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An Atlanta woman was charged with murder after she put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.

Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday.

A third boy, 3-year-old Jameel Penn Jr., was found unharmed.

Williams waived a court appearance Monday and was denied bail.

The father of all three children, Jameel Penn, says Williams called him by video chat Friday night to tell him his children were dead. Penn says he called police after seeing his sons on the floor.

Williams' sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth, says Williams should be put on suicide watch in the Fulton County jail.

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Atlanta mom charged with murder after allegedly putting 2 young sons in oven

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on. Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m.

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she died drowing in grease

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AUBURN, Ala. - At what is normally the happiest of family destinations, a horror: Police investigating a call of a missing child at Bruster's Real Ice Cream in Auburn, Ala., before 1pm Saturday arrived to find the 3-year-old had been located but was unresponsive.

Sadie Grace Andrews had been found in a 6-foot-deep in-ground grease trap and drowned, reports the Opelika-Auburn News. It's believed to have been an accident, with surveillance footage showing her playing with two of her five siblings in a picnic table-studded grassy area on the property and apparently falling through the lid.

She was missing for no more than 10 minutes. AL.com reports on Lee County Coroner Bill Harris' description of the incident, which occurred during a trip to a location the family had been to previously.

Harris says the grease trap's lid wasn't locked or fastened in any way, and opened when Sadie stepped on it; the lid then closed with her inside.

Mom Corrie Andrews shares a moving story with the newspaper: Sadie always slept with a blanket her grandmother had given her, but the morning before she died, she stuffed it in a bag and said she was a big girl who didn't need it anymore.

Shop owners Lance and Kara Latham posted a statement on Facebook that reads in part, "Our deepest condolences go to the family of the child who tragically died Saturday. They are acquaintances of ours and have been regular customers. We are truly heartbroken that this happened. Our thoughts also are with our young crewmember who tried to revive the child. Like all of us, he is quite shaken."
This article originally appeared on Newser: Family Trip to the Ice Cream Shop Ends in Tragedy

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Girl, 3, drowns in grease pit at Alabama ice cream shop

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AUBURN, Ala. - At what is normally the happiest of family destinations, a horror: Police investigating a call of a missing child at Bruster's Real Ice Cream in Auburn, Ala., before 1pm Saturday arrived to find the 3-year-old had been located but was unresponsive.

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inside airasia flight as it dropped 20,000

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Passengers aboard an AirAsia flight have criticized the flight crew for allegedly screaming as the plane plummeted, following an apparent pressurization issue in the cabin.

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41 people including the chief have been killed in a Afghan attack at a police head quarters.

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41 people, including chief, killed in attack on Afghan police headquarters

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At least 41 people were killed Tuesday in an hours-long, multipronged attack at a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

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gravitatonal waves have been detected and this is why we should care about them.

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On October 16, scientists announced the first observation of its kind: the detection of gravitational waves, wrinkles in spacetime predicted by Einstein more than a century ago, thrown off by two colliding neutron stars.

The stellar crash, which took place 130 million years ago in the constellation Hydra, marks the first time that astronomers have matched gravitational waves with a visible source-showcasing this new era in astronomy.

The discovery is the latest success for one of the most ambitious (and expensive) physics experiments in decades: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO for short.

"This is the first time that the cosmos has provided us what I would call a 'talking movie,'" David Reitze, the executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, said today during an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "In this case, the 'audio' of the soundtrack comes from the [gravitational wave] chirp of the neutron stars as they are inspiraling and colliding; the video is the light that we saw."

It's been a big few weeks for gravitational waves. Astronomers only recently unveiled the fourth confirmed detection, spawned by a set of colliding black holes. And on October 3, LIGO founders Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for their work to detect gravitational waves.

"For as long as 40 years, people have been thinking about this, trying to make a detection, sometimes failing in the early days, and then slowly but surely getting the technology together to be able to do it," Weiss said. "It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe."

But what exactly are these elusive waves, and why are astronomers so excited about this latest detection?
What are gravitational waves?
Put simply, gravitational waves are ripples in the otherwise tough, stiff fabric of spacetime produced by the most violent phenomena the cosmos can offer-things like exploding stars and collisions between ultradense neutron stars or merging black holes. Gravitational waves are washing over Earth all the time, but our instruments have not been sensitive enough to detect them until very recently.
Who first came up with the idea of gravitational waves?
In 1916, Albert Einstein suggested that gravitational waves could be a natural outcome of his general theory of relativity, which says that very massive objects distort the fabric of time and space-an effect we perceive as gravity. Accordingly, very massive objects spiraling toward each other should wrinkle space-time and send those distortions across the cosmos, like ripples spreading across a pond at the speed of light.

In essence, gravitational waves "are propagating disturbances of the shape of spacetime," says Shane Larson, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and member of the LIGO scientific collaboration.

Though many other scientists accepted Einstein's prediction, Einstein himself wasn't totally convinced that he was right; over the next several decades, he continually waffled over the question of gravitational waves and occasionally published papers refuting his original idea.
Why are these waves so hard to detect?
By the time gravitational waves reach us from the distant events that spawn them, they distort spacetime by an utterly minuscule amount. The distortion is many times smaller than the width of a proton, one of the particles in an atom's nucleus. Measuring such minute changes in length is pretty much impossible for most instruments.
When did astronomers directly detect gravitational waves?
In the 1970s, scientists observing a pair of pulsars orbiting one another indirectly detected gravitational waves for the first time. Using the giant radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the team had measured the orbits of the two pulsars and determined that the pulsars were moving closer together.

For that to happen, the system must have been radiating energy in the form of gravitational waves-an insight that earned Joe Taylor and Russell Hulse the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics.

But it wasn't until 2015 that the LIGO team directly detected gravitational waves, using a pair of ultra-sensitive detectors. The discovery ended a century of speculation and confirmed Einstein's original prediction.
So how does LIGO work?
The LIGO facility consists of two identical L-shaped detectors in Washington state and Louisiana, each of which employs lasers and mirrors to measure the tiny changes in spacetime made by passing gravitational radiation. The name of the game in each location is to record the change in distance between mirrors parked at each end of two perpendicular, 2.5-mile-long arms.

A laser bouncing back and forth between the mirrors keeps track of how far apart they are to an almost impossibly precise degree. Crucially, the detectors are sensitive to things such as passing trucks, lightning strikes, ocean waves, and earthquakes. For a signal to be real, it should show up in both detectors.

Now, the European Gravitational Observatory's Virgo detector, which is similar to LIGO in design, is live. With three working observatories on the ground, scientists can more precisely identify the region on the sky where a gravitational wave source is located. Soon, similar experiments are anticipated to come online in Japan and India.
Why should we care about these things?
Since LIGO's first detection, we've gained unexpected insight into the cosmos. That's because gravitational waves are a new way of "seeing" what happens in space: We can now detect events that would otherwise leave little to no observable light, like black hole collisions. And with this latest detection, astronomers were able to combine gravitational waves with more traditional ways of seeing the universe, helping to untangle mysteries about the dense, dead objects known as neutron stars.

"Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about," Weiss says. "We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars ... but we hope there are all sorts of other phenomena that you can see mostly because of the gravitational waves they emit. That will open a new science."
Wait. What exactly is a neutron star?
As their name implies, neutron stars are made almost entirely of neutrons, or uncharged subatomic particles. They form when a star much bigger and brighter than the sun exhausts its thermonuclear fuel supply and explodes into a violent supernova.

Though the outer layers of the star get blasted into the space, its core collapses inward and forms a sphere about the size of the San Francisco Bay Area but with at least the mass of our sun. These stars, which spin rapidly, are the most compact objects outside of black holes-a sugar cube of the stuff would weigh a billion tons.

And it gets even more exotic. Neutron stars are dead in the sense that they're no longer fusing elements in their cores, so they don't shine like the sun.

But that doesn't mean they're placid. A neutron star's magnetic field can be more than a quadrillion times stronger than Earth's, and its gravitational field can be about a hundred billion times stronger. In other words, you do not want to get anywhere near one of these things if you appreciate being in one piece.
What did we just learn about these weird stars?
Thanks to the gravitational waves acting as a kind of cosmic alert, astronomers were able to scrutinize the remains of these neutron stars and-among other things-help solve a long-standing debate about the origins of precious metals, such as gold and silver, as well a other heavy metals.

Previously, we thought the majority of the universe's gold was crafted by supernovae -the explosive deaths of giant stars. Now, though, scientists have found that the merger of neutron stars ended in an explosion called a kilonova that spewed out a cloud of atomic nuclei and spawned the production of 16,000 Earths' worth of heavy metals. The find suggests that most of these metals are actually forged by neutron star smash-ups.

"The gold in this watch is very likely produced by neutron stars that collided billions of years ago," Reitze announced as he displayed his great-grandfather's gold pocket watch.

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What Are Gravitational Waves, and Why Do They Matter?

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On October 16, scientists announced the first observation of its kind: the detection of gravitational waves, wrinkles in spacetime predicted by Einstein more than a century ago, thrown off by two colliding neutron stars.

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Human remains found inside crocodile after 79-year-old woman goes missing

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Human remains have been found inside a large crocodile believed to have killed a 79-year-old woman who wandered away from a senior facility in Australia and went into in a crocodile-infested creek, police said Tuesday.

Anne Cameron was last seen a week ago, when she walked away from a senior facility. On Thursday, police found human remains, in addition to clothing and a walking stick belonging to Cameron near the creek. The area is overrun by crocodiles that have killed others who have ventured into the area, so the reptile immediately became the main suspect.

A 14-foot crocodile was found nearby acting strangely, prompting experts to believe it was the alligator they were looking for, Sky News Australia reported. It was removed from the Mowbray River near Craiglie in the far northeast corner of Australia, Queensland police said.

"It has been a very difficult and harrowing week for all involved, and my thoughts are with the family of Anne Cameron at this sad time," Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles said in a statement.

The 79-year-old had dementia and had only been at the facility for a few weeks, according to police. Her son said she would take regular short walks and would ask for help if she got lost.

The gruesome death has prompted lawmakers to consider a crocodile cull, including egg harvesting and the immediate removal of animals considered a threat.

There have been two other people killed by crocodiles in the area in the past 18 months, according to the Australian Associated Press.

Miles said it was important residents and visitors in the region remain vigilant to the threat of crocodiles.

"We have permanent crocodile warning signs in place to remind people this is croc country," he said. "The signs are there to keep you safe so please acknowledge them."

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Human remains found inside crocodile after 79-year-old woman goes missing

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Human remains have been found inside a large crocodile believed to have killed a 79-year-old woman who wandered away from a senior facility in Australia and went into in a crocodile-infested creek, police said Tuesday. Anne Cameron was last seen a week ago, when she walked away from a senior facility.

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Floating hospital sits empty near Puerto Rico As Puerto Rico's health system struggles to cope from Hurricane Maria's destruction, the US Navy Ship Comfort, a state-of-the-art floating hospital, sits offshore with more than 200 empty beds.

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As Puerto Rico's health system struggles to cope from Hurricane Maria's destruction, the US Navy Ship Comfort, a state-of-the-art floating hospital, sits offshore with more than 200 empty beds. CNN's Leyla Santiago reports.

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Everything Coming To Netflix In October

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It's officially fall! This means you can don flannel, sip pumpkin spice lattes, and, most importantly, indulge in the return of really good fall television. If summer is for kicking-and-screaming riots (e.g., Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later), then fall is the time for thoughtful, stimulating viewing. Network television is returning with some of our favorites, like and However, when it comes to thrilling fall television, Netflix has a bit of a monopoly. This October, the website will debut another season of Stranger Things. Netflix will also present a new show: David Fincher's Mindhunter, a chilling series about the minds of serial killers.

Of course, these originals accompany a slew of familiar content, movies and television series that will soon be available for all-day streaming. This October, we'll see a few favorites - namely, Miss Congeniality will makes its way to the site on October 1. And, if you're in need of a good, mind-boggling psycho-thriller, you'll be able to watch Donnie Darko on October 11.

Ahead, find the full list of titles coming to Netflix in October.

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Here's Everything Coming To Netflix In October

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It's officially fall! This means you can don flannel, sip pumpkin spice lattes, and, most importantly, indulge in the return of really good fall television. If summer is for kicking-and-screaming riots (e.g., Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later), then fall is the time for thoughtful, stimulating viewing.

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Authorities on Monday may have discovered the bodies of two long-missing hikers, found locked in an embrace, in Joshua Tree National Park -- nearly three months after the couple went missing while hiking in extreme heat.

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Authorities on Monday may have discovered the bodies of two long-missing hikers, found locked in an embrace, in Joshua Tree National Park -- nearly three months after the couple went missing while hiking in extreme heat.

While no cause of death was immediately given, pending an autopsy, it's believed the intense conditions contributed to the pair's demise.

A search team discovered the remains in a remote area of the park after months of combing through the place for Joseph Orbeso, 21, and Rachel Nguyen, 21, FOX11 Los Angeles reported. Gilbert Orbeso, Joseph's father, was part of the search team that discovered the bodies.

"We hope that they can rest in peace now,'' Orbeso told KESQ Sunday afternoon. "I believed that I was going to find them. I didn't know when. But I had my answer today.''

The coroner's office is working to formally identify the remains as Joseph Orbeso and Nguyen. The couple from Lakewood was reported missing on July 28 after they didn't check out of their Airbnb rental. They were last seen hiking in the park a day before, when temperatures topped 100 degrees. Officials said there's no water in the park and the heat created dangerous conditions for people.

The couple's car was discovered more than a week after their disappearance.

Orbeso's father added he feels a "sense of relief" after the remains were discovered.

"I feel that we have closure,'' he said. "And we know we found them. That was our main goal was to find them."

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Bodies of missing California hikers found locked in embrace, cops say

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Authorities on Monday may have discovered the bodies of two long-missing hikers, found locked in an embrace, in Joshua Tree National Park -- nearly three months after the couple went missing while hiking in extreme heat. While no cause of death was immediately given, pending an autopsy, it's believed the intense conditions contributed to the pair's demise.

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Mudslide hits Puerto Rico neighborhood that Trump visited

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Residents in Guaynabo - where President Trump tossed paper towels to crowds - say they have seen no federal help, and now they've lost a key bridge.

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People stop looking for missing oil worker.

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Officials warned that oil may be leaking into Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans after a large rig explosion injured at least 7 people and left one missing on Sunday.

Witnesses reported hearing loud explosions, seeing a large fireball and cloud of smoke after an oil transfer station went up in the lake near the city of Kenner, just outside New Orleans.

The Associated Press

The Coast Guard said it was coordinating search efforts for the missing man and dispatched two rescue boats and a helicopter rescue crew. Local fire officials said the blaze was under control but that oil may be leaking into the lake.

Seven people were transferred to local hospitals. Five of them were initially taken to a trauma center and were listed in critical condition with "blast type injuries and burns," according to Michael Guillot, director of East Jefferson Emergency Medical Services

The Associated Press

Early on Monday Guillot updated the trauma patients' conditions to one critical, three serious and one stable.

Investigators arrived on the scene Sunday and were looking into reports of cleaning chemicals on the rig triggering the blast, officials said.

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Possible leak after oil rig explosion near New Orleans injures 7; 1 missing

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Officials warned that oil may be leaking into Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans after a large rig explosion injured at least 7 people and left one missing on Sunday. Witnesses reported hearing loud explosions, seeing a large fireball and cloud of smoke after an oil transfer station went up in the...

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Mudslide in the neighborhood where Trump threw paper towels.

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Residents in Guaynabo - where President Trump tossed paper towels to crowds - say they have seen no federal help, and now they've lost a key bridge.

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Florida man with mental disorder kills mom's friend for pursuing his imaginary girlfriend.

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A Florida man started shooting at police after he killed a family friend -- who he believed was flirting with his imaginary girlfriend, officials said.
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Brian Disario, 30, of Port Richey, allegedly shot and killed his mother's friend, David Armstrong, 56, because he believed the man was flirting with his girlfriend -- who did not exist -- FOX13 reported.

Disario's mother reportedly called police after the shooting, saying her son was mentally ill and had shot someone in the garage.

"My son shot someone. He is schizophrenic. Please get the officers and ambulance here now. He's got a loaded gun," Disario's mother told police, according to a 911 recording.
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Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at the scene holding weapons, body cam footage showed. One of the officers asked Disario to show his hands but the suspect shot at the deputies who returned fire, officials said.

Disario began walking toward a school, a few hundred feet away, which was immediately placed on lockdown during the incident.

"[The deputies] made a conscious decision to do anything they had to do to protect those kids in school and protect the community," Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference. "Probably moments before this they were driving on patrol and doing what they had to do and seconds later, they're in a life-and-death situation, putting their lives on the line."

After the shootout, Disario went back to the home and killed himself, Nocco said.

WFLA reported a robot was sent inside the home, where it found Disario dead.
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Nocco said Disario had an AR-15 rifle and .22 caliber rifle. It was not immediately clear how he obtained the guns.

The deputies involved in the shootout were placed on administrative leave while police investigated the incident, WFLA reported.

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Florida man kills mom's friend for pursuing his imaginary girlfriend

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A Florida man started shooting at police after he killed a family friend -- who he believed was flirting with his imaginary girlfriend, officials said. WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Brian Disario, 30, of Port Richey, allegedly shot and killed his mother's friend, David Armstrong, 56, because he believed the man was flirting with his girlfriend -- who did not exist -- FOX13 reported.

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Mom is arrested for putting her 2 children in the oven.

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.

Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday.

A third boy, 3-year-old Jameel Penn Jr., was found unharmed.

Williams waived a court appearance Monday and was denied bail.

The father of all three children, Jameel Penn, says Williams called him by video chat Friday night to tell him his children were dead. Penn says he called police after seeing his sons on the floor.

Williams' sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth, says Williams should be put on suicide watch in the Fulton County jail.

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Atlanta mom charged with murder after allegedly putting 2 young sons in oven

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on. Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m.

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Heather Ross recalls Carrie Fisher giving cow tongue to a unnamed producer that tried to assault her. He had pulled her over in the car, and when she refused him he said she would never make it in "his business." When Ross told Fisher the story, she sent him a cow tongue in a box with a note that said, "If you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!'"

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Wildfires in Portugal kill at least 32 people, including a one- month old infant.

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A spate of wildfires in Portugal has killed at least 32 people, including a one-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making this year by far the deadliest on record for forest blazes in the country.

In neighboring Spain, wildfires also killed at least four people and prompted the evacuation of thousands in the northwest region of Galicia, as the remnants of winds from Hurricane Ophelia fanned the flames along Iberia's Atlantic coast.

The late-season fires returned to Portugal four months after a summer blaze claimed 64 lives in one night. This year's current total of 96 deaths is far higher than the previous annual record of 25, in 1966.

A one-month-old baby was among the dead, the Civil Protection Agency said Monday. It was found near Tabua, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Lisbon, and the bodies of its parents reportedly were found nearby. Officials did not provide further details.

More than 50 people were injured, 15 of them seriously, and nine people were reported missing in the blazes that broke out over the weekend, according to the Civil Protection Agency.

More than 5,300 firefighters with more than 1,600 vehicles were still battling the fires through dense pine and eucalyptus forests Monday.

Portugal endures widespread forest blazes every summer. Most fires are set deliberately, officials say, and spread quickly due to poor forest management which leaves debris that fuels fires.

Emergency services recorded 523 wildfires Sunday, the highest number in a single day this year and the highest on one day in more than a decade. "You don't see that in any other country in the world," said Civil Protection Agency spokeswoman Patricia Gaspar.

A prolonged drought has made the calamity worse this year.

"We have all our firefighters out there doing everything they can," said Home Affairs Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa, who is in charge of emergency services and has been the target of criticism for her handling of the tragedy.

She said climate change has brought an additional factor into the battle against woodland fires. Due to climate change, "large-scale catastrophes are now a reality all over the world," Urbano de Sousa said. That meant more effort has to be put into preventive measures, she said.

Spain's prime minister focused on criminal intent, and said authorities were certain the fires were caused by arsonists.

"What we are seeing here doesn't happen accidentally. This has been induced," Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who is from Galicia, said during a visit to a Galician fire department.

Officials in both countries said they expected that rain and cooler weather forecast for later Monday would help put out the fires.

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Aritz Parra in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.

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A spate of wildfires in Portugal has killed at least 32 people, including a one-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making this year by far the deadliest on record for forest blazes in the country. In neighboring Spain, wildfires also killed at least four people and prompted the...

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A man was arrested for helping his girlfriend kill herself after she said she had stage 4 cancer

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A man was arrested and charged with assisted suicide after his girlfriend reportedly told him she would rather die in his arms than continue living with stage four cancer, according to court documents.

After Matthew Stubbendieck, 41, led authorities to the woods where his girlfriend Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan, 38, cut her own wrists, an autopsy revealed she didn't have any cancerous masses or tumors in her body.

Wilemon-Sullivan told her boyfriend of more than a year that the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes of her neck, armpit and stomach, according to court records.

The 38-year-old said she wanted to die in his arms, and the couple planned her suicide in phone calls and texts, KETV reported.

Stubbendieck told authorities he had never accompanied his girlfriend to medical appointments, according to the records. He said he didn't think she had a regular doctor, but that she had been diagnosed and treated in emergency rooms.

In late July, she left her three children behind in Florida and flew to meet Stubbendieck in his home state of Nebraska, according to an affidavit cited by KETV.

They walked into an area called Acapulco Lake, where they stayed for several hours as she tried to kill herself, according to the records.

Authorities said Stubbendieck tried to suffocate her twice, but stopped because she appeared to be suffering.

She was still able to whisper when he left her around 9:30 p.m., and he returned the next day to find Wilemon-Sullivan dead with wounds a doctor said were consistent with self-inflicted cuts.

An investigation found Wilemon-Sullivan had chemicals in her system, including morphine. While there was nothing to prove she had cancer, the evidence didn't conclusively prove she was cancer-free either, Lt. Larry Burke told the Omaha World-Herald. The cause of her death in a final autopsy report was also undetermined.

While Stubbendieck said he promised his girlfriend not to tell anyone about her death for five or six months, he contacted the police three days later because the secret was "destroying his family" according to court records.

Her family members are now calling for authorities to prosecute Stubbendieck "to the fullest extent allowable under Nebraska law."

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The United States has made an urgent call for calm in northern Iraq as Kurdish fighters and Iraqi forces

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Iraqi forces seized the coveted oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Monday after three years under Kurdish control. The Kurds had taken the city in 2014 after pushing ISIS extremists from the territory when Iraqi forces abandoned it.

But Iraqi Prime Minsiter Haider al-Abadi made clear his forces would eventually come back for it and he ordered the operation last weekend, weeks after the Kurds held an independence referendum claiming the disputed city as their own.

At least 16 Kurdish fighters were killed in the operation, Kurdish Peshmerga commanders said, claiming Iraqi forces have used US-supplied weapons against them.

US President Donald Trump insisted Washington would not take sides in the dispute. "We don't like the fact that they're clashing. We're not taking sides," Trump told reporters at the White House.

"We've had for many years a very good relationship with the Kurds as you know and we've also been on the side of Iraq, even though we should have never been there in the first place. We should never have been there. But we're not taking sides in that battle."

The operation puts the US in a dilemma and highlights the complexities of the fight against ISIS -- Washington arms and supports both the Iraqi forces and Kurdish fighters. It also raises the long unanswered questions of how territory might eventually be divided along ethnic lines if ISIS is finally defeated.

The State Department called for calm between the two sides.

"The United States is very concerned by reports of violence around Kirkuk, Iraq. We are monitoring the situation closely and call on all parties to coordinate military activities and restore calm," spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement overnight.

The US is trying to get its allies in Iraq to stay focused on ISIS, but as the extremist group is now close to defeat in the country, both sides are clearly thinking about how former ISIS territory might be divided.

"We strongly urge all parties to avoid provocations that can be exploited by Iraq's enemies who are interested in fueling ethnic and sectarian conflict. In particular, we note that there is still much work to be done to defeat ISIS in Iraq, and continued tensions between Iraqi and Kurdish forces distract from this vital mission. The United States will continue to stand with our Iraqi partners to ensure ISIS's defeat," Nauert said.

What's happening?

The Iraqi operation began on Sunday with forces seizing key assets, including the key Baba Karkar oil and gas field and the K1 military base, Iraqi counterterrorism spokesman Sabah al-Noman told CNN. By Monday, Iraqi forces had seized the entire city and set up checkpoints on its perimeter.

The greater Kirkuk province has one of the biggest oil fields in the country -- more than 6% of the world's oil comes from the area.

Iraqi forces fled Kirkuk in 2014 as ISIS fighters attempted to secure the territory, shortly after taking over the city of Mosul and establishing their so-called Islamic caliphate across the northwest of the country. The Kurds sent in their fighters and claimed the city.

Kirkuk was historically a Kurdish-majority Iraqi town, but during his rule, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein moved Arab families in and Kurdish families out to change the area's ethnography, under a policy termed "Arabization." It's also home to Sunni Arabs and Turkmen.

The city has suffered a series of major attacks over the past decade from extremists, including al Qaeda in Iraq, targeting mostly security forces there.

After the fall of Saddam, Kurds began returning to Kirkuk, repopulating the city and its surrounding areas in the event of an eventual referendum on whether the city should be part of a future Kurdistan or remain in Iraq.

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Iraqi forces seized the coveted oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Monday after three years under Kurdish control. The Kurds had taken the city in 2014 after pushing ISIS extremists from the territory when Iraqi forces abandoned it.

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A Florida man started shooting at police after he killed a family friend -- who he believed was flirting with his imaginary girlfriend, officials said.
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Brian Disario, 30, of Port Richey, allegedly shot and killed his mother's friend, David Armstrong, 56, because he believed the man was flirting with his girlfriend -- who did not exist -- FOX13 reported.

Disario's mother reportedly called police after the shooting, saying her son was mentally ill and had shot someone in the garage.

"My son shot someone. He is schizophrenic. Please get the officers and ambulance here now. He's got a loaded gun," Disario's mother told police, according to a 911 recording.
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Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at the scene holding weapons, body cam footage showed. One of the officers asked Disario to show his hands but the suspect shot at the deputies who returned fire, officials said.

Disario began walking toward a school, a few hundred feet away, which was immediately placed on lockdown during the incident.

"[The deputies] made a conscious decision to do anything they had to do to protect those kids in school and protect the community," Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference. "Probably moments before this they were driving on patrol and doing what they had to do and seconds later, they're in a life-and-death situation, putting their lives on the line."

After the shootout, Disario went back to the home and killed himself, Nocco said.

WFLA reported a robot was sent inside the home, where it found Disario dead.
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Nocco said Disario had an AR-15 rifle and .22 caliber rifle. It was not immediately clear how he obtained the guns.

The deputies involved in the shootout were placed on administrative leave while police investigated the incident, WFLA reported.

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Hillary Clinton on Sunday defended NFL players who knelt during the national anthem, saying kneeling is a "reverent" position that is not against "our anthem or our flag."

The former Democratic presidential candidate, who was at the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival, urged Democrats to use the issue against President Trump.

Clinton was embarking on a foreign trip to promote her book "What Happened."

She said people should resist "what are very clear dog-whistles" to the Trump base, pointing to the example of kneeling NFL players.

"That's what black athletes kneeling was all about," she said in response to a question about ways to resist the White House. "That's not against our anthem or our flag."

"Actually, kneeling is a reverent position," she continued. "It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system."

Clinton urged the Democratic Party to continue to "resist" the president, saying "I think it would be a grave error for Democrats to recede from those fights, so therefore we have to stand up, fight back, resist."

Clinton went on to compare the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections to the September 11 terrorist attack.

"We have really well-respected security and intelligence veterans saying this was a kind of cyber 9/11 in the sense that it was a direct attack to American institutions," she said. "That may sound dramatic but we know they tried to recruit into election systems, not just social media propaganda."

Lukas Mikelionis is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @LukasMikelionis.

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Hillary Clinton on Sunday defended NFL players who knelt during the national anthem, saying kneeling is a "reverent" position that is not against "our anthem or our flag." The former Democratic presidential candidate, who was at the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival, urged Democrats to use the issue against President Trump.