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Deadliest mass shooting in US history in Las Vegas, 59 dead and 400+ injured.

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People have been making bbq for survivors of disasters. 1.7 million meal have been made for survivors.

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two teenagers were kicked of the school football team for taking a knee. The coach made the take of their uniform in front of everyone.

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12 days after the Hurricane hit only 5% of the island has power.

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Julia Kelleher, Puerto Rico's secretary of education, told CNN on Sunday that some public schools might not resume classes until October 16 because of storm damage, though decisions will be made on a regional basis.

There are 1,113 public schools and a student population of 350,000 on the island but only 400 schools have been assessed for damage, she said.

"I have come up with a target date of October 16th," Kelleher said. "We used to make system-wide decisions before, but this time we're going to allow the different regions to make their own decision as to when they can reopen."

Schools started classes August 14 but students have already missed two weeks because of Hurricane Irma, which lashed the island only days before Maria hit.

The report on schools came one day after President Trump took to Twitter to criticize the leadership of island officials, especially the mayor of San Juan.

Trump, who plans to visit the island Tuesday, criticized San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the "leadership ability" of some in Puerto Rico who "want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."

Cruz earlier had criticized the distribution of aid to the island and said federal authorities needed to do more. In addition to widespread power outages, many people have limited access to gas, cash and running water.

FEMA said Sunday it has expanded its delivery of food and water throughout Puerto Rico, though officials stressed that many people still lack the essentials.

The federal emergency agency has delivered food and water to all 79 municipalities in Puerto Rico, Alejandro De La Campa, FEMA federal coordinating officer in Puerto Rico, told reporters Sunday. He said 1 million liters of water and 1 million meals had been delivered as of Saturday.

However, he said some isolated areas of these municipalities may not have received the commodities, partly because lack of communication systems has hampered distribution efforts.

Officialsprovided an update Sunday morning on recovery efforts and the island's infrastructure:

Water. 41% of the island has potable water.

Food and water delivery. Eleven regional staging areas are open for food and water distribution but officials hope that number will grow to 25 in coming days. About half the grocery stores are operating.

Electricity. 5% of the island has power. The Army Corps of Engineers has begun a mission to repair the power grid, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said.

Gasoline. More than 710 of the island's roughly 1,110 gas stations were working as of Saturday morning, but lines were long and some stations were closing ahead of the 9 p.m. curfew.

Fuel delivery. Over the next few days, close to a million gallons of gasoline and half a million gallons of diesel fuel will arrive, the governor said. As of Sunday, 470,000 barrels of gasoline were in Puerto Rico.

Communications. 36% of people now have phone service in Puerto Rico, most in the northeast part of the island. All the island's landlines are operating but only about 11% of the cell towers are operational.

Shelters: 8,800 people remain in 139 shelters. Rossello saw this as an improvement because 500 shelters were operating 10 days ago.

Air travel. 39 passenger flights were expected on Sunday in Puerto Rico, which has a maximum efficiency of 60 flights.

Medical care. 51 of 69 hospitals are running in some capacity now, along with 46 of 48 dialysis centers.

Islanders receiving benefits under Puerto Rico's Nutrition Assistance program who have been displaced by the hurricanes can apply for benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the USDA announced Sunday. The policy will remain in effect through October 31.

Hurricane Maria struck as a category 4 storm on September 20. At least 16 people on the US commonwealth died, the government has said.

CNN's Rafael Romo, Jason Hanna, AnneClaire Stapleton and Diane Ruggiero contributed to this report.

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Julia Kelleher, Puerto Rico's secretary of education, told CNN on Sunday that some public schools might not resume classes until October 16 because of storm damage, though decisions will be made on a regional basis. There are 1,113 public schools and a student population of 350,000 on the island but only 400 schools have been assessed for damage, she said.

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O.J. Simpson apparently still felt like an inmate hours after leaving prison Sunday, according to video obtained by The Post.

"I'm in a car for the last five hours, so how do I know how it feels to be out?" the ex-con said from the back of a white SUV in Amargosa Valley, about 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas, just after 5:30 a.m., when asked by a reporter what it was like to be free after nine years in prison.

"I've been in nowhere U.S.A. for the last nine years doing nothing. Nothing has changed in my life. What do you expect?" he said.

The former NFLer and actor - who did his time in a Nevada correctional facility for a 2007 robbery - appeared startled when the cameraman approached him.

"Man, how in the ... Have y'all been ... y'all stalking me?" he stammered after taking a sip of clear liquid from a plastic bottle he's holding.

Asked where he was headed, he replied: "None of your business," moments before pleading with the shooter to leave him alone.

"God bless, take care guys," he said as he flashed a thumbs-up before repeating one last time: "Yeah, nothing's changed."

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O.J. Simpson apparently still felt like an inmate hours after leaving prison Sunday, according to video obtained by The Post. "I'm in a car for the last five hours, so how do I know how it feels to be out?"

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The US Navy pledges to defend Japan and South Korea.

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The Latest on the situation on the Korean Peninsula (all times local):

6 p.m.

The commander of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike group has told reporters in Hong Kong that his ships have an ironclad commitment to defending U.S. allies, including Japan and South Korea.

Rear Admiral Marc Dalton reiterated President Donald Trump's "resolve to use every lever available to us to convince North Korea to alter its dangerous and aggressive behavior."

He was responding to a question about Trump's combative rhetoric. On Sunday, Trump tweeted that his secretary of state was wasting time trying to start a dialogue with North Korea.

Dalton would not confirm South Korean media reports that the Reagan would head to Korean Peninsula waters. Yonhap news agency cited an unnamed South Korean defense official as saying the U.S. carrier plans to conduct exercises with South Korea's navy.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Saturday that the Trump administration is probing North Korea's willingness to talk, but Trump tweeted on Sunday that he had told Tillerson that he was wasting his time trying to negotiate.

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President Donald Trump's latest tweets on North Korea have received a muted response in South Korea, where media focused more on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's acknowledgement that the U.S. is keeping open direct communication channels with the North.

South Korea's largest daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, warned Monday that any U.S.-North Korea talks should not recognize the North as a nuclear state, or the South would be forced to seek nuclear arms too.

Tillerson made headlines on Saturday when he said in Beijing that the Trump administration is probing North Korea's willingness to talk.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted that he told Tillerson "he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man," referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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The Latest: US Navy admiral pledges to defend Japan, S.Korea

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The Latest on the situation on the Korean Peninsula (all times local): 6 p.m. The commander of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike group has told reporters in Hong Kong that his ships have an ironclad commitment to defending U.S. allies, including Japan and South Korea.

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Police have arrested four suspects for their roles in the gruesome murder, and its cover-up, of 17-year-old Ally Lee Steinfeld. His burnt remains were found outside a trailer home in Cabool, MO. One of the four suspects confessed to stabbing Ally to death.

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Police have arrested four suspects for their roles in the gruesome murder, and its cover-up, of 17-year-old Ally Lee Steinfeld.

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Harrowing stories emerge after two massive rockfalls at Yosemite's El Capitan

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Harrowing stories are emerging about two massive rockfalls at Yosemite National Park that killed one man and injured at least two others this week.

A British tourist died Wednesday while climbing the park's El Capitan monolith, and U.K. media reports quoted relatives saying the man was killed while trying to save his wife.

Another fall occurred Thursday. The wife of the man injured during that rockfall described the tense moments in which debris blanketed their vehicle and sent them and others scrambling for cover.

Rachel Evans was with her husband, Jim, who was driving, and her sister and brother-in-law when massive chunks of rock separated from El Capitan and dropped hundreds of feet to the ground below, Evans told KSEE.

"Something came through our sunroof, but we didn't know it was closed. We didn't know what had happened, but it shattered and dust just poured in," a visibly shaken Evans told the station. "So we were trying to outrun it and was like, 'Go! Let's go!' and at the same time, my husband reached up and was like, 'Oh, my head. My head," because he was bleeding profusely."

Thursday's rockfall was believed to be larger than the deadly fall the previous day.

"It could've been a lot worse," said Ken Yager, president of the Yosemite Climbing Assn., who saw the aftermath of Thursday's incident. "From what I hear, we got really lucky."

A rock the size of a golf ball could be fatal, he said, and he estimated Thursday's fall was "10 times bigger" than the colossal chunk that broke off a day earlier.

"That anybody survived, it just blows my mind," he said.

Yager was coordinating a park cleanup Thursday when he saw a dust cloud, from about a mile away, billowing from the formation. Immediately, his phone began buzzing as people tried to figure out what had happened and emergency crews rolled to the scene.

"After [Wednesday], I guarantee there's no climbers climbing near that rock," he said. "If they were, they're crazy."

A British newspaper reported that Andrew Foster, the Welsh climber killed by falling rock Wednesday, died while trying to shield his wife.

Foster's wife, Lucy, told her husband's aunt that he jumped to cover her as tons of rock came cascading down the face of El Capitan, a 3,600-foot granite monolith that attracts climbers from around the world.

In an interview published Saturday with Britain's Times newspaper, Gillian Stephens said Lucy Foster told her: "Andrew saved my life. He dived on top of me as soon as he could see what was going to happen. He saved my life."

The couple, who lived in Cardiff, Wales, described their love of the outdoors in a blog, Cam and Bear.

Dramatic photos posted on social media by witnesses showed a plume of dust billowing from the rock formation after the rockfall Wednesday. After the dust cleared, a massive white scar was left behind.

Yosemite Valley, with its steep, glacier-carved cliffs, has seen many rockfalls, though fatalities are rare. In more than a century of record-keeping, rockfalls at Yosemite have resulted in at least 17 fatalities, 85 injuries and damage to buildings, roads and trails, according to news and park reports. Most occur during periods of heavy rain, snowmelt or cold temperatures.

Geologists actively monitor the rock walls and hillsides throughout the park, officials have said.

As scientists have come to learn, the domes and arches carved into the park's famed granite cliffs are constantly moving, according to a study published last year in Nature Geoscience.

"Granite rocks, any kind of rock, is more dynamic than people realize - pieces are falling off, they're constantly changing," Yager said. "Over the course of the years, these features gradually loosen ... until one day, it's just a catastrophic release."

The dramatic rock formations were created as layers of rock peeled away from the mountainsides, like an onion. The flakes remain attached at a few points but are completely hollow in the middle.

In Yosemite, these precarious attachments - geologists call them "exfoliations" - fall at a rate of one a week, on average. Most often, they collapse because water repeatedly freezes and thaws in the cracks, destabilizing the cliffs. Sometimes they fall apart during an earthquake.

Other times, though, rockfalls happen on sunny days with no sign of rain or seismic activity. Now geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service have found a potential cause for the seemingly spontaneous rockfalls: heat.

As the temperature rises from morning to afternoon, the thin outer layer of rock moves ever so slightly away from the cliff, then returns as the evening cools.

As the cliffs inhale and exhale, so to speak, the tips of the cracks weaken. Over time, the cracks slowly open wider and the stress from the heat can prompt the rocks to fall.

Park officials have said the falls don't increase the overall dangers in the area. And climbers continued to trek through on Saturday.

Hayden Jamieson, 24, of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., told the Associated Press on Friday that he planned to head up El Capitan early Saturday.

"It's kind of an inherently dangerous sport" but Jamieson said he felt more at risk of being struck by a car on the street than from a falling slab of granite in the wilderness.

Times writer Sean Greene and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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12:15 p.m.: This article was updated with details about climbers continuing to trek El Capitan.

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A fully functional, $600,000, WW2 Tank that traveled the coast of Normandy, is angering neighbors. It apparently impedes traffic, and is a safety issue.

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A history buff in Texas shelled out some $600,000 for a fully functional World War II tank -- but now that it's parked outside his multimillion-dollar home, it's ruffling feathers in his neighborhood.

Attorney Tony Buzbee of River Oaks said he bought the tank overseas last year.

"Took a year to get here, but now it's on River Oaks Boulevard," Buzbee told KHOU Houston‏. "This particular tank landed at Normandy. It liberated Paris, and ultimately went all the way to Berlin. There's a lot of history here."

However, the homeowners association sent him a letter saying the tank "impedes traffic" and causes a "safety issue" and "serious concerns for neighbors," according to the report.

"It's not violating any ordinance, but for some people it makes the homeowners association uncomfortable," Buzbee said.

He added that he'll move the tank to his ranch in east Texas before long.

"The problem is there is no action they can take," Buzbee told KHOU 11 News Houston‏. "They can ticket it or they can try to tow it, but the truth is unless I decide to move it, it's not going anywhere."

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Texas neighborhood tense over World War II tank parked outside multimillion-dollar home

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A history buff in Texas shelled out some $600,000 for a fully functional World War II tank -- but now that it's parked outside his multimillion-dollar home, it's ruffling feathers in his neighborhood. Attorney Tony Buzbee of River Oaks said he bought the tank overseas last year.

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NFL anthem protests continue with raised fists, T-shirt slogans

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And many San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem, although some put their hands over their hearts.

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick pioneered the protests last year when he took a knee during the anthem over what he said was social and racial injustice.

As they were last week, some players' protests were met with boos from fans.

Here's a roundup of highlights from stadiums around the league.

Boos in Baltimore

Before the Baltimore Ravens took the field against Pittsburgh Steelers, the public-address announcer asked the crowd to join the Ravens organization "to pray that we as a nation embrace kindness, unity, equality, and justice for all Americans," CNN affiliate WJZ reported.

The Ravens took a knee, then stood for the playing of the National Anthem, the station reported. The crowd appeared to boo as players knelt.

Last week, fans also booed when the Dallas Cowboys, including owner Jerry Jones, took a knee before locking arms during the anthem.

The Steelers all took the field before the anthem and stood during the song. Many Steelers, including head coach Mike Tomlin and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, were shown with their hand over their hearts.

So was Steeler tackle Alejandro Villanueva, a former captain in the Army and an ex-Ranger. Last week, while the rest of his teammates remained in the locker room during the anthem, Villanueva stood in the tunnel alone with his hand over his heart.

Fists raised in Cleveland

Some players took stronger stances.

Several Cleveland Browns players held their fists high during the anthem before their game against the Cincinnati Bengals. At least one Browns fan also raised his fist in the air while those next to him saluted or held their hands over their hearts.

Bengals players were shown standing. The broadcast didn't show any players from either team kneeling.

Lynch vs. Trump

Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch was spotted walking into Sports Authority Field in Denver Sunday wearing a T-shirt that read, "EVERYBODY VS. TRUMP," according to KGO, a CNN affiliate.

Lynch later sat on the bench, as he usually does, during the playing of the National Anthem before the game with the Denver Broncos -- the only Raider to do so, according to multiple reports.

Taking a knee in London

A trio of Miami Dolphins players -- Kenny Stills, Michael Thomas and Julius Thomas -- also took a knee as the anthem played before their game against the New Orleans Saints at Wembley Stadium in London, England, according to CNN affiliate WFOR. The three players stood for the British national anthem, the station reported.

The Saints, including quarterback Drew Brees, were seen kneeling as a team before the anthem.Most Saints players stood while the anthem played, and some locked arms.

Other players kneel, sit, wear T-shirts

Several Buffalo Bills players took a knee during the anthem before the game against the Atlanta Falcons; most Bills players stood with their arms linked. The Falcons, including head coach Dan Quinn, stood with their arms linked, too.

Detroit Loins players Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Steve Longa took a knee during the anthem before playing the Minnesota Vikings. Some Lions players locked arms, as well as the entire Vikings team, according to announcer.

Before the game between the Indianapolis Colts and Seattle Seahawks, the Colts players released a statement saying the players who had previously knelt during the anthem "did not intend to disrespect our flag, our National Anthem or those who serve our country."

Rather, the players wanted to use their platform to raise awareness and talk about "about real equality, the injustices against black and brown people, police brutality, respect, unity and equal opportunity," the statement said.

"Our players are hurting, our people are hurting, our neighborhoods are hurting, and kneeling was a direct response to that hurt," the statement said.

During warmups, some Colts players, including quarterback Andrew Luck, wore black T-shirts with "WE WILL" on the front and "STAND FOR...EQUALITY, JUSTICE, UNITY, RESPECT, DIALOGUE, OPPORTUNITY" on the back.

The Colts were shown standing during the anthem with their arms linked on the TV broadcast. The broadcast showed Seattle Seahawks defensive linemen Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, and Frank Clark seated during anthem; other Seahawks were standing. Other Seahawks also sat during the anthem, a photo from CNN affiliate KIRO-TV showed.

'Stay united, not divided'

Carolina Panthers teammates Thomas Davis and Jonathan Stewart joined in prayer on the sidelines before the team's game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts, CNN affiliate WBTV reported.

Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson sported blue shoes with the words, "Stay United, Not Divided." The shoes also featured black and white hands shaking hands, WBTV reported.

Carolina Panther Julius Peppers, who remained in the locker room during the anthem before the team's game last week, was on the field for the song Sunday.

Patriots players, including quarterback Tom Brady, stood during the anthem and rested their hands on the player next to them.

Newton stood for the anthem. He later raised his fist after scoring a rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter in the 33-30 win.

"It was to signify Black Power, but more importantly, I pray every night for God to give me a pinnacle to give people hope," Newton said after the game, according to a video of his post-game press conference posted on the official Panthers site.

"I did it to ... show black pride because I am an African-American," Newton said.

Newton said he also wanted people to see "the joy... that I go out there and play with."

'Embrace your differences'

About half the members of the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem before their game against the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona, while some of those kneeling also placed their hands over their hearts. Their teammates stood behind them, with one hand over their hearts and the other on the shoulders of the kneeling players.

The 49ers issued a statement saying the demonstration was meant to show unity, love and brotherhood.

"For more than a year, members of our team have protested the oppression and social injustices still present in our society. While some may not have taken a knee or raised a fist, we have all shared the desire to influence positive change," the team said.

"Our demonstration is simply a representation of how we hope our country can also come together by putting differences aside and solving its problems," said the team, which encouraged fans to "embrace your differences, find strength in them, and come together for the good of all."

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And many San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem, although some put their hands over their hearts. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick pioneered the protests last year when he took a knee during the anthem over what he said was social and racial injustice.

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50+ killed in Las Vegas Strip massacre; suspect had 10 rifles, police say

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Story highlights

Witness: Concertgoers risked their lives to try to hold other people's wounds closed

Gunman's brother: "We're still just completely befuddled. Dumbstruck."

Stephen Paddock, who sent bullets and terror down on thousands attending a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas, had an arsenal in his 32nd-floor hotel room and at his home 80 miles away, officials said.

Police recovered 23 guns from his Las Vegas hotel room and another 19 guns from Paddock's home in Mesquite, Nevada, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said.

Authorities said Paddock killed 59 people and injured another 527 early Monday in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

In the hours after the retired accountant committed the shooting, authorities rolled out frightening new details, including the discovery of scopes on rifles at the resort and explosives at his home.

But what they couldn't explain is why the man who had never faced any notable criminal charges did it. There was no known motive late Monday.

Even Paddock's brother had no answers.

"We're still just completely befuddled. Dumbstruck," Eric Paddock said in Orlando, Florida.

Latest developments

- A team of six officers spoke with security at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where Paddock was staying, and searched the hotel floor-by-floor Sunday night before they found Paddock's room, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

- Paddock, 64, fired at the officers through the door, Lombardo said. A SWAT team broke down the door, but Paddock had already killed himself, Lombardo said.

- Authorities recovered 23 guns from Paddock's room, said Clark County NV Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo. Lombardo said several of the rifles had scopes on them.

- Another 19 firearms, along with explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition in Paddock's Mesquite, Nevada, home. The gunman apparently had smashed out two windows to increase his range of targets.

- The sheriff said a SWAT team was standing by at a house in northern Nevada. A law enforcement official confirmed the FBI is present in Reno.

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Tommy Laudani, a high school cross country runner, fights through cancer to run his final race.

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The car pulled up around in the early hours of a recent Saturday morning in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Tommy Laudani, 17, waited in the car for his friends who were running late. They didn't always come to Tommy's races, but today was his last as a high school cross country runner for Delone Catholic High School, so they wanted to be there.

Last November, Laudani wasn't feeling well. After a standout sophomore season, he could not return to form as a junior and he had a pain in his abdomen that he couldn't explain.

"My fastest time sophomore year was a 19:32 and then I was doing 22s and 23s junior year," Laudani told Runner's World over the phone. "I didn't know what was happening and my abdomen was hurting all of the time."
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After the season, he was diagnosed with a desmoplastic small round cell tumor, a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Track is his favorite sport. He loved the mile and was bummed to miss his junior season. Instead, he had two major surgeries and began chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He was not allowed to lift weights. He was allowed to run, but his endurance was altered by treatment.

Between hospital trips and treatment, there was little time for running. Even when he did run, he couldn't go full speed.

"We do a running camp in the summer and I got to a point where I nearly passed out," Laudani said. "My coach pulled me aside. He made me take pictures instead. That was pretty rough."

He could not train as much or as fast as his teammates, but he was still determined to run in the fall. After working out a plan, Laudani was allowed to run three cross country races as a senior, all taking place in the course of a week and a half. Laudani has surgery scheduled this week, so he wanted to squeeze in as many as he could.

Leading up to the events, Laudani was only partially able to practice. He'd run as much as possible and then his coaches would significantly pull him back days before the race so he'd have enough energy to complete the race and accomplish his goals.
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His goals were far off his 19:32 PR. All he wanted now was to finish and run under 40 minutes. The first race was September 7, and he was able to accomplish both of his goals with a time of 34:24.

Though proud of his performance, the slow pace and his place in the race was new territory for him.

"It was tough slowing down," Laudani said. "I've never finished in last place. I'm used to running with people around me and when you're the last runner you're by yourself. I had to constantly remind myself that I could finish."

Another race passed and again he finished. Then came the hot Saturday morning this past weekend. His last race. He had woken up early to pick up his friends on his way to the Ben Bloser Invitational in Newville, Pennsylvania.

Once at the venue, Laudani prepared himself for his final stand. Despite the heat, he went out strong. He felt good so he went faster. On the back stretch, he even passed people.

As he approached the finish line, his team, his family, and his friends awaited him. They cheered and roared as he came down the chute. They donned shirts that had inspirational words like "courage" and "strength" designed with a definition below it. The definition was "Tommy Laudani." He finished with a time of 30:45 and 470th out of 481 runners.

He attended classes this week before making the trip up to New York for his surgery on Wednesday.

He ran his best mile-5:15-his sophomore year. His goal then was to break five minutes by the end of his senior year. Once he gets his full strength back, he plans to tackle that goal head on.

"I'm not going to use cancer as an excuse to stop running," Laudani said. "That's not who I am. I don't make excuses for things. If I sit back and I see people with my condition that actually can't run, that is a waste of my ability to run."
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Cancer couldn't stop high school runner from finishing one more race

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The car pulled up around in the early hours of a recent Saturday morning in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Tommy Laudani, 17, waited in the car for his friends who were running late. They didn't always come to Tommy's races, but today was his last as a high school cross country runner for Delone Catholic High School, so they wanted to be there.

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A man who fatally stabbed two women outside Marseille's train station has been detained for shop lifting and released before the attack, and used seven fake identities.

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Singer Marilyn Manson was injured when a prop fell on him during a concert. On Saturday night, he was performing "Sweet Dreams are Made of This" when suddenly a large prop designed as two guns tipped backwards and fell on him. The extent of his injuries have not been announced yet. He won't be able to complete his current tour.

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Rocker Marilyn Manson had to cut short a New York City show Saturday night after he was crushed by a falling set piece.

A representative for the singer confirmed to The Associated Press that Manson, 48, was injured and taken to a local hospital. The extent of his injuries was unknown, but the show was immediately cut short.

Video shot by concertgoers showed Manson climbing onto the prop of two giant handguns, which tipped backwards and fell on top of him.

Another video showed the stage crew and his band members immediately rush to lift the prop off of him.

Manson was performing a cover of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" at the time of the accident.

Friday's show was on just the third night of his 41-show "Heaven Upside Down" world tour. He's currently promoting his new album by the same name due out Oct. 6.

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Rocker Marilyn Manson had to cut short a New York City show Saturday night after he was crushed by a falling set piece. A representative for the singer confirmed to The Associated Press that Manson, 48, was injured and taken to a local hospital. The extent of his injuries was unknown, but the show...

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Catalan win their independence over Spain.

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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says the Spanish region has won the right to statehood following a contentious referendum that was marred by violence.

He said the door was open to a unilateral declaration of independence after Catalan officials said voters had backed secession with a 42.3% turnout.

Spain's government has warned it could suspend Catalan autonomy.

The constitutional court banned the vote and almost 900 people were hurt as police tried to stop it going ahead.

Officers from the national police and paramilitary Civil Guard seized ballot papers and boxes at polling stations.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Catalans had been fooled into taking part in an illegal vote.

More than 2.2 million people were reported to have voted, according to Catalan authorities, out of 5.3 million registered voters. Just under 90% of those who voted backed independence, they said.

A Catalan spokesman said more than 750,000 votes could not be counted because polling stations were closed and urns were confiscated.

Given the chaotic nature of the vote, the turnout and voting figures should be taken with a pinch of salt, says the BBC's Tom Burridge in Barcelona.

What have Catalan and Spanish leaders said?

"With this day of hope and suffering, the citizens of Catalonia have won the right to an independent state in the form of a republic," Mr Puigdemont said in a televised address.

"My government in the next few days will send the results of today's vote to the Catalan parliament, where the sovereignty of our people lies, so that it can act in accordance with the law of the referendum."

He said the European Union could no longer "continue to look the other way".

The Spanish prime minister spoke of a "mockery" of democracy.

"At this hour I can tell you in the strongest terms what you already know and what we have seen throughout this day. There has not been a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia," Mr Rajoy said.

Spain's justice minister warned that any declaration of independence could lead to article 155 of the country's constitution being invoked which allows the national government to intervene in the running of an autonomous region.

"We are not here to divide Spaniards... but if someone tries to declare independence on behalf of a part of Spain's territory, that cannot be done because it is beyond their powers," said Rafael Catalá.

What happens next?
Analysis: Tom Burridge, BBC News, Barcelona
Spain's complicated relationship with the region of Catalonia is headed for the unknown.

After violence by Spanish police, a declaration of independence by Catalonia's regional government seems more likely than ever before.

On Monday the government in Madrid will hold talks with Spanish parties to discuss a response to the biggest political crisis this country has seen in decades.
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More than 40 trade unions and Catalan associations called a region-wide strike on Tuesday due to "the grave violation of rights and freedoms".

How bad was the violence?

TV images showed Spanish police kicking would-be voters and pulling women out of polling stations by their hair.

Catalan medical officials said 844 people had been hurt in clashes, including 33 police. The majority had minor injuries or had suffered from anxiety attacks.

How Barcelona and Madrid viewed the vote

The most powerful images of Catalan clashes

The reasons for the referendum

In Girona, riot police smashed their way into a polling station where Mr Puigdemont was due to vote, and forcibly removed those inside. He voted at another station.

The BBC's Tom Burridge in Barcelona witnessed police being chased away from one polling booth after they had raided it.

TV footage showed riot police using batons to beat a group of firefighters who were protecting crowds in Girona.

The national police and Guardia Civil - a military force charged with police duties - were sent into Catalonia in large numbers to prevent the vote.

The Catalan police - the Mossos d'Esquadra - have been placed under Madrid's control, however witnesses said they showed little inclination to use force on protesters.

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, who voted blank on Sunday, condemned police actions against the region's "defenceless" population, but Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said police had "acted with professionalism and in a proportionate way".

Large crowds of independence supporters gathered in the centre of the regional capital Barcelona on Sunday evening, waving flags and singing the Catalan anthem. Anti-independence protesters have also held rallies in Barcelona and other Spanish cities.

How much voting took place?

Catalan authorities said 319 of about 2,300 polling stations across the region had been closed by police while the Spanish government said 92 stations had been sealed off.

Since Friday, thousands of people have occupied schools and other buildings designated as polling stations in order to keep them open.

Many of those inside were parents and their children, who remained in the buildings after the end of lessons on Friday and bedded down in sleeping bags on gym mats.

The anti-independence Societat Civil said there were voting irregularities, including the same people voting twice.

Catalonia, a wealthy region of 7.5 million people in north-eastern Spain, has its own language and culture.

It also has a high degree of autonomy, but is not recognised as a separate nation under the Spanish constitution.

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Catalans 'win right to break with Spain'

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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says the Spanish region has won the right to statehood following a contentious referendum that was marred by violence. He said the door was open to a unilateral declaration of independence after Catalan officials said voters had backed secession with a 42.3% turnout.

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Nurse helps deliver a baby at target

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A nurse's Target trip took an unexpected turn after she found herself delivering a fellow shopper's baby.

Caris Lockwood, 24, of Atlanta was shopping with family members at the discount store on Aug. 25 when her mother noticed a woman in labor, Tanya Saint Preux Picault, 30.

Lockwood, a labor and delivery nurse at Piedmont Healthcare, sprang into action.

"I really wasn't nervous," she told ABC News. "It was certainly an incredible experience, and [I] truly believe it was one of those moments where God placed the right people in the right place at the right time. I'm grateful that I was there and able to help bring Tanya's baby into the world."

Tanya Saint Preux Picault

Picault said she began feeling contractions after leaving a restroom. Soon after that, Lockwood's mother approached her.

"She came back and said, 'Can I just have my daughter, who's a labor and delivery nurse, come and look at you?'" Picault recalled.

Tanya Saint Preux Picault

Twenty minutes later, outside the entrance of the store, Picault gave birth to her fourth child, a boy named Maleek, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces.

"We commend the nurses and medical staff as well as the Target team members who jumped in to help a woman who delivered a baby in a Target store in Georgia," a spokesperson for Target told ABC News. "We're happy to hear that the mother and baby are doing well and wish them all the best."

Tanya Saint Preux Picault

Picault and Lockwood said they've kept in touch since the birth.

"God had her there for me that day," Picault said. "She did such a great job. It was on the news, and I recorded it so I can show [Maleek] as he gets older."

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Nurse delivers customer's baby outside Target

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A nurse's Target trip took an unexpected turn after she found herself delivering a fellow shopper's baby. Caris Lockwood, 24, of Atlanta was shopping with family members at the discount store on Aug. 25 when her mother noticed a woman in labor, Tanya Saint Preux Picault, 30.

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Kenyan police lobbed tear gas and fired shots in the air in Nairobi and Kisumu Monday to disperse protesters who are demanding a change of leadership at the country's election commission.

In addition to the protests in the capital Nairobi and the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, in western Kenya, there was a peaceful protest in the coastal city of Mombasa.

The protests were called by the opposition National Super Alliance, whose leader Raila Odinga faces President Uhuru Kenyatta on Oct. 26 in a rerun of the presidential vote.

Kenya's top court ordered a repeat election after nullifying the re-election in August of Kenyatta, citing irregularities and illegalities in the vote counting. The court said the election commission had failed to verify the results.

Odinga has said he will not participate in the fresh poll without major reforms to the electoral commission. Kenyatta has said he does not want any changes.
MARSEILLE TERROR ATTACK SUSPECT RELEASED FROM CUSTODY DAY BEFORE ASSAULT
In Kisumu Monday hundreds of protesters chanted "Chiloba must go," referring to the chairman of the election commission. Emerging from Kisumu's Kondele slum, the protesters broke a police barrier and forced their way into the center of the city, waving placards and twigs and chanting slogans against the election commission. Police responded with tear gas and fired shots in the air.

"Chiloba stole the elections. We cannot let him stay in office," said protester Celestine Owuor in Kisumu.

Chiloba, who is supported by the ruling party, is one of the electoral commission officials the opposition party says must go before the re-run vote is held.

No casualties were reported in the protests Monday.

Kenyatta said Monday the protesters' demands are "unrealistic."

Speaking at a forum with women leaders at his official residence, State House, Kenyatta said: "It is very clear they (the opposition) don't want elections. But I want to tell them today that elections will be held as ordered by the Supreme Court, and the date has been set."

In a statement Monday following a meeting with election commission officials, a group of Western ambassadors including U.S. ambassador Robert F. Godec, urged the ruling party and the opposition to "be reasonable in their demands of" the election commission.

"Do not paralyze the IEBC," the statement said, referring to the election commission.

"Unfortunately, the opposite appears to be happening. The draft Election Laws Amendment Bill, for example, puts at risk the IEBC's ability to conduct a better election within the mandated 60-day timeline, and unnecessarily increases political tensions,"said the statement.

Talks between both sides over the fresh election have collapsed because the opposition objects to the ruling party's alleged plan to use its majority in the national assembly to remove a requirement that results be transmitted electronically.

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Kenyan police fire tear gas to disperse protesters

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Kenyan police lobbed tear gas and fired shots in the air in Nairobi and Kisumu Monday to disperse protesters who are demanding a change of leadership at the country's election commission. In addition to the protests in the capital Nairobi and the opposition stronghold of Kisumu, in western Kenya, there was a peaceful protest in the coastal city of Mombasa.

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Biggest shooting in US history, 50 dead more than 400 injured

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Witness: Concertgoers risked their lives to try to hold other people's wounds closed

Gunman's brother: "We're still just completely befuddled. Dumbstruck."

Stephen Paddock, who sent bullets and terror down on thousands attending a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas, had an arsenal in his 32nd-floor hotel room and at his home 80 miles away, officials said.

Police recovered 23 guns from his Las Vegas hotel room and another 19 guns from Paddock's home in Mesquite, Nevada, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said.

Authorities said Paddock killed 59 people and injured another 527 early Monday in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

In the hours after the retired accountant committed the shooting, authorities rolled out frightening new details, including the discovery of scopes on rifles at the resort and explosives at his home.

But what they couldn't explain is why the man who had never faced any notable criminal charges did it. There was no known motive late Monday.

Even Paddock's brother had no answers.

"We're still just completely befuddled. Dumbstruck," Eric Paddock said in Orlando, Florida.

Latest developments

- A team of six officers spoke with security at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where Paddock was staying, and searched the hotel floor-by-floor Sunday night before they found Paddock's room, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters.

- Paddock, 64, fired at the officers through the door, Lombardo said. A SWAT team broke down the door, but Paddock had already killed himself, Lombardo said.

- Authorities recovered 23 guns from Paddock's room, said Clark County NV Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo. Lombardo said several of the rifles had scopes on them.

- Another 19 firearms, along with explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition in Paddock's Mesquite, Nevada, home. The gunman apparently had smashed out two windows to increase his range of targets.

- The sheriff said a SWAT team was standing by at a house in northern Nevada. A law enforcement official confirmed the FBI is present in Reno.

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Weapons cache found at Las Vegas shooter's home

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Witness: Concertgoers risked their lives to try to hold other people's wounds closed Gunman's brother: "We're still just completely befuddled. Dumbstruck." Stephen Paddock, who sent bullets and terror down on thousands attending a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas, had an arsenal in his 32nd-floor hotel room and at his home 80 miles away, officials said.