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Rhode Island gubernatorial, attorney general candidates arrested with 48 pounds of marijuana

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A pair of Rhode Island political hopefuls, who aspired to be The Ocean State's governor and attorney general, was arrested Thursday after police allegedly uncovered 48 pounds of illegal marijuana in the duo's West Greenwich home.

State police said they arrested Anne Armstrong, 58, and Alan Gordon, 48 -- the Compassion Party's candidates for governor and attorney general, respectively -- after a search at the pair's home uncovered nearly 50 pounds of marijuana.

"On way to the Wickford barracks under arrest for cannabis again," Armstrong tweeted Thursday morning from what appeared to be the back of a police cruiser. "I guess our poll numbers were high enough to scare them into committing an atrocity. Pray for our police."

Officials said they searched the pair's home after receiving a complaint of a "strong odor of marijuana emanating from marijuana plants being illegally grown outdoors."

Police said they found marijuana "growing outdoors and in plain sight" without the state-issued tags required for growing medical marijuana, the Providence Journal reported.

Inside the home, police found at least five large aluminum trays heaped with trimmed pot. Other trays also held drying marijuana, the Journal reported.

A 15-year-old child was inside the home at the time of the arrests, police said.

The pair, who are leaders of a Christian sect - The Healing Church - that uses marijuana for religious services, appeared in court Thursday afternoon. They did not enter pleas on charges of marijuana possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

They were ordered held on $25,000 bail.

According to the Providence Journal, the pair's stance on marijuana has sparked previous run-ins with police. In one lawsuit filed against the state, Armstrong and Gordon claim the enforcement of state marijuana laws against them amounts to religious discrimination and violates the U.S. Constitution.

They also argue the term "marijuana" is racist and prefer the word "cannabis."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A pair of Rhode Island political hopefuls, who aspired to be The Ocean State's governor and attorney general, was arrested Thursday after police allegedly uncovered 48 pounds of illegal marijuana in the duo's West Greenwich home.

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What we're covering here
What we're covering here

The Kavanaugh FBI investigation: The FBI has launched an investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

The vote timing: We're not exactly sure when the Senate will vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised a vote this week. We'll keep you posted here when we know more.

The court: A short-handed Supreme Court will took the bench on Monday to gavel in a term that has been totally eclipsed by the raging battle over the Kavanaugh confirmation.

A 1985 altercation in a Connecticut bar that allegedly involved Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh led to the arrest of one of his close friends at Yale, a copy of an unredacted police report on the incident provided to CNN shows.

In the New Haven, Connecticut, police department report, a man named Dom Cozzolino said Kavanaugh had thrown ice on him and Kavanaugh's friend Chris Dudley had thrown a glass that hit him in the ear.

Dudley denied the allegations, according to the police report, "and Mr. Kavanaugh didn't (want) to say if he threw the ice or not. "

A newly obtained unredacted version of the report states Dudley "was transported to Union Ave detention facility by prisoner conveyance..." and a large "A" on the report indicates Dudley was arrested, according to New Haven's police chief Anthony Campbell.

It's not known whether Dudley was ever charged with a crime.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski - seen as one of the Republicans who will make or break Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation - said she has been assured by White House Counsel Don McGahn that this will be a thorough background check.

She did not answer a question about whether she would be OK with moving forward to a possible vote on Friday if there's no FBI report by then.

"The FBI doing their investigation - we need them to do their investigation. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to wait and see what they find," she said. "I've been assured is that they're conducting their background investigation as they do all background investigation."

CNN asked her if the FBI should investigate whether Kavanaugh lied to Congress about his antics in college. She said...
Watch more:

Sen. Joe Manchin, a swing Democratic vote, declined to say much about Brett Kavanaugh this morning when questioned by reporters on Capitol Hill - but he did signal that the FBI investigation will be central to his vote.

"I was one of the ones coming out of the shoot calling for an investigation. It would be hypocritical to make any statement until the investigation is over," he said.

He added: "I'll wait until the investigation is done and I'll make a decision."

Christine Blasey Ford has still not heard from the FBI as of this morning, according to Ford's team.

On Friday, Sen. Jeff Flake called for an FBI investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, ultimately spurring the White House to order the extra background check. Republicans said it should take no longer than one week.

Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters that he thinks that some senators have their minds made up on Brett Kavanaugh regardless of the process investigation.

"This really isn't what I would call a fair process. People have already made up their minds, and now they're just trying to defeat the nomination by any means whatsoever, including an orchestrated smear campaign against the judge. We've really hit a new low in judicial nominations and that's really saying something," he said.

Cornyn didn't know when the floor vote would take place.

CNN also asked him about the New York Times reporting about the 1985 bar fight.

"The way I saw it, apparently there was an incident involving ice," Cornyn said. "That strikes me about as serious as cross-examining him about his high school yearbook. This has gotten pretty ridiculous."

Barbara Van Gelder, lawyer for Mark Judge, tells CNN that the FBI has completed its interview of Mark Judge.

What you need to know about Judge: Judge is a former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault. Christine Blasey Ford claims Kavanaugh sexually and physically assaulted her while they were at a party during their high school years, and has said Judge was also in the room.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations, as has Judge.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, repeated his promise for a vote this week.

McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, vowed to take a vote this week.
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Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said he has no status update today on the FBI investigation.

Grassley did not know if a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination would happen this week, saying that he doesn't "run that show" and it's up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Grassley would not weigh in on the scope of the investigation, pointing to all the politicization that the FBI has been accused of in the past few years. Here's what he said:

"I don't think I should question what the FBI is doing because it would raise the question of political interference and I don't think we should expect the FBI to respond to political interference. In fact, just the opposite. You've heard all sorts of instances over the last two or three years where there's been political influence in the FBI and we've been investigation it because we want it to stop."

The man who has been named as a witness to the alleged incident between Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and professor Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s has been interviewed by the FBI, according to the man's lawyer.

In a statement on Monday, Mark Judge's lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder, said:

Judge is a former classmate of Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault. Ford claims Kavanaugh sexually and physically assaulted her while they were at a party during their high school years, and has said Judge was also in the room.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations, as has Judge.

What we're covering here

The Kavanaugh FBI investigation: The FBI has launched an investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

The vote timing: We're not exactly sure when the Senate will vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised a vote this week. We'll keep you posted here when we know more.

The court: A short-handed Supreme Court will took the bench on Monday to gavel in a term that has been totally eclipsed by the raging battle over the Kavanaugh confirmation.

A 1985 altercation in a Connecticut bar that allegedly involved Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh led to the arrest of one of his close friends at Yale, a copy of an unredacted police report on the incident provided to CNN shows.

In the New Haven, Connecticut, police department report, a man named Dom Cozzolino said Kavanaugh had thrown ice on him and Kavanaugh's friend Chris Dudley had thrown a glass that hit him in the ear.

Dudley denied the allegations, according to the police report, "and Mr. Kavanaugh didn't (want) to say if he threw the ice or not. "

A newly obtained unredacted version of the report states Dudley "was transported to Union Ave detention facility by prisoner conveyance..." and a large "A" on the report indicates Dudley was arrested, according to New Haven's police chief Anthony Campbell.

It's not known whether Dudley was ever charged with a crime.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski - seen as one of the Republicans who will make or break Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation - said she has been assured by White House Counsel Don McGahn that this will be a thorough background check.

She did not answer a question about whether she would be OK with moving forward to a possible vote on Friday if there's no FBI report by then.

"The FBI doing their investigation - we need them to do their investigation. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to wait and see what they find," she said. "I've been assured is that they're conducting their background investigation as they do all background investigation."

CNN asked her if the FBI should investigate whether Kavanaugh lied to Congress about his antics in college. She said...
Watch more:

Sen. Joe Manchin, a swing Democratic vote, declined to say much about Brett Kavanaugh this morning when questioned by reporters on Capitol Hill - but he did signal that the FBI investigation will be central to his vote.

"I was one of the ones coming out of the shoot calling for an investigation. It would be hypocritical to make any statement until the investigation is over," he said.

He added: "I'll wait until the investigation is done and I'll make a decision."

Christine Blasey Ford has still not heard from the FBI as of this morning, according to Ford's team.

On Friday, Sen. Jeff Flake called for an FBI investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, ultimately spurring the White House to order the extra background check. Republicans said it should take no longer than one week.

Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters that he thinks that some senators have their minds made up on Brett Kavanaugh regardless of the process investigation.

"This really isn't what I would call a fair process. People have already made up their minds, and now they're just trying to defeat the nomination by any means whatsoever, including an orchestrated smear campaign against the judge. We've really hit a new low in judicial nominations and that's really saying something," he said.

Cornyn didn't know when the floor vote would take place.

CNN also asked him about the New York Times reporting about the 1985 bar fight.

"The way I saw it, apparently there was an incident involving ice," Cornyn said. "That strikes me about as serious as cross-examining him about his high school yearbook. This has gotten pretty ridiculous."

Barbara Van Gelder, lawyer for Mark Judge, tells CNN that the FBI has completed its interview of Mark Judge.

What you need to know about Judge: Judge is a former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault. Christine Blasey Ford claims Kavanaugh sexually and physically assaulted her while they were at a party during their high school years, and has said Judge was also in the room.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations, as has Judge.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, repeated his promise for a vote this week.

McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, vowed to take a vote this week.
Watch more:

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said he has no status update today on the FBI investigation.

Grassley did not know if a vote on Kavanaugh's nomination would happen this week, saying that he doesn't "run that show" and it's up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Grassley would not weigh in on the scope of the investigation, pointing to all the politicization that the FBI has been accused of in the past few years. Here's what he said:

"I don't think I should question what the FBI is doing because it would raise the question of political interference and I don't think we should expect the FBI to respond to political interference. In fact, just the opposite. You've heard all sorts of instances over the last two or three years where there's been political influence in the FBI and we've been investigation it because we want it to stop."

The man who has been named as a witness to the alleged incident between Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and professor Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s has been interviewed by the FBI, according to the man's lawyer.

In a statement on Monday, Mark Judge's lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder, said:

Judge is a former classmate of Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault. Ford claims Kavanaugh sexually and physically assaulted her while they were at a party during their high school years, and has said Judge was also in the room.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations, as has Judge.

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Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were arrested in Kavanaugh protests

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As we all know it, rappers like to diss each other all the time. Recently Nicki Minaj and Cardi B got into a fight at a party? So what was the result? An explosion of memes about Cardi as well as Nicki's decision to sell merchandise shading Cardi from past quotes.

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Cardi B is helping to make Nicki Minaj some cash. Minaj is selling merchandise inscribed with the words "Nicki stopped my bag," a nod to what her rival said after a run-in between the two rappers.

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A Louisiana high school boy took a leap of faith, asking a close friend to the homecoming dance.

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GRAY, La. -- A Louisiana high school boy took a leap of faith, asking a close friend to the homecoming dance. Unfortunately, the proposal didn't end so well with a video gaining thousands of views on Facebook of kids laughing at him.

Sophomore Dakota Nelton goes to school at H.L. Bourgeois in Gray, Lousiana, and says the school is supposed to stand for bravery, care, and happiness. But when Dakota did a scary thing and asked a girl to be his first date ever to the homecoming dance, he was devastated.

"It was actually a pretty tough moment standing in a small circle with that one shake of the head and you just got to find your way out of that circle. It's hesitating," Dakota told WGNO.

It's a video that is gaining thousands of views on Facebook, a homecoming proposal gone wrong, the girl saying no, the laughs of dozens of kids looking on, even stepping on his poster he made himself.

"That's what made me walk away. I didn't want to be a part of it," Dakota said.

The next Monday, something extraordinary happened.

"We're going to make sure he dances, like we're going to make sure he is on the dance floor dancing."

It came from an unexpected group in the school.

"Let's get a group of girls together and ask him to show him that he's loved and worthy and deserves to be going to homecoming with somebody," Alyssa Buckley said. Thirteen girls, including cheerleaders, held up posters and proposed to Dakota to ask him to go to the homecoming dance.

"I felt like one of the popular kids in school which I'm really not," Dakota says. He now knows that he does have friends that have bravery, care, and happiness.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month which is the reason why the girls wanted to do something. The dance is in early October.

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13 girls ask high school boy to homecoming after he was turned down, laughed at on video

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GRAY, La. -- A Louisiana high school boy took a leap of faith, asking a close friend to the homecoming dance. Unfortunately, the proposal didn't end so well with a video gaining thousands of views on Facebook of kids laughing at him. Sophomore Dakota Nelton goes to school at H.L.

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Hairstylist seen in video kicking pro-life demonstrator loses job, may face charges

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A woman yelled at two native Spanish-speakers telling them to "stop speaking Spanish" causing a big scene in a store.

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A woman was arrested Monday after she was caught on video shouting at two Spanish-speaking shoppers at a Colorado grocery store before being confronted by another angry customer.

Authorities charged Linda Dwire with harassment. She later posted bond, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office told Fox News.

Police did not provide further details on the arrest, but a now-viral video of the confrontation appears to show Dwire and another shopper, identified as Kamira Trent, in a verbal confrontation at City Market grocery store in Rifle.

Before the argument, Dwire told two shoppers from Mexico to stop speaking Spanish, one of the women, Fabiola Velasquez, claimed on Facebook. Velasquez posted the video online and said Dwire approached her and her friend and said because they live in the U.S. they can only speak English.

"I never thought this would happen to me," Velasquez wrote on social media in Spanish, adding that Trent jumped in and defended them.

Velasquez told BuzzFeed News she was with her friend Isabel Marin when Dwire became aggressive and put her hand in her face. She said she was at the store with her two daughters and son.

Velasquez's video - which has been viewed more than 721,000 times as of Thursday - did not capture the initial confrontation, but caught the shouting match between Dwire and Trent.

"I'm calling the cops. You leave these women alone. Get out," Trent is heard yelling at Dwire.

Dwire shouts back, "You come from a generation that's destroying this country."

"No I do not. I have respect. You do not harass people," Trent responds.

"You will lose your country. You know what, you will lose this country," Dwire says while pointing her finger at Trent.

"You do not harass Hispanic women!" Trent says while walking toward the front of the store with Dwire.

Trent said she overheard Dwire telling the women: "You're in America. You're in my country. You can't speak Spanish here. You need to speak English if you're going to be in America."

"She just got angrier and angrier. I was trying to get her away from the two women, but she wasn't going to leave them alone," Trent told the news site. "What she said and the way she said it was wrong."

Dwire told BuzzFeed News she wasn't a racist and denied harassing the women.

"It has nothing to do with race. It's a patriotic thing," Dwire said. "When people come to my country, they need to love it enough to speak English."

"[Immigrants] rather have their country here. I don't mind them coming [to the U.S.] as long as they want to be an American and not go on our welfare system," Dwire said. "When there are so many people that they don't learn English, that's what divides our country."

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A former Nazi guard at the Stutthof concentration camp is set to go on trial in germany on charges of acessory to murder for serving at the camp. The 94-yeat-old, who hasn't been indentified due to German privacy laws, is acused of working as a guard in the camp from 1942 to 1944.

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A former SS guard is going on trial next month in Germany on charges of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp.

The 94-year-old, who hasn't been identified due to German privacy laws, is being tried in juvenile court because he was under the age of 21 at the time of his alleged crimes, Dortmund prosecutor Andreas Brendel said Friday.

The former SS Sturmmann, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Army rank of specialist, is accused of working as a guard in the camp, east of Danzig, which is today the Polish city of Gdansk, from June 1942 to about the beginning of September 1944.

Though there is no specific evidence linking him to a specific crime at the camp, more than 60,000 people were killed in Stutthof and prosecutors argue that as a guard, he was an accessory to at least hundreds of the deaths.

Stutthof prisoners were killed in a gas chamber, with deadly injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts, shot, starved and even forced outside in winter without clothes until they died of exposure.

"As a guard he was necessarily informed about these killings," Brendel said. "And it is our contention that the camp was not so large that he couldn't look around from a watch tower and see clearly what was happening there."

The suspect admits serving at Stutthof, but told investigators he was unaware of the killings and did not participate, Brendel said.

Prosecutors argue that participating in the Nazi machinery of destruction is itself enough to be found guilty of accessory to murder.

The legal reasoning was first used successfully against former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk in 2011. Demjanjuk was convicted in Munich on allegations he served as a Sobibor death camp guard, which he denied. He died before his appeal could be heard.

The 2015 conviction of former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening using the same argument, however, was upheld the following year by Germany's top criminal court on appeal, cementing the precedent.

The Stutthof case is the first time a prosecution is going to trial using this line of reasoning for a concentration camp guard instead of a death camp guard. Brendel said the evidence had parallels, however, to the case against Groening who primarily served outside the part of Auschwitz where the mass killings took place.

"In a death camp like Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, proving the main crime (of murder) is somewhat easier than in a concentration camp, but a lot of killings also occurred in concentration camps," he said.

The expansion of the precedent is only one factor that makes the trial, opening Nov. 6 in Muenster, significant, according to Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

"The other point is that Stutthof is not a very well-known camp but tens of thousands of people died there," he said.

"It's very important not only for the survivors, for whom this is a small degree of closure at the end of their lives, but for their descendants and relatives."

Stutthof was established in 1939 and underwent several iterations, initially being used as the main collection point for Jews and non-Jewish Poles removed from the nearby city of Danzig on the Baltic Sea coast.

From about 1940 onward it was used as a so-called "work education camp" where forced laborers, primarily Polish and Soviet citizens who had run afoul of their Nazi oppressors, were sent to serve sentences and often died. Others incarcerated there included career criminals, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses.

From mid-1944, it was filled with tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos being cleared by the Nazis in the Baltics as well as from Auschwitz, which was overflowing, and thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw uprising.

Survivors of the camp will be called as witnesses at the trial and have also joined as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law, Brendel said. None remember the suspect specifically, but will testify in general about the operation of the camp.

Family members of prisoners killed in Stutthof will also join as co-plaintiffs.

The Wiesenthal Center located 17 Stutthof survivors for the case - 15 living in Israel, one in the U.S. and one in Sweden, Zuroff said.

"One woman said she remembered the guards as being incredibly cruel, even worse than Auschwitz," Zuroff said.

The suspect is one of two former Stutthof guards under investigation by the Dortmund prosecutors' office. The second is alleged to have served there from June 1944 to May 1945.

Though their times overlap, the two cases have been separated because there are lingering questions about whether the health of the second suspect is good enough for him to stand trial, Brendel said.

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A former SS guard is going on trial next month in Germany on charges of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp. The 94-year-old, who hasn't been identified due to German privacy laws, is being tried in juvenile court because he was under the age of 21 at the time of his alleged crimes, Dortmund prosecutor Andreas Brendel said Friday.

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A Utah family saving money to pay off a debt had all their hard earned money destroyed by their 2-year old toddler

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The mystery of more than $1,000 that disappeared from a Utah family was solved when they discovered the money in pieces in the home's shredder, and found the culprit was their 2-year-old son.

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2 US Astronauts and a Russian Cosmonaut returned from the ISS (International Space Station) after being off of Earth for about 200 days.

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Crew members from the International Space Station have returned to earth after spending nearly 200 days off the planet. Once their module separated from the space station, it took nearly four hours to descend to the earth's surface. The pod, containing a Russian Cosmonaut and two American astronauts, touched down hard on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

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A driver in Berlin, Germany hit a group of people outside of a cafe. The driver had health problem and it looks like it wasn't a act of terrorism with no other intention.

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A car crashed into a group of people outside a cafe in Berlin on Friday, injuring at least five, German authorities said.

The driver of the car appears to have had health problems, police said. They said there was no indication that it was a terror attack or that the driver otherwise acted intentionally, news agency dpa reported.

The incident happened in the city's western Charlottenburg district. The car drove onto the pavement, hitting several people who were standing or sitting outside a cafe, and also hitting walls and a van.

At least two people had to be taken to a hospital with serious injuries. They included the driver, who police said may have suffered from a heart attack or stroke, or fainted.

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The president of Interpol has been reported missing after he traveled to his native country (China) at the end of September.

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A French judicial official says the president of Interpol has been reported missing after traveling to China.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for an ongoing investigation, said Meng Hongwei's wife reported him missing on Friday.

The official said the Interpol chief left France, where the international police organization is based, and arrived in China at the end of September. She said there had been no news of him since.

The 64-year-old Meng Hongwei was elected president of Interpol in November 2016. His term is due to run until 2020.

A vice minister of public security in China, he previously served as vice chairman of the national narcotics control commission and director of the National Counter-Terrorism Office for China.

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Many people were detained at the Kavanaugh protest, including actresses Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski.

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A man has recently been arrested after making threats to kill any of the Democrats or "weak" Republicans who vote no to Brett Kavanaugh

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Daily Mail 4 hrs ago Khaleda Rahman For Dailymail.com

A man in Florida has been arrested after he threatened to shoot senators who don't support Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, authorities said.

James Royal Patrick Jr. was arrested at 4pm on Wednesday and charged with making written threats to kill or injure, Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

Investigators say they received an email tip at 11am that day about threatening posts Patrick, 53, made on this public Facebook page last month.

Authorities said that Patrick threatened to shoot members of Congress and their families depending on which way the confirmation vote went.

He also made threats against any local and federal law enforcement officers that might respond to his home.

Besides threatening Democrats and 'weak Republicans' who might oppose Kavanaugh, Patrick also encouraged conservatives to break into liberals' homes and kill them in their sleep.

'Getting ready if Kav is not confirmed....whoever I think is to blame may God have mercy on their soul,' he said in one post on September 22.

'I expect to be confronted and I will be ready to kill and ready to die.'

'I can tell it seems I will be sacrificing my life for my country,' he said in another post on September 27.

'But I am ready and will know who needs to be killed after the vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.

'I believe democrats need to be afraid to do what they are doing right now and weak republicans that do not vote for him need to pay with their lives.'

In another, he said: 'I can't do this by myself! Need more conservatives going into liberals' homes at night killing them in their sleep!'

In other posts, he claimed he was selling his house and had made arrangements for his pets because 'I know I will not be coming home.'

'I am about to accept an offer on my house just to get more money to fund my plan to kill Democrat office holders and their families,' he wrote in one post.

'It is all I think about night and day. I even wake up in the middle of the night, most nights, thinking about it. Ultimately I will be killed but hopefully I will have killed many many liberal [sic] elected in Washington.'

In another, he claimed: 'Just bought 12 boxes of hollow point 50 caliber bullets....have plenty of ammo for my sniper rifle and bought a suppressor.'

'Have made sure all my arrangements have been made and care for my dogs because I will not be coming home.

'Have made extra precautions and added more supplies in the tunnel under my house in case local or federal law enforcement tries to stop me.'

Authorities noted there are no tunnels under his house.

Patrick's Facebook page also contained photos of him, along with photos of guns and ammunition. He has also shared posts supportive of President Donald Trump.

Deputies say they found a rifle and handgun during a search of Patrick's home in Winter Haven as well as ammunition for both.

They also found numerous receipts from local gun shops and several used targets.

Patrick admitted to making the Facebook posts but denied plans to carry out the threats, investigators said.

He said he wanted to annoy liberals by making 'crazy statements' and because he didn't threaten anyone by name, he 'thought he could get away with it.'

Sheriff Grady Judd said: 'Within five hours of receiving an email tip about the posts, our detectives investigated it, obtained an arrest warrant and search warrant, and took the suspect into custody without incident.

'People need to calm down, and stop making threats of violence - we will not tolerate it.

'Anyone who threatens to kill a public officer or law enforcement officer will go to jail.'

Patrick was being held on $500,000 bail. Jail records didn't list an attorney who could comment.

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Trump supporter, 53, is charged after 'making threats to kill' Democrat senators and 'weak' Republicans if they vote against Brett Kavanaugh

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Daily Mail 4 hrs ago Khaleda Rahman For Dailymail.com A man in Florida has been arrested after he threatened to shoot senators who don't support Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, authorities said. James Royal Patrick Jr. was arrested at 4pm on Wednesday and charged with making written threats to kill or injure, Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

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The unemployment rate fell to 3.7% in September, the lowest level since December 1969.

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The Milwaukee Brewers avoided a late disaster to escape Game 1 of the National League Division Series with a 3-2 win in 10 innings over the Colorado Rockies.

Christian Yelich started the scoring with a two-run homer in the bottom of the third inning. He also worked a walk in the bottom of the 10th after falling behind 0-2 against Adam Ottavino, took second on a wild pitch and scored the winning run on Mike Moustakas' walk-off RBI single.

Milwaukee closer Jeremy Jeffress, who was dealing with neck spasms last week and wasn't available during the NL Central tiebreaker against the Chicago Cubs on Monday, looked rusty in his first appearance since Sept. 29.

The Rockies tied the game with two runs on three hits against Jeffress in the ninth. They seemed set for a bigger inning when Charlie Blackmon was initially awarded a ground-rule double that scored one run and put runners on second and third with no outs.

Replay showed the ball hit just to the right side of the chalk, resulting in a foul ball:

Blackmon eventually hit an RBI single to get Colorado on the board, which was followed two batters later by Nolan Arenado's sacrifice fly to even the score.

Opting to go with a bullpen day to start the postseason,sixBrewers pitchers combined to hold the Rockies to fourhits with 12strikeouts in the win.

On the losing side, Colorado's pitching did everything possible to keep the game close. Starter Antonio Senzatela's homer to Yelich was his only real blemish. The 23-year-old allowed three hits and two walks over five innings.
Christian Yelich's Red-Hot Hitting Will Carry Brewers Offense
Yelich has been playing at a high level all season, but he's been particularly locked in down the stretch.

Since Sept. 3-the day Milwaukee began play five games behind the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central-Yelich has gone 32-for-84 with 10 home runs, 31 RBI, 23 walks and 16 strikeouts in 26 games.

Going back a little further, Yelich has been directly responsible for nearly one-third of all the runs Milwaukee has scored since the start of September:

The Brewers have quality depth in their lineup-four players hit at least 20 homers during the regular season, and Yelich and Jesus Aguilar drove in over 100 runs-so they are capable of scoring runs with anyone in the NL.

Yelich, though, is what makes the entire group work because of his ability to hit for average, power and get on base to put pressure on opposing hitters. He will carry the Brewers lineup as far as it will go in the postseason.
Deep Bullpen Makes Brewers NL's Most Dangerous Team
One day after the Oakland Athletics' bullpen experiment crashed and burned against the New York Yankees, Milwaukee showed the virtues of using a host of relievers in lieu of a traditional starter.

Brandon Woodruff, who made four starts in 19 appearances during the regular season, showed no nerves at the start of the game. The right-hander had three strikeouts over three scoreless innings.

Corey Knebel and Josh Hader did their part with four strikeouts over three hitless innings before giving way to Jeffress. Joakim Soria, who had a 3.12 ERA and 75 strikeouts over 60.2 innings during the regular season, didn't even pitch until the 10th inning.

"Everybody is rested. That's the first thing," Brewers manager Craig Counsell told reporters Wednesday of his decision to go with the bullpen in Game 1. "And I think for our team, we have-largely, we're trying to get away from what the word 'starter' and 'reliever' means. That's how we're going to get through the postseason, I think."

Jeffress had gone 11 straight appearances without giving up a run, so his struggles Thursday aren't a major concern yet.

This Brewers pitching staff is built in a similar fashion to the 2015 Kansas City Royals squad that won the World Series. Luke Hochevar, Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis logged 44 strikeouts and gave up one run over 35 innings.

Brewers relievers led the NL with 10.38 strikeouts per nine innings and ranked second with 7.1 FanGraphs wins above replacement and a 3.47 ERA.

If they can just get adequate four-inning starts from Chacin and Chase Anderson, the bullpen is more than capable of handling things the rest of the way to keep the opposition at bay.

This has been the year of the reliever in MLB, so it's fitting a Brewers team led by its bullpen would be the most dangerous in the National League.
Rockies Need Fast Fix for Offensive Issues
As impressive as Milwaukee's pitching was Thursday, the Rockies have a significant problem they need to correct if they want to make a deep October run.

Here are the Rockies' offensive numbers away from Coors Field during the regular season in 2018:

Over the last 11 road games, the Rockies have scored 26 runs and been shut out twice during that span. They've racked up four runs over 23 innings dating back to their 2-1 win against the Cubs on Tuesday.

Even though the Rockies are often known for boasting a loaded lineup, they only had three regulars with an above-average OPS+ (Blackmon, Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story). Their slugging percentage is 133 points lower on the road (.370) than at Coors (.503).

Colorado only had five at-bats with a runner in scoring position Thursday. The pitching has more than held up its end of the bargain lately, giving up three runs in the past two games.

Unless the Rockies can muster some offense when Blackmon, Arenado and Story aren't in the batter's box, they will be looking at another early playoff exit.
What's Next?
The Brewers will host the Rockies in Game 2 on Friday at 4:15 p.m. ET. Colorado will try to even the series behind Tyler Anderson (7-9, 4.55 ERA). Milwaukee will send Jhoulys Chacin (15-8, 3.50 ERA) to the mound on three days' rest after he logged 5.2 innings against the Cubs.

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Mike Moustakas Walk-Off Hit Hands Brewers Dramatic Game 1 Win vs. Rockies

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Student dies, 3 more hurt in Dallas-area school bus crash

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A 12-year-old girl was killed and three other students were injured when their school bus crashed and burst into flames in suburban Dallas Wednesday afternoon, according to school officials.

The Mesquite Independent School District says a bus carrying 42 students from Terry Middle School crashed Wednesday. A police report says the 12-year-old girl died after being trapped in the overturned bus.

TV station KXAS reports the crash happened after the rear wheels of the bus slid off the pavement and went onto a grassy slope. The driver over corrected and pulled the vehicle into on-coming traffic. The driver then turned the opposite direction to avoid the traffic, according to the report.

Mesquite police say the bus came into contact with a power line, igniting the fire. The station reports the 12-year-old's younger sister was on the bus, but said she could not reach her sister.

Aerial video shows the bus lying on its side in a ditch in Mesquite, with its roof pressed up against a power pole, the engine and much of the bus blackened by fire.

The crash is under investigation. No other vehicles were involved.

Police say one child died at the scene. Three other students, the driver and three officers were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

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A 12-year-old girl was killed and three other students were injured when their school bus crashed and burst into flames in suburban Dallas Wednesday afternoon, according to school officials. The Mesquite Independent School District says a bus carrying 42 students from Terry Middle School...

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The man accused of Doxxing South Carolina Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Orin Hatch has been arrested. The man, Jackson A. Cosko, has been charged for his crimes. He was working for Democrat Sheila Jackson when he was arrested.

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It is the 100th anniversary for the carrier pigeon that saved U.S. troops in ww1.

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In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon.

Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases of military history that display Revolutionary-era bayonets, Civil War uniforms and replicas of helicopters used in Vietnam. Upon closer inspection, one might notice the pigeon is so life-like because it has been taxidermied. It's also missing one leg.

That pigeon's name is "President Wilson" -- an unsung hero of World War I that made a daring flight to save U.S. troops exactly 100 years ago on Friday.

President Wilson was a military carrier pigeon, one of many in the U.S. Army Signal Corps that delivered messages between commanders and troops on the front lines. The pigeons were especially useful tools of communication during World War I when the telephone and telegraph were still unreliable new technologies.

According to U.S. military accounts recorded in the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the National Archives, Wilson was born in France and first assigned to the U.S. Army's newly formed Tank Corps, delivering messages to Tank Battalions commanded by Col. George S. Patton in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel.

But soon afterward, Wilson was assigned to an infantry unit conducting operations near Grandpré during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

On the morning of Oct. 5, 1918, his unit came under attack, and Wilson was dispatched to send a message that the unit needed artillery support. During the 25-mile journey, German soldiers spotted him and began firing into his flight path. (It should be noted that some accounts of Wilson's heroics place the event as occurring on Nov. 5, but multiple historians reached by ABC corroborated the Oct. 5 date.)

Wilson was hit several times, losing a leg and suffering a wound to his chest, but he managed to deliver the message in a record 25 minutes.

Surviving his wounds, Wilson was retired and sent to the U.S. Army Signal Corps Breeding and Training Center at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he would live another eleven years.

After his death, Wilson was taxidermied and presented to the Smithsonian Institution before being transferred to the custody of the U.S. Army in 2008. Now, located in the prestigious halls of the U.S. military's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Wilson serves as a reminder that these simple birds - often considered a nuisance by the general public -- were once war heroes.

Carrier pigeons were used by both the Allied and Central Powers during World War I and could even provide updates to military commanders when launched in midair from planes.

"Launched mid-mission, the birds would fly back to their coops and update ground commanders on what the pilots had observed," the National Archives wrote in a blog post in January. "Quick updates like this were essential for leaders to know what the battlefield looked like and what the enemy was doing in its own trenches."

"Tanks carried the birds in order to relay the advance of individual units. Even after the introduction of the radio, pigeons were often the easiest way to help coordinate tank units without exposing the men to dangerous fire. Without a radio set, the soldiers would have had to leave the relative safety of their tanks to relay or receive orders," the Archives said.

When the pigeons weren't in use, they were stored in mobile units, often converted horse carriages or even double-decker buses.

The birds are thought to use low-frequency sound waves to map their environments and find their way from location to location.

Another famous World War I pigeon was known as Cher Ami -- his moment of heroism came during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the fall of 1918.

The German Army surrounded elements of the 77th Division for five days, at one moment confusing the Americans as they accidentally shelled their own men in an attempt to fire at the enemy.

Messages were unable to get to U.S. commanders, so Cher Ami was released as the division's last hope. Like Wilson, Cher Ami flew through a barrage of gunfire, also sustaining injuries to his leg and chest. But he successfully delivered the message, ending the friendly fire.

The French even awarded Cher Ami the Croix de Guerre with Palm, a military decoration, for his service.

Military carrier pigeons were again used in World War II. In that war, 32 pigeons were awarded the United Kingdom's Dickin Medal for their heroic actions.

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100th anniversary of carrier pigeon's heroic flight to save US troops during WWI

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In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the cases of military history that display Revolutionary-era bayonets, Civil War uniforms and replicas of helicopters used in Vietnam.

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A man's doorstop turns out to be a meteorite that is valued to be about $100,000

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A rock used as a doorstop for the past 30 years turns out to be a meteorite valued at 100k

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A 22-pound rock that has been propping open a door in Michigan for decades turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100,000, according to Central Michigan University.

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An 8 year old girl was skipping rocks near a lake in Sweden when she found a 1,500 year old sword. She thought that the sword was a stick. When she found it it was covered in muddy clay. The father also thought that it was a stick, but once he took a closer look he saw that it was a sword. The sword was its first to be found in the area. He called and archaeologist. He said that it might have been an area of ritual and sacrifice.

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An 8-year-old girl in Sweden over the summer accidentally discovered a Viking sword estimated to be 1,500 years old, Minnesota Public Radio reported on Thursday.

Saga Vanecek, a former resident of Minneapolis, was skipping stones in a lake in Southern Sweden when she discovered the sword in "muddy clay," her father, Andy Vanecek wrote in a Facebook post.

"[S]he picked up something that I thought was a stick and held it up as Pippi Longstocking," he said.
ANCIENT 3,000-YEAR-OLD CONTAINER FOUND WITH TRACES OF OPIUM
The Vanecek's contacted an archaeologist the next day to inspect the sword. The archaeologist determined it was from the Iron Age, or roughly 1,500 years old, Andy Vanecek wrote. He said the sword is the first of "its kind ever to be found in Scandinavia."

Andy Vanecek said the family withheld their July discovery from the press because they were "afraid that if this find would go public too soon, there would be a lot of people there, perhaps destroying our possibility to find things later."

The discovery was first reported on Wednesday, which brought museum researchers to the area for inspection. Mikael Nordström who works at the Jönköping County museum in Jönköping, Sweden, said his team discovered "another prehistoric object; a brooch from around the same period as the sword."

He speculated the area could have been a "place of sacrifice."
NAKED SERVANT PAINTING REVEALED IN NEWLY-DISCOVERED ANCIENT TOMB MURAL
Another museum staff discovered a coin estimated to be from the 18th century on Wednesday, MPR reported. No other artifacts have been found.

According to MPR, the Vanecek's moved from Minneapolis to Sweden in 2017 to be closer to the maternal side of the family.

"The cool thing is that I'm a huge Minnesota Vikings fan, and this looks just like a Viking sword," Andy Vanecek told reporters.

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Girl, 8, discovers 1,500-year-old Viking sword in Swedish lake

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An 8-year-old girl in Sweden over the summer accidentally discovered a Viking sword estimated to be 1,500 years old, Minnesota Public Radio reported on Thursday. Saga Vanecek, a former resident of Minneapolis, was skipping stones in a lake in Southern Sweden when she discovered the sword in "muddy clay," her father, Andy Vanecek wrote in a Facebook post.

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NYC Mobster fatally shot in McDonalds drive-thru

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A reputed mobster, whose son was injured in an attempted hit job three months ago, was fatally shot Thursday afternoon at a McDonald's drive-thru in the Bronx while waiting for a cup of coffee, police said.

Sylvester Zottola, 71, a Bonanno crime family associate, was shot outside the fast food restaurant at around 4:45 p.m., sources told The New York Daily News. He was reportedly hit with five shots, including once in the head and three in the chest. He was also reportedly hit in the shoulder.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Law enforcement official described as a mafia-style assassination, The New York Times reported. Zottola had been pursued for months by someone who wanted him dead, and it appears that someone caught up with him, according to The Times.

Zottola had ordered a medium coffee at the drive-thru, and his car was boxed in when the gunman opened fire, sources told The New York Post.

The gunman was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt and fled the scene in a gray vehicle, police told The News.

No arrests had been made.

His son, Salvatore Zottola, 41, was injured when a gunman opened fire on him outside his Bronx home on July 11.

The July shooting was captured on surveillance video, but the younger Zottola did not cooperate with authorities and no arrests were made, sources told the Post.

Investigators believe the attack on Salvatore was intended to be a message to his father, who received his share of attempted assaults, the paper reported.

Sylvester had survived three attacks in the past year, the report said. In September 2017, an assailant clubbed him over the head near his Bronx home.

Two months later, a suspect holding a gun unsuccessfully tried to force him into a vehicle. Last December, one out three burglars ransacked his home and stabbed him in the neck, leaving him in critical condition.

Thursday was the fatal conclusion to the months of "gangland-style assaults" against Sylvester and his son, according to The Times. In the 1990s through early 2000s, the father-son team supplied and serviced Joker Poker machines to gambling hubs controlled by mobs, the paper reported, citing court documents.

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Reputed NYC mobster fatally shot at McDonald's drive-thru: reports

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A reputed mobster, whose son was injured in an attempted hit job three months ago, was fatally shot Thursday afternoon at a McDonald's drive-thru in the Bronx while waiting for a cup of coffee, police said. Sylvester Zottola, 71, a Bonanno crime family associate, was shot outside the fast food restaurant at around 4:45 p.m., sources told The New York Daily News.