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[ "The International Space Station, long a symbol of international cooperation in space even among former adversaries, could become the next pressure point as the US tries to raise the stakes for Moscow after Russia's takeover and annexation of Crimea. The Obama administration's fiscal 2015 budget request seeks $848 million to keep the commercial-crew program on track for 2017. With the end of the US space shuttle program in 2010, Russia became the only country in the partnership able to transport crew members. \"This suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian Government representatives to NASA facilities, bilateral meetings, email, and teleconferences or videoconferences.\" So far, the Ukraine crisis has not interrupted US-Russia cooperation on the space station.", "In a recent development, NATO member states suspended cooperation with Moscow allegedly until Russia changed its stand on the Ukrainian crisis, prompting the Russian Foreign Office to accuse the allies of trying to manhandle the country into accepting their viewpoint. MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - Washington's decision to freeze cooperation between the NASA space agency and its Russian counterpart on a slew of joint projects will hurt global space partnership but won't be the end of the Russian space program, Director of the Space Policy Institute Ivan Moiseyev told RIA Novosti Thursday. A freeze on cooperation will spur a serious backlash against the international space program.\" This comes as the United States, European Union and their allies continue to ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Russia following its re-unification with the Russian-majority Crimea peninsula, which was taken over by Ukraine after the Soviet fall. The space pundit added that, despite being something that Russia would never want for space science, this freeze was unlikely to have any catastrophic repercussions for its industry. \"Modern space science is a global phenomenon that benefits all countries,\" Moiseyev noted.", "NASA Statement regarding suspension of some NASA activities with Russian Government representatives Press Release From: NASA HQ Posted: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Given Russia's ongoing violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, NASA is suspending the majority of its ongoing engagements with the Russian Federation. This has been a top priority of the Obama Administration's for the past five years, and had our plan been fully funded, we would have returned American human spaceflight launches - and the jobs they support - back to the United States next year. NASA is laser focused on a plan to return human spaceflight launches to American soil, and end our reliance on Russia to get into space. The choice here is between fully funding the plan to bring space launches back to America or continuing to send millions of dollars to the Russians. The Obama Administration chooses to invest in America - and we are hopeful that Congress will do the same.", "The choice here is between fully funding the plan to bring space launches back to America or continuing to send millions of dollars to the Russians. This has been a top priority of the Obama Administration's for the past five years, and had our plan been fully funded, we would have returned American human spaceflight launches - and the jobs they support - back to the United States next year. The Obama Administration chooses to invest in America - and we are hopeful that Congress will do the same.\" NASA is laser focused on a plan to return human spaceflight launches to American soil, and end our reliance on Russia to get into space." ]

[ "Story highlights Police spokeswoman says authorities are looking at possible links to right-wing groups Attacker, shot by police, dies at hospital A teacher and student were killed; another student and another teacher were injured (CNN) A masked man wielding a sword or a knife killed a teacher and a student in an attack Thursday at a school in Trollhattan, Sweden, before police fatally shot him, authorities said. Two others -- another teacher and student -- were wounded in the attack on the Kronan primary and middle school. The injured were reported to be in serious condition at the hospital in Trollhattan, hospital officials said. Law enforcement officials said police shot the suspect at the scene and he died later at the hospital. \"My thoughts go out to the victims and their families, pupils and staff, and the entire community that has been affected.", "A picture reported to be of the alleged attacker was circulating in Swedish media on Thursday afternoon. Some pupils have described how they initially thought the man's appearance was a prank. He said that officers called to the scene had fired two shots, with one of them hitting the assailant, after the suspect had first attempted to attack the police. 21-year-old suspect confirmed dead Teenage student and teacher dead and another pupil and teacher being treated in hospital 'If I had not run, I would have been murdered,' student tells The Local PM Stefan Löfven: 'A dark day for Sweden' The attack took place on Thursday morning at the school, around 75km from Gothenburg, after a man wearing a mask walked into a building on the premises wielding \"several knife-like objects\", police said.", "King Carl XVI Gustaf said Sweden was \"in shock\" following the attack and that the royal family received the news \"with great dismay and sadness.\" Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who went to the scene, described Thursday as a \"black day.\" The Dagens Nyheter newspaper said students must go through a public cafe to reach the school's cafeteria and other parts of the building.", "Image copyright AFP Image caption The suspect apparently posed for photos with pupils ahead of the attack A masked man armed with a sword has killed a pupil and a teacher at a school in Sweden. The suspect, clad in black, apparently posed for photos with students ahead of the attack, in the western town of Trollhattan. The king has said Sweden \"is in shock\". Local media have reported that the suspect's accounts on Facebook and YouTube suggest an interest in Hitler and Nazi Germany." ]

[ "A former Marine who was awaiting trial in the deaths of six people, including four homeless men, died after ingesting Ajax in his jail cell, his lawyer said Friday. Prosecutors alleged that Ocampo, a native of Mexico, stabbed four homeless men in what they called a serial thrill-kill rampage in late 2011 and early 2012. \"We always want to prove the case in court and have justice for the victims' families,\" said Susan Kang Schroeder, the district attorney's chief of staff.", "Ocampo told detectives he joined the Marine Corps in 2006 with the hope of learning to kill, but he was disappointed that during a six-month tour in Iraq he drove a water truck and never saw combat, according to the transcript of the grand jury hearing. A man charged last year in a \"serial thrill-kill\" rampage in Orange County that left six people dead, including four homeless men and a woman and her son, died Thursday after being found sick in his jail cell, a sheriff's spokesman said. Ocampo told police after his arrest that he targeted the homeless because they were \"available and vulnerable\" and that he believed he was performing a public service because their presence was a \"blight\" on the community. For months Ocampo went undetected, authorities said, as a string of killings occurred in North Orange County, starting with the stabbing death of his childhood friend and the friend's mother on Oct. 25, 2011. \"It really deprives the victims and the people of California of the ability to put Mr. Ocampo to death on our terms and get justice for the victims of these crimes,\" she said." ]

[ "A federal judge on Friday granted Michael Cohen’s request for a delay in a lawsuit brought against him by porn star Stormy Daniels, saying it appeared likely Cohen will be indicted in a related criminal investigation. It is not uncommon for defendants facing both civil liability and criminal prosecution to request a pause in civil proceedings to avoid giving sworn testimony and producing documents that could prove incriminating. Cohen’s declaration cited the investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who are examining his role in quashing embarrassing stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. Otero said Friday that the issues in the civil dispute with Daniels overlap with the criminal probe into Cohen.", "A federal judge in California on Friday ordered a three-month delay in the lawsuit brought by the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford against President Trump, citing what he called the likelihood that Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, will be indicted. In granting a defense request for the postponement, the judge, S. James Otero of United States District Court in Los Angeles, sided with the president’s legal team that the unusual circumstances of the case warranted the stay of action. Judge Otero acknowledged in his order that complications might arise from an overlap with a criminal investigation into Mr. Cohen. Whether or not an indictment is forthcoming, and the court thinks it likely based on these facts alone, these unique circumstances counsel in favor of stay.” On Wednesday, Mr. Cohen, whose New York office, apartment and hotel room were raided this month by the F.B.I., invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in Ms. Clifford’s lawsuit, citing the “ongoing criminal investigation” in New York. “It is an investigation into the personal attorney of a sitting president regarding documents that might be subject to the attorney-client privilege. “This is no simple criminal investigation,” Judge Otero wrote.", "Earlier this week Trump, who previously had denied knowing about his attorney's payoff to Daniels, acknowledged that Cohen did represent him in the deal. As we have reported, Cohen has said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the Daniels lawsuit because of the related criminal inquiry in New York. Judge Delays Stormy Daniels' Lawsuit Against Trump, Lawyer Michael Cohen Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP A federal judge in Los Angeles says the Stormy Daniels civil lawsuit against President Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen will take a 90-day break while events play out in a criminal investigation in New York. FBI agents working on that probe raided Cohen's home and office looking for documents related to the Daniels nondisclosure agreement. Wood appointed a \"special master\" to review which of material will be available to prosecutors, and which will be withheld. Cohen's attorney had argued that answering questions in the Daniels case would reduce Cohen's ability to defend himself in the other court.", "We will likely be filing an immediate appeal to the Ninth Circuit early next week. While we certainly respect Judge Otero’s 90 day stay order based on Mr. Cohen’s pleading of the 5th, we do not agree with it. Justice delayed is justice denied." ]

[ "The New York Times reports that Google's new parent company, Alphabet, has encountered an issue with german automaker BMW, which owns a fleet services company with the same name and the domain Alphabet.com. BMW is looking into whether Google's Alphabet has infringed on its trademark, with no legal action currently planned. See also: What Google has to gain by adopting the Alphabet With the major restructuring announcement yesterday, Alphabet launched abc.xyz as its domain name. A spokesperson for BMW told the Times the company isn't planning on selling its domain and that Alphabet was a large part of its business. Google founder Page said Alphabet wouldn't be introducing products under its own name, so it wouldn't be a public facing name like Google.", "So we are creating a new company, called Alphabet. As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant. Improving the transparency and oversight of what we’re doing. In addition, with this new structure we plan to implement segment reporting for our Q4 results, where Google financials will be provided separately than those for the rest of Alphabet businesses as a whole.", "At the time, Google unveiled its website with a URL of abc.xyz. Read More from CNBC: Why Investors Like Google's Alphabet News Google announced its restructuring in August in a bid to separate its core businesses such as search and Android from its \"moonshots\" like driverless cars. A report in the New York Times earlier this year suggested that BMW does not want to sell it. The news was first reported by DomainInvesting.com. Not literally of course (if that's even possible), but it has acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, just a few days after Google officially became a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company. Google has bought the alphabet. Google owns 18,095 other domains, data on Whois shows." ]

[ "In fact, according to the FDA’s analysis of nearly 100 dark chocolate bars from different manufacturers and different parts of the country, two out of three did indeed contain milk. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Chocolate a common source of hidden milk. “There’s shared equipment at the chocolate factory that could have milk,” explains Dr. DeAngelo, “And remember, they use a lot of powdered milk products in the chocolate industry, so powder can blow, it can get stuck to equipment.” The FDA also found that words like “may contain milk” or “may contain dairy” means it very likely contains milk. And milk is a common reason for allergic reactions. If you’re highly allergic to milk, be aware, dark chocolate can be a risky food. “I see people claiming to be allergic to chocolate,” says allergist Dr. James DeAngelo of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Associates, “It’s actually the milk protein.", "In a new report out today, the FDA shed more light on their testing, findings, and what consumers need to be aware of. You should be — the FDA has found dairy labeling on chocolate bars to be inefficient at best, and downright dangerous at worst. (Photo: Getty Images) The FDA set off alarms in February when it warned that most dark chocolate bars contain milk — including many billed as dairy-free. Read This Next: Why The FDA Is Warning People About Dark Chocolate Let’s keep in touch! The FDA suggests reading “may” as “likely” If an bar has any type of warning, ranging from “may contain milk” to “manufactured in a facility that uses milk,” consumers should assume that the bar contains some amount of milk — the FDA found that 3 out of ever 4 bars with a warning contained milk. Think dark chocolate means dairy-free?", "Allergens contained in a food product but not named on the label are a leading cause of FDA requests for food recalls, and undeclared milk is the most frequently cited allergen. Further, allergen contamination is included in the preventive and risk-based controls mandated by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). That’s what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wanted to learn, especially after receiving reports that consumers had harmful reactions after eating dark chocolate. Español Subscribe: FDA Consumer Health Information NOTE: This Consumer Update sheds light on the results of an FDA study on milk in dark chocolate. There’s quite a variety of advisory messages, such as: “may contain milk” “may contain dairy” “may contain traces of milk” “made on equipment shared with milk” “processed in a plant that processes dairy” “manufactured in a facility that uses milk” FDA found that milk was present in 3 out of every 4 dark chocolate products with one of these advisory statements. FDA tested nearly 100 dark chocolate bars for the presence of milk. Chocolates are one of the most common sources of undeclared milk associated with consumer reactions." ]

[ "This weekend marks President Donald Trump’s third straight at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. | Getty White House reverses on Trump's golf game President Donald Trump played a full round of golf Sunday, enjoying once again a habit he regularly assailed Barack Obama for. “He also had a full day of meetings, calls and interviews for the new NSA, which he is continuing today before returning to Washington, D.C. tonight.” Story Continued Below This weekend marks Trump’s third straight at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which he has taken to calling the “Winter White House.” Trump regularly panned Obama for his penchant for hitting the links, but Trump made it to the golf course far faster than the previous two presidents, waiting just two weeks before playing his first round. After initially saying Trump had only played a few holes, the White House reversed itself Monday after professional golfer Rory McIlroy posted on his website that he had played 18 holes with the president. Trump recently golfed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and is expected to conduct more such golf diplomacy. “As stated yesterday the President played golf.", "Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images News Four-time major champion Rory McIlroy played golf with Donald Trump at Trump International, Florida, on Sunday and has revealed that the president of the United States returned a score of \"around 80.\" There are rumours he could make his comeback from injury on March 2 when the WGC-Mexico Championship tees off at the Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico. Holywood hotshot McIlroy has not played competitive golf since losing a playoff to Graeme Storm in the South African Open in January.", "Donald Trump hit the links for the second straight week last Sunday, news that came as a surprise to the White House Press Pool. Because President Trump is a divisive figure among so many, that led to something of a social media backlash for Rory McIlroy. After Clear Sports tweeted this picture of its CEO alongside President Trump, World No. This anti-Trump hysteria is absolutely PATHETIC. A sampling of the negative comments: @McIlroyRory Rory, Rory, what are you doing whoring yourself with Trump?" ]

[ "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.", "President Trump, who signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill last week, is frustrated with the amount Congress provided to finance a U.S.-Mexico border wall and is pressing to use money dedicated to the military. The president’s comments raising the possibility of using Pentagon funds to build the wall came after the collapse of negotiations with Democrats to secure $25 billion in long-term wall funding in exchange for protections for young immigrants at risk for deportation because of Trump’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The president’s pursuit of defense dollars to finance the U.S.-Mexico border wall underscores his determination to fulfill a campaign promise and build the barrier despite resistance in the Republican-led Congress.", "Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump has privately floated the idea of funding construction of a border wall with Mexico through the US military budget in conversations with advisers, two sources confirmed to CNN Tuesday. Trump discussed the idea in a private meeting last week with House Speaker Paul Ryan, a source familiar with the conversations said, as he reviewed the omnibus spending bill, which does not include funding for construction of a border wall. The idea is Trump's latest attempt to find a way to build the border wall he promised supporters during his campaign as Mexico has dismissed his call for Mexico to fund its construction. A senior administration official confirmed the President has floated this idea, along with others, as alternative ways to pay for the wall. Any repurposing of funds requires express congressional approval, which Trump is unlikely to get. The source noted that additional authorization from Congress would likely be necessary if this option was pursued. Congressional budgeting is done with very specific instructions for how dollar amounts are spent." ]

[ "Police have collected evidence from Matthew’s car and apartment, and Longo said that prosecutors decided to press charges against Matthew after reviewing evidence from experts at the crime lab in Richmond. 404 Not found — Police are asking property owners in this city and throughout nearby rural Albemarle County to look for any signs of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, hoping that they can locate her after nearly two weeks of searching. You’re always evaluating witness statements in an ongoing investigation, and we will be talking to folks again, but we have that statement.” An extensive search has turned up almost no trace of Graham after she was seen at Tempo. The charge against Matthew suggests that police believe Matthew took Graham against her will — or while she was in a state that left her unable to consent. Matthew was taken into custody Wednesday in Texas after a widespread manhunt, and police said he will be extradited to Charlottesville to face charges in her disappearance.", "If you are a current 7-day subscriber you are granted an all-access pass to the website and digital newspaper replica. If you are a current 7-day subscriber you are granted an all-access pass to the website and digital newspaper replica. Please purchase a subscription to continue reading. Please click Sign Up to subscribe, or Login if you are already a member.", "GILCHRIST, Texas (AP) — If kidnap suspect Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. was looking to hide from authorities, he picked what would seem to be a good spot with the remote Bolivar Peninsula, a finger of Gulf of Mexico barrier sand and scrub vegetation barely above sea level. Matthew Jr. was arrested on a beach in... (Associated Press) Jill Howard, left, and her stepdaughter Martie Belt, talk about the arrest of Leroy Matthew Jr. as they walk along the beach Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, near Gilchrist, Texas, on the Bolivar Peninsula.... (Associated Press) The island's beaches have served as a hiding spot for centuries: graves from one of the Houston area's most notorious mass slayings and a haven for the famed French pirate Jean Lafitte. Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset answers a question about the arrest of Leroy Matthew Jr. during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in League City, Texas. Matthew Jr. was arrested on... (Associated Press) Jill Howard, left, and her stepdaughter Martie Belt, look for seashells as they walk along the beach Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, near Gilchrist, Texas, on the Bolivar Peninsula." ]

[ "One, Eric Braverman, is CEO of the whole enterprise, which is in some ways an umbrella organization for nine separate “initiatives” and two “entities.” In fact, they are divisions, each with its own leader, that focus philanthropy on a range of causes, including global warming (the Clinton Climate Initiative), food and health care for poverty-stricken Africans (the Clinton Development Initiative), sustainable small businesses (the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership), infant and toddler health (Too Small to Fail), and rebuilding the Haitian economy and infrastructure (the Clinton Foundation in Haiti). Help The Secretary (In Whatever Ways Necessary) Promote Hillary’s new project: a partnership to save the African elephant. The glue that has held this together is President Clinton, who created the charity in 1997 (its first task was to raise funds for his presidential library) and who now presides over the annual three-day gathering of his pet project, the Clinton Global Initiative, in midtown Manhattan. Reshape the Clinton foundation Secure the Clinton legacy by ensuring that the foundation will be sustainable for decades. Help get juvenile detention facilities to collectively bargain for healthy food. As vice chair of the recently rebranded Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, she is helping one of the world’s most notable philanthropies grow up.", "Chelsea Clinton says in a new interview that she's open to a run for a multitude of offices, from mayor of New York to the U.S. Senate. Here's a rundown of all the offices Clinton could run for, courtesy of The Fix. \"I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives,\" Clinton told Fast Company.", "Following in the footsteps of her parents' political and social activism, Chelsea has become a prominent media figure, serving as a special correspondent for broadcast networks, including NBC News. One of the most vital initiatives Chelsea spearheads through the Clinton Foundation is the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the Clinton Foundation and American Heart Association that focuses on childhood obesity. Another program Chelsea has helped implement through the Clinton Foundation is Day of Action, a community service-centric initiative founded in direct response to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy." ]

[ "Our site may be experiencing technical difficulties, or we may be working to enhance this feature. Please click the link below to try another feature.", "\"While incidents like this one between individuals who meet on Match.com are extremely rare, it doesn't make them any less horrifying,\" the statement said. Webb described his client as an Ivy League graduate who works in film and television. But in a statement to KABC-TV Channel 7 last week, officials that they provide safety tips on the website and warn members that they are responsible for screening the people they meet. Officials with Match.com could not be reached for comment late Wednesday." ]

[ "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has declared Gaza a \"humanitarian disaster area\" and urged the international community to protect and provide relief to the battered enclave. We adamantly oppose calls for Israel to “reoccupy Gaza.” \"We support efforts by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry as well as the engagement of other countries such as Egypt to bring about an immediate ceasefire. The UN's top human rights official is accusing Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes in the latest Gaza war. We support the inclusion of the Palestinian Authority in the ceasefire and in the negotiations around security, political arrangements and humanitarian assistance. As Israel's Operation Protective Edge entered its 24th day on Thursday, the security cabinet has ordered the military to press on with the offensive in the Gaza Strip, focusing on the destruction of Hamas' tunnel network. A Palestinian firefighter near the wreckage of a house, in Gaza City July 31, 2014 (Reuters) \"Secretary Hagel also expressed the United States' continued concern about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and loss of Israeli lives, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza,\" the statement said.", "Israeli attacks in the strip continued Thursday, with witnesses saying... (Associated Press) JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel will destroy the Hamas tunnel network in the Gaza Strip \"with or without a cease-fire,\" as the military called up another 16,000 reservists to pursue its campaign in the densely-populated territory. Egyptian officials, meanwhile, met with an Israeli envoy about Israel's conditions for a cease-fire, including disarming Hamas, according to a high-ranking Egyptian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the delicate diplomatic efforts. Hamas has said it will only halt fire once it receives guarantees that a Gaza border blockade by Israel and Egypt -- tightened after the Islamic militant group seized power in Gaza in 2007 -- will be lifted. Israeli media said late Wednesday that Israel's Security Cabinet decided to press forward with the operation. \"We have neutralized dozens of terror tunnels and we are committed to complete this mission, with or without a cease-fire,\" Netanyahu said. Israel says it wants to decimate Hamas' rocket-launching capability, diminish its weapons arsenal and demolish the tunnels." ]

[ "“Great experience to see these animals up close…” We had a great experience looking at grizzly bears and wolves, up close and personal. I fully recommend this side trip to Yellowstone. The Center saves these animals and educates the public about these special members of our environment. It is a good value because you get two days for the price of one.", "A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a hiker in Yellowstone National Park was killed after DNA evidence linked the animal to the scene of a second hiker's death a month later, a park official said Monday. Nine human injuries were reported in 2010 _ almost double the long-term average of five a year." ]

[ "An atomic bomb explosion (U.S. Air Force/AP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rescheduled a teaching session on the public health response to a nuclear blast that was to take place Tuesday. “With the spike in flu cases around the country, this Grand Rounds will provide key and timely information for public health professionals on how to reduce the spread of seasonal flu in communities and adjust to spot shortages in antiviral drugs because of high influenza activity in some areas,” the CDC said. The session was to feature presentations from U.S. experts on public health preparedness and response and radiation, including one titled “Preparing for the Unthinkable.” It was planned months ago as part of a regular series of monthly webinars the CDC called Public Health Grand Rounds, officials said.", "Much attention had been drawn to the timing of the agency’s session, which was publicized just days after President Trump touted the size of his nuclear button compared with North Korea’s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to postpone its session on nuclear attack preparedness next week. “The vast majority of this activity has been caused by influenza A H3N2, associated with severe illness in young children and people 65 years and older.” Kathy Harben, a spokeswoman for the agency, said the Tuesday session would now address guidance for health professionals on trying to reduce the spread of the flu and to help with shortages of antiviral medicines in some hard-hit areas. announced that it had changed its mind about next Tuesday’s topic, making a last-minute revision to reflect concerns about cases of severe flu. “To date, this influenza season is notable for the sheer volume of flu that most of the United States is seeing at the same time, which can stress health systems,” the agency said. Late Friday afternoon, the C.D.C." ]

[ "CLOSE Here is the full audio of Chuck Grassley's answer to a Des Moines Register reporter's question concerning the estate tax. Buy Photo Protesters gather outside the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, to protest the Republican Tax Reform Plan. Buy Photo Protesters gather outside the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, to protest the Republican Tax Reform Plan. “I don’t think the current estate tax system threatens family farmers.” The USDA report puts hard numbers to the tax liability faced by the few farms subject to the estate tax. That will represent a victory for Republicans in Iowa’s congressional delegation, who have consistently opposed the tax and argued it unfairly lumps in the state’s farmers with some of the country’s richest families.", "Grassley: Ending Estate Tax Recognizes Investors Over Spenders Enlarge this image toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP J. Scott Applewhite/AP Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, commenting on the GOP tax overhaul, tells The Des Moines Register that ending the estate tax is about rewarding people who invest over those who spend everything they earn on \"booze or women or movies.\" A House version of the bill would do just that by 2024; however, the Senate's version of the tax overhaul, which narrowly passed the chamber early Saturday, would keep it, but instead double the current exemption to $11 million from $5.5 million per individual. A promise to end the so-called death tax has been a bulwark of Republican electoral politics for decades. The senator's remarks elicited a harsh response on social media, with one Twitter user commenting: \"I'm sure those folks would love to invest, but they're a bit preoccupied just trying to make ends meet.\" But in an editorial published over the weekend, the Register wrote: \"a review of federal tax data and nonpartisan research on the subject shows that family farmers and small business owners represent a tiny share of estate tax payers, and that the taxes they owe rarely force them to sell land or quit farming.\" The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that for 2017, fewer than 2 in 1,000 estates will owe any estate tax, or about 0.2 percent.", "“The question is one of basic fairness, and working to create a tax code that doesn’t penalize frugality, saving and investment. Turning to the party’s idea of doing away with the estate tax, Grassley framed the current law as a hindrance to responsible saving. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) As Republicans continue to sell the details of their tax bill, some are reaching for more colorful language to liven up complex policies that tend to put the average voter to sleep. The suggestion — that anyone not socking away their savings in the bank or investments must be profligately throwing their money away — played directly into the critique that Republicans are disconnected from the majority of working Americans.", "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.", "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.", "Now that Republicans finally have control of Washington, the best that they can do is merely an adjustment to the existing labyrinthine system — especially true of the Senate version — that leaves in place all of the manipulative capabilities for social engineering in both the corporate and individual tax systems. Conservatives have argued for decades to eliminate the kind of social engineering Grassley endorses here. A decade ago, we had competing tax proposals for either a flat tax or a repeal of the 16th Amendment and the use of a consumption tax to replace the current income tax. As arguments for repealing the estate tax go, Chuck Grassley certainly … has one." ]

[ "We caught Rob Pattinson driving around his truck with a mystery girl yesterday, and now that we've identified her as Elvis' granddaughter Riley Keough, we have to wonder whether the gorgeous redhead is dating the Twilight hottie? We're thinking Kristen sent Riley to convince Rob to give their relationship yet another go! Are they or aren't they?! This isn't the first time the two have hung out, either!", "Furthermore, the new couple is reportedly planning to spend the Fourth of July together, before Rob starts filming Map to the Stars, in Toronto, on July 8. Sources close to him now reveal that one of the reasons he’s fallen for Riley is that he feels he can trust her. It also seems odd to us that RPatz may be criticizing Kristen for characteristics that he used to love about her ie her casual tomboyishness and fondess for wearing his guy clothes, plus we’re sure Kristen has other loves and interests besides acting, including her famous cooking. Hmm, sounds like they’ll be making their own private fireworks over the long weekend. He and Riley, 24, were first seen hanging out together in Rob’s pickup truck on June 29 and now they’re “they’re inseparable,” a source close to the Twilight actor told the Daily Mail. A source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively: “Rob is so happy that he can trust someone again because at the end of the day, Kristen’s affair forever haunted him.", "The King: Elvis Presley, seen on the left with wife Priscilla and newborn daughter Lisa Marie on February 5, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, and on the right, posing for a photo in 1955 Big lineage: Riley's mother is Lisa Marie Presley, who was once married to Michael Jackson. Canadian director David Cronenberg, 69, became a saving grace for the actor as he gave him the chance to concentrate on the role of Eric Packer in Cosmopolis. However, one person NOT so happy about the budding romance is Robert's ex-girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, who starred alongside Riley in The Runaways in 2010. Riley was previously engaged to actor Alex Pettyfer and is the granddaughter of music icon Elvis Former co-stars: Riley, far left, is pictured with Robert's ex-Kristen Stewart along with Dakota Fanning and Joan Jett at the after party for the premiere of their film The Runaways at Sundance in Park City in 2010 The friend described the new romance as 'short-term lust right now rather than long-term love'. Robert is face of Dior Homme while Riley until recently was the face of Dior Cherie and still has ties to the company." ]

[ "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 a country where income inequality is widening and anger at the extravagant ways of Communist Party officials is growing, the country’s new President Xi Jinping has made combating corruption and official abuse of power a priority. MORE: China’s First Lady Sparks Fashion Frenzy MORE: Dumpling Diplomacy: The U.S. Treasury Secretary’s Beijing Lunch Enchants China Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images Construction continues on the One57 luxury condominium building in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2013 Think you’re spoiling your child?" ]

[ "Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption John Pienaar reports on the background and aspirations of the two contenders Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom will battle it out to become the next leader of the Conservative Party after Michael Gove was eliminated from the contest. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Theresa May: We need proven leadership to negotiate the best deal Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Andrea Leadsom calls for 'honourable' campaigning The contest now moves to its final stage with the Conservative Party's 150,000-strong membership deciding between Mrs May, a Remain campaigner with a long track record in government, and Mrs Leadsom, a leading light of the Brexit campaign who has stressed her City and business background. She promised \"strong, proven leadership\" to negotiate the UK's departure from the EU, and to \"make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us\". He welcomed the fact that the UK would be getting a second female prime minister - after Margaret Thatcher - and called for a \"civilised, inclusive, positive and optimistic debate\". The winner will become the UK's second female prime minister. The name of Britain's next prime minister will be either Andrea or Theresa.", "For the first time since Margaret Thatcher stepped down in 1990, the next British prime minister will be a woman. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) For the first time since Margaret Thatcher stepped down in 1990, the next British prime minister will be a woman. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) The race to be Britain’s next prime minister was whittled to two on Thursday, with Conservative Party lawmakers ensuring that the country will have a female head of government — the nation’s first since Margaret Thatcher stepped down more than a quarter-century ago. The contest will pit the home affairs secretary, Theresa May, against Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom in a race that features contenders who were on opposite sides of last month’s European Union referendum. Speaking at the annual Conservative Party conference on Tuesday, Home Secretary Theresa May said Britain would not accept a European Union-wide immigration and asylum policy “in a thousand years.” (YouTube/Conservatives) That turned out to be Leadsom, a relative unknown in British politics who serves as a junior minister but has never been a member of the cabinet — normally a prerequisite for holding the nation’s top job." ]

[ "CRE stands for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Most U.S. clinical laboratories that test for CRE organisms wouldn't identify this particular type of bacteria because it's not part of standard testing. A particularly dangerous type of CRE bacteria is on the rise in the U.S. (Courtesy of CDC) This post has been updated. CDC changed its definition of the organism in January to help increase detection. Read more: CDC says ‘nightmare bacteria’ a growing threat Extra funding sought to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria One day, doctors might prescribe viruses instead of antibiotics White House opens antibiotic summit Chipotle CEO pledges to make restaurants ‘safest place to eat.’ Here’s his plan. A particularly dangerous superbug, dubbed the \"phantom menace\" by scientists, is on the rise in the United States, according to a report Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials have called CRE among the country's most urgent public health threats.", "First clinical cases of OXA-48-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States: the \"menace\" arrives in the new world. Notes from the Field: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Producing OXA-48-like Carbapenemases — United States, 2010–2015 Please note: An erratum has been published for this article. This report describes patients identified as carrying CRE producing OXA-48-like carbapenemases in the United States during June 2010–August 2015. Thirty-five patients (81%) had OXA-48-like carbapenemase identified from K. pneumoniae isolates, seven (16%) from Escherichia coli isolates, one (2%) from an Enterobacter aerogenes isolate, and one (2%) from a Klebsiella ozaenae isolate; two of which were isolates of different species from a single patient. CDC received reports of 52 CRE isolates producing OXA-48-like carbapenemases collected from 43 patients in 19 states during June 2010–August 2015 (Figure); seven of these isolates were identified retrospectively from six patients. The number of patients from whom CRE isolates producing OXA-48-like carbapenemases were identified ranged from one in 2010 to 11 per year in 2013, 2014, and 2015.", "OXA-48-type carbapenemases have been identified mainly from North African countries, the Middle East, Turkey and India, those areas constituting the most important reservoirs; however, occurrence of OXA-48 producers in European countries is now well documented, with some reported hospital outbreaks. OXA-48-type carbapenem-hydrolysing class D β-lactamases are increasingly reported in enterobacterial species. Since many OXA-48-like producers do not exhibit resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporins, or only decreased susceptibility to carbapenems, their recognition and detection can be challenging. Adequate screening and detection methods are therefore required to prevent and control their dissemination. The bla(OXA-48)-type genes are always plasmid-borne and have been identified in association with insertion sequences involved in their acquisition and expression.", "This image shows two rod-shaped bacteria called Klebsiella pneumoniae that are resistant to treatment with the antibiotic drug called carbapenem. Health experts are keeping a close eye on a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE that, while still rare, has the potential to become more widespread in the United States. In the new report, the CDC researchers noted that many of the patients with this particular type of infection had recently traveled out of the country, with India being the most frequent travel destination. The bacteria found in China and the ones in the new report — which both have key resistance genes contained on plasmids — \"are of greatest public health concern because of their potential for rapid global dissemination,\" the researchers wrote in the new report. (The name is an abbreviation for \"carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae,\" meaning the bacteria are part of a group called Enterobacteriaceae and are resistant to treatment with antibiotics called carbapenems.) This type of bug includes some strains of Escherichia coli and other bacteria." ]

[ "By contrast, earlier this year IFPI reported global recorded music revenues of $15.7 billion — of which half are from digital — and 112 million users of paid streaming services worldwide. UPDATED: Royalty Exchange has signed a letter of intent to purchase at least 15 percent of an income stream of royalties derived from Eminem’s music, with plans to buy other musical assets and take the company public, according to media reports published Monday morning. The deal comes in the wake of a wildly optimistic report from Goldman Sachs, which in August predicted that worldwide revenues from streaming will reach a whopping $28 billion in revenue and paid streaming users worldwide will reach 847 million by 2030.", "But if the Royalty Flow gambit is successful, will it serve as the catalyst for a new round of experimentation in the securitization of music assets? “We believe Royalty Exchange is the new model for music financing,” said FBT manager Martin. While Royalty Flow is using a broker dealer for assistance in meeting the compliance requirements of a Regulation A filing, the offering doesn’t need and will not have an underwriting investment bank.", "The Eminem catalog is among the first of what Smith and others expect to be a new way for fans to invest in musicians and songs. Investors will soon be able to purchase shares of Eminem's \"My Name Is,\" \"Lose Yourself\" and every other song he released from 1999 to 2013 on an exchange much like the stock market, at a minimum of $2,250. Royalty Flow will file for its initial public offering on Monday; after three weeks, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will decide whether to approve the filing, and if it does, investors can buy in for 150 shares or more at the minimum $2,250 price. The portion of \"See You Again,\" made available by a background singer who owned part of the recording rights, generated $11,372 before it went on sale through Royalty Exchange — and Eminem has far more revenue potential. With streaming revenues expected to boom over the next few years, the returns could become substantial. Later this year, those investors will be able to buy and sell shares on a public exchange.", "Jeff Bass, a former producer and songwriting partner with Eminem, recently spoke about how their relationship has changed since their last collaboration on 2009’s Relapse. We had to deal with his mother. We had to deal with Kim. “I still love him and everything and I’m sure he still loves me,” said Bass, who with his brother Mark is collectively known as The Bass Brothers, the production and songwriting duo who worked extensively with Eminem on his first few releases, during an interview with grantland.com. I think it was February of ‘98.” Jeff Bass Discusses Eminem’s Marriage With Former Wife Kim During the interview, Jeff Bass also spoke about Eminem’s marriage with his former wife Kim and the long-standing friendship he built with the rapper. “He basically lived with us in the studio on 8 Mile road. Meeting Dre, talking with Jimmy, meeting all these people, this whole crazy period. We had to deal with uncles and friends trying to be hangers-on. And you got to know the person." ]

[ "Fidelito himself was loyal to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, but was said in recent years to have grown weary - both of living in his father's shadow and having been sidelined from Cuban decision-making on energy resources, said reports. Depression in the spotlight - Will Grant, BBC News, Havana Image copyright AFP Image caption Fidelito's work for the Cuban regime came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart had taken his own life after suffering with deep depression which doctors had been treating him for over several months, state TV said. Image copyright AFP Image caption \"Fidelito\" (right) lived in his famous father's shadow The 68-year-old son of Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has killed himself in Havana, according to Cuban state media.", "HAVANA (Reuters) - The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run media reported. Fidelito had been working for his uncle President Raul Castro as a scientific counselor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death. In 2000 they met again at a conference in Moscow and Fidelito worked “the room full of international nonproliferation experts, diplomats and journalists with aplomb, speaking no less than four languages -Spanish, English, Russian and French.” Benjamin-Alvarado said he suspected Fidelito’s title as scientific advisor was largely ceremonial as his views on energy development were not incorporated into national policies. Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, a Cuba expert at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, said Fidelito had provided him with invaluable help in the 1990s while he was writing a book on Cuba’s nuclear program." ]

[ "The comments represented an extraordinary moment in the investigation, which centers in part on the administration’s contacts with Russian officials: A day after firing the man leading that inquiry, Mr. Trump disparaged him — to Russian officials. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations.” The day after firing Mr. Comey, Mr. Trump hosted Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in the Oval Office, along with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I. Kislyak. “By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia’s actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia,” Mr. Spicer said. The idea, the official suggested, was to create a sense of obligation with Russian officials and to coax concessions out of Mr. Lavrov — on Syria, Ukraine and other issues — by saying that Russian meddling in last year’s election had created enormous political problems for Mr. Trump. A third government official briefed on the meeting defended the president, saying that Mr. Trump, whose discursive speaking style has hindered him in office, was using a negotiating tactic when he told Mr. Lavrov about the “pressure” he was under. The meeting ignited controversy this week when it was revealed that Mr. Trump had disclosed intelligence from an Israeli counterterrorism operation. In a statement, he said that Mr. Comey had behaved politically and put unnecessary pressure on the president’s ability to conduct diplomacy with Russia on matters such as Syria, Ukraine and the Islamic State. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, did not dispute the account.", "The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government, according to people familiar with the matter. White House offers shifting explanations of Trump’s disclosures to Russians Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador The FBI’s investigation seeks to determine whether and to what extent Trump associates were in contact with Kremlin operatives, what business dealings they might have had in Russia, and whether they in any way facilitated the hacking and publishing of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, during the presidential campaign. Although the case began quietly last July as an effort to determine whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russian operatives to meddle in the presidential election campaign, the investigative work now being done by the FBI also includes determining whether any financial crimes were committed by people close to the president. The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to these people, who would not further identify the official." ]

[ "CLOSE Jayme Closs of Barron remains missing. Trent Tetzlaff, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Jayme Closs (Photo: Courtesy of the Barron County Sheriff's Department) BARRON, Wis. — A 100-person search party and some 800 tips still have not led Barron County authorities to Jayme Closs, a 13-year-old girl missing since her parents were found shot to death in their home early Monday. Police from Wausau sent a school resource officer and therapy dog Thursday to help Barron students cope with the mysterious disappearance of a schoolmate and double murder in their community. Investigators use a canine Tuesday to help search the grounds near the Closs home in Barron. Trying to cope with the traumatic losses in Barron is frightening and anxiety-producing for local residents, Devitt said. Badge, the Wausau Police Department's trained therapy dog, awaits her chance to help students in Barron cope with the disappearance of 13-year-old schoolmate Jayme Closs.", "(CNN) Volunteers and law enforcement combed the side of a highway on Thursday looking for evidence in the disappearance of a missing Wisconsin teenager whose parents were found dead in their home this week. \"Our thoughts are with the Closs family and the entire Barron community,\" said a statement from Jennie-O Turkey Store officials. On HLN's \"Crime & Justice\" Wednesday night, Fitzgerald told host Ashleigh Banfield that deputies had recovered the cell phone from which the 911 call was made.", "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 you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Jayme Closs, or if you have had contact with Closs, please contact the Barron County Sheriff's Office tip line at 1-855-744-3879. You may also contact your local FBI office , or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate", "The FBI says it's expanded its search nationwide for a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl missing since her parents were found shot to death in their home Monday morning. Help the #FBI find her: https://t.co/s0fHKjY3hc pic.twitter.com/XRzoQzLxxH — FBI Most Wanted (@FBIMostWanted) October 18, 2018 More than 100 local and state FBI agents have been working on the case, and officials say hundreds of tips have come in from the community and people around the country, the station reports. The FBI said Thursday that, \"out of an abundance of caution,\" it was sending a digital Missing Person poster to local media partners across the country for display.", "A missing teenager has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top missing persons list. “We believe Jayme was in the home at the time of the homicides, and we believe she’s in danger,” said Fitzgerald, according to CNN. In a press release on Thursday, the Barron County Sheriff's Office said \"nothing of evidentiary value has been recovered.\" Hundreds of tips have poured in related to the case, but authorities still have not located Jayme." ]

[ "They are, by their very nature, transactional: the journalist offers the star, usually with a new project or venture to promote, exposure; the star offers the journalist revelation, a couple of juicy details with which to titillate readers. You can’t make the audience fall in love with a character you don’t like.” Kate has begun appearing in big roles in major feature films, most notably in last year’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which if it did nothing else served to remind us how weird people can still be about women (the outrage on social media that Columbia Pictures had the gall to remake this towering achievement of cinematic expression with cootie-ridden girls—e-e-e-e-e-u-u-u-u-w!—was as amusing as it was depressing), and this year’s bachelorette-party-gone-bad comedy Rough Night. If journalists played it straight with movie stars, they’d call it an interrogation not an interview. After bouncing the star off a wall or two, ignoring the pitiful pleas for a phone call, a lawyer, a mommy, the journalist would shine a light in those pretty, pretty eyes, and start grilling. is the venture she’s currently promoting, Season 43, set to premiere on September 30), perhaps the most gifted of a gifted generation of young comics, her flair for mimicry and slapstick allowing her to create characters and impressions that are both spookily exact and totally off the wall. (Question: Were we too freaked out and pissed off to notice that the 2016 presidential election was the greatest battle-of-the-sexes screwball farce of the modern era, the blackest romantic comedy of them all?", "They are, by their very nature, transactional: the journalist offers the star, usually with a new project or venture to promote, exposure; the star offers the journalist revelation, a couple of juicy details with which to titillate readers. You can’t make the audience fall in love with a character you don’t like.” Kate has begun appearing in big roles in major feature films, most notably in last year’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which if it did nothing else served to remind us how weird people can still be about women (the outrage on social media that Columbia Pictures had the gall to remake this towering achievement of cinematic expression with cootie-ridden girls—e-e-e-e-e-u-u-u-u-w!—was as amusing as it was depressing), and this year’s bachelorette-party-gone-bad comedy Rough Night. If journalists played it straight with movie stars, they’d call it an interrogation not an interview. After bouncing the star off a wall or two, ignoring the pitiful pleas for a phone call, a lawyer, a mommy, the journalist would shine a light in those pretty, pretty eyes, and start grilling. is the venture she’s currently promoting, Season 43, set to premiere on September 30), perhaps the most gifted of a gifted generation of young comics, her flair for mimicry and slapstick allowing her to create characters and impressions that are both spookily exact and totally off the wall. (Question: Were we too freaked out and pissed off to notice that the 2016 presidential election was the greatest battle-of-the-sexes screwball farce of the modern era, the blackest romantic comedy of them all?" ]

[ "Kylie Jenner is pregnant with a baby girl, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE. A source tells PEOPLE the 20-year-old reality star and business mogul is due in February with her first child with rapper Travis Scott. FROM COINAGE: The Lavish Lifestyle of the Kardashian Kids Though Jenner and Scott’s relationship is still rather new, her family is definitely on board with the romance: A source told PEOPLE in August that the KarJenner crew “loves Travis.” “Kylie and Travis are doing great,” said the source. She is really excited and so is Travis.” Another source close to the family tells PEOPLE: “It is an unexpected but completely amazing turn of events that she could not be more excited or thrilled about.” “Everyone is overjoyed for her,” says the source.", "Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Kylie Jenner is expecting her first child, a source confirms to Page Six. Reportedly, Scott has been excitedly telling friends, but Jenner’s ex, rapper Tyga, posted and deleted a Snapchat of the news with the caption, “Hell nah that’s my kid,” along with a number of devil emojis. During a Q&A on Snapchat in October, the “Life of Kylie” star says, “I’m getting a lot of questions about kids. In a 2016 clip of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Kylie says 25 is a good age to have kids, with her father, Caitlyn, stating that 30 is a good age. And I do want kids, but not now.” A year later, Kylie is about to become a mother and is rumored to be due in February.", "Kylie Jenner Pregnant Kylie Jenner is Pregnant EXCLUSIVE Kylie Jenner is pregnant and Travis Scott is about to become a dad. It's also interesting ... Kylie's been posting old pics of herself on Instagram and current shots from the chest up. If they are punking their friends with repeated pregnancy proclamations, it's super weird ... especially in light of the photo (above) which Kylie herself just posted on Snapchat. If you're wondering what Kylie's ex, Tyga, thinks about the fetus news, he posted this on Snapchat and quickly deleted it." ]

[ "“I used to have a lot of contact with a lot of people and so that circle is diminished, and as it diminished, you know Bo is still there,” he said of his dog. During the interview, Joseph Amendola, Mr. Sandusky’s lawyer, captured what he asserted was his client’s predicament: “All those good things that you were doing have been turned around,” Mr. Amendola said, speaking to his client, “and the people who are painting you as a monster are saying, ‘Well, they’re the types of things that people who are pedophiles exhibit.’ ” Prosecutors, in their indictment of Mr. Sandusky, charged him with a horrific array of abuse, including the repeated assaults of young boys. Mr. Sandusky, facing grave charges and the possibility of imprisonment, discussed how much was now missing from his life, and how much more might be missing in the future. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Sandusky, in the interview, said word of an episode with a young boy in the shower reached Mr. Raykovitz.", "And they just twisted that all.” Yet over the course of the interview, Mr. Sandusky described what he admitted was a family and work life that could often be chaotic, even odd, one that lacked some classic boundaries between adults and children, and thus one that was open to interpretation — by those who have defended him as a generous mentor and those who have condemned him as a serial predator. He then characterized his close experiences with children he took under his wing as “precious times,” and said that the physical aspect of the relationships “just happened that way.” Wrestling, hugging — “I think a lot of the kids really reached out for that,” he said. He said she had warned him not to neglect his own children — the Sanduskys had adopted six children, including one from the Second Mile — “for the sake of other kids.” Mr. Sandusky recalled one scene after a Penn State football game that underscored her concerns. Mr. Sandusky, in the interview, said that Mr. Paterno did not speak to him or confront him over the accusation, despite the fact that Mr. Sandusky had been one of his assistant coaches for three decades and was a regular presence at the football team’s complex for years after the 2002 episode. The former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, in his first extended interview since his indictment on sexual abuse charges last month, said Coach Joe Paterno never spoke to him about any suspected misconduct with minors." ]

[ "The study followed nurses who became pregnant between 1991 and 2001. Image copyright Science Photo Library Eating potatoes or chips on most days of the week may increase a woman's risk of diabetes during pregnancy, say US researchers. Image copyright SPL It is a condition where there is too much glucose (sugar) in the blood About three in every 100 pregnancies are affected in the UK Symptoms include a dry mouth, tiredness and urinating frequently Gestational diabetes can be controlled with diet and exercise, but some women will need medication to keep their blood glucose levels under control If not managed properly, it could lead to premature birth or miscarriage Every four years, the women were asked to provide information on how often potatoes featured in their diets, and any cases of gestational diabetes were noted. Over the 10-year period, there were 21,693 pregnancies and 854 of these were affected by gestational diabetes. None of them had any chronic diseases before pregnancy. The BMJ study linked high potato consumption to a higher diabetes risk. \"Gestational diabetes can mean women develop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy and hypertension,\" she said.", "However, until the current study, the effect of potatoes, a common, high-glycemic food, on the development of gestational diabetes was unknown. Women who eat more potatoes before pregnancy may have higher rates of gestational diabetes--the form that occurs during pregnancy--compared to women who consume fewer potatoes, suggests a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study. Previous studies have linked foods with a high glycemic index, a measure of the ability to raise blood sugar levels, to a higher risk of gestational or type 2 diabetes. Gestational diabetes is a common pregnancy complication that causes high blood sugar levels in the mother. The researchers propose that substituting potatoes with other vegetables, legumes or whole grains may help lower gestational diabetes risk. Researchers from NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Harvard University evaluated more than 15,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study II.", "Discussion In this large prospective cohort study, we found that higher pre-pregnancy consumption of potatoes was significantly associated with a greater risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), even after adjustment for other major risk factors for GDM such as age, family history of diabetes, physical activity, overall diet quality, and BMI. Conclusion In summary, in this large prospective cohort study, pre-pregnancy potato consumption was significantly and positively associated with the risk of incident GDM. We observed similar results when we adjusted major food groups related to diabetes (that is, red meat, vegetable and fruit, and whole grain foods) and sugar sweetened beverages in place of overall diet quality score (appendix table A).These data suggest that the association between total potato consumption and risk of GDM could be independent of other dietary risk factors for GDM. For potato chips or corn chips combined, we found no significant association with risk; the multivariable adjusted relative risks for GDM for consumption at 1-3 servings/month, 1 serving/week, and ≥2 servings/week, compared with no consumption or consumption <1 serving/month, were 0.97 (0.81 to 1.16), 1.02 (0.83 to 1.25), and 1.00 (0.80 to 1.24), respectively (P=0.87 for trend). Substitution of potatoes with other vegetables, legumes, or whole grain foods was associated with a lower risk of GDM. Using data from a large prospective cohort study, we examined the association between potato consumption before pregnancy and risk of incident GDM. Substitution of two servings per week of total potatoes with other vegetables, legumes, and whole grain foods was significantly associated with a lower risk of GDM: 9% (0.91, 0.85 to 0.97) lower risk for other vegetables, 10% (0.90, 0.83 to 0.99) for legumes, and 12% (0.88, 0.83 to 0.94) for whole grain foods (fig 1⇓).", "Gestational diabetes - a form of diabetes that develops during pregnancy - can affect the health of both an expecting mom and her baby. \"We found that a diet with a higher level of potato consumption before pregnancy was related to a greater risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy,\" said study author Dr. Cuilin Zhang, senior investigator in the Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Previous studies have linked foods with a high glycemic index, a measure of the impact on blood sugar levels, to a higher risk of gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Also, diet details and diabetes diagnosis were self-reported, and the severity of diabetes was unknown. Some researchers suggest that may be a good idea, since a new study finds that women who eat more potatoes before conceiving may face a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes while pregnant. The authors also noted that the research was not designed to prove cause and effect, and their results don't prove that potato consumption directly leads to gestational diabetes." ]

[ "In September 2012, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King announced the discovery of a Coptic (ancient Egyptian) gospel text on a papyrus fragment that contained the phrase \"Jesus said to them, 'My wife . The possibility that Jesus was married would prompt a radical reconsideration of the New Testament and biblical scholarship. Yet now it appears almost certain that the Jesus-was-married story line was divorced from reality.", "A growing number of scholars have denounced the business card-sized papyrus as a fake, with recent op-eds appearing in The Wall Street Journal and on CNN. Its discovery was announced in 2012 and new information uncovered by Live Science casts doubt on its origins. Meanwhile, Harvard University, which announced the papyrus' discovery, has fallen silent on the artifact, not responding to requests for comment on new developments suggesting the find is a forgery. The discovery of the Gospel of Jesus's Wife was first announced by Karen King, of Harvard University, in September 2012. The \"Gospel of Jesus's Wife,\" a papyrus written in Coptic and containing text that refers to Jesus being married, is looking more and more like it is not authentic, research is revealing. The reasons for the silence are unclear; there are unconfirmed reports that divisions have emerged within the Harvard Divinity faculty over the authenticity of the papyrus. His work is set to be published in the journal Tyndale Bulletin and is currently posted on a blog." ]

[ "The data on use of the call-tracking data came in a fact sheet released to reporters in connection with a public House Intelligence Committee hearing exploring the recently leaked telephone data mining program and another surveillance effort focused on Web traffic generated by foreigners. Recently leaked communication surveillance programs have helped thwart more than 50 “potential terrorist events” around the world since the Sept. 11 attacks, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said Tuesday. Alexander said at least 10 of the attacks were set to take place in the United States, suggesting that most of the terrorism disrupted by the program had been set to occur abroad. (PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report) Alexander said the programs were subject to “extraordinary oversight.” ”This isn’t some rogue operation that a group of guys up at NSA are running,” the spy agency’s chief added. Text Size - + reset Obama defends NSA surveillance The NSA also disclosed that counterterrorism officials targeted fewer than 300 phone numbers or other “identifiers” last year in the massive call-tracking database secretly assembled by the U.S. government.", "Still, there is a debate within the intelligence community about what can be revealed to prove these programs work versus what should stay classified for fear of burning sources and methods. 3 years ago (CNN) - In a hearing Tuesday with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the director of the National Security Agency, Keith Alexander, said that since 9/11, there have been more than 50 terror plots thwarted with the help of NSA surveillance programs. NSA officials are set to disclose information about the other cases in a private session with lawmakers on Wednesday. Four of those incidents were detailed at the hearing, including thwarted plots to bomb the New York subway system and the New York Stock Exchange by linking known suspects in Pakistan and Yemen to contacts in the United States. In order to preserve your good work and the work on behalf of all the patriots working to defend America, I still believe it was important to have a meeting where at least in some way discuss and reassure the level and oversight and redundancy of oversight on a program that we all recognize needed extra care and attention and lots of sets of eyes." ]

[ "Groups on both sides of abortion debate boost their support for dueling female candidates By Julian Pecquet - The pro-abortion rights group EMILY's List launched an Internet campaign on Tuesday aimed at creating support for the 32 female candidates it is endorsing for state and federal office this year. The campaign, called \"Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me,\" aims to counter former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) high-profile endorsements of \"Mama Grizzly\" candidates who want to restrict abortion rights. Schriock called her group's new campaign a \"get out the vote hub\" and drew particular attention to three key races where its candidates are running against Sarah Palin's endorsees: the California Senate race pitting Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) against Republican Carly Fiorina; the Minnesota House race where Tarryl Clark hopes to unseat Rep. Michele Bachmann (R); and the New Mexico governor's race pitting Democrat Diane Denish against Republican Susana Martinez. EMILY's List says it raised $43 million during the 2007-2008 election cycle and has helped elect 80 pro-abortion-rights women to the U.S. House and 15 to the Senate since 1985. The Susan B. Anthony List, for its part, recently launched a bus tour through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania to build momentum for its endorsed candidates.", "Pro-life 'Mama Grizzlies' represent the majority of women across the country.\" Sarah Palin has made \"Mama Grizzlies\" a campaign theme, but a Democratic women's group is growling back. She added, \"We are looking for women leaders who affirm the best in women -- who seek to include rather than exclude the rest of humanity as we find our fulfillment. Clearly, in this 'Year of the Pro-Life Woman,' which Sarah Palin helped make possible, women have found their political voices. Its mission: To fight back against Palin's \"radical agenda\" and her endorsed candidates.In a press release, the group said: \"Sarah Palin has predicted a rising tide of mothers and women voters will support her so-called 'Mama Grizzly' candidates." ]

[ "Story highlights George W. Bush and Michelle Obama have been seen becoming increasingly chummy On Saturday , Obama reached over and grabbed Bush into a hug (CNN) Saturday's dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture brought together the president who signed into law the funding for the museum and the president who was in office during its completion. But the gathering of the 43rd and 44th first couples also saw the reuniting of two unlikely friends. Over the past eight years, former President George W. Bush and First Lady Michelle Obama have been seen becoming increasingly chummy. At public events, the two can often be found sitting next to each other, sharing a laugh or lending a hand to hold.", "Former President George W. Bush was one of the featured speakers at Saturday’s opening of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, but it’s not his speech that’s getting all the attention. A picture taken by former White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, and featuring a content-looking Dubya being embraced by First Lady Michelle Obama, has bee getting quite a reaction on social media: 1st Lady Michelle Obama hugs Pres. pic.twitter.com/7AFqYZLMRF — Guy Cecil (@guycecil) September 24, 2016 But there’s always one… @kennerly @rubycramer @NMAAHC Status Quo embracing each other.. hoping Hillary will keep the Special interest control $$ flowing to gov — #WithTeamDeplorables (@m4zdaman) September 24, 2016 President Bush signed the legislation that created the National Museum of African American History and Culture.", "A striking image from this weekend offers some symbolic hope for Americans troubled by the country’s stark division along ethnic, political, economic, and gender lines. At the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture yesterday, photographers including Pulitzer-winner David Hume Kennerly captured a warm embrace between first lady Michelle Obama and former president George W. Bush, who first signed the bill to build the museum in 2003. The photo clearly resonates with a country grappling with its own history of racism and slavery, one that quite literally built the White House we know today. And as the US anticipates a combative first presidential debate tomorrow (Sep. 26), it’s all the more striking to see leaders reaching across the proverbial aisle in a moment of genuine warmth.", "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.", "George W.Bush at opening of @NMAAHC I was there for 1 of museums chief sponsors @BankofAmerica pic.twitter.com/XWw41G5nHO — kennerly (@kennerly) September 24, 2016 They amusingly reimagined Bush as a sleeping baby and an actual bush ― while presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton also made an appearance. Redditors used former chief White House photographer David Hume Kennerly’s heartwarming picture of the first lady embracing her husband’s predecessor to engage in a good old photo-editing battle." ]

[ "CLOSE The CDC reports hundreds of women in the United States and its territories have shown signs of infection from the Zika virus. In all, 544 cases of Zika have been reported in the continental United States. He said scientists are still learning about the scope and effects of the virus, which can cause severe birth defects and miscarriages in pregnant women. And Obama said that cost is modest in comparison to the human and financial toll of caring for the babies born with smaller heads because of microcephaly, a birth defect linked to Zika.", "Story highlights There are 279 pregnant women with Zika virus infections in the U.S. and its territories The CDC's tracking of pregnant women with Zika includes those who don't have symptoms (CNN) The number of pregnant women in the United States reported to have the Zika virus has more than tripled, increasing from 48 to 157, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Not a single person is known to have contracted Zika from a mosquito bite in the U.S. Just this week, the CDC's website reported that there 48 pregnant women with Zika in the U.S. Read More \"The CDC's top priority in the Zika response is protecting pregnant women and their fetuses,\" Honein said.", "This report launches the weekly reporting of pregnant women with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection in U.S. states and territories. Current ArboNET reporting includes cases of Zika virus disease that meet the interim CSTE case definition. In February 2016, Zika virus disease and congenital Zika virus infections became nationally notifiable conditions in the United States (2)." ]

[ "UPS spent $500 million last year on network improvements and worked closely with retail customers to prevent a repeat of the miscues in late 2013, but the rising popularity of e-commerce made forecasting volumes a moving target. An airplane is seen on the tarmac at the United Parcel Service (UPS) Regional Air Hub in Rockford, Illinois, December 9, 2014.", "United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday that its once highly profitable peak season will continue to be a drag on fourth-quarter and full-year earnings even though it plans to boost some prices to try to offset the added expenses of keeping up with increased holiday loads. The company averaged more than 30 million deliveries a day during the latest holiday season, executives told analysts in their fourth-quarter earnings call. That was about six million more a day than in the same period in 2012 and 75% more than on its average...", "After a dismal 2013, in which weather and consumers’ growing love of e-commerce conspired to leave more than a million parcels undelivered by Christmas day, UPS went all-in for 2014, sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into improvements and hiring around 100,000 seasonal workers. “UPS customers were delighted with the high quality service we delivered during the holiday season,” said Abney in a statement. And while it all meant that packages were delivered in time for the holidays, there wasn’t enough business for UPS to ultimately recoup those expenses. UPS Hates Coming To Your House, To Begin Tacking On Surcharges For Residential Delivery Last week, in advance of its quarterly earnings report, UPS admitted that it over-spent on holiday shipping in 2014 and that it wouldn’t make that mistake again . Don’t be shocked to see Amazon try to make these more attractive, especially for Prime subscribers, and other companies attempt to replicate this model." ]

[ "It's unclear if the teen had a weapon, Donakowski said, adding that he believed the teen only had a note in his possession. The Detroit teen was detained by police Monday. The teen was detained by police and transported to a juvenile facility, he said. Donakowski said the teen gave the teller a note and threatened to use a bomb if she didn't fork over the cash. Detroit Police Officer Dan Donakowski said the 15-year-old boy walked into the bank located in the 15000 block of West 7 Mile around 2 p.m. and demanded money.", "DETROIT, MI -- The teen bank robber almost made it, until he realized he was a sitting duck. He opened the first set of doors into the causeway. He made it to the outermost set of doors, inches from the outside world. The teen set off for the doorway, likely exhilarated by the scent of escaping with his new wealth. Police say a 16-year-old, of Detroit, entered Chase Bank located on Seven Mile on Detroit's east side about 2:30 p.m. Monday. After realizing they wouldn't budge, he tried to retreat through the door he'd just passed." ]

[ "Preston and Travolta, who are parents to daughter Ella, 10, as well as baby Benjamin, tragically lost their 16-year-old son, Jett, in early 2009 after he suffered a fatal seizure while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas.The actress says that the birth of Benjamin has been an integral part of helping the family through their grief, telling Morales,While Benjamin's birth posed potential risks for both mother and baby due to Preston's age, the 48-year-old actress says that her excitement outweighed her concern. Kelly Preston Explains Baby Benjamin's Silent Scientology Birth Email This Kelly Preston and In an interview with ' Preston credits the silent birth technique for the peaceful demeanor of her children, saying, \"My kids have always been amazing. \"Preston credits the silent birth technique for the peaceful demeanor of her children, saying, \"My kids have always been amazing. But it's been, I think, a really nice gift for a lot of people throughout the world. But, it's just bringing them in, in as peaceful and gentle a way as possible. Of course, you know, we still -- it's still every day.", "When Kelly Preston decided that she and her husband John Travolta would have another baby, the 48-year-old mom tells TODAY that the risks of having a baby later in life didn't come to mind. Baby Benjamin is the couple's third child. But it's been, I think, a really nice gift for a lot of people throughout the world. Watch the video to see the entire interview, and Preston's explanation the ideology behind Scientology's \"silent birth.\" Of course, you know, we still -- it's still every day. Their son Jett died tragically of complications of a seizure disorder in 2009 at the age of 16. And that's been really nice to sort of share that with people.\"" ]

[ "Dash cam video shows a car traveling about 5-10 miles over the speed limit, but what happens as the officer pulls out after the vehicle, is when things really start to get out of hand. Avila is facing several charges including DUI and eluding police. An Oklahoma woman leads officers on a high speed chase by swerving all over the road and it was all caught on camera. Back up officers were called to the scene and one by one, all the suspects got out of the vehicle. Dash cam video shows a car traveling about 5-10 miles over the speed limit, but what happens as the officer pulls out after the vehicle, is when things really start to get out of hand. Several people were taken to jail. The officer yelled at the suspect to get out of the vehicle, but had no luck. Avilla may have stopped the car, but she didn't want to get out of it.", "Luz Avilla, 34, of Chickasha, Okla., led cops on a high speed chase this week because she wanted to be booked into a certain jail. Shannon McClain of the Chickasha Police told News 9, \"Apparently the driver did not want to go to jail in Grady County. The accommodations in Caddo County are preferable to those in Grady County, apparently. She's been charged with a DUI and evading the police. She wanted to go to jail in Caddo County was her explanation as to why she did not pull over.\" Avilla, who was allegedly drunk, hit 100 miles per hour trying to cross the county line, but unfortunately, she didn't make it." ]

[ "We’re quite familiar with the work of the Tom Hanks-sired struggle rapper Chester Hanks, aka Chet Haze. I’ve met this kind of casual racism in the safest-seeming, innocuous ways — like going to Starbucks, walking into my apartment building, or even browsing on dating sites. Facebook *Sigh* Here we go, again. He’s mostly a joke of a rapper and his clueless use of the word dovetails right with a sense of entitlement. But now we meet Chet at the crossroads of desperation and tastelessness.", "Sadly, it looks as though this is becoming a habit for the young Mr. Hanks, as just two days earlier, he posted a photo of the rapper Juice, whom he referred to as \"my n--ga\" in the caption. Like Iggy, \"huge embarrassment\" is probably the best description for Chester. Of course, even Iggy-Igs draws the line at the use of a certain racial slur commonly found in lyrics written by rappers who didn't wear blazers to grade school. If you're not familiar with Chet Haze, consider yourself lucky. Just pretend for a second that Iggy Azalea has talent so that the analogy makes sense, okay? For the record, Hanks completed rehab last year, so his latest social media posts were presumably written while 100% sober.", "Keeping up with Chet Haze's fascinating life as \"an up and coming MC... Born and raised on the West Side of the Westside's main city LA,\" is exhausting, requiring perhaps more attention than can be devoted by any one human, no matter how little they sleep or how much energy they have devoted to uncovering the secrets of the Haze, from his terrible music videos to his feud with Howard Stern , an equally immature but far more successful man over twice his age.One of the more perplexing areas of Haze Studies is the question of why, exactly, he thinks he is capable of wantonly using racial slurs on social media (especially as an extremely wealthy, privileged white man). Thankfully Gawker pulled this gem of a recent Instagram caption Truly, it is remarkable that Chet Haze has been given the great gift of ignorance, that he may say the things we all cannot, the things we recognize are horrifically inappropriate and insensitive. ... Good morning bae 🙇🏼 A photo posted by 🌴LA / WORLD WIDE 🌍 (@chethanx) on May 24, 2015 at 6:14am PDT 2 types of people in this world: those who know exactly what it is they want and are doing everything they can to get it; and those who just wander aimlessly through life because they are scared to death of failure. Thank God for Chet Haze, the problem child to end all problem children, and the greatest motivator of Colin Hanks' career anyone could imagine.", "[There was a video here] Early Tuesday morning, Chester Hanks, the son of beloved white millionaire Tom Hanks, posted an Instagram video to explain that “hip-hop isn’t about race” and it’s actually extremely fresh that he says “nigga.” By his own admission, however, Chet knows most of you won’t “get” it, so he accompanied his video with a 280-word screed about how “fuck[ing one’s] hating ass niggaz” is actually an inalienable right protected by the Constitution: If I say the word nigga I say it amongst people I love and who love me. It’s about the culture of the music. The way I see it, it’s a word that unifies the culture of HIP-HOP across ALL RACES, which is actually kind of a beautiful thing. It’s a word that can be used out of camaraderie and love, not just exclusively for black people. Now I understand the older generation who grew up in the Jim Crowe era might have strong feelings against this. So really, Hanks’ use of the N-word comes from a place of love.", "Yesterday, next to a photo of himself in London, Chet Haze wrote: 2 types of people in this world: those who know exactly what it is they want and are doing everything they can to get it; and those who just wander aimlessly through life because they are scared to death of failure. Tom Hanks most recently starred in the Walt Disney film “Saving Mr. Banks.” Chet Hanks most recently starred in an Instagram video of himself enjoying the first class seating on an international New Zealand Air flight. Chester “Chet Haze” Hanks, caucasian son of beloved caucasian Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks, took to Instagram this weekend to vociferously share his feelings on Hating Ass Niggaz. I’ve lost a lot of so called friends cuz they turned out to be the second kind." ]

[ "\"The delayed response in ensuring that the inmates received needed medical care is unacceptable,\" the statement read. University of Utah Health Care, which operates the dialysis center, plans to \"conduct a thorough review of the circumstances that led to this unacceptable mistake and will take whatever steps are necessary to improve communications procedures,\" according to a statement by spokeswoman Kathy Wilets. \"The department's internal investigation will include a review of all aspects of the situation, including the response by its medical leadership and staff, actions of its contract provider and an analysis of what measures need to be taken to prevent this from happening again,\" Adams wrote. The department's Clinical Services Bureau director has been put on leave. One remains in the hospital. While the investigation is underway, prison staff have created a dialysis schedule calendar and collected phone numbers of dialysis technicians, Adams wrote.", "SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah prison inmate is dead of an apparent heart attack related to renal failure after a dialysis provider didn't show up for a scheduled treatment for two days in a row, a prison official said Tuesday. The organization was saddened to learn of Estrada's death, she said. We will now conduct a thorough review of the circumstances that led to this unacceptable mistake and will take whatever steps are necessary to improve communications and procedures,\" Wilets said in a statement. \"We have a responsibility to provide quality care for patients.", "\"(Criminal culpability in Estrada's death) is one of the things that could play into this and one of the things we will look into,\" Hoyal said. We have a responsibility to provide quality care for patients. We will now conduct a thorough review of the circumstances that led to this unacceptable mistake and will take whatever steps are necessary to improve communications and procedures,\" Kathy Wilets said in a prepared statement. \"We are saddened to learn of this prisoner’s death and are concerned about the scheduling error for dialysis services provided at the prison by University of Utah technicians." ]

[ "We already know Walmart is no friend to the gays, but do they have to actively peddle ex-gay therapy to shoppers? Though I’ve yet to spot anyone on People Of Walmart snapping it up, the book Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality is available for purchase at over 100 Walmart stores. Authored by Janice Barrett Graham (better known as the wife of Stephen Graham, president of the “LDS-oriented” group Standard of Liberty, which “exists to raise awareness of radical sexual movements overrunning America’s Christian-moral-cultural life”), the book aims to “shed the clear light of truth on today’s dark and tangled ideas about male and female, proper gender roles, the law of chastity, and the God-given sexual appetite.” It also touches upon Stephen and Janice’s son Andrew — a proud ex-gay who’s written his own tome — described in the book as securing “his subsequent deliverance and healing through family support, expert professional counseling, truth, and repentance through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.” It’s described as a “MUST READ” by the S.A. Lifeline Foundation (Mission: “Delivering a message of hope that recovery from pornography addiction is possible”), which is where I go for all my children’s book recommendations.", "Walmart Carrying Anti-Gay Book for Children A children’s book written by the wife of anti-gay Standard of Liberty president Stephen Graham is being carried by over 100 Walmart stores. Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality by Janice Barrett Graham was written to “help shed the clear light of truth on today’s dark and tangled ideas about male and female, proper gender roles, the law of chastity, and the God-given sexual appetite,” according to Janice Graham in the book’s introduction. “This charming, unique, and important book is a must-read for leaders and parents to use as they see fit that stunningly and resoundingly echos the truths and warnings presented in President Boyd K. Packer’s conference talk this past Sunday,” the announcement said. Given the licentious world around them, they need to be purposely taught the correct information and attitudes concerning human sexuality and God’s law of chastity.” The Grahams claim that their son, Andrew, successfully changed his sexual orientation and is now a happily married man. According to the Standards of Liberty Web site, the book is available at 104 Walmart stores in the Intermountain West, the Brigham Young University bookstore, and through its sister sites. “For the sake of our children and youth, we can no longer afford to be silent on this topic. Andrew Graham wrote the book, Captain of My Soul, saying that he was “lured into same gender internet pornography during his high school years, and recruited into cursory homosexual experimentation with older men while at Brigham Young University.” Andrew says he is shedding light on the “deceitful and predatory nature of the ‘gay’ lifestyle.” The book’s introduction says Andrew’s “story ends happily with his subsequent deliverance and healing through family support, expert professional counseling, truth, and repentance through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Some of the most stalwart-seeming youth find themselves involved in pornography, fornication, promiscuity, homosexuality, and the like,” Janice continued. Included is a lengthy introduction by expert on overcoming homosexuality.” “The number of our young people involved in sexual sins has greatly increased in recent years." ]

[ "Crossville Police described the incident as a \"tragic accidental shooting.\" One of the children found a loaded gun in the mother's purse. UPDATE: (CROSSVILLE) The 7-year-old boy accidentally shot in the head Monday by one of his siblings has died, according to Crossville police.", "SHARE By News Sentinel Staff A 7-year-old boy was flown to a Knoxville hospital Monday after being shot in the head by another child in what Crossville, Tenn. authorities say appears to have been an accident. One of the children found a semi-automatic pistol in the mother's purse, which was left in the vehicle. The family was visiting Crossville from White County. The shooting was reported shortly before 3 p.m. when four children were left unattended in a car while their mother and stepfather were paying a bill at a business on U.S. Highway 127 North, according to the Crossville Police Department. The Cumberland County District Attorney General's Office and the Tennessee Department of Children's Services are involved in the investigation. The boy, whose name was not released, was flown by helicopter to the University of Tennessee Medical Center." ]

[ "Burmila's decision to allow the testimony was hailed by the prosecution, which has no physical evidence tying Peterson to the scene of the crime. The testimony today marked the second day hearsay statements were allowed into the court transcript, following a significant decision Wednesday by Judge Edward Burmila to allow Savio's friends to testify about Peterson's alleged threats. according to a friend of Kathleen Savio's who testified in Peterson's murder trial today.", "But in recent days, he has permitted several such statements, potentially boosting the odds of a conviction. Illinois adopted a law in the wake of Peterson's case _ dubbed \"Drew's Law\" _ that allows hearsay evidence in rare circumstances. Constant legal arguments about the hearsay have slowed the trial." ]

[ "For a wine service professional, it is the crowning achievement of a career. The master sommelier examination has often been called “the hardest test you’ve never heard of.” Since its inception in 1969, just 274 people have passed the grueling exam, which involves years, sometimes even decades, of preparation. ); and practical (a simulation of restaurant service). “I know that’s why the decision was made — to maintain the integrity of the exam.” Update: This story was updated on Oct. 10 to reflect the CMS’ announcement of the protocol for the re-tests. Now, the exam’s administering body, the Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS), has announced that it will invalidate the results of one portion of this year’s examination. In an Oct. 9 letter sent to all master sommeliers, CMS board chairman Devon Broglie, MS, wrote that the board had “received a report from outside legal counsel that a member of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas disclosed confidential information pertinent to the tasting portion of the 2018 Master Sommelier Diploma Examination prior to the examination.” Broglie did not name the master sommelier responsible for the information breach, though it seems likely that the person may have been one of the exam proctors. The success of the “Somm” documentary series, which just released its third film, has only added to the MS exam’s aura.", "The expert wine stewards spend years and thousands of dollars preparing for the master sommelier examination, seen as one of the toughest tests in the world administered by the Court of Master Sommeliers. Only 273 people in the world have passed the master sommelier exam. The Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas announced on Tuesday that it would have to invalidate the blind-tasting test results for all 54 candidates in the class of 2018 because of “clear evidence” of cheating. The Court of Master Sommeliers welcomes the class of 2018! Since its inception in 1969, only 273 people have ever passed the three-part test, according to the court’s website, with the blind tasting being the hardest part of the exam. “Our credential is known throughout the hospitality industry worldwide, and it guarantees that the holder of the Master Sommelier title is among the most qualified of all wine industry professionals.", "“Maintaining the integrity of the examination process must be our highest priority, lest we risk diminishing the value of, and the respect earned from, becoming a Master Sommelier.” ABOUT THE COURT OF MASTER SOMMELIERS, AMERICAS The Court of Master Sommeliers was established in England in 1977 to encourage improved standards of beverage knowledge and service in hotels and restaurants. ### “The Court of Master Sommeliers sets the global standard of excellence for beverage service within the hospitality industry with integrity, exemplary knowledge, and humility.” October 9, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kathleen Lewis (707) 255-5056 x11, klewis@mastersommeliers.org Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas Board of Directors Takes Unanimous Actions to Preserve Integrity of Examination Process NAPA, CA – The Board of Directors of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas unanimously voted to invalidate the results of the tasting portion of the 2018 Master Sommelier Diploma Examination for all candidates due to clear evidence that a Master breached the confidentiality with respect to the wines presented for tasting. The first Master Sommelier Diploma Exam to be held in the United States was in 1987. The title Master Sommelier marks the highest recognition of wine and spirits knowledge, beverage service abilities, and professionalism in the hospitality trade. “Our honor and integrity are the best safeguards for preserving the reputation of the Court of Master Sommeliers, our members, and our industry as a whole,” Broglie said." ]

[ "Graphic 911 calls capture the moments before Fort Bend mom killed daughters Husband pleaded: 'I promise you, whatever you want' A graphic 911 call detailed the violent eruption of a Fort Bend County family just minutes before the mother and her two daughters lay fatally wounded in the street. She went back into the house to reload, then fired another shot into the back of one of the girls, according to another 911 call by a neighbor who witnessed the shootings. Three of the phone calls the sheriff's office responded to in the past were suicide attempts, although the Sheriff's Office would not confirm who the calls concerned.", "Transcript of the 911 calls in the Fort Bend family shooting Graphic 911 calls captured the violent argument that erupted in a Fort Bend County home just minutes before a mother and her two daughters lay fatally wounded in the street in their quiet, suburban neighborhood: \"Please don't point that gun at us,\" father Jason Sheats can be heard screaming on the 911 recordings. RELATED: Shooting started with a 'family meeting' The sisters and their father can be heard begging the woman to put down the gun. Fort Bend County sheriff's officials said they had received 14 calls for help from the home over the past four years, including three attempted suicides. But they would not identify which member of the family was suicidal.", "Authorities on Tuesday released 911 calls that capture the panic in a Houston-area home before a mother killed her two daughters, as well as in the home of a neighbor after the shootings. A third 911 call came from a neighbor's home. In the first call, a voice is heard crying, \"Please!", "Disturbing new details were released Monday in a Katy shooting that left two young women and their mother dead. (Photo: KHOU) The terrifying final moments of two Katy sisters were captured in 911 recordings released Tuesday. Madison and Taylor Sheats both called 911 before their mother, Christy Sheats, shot them to death. I promise you, whatever you want … “ Madison Davey, a family friend, said Christy hid the gun in the couch cushions before she called a family meeting. Their father, Jason Sheats, could be heard begging his wife not to shoot them as the girls screamed in the background. The female that was lying on the ground,\" a neighbor told the 911 dispatcher. Taylor, 22, was shot once inside the home." ]

[ "Question of Double-Standard Arises The dissappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway while on vacation in Aruba nearly six years ago sparked a media frenzy. The search continues for Phylicia Simone Barnes, a star high school student from North Carolina who went missing in Baltimore last week. The Baltimore Mayor's office says it shares the concern about the possible existence of a double-standard in the coverage of Phylicia's disappearance but is more distressed about the case because of its heartbreaking nature.", "\"We have a unit here in Baltimore called the Crimes Against Children Unit, which is assisting the Baltimore police homicide unit in trying to locate Ms. Barnes,\" Special Agent Rich Wolf said.Wolf declined to comment on any specifics about the case and directed questions back to the police department.In the past week, authorities have conducted multiple searches for Phylicia in and around the area of the apartment complex where she was last seen, but so far nothing of interest has been found. Baltimore Police Department Sponsored Links Authorities in Maryland are stepping up efforts to locate Phylicia Barnes , a 16-year-old North Carolina girl who disappeared while visiting relatives in Baltimore . The billboards, which display Phylicia's photo and vital information, are being put up along Interstate 95 from Baltimore to New York City, police said.Authorities have set up a special tip line. \"The FBI's Baltimore branch confirmed to AOL News that it is assisting in the investigation." ]

[ "Details are just beginning to surface of an extreme and horrible case of animal abuse and the man accused of killing several dogs in his Meridian Township apartment. Prosecutors say the crimes were carried out over several months inside the man's apartment. The allegations are shocking enough, but the man we're talking about was a student at Michigan State University, studying to be a doctor. They say someone called police which led officers to execute a search warrant of Thompson's apartment and eventually make the arrest. Neighbors say they're shocked to learn of the allegations.", "\"I believe that this court's decision was excessive, inappropriate, much higher than would be warranted given the nature of the charges,\" said George Zulakis, Thompson's attorney. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. This weekend, for the first time, the Central Michigan T's Model T Club took a step into history as they were given a private tour of the grounds. A Michigan construction company says it's shutting down all of its operations, after announcing a partial shutdown earlier this week." ]

[ "'Self-perceived age has the potential to change' There was a strong association between self-perceived age and death caused by cardiovascular disease, although not between self-perceived age and cancer death. \"Individuals who feel older than their actual age could be targeted with health messages promoting positive health behaviors and attitudes toward aging.\" \"Although baseline health, physical disability, and health behavior accounted for some of the association, after adjusting for all covariates, there remained a 41% greater mortality hazard in people who felt older than their actual age compared with those who felt younger than their actual age,\" write the authors. In comparison, participants with a self-perceived age close to their actual age had a mortality rate of 18.%, and participants who felt older than their actual age had a mortality rate of 24.6%. They suggest that greater resilience, sense of empowerment and will to live, as well as specific health behaviors such as adhering to medical advice, could explain the lower mortality rates in people feeling younger than their actual age. The proportion of study participants who felt older than their actual age was relatively small in comparison with the other self-perceived age groups, and so further research may be needed to validate these findings.", "Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The AMA designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM per course. Also Meets CME requirements for: Accreditation Information The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Physicians who complete the CME course and score at least 80% correct on the quiz are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. You have not filled in all the answers to complete this quiz The following questions were not answered: Sorry, you have unsuccessfully completed this CME quiz with a score of The following questions were not answered correctly: Commitment to Change (optional): Indicate what change(s) you will implement in your practice, if any, based on this CME course. Note: You must get at least of the answers correct to pass this quiz." ]

[ "Add seven swans, six geese and five golden rings to the list of Christmas gifts that cost more than they did a year ago. Some of its sources this year include the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Ballet Company. Part of that difference is the extra expense of shipping live birds, Dunigan said, adding that Internet costs rose 1.5 percent compared to last year. The eight maids-a-milking still cost just $58 because the minimum wage hasn't risen. And if you get all 364 items repeated throughout \"The Twelve Days of Christmas\" carol, you'll pay 6.1 percent more this year, according to the so-called Christmas Price Index that PNC Wealth Management updates annually. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. checks jewelry stores, dance companies, pet stores and other sources to compile the list. \"The rise is larger than expected considering the modest economic growth we've had,\" said Jim Dunigan, managing executive of investments for PNC.", "Cost of '12 Days of Christmas' items Prices of items in the Christmas carol \"The Twelve Days of Christmas,\" according to PNC Wealth Management: Article continues below _ Partridge, $15; last year: same _ Pear tree, $189.99; last year: 169.99 _ Two turtle doves, $125; last year: same _ Three French hens, $165; last year: $150 _ Four calling birds (canaries), $519.96; last year: same _ Five gold rings, $750; last year: $645 _ Six geese a-laying, $210; last year: $162 _ Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; last year: $6,300 _ Eight maids a-milking, $58; last year: same _ Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $6,294; last year: same _ 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $4,767; last year: same _ 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,562; last year: $2,428 _ 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,776; last year: $2,630 Copyright 2013 The Associated Press." ]

[ "Tate discusses her upcoming title defense against Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 this weekend while Benioff and Weiss talk about the latest season finale of GoT and what's ahead in the popular HBO series.1:40 - What did the guys do during the 4th of July?8:30 - What happened when Jim went to watch \"The Conjuring 2\" over the weekend - and why does he wish he was Dan Henderson?20:00 - The guys really like their MeUndies.26:02 - Game of Thrones' creators join the show.28:24 - What couldn't you translate from the books into the show?29:09 - Any complaints from George R. R. Martin?30:01 - Which character you've killed off do you wish you didn't have to?31:15 - The guys talk about THAT fight scene.32:48 - David and D.B. talk about their UFC fandom.34:53 - How many more episodes are left in GoT? Do you know how it will end?35:55 - Any chance of a prequel? What will they do after they are done with GoT?38:55 - Has the network opposed any of the deaths you've planned on GoT?41:22 - When will the new season of GoT begin?45:20 - This Week in UFC History.46:19 - Miesha Tate joins the podcast.46:62 - Is Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 a bigger challenge than Holly Holm was?47:37 - Miesha talks about Amanda's weaknesses.48:15 - How important is a third fight with Ronda Rousey?49:40 - How Did Miesha rebound after previous losses?51:16 - What was the first thing Miesha did after she won the championship?51:50 - Is the fact that Miesha's UFC 200 bout is a five-round fight an advantage over Amanda?54:35 - The importance of the proper mentality inside the Octagon.55:55 - What's Miesha got to prove?56:44 - What's the difference between this fight and others for Amanda?58:27 - What do you tell yourself going into the Octagon if you are the underdog?59:44 - What did the guys learn from talking with Miesha?1:03:50 - Matt Serra responds to Matt Hughes' callout.1:14:23 - What does Matt Serra miss from his fighting days? UFC Women's Bantamweight champion Miesha Tate and Game of Thrones writers and producers David Benioff and D.B.", "We may have to wait a bit longer than usual for the next season of Game of Thrones, and there’s a very good reason: The show needs winter to actually show up first. We’re used to the chilly environments of Winterfell and the Wall, but imagine seeing King’s Landing or Highgarden covered in clouds, rain, or even snow. This implies we’ll see some of our more traditionally sunny lands of Westeros in entirely new ways. And where are the people of Dorne supposed to go, since their entire kingdom seems to be made of nothing but porches and patios? The HBO series normally debuts every new season in April, but season seven will likely launch later in 2017, as showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss revealed in a podcast interview with UFC Unfiltered: We’re starting a bit later because at the end of this season, ‘Winter is here’ - and that means that sunny weather doesn’t really serve our purposes any more." ]

[ "Get the latest from TODAY Sign up for our newsletter / Updated / Source: & Other Stories By Eun Kyung Kim Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. It does not exist.” After hearing some of the encouraging reaction people on social media have had to his announcement, Sheen said he’d gladly “ride this wave of support.” “If there was one guy on this planet to contract this that’s going to deliver a cure, it’s me. Sheen wouldn’t predict how the general media will respond to his interview, but expected his comments at least will dispel some of the myths written about him. HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS, which has no cure. In more recent years, however, his public persona was shaped by a public meltdown during his 2011 feud with the creator of “Two and a Half Men,” the television series that helped him become the highest-paid television actor at the time. While an HIV-positive diagnosis used to be considered a death sentence, and there still is no cure, medical advancements have helped turn it into a manageable illness.", "The global goal to provide HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has been met—and the milestone even came ahead of schedule, UNAIDS announced in a report released this week, highlighting enormous progress made in achieving one of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals. “Stigma, discrimination, and punitive laws continue to affect the people most impacted by HIV and to block their access to HIV services in every region of the world,” the report said. This is a huge boost in the number of people around the world receiving much-needed antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment.", "Charlie Sheen Exposing Sex Partners to HIV is a Crime EXCLUSIVE Charlie Sheen could have some big legal problems with the revelation he has HIV, because in California it's a crime for someone to have unprotected sex when that person knows he or she is infected with HIV. The law is clear ... anyone with a communicable disease who \"willfully exposes another person\" is guilty. There was a case this past March in which a San Diego man was convicted of the crime for willfully exposing his boyfriend to HIV." ]

[ "It does seem that UFO researchers are now being targeted, probably to slow the rate of information being leaked to the public.” However, author and journalist Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomenon for the Ministry of Defence in the early Nineties, said on Twitter: “The death of Max Spiers was a tragedy, but having run the UK Government's UFO project I promise we don't go around killing UFO researchers.” Ms Bates described her son as a “very fit man who was in good health\", adding: \"All I have is a death certificate from the Polish authorities that it was from natural causes, but no post-mortem was done so how can they tell that? Ms Bates remarks have prompted fevered online speculation among conspiracy theorists. Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily told Metro: “This is really strange. North East Kent coroner's office said that an investigation into Mr Spiers’ death was in its “very early\" stages. \"He has a brother, Josh, and sister, Becky, who are both devastated, as are his two boys. \"They are also refusing to release any paperwork about it to me because, absurdly, I don't have his written permission. We all want answers to this and I will continue to fight to get to the truth.\"", "Global warming a myth? Global warming a myth? UK authorities will not investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of an British conspiracy theorist in Poland, the Foreign Office has revealed. Lizard people controlling the world?", "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.", "\"The death of Max Spiers was a tragedy, but having run the UK government's UFO project I promise we don't go around killing UFO researchers,\" he said via Twitter. Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily told the Metro, \"This is really strange. Bates said her son had made a name for himself among investigators of UFO sightings and alleged cover-ups. But British UFO expert Nick Pope denied there was any any clandestine campaign by the so-called Men in Black or other government agents to eliminate UFO hunters who get to close to \"the truth.\" It does seem that UFO researchers are now being targeted, probably to slow the rate of information being leaked to the public.\"" ]

[ "Advertisement Continue reading the main story The overtures to the United States are part of a flurry of steps altering the trajectory of the Iranian state, including domestic liberalizations and returning the politically powerful military to the barracks — for now. The Iranian reaction to the letter provides critical insight into a decisive and unexpected shift in strategy by the moderate new president as Iran struggles to restore vitality to its economy and undo years of hostile relations with most of the world under the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But the differing interpretations of Mr. Obama’s letter in Tehran and Washington are a reminder of the political hurdles and the legacy of mistrust that both sides will have to overcome in negotiating a deal. This is the first time Mr. Obama has written directly to an Iranian president, and not the supreme leader, suggesting that the White House believes Ayatollah Khamenei has empowered Mr. Rouhani to seek an opening with the West.", "The international community faces many challenges in this new world — terrorism, extremism, foreign military interference, drug trafficking, cybercrime and cultural encroachment — all within a framework that has emphasized hard power and the use of brute force. Hassan Rouhani is president of Iran. The centrality of identity extends to the case of our peaceful nuclear energy program. In a climate where much of foreign policy is a direct function of domestic politics, focusing on what one doesn’t want is an easy way out of difficult conundrums for many world leaders. At their core, the vicious battles in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are over the nature of those countries’ identities and their consequent roles in our region and the world. Syria, a jewel of civilization, has become the scene of heartbreaking violence, including chemical weapons attacks, which we strongly condemn.", "In this 2013 photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during an interview with state television in Tehran. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and President Obama are set to address the world body on Tuesday, with the tantalizing prospect of a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of two nations so long poised as enemies. (Rouzbeh Jadidoleslam/AP) In the often colorless realm of international diplomacy, one annual ritual has stood out for years — a provocative speech by Iran’s leader to the United Nations each September, followed by a walkout by U.S. and Israeli delegates. Some of the proposals floated in recent days suggest that Iran is setting the stage for a possible deal with the bloc of six nations that has engaged in intermittent negotiations with the country over several years. Rouhani’s speech is expected to be the main event in nearly a week of interviews, think-tank talks and other appearances meant to showcase a newly moderate, approachable face of the Iranian government. For now, Iranian hard-liners who have championed their country’s nuclear capability appear to be sidelined, said Mohammad Ali Shabani, a Tehran political analyst." ]

[ "Neil Warner / Splash News Britney Spears' handlers have strong ideas on how radio deejays should go about interviewing her. Just in case there were any doubts about the rules, stations are being informed that these orders are “so everyone is clear — no personal questions and no funny business.” Radio insiders say efforts to limit Spears’ opportunities to embarrass herself are doing the complete opposite, even when interviewers stick to the “assigned parameters.” Deejays Roula and Ryan from Houston’s 104.1 KRBE recently had their taped segment pulled when it turned out to be an absolute disaster. The Musical!” — an Off-Broadway parody of “Saved by the Bell” — has proven so popular that its run at Theatre 80 St. Marks has been extended for another month. “That is not entertaining to our audience.” Spears’ reps argue the info they provided was not a mandate, but rather an aid to make the radio spots move along smoothly. “As with all radio tours, the hosts are sent information on the talent and what they are promoting,” said Spears flack Jeff Raymond.", "Running the life and career of Britney Spears is a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it. Jamie has overseen Britney’s life pretty much without complaint for more than five years, but now, RadarOnline.com has learned, he’s asking for more money! Court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com expose what Jamie’s been paid for taking care of his daughter, and what his demands are going forward. “I continue to perform services to protect and care for Britney’s person and to administer her estate in good faith and in her best interests,” Jamie writes in a new petition that was filed on October 15 in L.A." ]

[ "Finora nulla del genere era stato rinvenuto nè a terra nè a mare. I primi ad individuare i preziosi reperti nel mare di Gela sono stati i volontari dell’associazione ambientalista «Mare Nostrum» diretta da Francesco Cassarino. I lingotti di Oricalco erano in arrivo a Gela, provenienti verosimilmente dalla Grecia o dall’Asia Minore, quando la nave che li trasportava affondò forse per il maltempo. Il recupero è avvenuto con una squadra di sommozzatori della Capitaneria di Porto, della Guardia di finanza e della Soprintendenza del Mare. I 39 lingotti pregiati sarebbero stati destinati a un artigianato locale di alta qualità, per decorazioni di particolare pregio.", "In McMaster Canyon, the Deep Discoverer captured this strange image of a pancake urchin scuttling across some discarded human debris. Whatever the origins and nature of orichalcum, Tusa's team plans to excavate the shipwreck and bring to light the entire cargo. Mattievich, who has led a number of studies in physics applied to mineralogy, paleontology and archaeology, is one of the scholars who disagree on the brass-like nature of orichalcum. Indeed orichalcum has long been considered a mysterious metal, its composition and origin widely debated. We examine the dire state of perhaps the most interesting and diverse part of our planet." ]

[ "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.", "Sick Note follows the story of Daniel Glass (Grint), a compulsive liar stuck in a failing relationship and dead-end insurance job, under the thumb of his boss (Johnson). In the first season, Grint's character is wrongly diagnosed with a terminal illness by his incompetent doctor (Frost) who convinces him to hide the truth of his misdiagnosis from colleagues, friends and family in a lie that spirals out of control. Said executive producer Sargent: \"We are thrilled to be making a second [season] of this nail-biting comedy and very excited to be welcoming the extraordinary talents of Lindsay Lohan to our all-star cast.\" Lindsay Lohan has joined Sky comedy Sick Note, starring Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Don Johnson, for its newly announced second season. The series also stars Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Don Johnson. The first season will air this fall, while the second season is currently shooting in the U.K." ]

[ "To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only.", "A flight recorder revealed that pilots of a UPS cargo jet that crashed short of a runway at Birmingham's airport received warnings about their rate of descent seconds before impact, investigators said Friday. The warnings indicated the A300 cargo plane was descending at a rate outside normal parameters given its altitude, Sumwalt said, but investigators haven't made any determination on the actual cause of the crash into an Alabama hillside. UPS has identified the victims of the crash as Capt. Investigators scour a hillside looking for evidence in the fatal crash of a UPS cargo plane in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013." ]

[ "Donald Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy Turnbull tries to explain to Trump that refugees have not been detained because they pose a danger to Australian society, but in order to deter ship-based smuggling: Trump: Why haven’t you let them out? Australia has a policy of refusing to accept refugees who arrive by boat. The reason, as Turnbull patiently attempts to explain several times, is that it believes giving refuge to people who arrive by boat would encourage smuggling and create unsafe passage with a high risk of deaths at sea. Because the problem with the people — At this point, Trump fails to understand the policy altogether, and proceeds to congratulate Turnbull for what Trump mistakes to be a draconian policy of total exclusion: Trump: That is a good idea. At issue in the conversation is a deal to settle 1,250 refugees who have been detained by Australia in the United States.", "The leak of conversations between the US president and the leaders of Mexico and Australia may well be a cry for help from within the administration One of the most significant aspects of the published transcripts of Donald Trump’s conversations with his Mexican and Australian counterparts is the fact they were leaked. When Turnbull asks to discuss Syria and North Korea – two global crises in which their two countries are strategic partners – Trump is not interested and ends the call. Here, the divisive issue is an agreement that the Obama administration struck with Australia to consider accepting 1,250 refugees, mostly from Muslim countries, being detained by Australia on Pacific islands after trying to enter the country by boat.", "Better still from a national-security establishment point of view: both calls make the foreign leader look good at home. The nature of this particular leak suggests just such a national-security establishment origin. The two transcripts belong to calls whose substance was already widely reported in the media; they give away nothing new. The Turnbull transcript confirms the accuracy of early reports that Trump erupted in temper—and exposes Trump’s claims about the call as untrue.", "The first conversation, with Peña Nieto, revolved around Trump trying to get the Mexican leader to stop publicly refusing to pay for Trump's long-promised border wall. The conversation turned tense when Trump and Turnbull begin to discuss an Obama-era agreement that the United States take 1,250 refugees from Australia who reached the country by boat. Trump's exchange with Turnbull was even more heated, as Trump vented about an Obama-era agreement to take 1,250 refugees from Australia. Recorded by White House note-takers and circulated among senior administration staff, the transcripts reveal startling insight into the president's approach — and frustrations — when negotiating with other world leaders. ADVERTISEMENT President Trump's Jan. 27 phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Jan. 28 phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were long rumored to be chaotic. [President Trump, via The Washington Post] The next day, President Trump spoke to Australian Prime Minister Turnbull on the phone. Australia refuses to accept any refugees who come to its shores this way.", "The Washington Post on Thursday published portions of classified transcripts of combative phone calls President Trump had earlier this year with the leaders of Mexico and Australia. The transcripts portray acrimonious conversations between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, largely on the issues of immigration, border wall funding and refugees. First, the transcript of the phone call with Peña Nieto shows that Trump views construction of the border wall more as a political necessity than as a security issue. The release of the transcripts is likely to anger Trump for two reasons.", "Both Hassan and Shaheen have been pressing the Trump administration to make good on its promises to \"combat the opioid epidemic.\" In a statement to NBC News, he wrote: \"Campaigning in New Hampshire's First in the Nation primary, Donald Trump was impressed by the severity of the festering drug crisis, and he shared the frustration of New Hampshire voters. The president made the disparaging remark about New Hampshire in a Jan. 27 conversation with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, the transcript of which was obtained by The Washington Post and published Thursday. So far the White House has declined to comment on the leaked transcripts of Trump’s calls with Peña Nieto or his Jan. 28 telephone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. \"It's disappointing his mischaracterization of this epidemic ignores the great things this state has to offer.\" As seen in the transcript, Trump raised the issue of New Hampshire as he pressed a reluctant Peña Nieto to pay for his border wall.", "Photo: AP To love at all is to be vulnerable. And certainly, as to the relationship and friendship, I consider you a friend. I would love to continue talking. I am just going to say that we are working it out. I met you the one time and I studied you. I want a great relationship. I will be honest with you.", "Here, he seems baffled by Australia's policy of rejecting refugees who arrive by boat, despite the fact that Turnbull had also explained several times that it's a deterrent policy: Anyone who tries to migrate to Australia by water will automatically get kicked out. (The Washington Post) President Trump is obsessed with this election win, thinks New Hampshire is a “drug-infested den,” worries about looking like “a dope” and doesn't want to talk publicly about who is going to pay for the wall. The Post obtained transcripts of President Trump's January 2017 phone conversations with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Trump steamrolled that objective when he compared his conversation with the Australian prime minister, leader of one of America's staunchest allies, to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had just meddled in the U.S. election, and deemed Putin more pleasant. TRUMP TO PEÑA NIETO: We have the drug lords in Mexico that are knocking the hell out of our country. Up in New Hampshire — I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den — is coming from the southern border. These are among the themes and standout moments from Trump's January telephone conversations with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull." ]

[ "Chris McGreal of the Guardian reported that Paul “was barred because of his views on Israel.” Even Seth Lipsky, editor of the New York Sun and a valiant defender of Israel (and friend and mentor of this writer), opined, “The whole idea of an organization of Jewish Republicans worrying about the mainstream strikes me as a bit contradictory.” The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. Paul’s exclusion caused an uproar, with critics alleging that his stand on Israel had earned the RJC’s ire; an absolutist libertarian, Paul opposes foreign aid to all countries, including the Jewish state. While Paul’s views on Israel certainly place him outside the American, never mind Republican, mainstream, there is an even more elementary reason the RJC was right to exclude him from its event. It is Paul’s lucrative and decades-long promotion of bigotry and conspiracy theories, for which he has yet to account fully, and his continuing espousal of extremist views, that should make him unwelcome at any respectable forum, not only those hosted by Jewish organizations.", "You can attribute their \"redneck strategy\" to the most malignant kind of cynicism or to a political desperation that made them insane. The Gold Standard and non-interventionism have long been pushed to the fringe of our politics, and ambitious people tend to dive into the mainstream. The anti-government theories stay the same, the political strategy shifts in odd and extreme directions. That means that some of the 'talent' that marginalized ideas attract will be odd and unstable.", "“The only responsibility he takes is for not paying closer attention.” Mr. Paul is the latest in a series of candidates whose quick improvement in polls has drawn new scrutiny of the more problematic portions of their résumés. The focus on his newsletters comes as he seeks to seize momentum in polls by raising questions about his opponents. During his 1996 race for the House, Democrats publicized issues of his newsletter that called Barbara Jordan , the African-American Texas congresswoman, a “half-educated victimologist” and said of crime in Washington, D.C., “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” He defended the statements to The Dallas Morning News at the time, saying they were taken out of context. Mr. Paul, who is a physician, had said his political persuasion as a libertarian precluded him from harboring such biased views because “I don’t see people in collective groups.” On Monday, his deputy campaign manager, Dimitri Kesari, reiterated that Mr. Paul “did not write, edit or authorize” the language. During an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno ” on Friday, Mr. Paul joked that Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota , a Republican rival for the nomination, “hates Muslims, she wants to go get them.” He also concurred with Mr. Leno that former Senator Rick Santorum speaks about “gay people” almost exclusively, adding, “And Muslims.” Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box." ]

[ "BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- A man police say is a suspect in connection with the deaths of three women in North Royalton was taken into custody early Tuesday morning after a standoff of more than eight hours. Police say the suspect is wanted for questioning in the deaths of Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18, who were found dead Sunday evening at their North Royalton home. The owner of the home, a female, was able to walk out unharmed. A section of Valley Forge was blocked off as the standoff continued. The standoff at the home in the 3300 block of Valley Forge Drive began at about 9 p.m. after officers became aware that the man was at the home. Residents on the street were told by police to remain in their homes during the standoff.", "A mother and her two adults daughters were found dead Sunday night in their North Royalton, Ohio, home in what police are calling a targeted attack, PEOPLE confirms. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. Forensic evidence collected from the scene is currently being investigated, Loeding says.", "3 found dead in home onRidge Road @NorthRoyaltonPD @cleveland19news pic.twitter.com/mECM6Tl2aP — Alyson Bruner (@AlysonBruner) June 12, 2017 There have been no arrests made in connection to the deaths, but police say there are \"persons of interest.\" Police say a woman and her two daughters were found dead in a North Royalton home Sunday night. The cause of the other women's death is still under investigation." ]

[ "A routine traffic stop on a South Seattle street early Sunday put officers right in the midst of the miracle of childbirth. Around 3:45 AM, Officer Anthony Reynolds saw a car running red lights and speeding down Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. When he pulled the car over at MLK and S. Graham Street, the driver jumped out of his car and shouted that his wife was in labor. After first giving a full-throated cry as she burst into the world, the young girl began struggling to breathe. Officer Reynolds called for an ambulance, but the couple’s baby was determined to beat medics to the scene. Officers Lorissa Johnson, Nicholas Kartes and Jason Alvord joined Officer Reynolds at the scene, just as the couple’s baby girl was born. With the help of the child’s mother, Officer Reynolds cleared the baby’s airway and got her breathing again. Medics arrived and transported the mother and child to a nearby hospital in stable condition. They’re doing well, according to the family, who took the time to send along a nice note thanking officers for their work.", "Police experience 'miracle of childbirth' during traffic stop Share this story print email SEATTLE -- A routine Sunday morning traffic stop in Seattle turned out to be anything but routine when officers helped an expectant mother give birth in her car. \"After first giving a full-throated cry as she burst into the world, the young girl began struggling to breathe. The mother, Maly Yusuf, can be heard on Reynolds' dashcam video screaming in pain. With Reynolds, Abdashiek and several other officers looking on, Yusuf, gave birth to a baby girl inside the car." ]

[ "An injured child sits on the sidewalk in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A British relief team arrived in neighboring Dominican Republic. The U.S. and other nations said they were sending food, water, medical supplies to assist the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, where the international Red Cross estimated 3 million people _ a third of the population _ may need emergency relief. \"This is much worse than a hurricane,\" said Jimitre Coquillon, a doctor's assistant working at a makeshift triage center set up in a hotel parking lot. President Barack Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort including the military and civilian emergency teams from across the U.S.", "PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter. Forty-eight hours after much of the impoverished Caribbean nation was devastated by an earthquake, it was mainly the people of this shattered city, working with bare hands and simple tools, who pulled at slabs of concrete and blocks of debris to get at those still trapped. Across the sprawling city, makeshift citizen rescue crews squirmed through openings in the debris and past bodies to search for survivors. Even as a 90,000-ton American nuclear aircraft carrier was expected Friday, and transport planes arrived from as far away as China and Belgium, the first shipments of aid were just starting to reach the stunned nation. Despite the arrival of some aid and rescue teams on Thursday, Port-au-Prince remained a haunted place of destruction, with many of its pastel buildings collapsed into death traps. \"The government is mute,\" a dismayed young Haitian said while he hurried past a body left on a traffic median." ]

[ "Moe’s showed the largest increase in brand equity (13 percent) among all restaurants measured, and demonstrates one of the largest equity increases across all brands assessed, which is significant given the tendency for equity to resist rapid movement. Moe’s Southwest Grill has toppled Chipotle to become America’s favorite Mexican-inspired fast casual restaurant chain, according to a new poll. 2 in the poll, with Qdoba Mexican Grill coming in third and Baja Fresh Mexican Grill coming in fourth. If getting knocked out of the top position wasn’t bad enough for Chipotle executives, then the names of the chains that Americans love more than Chipotle should give them pause: Taco Bell finshed No. The 1,900-unit Chipotle Mexican Grill chain, which had topped the last three annual Harris polls, didn’t even finish in the top four. For Moe’s, a 600-unit chain, the first place finish in the Harris poll was its first. As a result, sales have decline 30 percent and the company’s shares have dipped 33 percent, to $411.14, in early Friday trading. The Denver-based chain has been beset by a number of food-borne illnesses in the last year, including a norovirus outbreak that sickened 386 customers, a salmonella incident that sickened 64 people and e. coli episodes in 11 states that sickened 60 people.", "The chain has been named \"brand of the year\" in the Harris Poll's category of fast-casual Mexican restaurants, unseating Chipotle, which took the top prize for the last three years but failed to even make the top four in 2016. This year, Chipotle was bested by Taco Bell, Qdoba Mexican Grill, and Baja Fresh Mexican Grill. On February 8, when Chipotle closed all of its restaurants for a food safety self-check, Moe's took out a full-page ad in USA Today to emphasize its openness. Overall, Moe's has seen a 5 percent increase in foot traffic thanks in part to Chipotle's struggles, according to a Placed survey. The Harris Poll ranked this year's brands based on more than 97,000 responses from United States customers, and Moe's was praised for its willingness to listen and respond to diner feedback and needs. Chipotle still has some loyalists, however, such as the Washington man who's working toward his goal of eating a meal from the chain 366 days in a row. Chipotle Mexican Grill has had a tumultuous year between the bouts of food-borne illnesses and plummeting sales, but it has managed to emerge from the mess of E. coli-related issues. Moe's Southwest Grill, which got its start in Atlanta in 2000 and now has more than 600 locations worldwide, is reaping significant benefits from Chipotle's downturn.", "CLOSE Harris Poll named Moe’s the Brand of the Year for fast casual Mexican restaurants, ending Chipotle’s three year run as their #1 chain. \"Moe’s has an opportunity to continue to convert that brand equity into restaurant visits,\" Shim says, \"closing the visitation gap with Chipotle.\" The survey is yet another sign of the harsh impact Chipotle's food-safety issues have had on the brand in the past year. Moe's Southwest Grill has unseated Chipotle as fast casual Mexican restaurant \"Brand of the Year,\" according to an annual Harris Poll." ]

[ "Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) The fight over tragic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s most priceless guitar is heading for a bitter, multimillion-dollar court battle. It’s a treasured heirloom of the family. It’s not his to take.” The guitar is so valuable that Love’s manager has even allegedly sent a string of threatening messages to Silva’s ex-girlfriend in an attempt to get him to hand the historic instrument over. We’re told that after months of negotiation, Silva is still holding out and — according to Frances Bean’s side — is taking “extreme and unsupportable positions” on the disagreement. Meanwhile, sources close to the struggle say it ended in a deadlock, and Frances Bean is ready to take the matter in front of a judge.", "Frances made it clear in her divorce docs ... the Kurt Cobain money is hers alone and not Isaiah's -- but she is open to paying some spousal support. Isaiah Silva is requesting spousal support, and according to the docs he wants a ton of it -- nothing less than $25k a month. Isaiah claims Frances has upwards of $100 mil in her dad's estate, and says he deserves half of the money she earned off business deals made during the 2 year marriage. Now, he says Frances wants to renege on those commitments. Isaiah says he left a steady job when they got married and Frances promised to cover a bunch of his monthly expenses, including paying private school and housing bills for his child from a previous relationship." ]

[ "(Photo by Robert Marquardt/Getty Images) Getty Images Getty Images Europe The gorgeous duo have always been incredibly private and have only been photographed together a handful of times. We entered our relationship with love and it's with love and kindness we leave it. \"The two are determined to keep the particulars of their failed relationship private, a friend tells me, who wisely notes that fans shouldn't hold their breath for a weepy Oprah-style interview. Insiders tell me that members of the press will be told that Scarlett-related questions will be off limits during the promotional tour. They barley even spoke about their relationship in the press, with Ryan admitting in the October issue of GQ that since getting married, \"I'm a little more guarded, I think. \"Anyone that asks personal questions will be asked to leave,\" the source reveals.The couple released the following statement on Tuesday: \"After long and careful consideration on both our parts, we've decided to end our marriage. Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are notorious under-sharers, having spent their brief and low-key marriage shunning cameras and reporters' questions.", "Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. Would you like to view this in our US edition?" ]

[ "___ Associated Press writer Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report. WASHINGTON (AP) — An odorless pesticide sprayed at a Caribbean resort has left three members of a Delaware family hospitalized for weeks after they became seriously ill during their Virgin Islands vacation, and federal officials said Tuesday that investigators found the toxic chemical has been used at the resort several times before. \"The Esmond family thanks everyone for their support and concern for their recovery from this unthinkable tragedy of pesticide poisoning.\" The EPA is continuing to test and monitor the property and is continuing to investigate the details of the family's exposure, Enck said, \"to make sure it never happens again anywhere.\" U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said the agency is looking into the use of the pesticide methyl bromide at the Sirenusa Condominium Resort in Cruz Bay, St. John. Use of the pesticide was confirmed the day after the family became ill, which has helped inform doctors on how to treat the family, said Judith Enck, the EPA's regional administrator in New York City, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Virgin Islands.", "\"Many questions remain why an odorless pesticide of this level of toxicity could be manufactured, distributed and applied in a residential area resulting in this family's injuries,\" Maron said. The attorney added: \"The family is confident that the responsible parties will be brought to justice and held accountable.\" Story highlights Chemical damages ozone and is being phased out, though it's used in strawberry fields, EPA says A Delaware family becomes ill at a resort in the U.S. Virgin Islands Preliminary EPA results find methyl bromide was present in the unit where they stayed (CNN) A Delaware father is in stable condition and improving as his two boys remain in critical condition after they became sick -- perhaps from pesticide exposure, federal officials say -- during a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The use of the pesticide is restricted in the United States because of its acute toxicity. In an email to CNN before the termination, a spokesman for Terminix wrote that the company is \"committed to performing all work ... in a manner that is safe for our customers, employees, the public and the environment\" and is \"looking into this matter internally, and cooperating with authorities.\" The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated a criminal investigation. The company said it licensed an outside company, Terminix, for the pest control services.", "Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed Family Possibly Poisoned at Virgin Island Resort After Fumigation 1:58 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog The toxic chemical that sickened a Delaware family at a Virgin Islands resort last month had been used there other times over the past year, the Environmental Protection Agency said. \"The first and top priority is protecting public health,\" Enck said. Terminix has been providing pest control at the property since late 2013. The Department of Justice could bring criminal charges forward if the EPA investigation finds evidence of wrongdoing. The United States Department of Justice has also opened a criminal investigation into the case, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission report filed by ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Terminix. \"We remain committed to full cooperation with all local and federal authorities currently investigating this matter.\"" ]

[ "AUSTIN–The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that hospital-like structural requirements for Texas abortion clinics can go into effect, which will cause all but seven or eight clinics to shutter. This was the second challenge to the state’s 2013 law that also banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, mandated physicians to have hospital admitting privileges and tightened regulations on abortion-inducing drugs. Abortion providers say the requirements are unnecessary and won’t add to the safety of the procedure. The court made an exception for Whole Woman’s Health in McAllen, which won’t be required to meet all of the building requirements or gain admitting privileges for one doctor. The 5th Circuit earlier upheld the provisions requiring doctors at abortion clinics to obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and the regulations that mandate where and when a woman can take abortion-causing pills. The structural requirements include specific room and doorway sizes, air sterilization systems, backup generators and blood supplies on hand. “Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale,” said Nancy Northup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which sued the state on behalf of several abortion clinics, in an emailed statement Tuesday.", "AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court upheld key parts of Texas's strict anti-abortion law on Tuesday, a decision that could leave as few as seven abortion clinics in the nation's second largest state. A new slate of conservative leaders in Texas has vowed to continue stifling abortion-rights efforts. But abortion-rights supports say the law is a thinly veiled attempt to block access to abortions in Texas, and they promised to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which temporarily sidelined the law last year. George P. Bush, the son of expected 2016 presidential hopeful Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush, made an anti-abortion rally at the Capitol his first public event since being sworn in as land commissioner, along with Abbott's wife, Cecilia. The New Orleans-based court — considered one of the most conservative in the nation — allowed Texas to enforce the restrictions when abortion providers first sued in 2013, but the U.S. Supreme Court put the law on hold last year and ordered the 5th Circuit to reconsider. Under the new restrictions, the only remaining abortion facilities in Texas would be in major cities." ]

[ "Washington (CNN) Russia appointed actor Steven Seagal as a \"special representative\" on US-Russian humanitarian ties, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in statement on its official Facebook page Saturday. According to the statement , the action star's role will be to promote US-Russia relations \"in the humanitarian sphere,\" adding that the role will include collaboration \"in the sphere of culture, public and youth exchanges.\" Seagal, who became a Russian citizen in 2016, is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2013, BuzzFeed reported that Putin suggested to President Barack Obama that Seagal serve as an honorary envoy of Russia to help improve relations between the two countries. The foreign ministry said the unpaid role will be similar to the United Nations' goodwill ambassador positions.", "Мы выразили удовлетворение темпами роста товарооборота, договорились работать над тем, чтобы его структура становилась более сбалансированной." ]

[ "RUSSELL, Kan. (AP) — A 59-year-old Kansas man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving Friday night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road. Zordel was driving in the roadway when the accident happened and it is not clear if he was speeding or if the cow suddenly appeared from the side of the road. Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Brant Birney said there were no witnesses when James Zordel hit the cow on a paved rural road about six miles south of Interstate 70 near Russell. He was driving down a blacktop road and he hit a black cow,\" Birney said, adding that exactly what caused the accident may never be known. Zordel, who was not wearing a helmet, died at the scene.", "A man is dead after running his motorcycle into a black cow late Friday night in Russell County. Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs show James Zordel, 59, of Russell, was northbound in the 3500 block of 189th street about 6.5 miles south of I-70, when his 1992 Suzuki motorcycle collided with the animal. The KHP reports Zordel was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. Zordel was pronounced dead at the scene." ]

[ "CLOSE Everyday for the past 40 years, Bill Bresnan gives his wife a token of his love and affection. He shares their incredible story of a relationship fueled by love, passion and infinite amounts of expression. VIDEO BY: BRIAN JOHNSTON Buy Photo Bill and Kris Bresnan sit with 25 boxes of cards and letters that he’s written to her over their 40 year marriage. He has penned more than 10,000 love letters to her — one each night of their marriage. After dinner we walked, as all visitors to Venice must, over to Piazza San Marco so I could have one of the groups of musicians play not only the \"Summertime\" theme, but \"Al Di La\" for Kris. We, eventually, got ourselves to the famous Milano Centrale Railway Station where a high-speed train ride took us over the railway viaduct and into the Stazione di Venezia, Santa Lucia.", "NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — One couple’s 40 year love story has surfaced just in time for Valentine’s Day. Every single day of their marriage has been documented in love letters. The couple is now screening the letters, deciding which are appropriate to be saved for their four children someday, and gently disposing of notes meant for their eyes only. “My biggest fear, and I guess this is human nature, as I get older my biggest fear is the day I forget to give it to her,” Bill said. “And while we were on the Long Island Railroad having coffee together I’d scribble a little something a napkin or write it on the end of a newspaper and that kept developing until I gave her actual cards,” Bill Bresnan said. One parting piece of advice the Bresnans offered for the younger generation is to put the cell phone down and focus on each other.", "Noah, the main character in the film \"The Notebook,\" wrote a love letter every day of the year to win Allie's affection, but a real-life New Jersey man has outdone Ryan Gosling's beloved character. \"We'll probably have a nice dinner, a special bottle of wine and a piece of chocolate,\" Bresnan said. Add as an interest to stay up to date on the latest news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Elara Mosquera/ABC News The daily expressions of love began as notes scribbled on napkins and small pieces of paper he gave to his wife over coffee while commuting together shortly after they met, Bresnan said. We just enjoy simply being together.\"" ]

[ "In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Amanda Longacre is seeking to be reinstated as Miss Delaware and to be allowed to compete in the Miss America pageant. \"It is a lawsuit without merit and we will defend it vigorously,\" said Sharon Pearce, president of the Miss America organization. Longacre turns 25 on Oct. 22, after this year's national pageant. (AP) — A woman stripped of her Miss Delaware title last month for being too old is suing state pageant officials and the Miss America organization.", "The class action lawsuit filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery seeks $3 million in damages Amanda Longacre of Bear waves to the crowd after being crowned Miss Delaware at Dover Downs on June 14. (Photo: JASON MINTO/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS ) Story Highlights Last month, Amanda Longacre was disqualified and first-runner up Brittany Lewis was elevated to the state crown She also seeks a waiver so she can compete for Miss America in September Former Miss Delaware Amanda Longacre, booted from the crown for being too old, sued the state and national scholarship pageant organizations on Wednesday. She also seeks the full year's reign in the state, restoration of her scholarships and an age waiver so she can compete for Miss America in September in Atlantic City, New Jersey." ]

[ "Say what you will about the indie-goth aesthetics and the irritating, aggrandizing treatment of histrionic middle-class teen angst (both Arcade Fire trademarks! Chris Milk, the director of the project (it was produced by Radical Media), is a veteran music video guy, so it's not like it's a whole new industry springing up—just eyeing the possibility of moving from one set of screens to another—and taking advantage of all the things the web can offer. ), \"The Wilderness Downtown\" works amazingly well as an internet \"piece\"—part video, part interactive project, part regular old website, part irritating bauble, coded with HTML 5 and billed as a collaboration with Google. Have you seen this music video for Canadian band the Arcade Fire's single \"We Used to Wait\"?", "You can visit this website to create a personalized, interactive music video for the song “We Used to Wait.” Just enter your own suburban childhood address and the magic of Google images will have you flying over your old street. As if I wasn’t already obsessed enough with the new Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs, it just got better. I got kind of choked up when I saw San Rosendo Dr. and the cul-de-sac where I used to ride my bike, the place where my brother and I built forts, and even my swimming pool. It took me all the way to the window outside of my old bedroom!" ]

[ "FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio. As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio enters its fifth day, more details... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Friday, April 22, 2016 file photo, authorities set up road blocks at the intersection of Union Hill Road and Route 32 at the perimeter of a crime scene, in Pike County, Ohio.", "COLUMBUS, Ohio --Seven of eight relatives who were killed in their southern Ohio homes Friday had been shot multiple times, including one who was shot nine times, according to autopsy results released Tuesday. The size of the operation, according to the source, indicates the marijuana was being grown for sale and not for personal use. While authorities have not released any details about a motive, the attorney general's office did confirm Monday that one of the victims had received a threat via Facebook. \"There is a drug problem in most areas around here,\" said Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader. A Cincinnati-area businessman offered a $25,000 reward for details leading to those responsible. More than a dozen counselors, clergy and psychologists arrived at the local high school on Monday to help friends and neighbors cope with their grief as they remembered the victims as loyal and caring people.", "Rumors swirling on the street far outnumbered any official information released Monday about last week's killing of eight members of one family in Pike County, yet the trickled-out details allowed a clearer picture of the Rhodens and the murder investigation now entering its fifth day. PIKETON, Ohio - Rumors swirling on the street far outnumbered any official information released Monday about last week's killing of eight members of one family in Pike County, yet the trickled-out details allowed a clearer picture of the Rhodens and the murder investigation now entering its fifth day. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, part of the Ohio attorney general's office, still has at least 35 special agents, crime-scene investigators and analysts in Piketon to assist Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader's office. \"This is unprecedented,\" Attorney General Mike DeWine said both of the ghastliness of the crime and the response to the investigation. The law-enforcement response into the investigation remains massive. A reward of $25,000 is being offered for information in the case. Authorities have not publicly addressed such a connection with this investigation, but they have said the killings - with each victim shot in the head while sleeping - were sophisticated and well-planned and that the killers covered their tracks.", "/ Updated By Elisha Fieldstadt and Gabe Gutierrez While investigators in Ohio struggled for a fifth day to find a motive and the person or people responsible for the massacre of eight members of the same family, officials said Tuesday that autopsy results revealed that some of the victims show signs of struggle before they were killed. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. A 2011 report said that the drug trafficking threat in Ohio was on the rise.", "A coroner says seven of the eight victims in killings targeting a southern Ohio family were shot multiple times. Investigators have received more than 300 tips and are continuing to serve search warrants in an effort to identify the killer or killers, according to DeWine. The father of one of the victims says he had no knowledge of marijuana growing operations at three of the four crime scenes. He said 79 pieces of evidence have been sent to a state crime lab for testing and analysis." ]

[ "Just in time for Valentine's Day, Google has rolled out a dedicated site where consumers can create a wedding website, edit photos and plan their wedding using wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik. But there's a thin line between providing helpful information and invading privacy: In 2009, Google Health partnered with CVS to provide patients online access to their prescription drug history via their Google Health accounts, raising issues about Google's access to sensitive personal information. In 2008, Google launched Google Health, which is designed to let users organize, monitor, track and use health information on the site. Google teamed up with wedding planner Michelle Rago for the templates, and Rago also provides tips to the soon-to-be-betrothed. To spread the word, Google is also hosting a wedding sweepstakes offering a prize of $25,000 and the chance to get Rago to help plan your wedding. The company announced the move today on its official Google blog.", "Read her tips for planning the perfect wedding, whether on the beaches of Bali or your parents’ backyard. The creative designs throughout these tools were created in collaboration with renowned wedding planner and destination expert Michelle Rago.", "Education Around the world and back with Google for Education We’re live from BETT in London, sharing international news and updates from Google for Education." ]

[ "MasterCard to use selfies for security 2:41 AM ET Wed, 24 Feb 2016 MasterCard customers will soon be able to replace their passwords with a \"selfie\" and a fingerprints to verify their identity and make payments online. Ann Cairns, head of international markets for MasterCard, told CNBC that biometric checks had been trialled in the U.S. and the Netherlands and will be launching them in the U.K. soon. The payment processing company confirmed the decision to introduce biometric checks this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. \"I think the whole biometric space is a great way of protecting yourself when you are doing payments,\" she said. \"There are a whole range of biometrics that say 'I'm me, I'm making a payment' and it just makes the whole thing more secure.\"", "Follow all the BBC's MWC coverage via the \"Mobile World Congress 2016\" tag in our news app. Image copyright Mastercard Image caption Users will have to blink while using the Identity Check app's selfie feature Credit card firm Mastercard has confirmed it will accept selfie photos and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying IDs for online payments. You can also keep track of our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones and the rest of the team covering the Barcelona event via a dedicated Twitter list. Image copyright Mastercard Image caption A notification will tell users when they need to verify their ID after using a shopping website Blink test Mastercard announced the move at the Mobile World Congress tech show in Barcelona. Image copyright Mastercard Image caption The device on which the purchase is made confirms the ID check after it is carried out on a phone \"Consumers hate passwords,\" declared Ajay Bhalla, chief of the firm's safety and security division. It explained that members of the public would have to download an application to their PC, tablet or smartphone to use the system." ]

[ "Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so!", "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.", "Washington (CNN) Donald Trump came under fire Friday morning for his handling of a question at a town hall about when the U.S. can \"get rid\" of Muslims, for failing to take issue with that premise and an assertion that President Barack Obama is Muslim. Trump, who has shaken off several high-profile controversies that would have ended other presidential campaigns, faced an immediate backlash from advocacy groups, and members of his own party distanced themselves from the GOP front-runner. The incident recalls Trump's 2011 quest to challenge Obama on where he was born, which ended with Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate. It's called Muslims,\" an unidentified man who spoke at a question-and-answer town hall event in Rochester, New Hampshire asked the mogul at a rally Thursday night. Trump is not the first Republican candidate to raise eyebrows over comments involving Obama and his ethnic and religious background." ]

[ "The movies of these next two presenters.” — On introducing Mel Gibson after his infamous takedown of the actor during the Globes in 2010: “I’m in the awkward position of having to introduce him again. Here is a rundown of the bluntly sarcastic four-time host’s funniest and/or most offensive lines from the Beverly Hilton — including what Gervais said to Mel Gibson that was entirely bleeped by NBC: — “You disgusting, pill-popping, sexual deviant scum. There’s going to be a female remake of Ocean’s 11. So: I’d rather have a drink with him in his hotel room tonight than with Bill Cosby.” Then after Gibson came out on stage, Gervais asked him — and this was entirely bleeped by NBC: “What the f–k does ‘sugar t-ts’ even mean?’” RELATED: Full Globes winners list Before the ceremony, Gervais tweeted a shirtless photo of himself with a profane message warning that he would offend Hollywood on Sunday night. There’s a female remake of Ghostbusters. And on the red carpet before the telecast from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Gervais confirmed to Matt Lauer that his Globes bosses gave him free reign: “They said I could say what I want — NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press.", "As movie and television fanatics alike gear up for one of the most exciting award shows of the year, some might not be too familiar with this year’s host, Ricky Gervais. But considering the British comedian has such a major role in the 2016 Golden Globes as the night’s host, that could very well change! Getty Say hello to your 2016 Golden Globes host! Years before taking the stage as host, Ricky took home the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2004 for his Office role as David Brent. Join Amazon Prime For Free – Thousands of Movies & Shows Anytime 4. Ricky is known for having a dark sense of humor as it is, but during his second Golden Globes hosting gig in 2011, he totally dissed Robert when introducing the actor. Despite the fact that he has hosted before, Golden Globe devotees might need to know a little more about who will be running the show on Jan. 10. Ricky’s acting career really took off after he starred in a UK series of the same name beginning in 2001, which actually inspired the American remake because of its success overseas. He has hosted the Golden Globes the most times. Because of his crude jokes that often involve celebrities in the audience, his returns have always been deemed controversial.", "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?\" — interview with The Telegraph and perhaps the most frightening quote of all, explaining why, no matter how much we abhor, ridicule, and shun this man, we will never be able to get rid of him. Wouldn't it be nice if you could read every terrible thing Gibson has said, all in one place? These are merely the terrible things he's said near an open microphone, tapped telephone, police officer, or journalist: \"I will report her to the fucking people that take fucking money from the wetbacks.\" Related Mel Gibson's Horrifying Phone Call Is Now Online 'My Career Is Over': Another Terrifying Mel Gibson Phone Call Is Now Online Third Horrifying Mel Gibson Phone Call Is Now Online 'I'll Burn the Goddamn House Down, But Blow Me First': Mel Gibson Gets Creative in His Latest Rant [Photo via Getty Images] —on New York Times reporter Frank Rich, who criticized The Passion of the Christ, to The New Yorker in 2003, via, h/t \"I own Malibu… I am going to fuck you.\"", "The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public." ]

[ "\"The disdain and lack of respect for law enforcement, as well as the fatal attacks on the men and women in uniform in America, is due to a lack of leadership -- starting with our commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama.\" According to the police union, there have been 83 deaths of law enforcement officers while in the line of duty so far this year in the U.S. Terrell: AND PBA NOW WANTS A PUBLIC APOLOGY TO EVERY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER INSTEAD OF THE ONE GIVEN TO JUST THE CHIEF OF THE PEMBROKE PINES POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO GOT ONE TODAY FROM THE CEO OF ARBY'S. WE'RE STILL WAITING ON OUR PHONE PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - The chief of police in Pembroke Pines has received an apology after one of his officers was denied service at a fast-food restaurant in the city.", "PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (WSVN) -- Arby's restaurants in Broward and Miami-Dade counties are trying to settle a beef with police by offering all uniformed cops free meals in South Florida, Friday. So far, no officers are taking them up on the deal at the Pembroke Pines shop, at at 11755 Pines Blvd., where this all began when a pair of employees at first refused to serve a Pembroke Pines Police sergeant. Meanwhile, the CEO of Arby's is meeting with the presidents of the Miami-Dade and Broward Police Benevolent Associations at the Pembroke Pines restaurant in question. \"We have a surprise to you guys,\" said a woman as she delivered the food to the Pembroke Pines PD. Look, at the end of the day, police officers are under attack in America. The incident triggered an outpouring of support from its competitors, Thursday morning. The Arby's manager who allegedly denied food to a Pembroke Pines Police officer has been fired by the company while the clerk involved was suspended.", "Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter PEMBROKE PINES (CBSMiami) – Is it an example of a diminished respect for police or a poor attempt at humor? That’s the question after a Pembroke Pines Police Officer alleged that an Arby’s employee refused to serve her because she’s a cop. We’re just trying to get people out of the drive thru.” According to a police report on the incident, the police officer was told by the manager, “(Davenport) doesn’t want to serve you because you are a police officer.” After that, the officer said she wasn’t certain she wanted to dine at the restaurant but the manager assured her everything was okay and handed the officer the food, according to the report. The incident prompted wives of officers to stage a protest at the restaurant. A South Florida police union is calling for a national boycott of Arby’s after police say an officer was denied service. As soon as the issue was brought to our attention, our CEO spoke with the Police Chief who expressed his gratitude for our quick action and indicates the case is closed." ]

[ "Speaker John Boehner said President Barack Obama must accept entitlement cuts and no tax increases in order to obtain a debt-ceiling increase from Congress, once again taking a hardline as GOP and Democratic congressional leaders head to the White House for talks on averting a U.S. debt default. Boehner’s comments came after Obama repeatedly praised Boehner in his own press conference this morning for being willing to explore a “grand bargain” that would cut spending on popular entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in return for as much as $1 trillion in new revenue. Boehner clearly would prefer that alternative, but opposition from Cantor and Senate Republicans forced Boehner to retreat on such an agreement. Boehner said his idea was to simplify and reduce tax rates, which would result in new economic growth and more revenue for the federal government.", "The leader of the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, says he agrees with President Barack Obama that the U.S. borrowing limit must be raised to avoid a government default but insists that House Republicans will not back any deal with tax increases. Talking to reporters shortly before a White House meeting, Boehner said there is a way to increase revenues without raising taxes. Obama and congressional leaders are laboring to complete a deal to slash spending and raise the government's borrowing limit before an Aug. 2 deadline. He said Obama insists on raising taxes but the White House is not serious enough about reforming the benefit programs. He embraced the idea of significant tax reform. But he said it cannot be done without serious changes to the major social benefit programs." ]

[ "Much of that increase is attributed by scientists to melting surface ice. The planet loses tens of billions of tons of ice each year. They are rising, without dispute, at an estimated rate of 3.3 millimeters a year. Enough is lost from Antarctica alone to increase global sea levels by a millimeter every three years, but that figure isn’t steady. Don’t worry, though; assuming that the depth of Earth’s crust is about 40 kilometers in the United States, it would take 309,000 years for us to get to the mantle. Cities like New Orleans are sinking quickly, even faster in many places than the seas are rising. Duffy pointed to ground subsidence, which is the sinking of the ground in places that can exacerbate the problem of rising sea levels.", "However, Brooks insisted: “Well, I’ve got a Nasa base in my district, and apparently, they’re telling you one thing and me a different thing.” Brooks said: “There are plenty of studies that have come that show with respect to Antarctica that the total ice sheet, particularly that above land, is increasing, not decreasing. Duffy disagreed, noting that “we have satellite records clearly documenting a shrinkage of the Antarctic ice sheet and an acceleration of that shrinkage”, citing “the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration” for his data. A recent study reported that the ice sheet had shrunk by 1,463km from 2010 to 2016. All of that displaces water which forces it to rise, does it not?” Duffy answered: “I’m pretty sure on human timescales, those are minuscule effects.” The questioning went on as Brooks argued the Antarctic ice sheet was actually growing. Now, you could make a different argument if you want to talk about Greenland or the Arctic.” Brooks, a graduate of Duke University and University of Alabama School of Law, was first elected to Congress in 2010 from his North Alabama district.", "The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now.", "So what is motivating scientists to say the Earth is dangerously warming? North Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks is making headlines again for blaming sea level rise on rocks falling into the ocean and silt washing from major rivers. \"I'm talking about Antarctica ice, which is both the sea ice and the interior of Antarctica. And the interior is where the vast majority of ice is.\" The bottom line \"The bottom line is nobody is smart enough to know with the evidence we have and the relatively small time frame we have - 50 years in the history of the planet. \"Is the Human Race Too Dumb to Survive on This Planet?\" \"Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise,\" read the Science site's headline.", "Washington (CNN) A member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology evinced skepticism about climate change during an exchange with a witness about rising sea levels. On Wednesday, at a hearing titled \"using technology to address climate change,\" Brooks began by raising a broad question about rising ocean levels to the witness panel. A day after the hearing, the committee tweeted a link to an op-ed from The Wall Street Journal denying climate change caused sea-level rise. And as for the question of sea level rise, Duffy said, \"It's really caused by climate change.\"" ]

[ "Defense cuts are likely to be problematic for many of the veteran Republicans Boehner will need to push a compromise through the House. While the reason for the hangup was not immediately clear, the framework has the potential to trigger big cuts in the defense budget. After emerging from a lengthy closed-door meeting with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders late Sunday afternoon, Reid (D-Nev.) was asked whether he expects a vote on the deal tonight. Meanwhile, as expected, the Senate failed to break the 60-vote threshold to end debate on a bill by Reid’s (D-Nev.) bill to raise the debt ceiling by $2.2 trillion in an early afternoon vote on Sunday as the outlines of the deal between Senate leaders and the White House began to take shape.", "Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is in active negotiation with the White House on a debt ceiling deal, and Democrats agreed late Saturday night to postpone a partisan-tinged cloture vote to give time for both sides to find a compromise. Since Republicans have opposed any such sequester impacting revenues, the compromise now is likely to include deep defense cuts, a second priority for the GOP and therefore something of a lever. And second, what enforcement mechanism is best to ensure that a new joint House-Senate committee will be able to come up with an estimated $1.6 trillion in savings by the end of this year. I’m confident and optimistic that we’re going to get an agreement in the very near future and resolve this crisis in the best interests of the American people.” Boehner echoed McConnell’s statement, saying he believed that “we are going to be able to come to some sort of agreement.” But the speaker appears to have had no contact himself with President Barack Obama Saturday, while McConnell spoke to the president and reached out to Biden, after which the two men engaged in at least four back-and-forth phone calls through the day. “There are many elements to be finalized, and there is still a distance to go before any arrangement can be completed,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.", "It was a pre-emptive vote in the high-stakes political fight as the Senate still hasn't voted on the measure from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The measure would raise the debt limit by $2.4 trillion while cutting spending by $2.2 trillion. The vote could set the stage for negotiations on a compromise just three days before the Treasury says it will be unable to pay all the nation's bills. Debate on the measure was often testy and reflected the growing frustration among lawmakers. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pleaded for an end to \"this theater of the absurd\" and said \"it's time for us to get real.\" The vote was 246-173." ]

[ "Cigarette price hike risks black market - PM By Adam Ray The Prime Minister says a huge hike in the cost of cigarettes could encourage a black market for smokers. 3 News revealed yesterday that Health Ministry officials think cigarettes need to cost $100 a packet to make New Zealand smoke-free. So I don't think people will stop smoking.” A Health Ministry paper obtained by 3 News says drastic measures are needed to meet the Government's aim for New Zealand to be smoke-free by 2025. John Key says the Government is looking at a range of policies to stop smoking and huge price hikes could fuel black market trading. One proposal is for prices to increase by around a third every year to reach $100 a packet within eight years. “People still use heroin,” says the smoker.", "A document released under the Official Information Act to the country's 3 News website features a number of pricing scenarios - with the most extreme showing a single cigarette costing the equivalent of £2.50. Pack Of Cigarettes 'May Rise To $100' In NZ The price of a packet of cigarettes is set to rise significantly as New Zealand looks to stamp out smoking The cost of a packet of cigarettes in New Zealand could rise to as much as $100 dollars - around £50 - by 2020 amid moves to stamp out smoking. Other ideas discussed in the document include regulating tobacco as a highly toxic substance, a ban on smoking in cars with children, a doubling of anti-smoking media campaigns and removing tobacco from duty-free sale. The Ministry of Health wants New Zealand to be smoke free by 2025 and the suggested increase gives the first hint of the drastic measures being discussed. The briefing paper said: \"If we are to continue to lower smoking prevalence we need to both increase the numbers who successfully quit smoking, and reduce smoking initiation among young people. The most likely model would see a shock tax increase next year, and then a 10%-a-year rise, which would mean a packet of cigarettes costs around $60 (£30) by 2025. But a second scenario would see packs at $100 each by 2020, achieved by an immediate shock rise of 30% to 60%, with on-going increases of 30% each year after that." ]

[ "After removing giant hogweed plants, you may be left with an area of bare soil vulnerable to soil erosion, giant hogweed seedlings, and introduction of other invasive weeds. If removal of contaminated soil is necessary, seedling emergence can be prevented by burying the soil to a minimum depth of 20 inches (50 cm) and covering it with clean soil Sowing and planting giant hogweed is PROHIBITED Since the dispersal of giant hogweed is almost entirely by seeds, it is very important to prevent the plant from setting seed Control new, smaller infestations first before the seed bank has a chance to establish Field technician root-cutting hogweed plants. With no influx of seed and a few years of persistent control efforts, giant hogweed plants can be eradicated. Overall Giant Hogweed Control Prevent introduction into new areas Do not move soil contaminated with seed. To be successful in eradicating giant hogweed, herbicide treatments (or another control method) will have to be repeated for a few years, in order to kill the plants missed the prior year as well as the plants emerging from the seed bank. This will help to reduce soil erosion and provide competition for giant hogweed seedlings.", "\"There have been reports from VDOT of sightings of Giant Hogweed in the Staunton area and Middlesex County,\" Isle of Wight County posted to Facebook. Officials in Virginia are warning residents to be on the lookout after an invasive plant was found Tuesday in the northern part of the state that can cause third-degree burns and even permanent blindness. Check the site and surrounding areas for the next several years for the emergence of any hogweed seedlings or regrowth from previous year's plants.\" \"It may be possible for hogweed seeds to remain viable in the soil for 15 years,\" the agency said. \"There is a strong possibility that the Giant Hogweed could find its way into the Tidewater/Coastal Virginia area.\"", "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.", "See more of VT Massey Herbarium on Facebook", "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.", "Of course, going anywhere near a giant hogweed requires protective gear. Listed as a noxious weed in at least eight states, last week the giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) was spotted in Virginia for the first time. To learn about the identification of giant hogweed and compare it to common look-alikes, check out the NYDEC site here.", "Skip to main navigation Health Hazards & Safety Instructions for Giant Hogweed (with graphic photos) When giant hogweed (GH) sap, which contains photosensitizing furanocoumarins, contacts human skin in conjunction with sunlight, it can cause phytophotodermatitis - a serious skin inflammation. Photo of giant hogweed burn - 5 days to 5 months after initial exposure Photo credit: Bob Kleinberg What are the symptoms of exposure to giant hogweed sap? In brief, the sap prevents your skin from protecting itself from sunlight which leads to a very bad sunburn." ]

[ "“For the past 83 years, the Academy has entrusted PwC with the integrity of the awards process during the ceremony, and last night we failed the Academy.” Tim Ryan, PwC’s U.S. chairman and senior partner, addressed the drama during an interview with Variety on Monday. “We wish to extend our deepest gratitude to each of them for the graciousness they displayed during such a difficult moment,” the statement said. “PwC takes full responsibility for the series of mistakes and breaches of established protocols during last night’s Oscars,” the company wrote in a statement, released late Monday, February 27, hours after they apologized for the gaffe in another earlier statement. “We clearly made a mistake, and once the mistake was made, we corrected it and owned up to it,” he said, adding that Cullinan “feels very, very terrible and horrible” about the mix-up. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditing firm that handles the Oscars votes, said that they didn’t act “quickly enough” to fix the epic Best Picture flub at the 89th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February 26. “And as a firm, given that he is a partner of our firm, it is also my mistake and our mistake, and we all feel very bad.” Want stories like these delivered straight to your inbox? “He is very upset about this mistake,” Ryan added.", "One of two accounting honchos in charge of handing out the winners’ envelopes at the Oscars Sunday night jinxed himself in an interview earlier this month. “It doesn’t sound very complicated, but you have to make sure you give the presenter the right envelope,” Brian Cullinan, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told the website Medium in a story published Feb. 10. Only Beatty was given the wrong envelope, a monumental flub that led to the incorrect winner being named. Before the glaring glitch, Cullinan had posted scores of photos taken backstage at the Oscars. “We’ll have staff go back two and three times to make sure, and then [PWC partner] Martha [Ruiz] and I will review and recount to ensure there are no differences between what we have and they had. After his bosses at PWC issued a mea culpa for the company’s mistake, all of his Oscar night tweets were scrubbed.", "On top of admitting fault in the error, PwC also said that Cullinan and Ruiz did not follow protocol for correcting the error “quickly enough.” They only appeared onstage after multiple La La Land creators gave speeches – more than two minutes after La La Land was incorrectly named the winner. In the now-deleted tweet, Cullinan – one of two accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers who handled the Oscars balloting – shared a photo of the Best Actress winner smiling while holding her award backstage. PwC, the accounting firm that counts and delivers the winning Oscars envelopes, has publicly taken the blame for the incident in which La La Land was called as the Best Picture winner over the actual honoree, Moonlight. It confirmed that Cullinan mistakenly handed the presenters the duplicate Best Actress envelope instead of the Best Picture. It is too early to say how this will play out but everyone is of course taking it very very seriously.” Christopher Polk/Getty Cullinan has not publicly commented or posted on his Twitter account since the blunder, although his PwC partner Martha Ruiz shared a selfie from the red carpet with Cullinan and Michael Strahan after the accounting firm took responsibility for the error. “The Academy has launched a full-scale review of its relationship with PwC but it is very complicated,” the source said.", "The PriceWaterhouseCoopers auditors responsible for the biggest fiasco in Oscars history had previously boasted that their 83-year-old contract had never come up for tender because they \"always\" do a good job, it has emerged. Brian Cullinan, one of the only two people in the world supposed to know the Oscar winners before the ceremony, had said: “It’s such a long-term relationship that we know intricately how everything works, the timing of it, the process that we use, and they have absolute trust in us and what we do.” But that relationship could be in doubt for the first time today, after executives were seen in crisis meetings following an on-stage catastrophe in which La La Land was mistakenly...", "According to this person, the present two-auditor system — under which each holds a duplicate set of envelopes on each side of the stage — is designed not so much for safety as convenience: Presenters may enter from left or right, and the idea has been to have envelopes available on both sides. As of mid-Tuesday, officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were still reviewing Sunday night’s Oscar debacle, when La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture instead of Moonlight, and they were still considering possible fixes. Beatty mulled it, then passed it to Dunaway, who proclaimed La La Land the winner without accounting for the announcement’s mention of best actress Stone. The review, which has been a nonstop process since Sunday night, should make clear whether there was indeed a policy violation, and, if so, what might be done about it. The extra auditor would act as a fail-safe, presumably keeping anyone from handing presenters the wrong envelope, as happened to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway on Sunday. One change, according to a person familiar with the discussions, would involve stationing two auditors — from PricewaterhouseCoopers or otherwise — at each stage entrance, rather than one on each side, as was done until now. No producer halted the process by stepping on-camera or having someone in the booth call a halt." ]

[ "A music fan inspired by the recent glut of crowdfunding campaigns from Foo Fighters fans has launched his own effort to keep Nickelback from London.The Canadian band, fronted by Chad Kroeger, do not currently have any scheduled dates in the capital and Craig Mandell is hoping to keep it that way. \"Just imagine, thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers – all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London. At the time of writing he has received no funding.Meanwhile, the crowdfunding campaign to bring Foo Fighters to Cornwall has reached its target of £150,000 in just two days . He is hoping to raise $1000 (£626) in order to keep the band out of London for the foreseeable future.On the Tilt page – headed 'Don't Let Nickel Back' – Mandell, who is a friend of Andrew Goldin who successfully used the same method to bring Foo Fighters to Richmond, Virginia in September, explains his game plan. However, the organisers must now convince the band to agree to play a show in the English county. \"Those who contribute to the scheme will have an email sent on their behalf to Nickelback's management. The severity of the message in the email depends on how much money is contributed.", "Inspired by a recent Tilt campaign, that brought the Foo Fighters to Charlottesville, VA for a previously unscheduled gig, Craig Mandell has created a Tilt crowd-funding campaign to prevent Nickelback from returning to his city. A $5 donation gets you a “slightly more forceful email” while a $50 contribution “will result in an email to Nickleback with an attached mp3 of Nickelback’s music. This way, the band will hear their own music, and likely retire immediately, thereby ensuring the success of our campaign.” “Just imagine, thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers – all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London,” wrote Mandell. The campaign, titled “Don’t Let Nickel Back,” hopes to discourage the Canadian band from playing in London through a barrage of emails. “It will be glorious.” Mandell states on the page that the campaign is not for his own profit. For every $1 donated to the cause, Mandell will send one email to Nickelback. Correction appended, October 7, 2014 Nickelback doesn't have any shows scheduled in London right now, and if one man gets his way, the much-maligned band will never have any shows in London again. (h/t NME ) The original version of this story misidentified the crowd-funding platform." ]

[ "40-Year-Old Mattie: (first lines) People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to average to her father's blood. Chaney was a hired man and Papa had taken him up to Fort Smith to help lead back a string of Mustang ponies he'd bought. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band. In town, Chaney had fallen to drink and cards and lost all his money. He got it into his head he was bein' cheated and went back to the boardin' house for his Henry rifle. He could have walked his horse, for not a soul in that city could not be bothered to give chase.", "That old-time American religion of vengeance runs like a river through “True Grit,” a comic-serious tale about some nasty, brutish times. Beautifully adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen from the parodic western novel by Charles Portis, it turns on a 14-year-old Arkansas girl who hires a “one-eyed fat man” to hunt down her father’s killer. A deputy United States marshal, Rooster has attracted the interest of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld, in a terrific film debut), a half-pint who, with her bloodlust and severely braided hair, is an authentic American Gothic.", "The turning point in Tony Kaye's new movie, \"Detachment\" -- which, despite many nameable flaws, is a wrenching and powerful achievement -- comes when Lucy Liu, playing a high school guidance counselor, suffers a major breakdown in front of a student. People will either love \"Detachment\" or hate it, and either way it provides powerful testimony to the unrivaled passion and undiminished craft of director Kaye, whose notoriety in the film industry is matched by his near-total invisibility to the general public. It's probably worth it, partly because Tony Kaye still has cinematic talent to burn, but even more because of what he can do with it, even in a highly imperfect movie that uses the pointless but noble struggle of high school to stand in for lots of other pointless and noble forms of struggle, like making movies and being alive.", "Marshal Reuben (Rooster) Cogburn, a drunkard who called a mangy cat his relative and wore an eyepatch. Their latest, \"True Grit,\" adapted religiously from Charles Portis' 1968 pulp novel, is a wonderfully entertaining, beautiful Western drama that lets the quirks of the genre gallop freely as it keeps a tight rein throughout. In the Coens' fable of 1870s retribution, Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) is not a sideshow but a serious man. No matter the source — gangster noirs, cultural footnotes, Homeric journeys, Looney Tunes — they bolster new ideas with classic structure, and make the seasoned seem fresh." ]

[ "Thill said it was amazing that a group of people she mostly didn't know would go to such trouble to help when Allen asked. (Photo courtesy of Emi Yokose) Allen, his girlfriend, Emi Yokose, a couple of Los Valientes members and about a dozen Sober Soldiers followed the tow truck to the scene of the crash. \"We had to hold her up. Stevens focused his search in that spot, in the tall grass of the median just over the cable barrier. \"All of a sudden, he jumped up and said 'I found the ..." ]

[ "ABC News reports that she is listed by California Courts as a vexatious litigant for abusing the legal system. Family: Nightmare Nanny Agrees to Leave ABC Want more stories like this? Speaking to PEOPLE inside their home, the Bracamontes answered some of them.The family had posted an ad on Craigslist, and Stretton seemed like a promising candidate. But, according to the Bracamontes, the 64-year-old nanny refused to leave their home in Upland, California.Since the story became national news on Friday, Stretton, who has refused to speak to media, hasn't returned to the house. \"Under landlord/tenant laws, the Bracamontes cannot become the roommates from hell. \"The eviction process is a civil action and, in some cases, can take months to complete,\" says Cindy Bachman, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff.", "UPLAND (CBSLA.com) — The 64-year-old live-in nanny who has come under national fire for refusing to leave an Upland family’s home is speaking out for the first time. Ralph and Marcella Bracamonte hired Diane Stretton via Craigslist, offering her room and board for taking care of their three children. After the first few months, the Bracamontes said Stretton stopped working and refused to leave her room.", "The fired California nanny who wouldn't leave is blaming the weather, the media and physical disabilities as the reasons she hasn't moved out of her former employers' home, but said she will be out by July 4 - under certain conditions, according to an email she sent to her employer's lawyer. Last year, Stretton even sued her son, Michael, according to court records, and a car rental agency for property damage and personal injury in connection with a motor vehicle accident. Nanny Who Wouldn't Leave Spotted Hiding in Car at Police Station Family Stumped by Fired Live-In Nanny Who Won't Leave Nanny Who Wouldn't Leave Has Disappeared Stretton, 64, was hired by Marcella and Ralph Bracamonte in early March to help care for their three children in exchange for room and board. During Stretton's standoff with the Bracamontes, her litigious past has emerged. Stretton disappeared from the Bracamontes' house Thursday morning and was later discovered in her car outside of a police station on Friday." ]

[ "Villavicencio, who was making... (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the deportation of a New York pizza shop worker to his native Ecuador after he was arrested while making a delivery to a Brooklyn Army base. In a letter to the ICE office in New York, the Democrat said Villavicencio's \"expedited removal serves no legitimate public safety purpose and the circumstances leading to his arrest and detention raise serious legal and policy concerns.\" Legal Aid Society lawyer Jennifer WIlliams, who represents Ecuadorean restaurant worker Pablo Villavicencio, shows the Application for Stay of Deportation or Removal she filed at the offices of the Immigration... (Associated Press) Legal Aid Society lawyer Jennifer WIlliams, who represents Ecuadorean restaurant worker Pablo Villavicencio, shows the Application for Stay of Deportation or Removal she filed at the offices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in New York, Friday, June 8, 2018. A background check showed that Villavicencio had been ordered to leave the United States in 2010, but stayed.", "/ Updated By Phil Helsel Lawyers say they’ve won an emergency stay blocking the deportation of an Ecuadorean man who was turned over to immigration officials after making a pizza delivery to an Army base in New York. \"The circumstances of this case, including the arrest and detention of Mr. Villavicencio and the remarkable speed with which it appears he is being removed, reflects a pattern of conduct which I have previously raised with ICE as unconscionable and seemingly targeted directly at New York residents,\" Cuomo said in the letter. The case has sparked outrage from his family and local officials.", "(CNN) A federal court temporarily blocked a pizza delivery man's deportation one week after he was turned over to immigration officials while trying to drop off food at a military base in New York. He had been to the base 'many times,' attorney says Villavicencio's potential deportation triggered a national response and fear in immigrant communities. 'Our immigrant communities are threatened' In response to Villavicencio's arrest, New York Gov. Cuomo wrote a letter Saturday to Thomas Decker, field office director of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Enforcement, explaining that Villavicencio has been a resident of New York for more than 10 years and is a working father, taxpayer and the primary provider for his wife and children, one of whom has a serious medical condition." ]

[ "Unfortunately, Laura Linney doesn't come across as a dying woman struggling to save her own life so much as a really dorky PTA mom dressed up as a clown in order to bring a little cheer to the children's cancer ward. And by the end of the third episode, we understand exactly what we're going to see, over and over again, throughout the course of the first season: Beleaguered, denial-plagued smiley mom, man-child husband, insolent son, angry shut-in neighbor, angry overweight girl (played by Gabourey Sidibe from \"Precious\") trying to diet, angry radical brother. You've got Laura Linney, an actress who has been easy to love ever since she charmed the world as Mark Ruffalo's weary older sister in \"You Can Count On Me.\" Cathy's plucky, to-hell-with-it approach should be moving, but instead it comes off with all of the grace and ease of a grizzly bear in a ballerina skirt. Having just been diagnosed with Stage IV melanoma, Cathy (Linney) is haunted by the specter of approaching death, yes, but she's also super-determined to do a goofy little dance and spray a little water out of her flower lapel into some poor leukemia patient's eye.", "The high school teacher hero of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” has cancer, but even there, the action is less about his struggle with his disease than about his decision to start a rollicking life of crime as a meth dealer. Those who die on crime series like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” do so to help — or hurt — the ones left standing. Even “Dexter,” a Showtime series about a serial killer who preys, vigilante-style, on serial killers, examines an engaging psychopath’s fixation on crime and punishment, not extinction. Photo On “The Big C” Ms. Linney’s Cathy is almost refreshingly ordinary — a Minneapolis schoolteacher with a husband and child and a dull but comfortable life. It is a tribute to Ms. Linney’s talent — and her body of work in movies like “Love Actually” and “The Savages” — that viewers don’t have to see for themselves that Cathy was a reserved, apologetic person before the diagnosis, the kind of dutiful worker bee who is easily silenced by stronger personalities. The story begins after Cathy has been told she has a year to live. Mr. Platt as Paul is childish and egotistical and very much like the childish and egotistical husband he played in Nicole Holofcener’s recent film, “Please Give.” Before playing crusty, solitary Marlene, Ms. Somerville played crusty, solitary May in the movie “Little Children.” Ms. Linney has the harder task of portraying the kind of reserved, reticent woman she has played in the past, but one who suddenly gets, as her brother puts it, “her weird back.” It’s a credit to the actress, and the writers, that the weirder Cathy gets, the more likable she becomes.", "Showtime has developed an alarming penchant for putting women in extreme situations and playing it for comedy, albeit of the darker variety. Traditionally, the term \"the Big C\" refers to cancer , and as the main character of Showtime 's new series by the same name has recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma , it seems a fitting title. But cancer is still dicey, hitting closer to home for many viewers than, say, split personalities ( \"United States of Tara\" ) or even drug addiction (\"Nurse Jackie. In this case, \"The Big C\" could also refer to several other things — the big concept, for instance." ]

[ "The bird was found tied to a chair outside the trailer. A loaded .22-caliber pistol was found in one of his pockets. The prosecutor said his office will await the conclusion of the autopsy and toxicology results and completion of an investigative file before presenting the case to the Meigs County grand jury. A wounded nephew killed his uncle in a shootout — apparently over a prized pet fighting rooster — early Wednesday morning at a Moore Cemetary Road mobile home near Decatur, Tenn., in Meigs County, authorities said.", "DECATUR (WATE) – A shootout in Meigs County over the alleged theft of a gamecock ended with the rooster’s owner killed and his nephew in the hospital. Investigators say Timothy Johnson had come to the home and confronted Larry Johnson about the alleged theft of his prized fighting rooster. The district attorney’s office says once all autopsy and toxicology tests are in, as well as a complete investigative file, the case will be presented to the next Meigs County Grand Jury which meets in late November. District Attorney Russell Johnson’s office says officials were called to a home on Moore Cemetery Road in Decatur just after 2 a.m. Wednesday morning for a shooting call. Larry Eugene Johnson, Jr. was inside one of two mobile homes on the property with a gunshot wound to the chest. Timothy Johnson’s family is convinced the rooster was taken by Larry." ]

[ "Challenging the state autopsy's finding of positional asphyxiation, he concluded the teen died as the result of \"unexplained, apparent non-accidental, blunt force trauma.\" Story highlights Autopsy shock: Teen's organs removed, cavity filled with newspaper \"We thought we were burying Kendrick, not half of Kendrick,\" father says Kendrick Johnson was found dead in a rolled-up gym mat in January His death was ruled accidental; a private autopsy challenged that finding The death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was awful enough for his parents. But the discovery that their son's body and skull had been stuffed with newspaper before burial added a horrific new dimension to their anguish and further fueled their skepticism of the official findings. And death scene imagery obtained exclusively by CNN has led a former FBI agent to question how Johnson died: \"I think this young man met with foul play,\" said Harold Copus, now an Atlanta private investigator.", "See more disturbing developments in the Kendrick Johnson case on 'AC360\" tonight, 8pm ET Valdosta, Georgia (CNN) -- For the local sheriff's department, the death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson is a closed book: A tragedy, but an accident. Now, death scene imagery obtained exclusively by CNN has led a former FBI agent to question how the three-sport athlete died. That's a finding his family has never accepted, and one challenged by the findings of a second autopsy they commissioned. Original story: Family demands answers in teen's death \"I don't believe this was an accident. \"In the opinion of our crime scene personnel, after looking at it closely, the blood appeared as if it'd been there for an extended period of time." ]

[ "President Obama commanded House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday to work out a budget deal or else return to the White House every day until they do. He told lawmakers to “act like grownups.” UPDATE: Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Boehner, denied that Boehner told Obama he didn't want the White House team at the meeting. In a surprise appearance in front of reporters in the briefing room, Obama said he and his team are “prepared to meet for as long as possible to get this result.” Obama announced that Boehner and Reid would meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday to talk about the budget. He said in a statement: \"The Speaker never said he didn’t want the White House there, just that he wanted to meet with Senator Reid. Speaker Boehner and Senator Reid have been having regular discussions on this topic for weeks. And he played hardball: \"The speaker apparently didn't want our team involved in that discussion. UPDATE 2: Michael Steel, another Boehner spokesman, later said in a statement: \"The Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader sat down privately and had a productive discussion.", "But there's no visible movement on an impasse over Republican policy riders attacking Obama's health care and financial reform laws, cutting taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood and reversing a host of Obama's environmental policies. On a separate long-term track, Republicans controlling the House have fashioned plans to slash the budget deficit by more than $5 trillion over the upcoming decade, combining unprecedented spending cuts with a fundamental restructuring of taxpayer-financed health care for the elderly and the poor. Ryan's program includes a controversial proposal to convert the traditional Medicare health care program for the aged into a system by which private insurers would operate plans approved by the federal government." ]

[ "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.", "\"These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. “Must be proactive & nasty!” Tara Palmeri and Cristiano Lima contributed to this report. “We have made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years,” he said in the tweet. British officials rebuked President Donald Trump on Friday for claiming that the individuals responsible for setting off explosives in the London subway had been “in the sights of” law enforcement who failed to be “proactive.” Prime Minister Theresa May reproached Trump for his rhetoric in the wake of what police are investigating as a terrorist attack that injured at least 29 people. Trump and May also spoke of the recent North Korean nuclear test, according to a U.K. readout of the conversation, \"agreeing it was a reckless provocation and that China must now use all its leverage to bring pressure to bear on the North Korean regime to ensure they change course and end these illegal tests.” Earlier on Friday Trump had followed up his tweets on the London incident with one criticizing the administration of former President Barack Obama while claiming success against fighting terrorists. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist,” Trump tweeted early Friday morning. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Trump's tweet on London attack draws ire from U.K. officials 'These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard.", "Theresa May rebuked Donald Trump over the Parsons Green Tube attack after he suggested those responsible had been “in the sights of Scotland Yard”. Mrs May called the intervention by the US president “unhelpful”, as he appeared to claim Britain needed to be “tougher” and more “proactive” in the fight against terrorism. The diplomatic row threatened to undermine the special relationship and intelligence sharing arrangements between the UK and US. Mr Trump, not for the first time, also used the attack to justify his controversial proposed travel ban on people from some predominantly Muslim countries entering the US.", "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." ]

[ "It can affect Social Security, it can affect the financial markets via contributions and withdrawals of retirement funds, and it can affect the future workforce demographics in that older workers may simply not be removing themselves from the workforce, making it impossible for younger workers to graduate or move up. It is of no surprise that the Great Recession had an impact on the retirement plans of many Americans. This is a scarier notion than improper planning — it is not having a plan at all. This is no simple report to ignore, and this can affect the future of many things in America. Here is the true issue affecting many: they are clueless about their retirement!", "The sobering statistic was one of many released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday as part of its report on the economic well-being of U.S. households, which surveyed more than 4,100 people online last year between mid-September and early October. (Correction: This story has been updated to correct that three-fourths of private sector workers with full-time jobs have access to a retirement plan.) Overall, 31 percent of people said they have zero money saved for retirement and do not have a pension. Read More: A third of consumers with credit files had debts in collections last year Americans’ checking accounts are filling with cash, but they’re afraid to spend it About 100 million Americans are now using credit unions.", "New data from the Federal Reserve highlight how many Americans continue to struggle financially more than five years after the end of the Great Recession. Americans' biggest financial concerns centered on three issues, the Fed found: retirement, education and jobs. And even with the economy seemingly on the mend, other findings from the Fed survey highlight the financial challenges many Americans still face." ]

[ "The 19-year-old \"Modern Family\" star is known for posting scantily clad photos on Instagram and Snapchat and genuinely not giving a crap about what anyone thinks. What are you doing, Ariel Winter? Think of the worst sound you've ever heard. Let's get back to talking about the 19-year-old \"Modern Family\" star's presence on social media, where she is an absolute queen. However, what's not refreshing, inspiring and empowering is the cringeworthy baby voice Ariel Winder made when she joined the \"Conan\" show Thursday night.", "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.", "But we're still at a loss in trying to find what gave people the right to make some of the remarks tweeted in response to a cast photo. The Modern Family actress attended an event for the ABC series Wednesday night, embracing the cold-shoulder trend in a gilded, embellished minidress. Ariel Winter claps back at those who hated on her gold minidress CLOSE Ariel Winter is tired of being told what to wear. Winter chose to clapback on Instagram Thursday evening, telling haters to mind their business. Though in all honesty, we didn't search too hard. \"Why TF does anyone care that I didn’t dress casual like everyone else for the panel?\"", "We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter?", "Ariel Winter has issued a statement defending the dress that she wore to Wednesday night’s Modern Family screening. “Mi Familia Moderna😍😍😍 #academypanel,” Vergara captioned a photo of the group, which she shared to Instagram. The 19-year-old actress took to social media on Thursday evening to release a fiery response to critics who questioned her wearing a full-on glam dress to the event." ]

[ "Murakami is known to be a passionate runner, fan of cats and devout supporter of Tokyo's Yakult Swallows, a perennially cellar-dwelling baseball team, and questions are likely to touch on these topics as well as literature, the spokeswoman said. \"We expect there to be some rather strange questions as well,\" she added. His most recent novel, \"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage\", was an instant bestseller that had Japanese fans queueing to buy it at a midnight release in 2013. Japanese writer Haruki Murakami receives the ''XXIII Premi Internacional Catalunya'' prize from Catalunya's Regional President Artur Mas during an awards ceremony in Barcelona, June 9, 2011.", "The scheme echoes a similar project in 2006, and offers a rare chance for Murakami’s legions of fans to communicate directly with a writer who spends much of his time hiding from the glare of the media. Murakami is one of Japan’s best known writers and has repeatedly been tipped as a future Nobel Literature laureate. This article is over 3 years old Publisher for the Japanese novelist says he will answer ‘questions of any kind’ from readers on his own website Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is to offer advice to troubled readers in an agony uncle column on his website, his publisher said Tuesday.", "The heavies blast the road or bomb the train. I want to learn the language of these trees that line my streets, dreaming upright all through the dark till light wakes in them and crows slowly make their own blacks out from the dawn. I want to make them out from the hungry waking-up of the crows in the dawn coming from the bay, like a song of the light itself. Words care-fully, like marsh waders in silvery after-dawn light as the tide comes in meandering to shore, picking their way towards us. I’m stranded in our dream of learning ceaseless ripple-waves of language I cannot quite but always almost can make out the words of. Published in the NS of 27 March 2015." ]

[ "In his address to the nation almost two weeks ago, President Obama promised to use force against the armies of Islamic State \"wherever they are,\" and he specifically mentioned Syria. Islamic State is a heinous group, a threat to U.S. interests (though not, as far as we know, to the U.S. homeland) and a threat to the rights of those in the Middle East whom it despises as infidels. But is the threat serious enough to justify an ever-escalating role for the U.S. military in Syria and Iraq? This major offensive raises questions about whether the United States (and a few Arab allies) are planning a prolonged air campaign in a country whose leadership did not invite intervention.", "The initial bombing raids on Islamic State targets in Syria Monday night mark a welcome offensive that takes the war to the terrorists who beheaded two Americans and threaten U.S. interests in the Middle East and security at home. President Obama says this will be a long campaign, and it will need to be given the limitations he has put on the military. The immediate impetus for the first air strikes was to stop ISIS assaults on Kurdish civilians in the north of Syria while also hitting the Khorasan branch of al Qaeda that..." ]

[ "The Supreme Court won't get involved in a death penalty case in which a convicted killer in Illinois complained that prosecutors focused the jury's attention on the fact that he never testified on his own behalf. The court did not comment on its action Monday to leave in place the conviction and sentence of Ronald Mikos, a foot doctor who was facing allegations of Medicare fraud. He was sentenced to death in 2005 on charges that he shot a disabled nurse and former patient, Joyce Brannon, to keep her from testifying against him. During the penalty phase, the jury said his lack of remorse contributed to the decision to sentence him to death. His lawyers said prosecutors told the jury his decision not to testify showed a lack of remorse for what he did.", "Federal prosecutors announced Friday they will seek the death penalty for a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting scholar from China in June. The death penalty was abolished in Illinois state court in 2011 after years of allegations of deep flaws in the state’s justice system. In making the announcement, prosecutors alleged for the first time that Brendt Christensen “choked and sexually assaulted” another victim in 2013 in central Illinois. jmeisner@chicagotribune.com Twitter @jmetr22b RELATED: Earlier abduction attempt reported on day Chinese scholar went missing at U. of I." ]

[ "The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans companies from paying foreign officials to get more business. “We take compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) very seriously and are committed to having a strong and effective global anti-corruption program in every country in which we operate,” David Tovar, Wal-Mart’s vice president of corporate communications, said in a statement Saturday. The law has recently been targeted by lobbyists — including an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with ties to Wal-Mart — who criticize it as too broad and bad for business. Wal-Mart de Mexico is the company’s largest foreign subsidiary.", "Stock Chart for Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB de CV (WALMEXV) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is the subject of a U.S. Justice Department criminal investigation into allegations of bribery in its Mexican subsidiary, according to a person familiar with the probe. The Times report “raises serious questions about potential violations of United States law” and “about the actions of top company officials in the United States who reportedly tried to disregard substantial evidence of abuse,” Representatives Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Henry Waxman of California, wrote in a letter to Duke. The Justice Department is investigating potential criminal charges under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to the person familiar with the probe who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it. The Times identified executive Eduardo Castro-Wright as a central figure in the expansion of the alleged payments." ]

[ "SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Police stormed a Nevada apartment after a standoff and found a Nevada couple who appeared as ghost hunters in the reality television show \"Ghost Adventures.\" The couple was featured in recent years on the Travel Channel's series, including episodes shot at the Mustang Ranch brothel east of Reno, the Goldfield Hotel and the Market Street Cinema in San Francisco. Officials weren't releasing a cause of death. A SWAT team responding to a hostage situation found their bodies when officers stormed their adult daughter's apartment near Sparks High School following an hours-long standoff on Tuesday. Mark and Debby Constantino were found dead Tuesday in a barricaded Sparks apartment.", "List of celebrities charged with domestic abuse, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. Who is the most famous person charged with domestic abuse? Share your thoughts in the comments section and tell us how you feel about celebrity wife beaters and if their relationships are worth saving despite abusive partners. Do you think that drugs and alcohol are factors in so many celebrities being charged with domestic violence? Some famous ladies have also been charged with domestic abuse. Emmy award winners, Oscar winners, and World Series MVPs have all been arrested for domestic violence.", "SWAT teams from both Reno and Sparks police surrounded the Courtside Gardens Apartment, evacuated the complex and put it on lockdown. The incident started at 6:30 a.m. when Reno police received a call of a man found dead at a home in the 2300 block of Escalera Court in northwest Reno. The name of the male roommate found in the northwest Reno home was not immediately released. The couple were found inside their daughter’s apartment at 1100 15th Street, near Sparks High School." ]

[ "Depending on your depth of feeling about Whitney Houston, the Motown-era musical “Sparkle” will either feel like a fond (and sometimes cringe-inducing) farewell to an old friend, or a wholly unremarkable entry in the already overcrowded star-is-born genre. As the group, Sister and the Sisters, begins to make a name for itself, the film briefly takes off with a series of lively performances; Ejogo is a particularly dynamic and gorgeous singer, and all three young actresses wear the increasingly glam period outfits well. They try to make it as a girl group in the burgeoning Detroit Motown scene of 1968 (updated from the setting of the original, 1950s Harlem). PHOTOS: DEAD MOVIE STARS The remake of a 1976 film starring a young Irene Cara, it’s the story of three sisters, Sparkle (“American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks), Sister (British actress Carmen Ejogo) and Dolores (Tika Sumpter, a real pistol who should have gotten more screen time).", "Whitney Houston deserved better than to go out onscreen with this botch job remake of a 1976 soap opera that never deserved another thought. Hell, Dreamgirls did a better job of fictionalizing the story of the Supremes into a viable musical. The new Sparkle is a formula job from scene one to dead end. Set in Detroit in the late 1960s with Motown in flower, Sparkle casts Houston as the domineering mother of three daughters who form a girl group behind mama's back. Sister (Carmen Ejogo) is the troubled bombshell who fronts the group, called – ready for it? In a movie that feels fake to its core, Houston is the genuine article.", "Houston plays the disapproving mother of a daughter who longs to make it big as a singer; in a role that plays like a cautionary mirror version of Houston’s own fatal battles, she warns against the depredations of an entertainment industry that indulges and exploits young talent just as intently as it nurtures it. While “Sparkle” doesn’t give the audience a lasting memory of Houston’s voice at its most soaring, it does manage to provide a lingering sense of loss, mixed with celebration and grim irony. A re-make of the beloved 1976 musical starring Irene Cara (and, not incidentally, featuring the music of Curtis Mayfield), the updated version will forever be known the final screen appearance of Whitney Houston, who died in February during post-production. Ann Hornaday reviews 'Sparkle' By Ann Hornaday Friday, August 17, 2012 A sudsy, eye-catching bauble that should have been a pop-infused piece of escapism but instead turned into an unwitting elegy, “Sparkle” arrives freighted with more than its share of expectations.", "Instead, the movie is a showcase vehicle for a new generation of young actress-hyphen-singers, led, at least titularly speaking, by American Idol champ Jordin Sparks. or even The Doors will find themselves in familiar (if inferior) territory here, complete with all the giddy hallmarks of the late '60s music-group-on-the-rise sub-genre – musical montages with loads of hair and outfit changes, a front wo/man who's gotten too big for their go-go boots, and that scene where the big shot record producer struts into the dressing room to tell the young hopefuls that they've got what it takes. Anyone who has seen Dream Girls, What's Love Got To Do With It? There is Sister (the sexy one, played by Carmen Ejogo), Dolores (the smart one, played by Tika Sumpter) and Sparkle (the talented, virginal songwriter with a dream, played by first time actor Sparks). 1.5 out of 4 stars Title Sparkle Written by Mara Brock Akil and Howard Rosenman Directed by Salim Akil Starring Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo, Whitney Houston Classification PG Country USA Language English Sparkle is a story about the transformative power of music, the dark side of fame and a young church choirgirl with a dream… can you see how it might be hard to talk about the movie outside of the context of Whitney Houston's death? Story continues below advertisement In the Andrews household a girl either sticks to her Bible-studies or winds up poor, pregnant and alone, as was the fate of the family matriarch (Houston as Emma)." ]