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[ "-- The FBI has been called in to assist in the delicate search of a remote area in Cass County, where human bones were found Monday evening by a mushroom hunter, and now remains of a second person have been found nearby in the area on Tuesday. Please enable Javascript to watch this video CASS COUNTY, Mo. Authorities with Cass County now say they have found a second human skull in the wooded area near E. 233rd and State Route Y, south of Belton, where they found the first human skull on Monday. Kara Kopetsky, from Belton, has been missing since May 2007, and Jessica Runions, a Raymore woman disappeared in September 2016.", "More Videos 0:58 KCK woman dies in a fatal car crash after being raped Pause 1:34 Former dispatcher remembers KC's worst floods 1:51 Feathers fly over announced Tyson Foods chicken plant in Tonganoxie 1:54 Crime Stoppers most wanted fugitives 1:30 Suspect charged in two KC killings and remains suspect in three trail deaths 3:00 Man charged in two KC murders and is a suspect in three murders on Indian Creek trail 1:59 Despite arrest, safety along Indian Creek Trail still in question 1:00 Why KC will never see 50 inches of rain 0:55 Five things to know about Jeanne Lillig-Patterson 1:52 A flood for the history books swept through Kansas City nearly forty years ago Video Link copy Embed Code copy Facebook Twitter Email 'We speak for our daughters' Rhonda Beckford and Jamie Runions talk to media after meeting with Belton police Tuesday afternoon. The families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions were notified Monday evening about the discovery of unidentified skeletal remains. The families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions were notified Monday evening about the discovery of unidentified skeletal remains. The families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions were notified Monday evening about the discovery of unidentified skeletal remains. Rhonda Beckford and Jamie Runions talk to media after meeting with Belton police Tuesday afternoon.", "Click here to see video of the scene Advertisement Human remains were found by a mushroom hunter south of Belton Monday afternoon. The families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions were called by police Tuesday after investigators found a second skull in a Cass County field. A second human skull was located in the same search area, the Sheriff's Office said. \"Although families of missing person cases in the area have been in contact with law enforcement we cannot confirm the identity of victims,\" the Sheriff's Office said in a news release. A police report taken after Kopetsky's disappearance shows a witness told police they saw the vehicle belonging to Kylr Yust, Kopetsky's ex-boyfriend, in the area where Cass County authorities say those remains were located. \"No identification has been made at this time." ]

[ "I hear Extreme Couponing is pretty hot these days. How to handle Black Friday, of course. In her weekly features, she’ll be offering money-saving advice on such topics as stretching budgets for large family, holiday shopping, gift ideas, and more. And hey, she can still capitalize off of her reality fame in her new line of work, right?", "CouponCabin.com announced the news in a press release that conveyed the Web site’s excitement over its new hire, who is “a longtime advocate of couponing.” “Kate has embraced coupons her entire life,” said Jackie Warrick, president at CouponCabin.com, according to the press release. Future topics, according to the press release, include how to stretch a budget for a large family and holiday shopping tips. I mean, we can’t all engage in the mindblowingly lucrative work of blogging about celebrities and pop culture. Still, Gosselin is a mom, like many of us, and she needs to support her kids.", "Kate Gosselin can ease up on the \"freaking out\": The out-of-work reality star has a job now -- a part-time gig, at least. Gosselin, whose \"Kate Plus 8\" reality show took its last breath in September, will be a contributing blogger for click-and-save website Coupon Cabin. RELATED: The hedgehog is dead: Meet Kate Gosselin's special new hair Kate Gosselin 'freaking out' with 8 kids, no reality-TV show [Poll] Kate Gosselin gets a tip from ex-husband Jon: Reality TV is not a career -- Christie D'Zurilla Twitter.com/dzurillaville Photo: Kate Gosselin visits a radio show at SiriusXM Studio in New York on Oct. 27, 2011 in New York City. Using, we assume, coupons -- which she might want to get used to, if she's going to live off a blogger's paycheck. \"It's like free money in your pocket! (Note: Kate confirmed Monday on \"The View\" that a return to nursing was a no-go, as she'd found her calling on TV." ]

[ "The Patriots have been busy inside Gillette Stadium, formulating a response to the Ted Wells report on Deflategate. The Patriots escalated their high-stakes counterattack against the NFL and the Wells investigation of Tom Brady’s deflated footballs Thursday by launching a website to publish an exhaustive rebuttal portraying the inquiry’s findings as a Kafkaesque injustice. yet.’’ Advertisement Wells described the exchange as compelling evidence that McNally was threatening to disclose the alleged football deflation scheme to the media. The team was fined $1 million and docked two draft picks — a first-rounder in 2016 and fourth-rounder in 2017. Several hours later, after reports of a possible conflict of interest arose, the Patriots updated the site to say they are a passive investor in MacKinnon’s biotechnology company, Flex Pharma. As part of a detailed analysis that raised questions not only about which gauges the officials used to measure the Patriots footballs but the league’s apparent lax attention to the inflation levels of the Colts’ balls, Goldberg cited the conclusions of Roderick MacKinnon, a 2003 Nobel Prize recipient in chemistry, that Wells’s scientific findings were “incorrect.’’ The new Patriots website initially stated MacKinnon offered them his expertise and had no personal relationship with the team.", "Since then, independent critiques of the Wells and Exponent Reports have multiplied and scientists across the country who examined the PSI and weather data have concluded that science fully explains the PSI measurements found in the Wells Report. Introduction It has been 10 months since the 139-page Wells Report and the accompanying 82-page Exponent Report were issued. Within a week, we created this website and posted an initial, detailed critique of the analysis and conclusions of those reports. We have posted a collection of those positions on this website and they remain available for review here. Many thoughtful people have, with further information and consideration, revised their initial impressions, which were largely based on false information leaked by League personnel and on the interpretations put on ambiguous, at best, facts by the League and its lawyers. The detailed scientific critiques of the Exponent Report have been explored by experts.", "FILE - In a Thursday, May 7, 2015 file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gestures during an event at Salem State University in Salem, Mass. The NFL announced the quarterback's suspension on Monday, also fining the New England Patriots $1 million and taking away two draft picks. (AP) — Tom Brady has appealed his four-game suspension for his role in using deflated footballs during the AFC championship game. Brady's appeal only deals with the suspension and must be heard within 10 days. League-appointed investigator Ted Wells found that Brady was \"at least generally aware\" of plans by two team employees to prepare the balls to his liking, below the league-mandated minimum of 12.5 pounds per square inch. The NFL suspended Brady for the first four games... (Associated Press) FOXBOROUGH, Mass." ]

[ "So instead of spending the day at a wedding in Sydney, Australia, trying to avoid each other, six friends in almost identical dresses decided to poke fun at themselves and lined up for a photograph with the bride, Julia Mammone. Image copyright Debbie Speranza Image caption Debbie Speranza (centre) with her identically dressed friends, and the bride, Julia Mammone For many women, turning up to a 'do' in the same dress as someone else would be crushing, but when you find five other wedding guests have picked the same outfit all you can probably do is laugh. Julia also saw the funny side along with Facebook users who have viewed and shared the photo more than 42,000 times. That post alone drew more than 10,000 comments with friends tagging each other with memories of similar, if not such large-scale, fashion faux pas. You might also like: Debbie also shared the photo with the shop where the women had bought their dresses, saying: \"You really should start a bridal registry so that your customers can enquire whether anyone else has purchased one of your dresses for the same event - no we are NOT the bridesmaids just the guests.\" Image copyright Facebook Jamie-Leigh Austin's friend Laura Frazer said wearing the same dress to a wedding as a stranger was a great conversation starter. Image copyright Facebook It was posted by Debbie Speranza, who dubbed herself and her friends \"#backupbridesmaids.\" Laughing at the coincidence, Debbie posted a second photo, and asked: \"What are the odds?\"", "Mirroring the 1993 Alan Ball play, Five Women Wearing The Same Dress, after some initial confusion the six women – whose group photos have prompted amused horror from women around the world - eventually bonded, before dancing the night away. Life went one better than art on Saturday when six Sydney women – who were not bridesmaids - arrived at a wedding reception all accidentally wearing the same A$160 (£95) dress. \"Imagine the odds,\" Debbie Speranza, one of the six women, wrote on a Facebook post on fashion brand Forever New's Facebook page. That photo has since received 39,000 likes over 9,500 comments. There was about 200 people.”" ]

[ "Romney: My views on abortion rights are clear (CBS News) In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, Mitt Romney said his views on abortion rights are more lenient than those put forward in the Republican party platform. Last week, the party added language to the platform calling for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with no mention of making exceptions for victims of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother. \"Recognize this is the decision that will be made by the Supreme Court,\" he said.", "Republican Mitt Romney said Monday that he is in favor of abortion in cases of rape, incest and the health and life of the mother. As a presidential candidate, he has opposed abortion rights and says the Supreme Court should reverse the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The Romneys envision... (Associated Press) The presidential candidate's addition of the health of the mother is certain to raise questions about his position among conservatives. Health can be broadly defined and, in fact, running mate Paul Ryan has challenged the health exception as a major loophole. In a statement, Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Romney's position is clear _ that he opposes abortion except for cases of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is threatened." ]

[ "Esquith’s “Hobart Shakespeareans” nonprofit, which puts on a Shakespeare production every year in his classroom, became world-renowned, the subject of a PBS documentary, and a resplendent example of the miracles that committed public educators can work even in challenging school environments. Rafe Esquith—perhaps the most decorated elementary-school teacher in the country, the only K-12 educator ever to receive the National Medal of the Arts—has been accused of sexual misconduct in shocking documents released Tuesday by Los Angeles Unified School District.", "That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. Crawls of supported \"No More 404\" sites." ]

[ "In response, health officials arrived at the Chipotle restaurant on Monday for an inspection and found the restaurant closed. \"We take all claims of food safety very seriously and we are currently looking into a few reports of illness at our Powell, Ohio, restaurant,\" Chipotle spokeswoman Laurie Schalow told Business Insider on Monday. The local health department, called the Delaware General Health District, is investigating the possible illness outbreak. More than 400 people say they got sick after eating at an Ohio Chipotle.", "Location: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Sawmill Parkway, Powell, OH, USA Report Type: Food Poisoning Symptoms: Diarrhea Details: My husband and I at at the Powell chipotle on our way home from zoombeezi bay. He had a Chicken Burrito and I had a Chicken bowl. We both had said last night that it was awful, no flavor but after spending the day in the sun at the park we were hungry and ate it on our way home anyway. I would say about mid morning is when the diarrhea started. Then as I was scrolling through Facebook I saw the news article that there were several reports from people that ate there yesterday as well!", "Avocado lovers rejoice, because when you visit Chipotle on Tuesday, you won’t hear the dreaded words “Guac is extra.” In honor of National Avocado Day on July 31, Chipotle is handing out guacamole on the house. In order to redeem the deal, customers must purchase an entrée through the mobile app or online and use the promo code AVOCADO at check out. “We want to show our love for the avocado and reward our customers’ guac obsession.” While free guac is a one-day-only deal, the burrito chain recently announced their plans to make permanent changes to their restaurants in a quest to make Chipotle a “lifestyle brand,” Thrillist reports. You can choose to redeem the free guac as an add-on, a side item or as a regular order of chips and guac. “Our fresh, homemade guacamole has a massive fan following,” Chris Brandt, chief marketing officer at Chipotle, said in a statement. The overhaul includes new menu items like quesadillas, nachos and milkshakes and a possible happy hour for half-off margaritas and beer. Want the ultimate dish on the latest celebrity food news, plus exclusive recipes, videos and more?", "In response Chipotle made changes to the way it handles its ingredients, but food-safety issues have lingered for the chain. The Chipotle at 9733 Sawmill Parkway in Powell was closed Monday following multiple complaints of food making customers sick. Chipotle has battled food safety concerns since 2015 when hundreds of people were sickened across the country, but mainly in Boston and California. The Chipotle store in Powell was last inspected by the Delaware General Health District on Thursday." ]

[ "NEWS: GWYNETH PALTROW QUESTIONS HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE BIBLE IN NEW GOOP NEWSLETTER The lucky audience was treated to a surprise guest at last night’s performance of Glee Live. Gwyneth Paltrow does not look like a 38-year-old mom of two. The actress/singer/chef is the picture of health and femininity in a new photo shoot for Vanity Fair, showing off her toned bod in a sultry, topless pose! Her hair is pulled back in a french twist, paired with natural make-up and smokey eyes.", "Actress shows the results of her healthy lifestyle in topless photoshoot Her seemingly constant flow of advice to the world on how to copy her wholesome lifestyle may not be to everyone's taste. But you can’t help but be impressed by the effects of healthy living on Gwyneth Paltrow’s body. The 38-year-old mother of two looked a decade younger as she posed topless wearing just jewellery and a pair of fishnet tights in a revealing photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine." ]

[ "El Tiempo Cantina shuts down social media accounts amid backlash over Jeff Sessions photo A photo of AG Jeff Sessions at the restaurant was posted on the now deleted social accounts of El Tiempo Cantina Friday. The chain appears to have deleted their social media accounts Saturday amid growing backlash. less A photo of AG Jeff Sessions at the restaurant was posted on the now deleted social accounts of El Tiempo Cantina Friday. The chain appears to have deleted their social media accounts Saturday amid growing ... more Photo: El Tiempo Photo: El Tiempo Image 1 of / 32 Caption Close El Tiempo Cantina shuts down social media accounts amid backlash over Jeff Sessions photo 1 / 32 Back to Gallery Houston chain El Tiempo Cantina appears to have deleted its social media pages, a day after a photo of the restaurant's owner with Attorney General Jeff Sessions drew outrage and calls for a boycott. On Friday, owner Roland Laurenzo posted a photo with a caption saying it was an \"honor\" to serve Sessions, who was in town to discuss immigration enforcement with law enforcement officers. \"El Tiempo does not in anyway support the practice of separating children from parents or any other practices of the government relative to immigration,\" Laurenzo wrote, according to CultureMap.", "--- Attorney General Jeff Sessions' visit to Houston has put one local restaurant in the crosshairs of the national debate about how restaurants should treat members of the Trump administration. UPDATE: Since the publication of the post, all El Tiempo social media accounts have been deactivated, according to CultureMap content partner ABC13. Sessions, in town on Friday, August 10, to address a meeting of federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials about the need to crackdown on violent crime and illegal immigration, dined at an El Tiempo Cantina in the Inner Loop after his speech. Sessions' key role in the Trump administration's immigration policies, including increased deportation and the practice of separating parents and children who attempt to cross the border illegally, has made him a controversial figure. \"People are insulting us in such a dramatic fashion, and we feel like we don't deserve it,\" El Tiempo Cantina owner Roland Laurenzo tells ABC13.", "Sessions' tough stance on immigration, coupled with the perceived endorsement by the Tex-Mex restaurant, has resulted in a hailstorm of complaints and even death threats. Laurenzo's Restaurants president Roland Laurenzo says in no way does the social media post equate to an endorsement of Sessions' politics. HOUSTON — A Houston culinary dynasty has come under fire after a photo with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions began circulating online. Sessions is pictured with El Tiempo restaurant co-owner Dominic Laurenzo during a recent visit to Houston. This has been extremely shocking to our family.” Laurenzo says his company is not in favor of separating families and do no agree with Sessions' views on gay rights." ]

[ "CHICAGO—The death of a woman whose bicycle collided with a truck on Friday is believed to be the first fatality involving the rapidly growing bike-share programs in the U.S., industry officials said. Such programs—which typically involve renting a bike from an automated station by paying a daily fee, or using a keychain token for annual members—have been spreading rapidly in recent years and can now be found in at least 40 U.S. cities.", "PUBLICATION MTI Report 12-54 Principal Investigator: Elliot Martin, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The growth of bikesharing in the United States has had a transformative impact on urban transportation. Finally, researchers conducted an analysis of bicycle and bikesharing activity data, as well as bicycle and bikesharing collisions to evaluate injury rates associated with bikesharing when compared with benchmarks of personal bicycling. In this study, researchers take a closer look at bikesharing safety from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Through a series of four focus groups, they discussed bikesharing usage and safety with bikesharing members and nonmembers in the Bay Area. They further engaged experts nationwide from a variety of fields to evaluate their opinions and perspectives on bikesharing and safety. Experts and focus group participants independently pointed to bikesharing rider behavior and bikesharing bicycle design as possible factors.", "There have been bike-share deaths in other countries, including Canada and Mexico. “We believe all fatalities on our roadways are preventable,” said Merrell. The police department’s Major Accident Investigation Unit was investigating. The woman's death is believed to be the first bike-share fatality in the United States since the first bike-share program started in Tulsa, Okla., in 2007, according to Paul DeMaio, principal of Washington, D.C.-based MetroBike, a bike-share consulting business." ]

[ "THC is the primary psychoactive chemical compound in cannabis. The 12-year-old student that provided the THC-infused gummy candy that sent six students to the hospital faces seven felony charges and one misdemeanor charge. MULBERRY — Six Mulberry Middle School students were taken to the hospital after ingesting most of a 100-milligram block of THC-infused gummy candies Thursday morning. Detectives are investigating how Jones acquired the gummy candies, as recreational use and possession of THC without a state-issued medical card is illegal in Florida. “The sheriff and I have a partnership and we have a commitment to keeping our campuses and our children safe,” Byrd said.", "MULBERRY, Fla. — Polk County Fire Rescue responded to Mulberry Middle School Thursday after several students suddenly became sick after they reportedly consumed THC laced gummies. \"We have long been concerned about the dangers of marijuana-infused candy, and that it would get into the hands of, and poison, children. A spokesperson with Polk County Schools tells us the students consumed gummy bears that contained THC. It is illegal to possess this package of gummies in the state of Florida. - Grady Judd, Sheriff The 12-year-old is being charged with six felony counts of distribution of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, 1 felony count of possession of marijuana resin, and 1 count possession of paraphernalia." ]

[ "Before the press conference they chatted with a young boy behind the pasture fence who was holding a cow on a leash. It’s a world of difference from Clinton’s last White House bid, when she was criticized here for seeming too-cool-for-school to mingle with what she now calls ‘everyday Americans.’ Given Iowa’s traditional early-state role in presidential elections, its residents are accustomed to, and expect, face-to-face interaction with political candidates — never Clinton’s forte. In stark contrast to her 2008 campaign — which unraveled fast after Iowans rejected her for more a more approachable Barack Obama — Clinton put herself out at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, embracing the masses that engulfed her. Story Continued Below The 2016 Democratic contender shook hands and took selfies with total strangers, listened to Iowans’ personal stories of struggle and even met a young boy’s show cow.", "Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story WASHINGTON — F.B.I. To track how the information flowed, agents will try to gain access to the email accounts of many State Department officials who worked there while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, the officials said. “If, however, some material unknowingly ended up somewhere on the State Department’s unclassified email system, we want to continue to be as helpful as possible in getting to the bottom of that.” He added: “Beyond that, we’ll let the State Department and other agencies speak to the specifics.” This week, the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence agencies, I. Charles McCullough III, informed members of Congress that Mrs. Clinton had “top secret” information, the highest classification of government intelligence, in her account. agents investigating Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server are seeking to determine who at the State Department passed highly classified information from secure networks to Mrs. Clinton’s personal account, according to law enforcement and diplomatic officials and others briefed on the investigation. State Department employees apparently circulated the emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011, and some were ultimately forwarded to Mrs. Clinton." ]

[ "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.", "An elderly Massachusetts man is facing a charge of soliciting a prostitute after reporting that the woman stole jewelry from him. Nicholas Salerno told police he paid a woman half his age $100 to perform a sex act on him earlier this summer in his home. I'm 90 years old ...\" Both Proia and Salerno pleaded not guilty during arraignments Tuesday. His response, the Cape Cod Times reports, was \"I don't give a (expletive). When Salerno reported the theft to Orleans police an officer told him he would be charged with soliciting a prostitute. After 48-year-old Karen Proia left his home, Salerno told police he noticed a necklace was missing. The necklace was recovered by police at a South Yarmouth pawn shop." ]

[ "The stricken Formula One legend, who sustained life-threatening injuries in a skiing accident six months ago, was moved from Grenoble to University Hospital Lausanne in France last week after it was announced he was no longer in a coma. Michael Schumacher’s medical files have been stolen and offered for sale to the media, his manager has announced. The files are thought to have been stolen from his hospital in Grenoble. The theft has been reported.", "Schumacher, 45, suffered severe head trauma in a December 29 skiing accident at the French Alps resort of Meribel. Follow us at @WorldSportCNN and like us on Facebook (CNN) -- Stolen medical files that may be those of Michael Schumacher are being offered for sale, the injured former F1 racing driver's manager said. Schumacher has been undergoing hospital treatment since a skiing accident last year but is now out of a coma. A French prosecutor investigating the accident concluded that speed was not behind the fall suffered by the seven-time world champion, whose F1 career ended in 2012." ]

[ "Data Sources and Study Selection A systematic review and meta-analysis of MEDLINE (1946-August 2013), EMBASE (1947-August 2013), and the Cochrane Library Central Register of Controlled Trials (inception-August 2013) for randomized clinical trials (RCTs) comparing influenza vaccine vs placebo or control in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease, reporting cardiovascular outcomes either as efficacy or safety events. Influenza vaccine was associated with a lower risk of composite cardiovascular events (2.9% vs 4.7%; RR, 0.64 [95% CI, 0.48-0.86], P = .003) in published trials. Conclusions and Relevance In a meta-analysis of RCTs, the use of influenza vaccine was associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events. Data Extraction and Synthesis Two investigators extracted data independently on trial design, baseline characteristics, outcomes, and safety events from published manuscripts and unpublished supplemental data. Main Outcomes and Measures Random-effects Mantel-Haenszel risk ratios (RRs) and 95% CIs were derived for composite cardiovascular events, cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality, and individual cardiovascular events. Objectives To determine if influenza vaccination is associated with prevention of cardiovascular events. A large, adequately powered, multicenter trial is warranted to address these findings and assess individual cardiovascular end points.", "What they found was “a consistent association between influenza vaccination and a lower risk of cardiovascular events,” according to their report in Wednesday’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Five of the trials the team examined were published in peer-reviewed journals and compared a flu vaccine to a placebo vaccine or other type of control. Three of the trials the researchers examined focused on patients with coronary artery disease. Even with those uncertainties, the conclusion that a flu shot can protect patients with heart disease is convincing, according to an editorial that accompanies the study in JAMA. “The estimate of 1.7 major cardiovascular events prevented for every 100 persons with cardiovascular disease vaccinated is plausible and would represent a significant public health benefit,” wrote Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, a vaccine expert at PATH, a Seattle-based nonprofit that focuses on global health.", "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a seasonal flu shot may do more than just prevent influenza. For the new study, the researchers searched several databases for trials that compared people who received the flu shot to others who did not. Udell is the study's lead author from the University of Toronto's Women's College Hospital and Peter Munk Cardiac Center at Toronto General Hospital. Previous reports have shown people who come down with the flu have an increased risk over the near term of having a stroke, heart failure and heart disease, he told Reuters Health. \"From the clinical perspective, it gives us more supporting data to say to our patients, ‘Here's a recent study confirming what we've been telling you that if you have heart disease you should be getting the flu vaccine,'\" he told Reuters Health. \"Clearly if you had a recent heart attack our research is showing … they're going to derive the most protection,\" Udell said.", "To get an idea of how well the vaccine might protect against heart events, the researchers reviewed all of the clinical trials done on the influenza vaccine from 1947 through mid-2013. And, conversely, previous research done on the influenza vaccine has suggested an association between the vaccine and a reduced risk of heart issues. Past research has suggested a link between the influenza virus -- the virus that causes the flu -- and an increased risk of heart events. Udell said this study wasn't designed to prove that influenza vaccine can lower heart disease risk, but he said that the researchers believe they've come close to proving cause and effect without conducting a clinical trial specifically designed to look for a protective effect from the flu vaccine. But, most of these studies were small and none looked specifically for a heart-protective effect from the influenza vaccine." ]

[ "\"We are looking at a human trafficking crime here.\" (CNN) At least nine people are dead after a phone call from a Walmart employee led to the discovery of dozens of undocumented immigrants severely injured in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas early Sunday, according to federal authorities. \"Human trafficking is an epidemic that Texas is working to eradicate,\" the governor said, highlighting a bill he signed in May that provides information to the trucking industry about how to spot and report signs of human trafficking. Homan deplored the discovery as the latest major case of human smuggling in the United States. \"By any standard, the horrific crime uncovered last night ranks as a stark reminder of why human smuggling networks must be pursued, caught and punished,\" Homan said in a statement.", "SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Eight people have been found dead in a tractor-trailer outside a Walmart in Texas in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case. Several other people, possibly dozens, were found in the truck, which didn't have a working air conditioning system, and they were taken to hospitals, firefighters said. A person from the truck approached a Walmart employee in a parking lot and asked for water late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, San Antonio police said. The employee gave the person the water and then called police, and when officers arrived they found the eight people dead in the back of the trailer, police Chief William McManus said. Investigators checked store surveillance video, which showed vehicles had arrived and picked up other people from the tractor-trailer, police said. \"We're looking at a human trafficking crime this evening,\" McManus said. He called the case \"a horrific tragedy.\"" ]

[ "We can foresee this becoming the new \"hangover food\" of choice.Related: KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich Loses the Bun The day has finally come for KFC's gluttonous Double Down sandwich to premier, and we were among the first in line to test it this morning (yes, we were eating this sandwich at 10:45 a.m.). And there was a lot of discussion around whether the cheese was really a cheese spread, or if it had just melded with the special sauce.with a complete bite of chicken, cheese, bacon and sauce, this sandwich really isn't bad. The bacon was legit -- it didn't have the usual weirdly chewy, artificial bacon-bit taste -- but it was essentially lost, both physically and flavor-wise (along with the cheese), between the two behemoth chicken filets.", "​The much-touted KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich finally arrives. Indeed, the sandwich is an almost total dud. ​Compare the sandwich calling to you from the window with the actual sandwich. Cradled in your hand, it seems a rather paltry thing; indeed, the entire sandwich in its tiny paper chemise can barely fill the small cardboard hamburger box it comes in. We worried that our Fork in the Road version of the sandwich would be inferior, but it turns out we had nothing to worry about. ​A peek under the top \"bun\" reveals hella-small slices of bacon, and acres of white cheese. Lift up the top breast piece -- which surely must be a half-breast cut latitudinally, and find two very thick slices of gummy white cheese (though pleasantly flecked with jalapenos that have some heat), and two picayune slices of bacon -- and not bacon of the thick, heavily smoked sort, either." ]

[ "MANILA — The International Criminal Court said on Thursday that it was opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials had committed crimes against humanity in the course of the government’s deadly crackdown on drugs. Fatou Bensouda, a prosecutor for the international court, said in a statement that the inquiry would gauge whether there was enough evidence to build a case. She said she would be looking at events since July 1, 2016, “in the context of the ‘war on drugs’ campaign.” “My office undertakes this work with full independence and impartiality,” Ms. Bensouda said. “As we do, we hope to count on the full engagement of the relevant national authorities in the Philippines.” Harry Roque, a spokesman for the Philippine president, said that the government’s crackdown was a “legitimate police operation” and that the president welcomed The Hague-based tribunal’s decision.", "The international criminal court has launched an initial inquiry into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, in his brutal anti-drugs crusade. Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war Read more According to official statistics, 4,000 people have been killed by the police in anti-drug operations since Duterte became president. However, the 77-page report submitted by a Philippine lawyer, Jude Sabio, alleged the death toll was over 8,000. A report submitted to the ICC last year laid out evidence that Duterte had been directly responsible for “extrajudicial executions and mass murder” over three decades since he began his war on drugs as mayor of Davao in 1988. The ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement that her office would “analyse crimes allegedly committed … since at least 1 July 2016 in the context of the ‘war on drugs’ campaign”. The inquiry will be the ICC’s first preliminary examination in a south-east Asian nation." ]

[ "A man has doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. The Vatican said Thursday the 51-year-old man was treated at a nearby hospital and transferred to a larger one, with serious burns to the upper part of his body. A Vatican statement says a Jesuit priest initially tried to smother the flames with a jacket. The man had a piece of paper with the phone number of his daughter. Vatican police refused to let reporters into the square after the incident. He was later joined by two police officers who used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze. The agents were treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation and injuries to their hands. The Vatican says his motives aren't known.", "Man sets self on fire in St Peter's Square, condition grave Priest, police put out flames, motive unknown (ANSA) - Vatican City, December 19 - A man who lit himself on fire in St Peter's Square on Thursday is in critical condition, the Vatican press office said. At the scene of the fire, police found a piece of paper with his daughter's phone number written on it. The motives for the unidentified man's act are unknown. The case recalled another case 15 years ago when Alfredo Ormando, a gay man, set himself ablaze in St Peter's Square to protest the Church's stance on homosexuality. At around 8:30 local time the 51-year-old covered himself in gasoline from a bottle and set himself alight. The first person to come to his aid was a Jesuit priest, who through his frock and jacket on top of him. Soon two police officers arrived and put out the flames with a fire extinguisher." ]

[ "The La Jolla, California-based company gained from watching the FDA’s safety focus and saw that a commitment to minimize risks and conduct more studies would be needed for approval, Schimmer said. Stock Chart for Orexigen Therapeutics Inc (OREX) Orexigen Therapeutics Inc.’s success in winning the first U.S. panel recommendation for a long-sought prescription diet pill led its shares to almost double and shows the company benefited from its rivals’ earlier difficulties. The FDA delayed competing treatments from Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Vivus Inc. in October after they failed to win panel backing on safety. Basel, Switzerland-based Roche Holding AG’s Xenical, approved in 1999, is the only long-term medicine for weight loss since Abbott Park, Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories’ Meridia was pulled off the market in October because of heart risks. Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said weight-loss benefits of Orexigen’s product, Contrave, exceed the dangers of elevated pulse and blood pressure and that a large study on cardiovascular risk can wait until after the drug is approved. “At this time, the company is focused on obtaining FDA approval of lorcaserin as quickly as possible.” Contrave, Orexigen’s first product, is a combination of two approved drugs that target different parts of the brain that influence appetite and cravings.", "-- An FDA advisory committee has voted 13-7 that the modest weight-loss benefits of an investigational combination of naltrexone and bupropion (Contrave) outweigh the drug's blood pressure risk. Contrave combines an antidepressant and an anti-addiction drug, both of which have been used individually for 20 years -- naltrexone for opioid addiction and alcohol dependence and bupropion for depression and smoking cessation. The bupropion naltrexone combo is the last in a trio of new weight-loss drugs that went before FDA panels this year, striving to be the latest treatment in the dwindling field of medications to fight obesity. Orexigen, the company that makes naltrexone/bupropion in partnership with Takeda, is seeking approval for treatment of obesity and weight management in patients with a body mass index of 30 or above, or 27 or above and with one or more risk factors (e.g., diabetes, dyslipidemia, or hypertension). The previous two drugs, phentermine/topiramate (Qnexa) and lorcaserin hydrochloride (Lorqess) were both rejected by the FDA after they fared poorly at advisory committee meetings. There is currently just one anti-obesity drug on the market: Orlistat (Xenical, Alli), after Abbott, the maker of another drug sibutramine (Meridia) voluntarily agreed to remove it from the U.S. market in October because of increased risk of stroke and MI. In the FDA's assessment of the drug released last week, reviewers expressed concerns over several side effects -- a potential increased risk for dizziness, nausea, seizures, and high blood pressure among patients taking naltrexone/bupropion." ]

[ "A family frantically rushing to catch a flight on their way to their loved one's funeral received a surprise gift from two Delta pilots. Marci and her family made it to Bolivar and the funeral for her husband of 32 years, thanks to two Delta pilots who turned their plane around for them. Our three children and I sat on the tarmac at Sky Harbor in Phoenix, Arizona for an hour waiting for the okay to fly due to some damage to the cargo doors.\" I am assuming the pilots may have called and asked what was going on,\" Ginger Short, Jay's sister who lives in Bolivar, said. As for the reason why the pilots chose to turn around, the family is not sure if they realized the reason the family was upset or not, but are thankful they were led to do something that is almost unheard of in the airline industry. Short's (Jay) last wish was to be buried with his family in Bolivar, Tennessee.", "An Arizona family faced with a horrible tragedy is praising a pilot for displaying an act of human kindness unusual in the airline industry: delaying takeoff in order to allow them to make the funeral of a beloved family member. The family ran into a problem familiar to many travelers -- a flight delay -- on their way to Tennessee. \"This Endeavor Air pilot’s decision to return to the gate in this special circumstance is a great reflection of the human touch we want all Delta customers to experience when flying with us,\" a Delta spokesperson said in a statement." ]

[ "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Berkshire Hathaway executive David Sokol deliberately misled Warren Buffett when pitching an investment to him, the company's board concluded in a scathing report that may add fuel to a pending SEC probe of Buffett's one-time heir apparent. The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol. Sokol's high-profile attorney disputed the board's report and said his client is \"a man of uncommon rectitude and probity.\" The report is an unusual statement from a board that has historically been very close to Buffett, who is CEO and chairman. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Sokol, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.", "David Sokol violated Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A)’s insider-trading rules and misled the company about his personal stake in Lubrizol Corp. (LZ), which he recommended as a takeover target to Chairman Warren Buffett, the firm said. Sokol’s purchase of about $10 million in Lubrizol stock while facilitating Buffett’s deal to buy the lubricant maker “violated company policies, including Berkshire Hathaway’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and its insider-trading policies and procedures,” according to the report. Buffett, 80, is facing questions about his oversight of managers and criticism for not condemning the stock trading that preceded Sokol’s resignation from Berkshire. Berkshire will cooperate with any government investigations related to Sokol’s Lubrizol transactions and weigh suing the former manager to recover his trading profits, according to a report from Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire’s audit committee. Buffett didn’t realize until March 14, when the $9 billion deal was announced, that investment bankers at Citigroup Inc. had brought Wickliffe, Ohio-based Lubrizol to Sokol’s attention as a potential target, according to the report. Buffett learned of Citigroup’s role introducing Sokol to Lubrizol only when a representative from the bank called to congratulate him on the deal, according to the report. Buffett had said March 30 in announcing Sokol’s departure that he didn’t believe the trades were unlawful." ]

[ "According to Human Rights Watch, Kadyrov presides over law enforcement and security agencies that have been implicated in abductions, torture and executions of those suspected of involvement in the Islamist insurgency in Chechnya. \"Ramzan Kadyrov is linked to a litany of horrific human rights abuses. Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, called the stars’ attendance at the celebration “disheartening and shameful.” PHOTOS: '80s Action Stars: Where Are They Now? We must remember the disgrace of Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, Beyoncé and 50 Cent were exposed to after singing for Gaddafi’s family and earning millions of dollars for it.” PHOTOS: The Most Talked-About TV News Faces Kadyrov had said the celebrations, financed by the Kremlin, were held in honor of the 193rd anniversary of the founding of Grozny, Chechnya's capital. UPDATED: Human Rights Foundation says Swank was warned about the activities of Ramzan Kadyrov before she attended the lavish event.", "Human Rights Watch is lambasting an Oscar-winning actress and other Western celebrities for attending a concert held on the birthday of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, who has been accused of rights abuses. Human Rights Watch urged the artists to \"avoid legitimizing people like\" Kadyrov, who has been accused by rights groups of having orchestrated abductions, extrajudicial killings and the enforcement of sharia law in Chechnya. The New York-based rights watchdog said Wednesday that American actress Hilary Swank, Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme and British violinist Vanessa Mae attended the concert in the Chechen capital, Grozny. The Oct. 5 show was held at a police-cordoned concert hall on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's 35th birthday. The artists' representatives were not immediately available for comment." ]

[ "And the contrasting reaction demonstrates why Democrats will have a hard time in their latest effort to unseat the GOP lightning rod. ELK RIVER, Minn. — The verdict from Washington last week was swift and bipartisan: Michele Bachmann was out of line. Accusing two prominent Muslims — State Department aide Huma Abedin and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota — of being tied to the Muslim Brotherhood was a step too far, even for the conservative firebrand. “I think she’s been exposed to a lot of discussion on the Hill, and it’s been an area of tremendous interest with her.” And just like that, the outlines of the post-presidential profile of Bachmann became abundantly clear. Supporters like Duane Halstad, a 69-year-old who was sitting on a porch watching a parade here, said Bachmann is the “only one telling the truth about this thing.” He also said he believes President Barack Obama vacations on Martha’s Vineyard to observe the Islamic holiday of Ramadan. She’s become an annoyance for House Republican leaders, who say her conspiracy theories tarnish the party’s brand and run afoul of their economy-focused message.", "Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said. An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last week claimed Abedin’s family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked for a probe to see if she is helping the Islamist organization. The man was questioned by the NYPD and the State Department and has not been charged, sources said.", "Report cited by Bachmann claims Norquist linked to Muslim Brotherhood By Eric W. Dolan Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:11 EDT Like Raw Story on Facebook Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist helped the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrate the U.S. government, according to the report that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) cited in an attack on top State Department aide Huma Abedin. As evidence of their claims, the five Republicans cited “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within,” a ten-part video course produced by the Center for Security Policy. The movies claim that the “Muslim Brotherhood was helped in its efforts to achieve information dominance over the George W. Bush administration” by Norquist, a Christian. Earlier this month, Bachmann and four other Republicans sent a letter to inspectors general in the State, Homeland Security, Defense and Justice departments calling on them to investigate “potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration” of the Obama administration by Abedin, an aide to Secretary Clinton and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). The influential anti-tax activist is also accused of using “various organizations to promote Islamist agendas.” Nearly every Republican in Congress has signed Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, vowing to oppose any and all tax increases. Bachmann has been widely criticized for her attack on Abedin. Only 14 Republican members of 112th Congress have refused to sign the pledge." ]

[ "This suggests the possibility that a weapon could have been modified to fire more quickly, a change to semiautomatic firearms known as bump or slide fire. Such modifications harness the recoil to allow for rapid fire. Weapons capable of burst fire have long been federally regulated in the United States and are more difficult to obtain than weapons that fire semiautomatically, for which regulations vary by state. Audio recordings of the shooting suggest that at least one of Mr. Paddock’s weapons fired automatically, discharging multiple bullets with a single depression of a trigger, in what are commonly called bursts. When the gunshots started, videos showed, those in front of the stage dropped to their stomachs — often an adequate first measure when under fire. In some videos of the shooting, the rate of fire sounds inconsistent, at times sputtering.", "Share on Google Plus Log in to Save “Either run and get shot and die, or stay and get shot and die.” SHAMI ESPINOZA, a concertgoer from California who was caught in the gunfire at a Las Vegas music festival.", "BTW Warning: This article contains graphic imagery and language. As details steadily come in about the Las Vegas shooting that has left 59 dead and 527 injured, so have videos and images showing the terror concertgoers faced as alleged shooter Stephen Paddock began spraying bullets at the crowd from a Mandalay Bay hotel room. Editor’s note: This post has been updated to reflect the latest death toll in the Las Vegas shooting." ]

[ "CLOSE The Caller-Times chatted with actor Lou Ferrigno and he told us a little about himself and what fans can expect at the second annual Corpus Christi Comic-Con this weekend. Happy I made it out of the hospital in time.” Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/12/14/hulk-lou-ferrigno-hospitalized-after-pneumonia-shot-gone-wrong/2314320002/ Meagan Falcon/Caller-Times Lou Ferrigno attends The Hollywood Show held at Westin LAX Hotel on Feb. 10, 2018 in Los Angeles, Calif.\\ (Photo: Albert L. Ortega, WireImage) Lou Ferrigno is looking a little green. “I’ll be ok but it’s important that you keep an eye on who’s giving the shot and make sure they not only swab the spot correctly but that you watch the needle come out of the package.” The 67-year-old actor’s fans crowded his Instagram comments field with well wishes, sending him their concerns. “The Incredible Hulk” star revealed on Instagram he was hospitalized this week after he went to get a pneumonia shot – presumably a vaccine – and ended up with fluid in his bicep. “Went in for a pneumonia shot and landed up here with fluid in my bicep,” he wrote Thursday. On Thursday night after he was released from the hospital, he attended a Smash Global MMA event in Los Angeles.", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history.", "Lou Ferrigno is recovering after a pneumonia vaccination went wrong. Lou Ferrigno as \"The Incredible Hulk\" Silver Screen Collection/Getty RELATED: Inside The Incredible Hulk Is a Gentle Giant from Brooklyn, Bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno Despite Ferrigno advising his fans to be extra cautious when receiving shots, the CDC reports that the United States has the safest and most effective vaccine supply in its history. In addition to playing The Hulk, Ferrigno most recently picked up roles in several films including The Avengers in 2012, Star Trek Continues in 2014, and Enter the Fire in 2018.", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history." ]

[ "If the Republicans still harbor any doubts about whether or not they should shut down the government, those doubts should be long gone for one simple reason: if David Stockman is for it, it must be a bad idea. “I think the Republicans need to stand rigidly firm and shut the government down for a few days. If the Republicans hold the line, Obama will fold faster than a lawn chair. And the Republicans will get their $60 billion in reductions.” “Bring it on!” the erstwhile Reagan budget chief told the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove.", "Feeling depressed about the budget negotiations in Washington—the meaningless posturing, the colossal deficit, the looming government shutdown, and the nation’s collective inability to come to grips with the real problem? They should be pounding the table—why aren’t we cutting the defense budget by $100 billion a year instead of this embarrassing pinprick [$78 billion over five years] that [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates has come up with? How much does this courageous budget cut from the entitlements over the next 10 years?" ]

[ "(July 18, 2013) -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release the first comprehensive English translation of Book Five of the Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Chapter One- Crimes against the national and foreign security of the State Chapter Two- Insulting sacred religious values and criminal attempt on national authorities Chapter Three- Attempt on the lives of foreign diplomatic officials Chapter Four- Producing and distributing fake coins Chapter Five- Forging and counterfeiting Chapter Six- Removing or breaking a seal and stealing documents from governmental places Chapter Seven- Escape of prisoners and concealment of offenders Chapter Eight- Impersonation of officials and offices Chapter Nine- Destruction of historical and cultural assets Chapter Ten- Offenses of government officials and agents Chapter Eleven- Bribery, Usury and Fraud Chapter Twelve- Refusing to carry out legal duties Chapter Thirteen- Offenses of civil servants against government Chapter Fourteen- Defying state agents Chapter Fifteen- Insulting other individuals Chapter Sixteen- Conspiracy and collusion to commit a crime Chapter Seventeen- Crimes against people and children Chapter Eighteen- Crimes against public prudency and morality Chapter Nineteen- Crimes against family rights and responsibilities Chapter Twenty- Perjury and revealing secrets Chapter Twenty One- Theft and stealing other people’s property Chapter Twenty Two- Threatening and coercing Chapter Twenty Three- Bankruptcy Chapter Twenty Four- Breach of trust Chapter Twenty Five- Arson and destruction of property and animals Chapter Twenty Six- Violating and trespassing other people’s houses and estates Chapter Twenty Seven- Libel and Insult and Dishonoring Chapter Twenty Eight- Public consumption of alcoholic beverages and gambling and tramping Chapter Twenty Nine- Traffic Crimes Incorporating all amendments up to January 2012 Adopted by the Legal Affairs Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly on Tuesday 30/07/1991 Book Five- Ta’zir and Deterring Punishments Chapter One- Crimes against the national and foreign security of the State Article 498 – Anyone, with any ideology, who establishes or directs a group, society, or branch, inside or outside the country, with any name or title, that constitutes more than two individuals and aims to perturb the security of the country, if not considered as mohareb, shall be sentenced to two to ten years’ imprisonment. Book Five is the only part of the Penal Code that has been adopted permanently and unlike the rest of the Penal Code is not subject to experimental periods. Book Five also deals with theft, fraud, forgery, insult and a wide range of other offenses. Article 524- Anyone who forges the orders or signature or stamp or handwriting of the Supreme Leader or the Heads of Powers [of the Executive, Judiciary and Legislature] in respect to their official position, or uses [the aforementioned] with knowledge of the forgery and counterfeit, shall be sentenced to three to fifteen years’ imprisonment.", "The report debunks recent attempts by Iran’s authorities to whitewash their continuing violations of children’s rights and deflect criticism of their appalling record as one of the world’s last executioners of juvenile offenders. Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran View More Research Scores of youths in Iran are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18, said Amnesty International in a new report published today. Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran reveals that Iran has continued to consign juvenile offenders to the gallows, while trumpeting as major advances, piecemeal reforms that fail to abolish the death penalty against juvenile offenders.", "The change in the nature of the regime from secular to religious had its impact both on domestic legislation and international conventions, as explained below. Children’s Rights: Iran Back to Children's Rights Introduction The Islamic Revolution of 1979 introduced drastic and fundamental changes in the social, economic, and political structure of Iran. It marked the end of a 2,500 year-old monarchical regime and brought into power a religion-oriented government based on the Shiite school tenets of Islam. Domestic Legislation The Law Aggravating Punishment for Employing Children under 12 Years of Age in the Carpet Industry of February, 1969 provides for a jail term of six months to one year and a fine of five thousand to fifty thousand rials for violators. [5] In addition, the Regulations regarding the Maximum Weight to Be Lifted Manually by Women and Teenagers of February 1991 provide that the load to be lifted manually by a woman should not exceed ten kilograms. [1] Iran, however, has made the following reservation “If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it.”[2] Iran has so far (according to the available sources in the Law Library of Congress) not passed legislation calling for the implementation of the Convention.", "Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish Text in PDF Format Convention on the Rights of the Child Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49 Preamble The States Parties to the present Convention, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Bearing in mind that the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Recognizing that the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, Recalling that, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations has proclaimed that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance, Convinced that the family, as the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members and particularly children, should be afforded the necessary protection and assistance so that it can fully assume its responsibilities within the community, Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity, Bearing in mind that the need to extend particular care to the child has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1959 and recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in particular in articles 23 and 24), in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in particular in article 10) and in the statutes and relevant instruments of specialized agencies and international organizations concerned with the welfare of children, Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, \"the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth\", Recalling the provisions of the Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally; the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules); and the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict, Recognizing that, in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration, Taking due account of the importance of the traditions and cultural values of each people for the protection and harmonious development of the child, Recognizing the importance of international co-operation for improving the living conditions of children in every country, in particular in the developing countries, Have agreed as follows: PART I Article 1 For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health.", "She fell in love with a boy and intended to marry him, but her father was against the marriage. One day she had an argument with her father, got angry, and killed him with a kitchen knife. Mahsa’s brothers are requesting the death penalty for her Photograph: Words and pictures from Waiting for Capital Punishment, by Sadegh Souri" ]

[ "“We propose that further research on the role of infectious agents in Alzheimer’s disease causation, including prospective trials of antimicrobial therapy, is now justified.” They say new findings could also have implications for the future treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, and other progressive neurological conditions. Alzheimer’s disease could be caused by viruses like herpes, a group of renowned dementia experts have warned, as they call for urgent investigation into the link. “There is incontrovertible evidence that Alzheimer’s Disease has a dormant microbial component. Continued research funding into diseases like Alzheimer’s is important to build a clearer picture of the genetic and lifestyle risk factors for the disease and use this knowledge to develop preventions or treatments.” Photo: ALAMY The herpes virus in particular is known to damage the central nervous system, and the limbic system in the brain which regulates mood and instinct and is associated with mental decline and personality changes.", "Opposition to the microbial concepts resembles the fierce resistance to studies some years ago which showed that viruses cause certain types of cancer, and that a bacterium causes stomach ulcers. Their paper, which has been published online in the highly regarded peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, stresses the urgent need for further research - and more importantly, for clinical trials of anti-microbial and related agents to treat the disease. A worldwide team of senior scientists and clinicians have come together to produce an editorial which indicates that certain microbes - a specific virus and two specific types of bacteria - are major causes of Alzheimer’s Disease. Therefore, proposals for the funding of clinical trials have been refused, despite the fact that over 400 unsuccessful clinical trials for Alzheimer's based on other concepts were carried out over a recent 10-year period. The team’s landmark editorial summarises the abundant data implicating these microbes, but until now this work has been largely ignored or dismissed as controversial - despite the absence of evidence to the contrary. Those concepts were ultimately proved valid, leading to successful clinical trials and the subsequent development of appropriate treatments. This major call for action is based on substantial published evidence into Alzheimer's.", "In summary, we propose that infectious agents, including HSV1, Chlamydia pneumonia, and spirochetes, reach the CNS and remain there in latent form. We refer to the many studies, mainly on humans, implicating specific microbes in the elderly brain, notably herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), Chlamydia pneumoniae, and several types of spirochaete, in the etiology of AD [1–4]. These constitute the hallmarks of AD, but whether they are causes of AD or consequences is unknown. We are researchers and clinicians working on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or related topics, and we write to express our concern that one particular aspect of the disease has been neglected, even though treatment based on it might slow or arrest AD progression. We propose that further research on the role of infectious agents in AD causation, including prospective trials of antimicrobial therapy, is now justified." ]

[ "China confirms forced abortion case after uproar BEIJING — Chinese authorities confirmed Thursday that a woman was forced to abort seven months into her pregnancy, several days after her plight came to light when images of her baby's corpse were posted online. Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who recently left China for the United States after fleeing house arrest, was once jailed after angering local officials for bringing to light hundreds of forced abortions. The US said Monday it has expressed opposition to China's one-child policy after activists reported that a five-month-pregnant woman faces an imminent forced abortion in a separate case.", "Image caption China's birth control policy has drawn much criticism A photo showing a foetus whose mother was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users. The BBC's Jon Sudworth in Shanghai says such allegations are nothing new in China, but what has made this one different is a widely circulated photo of the woman lying next to the baby's corpse. \"This is what they say the Japanese devils and Nazis did. Media reports from China says Ms Feng has been traumatised by what has happened. \"Such practice has seriously violated the relevant policies set by national and provincial family planning commissions, which harmed the image of our family planning work, and caused extremely poor effects in society,\" said the statement." ]

[ "As a candidate, Trump proposed a temporary ban on all Muslims coming into the country. The Obama administration formally abandoned the system in April 2011, saying a newer data collection program would be sufficient to collect biometric information for all foreigners coming into the country. The top suggestion was to \"update and reintroduce\" the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or NSEERS, for all foreigners from \"high-risk\" areas, a program he helped create while working for the Justice Department in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Kansan's list also included ending the flow of Syrian refugees into the United States. Kobach's plan also proposes adding \"extreme vetting questions for high-risk\" foreigners coming into the U.S. Those would include questions about a would-be visitor's \"support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States constitution.\"", "A written plan for the Department of Homeland Security brought by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach into his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump spells out a desire to question “high-risk” immigrants over support for Sharia law and the U.S. Constitution. Some speculation has centered on the secretary of Homeland Security, and Kobach’s plan appears to lend credence to that possibility. A Trump transition team statement on the Sunday meeting said Trump and Kobach met “to discuss border security, international terrorism, and reforming federal bureaucracy.” Kobach has built a national reputation as a proponent of hard-line stances on immigration and election law. In response, the American Relief Coalition for Syria, a coalition of 13 Syrian-American humanitarian organizations, said such a move would be “deeply immoral” on the part of the United States. The program was implemented in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but largely suspended in 2011. As Kansas secretary of state, he is embroiled in litigation – defending the state’s proof of citizenship voting law. Kobach, an early Trump supporter, met with the president-elect on Sunday and has been mentioned as a potential pick for a position within the administration. An Associated Press photographer shot an image of Kobach going into the meeting and clutching a binder along with a stack of papers." ]

[ "By REUTERS Photo: Reuters Charlie Hebdo PARIS - France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday after a French magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a move it fears will further inflame tensions over a film mocking the prophet. \"We have indeed decided as a precautionary measure to close our premises, embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools,\" a Foreign Ministry spokesman said of the shut-down on Friday, prayer day across the Muslim world.The French satirical weekly published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday, a move criticized by the French authorities which sent riot police to protect the magazine's offices.In response, Muslim leaders criticized the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as another Western insult to their faith and urged France's government to take firm action against it. \"The government has called for restraint over the cartoons, restating the principles of free speech in France and urging those shocked by the images to take action through the courts.Muslim leaders in France, which has Europe's largest Muslim population, have appealed for calm.As outrage over the anti-Muslim film continues to fuel violence and protests across the Islamic world, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the authorities had rejected a request to hold a march against the film in Paris. In 2005, Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave of violent protests across the Muslim world that killed at least 50 people.Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad offensive. \"Is it relevant and intelligent in this environment to add fuel to the fire? \"There is no reason for us to allow conflicts that do not concern France to enter our country,\" Ayrault told RTL radio.Social media had circulated calls for a protest on Saturday against the film, after police arrested about 150 people who tried to take part in an unauthorized protest near the US Embassy in Paris last week.", "A FRENCH satirical magazine has published nude cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, a move that could further inflame tensions after violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film. The cover of Charlie Hebdo today shows a Muslim in a wheelchair being pushed by an Orthodox Jew under the title Intouchables 2, referring to an award-winning French film about a poor black man who helps an aristocratic quadriplegic. Another cartoon on the back page of the weekly magazine shows a naked turbaned Mohammed exposing his posterior to a film director, a scene inspired by a 1963 film starring French film star Brigitte Bardot. He also said a request to hold a demonstration in Paris against the controversial US-made anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, which has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world, would be refused. Charlie Hebdo's website crashed today after being bombarded with comments that ranged from hate mail to approbation. Charlie Hebdo's latest move was greeted with immediate calls from political and religious leaders for the media to act responsibly and avoid inflaming the current situation.", "France's leadership is barring a planned protest by people angry over a film produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad, but are defending a newspaper's right to publish caricatures of the prophet. France's foreign minister said security is being stepped up at some French embassies amid tensions in France and elsewhere around the film \"The Innocence of Muslims.\" French authorities and Muslim leaders urged calm in the country with western Europe's largest Muslim population. An umbrella group for French Muslims, the CFCM, issued a statement expressing its \"deep concern\" over the latest Charlie Hebdo caricatures and warned that \"in a very tense context, it risks exacerbating tensions and provoking reactions.\" It urged French Muslims to \"not cede to provocation and ... express their indignation in peace via legal means.\" Riot police took up positions outside the Paris offices of a satirical French weekly that published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule the film and the furor surrounding it." ]

[ "brandy Posted by Oklahoma-born and bred country music superstar Carrie Underwood helped a young fan make an incredible memory and mark a big milestone during her show Saturday night in Louisville, Ky. A 12-year-old fan named Chase apparently made a sign that read “Carrie be my first kiss,” and the Checotah singer-songwriter obliged by bringing him up onstage. After the concert, the superstar even posted a picture of the smooch and thanked the boy on Twitter @carrieunderwood: “Thanks, Chase, for the kiss and thanks Louisville for rocking so hard tonight! #liptolip” What a sweet, fun, classy moment, that you can share in thanks to that ol’ YouTube magic. After warning the youth that her husband, NFL player Mike Fisher, was in the arena, Underwood asked Chase “OK, how are we going to do this?” Give the boy credit for guts: He replied, “Lip to lip.” So Underwood gave him a kiss square on the lips.", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history." ]

[ "\"After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her Bipolar II Disorder,\" her rep confirms.In addition to her duties as an actress and mother, Zeta-Jones has dealt with more than enough stress in the past few years to merit some much-needed time off and TLC. Catherine Zeta-Jones Checks Into Mental Health Facility Email This With husband \"After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her Bipolar II Disorder,\" her rep confirms. Gossip Cop reports that the actress has checked herself into a mental health facility. 'Sources report , \"Catherine had a lot of trouble coping [with Douglas' cancer].", "Bipolar disorder is also called manic-depressive illness. Bipolar II disorder is not as severe as bipolar I. The disorder is most known for the unusual shifts in mood and energy that those with it experience. While bipolar disorder often develops in a person's late teens or early adult years, it has been known to develop later on in life as well." ]

[ "Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Conditions on the beach were fairly typical, as the BBC's Jon Kay reports Two men and a woman have died after getting into difficulty in the sea off a beach in Cornwall. The tragedy follows the death of a 23-year-old man who drowned in the sea off Newquay in early hours of Saturday. They were among seven surfers who had to be helped from the water at Mawgan Porth, near Newquay.", "Mawgan Porth is popular with surfers, who flock to the beach for waves known as Atlantic breakers, and with walkers following the idyllic coastal path. Three surfers have died after getting into difficulties in the sea in Cornwall, police have said. An air and sea rescue mission was launched after onlookers spotted a group of seven, including four children, in difficulty in the water. Two men and a woman were caught in a rip current off Mawgan Porth beach near Newquay at around 1.30pm on Sunday. Two of the three recovered from the water were given CPR at the scene before they were airlifted to hospital. Everyone was standing around the beach going ‘Oh my God, what’s going on?’ “There were two helicopters and three lifeboats … so we knew it was a big deal as soon as we saw that.” A spokesman at the Merrymoor Inn, which overlooks the beach, praised the response of emergency services: “The emergency services were here incredibly quickly." ]

[ "“This is an excellent next step in the direction of becoming an institution that not only admits diverse students, but ensures their care and support — one who is eager to eliminate any barriers that may stand in the way of such a goal.” Zeppos said the decision to remove the mention of the Confederacy from the building spoke to the courage of students, faculty and staff who spoke out against it for years. At Vanderbilt, founded in 1873 just eight years after the Civil War ended, the name change follows a series of changes made over the past year to address diversity, including the addition of a chief diversity officer to the university's leadership team. The longstanding effort to rename the residence hall took on renewed urgency over the past couple of years, as universities across Tennessee and the country grappled with the shadow of racism and slavery on their campuses. Students and officials at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro have spent months pushing to remove the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, from a campus building. Ariana Fowler, president of Vanderbilt Student Government, praised the university leadership for the decision to formally rename the residence hall.", "A white man espousing racist views and who posed in a photo with a Confederate flag has been charged with murder in the killings. Calls to remove Confederate imagery from public places multiplied across the South after last year's slaying of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. The private university announced on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that it has struck an agreement to pay $1.2 million to United Daughters... (Associated Press) FILE - This Sept. 30, 2003, file photo, shows the exterior of a dormitory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is inscribed with the name Confederate Memorial Hall. The private university announced on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that it has struck an agreement to pay $1.2 million to United Daughters... (Associated Press) FILE - This Sept. 30, 2003, file photo, shows the exterior of a dormitory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is inscribed with the name Confederate Memorial Hall. The private university announced... (Associated Press) FILE - This Sept. 30, 2003, file photo, shows the exterior of a dormitory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is inscribed with the name Confederate Memorial Hall. FILE - This Sept. 30, 2003, file photo, shows the exterior of a dormitory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is inscribed with the name Confederate Memorial Hall. The private university announced... (Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will pay more than a million dollars to remove an inscription containing the word \"Confederate\" from one of its campus dorms." ]

[ "The estate of the late artist Dash Snow is fighting to protect his legacy against the dreaded label of “sellout.” Jade Berreau, the late artist’s former girlfriend and current estate manager, is suing McDonald’s for copying Snow’s graffiti tag, and using it to decorate a number of restaurants without permission. In June 2016, Burreau first asked McDonald’s to remove Snow’s recognizable graffiti tag, “SACE,” from the locations that had been redesigned in the graffiti-covered, industrial theme, to no avail. Memo to Brixton McDonalds – your new graffiti lampshades SUCK pic.twitter.com/T1gyGLZWjV — Hannah T-W (@hannahteedub) March 4, 2016 Back in March, a refurbished McDonald’s in the gentrifying district of Brixton, South London generated controversy for the questionable graffiti-covered décor.", "The late American artist Dash Snow may not be a household name to the average McDonald’s customer—but his artwork might look familiar to frequent diners. Seven years after the artist passed away, his estate has filed a lawsuit against the fast food chain, alleging McDonald’s used several of Snow’s signature designs as fake graffiti décor in numerous locations around the world. Snow, born Dashiell Snow, “carefully avoided any association with corporate culture and mass-market consumerism… He has never made his original art available on the internet, in retail stores, or in restaurants,” argues the lawsuit. McDonald’s is “clearly attempting to trade on Mr. Snow’s name and reputation.\"", "This is particularly problematic, argues his estate, because Snow “carefully avoided any association with corporate culture and mass-market consumerism… He has never made his original art available on the internet, in retail stores, or in restaurants.” McDonald’s is, per the complaint, “clearly attempting to trade on Mr. Snow’s name and reputation.” His estate points out that the allegedly infringing design is the largest and most prominent part of the McDonald’s wall decor, and the “only element ‘created’ by a famous artist.” The estate claims that Snow’s family asked McDonald’s in June 2016 to remove the allegedly offending work, but that the fast food chain has “arrogantly refused to comply.” [h/t Page Six] Seven years after artist Dash Snow passed away, his estate is accusing McDonald’s of brazenly swiping one of his signature designs to use as fake “graffiti” decor on eateries around the world. When we say “signature,” we don’t just mean that this particular work was intimately associated with Snow; we also mean that the design was actually the spray-painted signature for Snow’s pseudonym “SACE.” The two images below are taken from the complaint [PDF]. On the left is a Snow original SACE signature." ]

[ "WSJ reporters assess the state of the fiscal cliff talks and discuss the chances of gun control legislation in the wake of the school shootings in Connecticut. WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama called Friday for a return to negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, a day after talks cratered in a very public fashion when Republicans abandoned House Speaker John Boehner's backup plan. As the country the next day digested news of a brutal school shooting in Connecticut, Mr. Boehner called the president and for the first time offered to let tax rates rise—on income above $1 million. Stocks sank as investors confronted a new level of budget disarray in Washington, but the market was on pace to notch gains for the last full trading week of the year.", "The juiciest passage in the Wall Street Journal’s behind-the-scenes report on the fiscal cliff negotiations comes when House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) asks President Obama whether he can have the deal he rejected in 2011. The talk in Washington now is about a “small deal.” That would likely include the Senate tax bill, some policy to turn off at least the defense side of the sequester and a handful of other policies to blunt or delay various parts of the fiscal cliff. But the most important insight into the White House’s strategic thinking comes when Boehner says to the president, ”I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. The Senate already passed a bill letting the Bush tax cuts lapse for income over $250,000.", "Secretary' -- Leibo goes to NFL game with Rubio, Alex - Diane Sawyer, Ted Cruz bday Presented by SEN. BOB CORKER (R-Tenn.), to Peter Cook on tomorrow’s Bloomberg TV “Capitol Gains”: “It's time for us to get specific and not create another fiscal cliff, which is really what's being proposed -- creating another fiscal cliff to deal with this fiscal cliff.” PRESIDENT OBAMA, in the Brady Press Briefing Room before he left for Hawaii: “In the next few days, I've asked leaders of Congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle-class Americans, protects unemployment insurance for 2 million Americans, and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. 9 days to cliff, 30 days to inauguration -- OBAMA TO BOEHNER: 'I get that for free' -- KERRY to be 'Mr. Visit www.aha.org/preparedtocare to learn more. And because we didn’t get this done, I will see you next week.” Story Continued Below PALACE INTRIGUE – “How 'Cliff' Talks Hit the Wall: Behind Scenes, Boehner Failed to Sell Republicans on Taxes, While Obama's Spending Plans Rankled,” by Patrick O’Connor and Peter Nicholas: “[A]ccording to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, ‘I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. There are no public events scheduled.” BUSINESS BURST – “Wal-Mart Turns to Condé Nast for Beauty Magazine,” by Women’s Wear Daily’s Erik Maza: “Buried within Wal-Mart’s Web site … is a magazine called BeautyScoop. After the Speaker’s Plan B blew up in his face on Thursday night, the WSJ decided to go ahead and publish the story, including private conversations between the leaders, … even though we don't yet have a deal, poisoning the water going forward.” --JERRY SEIB, Washington Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, emails: “We set out to provide the most accurate account of the deficit deliberations possible, and reached out to all sides along the way." ]

[ "A professor at one of Germany's oldest universities apologised on Monday for denying an internship to an Indian student because of the “rape problem in India” after the German ambassador strongly condemned the incident. The issue emerged amidst a renewed debate on the country's poor record in women's safety, especially after the controversy generated by the banned documentary, India's Daughter, which purportedly highlights the misogynist mindset of Indian men. Last week, the Indian government barred the screening of India's Daughter, a documentary by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the brutal gang-rape of a young student in December 2012. Despite the ban, the film has been viewed on the internet by many Indians, triggering a fresh debate on rape and steps to counter violence against women and the mindset behind such attacks.", "Plus, the whole characterisation of India as a homogenous ''Indian society'' that she feels is unable to solve it's ''rape problem'' is ludicruous - given the diversity of cultures in India AND the concerted efforts by Indians to solve it's so called 'rape problem' (which to be honest, is grossly sensationalised and is nowhere close to the culture of rape and neo-Nazi violence in Germany). (In a manner uncannily similar to the demonisation of Jews prior to the Holocaust). This is a possible scenario, as I have seen first hand, how some Indian (and rarely, non-Indian) women try to ruin it for Indian men.", "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period." ]

[ "An anatomy scan is routine for pregnant women at 20 weeks. (The Canadian Press) They diagnosed the couple’s first child, Sebastian Havill, now 9 weeks old, with severe complete transposition of the great arteries (TGA). That was when Kristine Barry learned her baby had a heart defect that would require what’s believed to be the world’s first use of in utero surgery to treat this condition. About three babies a year in Ontario have the same extreme case of congenial heart defect that Sebastian has.", "With neonatal and cardiac surgeons on standby in case an emergency cesarean section became necessary, the doctors used a needle to insert a balloon through Barry's uterus and into Sebastian's heart, making a small hole to open up the heart's interior wall, so oxygenated blood could pass through. 'The clock ticks' In most cases, newborn babies with heart defects can be rushed from the neonatal unit at Mount Sinai Hospital to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) across the street, says Dr. Rajiv Chaturvedi, a cardiologist at SickKids. \"These kids can play soccer, play hockey, go to university, have pretty normal lives,\" Chaturvedi says. (CBC News) So on May 18, Ryan, Chaturvedi and Jaeggi, along with dozens of clinicians from both Mount Sinai Hospital and SickKids performed a risky and remarkable procedure: a balloon atrial septoplasty while the baby is still in the uterus.", "To avoid such a high-risk delivery and the dangers to the newborn, a team of doctors from Mount Sinai Hospital and Sick Kids opted to perform the procedure to create an opening between the upper chambers of Sebastian's heart while he was in the womb. \"If a baby doesn't have any holes between the two sides, so the right and left half, the child would be deeply blue, and eventually will die from this condition unless we are able to create the hole after birth rapidly,\" said cardiologist Dr. Edgar Jaeggi, head of the fetal cardiac program at Sick Kids Hospital and part of the two-hospital team that cared for Barry and her soon-to-be born baby. Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press TORONTO -- Watching Kristine Barry and husband Christopher Havill cuddle their two-month-old son Sebastian, it's hard to believe their little guy has been through more major medical procedures in his short life -- and even before being born -- than many people experience in a lifetime. \"Once we've done that, we withdraw the needle and withdraw the catheter out of the baby's heart,\" he said, adding that he believes this is the first time in the world that the in-utero procedure has been performed in a fetus with TGA. That something was an in-utero procedure to poke a hole in the wall between the upper chambers of his tiny heart, which had developed with no opening, followed by an operation after birth to repair his major cardiac arteries, which weren't in the proper locations." ]

[ "Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker has died from injuries he suffered in a crash in Florida Thursday night. Live your life fully and with purpose. Upon learning of Walker's accident but before his death, Harbaugh penned a letter to the players, which the Ravens shared on their website. One of our Brothers, Tray Walker, is fighting for his life. Here is the text of that letter: An Open Letter to Our Team Men, Right now, this moment is an incredibly difficult time for our Team and our Family.", "FILE - This Oct. 26, 2015, file photo shows Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker (25) during the second half of an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz. Walker is in critical condition after being involved... (Associated Press) FILE - This Oct. 26, 2015, file photo shows Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker (25) during the second half of an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz. Walker is in critical condition after being involved in motorcycle accident. The Ravens said Thursday, March 17, 2016, that Walker is at Jackson... (Associated Press) FILE - This Oct. 26, 2015, file photo shows Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker (25) during the second half of an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz. Walker is in critical condition after being involved in motorcycle accident. The Ravens said Thursday, March 17, 2016, that Walker is at Jackson... (Associated Press) FILE - This Oct. 26, 2015, file photo shows Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker (25) during the second half of an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz. Walker is in critical condition after being involved... (Associated Press) MIAMI (AP) — Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker is in critical condition after police say he was involved in a dirt bike crash in Miami. A native of Miami, Walker attended Miami Northwestern High School before playing in college at Texas Southern. In a statement, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said, \"This is devastating news. Police are investigating." ]

[ "The divorced slugger previously dated actress Kate Hudson.Adding to the confusion, LaRogue was also holding an image of Osama bin Laden with the inscription, \"I will serve you,\" in addition to pictures of Whitney Houston, whom the al Qaeda chief purportedly admires.He captioned the Houston photo \"Whitney Bin Laden,\" and on a photo of Houston's ex, Bobby Brown, he wrote, \"You need to be terminated. Rodriguez and Diaz have been quietly dating for months. Or loony, as the headlines are labeling the 33-year-old Brooklyn man who stormed the field at Yankee Stadium on Monday night with alleged aspirations of confronting Police sources tell the He also had a shot of Diaz with the message: \"We will be together soon.\" Or loony, as the headlines are labeling the 33-year-old Brooklyn man who stormed the field at Yankee Stadium on Monday night with alleged aspirations of confronting Alex Rodriguez over his relationship with Cameron Diaz . \"\"I just can't believe this,\" LaRogue's mother, Cathy, told The Post on Tuesday. \"Le Rogue was charged with assault and interfering with a sporting event and taken to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx for a psychiatric evaluation. \"He also had a shot of Diaz with the message: \"We will be together soon.\"", "The fruitcake who ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium Monday wanted to confront A-Rod out of crazed jealousy over the star infielder’s romantic relationship with Cameron Diaz, police sources told The Post last night. VACCARO: IT’S UP TO CC TO KEEP YANKEES BREATHING LeRogue, who has a record of prior arrests for assault and burglary, did not have any weapon on him when he pulled his bizarre stunt in the top of the fifth inning of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against Texas. LeRogue, who admits on his Facebook page that “dignity is a frame of mind I’m [sic] yet to explore,” lives with his mother in Williamsbridge. He wouldn’t give up.” LeRogue, 33, of The Bronx, also has a soft spot for Osama bin Laden. LeRogue was charged with assault and interfering with a sporting event." ]

[ "The rule had been a flashpoint in the ongoing national conversation about income inequality in the context of the Occupy Wall Street and 99 Percent movements. Chris Christie has heard enough about Warren Buffett, and in typical fashion, the New Jersey governor had a certain blunt way of putting it. “Of course, during difficult economic times you’re most concerned about the people who have the potential to suffer the most.” Christie made his comments in the context of saying that his job as governor is to be responsible for all New Jerseyans. … Everyone deserves to have the government responsive to their concerns and needs,” said Christie.", "Tune in to \"Piers Morgan Tonight\" this evening at 9pm ET/PT as the New Jersey Governor reveals his views on sam-sex marriage, and shares his advice for GOP candidate Mitt Romney. The fact of the matter is, that I'm tired of hearing about it. This evening on \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" Garden State Governor Chris Christie sits down for an hour-long, exclusive interview. If he wants to give the government more money he's got the ability to write a check. As the subject turns to New Jersey state taxes, Christie offers some candid quotes regarding a certain billionaire. Insisting he's fed up with empty offers from the investor and philanthropist, Christie continues: \"Just contribute, okay." ]

[ "SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The San Francisco home made famous in the 1993 movie “Mrs. Authorities were called to the home on Broadway and Steiner Street around 8 p.m. after someone reportedly tried to set fire to the home’s garage door and front door. Doubtfire” was apparently the target of a suspicious fire on Monday night. The home, which was the setting for the film starring Robin Williams, regained notoriety last August after the actor and comedian’s death. An accelerant, such as gasoline, was possibly used. The front of the home became a memorial to Williams, as fans dropped off flowers and placed notes. Police remained on the scene until shortly past 11:00 p.m. Monday. The doctor told police that he is having problems with a former client, but is not sure who is responsible for the fire.", "An arsonist targeted a San Francisco home used in the comedy blockbuster \"Mrs. Doubtfire,\" police said early Tuesday. Officials launched an investigation after the iconic Pacific Heights residence had its doormat set ablaze at 8 p.m. local time (11 p.m. The home was used in the filming of the 1993 movie starring actor Robin Williams, who took his own life in August last year. The home is now owned by a doctor who has been a pioneer in facial feminization surgeries. The Pacific Heights home used in the filming of the movie \"Mrs. Doubtfire\" served as a makeshift memorial site following the death of Robin Williams. ET) on Monday night, a San Francisco Police official told NBC News. However, a police department official said the incident did not appear to be a hate crime.", "less Local news crews check out the scene at Steiner and Broadway Streets on Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif, after a suspected arson set small fires to the house used in the Robin Williams movie Mrs. ... more Photo: Mike Kepka, The Chronicle Buy this photo Image 9 of 30 Buy photo After a suspected arson set small fires to the house used in the Robin Williams movie Mrs. Doubtfire, a fading message from a fan sits in front of the house on Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. After a suspected arson set small fires to the house used in the Robin Williams movie Mrs. Doubtfire, a fading message from a fan sits in front of the house on Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Mike Kepka, The Chronicle Buy this photo Image 10 of 30 Outside the Mrs. Doubtfire house on August 11, 2014 in San Francisco, CA. Outside the Mrs. Doubtfire house on August 11, 2014 in San Francisco, CA. Photo: Mike Kepka, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 30 Caption Close Image 1 of 30 Buy photo Local news crews check out the scene at Steiner and Broadway Streets on Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif, after a suspected arson set small fires to the house used in the Robin Williams movie Mrs. Doubtfire. Photo: Craig Hudson / The Chronicle Image 11 of 30 Robin Williams in \"Mrs. People stand outside the Mrs. Doubtfire house on August 11, 2014 in San Francisco, CA." ]

[ "The gallery has a complete collection of presidential portraits. WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Portrait Gallery is unveiling portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. The paintings were being unveiled Monday at the gallery, which is part of the Smithsonian group of museums. For Michelle Obama's portrait, the gallery commissioned Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald, first-prize winner of the Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Barack Obama's portrait was painted by Kehinde Wiley — an artist best known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African-Americans.", "Washington (CNN) Barack and Michelle Obama re-emerged on the public stage Monday in Washington, only this time for an event that has nothing to do with politics. The former first couple's official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, a rite of passage for most former presidents, all of whom have their portraits hanging in the museum. These are perhaps the most anticipated presidential portrait unveilings to date, due in large part to the artists the Obamas selected. Sherald's work is less about realism in composition and more about shape and color; like Wiley, the choice of Sherald ushers in a new era of presidential portrait. Sherald is another African-American artist known for her unique style, and her portraits also tend to underscore themes of social justice." ]

[ "Richard Carpenter to Music Companies You Screwed Me and Karen Royally Richard Carpenter Sues for Karen Over Legendary Music Catalog Richard Carpenter has filed a lawsuit against 2 music companies he claims ripped him off in the royalties over Carpenters tunes, and he's brought Karen into the legal action as well. It's a whole new world out there with digital downloads, and Richard claims Universal and A&M are not giving artists their fair cut. He goes on to say the courts have agreed with him -- notably in a case involving Eminem -- and now he says it's time to pay up. Richard and Karen Carpenter's estate claim Universal Music Group and A&M Records have shut them out of profits for iTunes and other online sales distributors.", "I look forward to proving the allegations in court.” The lawsuit claims breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Richard Carpenter, representing the singer-songwriting duo The Carpenters, claims that Universal Music Group and A&M Records have only paid him and the estate of his sister, Karen, only a “miniscule fraction” of digital royalties owed to them, according to a lawsuit he filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday. “The Carpenters recordings are among the best sellers in the history of popular music and after 48 years continue to contribute a substantial amount to UMG/A&M’s annual bottom line. It seems only fair that these companies account fairly to my sister’s estate and to me. Related Read Universal Music Chief Lucian Grainge’s Year-End Letter to Staff Capitol Music Group Names Amber Grimes Senior VP of Global Creative “I regret that I have been unable to amicably resolve this serious royalty dispute with Universal and A&M,” Carpenter said in a statement. Ultimately, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that digital downloads were a licensing of master recordings rather than a sale of records. Among other things, according to the lawsuit, the record labels “improperly classified” revenue from digital downloads of Carpenters’ music as sales of records as opposed to licensing revenue — short-changing them from a higher royalty rate." ]

[ "QUOTE: \"While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which I take full responsibility, I firmly believe that I have not abused my position,\" Strauss-Kahn wrote in an email to IMF staff after an affair with a subordinate became public in 2008. CAREER: Managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2007, where he won praise for his handling of the global financial crisis. He served as finance minister from 1997-1999 and helped France prepare to abandon the franc for the euro. PhD in economics from the University of Paris. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on April 25, 1949. FAMILY: Wife, Anne Sinclair, and four children by a previous marriage.", "NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged on Sunday with trying to rape a New York hotel maid in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of becoming France's next president. The charismatic 62-year-old, who led the International Monetary Fund through the 2007-09 global financial meltdown and has been central in galvanizing Europe to tackle its debt woes, for long had the reputation of a womanizer. Strauss-Kahn had been due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday and join euro zone finance ministers on Monday to discuss the bloc's debt crisis and how to handle Greece, which is struggling to meet the terms of a 110 billion euro European Union/IMF bailout last year. A crisis of leadership at the Fund now will especially worry European nations given Strauss-Kahn's pivotal role in brokering bailouts for Iceland, Hungary, Greece, Ireland and Portugal." ]

[ "\"The IAS has also heard reports that among the passengers was a former IAS president Joep Lange and if that is the case then the HIV/AIDS movement has truly lost a giant.\" \"A number of colleagues and friends en route to attend the 20th International AIDS Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia, were on board the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight that has crashed over Ukraine,\" Michael Kessler of the International AIDS Society (IAS) said in a statement. People like Joep change the course of epidemics.’’ Dr Yasmin could not be immediately contacted. Greens Senator Christine Milne expressed her shock at such a loss to the HIV-AIDS community.", "• MH17 plane crash: latest news • Foreign ministers agree more 'forceful' sanctions • Hollande aide: UK 'hypocrite' to call for French sanctions • British investigators to retrieve data from plane's black boxes • Train carrying remains of 282 people arrives in Kharkiv 00.00 Thanks for joining us. 21.00 Representatives to the U.N. civil aviation body are considering whether the agency should expand its role and issue safety advisories after a Malaysian airliner was shot down last week, two sources told Reuters. The discussion focussed on the practical implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2166, adopted on July 21 in support of efforts to arrange a comprehensive, thorough and independent international investigation of the accident with the Malaysian airlines jet that took place on July 17 in Donetsk region. EU foreign ministers met in Brussels today to discuss their response to the downing of the flight, and any new sanctions to be imposed against Moscow over the crisis in the former Soviet republic. Follow the latest updates back here tomorrow morning 21.20 The euro fell to its lowest point this year against the dollar amid fear the downing of the jet will further damage EU-Russia relations, AP reports. MH17: FT photo shows signs of damage from missile strike 02.00 To reiterate the main news of the last few hours, a train carrying the remains of 280 people killed in the Malaysian plane disaster was finally allowed to leave the rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine as the militants also declared a truce around the crash site and handed over the black boxes from the plane, five days after the tragedy happened.", "“Here in Australia, we are particularly struck by the loss of 27 Australians and others who were coming here to Melbourne to attend the International AIDS conference — activists, medical researchers, and global health policy experts working to make the world a better place by ridding it of HIV and AIDS.” Jonathan Quick, head of a not-for–profit medicine supply company working with the Global Fund and the US government in Africa and Latin America, described Professor Lange as a force for change in HIV/AIDS treatment. Video Image World loses HIV expert in MH17 disaster 1:18 Play video Professor Francoise Barr-Sinousi addresses the National Press Club with words of grief and loss over colleague and HIV expert Joep Lange, amongst hundreds dead in the crash of flight MH17. It is believed that delegates to the 20th International AIDS Conference, due to begin on Sunday, will be informed today that 108 of their colleagues and family members died on MH17." ]

[ "U.S. federal air marshals have been secretly observing specific American travelers on domestic flights under a previously undisclosed program called \"Quiet Skies,\" The Boston Globe reported Sunday. According to internal documents obtained by the Globe, \"thousands of unsuspecting Americans have been subjected to targeted airport and inflight surveillance, carried out by small teams of armed, undercover air marshals\" since the program began in March. Air marshals also tell the Globe and CNN that they fear the program may be unconstitutional and is certainly a potentially dangerous waste of money and human resources. The Globe says air marshals follow about 35 Quiet Skies targets a day, observing them on a flight and recording such activities as fidgeting, using a laptop or smartphone, sweating heavily, or sleeping.", "Photograph: EPA Shaaban Abdel Amonem, one of the specialists in mummification who attended the opening, said initial assessments showed the trio were probably soldiers, with one of the skulls displaying evidence of arrow blows. Video footage from the news website Youm7 showed a man pouring the red liquid into the street, after samples were taken to be analysed. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skulls of the three decomposed mummies. Waziri said the lack of death masks in precious metals, amulets, statuettes or inscriptions on the sarcophagus meant the bodies were unlikely to be those of Ptolemaic or Roman royals. The skulls of the three mummies found inside will now be analysed in order to identify their ages and cause of death. Archaeologists open granite tomb but are dismayed at state of decay after ‘sewage leak’ Egyptian archeologists have opened a 30-tonne black granite sarcophagus to find three decomposed mummies after sewage water apparently leaked inside.", "Despite that, the site has now been cleared of people amid fears the sarcophagus could release lethal toxic fumes, Egypt's state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram says. Scientists have debunked the infamous \"Mummy's Curse\", but are there other threats in ancient tombs? Lord Carnarvon, financial backer of the excavation of Tutankhamun's burial site, died from an infected mosquito bite shortly after they opened the chamber in 1923. Archaeologists will now study the sarcophagus in depth to pinpoint when its occupants lived, and how they died. It weighs in at 27 tonnes (59,500lb), and is believed to date from the early Ptolemaic period, which began in 323 BC after the death of Alexander the Great." ]

[ "What I didn’t realize is that espresso and ice is a huge controversy among coffee critics. Here is the play-by-play in my Yelp review: Here’s the play-by-play for anyone who’s interested (including the management): Him: “Hi. Where there is no disagreement, however, is that customers are still king – even in an indie/hipster coffee shop. A similar encounter is offered in this blog post about Murky Coffee in Arlington. It was disappointing, to say the least, the barista, refused my business and then insulted me on the way out the door.", "Flickr: BenjaminThompson WASHINGTON -- In a coffeeshop, do customers have a right to bad taste? That's been a hot topic of discussion in the nation's capital this week after a barista refused to make an espresso-over-ice drink for a customer who ordered one. It's certainly not the first time espresso-over-ice has sparked a fiery debate online in the nation's capital. Back in 2008, then-D.C. resident Jeff Simmermon, tried to order the drink at the Clarendon location of the now-closed Murky Coffee, where a barista expressed hesitation in making it. No espresso in a to-go cup. We make the best espresso in the city and putting it over ice will shock it.” Me: [long pause] “Really?” Him: “Aww… did I just ruin your day?” Me: “So you can’t make this drink?” Him: “No.” From Prince of Petworth, which published a play-by-play rundown of the incident at Chinatown Coffee Co. “I happen to have a personal policy that prohibits me from indulging stupid bullshit like this — and another personal policy of doing what I want with the products I pay for.” Then I looked him right in his big wide eyes and poured the espresso onto the ice. Simmermon took to his blog and documented the incident for the whole world to see." ]

[ "In fact, it can't do anything at all unless some goofball clicks the wrong link (though once that happens it can infect connected computers and USB drives). The fact that it managed to spread widely through various multinational businesses doesn't say a lot for the security savvy of the workers. This afternoon stories began swirling about a new threat provisionally called \"here you have\". It can't attack your computer by itself. The term \"worm\" refers to a malicious program that can spread to other computers without any human interaction, so that last point had me worried. As it turns out, this threat isn't a worm. It's thus named because it arrives in an e-mail with \"here you have\" in the subject.", "Department of Homeland Security Officials Investigate Virus Department of Homeland Security officials are looking into the virus and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and DHS National Cyber Security Division are expected to issue a bulletin later today. \"US-CERT has received multiple reports from a number of federal agencies and private sector entities experiencing an email worm...US-CERT is in the process of collecting and analyzing samples of the malware and has developed and disseminated mitigation strategies,\" said DHS press secretary Amy Kudwa in a statement. Security firm Symantec said the worm appears to be a new malware attack but is similar to the \"Anna Kournikova\" virus from 2001, which also carried the subject \"Here you have.\" On Friday, the Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks said it found a possible link between the worm attack and a cyber-jihad organization called \"Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad\". The company said both the August worm and the one that hit corporate e-mail services Thursday referenced a known Libyan hacker who has tried to unite other like-minded hackers in a cyber-jihad. \"It's not life and death, a bridge hasn't collapsed and killed anybody,\" said Nelson Hill, chief information officer for the Florida Department of Transportation. NASA: 'Houston We Have a Problem... Spam' As IT professionals raced to address the problem, annoyed employees took to Twitter to rant." ]

[ "McCarrick resigned as a cardinal in July after a U.S. church investigation determined an accusation that he groped a teen-age altar boy in the 1970s was credible. A 2006 letter from Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. Cardinal... (Associated Press) VATICAN CITY (AP) — A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. cardinal, lending credibility to bombshell accusations of a cover-up at the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic News Service, the news agency of the U.S. bishops' conference, published the letter Friday from then-Archbishop Leonardo Sandri to the Rev. Boniface Ramsay, a New York priest who made the initial allegation.", "In an 11-page statement, published Aug. 26, Archbishop Vigano accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of sexual abuse, as well as abuse of conscience and power by now-Archbishop McCarrick. VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by a New York priest in 2000 concerning Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, according to a letter obtained by Catholic News Service. Archbishop Vigano stated that the Vatican was informed as early as 2000 -- when he was an official at the Secretariat of State -- of allegations that Archbishop McCarrick \"shared his bed with seminarians.\"" ]

[ "The Associated Press contributed to this story. Officials said a crisis team will be available to students and staff. Police have not made any arrests after two students were injured in a shooting outside the Frederick High School gym Wednesday night as a junior varsity basketball game was played inside. Frederick Police on Thursday said they have not yet identified any suspects or a motive for the attack that left two Frederick County school students injured. Police said it is unclear how many people were involved in the shooting.They continue to investigate the motive, though some students have reported to police that the incident might have been gang-related or connected to two rival teams. Investigators also are looking into reports from students who said they saw four to five males — dressed in big coats and hands in their pockets — walk into the gymnasium during the game and leave shortly before the gunfire rang out, Frederick Police Capt. Frederick County Public Schools announced the incident on Twitter: \"Earlier this evening, two students were wounded in an incident at Frederick High.", "A patient is brought to a helicopter following a shooting outside Frederick High School. (Bill Green/Frederick News-Post via AP) Authorities in Frederick County expanded their investigation Thursday into a shooting outside a high school that left two teens wounded as a basketball game was played inside. In a six-minute video posted on YouTube, two school officials — Theresa Alban, the county schools superintendent, and Brad W. Young, the school board president — explained that the basketball game was underway when the shooting occurred outside the gymnasium. “Several students who had been outside at the time of the shooting came back into the lobby of the gymnasium,” Alban said. Frederick High School, where the shooting occurred, and a nearby middle school will be open Friday after being closed Thursday as investigators searched the campuses for clues. As of Thursday afternoon, law enforcement officers had not notified the school system of any arrests or possible motives in the incident, said Michael Doerrer, a spokesman for the county school system. Police and school officials say students were shot outside the public high school while a basketball game was being played inside. “We all know that there are issues many times that are out there in the community that sometimes spill into our schools, and that’s exactly what happened.” In a Twitter message posted Wednesday night, Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner said she was “saddened by shooting at Frederick High School. (Bill Green/Frederick News-Post via AP) Frederick High School officials said they would have a “crisis team” to offer counseling to students and staff members. “This obviously created some fear among those who were in the basketball game.” Officials enter Frederick High School on Wednesday.", "A Maryland high school will reopen Friday, even as police continue to search for suspects responsible for a shooting that left two teens injured. Missing Girl, 12, Found Safe Late Wednesday, parents waited outside a nearby bowling alley for their children to be released following a lockdown, which ended about two hours after the shooting. Police said they're investigating a range of possibilities regarding the motive behind the shooting, including reports from students that it could be gang-related or stem from a rivalry between the two schools playing in the game. \"We're hoping some of the video we acquire can coroborate how many people we're actually looking for.\" The Associated Press contributed to this report.", "Two students were shot outside a Maryland public high school Wednesday night while a basketball game was being played inside causing panic as parents rushed to the scene to make sure their children were OK. Frederick County Public Schools officials tweeted that all other staff and students were safe and accounted for. Students were released to their parents in the parking of a nearby bowling alley. The district said that the school would be closed Thursday for students. Officers took about 200 people who were at the game into the cafeteria. The high school has about 1,300 students. Frederick High School junior Sofia McCluskey said she was watching the game and heard a muffled shot." ]

[ "Advertisement Most bewildering of all, “Bridge of Spies” is a moral drama driven by an insurance lawyer. The movie’s a muddle that has been handcrafted by experts, a spy thriller that insists on kindness, and an ensemble piece that knows enough to acknowledge a natural screen presence whenever Rylance is in view. (It’s the most recent of the brothers’ works for hire, and more successful than last year’s “Unbroken.”) “Bridge of Spies” has a spiky, subversive wit that struggles to break free throughout and that often works at cross-purposes with more traditional themes of patriotism and American exceptionalism. Not one of the Master of Suspense’s classic thrillers, but the top-heavy international late-career Hitch of “Topaz” and “Torn Curtain.” And there’s Tom Hanks pretending to be middle-aged Jimmy Stewart in the middle of it all. The catch is that “Bridge of Spies” is based on a true story, and the real Donovan did find himself defending a Soviet agent in court and later airlifted to East Berlin as a secret negotiator in the U-2 spy plane incident of the early 1960s.", "In this image released by Disney, Tom Hanks appears in a scene from \"Bridge of Spies.\" (Jaap Buitendijk/DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 PIctures via AP) (Associated Press) Steven Spielberg's \"Bridge of Spies,\" much like its misunderstood litigator, is a film that plays the long game. On the page, \"Bridge of Spies\" is the story of everyman James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), a lawyer and family man who takes on the thankless task of representing Soviet Agent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in a trial, only to then be called on to negotiate his exchange for a detained U.S. soldier on behalf of the CIA. \"Bridge of Spies,\" a Walt Disney Studios release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for \"some violence and brief strong language.\" The Shakespearean actor is actually the first person we meet, in an elegant, nearly dialogue-free opening showing the FBI's real time pursuit and arrest of Abel. Donovan fights for Abel despite the scorn of the public, the indifference of the legal system and the danger to his family.", "Published on Sep 16, 2015 Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1QyRMsE Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Bridge of Spies Official Trailer #2 (2015) - Tom Hanks Cold War Thriller HD A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, BRIDGE OF SPIES tells the story of James Donovan (Hanks), a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the centre of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. Whether it's the latest studio release, an indie horror flick, an evocative documentary, or that new RomCom you've been waiting for, the Fandango MOVIECLIPS team is here day and night to make sure all the best new movie trailers are here for you the moment they're released. The Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailers channel is your destination for the hottest new trailers the second they drop. Watch our exclusive Ultimate Trailers, Showdowns, Instant Trailer Reviews, Monthly MashUps, Movie News, and so much more to keep you in the know. In addition to being the #1 Movie Trailers Channel on YouTube, we deliver amazing and engaging original videos each week. Screenwriters Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen have woven this remarkable experience in Donovan’s life into a story inspired by true events that captures the essence of a man who risked everything and vividly brings his personal journey to life. Here at Fandango MOVIECLIPS, we love movies as much as you!", "Rylance turns in a sensitive, deeply etched portrayal of a studiously nondescript criminal. Yet “Bridge of Spies” expands from being a smart, engrossing procedural to a carefully observed character study of Donovan, a particularly intriguing, heretofore overlooked American figure. Hanks is his generation’s answer to those paragons of rectitude, and in “Bridge of Spies” he reminds us why. These are clearly meant to resonate in the era of Guantanamo and mass surveillance — much as the fractiousness and executive strong-arming in Spielberg’s “Lincoln” chimed with realpolitik in 21st-century Washington." ]

[ "After lengthy negotiations, Graham and Bledel have closed deals to reprise their roles as the mother-daughter duo of Lorelai and Rory. The Gilmore Girls follow-up movies are officially cleared for production after securing six cast members from the original series, led by stars Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham. Netflix confirmed the movies were going ahead with a tweet featuring a famous line from the show and a “see you on the set” call-0ut to Sherman-Palladino, Graham and Bledel: The beloved series was a critical and commercial hit for the WB, being able to hold its own airing against then-biggest show on television, NBC’s Friends. The Gilmore Girls lead quartet is returning intact, with Scott Patterson and Kelly Bishop signed to reprise their roles as Luke and Emily alongside Bledel and Graham. The Gilmore Girls revival, whic h Netflix is treating as a farewell season of the cult show, consists of four 90-minute movies. @netflix #GilmoreGirls pic.twitter.com/tBb07J9oO1 — Lauren Graham (@thelaurengraham) January 29, 2016 Graham followed Gilmore Girls with a starring role on another well received, long-running drama-comedy, Parenthood, while Bledel has done mostly features, including The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants franchise.", "The original series, which aired for seven seasons from 2000-2007, followed Lorelai Gilmore, her daughter Rory, and the residents of Stars Hollow—the show’s fictional New England town. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Start building up your caffeine tolerance and grab your best mug—after several months of (occasionally harrowing) rumors, Netflix confirmed Friday afternoon that a “final season” of Gilmore Girls will find a home on the streaming-and-chill platform. Now, nine years later, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is returning to the helm as executive producer, joined by her husband Daniel Palladino (also an EP). If the new season’s going to win hearts and make itself a worthy successor, Gilmore Girls must finally find Rory a worthy partner or—God forbid—no partner at all. All intolerable in their own right (yes, even Jess), they displayed varying degrees of awfulness but shared a single common trait in that none of them deserved Rory." ]

[ "In November 2010, border agents uncovered an 1,800-foot-long drug-smuggling super tunnel connecting Tijuana with the same industrial park in San Diego. More than 20 tons of marijuana were seized in the Otay Mesa warehouse; Mexican soldiers confiscated five tons at the other end. Since 2006, more than 80 cross-border tunnels in various stages of construction have been found, mostly in California and Arizona.", "ICE agents uncover one of two tunnels on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico this week. The second tunnel was discovered by Mexican authorities on Thursday. ALSO: Chinese Americans say Irvine leaders have 'Cold War mentality' Teen stowaway survives, but how? So far, Rodriguez is the only person facing charges, but her criminal complaint names several other people who authorities believe are related to the tunnels, including a man who authorities said has been caught constructing cross-border tunnels before." ]

[ "In a news conference at the meeting's conclusion, Obama said that the world's largest economic powers had agreed on the need for \"continued growth in the short term and fiscal sustainability in the medium term.\" TORONTO -- President Obama warned Sunday that the world economic recovery remains \"fragile\" and urged continued spending to support growth, an expansionist call at the end of a summit marked by an agreement among developed nations to halve their annual deficits within three years. Although there is broad agreement that government debt in the developed world needs to be reduced, there is concern that cutting too fast and too deeply will slow growth and possibly spark a new recession.", "The action at the Group of 20 summit meeting here signaled the determination of many of the wealthiest countries, after enacting spending programs to counter the worldwide financial crisis, to now emphasize debt reduction. TORONTO — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday on a timetable for cutting deficits and halting the growth of their debt, but also acknowledged the need to move carefully so that reductions in spending did not set back the fragile global recovery. Those actions are part of what economists call rebalancing — a reorientation of the world economy to be less reliant on debt-financed spending by North American and Western European consumers." ]

[ "Image copyright Win McNamee/Getty Images Image caption Ms Trump reportedly stopped using her personal email for official work after being told the rules Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of messages discussing official White House business last year, officials confirm. In 2016, her father Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of putting the US \"in danger\" over her use of a private email while secretary of state. During his presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump said that Mrs Clinton's use of a private server to send official emails while in her post as secretary of state in 2009 was a scandal \"bigger than Watergate\". However, Austin Evers, from a group called American Oversight, which submitted the freedom of information request that led to the discovery of Ms Trump's use of personal email last year, said the \"president's family is not above the law\". \"There are serious questions that Congress should immediately investigate,\" Mr Evers said in a statement.", "Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. The scope of her personal email use had not emerged in response to American Oversight’s records request, which sought Trump’s correspondence with Cabinet agencies in early 2017. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner." ]

[ "The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. Weisselberg is \"Executive 1\" on page 17 of the criminal information filed by prosecutors in the Michael Cohen case, a person with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. I have spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding.\" Weisselberg was also treasurer of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, the president's charitable organization, which has been sued by the New York attorney general for alleged violations of state law.", "Photo: Associated Press President Trump’s financial gatekeeper was granted immunity by federal authorities in New York and testified before a grand jury, the third longtime confidant of Mr. Trump known to have provided information in an illegal hush-money investigation that has implicated the president. President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges on Tuesday. Allen Weisselberg, who has served for decades as chief financial officer and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, testified several weeks ago in the criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan into Michael Cohen, Mr.... WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how Cohen’s plea agreement could impact the president." ]

[ "(Photo by Thanarak Khunton) Authorities have warned traders not to take advantage of surging demand for black mourning attire by raising prices unfairly. In Bangkok, traders have been flocking to wholesale garment markets, especially in Bo Bae and Pratunam, leading to traffic jams in surrounding areas on Saturday. Violators can face jail terms of up to seven years and/or fines of up to 140,000 baht. \"Most people are buying black shirts,\" said Songkhan Tansonan, who has a stall outside Bo Bae Market. All traders have been asked to clearly label their prices and not to raise prices unreasonably or hoard goods. The Commerce Ministry has instructed its provincial offices to survey the prices and supplies of black clothing in the market to ensure the public will not be taken advantage during the royal mourning period.", "People shop for black or white clothing to mourn Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at a mall in Bangkok, Thailand, October 15, 2016. Mannequins are dressed in black and white as retailers pay their respects to the passing of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at a mall in Bangkok, Thailand, October 15, 2016. “I buy them for 90 baht ($2.60) from the wholesaler and sell them for 120 or 130 baht ($3.40 to $3.70),” she said. “Most people are buying black shirts,” said Songkhan Tansonan, running a street stall next to a fetid canal outside Bangkok’s Bobae Market. REUTERS/Edgar Su BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have warned traders not to take advantage of shoppers flocking to buy black shirts to mourn King Bhumibol Adulyadej and have sent out teams of inspectors to scour markets for price gougers. Most people in Bangkok have been wearing black since the king died and shoppers have been flooding to markets to get new clothes. The government has declared a year of mourning and asked everyone to wear black or white, and to cancel any outdoor festivities, for the first 30 days." ]

[ "They say the three men work for a company that cleans planes for Frontier Airlines, but their names weren't released. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say an argument over a break room light led to a deadly stabbing involving three workers at Philadelphia International airport. The stabbing occurred around 11:30 a.m. Thursday near Gate E6 in what city police say was a \"secure area.\" Police say one worker turned off a break room light, angering another worker. The third worker soon pulled out a knife, cutting one of the men across the abdomen. ___ This story has been corrected to show the men were not employed by Frontier Airlines, but worked for a company that cleans the airline's planes, as per police.", "What started as a fight between airport workers ends with one of them stabbed to death. An argument over a light switch escalated into a deadly stabbing Thursday morning at Philadelphia International Airport, police said. Emanuel is charged with murder and possession of an instrument of a crime. The incident never disrupted service at the airport or endangered travelers." ]

[ "Javier Manzano/For The Washington Post After a tough fighting season, Afghan soldiers are finding that a significant portion of their vital equipment is broken and cannot be easily replaced. Oct. 9, 2013 Many Afghan army units are running out of key equipment, including Humvees, because of their inability to do repairs or find replacements. “We recognize the problem and so do they, but we think we’re on our way to a solution.” That solution would involve NATO forces helping the Afghans improve the supply chain that connects far-flung bases to the Defense Ministry in Kabul and ensuring that Afghan mechanics have the skills and tools to fix their equipment. Many Afghan army units are running out of key equipment, including Humvees, because of their inability to do repairs or find replacements. But the push comes as the Americans are rapidly withdrawing from Afghanistan, removing advisers working with Afghan battalions and attaching them to higher levels of leadership. Their fighting season nearly over, members of an embattled Afghan army unit recently inspected their equipment, most of which was in two heaps on their base. This week, Maj. Gen. Dean Milner of the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan announced that the alliance would redouble efforts to improve supply processes and prevent waste and fraud in the Afghan Defense Ministry.", "When U.S. officials began planning for their exit, the idea was to ship home the majority of their equipment, especially expensive military gear such as mine-resistant vehicles. A man collects items from a scrap yard near Bagram Airfield, the main operations headquarters for the international forces in Afghanistan. Javier Manzano/For The Washington Post In a nation nicknamed the “graveyard of empires,” foreign forces are remembered for what they leave behind. In a nation nicknamed the “graveyard of empires,” foreign forces are remembered for what they leave behind. In a nation nicknamed the “graveyard of empires,” foreign forces are remembered for what they leave behind. Many of the supplies that the U.S. military used to fight its longest war have begun their second lives in South and Central Asia. A man collects items from a scrap yard near Bagram Airfield, the main operations headquarters for the international forces in Afghanistan. The Pentagon has budgeted $5 billion to $7 billion to ship gear back to the United States. In Afghanistan, nicknamed the “graveyard of empires,” foreign forces are remembered for what they leave behind. Now Ulfat is helping to dismantle the base, taking in thousands of pounds of American scrap metal every day." ]

[ "Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) suggested that any decisions about whether to run again for his seat would not come until the weekend at the earliest. Earlier this week, Mr. Rubio opened the door to another run, saying that the shooting massacre in Orlando on Sunday had led him to consider how he might best […]", "“You should reconsider running for your seat,” Lopez-Cantera told Rubio as they sat in the senator’s pickup truck about an hour before sunset, after witnessing the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. “Marco is running and you can talk about all the friendship stuff you want, but this shows Marco is all about Marco.” The campaign of one of Lopez-Cantera’s Republican opponents, developer Carlos Beruff, fell for one of the rumor-filled reports and issued a statement Wednesday about Rubio in which the candidate said voters are “sick of career politicians and power brokers in Washington who care about one thing: holding on to power. After all, Lopez-Cantera has been running for his Senate seat in a crowded GOP primary for more than a year — with Rubio’s encouragement. As part of the maneuvers to get Rubio to reverse course, Lopez-Cantera and allies of his and Rubio’s say the amount of disinformation spread by party insiders has been somewhere between staggering and absurd. Lopez-Cantera’s conversation removed one of the biggest obstacles to Rubio running again: a longtime friendship that he wouldn’t want to ruin due to political ambition. And the full-court press to recruit Rubio to run for reelection has frozen fundraising and dampened Republican enthusiasm for all five major GOP candidates for the seat." ]

[ "I haven't seen her new movie, Identity Thief, yet. Think back, everyone -- can you remember when you first fell in love with actress Melissa McCarthy? I thought the whole ensemble was hilarious, but Melissa's uttlerly balls-to-the-wall weird and highly original character had me in helpless fits, tears streaming down my face. She stole the show, as far as I'm concerned. So for me it was her role in Bridesmaids. I never saw her TV show, Mike & Molly. Wait until you read what he said. He actually did that, like that is something a professional film reviewer just does.", "How many ways can a grown person waste valuable time and lose vital I.Q. And they all come together in a new chunk of junk called Identity Thief. Now there are two Sandy Pattersons—an innocent fraud victim on one side of the country facing bankruptcy and a screeching, humongous creep on a marathon shopping spree on the other side of the country who is running up thousands of dollars in charges and wrecking her victim’s credit rating in the process. If you’re a movie critic, the possibilities are unlimited.", "Yes, two or three times McCarthy, through an unexpected reading of a weak line, can coax a laugh - she's that talented - and Bateman is true to his role, which is to be a dramatic character facing personal tragedy who just happens to be stuck in a supposed comedy. This is especially the case in \"Identity Thief,\" in which Sandy (Bateman) is a sweet guy, a hardworking family man with a third child on the way, who has finally lucked into a high-paying job. Melissa McCarthy has emerged in the last two years as one of the funniest and most promising comic actresses around, and the idea of matching her exuberant relentlessness with Jason Bateman's long-suffering sardonicism (yes, that's really a word) seemed inspired. 'Identity Thief' review: A case of fraud MOVIE REVIEW Photo: Bob Mahoney, Universal Pictures Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Jason Bateman plays a sweet guy whose credit cards and identity are stolen by a manic con woman played by Melissa McCarthy. Think of this as a movie review or as just a friendly warning from a like-minded individual: \"Identity Thief\" looked really good from a distance.", "Next to “Identity Thief,” “Inception” is a marvel of sober concision. Completely undone by “Identity Thief,” an obnoxious comedy made worse by obnoxious sentimentality. As a comedy star, McCarthy lives by aggression and the belief that she’s the hottest thing on the planet. The few laughs come early, via Diana’s infectious shopaholic glee; few people in the movies enjoy themselves as enjoyably as McCarthy." ]

[ "\"The evidence is sorely lacking that it was an intentional act,\" Nail said this afternoon in a response to a defense motion for acquittal after the prosecution completed its case. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Jefferson County judge has dismissed the capital murder charge against Gabe Watson, ending his prosecution in the death of his wife, Tina, while scuba diving during their Australian honeymoon in 2003. \"The only way to convict him of intentional murder is to speculate.", "A judge on Thursday acquitted a man accused of drowning his newlywed wife during a honeymoon diving trip to Australia eight years ago, saying in an unusual ruling that prosecutors did not prove the man intentionally killed his wife to collect on a life insurance policy. The judge blocked Thomas from testifying about Watson's alleged desire to increase the woman's life insurance policy, a blow for prosecutors who earlier had been barred from presenting other evidence about Watson's actions after the death. Tommy Thomas identifies a picture of his daughter Tina Thomas Watson for Prosecutor Don Valeska, right, and the jury during the Gabe Watson capital murder trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center... (Associated Press) Gabe Watson, left, stands during a break in his capital murder trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012." ]

[ "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — In the chaotic aftermath of the San Bernardino shootings, as the wounded bled from gunshots, others lay dead and police searched for multiple killers, an officer relayed the name of a suspect to dispatchers. The FBI said it's investigating the massacre on Wednesday in San Bernardino,... (Associated Press) Yellow police tape is strung in front of the Inland Regional Center, site of Wednesday's mass shooting on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI said it's investigating the massacre on Wednesday in San Bernardino,... (Associated Press) An investigator works the site of a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. A helicopter pilot reported that his partner was moving to the backseat of the chopper, armed with an M4 rifle. Investigators work the site of a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. The husband and wife who carried out the shootings... (Associated Press) The officer identified Syed Rizwan Farook, a co-worker of most of those shot, as a possible suspect because he had left a work meeting \"out of the blue\" 20 minutes before the shooting and matched the description of a gunman, according to audio of dispatch recordings.", "(CNN) Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, two U.S. officials said. One of the officials said the two conspired in 2012 and a specific target was considered. San Bernardino shooters: What we do and don't know about their radicalization One official said the two decided not to go through with the earlier attack after a round of terror-related arrests in the area.", "The latest revelations come after NBC News reported Monday that federal investigators are interviewing a neighbor of Farook and Malik who bought two of the four guns that were used in the massacre. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports.", "The money could also explain how they managed to pay for target practice at local gun ranges, as well as the rental sport utility vehicle they used during the Dec. 2 attack, the officials said. The loan offers investigators a key new detail as they try to unravel how Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik plotted the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11." ]

[ "CHARLOTTE -- The second day of the Democratic convention features one president -- Bill Clinton -- promoting another -- Barack Obama. Here are five things to watch for Wednesday, Sept. 5: 1) Bubba is back: Observers will be looking to see how much Bill Clinton talks about Obama, and how much he talks about his own record from the 1990s. Also in the back of every Democrat's mind: Will Hillary Rodham Clinton run for president in 2016? Check local TV listings for when you can catch the action from the Time Warner Cable Arena. USA TODAY is providing full coverage of the Democratic National Convention online and in print. 4) The \"great state\" roll call: Officially, the convention is about nominating Obama and Vice President Biden to a second term and to do that, the roll call is required. ET 2) Elizabeth Warren is ready for her close-up: Warren, a Harvard law professor and long-time consumer advocate, is the Democratic nominee for Senate in Massachusetts.", "President Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter downplayed questions about Bill Clinton's speech not being vetted by the campaign at a Bloomberg News breakfast this morning, calling it a \"mountain out of a molehill.\" She added that everyone believes Clinton will give a strong endorsement of Obama's policies, which Messina said Clinton will describe as similar to his own. \"We are not one bit worried about what President Clinton is going to say\" in his speech, she added. \"We have had lots of conversations with President Clinton,\" said Messina. He's going to give a great speech tomorrow.\" Cutter added, \"Someone in our organization is likely to see the speech before [Clinton] gives it just because that's the normal course of business.\"", "BOSTON -- Ask any Republican or Democrat to name the most important Senate races in the fight for control of the Democratic-led chamber, and they will undoubtedly include one state in particular: Massachusetts. With a good level of name recognition established as a result of her work with the agency, as well as her oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (more commonly known as TARP) and a lengthy resume, Warren was the Democrats' answer to the much-considered question of who could challenge the popular senator. The state's Republican Sen. Scott Brown will go up against Democrat and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren in what polling indicates is likely to be a close race. Indeed, the first-time candidate has made infrastructure a big part of her proposed policy agenda, recently launching her \"Rebuild Now\" tour that calls for an investment in the country's infrastructure. Brown, 52, shocked the political establishment in 2010 with his victory in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's seat. Brown last week launched a \"Thank You for Building This\" tour, as part of his campaign's efforts to highlight the senator's support for free enterprise.", "For Barack Obama, the risk of Bill Clinton is worth the reward. Still, Clinton’s prominent role in Obama’s re-election convention could remind voters of the booming economic times during the former president’s tenure in the 1990s. In one of Obama’s campaign ads, Clinton frames the election as a “clear choice” between a Republican plan to cut taxes for upper-income earners and the president’s proposals to strengthen the middle class by spending more on education and job training.", "There’s only one president who actually came from Hope. — is expected to offer a rousing endorsement of President Barack Obama in his speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. Former President Bill Clinton — a native of Hope, Ark. But four years ago, while his wife Hillary competed for the Democratic nomination, Clinton wasn’t always so supportive of Obama’s “hope and change” message.", "Some things to watch for at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday: Delegates cheer as First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. But Warren is a star at the Democrats' and the featured challenger in arguably the most competitive Senate race this year. How much of it will be about Barack Obama _ and how much about Bill Clinton? THE CLINTON SHOW: The former president, no stranger to talking at length at Democratic conventions, takes the podium." ]

[ "We used a lab experiment to investigate the influence of media (email and voicemail) and task type (romantic and utilitarian) on both the psychophysiological responses of senders and the content of the resulting messages. An interaction exists between media and task such that the content of romantic email messages was more positive than romantic voicemails; while the opposite was true for utilitarian tasks. Lean asynchronous computer mediated communication is often considered poor for communicating emotion, yet individuals continue to use it for business, personal, and even romantic communication. Message senders had more arousing physiological responses when sending emails than when leaving voicemails. Thus the choice of media triggers different emotional responses in the sender and leads to different message content.", "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.", "“Our results show that the medium changes how message senders feel and what they say.” Dennis warns managers against misinterpreting these findings to suggest that face-to-face meetings, personal phone calls and other direct forms of communications aren’t as useful. The research, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggests that, in this digital age, an email can be more effective in expressing romantic feelings than leaving a voicemail message. “Email’s been in the popular consciousness since the 1990s, and if you look at the new generation of millenials, and that’s who we studied, they’ve grown up with email and text messaging. Previous research and conventional wisdom suggested the opposite, that a voicemail message is a more intimate way to connect with others, but that may not be true, particularly among millennials." ]

[ "Published on Jun 10, 2018 In Boyd Huppert’s latest edition of Land of 10,000 Stories, DNA tests confirm Denice Juneski and Linda Jourdeans were switched at birth in 1945. https://kare11.tv/2JFKYyf » Subscribe to KARE 11: http://bit.ly/2JDtbEy » Watch more KARE 11 video: http://bit.ly/2JF5Xhm Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. Subscribe to our channel for compelling and dramatic storytelling, award winning investigations, breaking news and information you can use. Visit KARE11.com: http://www.kare11.com/ Find KARE 11 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/ Follow KARE 11 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kare11 Follow KARE 11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kare11/", "In the journey that brought them to this strange place, Denice, who lives in Eagan, took the first step. Linda, the redhead, is pictured growing up in a family of blondes - while Denice, the blonde, is surrounded by brunettes and redheads in pictures with her siblings and cousins. There’s no playbook, after all, for two women in their 70s who’ve just found out they were switched at birth. “People just automatically assume they got the right family.” Linda Jourdeans points to herself in a family photo. Denice Juneski and Linda Jourdeans learned recently they were switched at birth. Actually, Denice matched several people, but not one name among them she’d ever heard of. (Photo: Boyd Huppert, KARE 11) Only a few weeks have passed since Denice and Linda learned they didn’t, as infants, go home with the right family." ]

[ "Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more", "we should talk more about the motif of storms & natural disasters woven throughout reputation… “swaying as the room burned down”…… “windows boarded up after the storm”……. it’s so clever and fitting", "PS any hackers saying they have 'nudes'? Psssh you'd love that wouldn't you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING.", "For a long time now, Swift's belly button has been shrouded in mystery. Welcome to New York, Taylor Swift's belly button! While hanging out in Maui with the ladies of Haim, Swift posted this bikini picture revealing her belly button for the first time: OK, maybe it's not the first time we've ever seen Swift's elusive navel, but it's certainly the first time in a while. Is it an inny?", "PHOTOS: The biggest recent celeb scandals The Lizard Squad is a group of hackers who claimed they were behind North Korea's Internet shutdown amidst the Sony leak scandal. Someone from Swift's team promptly deleted the tweets, but the hackers claimed that they had access to nude photos of the 1989 hitmaker (via The Verge). Taylor Swift's social media accounts were hijacked on Tuesday, Jan. 27, by so-called elite hackers who threatened to release nude photos of the pop superstar in exchange for bitcoins. The story began early Tuesday when several updates were tweeted from Swift's accounts, instructing her 50 million-plus fans to follow two specific members of the Lizard Squad, @lizzard and @veriuser. Swift is currently in Hawaii on a trip with the Haim sisters." ]

[ "\"Just this year we've had a quadruple homicide in Yazoo County, a quadruple homicide in the city of Jackson, a quadruple homicide in Lauderdale County, and now eight people killed in one shooting spree here in Lincoln County,\" Strain said. CLOSE Cory Godbolt spoke with The Clarion-Ledger on scene. This is, to the memory of most involved, the largest crime spree in Lincoln County history." ]

[ "In the past, when we have brought up statistical safety points, we have been criticized for doing so, implying that we lack empathy for the tragedy that just occurred. The safety of our customers is our top priority, which is why we are working closely with investigators to understand what happened, and what we can do to prevent this from happening in the future. None of this changes how devastating an event like this is or how much we feel for our customer's family and friends. Since posting our first update, we have been working as quickly as possible to establish the facts of last week’s accident. We expect the safety level of autonomous cars to be 10 times safer than non-autonomous cars. However, we must also care about people now and in the future whose lives may be saved if they know that Autopilot improves safety.", "EMBED More News Videos A 38-year-old man was killed when his Tesla crashed and caught on fire in Mountain View. We've seen videos of similar crash with cushion and the driver walked out of it unharmed. \"We called, but no word from CalTrans about that collapsed safety barrier that Walter Huang hit. Dan Noyes has an exclusive report.Walter Huang's family tells Dan Noyes he took his Tesla to the dealer, complaining that -- on multiple occasions -- the Autopilot veered toward that same barrier -- the one his Model X hit on Friday when he died.ABC7 News Photographer Dean Smith captured exclusive video today of investigators from the CHP's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team and National Transportation Safety Board at a San Mateo tow yard, inspecting the wreckage of the Tesla Model X involved in that fatal crash on southbound 101 Friday.", "Telsa said on Friday its autopilot \"unequivocally makes the world safer for the vehicle occupants, pedestrians and cyclists.\" The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating the accident, which took place March 23 and killed the driver. Autopilot and autonomous vehicles have come under increased scrutiny recently after a women was killed by one of Uber's autonomous vehicles in Tempe, Arizona. The fatal crash last week involving a Tesla did take place while the vehicle was on autopilot, the company confirmed late Friday. Arizona's governor suspended Uber's license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads last week. \"In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum,\" Tesla said in a statement." ]

[ "The exterior of the Excalibur Hotel and Casino is seen on March 18, 2014. (LVMPD) Police said performers for an all-male dance revue on the Las Vegas Strip thwarted a gunman seen stealing property inside the dancers' locker room. (File/FOX5) Police released a booking photo of the \"John Doe\" arrested after a shooting inside the Excalibur hotel-casino on March 18, 2014. Las Vegas Metro police said none of the performers were shot in the altercation that happened inside the Excalibur Hotel and Casino Tuesday night. A representative for MGM Resorts, which owns the Excalibur, said the show remains on schedule for Wednesday. The man was later booked into Clark County Detention Center on counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon.", "‘Thunder’ performers subdue shooting suspect at Excalibur, police say The man lurking behind the scenes at Excalibur might have targeted a better employees locker room than the one used by the performers in the Australian-bred male strip revue Thunder From Down Under. In the ensuing struggle, the suspect, believed to be between the ages of 25 and 35, fired a handgun once before being subdued by the performers, Gordon said. One of the entertainers was injured by the weapon, treated and released. The man went into the Excalibur tonight, made his way behind the show's stage, where he allegedly snatched items from the locker rooms used by the fit, muscular men who bring howls of delight from their mostly female audiences. One of the performers noticed the suspect, carrying his loot, as he headed to the hotel's courtyard. The dancer rounded up some of his fellow performers and confronted the man, according to Metro Police Lt. David Gordon. After receiving treatment for his injuries, he was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, and burglary with a deadly weapon, police said. The suspect, who has not been positively identified, suffered injuries during the physical confrontation and was transported to University Medical Center. No one was struck by gunfire." ]

[ "“It demonstrates the pre-eminence of the institute and recognizes the work we do in promoting French and Francophone culture in Florida, the United States and internationally.” Darrin McMahon, the Ben Weider Professor of History and a faculty member with the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, observed that Crowe and Spring’s finding — like the conference itself — highlights France’s longstanding presence in Florida and the Southeast. “Our conference aims to draw attention to that fact.” To make the discovery, Crowe, who received his Ph.D. in history from Florida State in 1973, flew to Paris and conducted research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the French equivalent of the U.S. Library of Congress. In an announcement likely to rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers today said they have discovered the oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America. French Florida extends from Darien on the coast, up to Milledgeville, east of Macon.” Contributing Source : Florida State University There he found a number of 16th-century maps that pinpointed the location of Fort Caroline.", "The mystery of Fort Caroline, the doomed French outpost in the New World, has been solved, two researchers claimed at an international conference of scholars Friday. Instead, they claim, it is 70 miles north, on the Altamaha River, south of Darien, Ga. Crowe and Spring, who is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida, presented their findings at Florida State University. They spoke to academics from around the world, gathered for a conference called La Floride Francaise: Florida, France, and the Francophone World. “And what it does for me is to help sharpen my resolve and focus, helps me to re-look at the documents.” There is one key fact of history that indeed suggests Fort Caroline was in Jacksonville: the bloody end of the French fort in 1565. The fort vanished, seemingly forever, soon after the Spanish wiped it out 448 years ago. Robert “Buzz” Thunen, a University of North Florida archaeologist who’s been searching for Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, was at the conference." ]

[ "WASHINGTON — In July 2014, after Jonathan J. Pollard had served 29 years of a life sentence for spying on behalf of Israel, his hopes for freedom were thwarted when a federal panel denied his request for parole. But that hearing set in motion an intense scramble by lawyers for Mr. Pollard to ensure a different result a year later, when he would be eligible for parole after serving 30 years. They wrote letters, cited statistics and introduced evidence that their client met two legal standards for parole: that he had behaved well in prison, and that he posed no threat of returning to a life of espionage. Eliot Lauer, one of the two lawyers who have been working pro bono for the past 15 years to free Mr. Pollard, called his client on Tuesday with the news. On Tuesday, the effort finally succeeded, as the United States Parole Commission announced that Mr. Pollard, 60, met the legal standards and would be released just before Thanksgiving. Mr. Pollard, one of the country’s most notorious spies, will walk out of federal prison in Butner, N.C., on Nov. 20.", "Netanyahu has long sought Pollard's release, and the prospect has surfaced many times in discussions between the U.S. and Israel. Pollard's release -- exactly 30 years after his arrest -- could help ease the tensions between the United States and Israel that have grown over the Iran nuclear deal, which President Barack Obama supports and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently opposes. (CNN) Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard has been granted parole and will be released from an American jail on Nov. 21, his lawyer announced Tuesday. The White House has said it won't challenge the granting of parole for Pollard but denied his release was in any way connected to the Iran deal." ]

[ "1 of 14 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Athletes to watch for the 2014 Winter Olympics View Photos As the Sochi Games get underway, the U.S. team will feature fresh faces and seasoned veterans. Venue map of 2014 Olympic games in Sochi Russia Although both snowboarders and freestyle skiers wear helmets, the risk of injury remains high. At issue is the safety of Sochi’s slopestyle course, which earlier this week ended the pursuit of gold medal favorite Torstein Horgmo of Norway. “The rails are much better so that you can see more tricks, rather than just trying to survive.” After market research in the mid-1990s showed that the Winter Games were losing younger audiences, the International Olympic Committee turned to extreme sports to stem the decline, adding two snowboarding events (halfpipe and giant slalom) for the 1998 Nagano Games. In Sochi, a record 10 snowboarding events will be contested. “I have seen many a jump redesigned to make it safer.", "Ashley Wagner, of the United States, skates at the figure stating practice rink ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (Associated Press) SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Competition at the Sochi Olympics has begun, 32 hours before the opening ceremony. The men's short program is to be followed by the pairs. Early starts are needed because of 12 men's and women's medal events added since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Down in Sochi, the new team figure skating competition begins 7.30 p.m. (1530 GMT) at the Iceberg Skating Palace.", "(Photo: Dita Alangkara, AP) Story Highlights Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said safety concerns in Sochi had been exaggerated Kozak said \"the level of threat in Sochi is no worse than in New York, Washington or Boston\" Kozak said there was no reason to believe there were new threats in Sochi SOCHI, Russia – Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said Thursday the concern over a terrorist attack on the Winter Olympics has been overblown in media reports and characterized Russia's ability to secure the games equal to any country hosting a major international event. (USA TODAY, USA NOW) An armed Russian security guard stands at the ski resort Rosa Khutor, where the snow and sliding sports venues for the 2014 Winter Olympics are located, on Tuesday. BRENNAN: Housing drama detracts from Sochi issues OLYMPICS: What's new in 2014? That advisory is the latest in a series of security concerns leading up to Friday's opening ceremonies. \"The safety and security of our athletes and whole delegation is always the primary concern.", "New Zealand's Rebecca Torr takes a jump during the women's snowboard slopestyle qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana,... (Associated Press) New Zealand's Rebecca Torr takes a jump during the women's snowboard slopestyle qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana,... (Associated Press) SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast five, Thursday edition: Things you'll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics. ___ SECURITY: It's foremost on many minds as Olympic competition begins and thousands stream into the Black Sea resort city. The Russian government says it's doing all it can to ensure safety, and on Thursday a deputy prime minister went even further. \"We can guarantee the safety of the people as well as any other government hosting a mass event,\" said Dmitry Kozak. ___ OPENING APPROACHES: Friday night's opening ceremony will showcase Russia to the world on its own terms — a storyline intended to impress the many nations in attendance and allow President Vladimir Putin to put forth the message he's been trumpeting for months now: that his country has successfully combined its storied history with modern innovation and is ready for anything." ]

[ "The otherwise benign-looking DVD hid a brutal double beheading that was stamped with all the hallmarks of Mexico's ultra-violent drug cartels. As the bloody short film booted up in the laptop, a sinister figure in a black balaclava appeared wielding the kind of sub-machine gun favoured by drive-by shooters in the US. The hooded man on screen then issued a thinly veiled threat to the audience of two watching the DVD - an American professional gambler, RJ Cipriani, and his Brazilian model and actress wife, Greice Santo. Pay up a $2.5m debt to a US cocaine kingpin with links to Mexican and South American drug cartels or a grisly fate awaits, warned the man in the DVD.", "The federal government would later accuse him of trafficking in cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA, as well as selling anabolic steroids to pro athletes. OWEN HANSON SENTENCING IN SAN DIEGO FEDERAL COURTHOUSE DECEMBER 15TH AT 2PM ALREADY PLED GUILTY TO 20 YEARS MINIMUM MANDATORY pic.twitter.com/1xD2huyy1j — Robin Hood 702 (@robinhood702) December 14, 2017 The blackjack player was blowing through his money but it wasn’t troubling him. In the parlance of high-stakes gambling, Cipriani — a Philadelphia-born card player who dubbed himself “Robin Hood 702″ because he funneled portions of his winnings to philanthropic causes — was known as a “shortstop.” It meant he cobbled winnings together with modest bets and refrained from make-it-or-break-it wagers. When the two first met in Australia, Hanson presented himself as a legitimate wealthy investor interested in fronting cash for Cipriani’s charity gambling. Eventually 21 other members of the crew were arrested on federal charges related to gambling and drug trafficking.", "Gambling, of course, has long occupied murky legal terrain in the United States: against the law almost everywhere, yet so tacitly accepted as a pastime that bookies in Vegas regularly see their spreads incorporated into mainstream sports coverage. Serving those who happen not to live in Vegas (or prefer to bet against spreads that differ from those set in Vegas) are a variety of bookies operating outside of the law, fueling a shadow economy that is estimated to bring in between $80 and $380 billion in illegal wagers annually. By highlighting Cipriani's own past brushes with the law – namely a 2006 conviction for insurance fraud that Cipriani chalks up to a complex family feud – the defense portrays Cipriani as an established charlatan with a history of exploiting others for financial gain. Inside the story of Owen Hanson, former USC athlete suspected of heading an international gambling and drug syndicate THE GAMBLER AND THE PLAYER Robert J. Cipriani arrived in Sydney feeling the way he always did on the eve of a gambling trip: giddy, confident, a hustler with pure intentions. In January, Hanson was named in a federal indictment as the unlikely leader of a drug trafficking, sports betting and money-laundering ring called O-Dog Enterprises that stretched from Southern California to Australia. According to authorities, Hanson appears to have used his connections within the world of professional sports – first established back at USC and later fostered in the VIP rooms of Los Angeles clubs and Las Vegas casinos – to bolster his organization. Aside from hanging out with famous athletes while operating Betodog.com, a website that processed illegal wagers on their games, he is accused of coordinating the sale of five grams of cocaine and 15 capsules of ecstasy to \"a professional football player\" in 2014, according to the indictment; and among the 21 others arrested in January as alleged co-conspirators in Hanson's scheme – a dizzying list of characters that includes an accused drug dealer nicknamed \"Tank,\" a bookie who went by \"Jazzy,\" an enforcer known as \"Animal,\" and a Hollywood private detective – is a former N.F.L." ]

[ "Story highlights Trump has been consumed by negative comments about the size of the crowd at his inauguration Aerial photos have indicated that Obama's first inauguration attracted a larger crowd Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, angered over a National Park Service retweet comparing his inaugural crowd size to Barack Obama's in 2009, called the acting director of the National Park Service on Saturday to complain, two sources with knowledge of the call told CNN. Trump called Michael T. Reynolds, acting director of the National Park Service, to express anger over the fact the National Park Service's official Twitter account retweeted a message that negatively compared the crowd sizes at the two inaugurations. Sanders said the call proves Trump \"is so engaged, he is so involved and when he sees a problem, he takes action to fix it.\" White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also confirmed the call took place.", "A view of the crowd at the U.S. Capitol ahead of the inauguration of President Trump on Jan. 20. (Bill O’Leary /The Washington Post) On the morning after Donald Trump’s inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him. “That’s one of the reasons that he is president today, and Hillary Clinton isn’t.” On Saturday, the same day Trump spoke with Reynolds, the new president used an appearance at CIA headquarters to deliver a blistering attack on the media for reporting that large swaths of the Mall were nearly empty during the event. In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. We caught them in a beauty.” 1 of 109 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × The scene in Washington on Inauguration Day View Photos Trump supporters and protesters gather in the capital as a new presidency begins." ]

[ "Father of three jailed after man hit on head with metal... Pictures were released today by the University of Leicester, showing two 1,000-year-old skeletons holding hands, which have been discovered. “It was a case of piecing evidence together and then getting in geo-physicists to take images of the land from above to locate the spot for our dig.” Roman archaeology found beneath the medieval chapel suggests that the hilltop, which is the starting point for the Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking, has been a special place for over 2000 years. The Mercury reported last week that the remains, of a man and a woman, were found at the Chapel of St Morrell, an ancient site of pilgrimage in Hallaton. He said: “Antiquarians over the ages have referred to a chapel somewhere in Hallaton. This leads us to wonder if the chapel could have served as some sort of special place of burial at the time.” The dig, by Hallaton Fieldwork Group volunteers, has been taking place for two weeks a year for the past four years. “There is a perfectly good church in Hallaton.", "Archaeologists with the University of Leicester uncovered remains of two skeletons holding hands believed to have been resting that way for at least 700 years. University of Leicester Archaeological Services has so far excavated 11 skeletons, dated to the 14th century by radiocarbon, under the \"lost chapel of St. Morell,\" which overlooks the small village of Hallaton in Leicestershire, England. ULAS The archaeologists, who said there are likely to be more skeletons in the ground, were not certain why the people were buried there rather than in the main church in the village. They said it was possibly a special place of burial for pilgrims. ULAS Among the other skeletons was an older male apparently killed by a sharp implement, such as a pole axe, to the head, according to Vicki Score, project manager for University of Leicester Archaeological Services. A young male was buried in a pit with his legs raised to his chest, which archaeologists said was possibly the result of a disease, she said.", "Two ancient skeletons were found in each other's arms in a grave in the Turkish province of Diyarbakir. The remains of a man and woman were found with fingers entwined at the Chapel of St Morrell, an ancient site of pilgrimage in Hallaton. The earliest mention of the chapel in Hallaton was in a will of 1532. Two ancient skeletons have been discovered in a 'lost' chapel by archaeologists, who say the couple were unearthed holding hands and have been for at least 700 years. \"The way they were buried signifies that they were lovers,\" archaeologist Halil Tekin told the Anatolia news agency. \"An illness or even a crime of love may have been the cause of their deaths.\"" ]

[ "Scott Weiland Will Filed ... Ex-Wife Wants to Call the Shots Scott Weiland Will Filed ... Ex-Wife Wants to Call the Shots EXCLUSIVE The woman Scott Weiland divorced nearly 9 years ago, and often battled over his drug use, is asking the courts to name her the executor of his will ... TMZ has learned. The docs say Scott had about $2 million in assets as part of his estate. Mary wrote a memoir called 'Fall to Pieces' about life with Scott and his battles with drugs. Here's the catch ... the will was written in April 2007. That's right around the time Scott and Mary's marriage was falling apart, and when he was in the throes of addiction.", "Scott Weiland's Second Wife Mary Forsberg Takes Legal Action to be Named Executor of Late Rocker's Will The battle over Scott Weiland 's assets has just intensified.The former Stone Temple Pilots singer's ex-wife Mary Forsberg filed court documents on Dec. 30 asking to be named the executor of Weiland's will (Weiland was married to his third wife Jamie Wachtel at the time of his death). The press release, obtained by PEOPLE , also mentioned Weiland's history of cardiovascular disease, asthma, and multi-substance dependence as \"significant conditions\".A hearing date has been set for Feb. 5. Weiland's first wife is Janina Castenada, whom he was married to from 1994 - 2000.Weiland died at the age of 48 on Dec. 3 while on tour with his band The Wildabouts in Bloomington, Minnesota. Forsberg also filed a copy of the will, written in April 2007, with his signature as proof, according to papers obtained by PEOPLE.Weiland had about $2 million to his estate, and also created a trust that has undisclosed assets.Forsberg, who was his second wife, is the mother of Weiland's two children Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13. The mother of two penned her memories of Weiland and their marriage as well as his drug abuse in her memoir called Fall to Pieces. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota said a mix of cocaine, ethanol (alcohol), and MDA (a relative of ecstasy) led to the rock star's death. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope,\" she wrote with contributions from her kids.The former Velvet Revolver band member married his third wife Jamie Wachtel in 2013. \"The truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago." ]

[ "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept.... (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to avert a government shutdown, Republican leaders drove a bill blocking Planned Parenthood's federal funds through the House on Friday, hoping to contain conservatives' demands for a politically risky showdown with President Barack Obama by striking a quick blow against abortion. Beyond Friday's bill, some conservatives want to attach language halting Planned Parenthood's payments to broader legislation financing government agencies, which otherwise run out of money next Thursday. The legislation that was voted on Friday, proposed by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., would end federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year, diverting the money to thousands of community health centers. But Democrats said the true GOP goal was to whip up conservative voters with legislation that would make it harder for women to get health care.", "So, leadership is trying to work it out.” While much of this fight is about the government’s purported support of abortion, there’s a hefty anti-Boehner sentiment that’s spurring the opposition to the leadership’s plans. The showdown over Planned Parenthood is the epitome of crisis-fueled legislating. Nearly everyone in House and Senate leadership recognizes a simple reality: At some point in the next two weeks, they will move on a bill free of provisions to strip Planned Parenthood of its government funding. Those looking to oust Boehner have not put forward an alternative to serve as speaker, and senior GOP leadership aides say the hardliners have no alternative for when the Senate and president reject their plan to defund Planned Parenthood. McCarthy and Scalise have privately told Republicans that they will try to use the majority-vote reconciliation process to deny funding to the women’s health group — they say that is the best way to get a bill to President Barack Obama's desk.", "WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed bills targeting Planned Parenthood and curbing some abortion procedures toward House passage Friday, with party leaders hoping the legislation will help mollify fractious conservatives demanding a face-off with President Barack Obama that could trigger a federal shutdown. Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi... (Associated Press) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept.... (Associated Press) Neither measure has much chance of becoming law, since Democrats have the votes to block them in the Senate and the White House has threatened vetoes. Conservatives' determination to block Planned Parenthood's money has been partly fueled by the race for the GOP's presidential nomination. The bill by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., would transfer Planned Parenthood's federal money to thousands of government-backed community health centers.", "President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress want to pass a clean, stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown and allow negotiators more time to reach a long-term budget deal. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement after meeting at the White House with Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to plot their strategy on the spending talks. ADVERTISEMENT Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to pass a spending bill before government funding runs out. After the release of a series of undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue, conservative Republicans have insisted federal money for the organization must be turned off.", "The U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday, Sept.18 to defund Planned Parenthood for a one-year period. The House passed two abortion-related bills Friday, including one that would strip federal health-care funding from Planned Parenthood for one year, but it remains unclear whether the votes would appease conservatives who have threatened a government shutdown over the organization. The votes followed months of intense focus on Planned Parenthood prompted by undercover videos released by an activist group claiming they show violations of federal laws prohibiting the sales of fetal tissue for profit and restricting certain abortion procedures. And in a floor debate Friday, they called the bill an attack on women’s health care and noted that other health-care providers would be unable to absorb all of Planned Parenthood’s hundreds of thousands of patients. Planned Parenthood has denied any wrongdoing and claimed the videos have been unfairly manipulated as it has fought off attempts to end its federal support." ]

[ "White House Honey Brown Ale, believed to be the first beer brewed on the White House grounds, includes light malt extract, amber crystal malt, honey, gypsum, yeast and corn sugar. Being identified as a beer drinker is an easy way for Obama to connect with voters and serves as a not-so-subtle reminder that his Republican rival Mitt Romney, a Mormon, doesn’t drink. Obama and his team frequently talk about the president’s fondness for beer, and Obama has been photographed many times downing a beer, including an appearance at the Iowa State Fair last month. Obama has been talking about the White House brew for weeks, but he and other officials had refused to disclose details of how it’s made, despite an online petition and repeated questions from reporters. Obama even took a question on the beer recipe during a chat with the website Reddit. The recipe was released Saturday while President Barack Obama was campaigning in Iowa.", "Like many home brewers who add secret ingredients to make their beer unique, all of our brews have honey that we tapped from the first ever bee-hive on the South Lawn. Note: There's been a lot of buzz online recently about the recipe for the White House Honey Ale and White House Honey Porter, including a popular petition on We the People, the White House's online petition platform. As far as we know the White House Honey Brown Ale is the first alcohol brewed or distilled on the White House grounds. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Inspired by home brewers from across the country, last year President Obama bought a home brewing kit for the kitchen. So without any further ado, America – this one's for you: Download a printable PDF of both recipes." ]

[ "The magazine started naming a \"Man of the Year\" during a slow news week in 1928, it says. \"[T]he person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse,\" a former managing editor of the magazine wrote. The magazine tweeted a few hours later that that wasn't the case: Trump was named Time's Person of the Year last year, which he called a \"tremendous honor\" at the time. The title became \"Person of the Year\" in 1999, though socialite Wallis Simpson was a \"Woman of the Year\" in 1937. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have both been featured in the role. In June, The Washington Post noted that fake covers of Time magazine featuring Trump hang in at least four of his golf clubs. The yearly title isn't necessarily a mark of praise but rather an acknowledgment of influence.", "A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols as part of security measures for President Donald Trump's stay at at his private club Mar-a-Lago, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Associated Press) A U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols as part of security measures for President Donald Trump's stay at at his private club Mar-a-Lago, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Associated Press) PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): 6 p.m. President Donald Trump says he turned down an interview and photo shoot for Time magazine's \"Person of the Year\" issue. Relations between NATO allies Turkey and the United States have soured over a number of issues, including U.S. support to Syrian Kurdish fighters which Ankara considers to be terrorists because of their links to outlawed Kurdish rebels in Turkey. ___ 5 p.m. President Donald Trump is offering his condolences to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi following \"the heinous attack on worshippers in Egypt's North Sinai province\" Friday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said the two leaders also discussed ties between Turkey and the United States during their telephone conversation on Friday. Their discussion comes days after Erdogan attended a trilateral meeting with the Russian and Iranian leaders in Sochi, Russia, to promote a peaceful settlement in Syria. Turkey considers the Kurdish Syrian fighters, known by the initials YPG, to be terrorists because of their affiliation to outlawed Kurdish rebels in Turkey.", "Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass." ]

[ "COOPERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A 4-year-old cancer patient who was sent home for the holidays wanted to get gifts for the friends she left behind in a Philadelphia hospital. Jillian Massey, of Coopersburg, was diagnosed with brain cancer in April and spent six months in the hospital. Her mother's colleagues at a homebuilding company stepped in to help promote it, and the drive took off.", "See more of Jillian Paige-You got this girl on Facebook" ]

[ "Most North Korean defectors undergo security questioning by South Korea’s intelligence agency once they arrive before being sent to a resettlement centre for a three-month education on life in the South. Besides the potential for further medical complications, Lee says he is most worried about making sure Oh recovers psychologically. “It’s a lifelong complication for the patient, so he’s better to be very cautious in his diet,” said the surgeon. Lee has been playing South Korean pop music and American films and TV shows for his patient, but has not exposed him to any news coverage.", "CLOSE The US-led UN command released dramatic video showing a North Korean soldier dash across border into South Korea as North Korean troops fire at him. (Nov. 22) AP This screengrab made from video footage released by the United Nations Command on Nov. 22 shows North Korea soldiers reacting to the news of a defection. The UN says North Korea violated the Korean War armistice by firing.", "SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier defected last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in the defector’s rescue. North Korean soldiers dig a trench and plant trees in the area where, on November 13, a defector ran across the border at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North Korea and South Korea November 22, 2017.", "The incredible tale of a North Korean soldier's escape across the demilitarized zone last week is no exception. Still, that appears to have been enough practice to save the North Korean soldier's life. No medical drama is complete without a bold-yet-sensitive heartthrob doctor in a leading role. [American detained trying to enter North Korea; North Korean soldier escapes to the South ] But for a trauma surgeon, Lee faces a predicament that is unimaginable for American ER doctors: He seldom gets to treat gunshot wounds, because South Korea has very strict rules on gun ownership. Instead, the relatively few gunshot wounds he has treated have been sustained by South Korean and U.S. soldiers hurt during military drills, he told the Korea Times in 2015." ]

[ "New research from the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, has concluded that 10% of the country’s coastal and lakefront beaches fail to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s water-safety standards—in other words, they’re ripe with bacteria. In 2012, nearly 2,000 beaches were closed in New York and New Jersey alone as a result of pollution. If you swim at 10 different U.S. beaches, you could end up getting a stomach bug, conjunctivitis or even something more serious from one of them. Federal law requires all states to test their beach water for bacteria, and respond accordingly when levels are too high. Making matters worse are the hundreds of billions of gallons of sewage that go untreated annually, ending up in water and causing 3.5 million Americans to fall ill each year. Things are particularly bad in New England, on the Gulf Coast and along the Great Lakes, according to the data. The major culprit is stormwater runoff, which inevitably ends up in the ocean after picking up garbage, oil and waste products from both humans and animals along the way.", "It examines the various causes of water pollution that plague America’s beaches and identifies opportunities for all of us – government leaders, homeowners and beachgoers – to keep pollution out of our beaches, lakes, and rivers. Malibu Beach by the Malibu Pier in Los Angeles County was listed as a \"Repeat Offender\" for pollution in today's report (Photo: -Scipio-) Today’s report, the 24th annual release, collects and analyzes the latest water testing results from the EPA and state beach coordinators at nearly 3,500 beach testing locations nationwide. Finding a way to reduce pollution is absolutely critical for California’s thriving beach and coastal economy. Beaches across the state are polluted by a variety of contamination sources and major environmental stresses, including the largest known source of beach water pollution -- stormwater runoff from our urban and suburban environments." ]

[ "× Company will pay you $12,000 to travel the world and drink beer for four months Talk about the chance of a lifetime! If you’ve ever dreamed of making thousands of dollars traveling the world and drinking copious amounts of beer… a new internship will let you do just that. World of Beer is looking for three interns to spend four months this summer visiting breweries across the country and overseas tasting beer, going to beer festivals, and writing about their booze-filled adventures. The internship will pay $12,000 and cover travel expenses including food and lodging. Oh, and you’ll get paid for it.", "World of Beer—the Tampa, Florida-based chain of taverns with 77 locations nationwide—is offering what could be the best internship ever offered in the godforsaken history of internships. WOB says they are hiring three interns this summer to go drink beer and report back on their experiences. WOB says on their website: “We’re inviting a team of interns to travel the world, hopping from brewery to brewery, WOB tavern to WOB tavern to explore beer for themselves and share their stories with WOB drinkers across the country.” Can this possibly be for real? Plus, the internship pays $12,000 and covers all travel, meals, and lodging expenses. Did you stuff envelopes and pay parking tickets for a series of cranky middle-aged bureaucrats as an unpaid intern? Alyssa Ahern, a WOB representative, told us that World of Beer came up with the internship—which is being offered this year for the first time ever—because the company is all about providing a global experience.", "That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. Crawls of supported \"No More 404\" sites." ]

[ "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 ( General Assembly resolution 217 A ) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations.", "The return of the subway station underscores the rebirth. It was like a pile driver.” The new station is a rare piece of good news at a time when the subway is in crisis, with seemingly constant delays more than a year after Gov. Safety is one of the most important things that we deal with every single day here.” Lower Manhattan has rebounded and thrived in the years since the attack, pulsating with businesses, residences, restaurants and stores, the kind of urban energy that seemed unimaginable in the weeks and months following the death and destruction that unfolded over several terrible hours on that September day. Andrew M. Cuomo declared the system to be in a state of emergency. On Sept. 11, part of the route collapsed under the avalanche of falling debris. Shortly after the attack, John Ferrelli, the chief of infrastructure for the subways, assessed the damage: “We basically had dozens of floors of a huge building falling from 600 feet right on top of our roof. 1 train has bypassed the station for years.", "Image copyright MTA Image caption The first train arrives at the reopened station after 17 years A New York City subway station has reopened for the first time since it was destroyed 17 years ago in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack. The new fully accessible station, which cost $181.8 million (£140.7 million) according to the New York Times, required an entirely new ceiling to be built and 365 metres (1,200 ft) of track to be replaced. Cortlandt Street on the 1 line was buried under debris when the two World Trade Center towers collapsed after hijackers crashed planes into them. Image copyright MTA Image caption The MTA only began to build the new station - which cost $181.8 million - in 2015 \"It is symbolic of New Yorkers' resolve in restoring and substantially improving the entire World Trade Center site.\" \"WTC Cortlandt is more than a new subway station,\" said New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) chairman Joe Lhota in a statement. On Saturday, people were welcomed into the newly renamed WTC Cortlandt station as the first train rolled in at midday. It now boasts state-of-the-art technology, like a new air ventilation system to keep the platform cool, and fewer columns to help with passenger flow." ]

[ "\"Not only are women in their 30s more likely than younger women to conceive multiples on their own, they also are more likely to undergo fertility treatments, which are linked to births of multiples,\" the researchers said. \"The rise in women's education levels has changed the profile of the typical mother of a newborn baby,\" the report said. New mothers in the U.S. are increasingly older and better educated than they were two decades ago, according to a study on the state of American motherhood released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education for the nonprofit Council on Contemporary Families and a writer who teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., said the rise of single motherhood is significant.", "More children are born to women older than 35 than to teenagers, a change born of medical science, later marriages and evolving attitudes about motherhood, according to a new study released Thursday. \"We're trained to think science can solve all fertility problems,\" said Wendy Manning, a sociologist at Bowling Green State University, who teaches a class in fertility and family planning. The Pew Research Center, citing census and government health statistics, said the trend toward mothers who are older and better educated cuts across all ethnicities in the United States. The average age for marriage has been rising, as has the share of women who have attended college." ]

[ "Some 3.6 million Israelis have already exercised their right to vote and polling stations are struggling to keep up with the flow of voters. The Central Elections Committee reported a high voter turnout compared to the same time at the past four election campaigns. A total of 5,656,705 eligible voters will be able to cast their ballots in 10,132 ballot boxes across Israel. The Central Elections Committee said that 63.7% of eligible voters have cast their ballots as of 8 pm, compared with 59.7% in the 2009 elections and 63.2% in 2006. The 2013 election continues to break voter turnout records. It is hoped that the 2013 election will break Israel's voting record. \"Today the state is asking citizens to vote for a free, beautiful, democratic country,\" he said after casting his ballot. He wished success to all the candidates and called on the public to exercise their right to vote. Polling stations across Israel opened on Tuesday at 7 am.", "In a Memo from the Middle East titled “An Unusual Election for Its Non-issues,” The Times detailed the lack of details being provided on policies, noting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hadn’t even produced a formal platform. Obama and Netanyahu meeting in NY, Sept. 2011 Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON – It is possible that the American press would have paid more attention to the Israeli election had it not coincided with the installation of its own executive leadership. What space has been devoted to the race has emphasized the lackluster nature of the campaign and its foregone conclusion.", "TEL AVIV — A weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged Wednesday from Israel ’s national election likely to serve a third term, after voters on Tuesday gave a surprising second place to a new centrist party founded by a television celebrity who emphasized kitchen-table issues like class size and apartment prices. Like a large majority of the Israeli public, he supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but is skeptical of the Palestinian leadership’s willingness to negotiate seriously; he has called for a return to peace talks but has not made it a priority. While Mr. Lapid has signaled a willingness to work with Mr. Netanyahu, the ultimate coalition may bring together parties with such different ideologies and agendas that the result is paralysis." ]

[ "In 1925, a Florida coroner ruled, vaguely, that Curry died from a \"wound on the forehead: skull crushed from an unknown cause.\" Since the shuttering of the school two years ago, forensic anthropologists and archaeologists from the University of South Florida have been probing and digging up the cemetery by the school, accounting for victims. The articles in the St. Petersburg Times spurred investigations by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Justice. Now, the inquiry had taken them to Philadelphia.", "Story highlights Anthropologists, authorities exhumed casket of Thomas Curry in Philadelphia this week Exhumation part of probe into deaths, disappearances at Florida's infamous Dozier School Curry's casket had no human remains; authorities now searching for body at Dozier Ex-students allege beatings, sexual abuse, disappearances; ex-guards deny abuse occurred For almost 90 years, the casket lay beneath the earth, Thomas Curry's family believing the teen who died too young rested in peace there, in an unmarked plot with his great-grandparents. The state investigation in 2008 and 2009 said there was insufficient evidence of abuse at Dozier, but dozens of men, many of them now senior citizens, have come forward with stories. Curry was a charge of Marianna, Florida's Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a now infamous juvenile detention facility that closed in 2011 for budgetary reasons, capping a chilling, 111-year legacy of brutality. A dubious legacy That bodies lay there was never a secret -- 31 rusty, white crosses marked the resting places of victims who died from a dormitory fire, influenza, pneumonia and other causes -- but Kimmerle's team has found a total of 55 bodies there so far." ]

[ "(CNN) Disney has announced the cast for the next chapter from the galaxy far, far away -- and it will include the late Carrie Fisher. Abrams added that with \"the support and blessing\" from Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, the film found a way \"to honor Carrie's legacy and role as Leia in 'Episode IX' by using unseen footage we shot together in Episode VII.\" Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her eluded us,\" Abrams said in a statement. Fisher died in 2016 after suffering a cardiac event on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Fisher will reprise her role as Princess Leia Organa, using \"previously unreleased footage shot for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,'\" director J.J. Abrams announced Friday.", "Carrie Fisher will appear from beyond the grave in the upcoming Star Wars film. According to the studio’s online announcement, production on the newest Star Wars adventure is expected to commence next week, on Aug. 1, and Fisher is among the listed cast members returning for the film, thanks to some unused footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. On Friday, Disney and Lucasfilm revealed the official cast list for the ninth trip to a galaxy far, far away and it contained one major surprise: Fisher is back as Princess General Leia Organa, despite her shocking death in 2016. Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her eluded us. Returning director J.J. Abrams, who co-wrote the script for Episode IX alongside Chris Terrio, said in a statement, “We desperately loved Carrie Fisher." ]

[ "BuzzFeed has obtained images from Facebook and Formspring that seem to match the blurred shots posted on TheDirty.com, and rummaged through the now-shuttered accounts. The young woman who leaked screenshots of her post-resignation sexting with Anthony Weiner told TheDirty.com that she wanted to remain anonymous, but since we’re dealing with the Internet here, it took only a few hours for her to be identified. In separate posts, she wrote that Weiner “did nothing wrong” and “can continue sending dick pics every single day for the rest of his life as long as he continues to legislate like he does.” The woman used the handles “Sydney Leathers” and “sidneyelainexo,” and BuzzFeed reported early on Wednesday morning that her name is Sydney Elaine Leathers. She appears to be an Indiana woman in her early twenties who was a field organizer for Obama for America and listed Weiner as number three on her list of heroes. After nervously speaking on Weiner’s behalf at her first press conference, on Tuesday evening Abedin offered up a second defense of her husband, somewhat unwittingly.", "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period." ]

[ "Related: New North Korea sanctions are unlikely to make Kim blink Textiles China is estimated to account for about 90% of North Korea's foreign trade, providing a vital link between Kim's regime and the global economy. Chinese leaders want to preserve the regime in Pyongyang as a strategic buffer against U.S. influence in East Asia and avoid the chaotic collapse of a neighboring country. Oil North Korean exports to China provide the regime in Pyongyang with an important source of income. Related: U.S. targets Chinese, Russian entities linked to North Korea \"Chinese banks are integral to the operation of these illicit networks and the Trump administration will need to target them to move its pressure campaign to the next level,\" Ruggiero, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said in an opinion article for Fox News.", "Tuesday's launch of a ballistic missile over Japan and into the open Pacific Ocean, once again blowing past warnings from the United States and its allies, is a prime example. FILE - In this file image made from video of an Aug. 14, 2017, broadcast in a news bulletin by North Korea's KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un receives a military briefing in Pyongyang. Conventional... (Associated Press) TOKYO (AP) — Conventional wisdom says that if North Korea were ever to use its nuclear weapons, it would be an act of suicide. To many who have studied how nuclear strategies actually work, it's conceivable North Korea could escalate to a nuclear war and still survive.", "A day after North Korea launched a missile over Japan, Tokyo Bureau Chief Anna Fifield answers one of the questions she gets most often about North Korea: \"Are we going to war?\" (Anna Fifield/The Washington Post) A day after North Korea launched a missile over Japan, Tokyo Bureau Chief Anna Fifield answers one of the questions she gets most often about North Korea: \"Are we going to war?\" [ In a dangerous time, the Pentagon prepares for a war game on the Korean Peninsula ] Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said that the United States would shoot down any missile North Korea fired at Guam or a U.S. ally. International outrage over the latest North Korean missile went well beyond Washington. It came during annual joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea that have infuriated the nuclear-armed communist regime.", "Trump’s most recent threats against North Korea came this month after the UN Security Council unanimously voted to tighten international sanctions against Pyongyang. North Korea’s response: a detailed plan to fire an intermediate-range ballistic missile at Guam, the U.S. territory in the Pacific that is home to military bases. Rex Tillerson, Trump’s secretary of state, had declared the Obama-era policy of “strategic patience” with North Korea over, though the Trump administration’s stated policy of ‘maximum pressure and engagement’ resembles the Obama-era approach.", "“It is now obvious to everyone that the resources for influencing North Korea with sanctions have run out.” Ryabkov referred to the joint military exercises the U.S. is currently holding with ally South Korea. The U.S. and South Korea are to blame for North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan, and further sanctions on the regime will not ameliorate the situation, Russia said Tuesday. That threat prompted the U.S. to rally its allies and, with China and Russia on side, impose new sanctions on the rogue state. Public statements of concern aside, though, the two countries maintain a similar approach of suggesting that more U.S. disarmament in the region will help curb the North’s nuclear proliferation goals.", "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. stock indexes ended higher on Tuesday after recovering from steep early losses triggered by fears that hostilities in the Korean Peninsula could escalate. Ernesto Ramos, head of equities at BMO Global Asset Management in Chicago, described the market reaction to the flooding in Houston and surrounding areas as a “very stock-specific situation.” Shares of insurers fell on uncertainty over their storm-related liabilities. The S&P; 500 fell as much as 0.66 percent after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that all options are on the table for the United States to respond after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over a Japanese island in a new show of force.", "Fourteen minutes after it was launched from a site near Pyongyang, the missile fell without incident into the Pacific, 1,180km east of Cape Erimo in Hokkaido. “Currently, a North Korean missile is flying above Japan,” announcements at stations in the capital that run bullet train services said, minutes after the launch. Joe (@jtnarsico) I woke up with a Siren and an announcement that North Korea launched a missile that would possibly hit cities within Hokkaido. Sirens blared out, trains stopped and residents took cover as missile fired by North Korea soared over Japanese territory for two minutes It was the early morning wake-up call millions of people in northern Japan had been warned about for months but which most had hoped would never arrive. pic.twitter.com/RGiflzTqJT Morning commuters in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, were greeted by warning signs at train stations. “Reason: Ballistic missile launch.” Some commuters followed the government’s emergency advice to the letter." ]

[ "Updated 6:30 p.m. Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown has been found guilty in 18 of 22 counts of conspiracy, wire/mail fraud and tax fraud for her role in a scam that bilked $833,000 from donors who thought sham charity One Door for Education was awarding scholarships to disadvantaged students. Listen to the story airing on 89.9 WJCT-FM Brown’s charges include seven counts of wire fraud, five of mail fraud, one of conspiracy, and three of falsifying tax returns. Prosecutors argued Brown inflated her charitable giving to receive larger tax refunds and also failed to disclose tens of thousands of dollars in income she received from One Door and other sources. She was found not guilty on two mail fraud and two wire fraud charges. Brown’s attorney James Smith crafted a defense that hinged upon the jury believing Brown Chief of Staff Ronnie Simmons was the real mastermind behind the around four-year fraud. Only $1,200 actually made it to students’ education.", "Prosecutors alleged — and on Thursday, the jury agreed — that Brown and Simmons pocketed the rest of the funds, using them for lavish events such as a golf tournament and luxury boxes for an NFL game and a Beyonce concert. Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown Convicted Of Stealing From Phony Charity Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Wallheiser/AP Mark Wallheiser/AP Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been found guilty of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from a charity that she and her chief of staff had passed off as a scholarship service for students. Brown didn't speak after the verdict was rendered, but her attorney James Smith told reporters, \"I still have a lot of work to do on this case,\" referring to the sentencing phase and the motion he plans to file for a new trial. In roughly five years, prosecutors say, the charity distributed just two scholarships. Brown had argued that the fraud was entirely the doing of Simmons, who earlier pleaded guilty and testified against her. They also claimed she was instrumental in planning nine events that cost the sham charity $330,000.\"", "Tough words for Corrine Brown from the Justice Department, found guilty today on numerous charges: “Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown violated the public trust, the honor of her position, and the integrity of the American system of government when she abused one of the most powerful positions in the nation for her own personal gain. “The Department of Justice is committed to fighting corruption and fraud wherever we find it, at all levels of government, regardless of their power and influence.” “Former Congresswoman Brown chose greed and personal gain over the sacred trust given to her by the community that she served for many years,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Muldrow. “These guilty verdicts underscore our Office's resolve in holding public officials at all levels of government accountable for their actions. She shamefully deprived needy children of hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have helped with their education and improved their opportunities for advancement, and she lied to the IRS and the American public about secret cash deposits into her personal bank accounts,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco.", "Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick, Sr., left,) escorts Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown outside the Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse on Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Jacksonville, Fla. Brown was found... (Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After a historic, nearly 25-year career representing Florida in Congress, former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was found guilty on Thursday of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students. The verdict came after prosecutors outlined a pattern of fraud by Brown, 70, and her top aide that included using hundreds of thousands of dollars from the One Door for Education Foundation for lavish parties, trips and shopping excursions. \"Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown violated the public trust, the honor of her position, and the integrity of the American system of government when she abused one of the most powerful positions in the nation for her own personal gain,\" Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco, said in a statement after the verdict. Brown, a Democrat who was one of the first three African Americans to be elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction, represented the district that included Jacksonville since 1993. Both pleaded guilty after their federal indictments for misusing the charity's funds, and testified against Brown." ]

[ "[RECOMMENDED: Tourist run over on beach, killed | Shark in pond eludes trappers] Sarah Anne Markham was arrested Tuesday on a charge of child neglect. ERIK, THIS CAME TO CASSELBERRY POLICE AS A TIP GOING INTO THE FLORIDA STATE HOTLINE THERE ON CHILD ABUSE. A NEWBORN BABY IS NOW IN STATE CUSTODY AFTER CASSELBERRY POLICE SAY SARAH MARKHAM REFUSED TO TAKE HER DEHYDRATED BABY TO THE HOSPITAL. KALA RAMA IS LIVE AT THE CASSELBERRY POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR US. CASSELBERRY, Fla. - A Casselberry mother was arrested on allegations of refusing to take her newborn, diagnosed by a doctor as dehydrated, to a hospital because of her staunch vegan stance. Police used a locksmith to enter the apartment and interviewed Markham, who said she wanted to get a second opinion about her child, according to a police report. Notable deaths of 2014 | Michael Jackson: A life in pics | Celebs & pets] Markham said she did not give the formula/medicine that the doctor provided because she did not agree with the ingredients, which she said came from animals, the police report stated. THEY SAY WHEN THEY WENT TO THAT HOUSE, THEY FOUND A MOTHER WHO WAS NOT COOPERATIVE AND A BABY WHO NEEDED SERIOUS MEDICAL ATTENTION.", "WFTV – Orlando, Fla. A vegan mother whose newborn son was taken from her several months ago after he began losing weight has regained custody of the child. Rather than taking the boy to the hospital, Markham wanted to try supplementing breast milk with vegan formula. The judge agreed, throwing out Seminole County Child Protective Services' claim that Sarah Markham was not fit to care for the child. A doctor said Caleb was failing to thrive and told Markham to take her child to a hospital." ]

[ "See more of T-Bois Blues Fest on Facebook", "Staged at the site of an alligator farm, the festival has come to be known in recent years as the \"Cajun Burning Man.\" Webre also said a large Labrador dog in the tent with the women was killed in the incident. A New Orleans woman was killed and two others injured when lightning struck on or near their tent at the T-Bois Blues Festival in Larose, authorities said Sunday (March 18).", "See more of Scott Plaisance on Facebook", "One Dead, Two Injured Following Lightning Strike at Larose Music Festival Sheriff Craig Webre reported one woman has died, and two others were hospitalized after a lightning strike Friday night at a Larose outdoor music festival. A large Labrador, which was with the females, also died in the incident. Investigators learned the three women had retreated into a small personal tent on the festival grounds during a period of severe weather. Following a lightning strike, Stavis was unresponsive, and the other two had injuries commonly associated with electric shock.", "New Orleans transplant killed by lightning strike: ‘She just dove into the culture' of city New Orleans transplant killed by lightning strike: ‘She just dove into the culture' of city On Saturday, Jacqui Stavis, a New Orleans massage therapist, became the nation’s first lightning fatality of 2016, according to National Weather Service records. Over the past 30 years, the United States has averaged 49 reported lightning fatalities each year. However, National Weather Service alerts note that 10 percent of lightning strikes can result in death, often from cardiac arrest or irreversible brain damage.", "Deputies got a call around 10:00 p.m. on Friday that three people had been hurt in a lightning strike. When they arrived, they found Stavis was unresponsive. The Labrador was also killed in the strike, according to authorities. The department didn’t identify the two other women, but said one was 30 and one was 24. Her two companions, both women, were suffering from electric shock injuries." ]

[ "Mohammed Islam's story of earning multi-millions based off of knowledge gleaned from an investment club at Stuyvesant High School was first published by New York Magazine and soon after went viral. A 17-year-old Queens boy's $72 million earned on the stock market are \"about as real as monopoly money,\" a public relations firm for the teen said late Monday. But on Monday evening, Islam and a close friend also featured in the story, Damir Tulemaganbetov, came clean to the New York Observer, explaining the story was a rumor that media attention spun out of control into a full blown lie. \"A 17-year old boy who lives in Elmhurst, Queens responded to a reporter's inquiry and created an inaccurate story.", "After the Rolling Stone campus rape story unraveled, readers of all publications can be forgiven for questioning the process by which Americans get our news. And now it turns out that another blockbuster story is—to quote its subject in an exclusive Observer interview—”not true.” Monday’s edition of New York magazine includes an irresistible story about a Stuyvesant High senior named Mohammed Islam who had made a fortune investing in the stock market. It’s been a tough month for fact-checking. Speaking at the offices of their newly hired crisis pr firm, 5WPR, and handled by a phalanx of four, including the lawyer Ed Mermelstein of RheemBell & Mermelstein, Mr. Islam told a story that will be familiar to just about any 12th grader—a fib turns into a lie turns into a rumor turns into a bunch of mainstream media stories and invitations to appear on CNBC. Swept up in a tide of media adulation, they made the whole thing up. Reporter Jessica Pressler wrote regarding the precise number, “Though he is shy about the $72 million number, he confirmed his net worth is in the �?high eight figures.’ ” The New York Post followed up with a story of its own, with the fat figure playing a key role in the headline: “High school student scores $72M playing the stock market.” And now it turns out, the real number is … zero. We want to create a brotherhood.", "Editor's Note: In the most recent edition of New York, its annual Reasons to Love New York issue, the magazine published this story about a Stuyvesant High School senior named Mohammed Islam, who was rumored to have made $72 million trading stocks. As part of the research process, the magazine sent a fact-checker to Stuyvesant, where Islam produced a document that appeared to be a Chase bank statement attesting to an eight-figure bank account. New York apologizes to our readers. But in an interview with the New York Observer last night, Islam now says his entire story was made up. Late last year, a rumor began circulating at Stuyvesant that a junior named Mohammed Islam had made a fortune in the stock market." ]

[ "FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a missing North Dakota woman whose body was found in the Red River had been violently killed. Fargo police announced Tuesday that 22-year-old Savanna Greywind's cause of death was homicidal violence. Investigators didn't release further details of a preliminary autopsy on Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared earlier this month. Police found a newborn daughter believed to be Greywind's in an apartment in the same building where she had lived. Prosecutors have charged the man and woman who lived there with conspiracy to commit murder in what they say was a scheme to take Greywind's baby.", "Fargo, N.D. Police Chief David Todd, right, pauses during a press conference at Fargo City Hall to update members of the media on the case of Savanna Greywind, whose body was found Sunday evening in the... (Associated Press) FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A suspect in the death of a pregnant woman initially claimed the woman gave up her newborn daughter but later admitted taking advantage of her to get the child, according to court documents filed Monday that shed no light on how the woman died. At the same time Greywind's body was found, Todd said, a farmstead on the Minnesota side of the river that is the border between that state and North Dakota was being searched and suspicious items were found that led authorities to believe it might be a crime scene. Amanda Vivier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, said she struggled with her emotions during the hearing. \"I have a lot of anger,\" said Vivier, spiritual director for the Native American Christian Ministry, a church frequented by the Greywind family." ]

[ "Garrincha, which means \"little wren\" in Brazilian Portuguese, was regarded by many as the greatest dribbler of all time. Media playback is not supported on this device Garrincha scores against England in 1962 The remains of deceased Brazilian football legend Garrincha are missing, members of his family say. The second is marked with an obelisk and was built in 1985. One is a plot where Garrincha was originally laid in 1983 alongside other members of his family.", "After winning three Carioca State Championships and a pair of Rio–São Paulo Tournaments with Botafogo, Garrincha was sold to the São Paulo–based Corinthians in 1966. Born on October 28, 1933, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Garrincha overcame a series of physical defects to become one of his country's greatest soccer players. He starred for the 1958 World Cup–winning team, and was named the best player of the tournament when Brazil repeated as champions four years later.", "If the exhumation theory is true, Garrincha's body would have been removed around 10 years ago from it's original burial site. The remains of legendary Brazil winger Garrincha have gone missing, according to his family and local authorities. Garrincha won two World Cups with Brazil, in 1958 and 1962. The two-time World Cup winner who formed an unbeatable partnership with Pele died in 1983 and was buried in Mage's Raiz da Serra Cemetary, located in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro. The mayor of Mage, Rafael Tubarao, wants to honour the former Selecao legend in October, on the occasion of his 84th birthday, and vowed to find the remains with the family's blessing. However, on Tuesday, the city government and Garrincha's relatives confirmed that the former Botafogo star's remains could not be found, with cemetery officials theorising they were lost during an exhumation. There are two grave sites with the name Garrincha, which means \"Little Wren,\" at the Raiz da Serra Cemetary." ]