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Former 'Full House' co-star Candace Cameron Bure supports Lori Loughlin

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Candace Cameron Bure is standing by Lori Loughlin in the midst of the college admissions scandal.

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At our current pace it'll take 80 years to repair all the structurally deficient bridges in the US, a report finds

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Officials have dubbed Monday's bridge collapse in Tennessee a freak accident, but that might be turning a blind eye to a larger issue.

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Canadian mother fights off mountain lion that mauled her 7-year-old son

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him.

Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada. She found that a cougar was attacking the boy.
MOUNTAIN LION PROWLING CALIFORNIA MAN'S BACKYARD CAPTURED IN 'AMAZING' VIDEO: IT WAS 'A CLOSE CALL'
"She jumped it," Kevin Bromley, the boy's father told CBC, saying the mother tried to open the jaws to free the child. "I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."

"She jumped it. I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."
- Kevin Bromley

She couldn't pry open the jaw as the creature had clenched on the boy too hard, but their screams scared the cougar, forcing it to flee the scene.

The father added that there was "blood everywhere" but luckily the mother intervened promptly and saved the child, though he sustained injuries.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over," he told Global News.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over."
- Kevin Bromley
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The boy reportedly suffered head, neck and arm injuries, though thanks to a loose hoodie he was protected from further injuries.

He was airlifted to the hospital after the ordeal, with doctors saying he will fully recover.

"He's figured out that was pretty close to near death," Bromley told CBC. "He's old enough to grasp that. And that's a big pill to swallow, just to digest that mentally."

"As soon as I saw him yesterday, I just started bawling," Bromley added. "I think today it's starting to sink in for him what happened. We're just trying to focus on him and make sure this doesn't impact him mentally or traumatically."
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British Columbia conservation officers reportedly killed two mountain lions after the incident, with one of them being responsible for the mauling of the child.

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him. Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada.

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A Canadian woman said her "mom instinct" took over last week when she fought off a cougar that mauled her 7-year-old son in their backyard.

Chelsea Lockhart was doing household chores on Friday afternoon when she heard her son, Zachery, scuffling with something outside their home in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island. She said she rushed to the backyard to look for the source of the commotion and found the boy fighting for his life.

"I ran downstairs and I ran toward his voice. I turned the corner and saw this animal on my child," she told CTV on Tuesday. "He was on the ground and the cougar was attached to his arm. I had a mom instinct, right? I just leaped on it and I tried to pry its mouth open."

She said she doesn't know where she gained the strength, but she fish-hooked the juvenile cougar by the mouth and managed to pry him off.

(CTV) Chelsea Lockhart said her "mom instinct" took over when she fought off a cougar on Friday, March 29, 2019.

"I looked at him and I just thought, 'Oh my god, my kid could die right before my eyes.' All you think is, 'What can you do? What can you do in your own physical strength?'" she recalled. "I'm so grateful for him to be alive."

She said it's a miracle that Zachery survived the attack with only a gash on his head and a few injuries cuts his neck and arms.

"I knew that in my own power and in my own strength I wasn't going to be able to pry its mouth open, so I started praying in tongues. I'm just crying out to the Lord," she said. "Three sentences into me praying, it released and it ran away."

Zachery is expected to make a full recovery, his mom said. He was at resting up at his grandma's house on Monday.

(CTV) A neighbor snapped a photo of one of the two cougars that were euthanized in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, after an attack.

"We are definitely well on our way to recovery and Zach is resting at his grandma's house, having some one-on-one time there," Lockhart said. "His stitches are healing; he is well on his way to being fully recovered."

Officials with the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service said they found two cougars, both juvenile males, about 20 yards away from the family's home. They were both hungry and looking for food, according to the service.

Scott Norris, sergeant with British Columbia Conservation Officer Service, said the animals were euthanized after the attack.

"The mom looked out from her deck and saw the cougar on top of him, and sprang into action," Norris told ABC News on Tuesday. "She grabbed the cougar and yanked it off her child."

Vancouver Island has had several cougar attacks over the past few years, but "it's a rare occurrence," he said.
ABC News' Darren Reynolds and Kieran McGirl contributed to this report.

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A Canadian woman said her "mom instinct" took over last week when she fought off a cougar that mauled her 7-year-old son in their backyard. Chelsea Lockhart was doing household chores on Friday afternoon when she heard her son, Zachery, scuffling with something outside their home in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island.

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MIAMI, Feb. 4 - The Miami HEAT announced today that they will retire Chris Bosh's No. 1 jersey in a ceremony on March 26 during halftime of their matchup against the Orlando Magic. Bosh will become the fourth HEAT player to have his jersey retired, joining Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway and Shaquille O'Neal. Bosh's career spanned 13 seasons as he accumulated two NBA Championships, 11 All-Star selections, an All-NBA Second Team selection, an All-Rookie First Team selection, a gold medal with Team USA, nine Player of the Week honors, a Player of the Month selection, an NBA Community Assist Award winner and a Magic Johnson Award winner which recognizes excellence on the court and cooperation and dignity with the media and public. Bosh appeared in 893 career regular season games (881 starts) and averaged 19.2 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.04 blocks and 35.8 minutes while shooting 49.4 percent from the field, 33.5 percent from three-point range and 79.9 percent from the foul line. He scored in double-figures 815 times, including 422 20-point games, 82 30-point efforts and 10 40-point performances.

"I am proud that Chris will have his No. 1 jersey retired and be honored inside the AmericanAirlines Arena with this recognition for the greatness as a player on the court and his tremendous contributions to the Miami community off the court," said HEAT President Pat Riley. "His name and jersey will hang forever and always."

Bosh, who was originally acquired by the HEAT from the Raptors in a trade on July 9, 2010 and re-signed on July 30, 2014, played six seasons with Miami, helping the HEAT capture back-to-back NBA Championships in 2012 and 2013. During his time in Miami, the HEAT earned five postseason berths, resulting in four consecutive trips to the NBA Finals which included four Eastern Conference Championships and five division titles. Among the HEAT's all-time leaders, Bosh ranks third in free throw percentage (.805), fourth in double-figure scoring efforts (351), fifth in points (6,914), scoring average (18.0) and free throws made (1,469), sixth in defensive rebounds (2,258), field goal percentage (.496), field goals made (2,595) and starts (384), seventh in total rebounds (2,816) and blocks (332), 10th in minutes (13,121), 11th in double-doubles (82), offensive rebounds (558), games played (384), and steals (333), tied for 18th in three-point field goals made (255) and 20th in assists (680). Additionally, among Miami's all-time postseason leaders, he ranks third in points (1,163), field goals made (437), offensive rebounds (145), double-doubles (18), and double-figure scoring games (61), fourth in starts (74), free throws made (237), defensive rebounds (421), total rebounds (566), steals (71), blocks (89) and 20-point games (17), fifth in minutes (2,710), sixth in games played (78) and dunks (54) and tied for eighth in assists (86).

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The Miami HEAT announced today that they will retire Chris Bosh's No. 1 jersey in a ceremony on March 26 during halftime of their matchup against the Orlando Magic. Bosh will become the fourth HEAT player to have his jersey retired, joining Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway and Shaquille O'Neal.

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Four armed men kidnapped an American tourist in Uganda Tuesday and have demanded $500,000 as ransom.

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Armed men kidnap an American tourist in Uganda and demand a $500K ransom for her freedom

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Four armed men kidnapped an American tourist in Uganda Tuesday and have demanded $500,000 as ransom, the Ugandan Tourism Board and Ugandan police force said.

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Canadian mother fights off mountain lion that mauled her 7-year-old son

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him.

Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada. She found that a cougar was attacking the boy.
MOUNTAIN LION PROWLING CALIFORNIA MAN'S BACKYARD CAPTURED IN 'AMAZING' VIDEO: IT WAS 'A CLOSE CALL'
"She jumped it," Kevin Bromley, the boy's father told CBC, saying the mother tried to open the jaws to free the child. "I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."

"She jumped it. I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."
- Kevin Bromley

She couldn't pry open the jaw as the creature had clenched on the boy too hard, but their screams scared the cougar, forcing it to flee the scene.

The father added that there was "blood everywhere" but luckily the mother intervened promptly and saved the child, though he sustained injuries.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over," he told Global News.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over."
- Kevin Bromley
MOUNTAIN LION COLORADO RUNNER KILLED WAS YOUNG KITTEN, OFFICIALS SAY
The boy reportedly suffered head, neck and arm injuries, though thanks to a loose hoodie he was protected from further injuries.

He was airlifted to the hospital after the ordeal, with doctors saying he will fully recover.

"He's figured out that was pretty close to near death," Bromley told CBC. "He's old enough to grasp that. And that's a big pill to swallow, just to digest that mentally."

"As soon as I saw him yesterday, I just started bawling," Bromley added. "I think today it's starting to sink in for him what happened. We're just trying to focus on him and make sure this doesn't impact him mentally or traumatically."
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British Columbia conservation officers reportedly killed two mountain lions after the incident, with one of them being responsible for the mauling of the child.

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Canadian mother fights off mountain lion that mauled her 7-year-old son

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him. Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada.

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Student defends Thomas Jefferson Statue that has been protested against to be taken down

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Amid renewed protests to remove a Thomas Jefferson statue at Hofstra University in New York, one student spoke with " Fox & Friends" about why it must remain on campus as a testament to history.

Richard Caldwell, a history major at the Long Island school, said he successfully counter-petitioned last year to keep the statue on campus when other students wanted it removed the first time. Now, for the second year in a row, students have hosted "Jefferson's gotta go!" rallies, arguing the founding father "aided in the construction of institutional racism and justified the subjugation of black people in the United States."

Caldwell, who also writes for the website Campus Reform, said his fellow students need to take into account the historical context of Jefferson's ownership of slaves, in addition to the positive ideals he set forth for the American people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON STATUE MUST GO, SOME HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SAY
"Thomas Jefferson was a great man. He wrote the Declaration of Independence, he instilled many of the ideals of freedom and equality that we use in our society today. We also have to acknowledge that he had the past history of slavery, which we look back and say it was horrible today, but was normal at the time," Caldwell said.

"Part of studying history is looking at the whole picture, not just a part of it. If you remove the statue you remove the conversation about it, you remove the history about it, and the only way we can move forward from the past is talking about history and acknowledging things happened, while also looking at the greater picture and seeing all the good that he did."
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In a statement responding to the renewed protests about the statue, Hofstra University referred back to their original decision last year.
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"After the conversations a year ago with a variety of stakeholders about the Thomas Jefferson statue on campus, Hofstra University's president announced in May 2018 that the statue will remain where it is," the statement read.

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Amid renewed protests to remove a Thomas Jefferson statue at Hofstra University in New York, one student spoke with " Fox & Friends" about why it must remain on campus as a testament to history.

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The driver involved in the hit-and-run of a 9-year-old girl as she played in her front yard has turned himself in Tuesday

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LaDerihanna Holmes suffered a fractured skull and a shattered pelvis after a car crashed into her and then her house.

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LOS ANGELES - The Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in a shooting outside his clothing store in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Two other men were shot, and a suspect remained at large.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Crisis Response Team confirmed the news on Sunday night, saying, "Today we lost a great musician, Nipsey Hussle." It said it was "consoling and offering support to the family."

Hussle was shot multiple times in the parking lot at Marathon Clothing in South Los Angeles at about 3:25 p.m. and pronounced dead at a hospital,police sources said. One of the two men who were wounded were being treated at a hospital, and the other declined treatment, Los Angeles police Lt. Chris Martinez said.

No other information was immediately available, but just a couple of hours before, Hussle, 33, whose real name was Ermias Ashgedom, had tweeted, " Having strong enemies is a blessing."

Los Angeles Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff said Sunday night that he and Police Chief Michael Moore had been scheduled to meet with Hussle and representatives of Roc Nation, Jay-Z's entertainment agency and production company, on Monday to "talk about ways he could help stop gang violence and help us help kids."

"I'm so very sad," Soboroff said on Twitter.

A large crowd, many of them crying, gathered at the scene on Sunday as police and media helicopters whirred overhead.

One of them was Matthew Talley of Denver, the engineer and director known as Megatron.

"It ain't just Los Angeles. He was an inspiration that was bigger than Los Angeles," Talley said. "You see all these people out here?"

"He was really cool," Talley said. "He was a dope individual every time I met him."

Hussle's debut studio album, "Victory Lap," was nominated for Best Rap Album at this year's Grammy Awards.

Hussle had long been associated with the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, one of Los Angeles' largest street gangs, which he publicly acknowledged in a 2010 interview with Complex magazine.

In more recent years, however, Hussle had developed an interest in technology and community development, and he was part of a team of artists and entrepreneurs who developed Destination Crenshaw, an open-air museum devoted to honoring African-American artistic achievement.
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"In our culture, there's a narrative that says, 'Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers,'" he told the Los Angeles Times last year. "And that's cool, but there should be something that says, 'Follow Elon Musk, follow Zuckerberg.'

"I think that with me being influential as an artist and young and coming from the inner city, it makes sense for me to be one of the people that's waving that flag," he said.

Hussle was also an investor in Vector 90, a co-working space in South Central Los Angeles, where young people can take classes in science, technology and mathematics. He called the center a "bridge between Silicon Valley and the inner city," saying at last year's Afrotech conference that he hoped to expand to other cities, like Atlanta, Washington and Baltimore.

In an interview last year with Forbes, Hussle said that as a youth, he'd fallen prey to the "ignorance and self-destructiveness in the narrative that was pushed on us through music in our generation."

"I see how damaging that was, for myself included, and we're all subject to the social pressure," he said. "I wasn't above it. Each of us are impacted by what's going on around us. For me, understanding the platform I have and who it speaks to, it's about being strategic."

"I wanted to redefine the lifestyle and what we view as important," he said. "When you hear 'buy back the block' as the narrative, that's powerful. That's a step towards redefining the expectation."

Hussle and two co-owners opened Marathon Clothing in June 2017 as a "smartstore," complete with a smartphone app on which fans could buy exclusive content and products.

"I wanted to open up a brick and mortar physical retail in this area and thought, 'What's the trajectory and likelihood of being successful as e-commerce grows?'" he said in an interview with Billboard at the time.

Hussle said his goal was to "create a theme park for the brand."

"We haven't seen that in hip-hop," he said. "We haven't seen someone create a real-world place where the brand lives and there's products."

Hussle's death deeply shook the worlds of music and sports, in which he was seen as an inspirational figure.

Issa Rae, the creator and star of the HBO series "Insecure," said Hussle had inspired her "to invest and own in our communities."

"He was a solid man who loved his woman, his family and his community," she said Sunday. "This hurts."

Eritrea's Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel, also honored the slain rapper, whose family is from the African country.

"Extremely saddened to hear the news of the tragic and untimely death of iconic recording artist/entrepreneur Ermias Asgedom (Nipsey Hussle)," Meskel tweeted. "RIP & condolences to his family."

Hussle visited Eritrea in April 2018, where he did an interview with Meskel's website about his music career and being back in the country for the first time in 14 years.

Hussle and the actor Lauren London were the parents of a 2½-year-old child; Hussle had other children from previous relationships, as well.

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LOS ANGELES - The Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in a shooting outside his clothing store in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Two other men were shot, and a suspect remained at large. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Crisis Response Team confirmed the news on Sunday night, saying, "Today we lost a great musician, Nipsey Hussle."

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Jared Kushner is working on plans to increase the flow of legal immigrants into the US. This is at the same time as the Trump administration is having trouble with illegal immigrants on the Southern Border.

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Even as President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the southern border, his administration is quietly working on a plan to expand some forms of legal immigration into the U.S.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been working for months on a proposal that could increase the number of low- and high-skilled workers admitted to the country annually, four people involved in the discussions told POLITICO.

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The low-profile effort to allow more legal immigrants into the U.S. cuts a stark contrast to Trump's increasingly dramatic efforts to curb illegal immigration, an issue he speaks about daily and describes as a national crisis. But Trump himself has publicly said he also supports higher levels of legal immigration, a priority generally supported by a business community short on skilled workers.

The effort began in January when Kushner started to convene a series of meetings with dozens of advocacy groups, including business and agriculture organizations. Some, though not all of them, openly support the expansion of legal immigration. It has continued in recent weeks with a smaller four-person White House working group led by Kushner, and could generate a proposal for Congress by summer.

Trump personally tasked Kushner - who successfully forged a December compromise on criminal justice reform but is still struggling to deliver a Middle East peace plan - with the priority of legal immigration. But it is a daunting challenge, requiring legislation in an issue area that has confounded Congress in recent years.

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Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser and influential hard-liner on immigration, has not attended most of Kushner's meetings, according to half dozen attendees. But Miller - whose restrictionist views have slowed past compromise efforts - must sign off on any plan before Trump does, according to some familiar with the situation.

But hawkish immigration activists, who have been frustrated with Trump's relentless focus on a border wall, are worried that the president will be influenced by Kushner's more moderate views on immigration and will fail to fulfill his campaign pledge to crack down on immigration. Trump already has spoken about expanding legal immigration at least four times this year.

"The president must remember that he was elected to implement an immigration system that serves national interests, not business interests," said RJ Hauman, government relations director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, whose president attended a meeting with Kushner. "A plan to increase overall immigration is nothing more than a handout to businesses so they don't have to compete for American workers and raise wages."

FAIR released a new online ad FridayurgingTrump to not be influenced by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who support expanding legal immigration. "Tell President Trump to keep his promise to protect the American worker and to keep the Koch Brothers out of the White House," the ad says.

Business groups have pushed for additional permanent slots for immigrants coming to the United States, saying the demand has increased since the unemployment rate has fallen and companies have struggled to fill jobs.

More than 1 million immigrants are allowed into the United States each year on a permanent basis but only a fraction - 140,000 - are through employment categories. The rest are for relatives, refugees or immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. These numbers don't include immigrants allowed entry through temporary or seasonal work.

By comparison, federal officials estimate they apprehended 100,000 immigrants crossing the border illegally in March. Many of them end up being released because of overwhelming numbers at processing and holding centers. About 12 million immigrants are estimated to be in the United States illegally now.

Kushner's plan may not lead to a net increase in legal immigration. He is being urged to offset his increases with reductions in other forms of legal immigration. An expansion in the number of legal immigrants allowed into the U.S. for work could be tied to reductions in the number of immigrants sponsored by family members or immigrants who are awarded green cards through the diversity visa lottery program, according to the four people involved in the discussions.

In his FebruaryState of the Union address, Trump said he wanted "people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally."

Later, when he was asked by a reporter if he was changing his policy, he said "I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in. We need people."

Kushner is considering increases in both the number of low- and high-skilled workers, as well as both permanent and temporary workers, according to the four people familiar with the discussions. In public, Trump and his allies have spoken mostly about high-skilled workers.

One prominent Trump ally who has recently weighed in on the subject is David Bossie, a Trump confidant who served in his 2016 campaign.

"We need to welcome temporary high-skilled immigrants with PhDs, Master's, and strong educational qualifications to maintain U.S. economic superiority in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics," Bossie wrote in a March 24 Fox News op-ed.

But some administration officials are urging Kushner to consider increases for low-skilled and seasonal workers as well.

Several administration officials caution that the effort is still in its early stages with Kushner still trying to gauge whether there's enough room for a bipartisan compromise that could be passed into law. A Kushner aide referred questions to the White House press office, which didn't respond.

Trump made cracking down on immigration the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign, calling for a border wall and ending an Obama-era program that allows temporary, renewable work permits for so-called Dreamers who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children.

But Trump backed away from his pledge to reduce the number of immigrants when he pushed a plan offering 1.8 million immigrants a chance at citizenship last year, though it would have also increased border security and ended a green card program. It was rejected by a Republican-controlled Congress in February 2018.

The White House has been divided on immigration throughout Trump's presidency between Miller's hardline camp, which largely reflects Trump's views, and others - including Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump - who hold more moderate positions.

"The different factions in the White House represent different factions among Republicans," said an immigration activist, who has been to two meetings and speaks to the White House regularly. "It sure looks like the folks who want an expansion are winning."

Jessica Vaughan, who attended one of Kushner's meetings and serves as director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, questioned why the administration would be looking at an immigration plan now even as it declares an emergency at the southern border.

"They should be 100 percent on fixing the border crisis and not on other parts of the immigration system," she said.

In recent weeks, Kushner and his working group of Brooke Rollins, who works in the Office of American Innovation, and Theodore Wold and Ja'Ron Smith, both special assistants to the president for domestic policy, have held smaller more informal meetings, focused solely on whether to expand employment based programs.

But some informed observers are skeptical: "Everyone continues to look at Jared as the great dealmaker," said a former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House. "I think people give him too much credit."

Holding his cards close to the vest, Kushner has not explicitly supported a particular plan in the meetings, according to attendees. Instead, he has encouraged others to express their opinions as a way to try to find a deal.

"The main thing we hope for is an actual proposal to get support...momentum," said Jorge Lima, senior vice president of policy for Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the Koch brothers and opposes cuts to legal immigration. AFP attended two meetings with Kushner.

Draft proposals are being circulated among various agencies, according to one of the people involved in the discussions. Multiple administration officials have told outside groups that a proposal could be released, perhaps by early summer, according to the four people involved in the discussions.

The outside Trump adviser said he is skeptical any proposal will pass because Democrats will ask for a larger immigration deal than just addressing this piece of legal immigration.

"They have to try to figure out what they can get through a Democratic House," the person said.

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Even as President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the southern border, his administration is quietly working on a plan to expand some forms of legal immigration into the U.S. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been working for months on a proposal that could increase the number of low- and high-skilled workers admitted to the country annually, four people involved in the discussions told POLITICO.

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It looks like Bullwinkle forgot to tell Rocky to go easy with the crayons.

A photographer from India has captured several incredible images of the Malabar giant squirrel that have gone viral after being posted to social media.

The squirrel, known for its multicolored fur and its large size, became an internet sensation after 39-year-old Kaushik Vijayan took the pictures deep in the forests of India, capturing the animal in its native habitat.
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"The sight was an absolute feast for my eyes," Vijayan said in comments obtained by SWNS. "The squirrels fascinated me and I got excited to capture this beauty on my camera."

The amateur photographer, who works in finance in Saudi Arabia, said he was astonished by the appearance of the multi-colored squirrel, as were his friends. "It was when I shared some of the photographs on social media many of my friends and followers came to know about the Malabar Giant Squirrel and they were all amazed by its appearance," he said.

"Up until that point I had never heard about a squirrel like that or seen one," he added.

The response to his pictures, which have garnered thousands of likes and comments, only makes him want to continue his passion, Vijayan continued."The response I see from the people on social media when I post a picture of the giant squirrels fuels my enthusiasm to go out there."

Also known as an Indian squirrel, the Malabar giant squirrel can grow up to 36 inches from head to tail and jump 20 feet in the air, flying from tree to tree. By comparison, the most commonly found squirrel in the U.S., the eastern gray squirrel, is approximately 20 inches from head to tail and can weigh between 14 and 21 ounces.
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Amazing giant multicolored squirrels caught on camera, become Internet sensation

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It looks like Bullwinkle forgot to tell Rocky to go easy with the crayons. A photographer from India has captured several incredible images of the Malabar giant squirrel that have gone viral after being posted to social media.

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Chicago elects their first african american lesbian mayor, adding on to our nation's increase in diversity within authority.

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Chicago elected Lori Lightfoot as its first black female mayor in a historic victory applauded beyond the nation's third-most populous city.

"We may be strangers but in this room, in this city we are all neighbors," she told a cheering crowd following her win.

Lightfoot faced a historic runoff Tuesday against Toni Preckwinkle, who is also an African-American woman.

"Now that it's over I know that we will work together for the city that we both love," Lightfoot said at her campaign celebration. "Today you did more than make history, you created a movement for change."

Tributes poured in for the mayor-elect following the monumental win.

"Now we're going to take the next steps together," she said. "Together we can and will finally put the interests of our people, all of our people, against the interests of a powerful few."

Her competitor vowed to keep working on issues important to her.

"This may not be the outcome we wanted but while I may be disappointed, I'm not disheartened," Preckwinkle told supporters after she called Lightfoot to congratulate her.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel did not run because he's not seeking a third term. The general election in February had 14 candidates, with Lightfoot and Preckwinkle as the top two vote-getters.

Lightfoot, 56, a former assistant US attorney, describes herself as "an out and proud black lesbian." When she is sworn in, she will be the first mayor in the Windy City who identifies as a lesbian.

"Out there tonight a lot of little girls and boys are watching. They're watching us. And they're seeing the beginning of something, well, a little bit different," Lightfoot told the crowd on Tuesday with a wry smil

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Chicago elected Lori Lightfoot as its first black female mayor in a historic victory applauded beyond the nation's third-most populous city. "We may be strangers but in this room, in this city we are all neighbors," she told a cheering crowd following her win.

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Women fights off cougar in her backyard that attacked her 7-year old son saying she doesn't know where her strength came from.

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A Canadian woman said her "mom instinct" took over last week when she fought off a cougar that mauled her 7-year-old son in their backyard.

Chelsea Lockhart was doing household chores on Friday afternoon when she heard her son, Zachery, scuffling with something outside their home in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island. She said she rushed to the backyard to look for the source of the commotion and found the boy fighting for his life.

"I ran downstairs and I ran toward his voice. I turned the corner and saw this animal on my child," she told CTV on Tuesday. "He was on the ground and the cougar was attached to his arm. I had a mom instinct, right? I just leaped on it and I tried to pry its mouth open."

She said she doesn't know where she gained the strength, but she fish-hooked the juvenile cougar by the mouth and managed to pry him off.

(CTV) Chelsea Lockhart said her "mom instinct" took over when she fought off a cougar on Friday, March 29, 2019.

"I looked at him and I just thought, 'Oh my god, my kid could die right before my eyes.' All you think is, 'What can you do? What can you do in your own physical strength?'" she recalled. "I'm so grateful for him to be alive."

She said it's a miracle that Zachery survived the attack with only a gash on his head and a few injuries cuts his neck and arms.

"I knew that in my own power and in my own strength I wasn't going to be able to pry its mouth open, so I started praying in tongues. I'm just crying out to the Lord," she said. "Three sentences into me praying, it released and it ran away."

Zachery is expected to make a full recovery, his mom said. He was at resting up at his grandma's house on Monday.

(CTV) A neighbor snapped a photo of one of the two cougars that were euthanized in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, after an attack.

"We are definitely well on our way to recovery and Zach is resting at his grandma's house, having some one-on-one time there," Lockhart said. "His stitches are healing; he is well on his way to being fully recovered."

Officials with the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service said they found two cougars, both juvenile males, about 20 yards away from the family's home. They were both hungry and looking for food, according to the service.

Scott Norris, sergeant with British Columbia Conservation Officer Service, said the animals were euthanized after the attack.

"The mom looked out from her deck and saw the cougar on top of him, and sprang into action," Norris told ABC News on Tuesday. "She grabbed the cougar and yanked it off her child."

Vancouver Island has had several cougar attacks over the past few years, but "it's a rare occurrence," he said.
ABC News' Darren Reynolds and Kieran McGirl contributed to this report.

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A Canadian woman said her "mom instinct" took over last week when she fought off a cougar that mauled her 7-year-old son in their backyard. Chelsea Lockhart was doing household chores on Friday afternoon when she heard her son, Zachery, scuffling with something outside their home in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island.

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NASA constructs a new model of wing that model's a birds wing, and could change airplanes forever

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Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies.

Measuring 14 feet or four meters wide, the new wing is constructed from thousands of units that fit together and function in a similar way to a bird's wing, says one of the report's authors, NASA research engineer, Nick Cramer.

"Something like a condor will lock its joints in while it's cruising, and then it (adjusts) its wing to a more optimal shape for its cruising, and then when it wants to do a more aggressive maneuver it'll unlock its shoulder. That's a similar response to what we're doing here," he said in a phone interview.

But it's not just the way the new wing functions that sets it apart, according to researchers who co-authored a paper published this week in the journal "Smart Materials and Structures."

The team, including experts from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, say their design could lead to significant efficiencies in the future manufacture and maintenance of planes.

Kenneth Cheung, a research scientist from the NASA Ames Research Center, gives the example of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is constructed from body parts that are so large they require outsize molds and ovens to create them, before they're transported on even bigger planes to the point of assembly. The same applies to the Airbus A380.

"The cost scaling and the amount of infrastructure that the business needs to invest in order to implement these new designs is pretty extraordinary," Cheung said in a phone interview. "So what we're doing with these projects is trying to reduce all of that, so that you could have the same sort of performance in terms of the materials but be able to manufacture it without setting up all of the infrastructure that's currently required."

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Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies. Measuring 14 feet or four meters wide, the new wing is constructed from thousands of units that fit together and function in a similar way to a bird's wing, says one of the report's authors, NASA research engineer, Nick Cramer.

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Mom Protects her son after a mountain lion mauls her son.

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him.

Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada. She found that a cougar was attacking the boy.
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"She jumped it," Kevin Bromley, the boy's father told CBC, saying the mother tried to open the jaws to free the child. "I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."

"She jumped it. I think any mom would do that. It's that selfless love."
- Kevin Bromley

She couldn't pry open the jaw as the creature had clenched on the boy too hard, but their screams scared the cougar, forcing it to flee the scene.

The father added that there was "blood everywhere" but luckily the mother intervened promptly and saved the child, though he sustained injuries.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over," he told Global News.

"She's beside herself. If it had been a bigger cougar, it would have been over."
- Kevin Bromley
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The boy reportedly suffered head, neck and arm injuries, though thanks to a loose hoodie he was protected from further injuries.

He was airlifted to the hospital after the ordeal, with doctors saying he will fully recover.

"He's figured out that was pretty close to near death," Bromley told CBC. "He's old enough to grasp that. And that's a big pill to swallow, just to digest that mentally."

"As soon as I saw him yesterday, I just started bawling," Bromley added. "I think today it's starting to sink in for him what happened. We're just trying to focus on him and make sure this doesn't impact him mentally or traumatically."
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British Columbia conservation officers reportedly killed two mountain lions after the incident, with one of them being responsible for the mauling of the child.

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A mother summoned her inner mama grizzly to fight off a mountain lion after it latched onto her seven-year-old son's arm and began to maul him. Chelsea Bromley rushed to her son's Zack rescue after hearing loud screams and bangs outside her home in Vancouver Island, Canada.

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Four Pennsylvania fraternity brothers were sentenced in connection with the death of Timothy Piazza.

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Four former Pennsylvania State University fraternity brothers have been sentenced in connection with the death of a pledge during a booze-soaked hazing ritual two years ago. Luke Visser, Joseph Sala, Joshua Kurczewski and Michael Bonattuci, former members of the Penn State chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, were sentenced on Tuesday by a judge in Centre County Court in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, courthouse sources told ABC News.

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Photo captures moment of a van teetering off a 200-foot cliff

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This is not how you want to drop off packages.

A couple out for a hike along the Cornwall, U.K., coast in Tintagel came across an unusual sight when the spotted a delivery van that appeared to be teetering over a 200-foot cliff.

"We walk the coast path most days and see some really unusual things, but this was perhaps the most unusual," one of the hikers told SWNS.

The red van was nose down with a rear wheel dangling high in the air. From their perspective, it appeared to be facing certain doom, but the driver had gotten out OK after what turned out to be a bad parking job.

"He was delivering to the youth hostel on the coast and we were coming back and the driver was lying on the grass. We thought he was in shock but he was lying back calling for a tow," the hiker said.

The delivery company has opened an investigation into the incident, but said that "the van was some distance from the cliff edge and there is a grass verge in front of the vehicle where the driver was able to exit the vehicle in safety with no injuries."

Nevertheless, aerial photos show how it was only a yard or so away from sliding down a rock fall and into the sea below.
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Can a computer tell you when you're going to die?

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Everyone is faced with the prospect of death, though not knowing when the time will come can be unsettling for many. Now, researchers have uncovered a disturbing benefit of artificial intelligence - the ability to more accurately predict a person's demise.

The unsettling research, published in PLOS One, is the result of researchers training algorithms to look at a decade's worth of health data from just over 500,000 people in the U.K. between the ages of 40 and 69 and assess their chances for dying prematurely. During the 2006-2010 time period (which was followed up until 2016), nearly 14,500 people died, largely from cancer and other diseases.

"We mapped the resulting predictions to mortality data from the cohort, using Office of National Statistics death records, the UK cancer registry and 'hospital episodes' statistics," the study's lead author, University of Nottingham assistant professor of Epidemiology and Data Science Dr. Stephen Weng, said in a statement. "We found machine-learned algorithms were significantly more accurate in predicting death than the standard prediction models developed by a human expert."
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To aid in the effort to understand premature mortality, Weng and his team of researchers looked at two different types of AI. The first is known as 'deep-learning,' in which information-centric networks help a computer learn from past instances. The second is 'random forest,' which Live Science reports is able to "combines multiple, tree-like models to consider possible outcomes." They took the conclusions from the two different AI models, compared them to the more commonly used 'Cox regression' (which is based on age and gender) and found the returns of the AI models were far superior.

The deep learning algorithm correctly predicted 76 percent of the subjects who died, while the random forest algorithm clocked in at 64 percent. The Cox model only correctly identified 44 percent of those who had died.

The different algorithms used several varying factors, such as body fat, blood pressure and food consumption (random forest), as well as job-related hazards, air pollution and alcohol intake (machine learning). The Cox model, which largely relied on inputs such as ethnicity and physical activity, ultimately proved to be inferior.

"We have taken a major step forward in this field by developing a unique and holistic approach to predicting a person's risk of premature death by machine-learning," Dr. Weng added in the statement. "This uses computers to build new risk prediction models that take into account a wide range of demographic, biometric, clinical and lifestyle factors for each individual assessed, even their dietary consumption of fruit, vegetables and meat per day.

While it may be a bit unsettling to think that a computer knows when your time is up, preventative healthcare is only likely to grow in popularity, as more people want to know what they change about their lifestyle in an effort to live longer and better lives.
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"There is currently intense interest in the potential to use 'AI' or 'machine-learning' to better predict health outcomes," said University of Nottingham professor Joe Kai, who also worked on the study, in a statement. "In some situations we may find it helps, in others it may not. In this particular case, we have shown that with careful tuning, these algorithms can usefully improve prediction."

Weng echoed Kai's sentiments, adding that the work has been going on for years to aid humanity.

"Preventative healthcare is a growing priority in the fight against serious diseases so we have been working for a number of years to improve the accuracy of computerized health risk assessment in the general population," Weng added. "Most applications focus on a single disease area but predicting death due to several different disease outcomes is highly complex, especially given environmental and individual factors that may affect them."

In addition to longer life spans, there are also economic benefits to preventative healthcare. The Surgeon General has released a white paper that states a 1 percent reduction in "weight, blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol risk factors would save $83 to $103 annually in medical costs per person," while a 5 percent reduction in hypertension would save $25 billion over 5 years.
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"Research from the Milken Institute suggests that a modest reduction in avoidable risk factors could lead to a gain of more than $1 trillion annually in labor supply and efficiency by 2023," the white paper added.

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The driver who hit a 9 year old girl, in Georgia, has turned himself in.

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LaDerihanna Holmes suffered a fractured skull and a shattered pelvis after a car crashed into her and then her house.

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Sharia Law has been implemented in the small city nation of Singapore. The law bans an form of homosexuality by death.

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New Islamic criminal laws that took effect in Brunei on Wednesday, punishing gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death, have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and celebrities far beyond the tiny Southeast Asian nation's shores.

The penalties were provided for under new sections of Brunei's Shariah Penal Code. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah instituted the code in 2014 to bolster the influence of Islam in the oil-rich monarchy of around 430,000 people, two-thirds of whom are Muslim.

Even before 2014, homosexuality was already punishable in Brunei by a jail term of up to 10 years. The first stage of the Shariah Penal Code included fines or jail for offenses such as pregnancy out of wedlock or failing to pray on Fridays.

But under the new laws - which apply to children and foreigners, even if they are not Muslim - those found guilty of gay sex could be stoned to death or whipped. Adulterers risk death by stoning too, while thieves face amputation of a right hand on their first offense and a left foot on their second.

"Living in Brunei, we already knew that our sexual identity is taboo and should not be expressed. We already felt belittled before the law came to place," said a 23-year-old member of the LGBTQ community who wanted to be identified only as Kun out of fear of reprisal from the authorities.

"Now with it, we feel even smaller and the ones who could potentially oppress us have more opportunity to harass us to say and do what they want," he said.

Celebrities including George Clooney, Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres have voiced opposition to the new laws, and have rallied a boycott of nine hotels in the U.S. and Europe with ties to Hassanal, who is still sultan.

"Are we really going to help fund the murder of innocent citizens?" Clooney wrote Thursday on Deadline Hollywood.

Clooney said that while you can't shame "murderous regimes," you can shame "the banks, the financiers and the institutions that do business with them."

There has been no vocal opposition to the new penalties in Brunei, where the sultan rules as head of state with full executive authority. Public criticism of his policies is extremely rare in the country.

Hassanal, who has reigned since 1967, has previously said the Penal Code should be regarded as a form of "special guidance" from God and would be "part of the great history" of Brunei.

On Tuesday, the United States joined the United Kingdom, Germany and France in urging Brunei to halt its plans.

"The United States strongly opposes violence, criminalization and discrimination targeting vulnerable groups, including women at risk of violence, religious and ethnic minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons," State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said in a statement.

Brunei's Southeast Asian neighbors, some of whom have laws banning sex between men, were silent.

But LGBTQ citizens of other nearby Muslim-majority countries were concerned about the broad penalties.

"I am very worried that Indonesia or Malaysia may follow the lead," said a 24-year-old man from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, who wanted to be identified only as Ludwig. "I think people nowadays, especially the younger generation, are quite OK with LGBT, but those who are not make the loudest noise and they are the reason why it seems like everyone is against it."

Nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 32 million people are Muslim. They are governed by Islamic courts in family, marriage and personal issues. Last year, two Malaysian Muslim women were convicted under Islamic laws and caned for attempting to have sex with each other.

Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, urged Brunei's government to "stop the entry into force of this Draconian new penal code."

"Any religion-based legislation must not violate human rights, including the rights of those belonging to the majority religion as well as of religious minorities and non-believers," she said in a statement on Monday.

Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, called on the sultan to "immediately suspend amputations, stoning, and all other rights-abusing provisions and punishments."

"Brunei's new penal code is barbaric to the core, imposing archaic punishments for acts that shouldn't even be crimes," Robertson said in a statement on Wednesday.

Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei researcher at Amnesty International, decried the "vicious" laws and asked the international community to condemn them.

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New Islamic criminal laws that took effect in Brunei on Wednesday, punishing gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death, have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and celebrities far beyond the tiny Southeast Asian nation's shores. The penalties were provided for under new sections of Brunei's Shariah Penal Code.