it all goes back to the people who donated it.

Nice try, Jeremy.

Karrueche Tran got all shaggy as she stopped on the streets of NYC. Use your detective skills and see if you can spot the Big Apple alterations between these two fringed photos.