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The U.S. House and Senate have just introduced legislation to amend the Death on High Seas Act, an antiquated law that maritime attorneys say enables cruise companies to avoid accountability

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The U.S. House and Senate have just introduced legislation to amend the Death on High Seas Act, an antiquated law that maritime attorneys say enables cruise companies to avoid accountability when there has been negligence that causes a death at sea. It also prevents families from holding companies accountable for various incidents-- or receiving a financial settlement.

A year ago, Drs. Larry and Christy Hammer, retirees from Lincoln, Nebraska, were killed in a cabin fire on the first night of their International Expeditions cruise in the Peruvian Amazon. The Peruvian Navy has concluded that gross negligence on the part of the crew and faulty equipment caused the fire and prevented their rescue.

Their daughters have been fighting for a change in this legislation.
TRAGEDY AT SEA: CRUISE SHIP RESPONSIBLE FOR COUPLE'S DEATH, REPORT FINDS
Representatives Doris Matsui, D-Calif., Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Jim Himes, D-Conn., introduced the Cruise Passenger Protection Act (CPPA) to strengthen passenger safety-- and rights-- on cruise ships.

According to a press release issued by Rep. Matsui's offic e, the bill strengthens crime reporting and video surveillance requirements, improves medical standards, and holds cruise lines responsible for deaths at sea. Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., are introducing companion legislation in the Senate.

"Standards for victims' rights should be strong whether on land or at sea," said Rep. Matsui. She continues, "I am grateful to the victims and their families who have come forward and continue to be essential voices in our work to improve cruise safety through legislative reform."

"When American citizens board a cruise ship, they expect a peaceful escape," Rep. Poe explained. "But the reality is that crime does not disappear simply because people are on vacation. Unfortunately, American passengers sometimes go missing or become victims of sexual and physical assault while sailing the high seas."
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"Many cruise ships are the size of small towns - but with few emergency services and no law enforcement, these vessels are more Wild West than Atlantis," added Senator Blumenthal. "And when something goes wrong on a cruise ship, a dream vacation can quickly turn into a nightmare.

"Our legislation will ensure that consumers know the risks associated with cruise ship travel before they buy a ticket; and if their rights are violated, this bill."

Among several new mandates, the Cruise Passenger Protection Act (CPPA) legislation would require that:

--A cruise vessel owner notifies the FBI within four hours of an alleged incident.

--Ensure that if an alleged incident occurs while the vessel is still in a U.S. port, the FBI is notified before that vessel leaves the port.

--Vessels must have video surveillance equipment in all passenger common areas, and other areas, where there is no expectation of privacy.

--Individuals have access to video surveillance records for civil action purposes.

--All video records are kept for 30 days after completion of the voyage.

--The internet website of alleged crimes on cruise ships indicate whether the reported crimes were committed against minors.

--The Department of Transportation to conduct a study determining the feasibility of having an individual charged with victim support services on board each passenger vessel.
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--Ships use the integration of technology that can both capture images and detect when a passenger has fallen overboard.

--Medical standards are created requiring that a qualified physician and sufficient medical staff to be present and available for passengers, crew members receive basic life support training, automated defibrillators are accessible throughout the ship, and the initial safety briefing includes important emergency medical and safety information.

-- Should a U.S. passenger die aboard a vessel, his or her next of kin could request the vessel to return the deceased back to the United States.

--Families of victims are able to pursue fair compensation after a death on the high sea. This gives cruise passengers the same rights as airline passengers.

Eileen Ogintz is the creator of the syndicated column and website Taking the Kids. She is also the author of the ten-book Kid's Guide series to major American cities and the Great Smoky Mountains. The third-edition of the Kid's Guide to NYC has just been released.

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Maritime lawyers say this antiquated law enables cruise companies to avoid accountability when there's a death at sea.

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Abortion might become illegal.

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On Saturday torrey smith, the 28-year-old and his wife paid adoption fees for 46 animals at BARCS Animal Shelter’s “Pawject Runway.” They also made a donation on top of the fees.

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The Cavs seal the deal yesterday against the Toronto Raptors with a 4-0 sweep advancing another round getting closer to the finals

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Emmanuel Macron defeats Le Pen in French presidential elections.

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France's president-elect spoke at the Louvre after defeating the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen. Credit Credit... Christophe Petit Tesson/European Pressphoto Agency

PARIS - Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France's presidential election on Sunday, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far-right message and backed his call for centrist change.

Mr. Macron, 39, who has never held elected office, will be the youngest president in the 59-year history of France's Fifth Republic after leading an improbable campaign that swept aside France's establishment political parties.

The election was watched around the world for magnifying many of the broader tensions rippling through Western democracies, including the United States: populist anger at the political mainstream, economic insecurity among middle-class voters and rising resentment toward immigrants.

Mr. Macron's victory offered significant relief to the European Union, which Ms. Le Pen had threatened to leave. His platform to loosen labor rules, make France more competitive globally and deepen ties with the European Union is also likely to reassure a global financial market that was jittery at the prospect of a Le Pen victory.

Her loss provided further signs that the populist wave that swept Britain out of the European Union and Donald J. Trump into the White House may have crested in Europe, for now.

"I understand the divisions of our country that have led some to vote for extremists," Mr. Macron said after the vote. "I understand the anger, the anxiety, the doubts that a great part among us have also expressed."

Mr. Macron pledged to do all he could in his five-year term to bring France together. "I will do everything I can in the coming five years to make sure you never have a reason to vote for extremism again," he said later Sunday evening, standing before the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre, once the main residence of France's kings, as thousands of flag-waving supporters gathered in the courtyard to celebrate.

But the election results showed that many people chose not to vote for either candidate, signaling skepticism about his project. And Mr. Macron quickly made clear that he understood the magnitude of the task before him after an often angry campaign.

"It is my responsibility to hear and protect the most fragile," he said.

With nearly 100 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Macron had 66 percent, compared with 34 percent for Ms. Le Pen, according to the official count from the Interior Ministry.

The outcome was a watershed for Ms. Le Pen's party, the far-right National Front, giving it new legitimacy even though the results showed that the party remains anathema to much of the French electorate for its history of anti-Semitism, racism and Nazi nostalgia.

As significant for France and for Mr. Macron's future, nearly 34 percent of eligible voters did not cast a ballot or cast a blank or null one, suggesting that a large number of people could not bring themselves to vote for him. The abstention rate was the highest since 1969.

That lack of support presaged a difficult road ahead as Mr. Macron tries to build a legislative majority to push through his program. French parliamentary elections are next month. Currently, he has no party in Parliament.

Among the odds stacked against Mr. Macron, a former economy minister in the departing Socialist government, are deep doubts about the merits of a market economy.

"We saw the emergence of very strong anticapitalist forces," said Gaspard Koenig, the director of the French think tank Generation Libre.

"You have 50 percent of the electorate that reject the market economy in a very radical way," Mr. Koenig added. "Thus, he must during the next five years convince people that there are alternatives to the destruction of capitalism that can help them."

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French citizens hoping the centrist candidate would become France's next president were overcome with joy and relief as the final result came in. Credit Credit... Eric Feferberg/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

Ms. Le Pen, 48, conceded the election not long after polls closed in France, saying voters had chosen "continuity," denying Mr. Macron his outsider status and linking him to the departing Socialists.

The vote was a record for the National Front and, she said, a mandate for it to become a new "patriotic and republican alliance" that would be "the primary opposition force against the new president."

Ms. Le Pen earned 10.6 million votes, close to twice the number her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, received when he ran a losing presidential campaign against Jacques Chirac in 2002. The 34 percent of the vote Ms. Le Pen won was the highest share the French had ever given to her party.

The election was also the first in which the National Front candidate - rather than being a pariah who was shut out of debates and kept off the front pages of major newspapers, as happened in 2002 - was treated more like a normal candidate despite the party's anti-Semitic and racist roots.

After taking over the party leadership in 2011, Ms. Le Pen worked to distance the National Front from her father, its founder. Stéphane Ravier, a National Front senator and a close adviser to Ms. Le Pen, said the party needed to go further in remaking its identity.

"We will need to make some changes, do things differently," he said in an interview as the returns came in. "We will have to talk about our positions on the euro with more pedagogy. We may also have to change the name of the party."

In her concession speech, Ms. Le Pen acknowledged that the party had to "profoundly" renew itself to become a "new political force."

Ms. Le Pen clearly failed to persuade enough voters that her party had sufficiently changed. Many of the votes Mr. Macron received on Sunday were no doubt cast less in support of him than in rejection of her. Nearly the entire political establishment spoke out against a Le Pen presidency.

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The far-right French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, thanked her supporters and congratulated her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, after pollsters projected that he would be the next president. Credit Credit... Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

Mr. Macron formed his political movement, En Marche! (Onward!), a little more than a year ago. He was initially given a slim chance of winning in a country that has never elected a president from outside the traditional left-wing or right-wing parties, with the exception of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a centrist who led from 1974 to 1981.

Since then, French politics has been dominated by the Socialists on the left and the Republicans (or their precursors) on the right.

Mr. Macron's campaign benefited from canny timing and no small dose of luck, with the collapse of the governing Socialist Party under President François Hollande, the incumbent, who was so unpopular that he took the extraordinary step of not seeking re-election.

Mr. Macron was also helped by an embezzlement scandal that damaged the candidacy of the center-right candidate François Fillon, who, at the start of the campaign, seemed certain to claim the presidency.

Mr. Macron's message - that his new movement was neither right nor left, but represented a third way, with elements of both - seemed to appeal to numerous urban voters, as well as to many young voters.

As the results appeared on a screen set up at the Louvre, Macron supporters shouted with joy. Some started singing the Marseillaise, the French national anthem.

"This is a historic moment," said Jacques Pupponi, 60, who came with his children: Noé, 11; Dora, 12; and Eden, 13.

"I've lived moments like this before, in 1981," he added, referring to the election of the Socialist president François Mitterrand. "I'm very happy about the score - it's very, very important," Mr. Pupponi said of Mr. Macron's decisive victory.

For Mourad Djebali, 30, a Tunisian engineer who obtained French citizenship a few months ago, the result felt like a personal affirmation. "I'm moved," Mr. Djebali said. "I recognize the France that has received me.

"It's a great symbol of France," he added. "It's a sign of hope. Everyone doesn't agree with each other, but that one thing we agree on is that we should not open the door to the extremes."

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Macron Decisively Defeats Le Pen in French Presidential Race (Published 2017)

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PARIS - Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France's presidential election on Sunday, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far-right message and backed his call for centrist change.

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'13 Reasons Why' gets second season

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Miss Iceland quits beauty pageant after her staff told her she needed to loose weight. She leaves a goodbye letter hitting on some good points about body shaming.

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Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir said staff from the popular contest, Miss Grand International, told her to eat less ahead of the final.

In a "goodbye" letter posted on Instagram Monday, she wrote: "I am a very strong woman, but sometimes my strength isn't enough.

"Your staff told me that I had to lose weight for the finals because I have too much fat on me and also too big shoulders."

In a statement, the president of Miss Grand International Organization, Nawat Itsaragrisil, said that when Jónsdóttir asked his staff about her weight, they said she "may be a little bit fat" and recommended that she try to lose some weight to win.

He added: "This is a normal process for the three weeks during the pageant, everyone should show their improvement.

"Similarly the staff give the same advice for others who asked what should they do to improve in order to win."

He said that he had spoken with Jónsdóttir along with the company's vice president and clarified matters, adding that "all seems fine."

The 20-year-old from Reykjavik said she was told that the pageant in Las Vegas would like her more if she ate less.

"I decided to leave ... Miss Grand international doesn't deserve my face, body, personality or heart."

The Icelandic model, who has been a gymnast since she was 10, said she hopes the pageant organizers "open their eyes."

"The year is 2016 and if you are gonna hold an international pageant you have to be able to see the international beauty."

Praised for quitting

Jónsdóttir has received support across social media for speaking out on the issue.

One user wrote it was "supercool" that the model told the contest "to shove it" when "told to eat air in prep for the competition."

Another said: "Miss Iceland is great and I hope this starts a revolution because pageants are dumb and set women up for disappointment."

The winner of the pageant, who will be crowned Wednesday evening, is expected to be an advocate for the Stop The War and Violence campaign, the pageant says, and part of her duties may include visiting refugee camps.

So, what now for Jónsdóttir?

She says she'll stay in Las Vegas until Wednesday to explore the city and and most importantly, "eat good food."

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Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir said staff from the popular contest, Miss Grand International, told her to eat less ahead of the final. In a "goodbye" letter posted on Instagram Monday, she wrote: "I am a very strong woman, but sometimes my strength isn't enough.

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Saudi women will no longer need a man's permission to travel or study or to make police reports.

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America's oldest living Olympic champion Adolph Kiefer dies at 98

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Lonzo Ball drops new rap song.

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Jai Bullock two boston doctors who were engaged, were found dead in their penthouse apartment.

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Jai Bullock two boston doctors who were engaged, were found dead in their penthouse apartment.

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9gag creates a Meme Monument for future generations

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Memes, by their very nature, don't last forever on the wide expanse of the internet or popular culture... but they could last a rather long time. That is, if you etch them on a stone monolith and bury them deep beneath the earth.

That's exactly what meme aggregator and humour site 9GAG did to celebrate its seventh birthday.

The site asked its community to vote for their favourite memes, of which a handful were selected and etched on a four-metre tall limestone slab for aliens and our human ancestors to discover.

9GAG calls it the first "man-made monument to humour" and it's probably not too far off. Unless the ancient Egyptians were thinking something similar all those years ago...

We're not too sure if #SaltBae, Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, Doge or even uh, Dickbutt, will be as revered by future humans as cave paintings are today, or simply confirm their theories that we were all idiots.

Glorious, beautiful idiots.

9GAG's monument to humour and memes celebrates the internet's array of oddities and icons... like Dickbutt

Nevertheless, the stone is buried in a secret location (note: somewhere in Europe), largely because 9GAG doesn't want you and bae heading out to the desert to dig it up.

Have a look at the monument to humour and memes in the making below.

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9GAG buries the 'memeist' monument ever made to confuse future humans - Memeburn

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Richard Simmons Planning to Sue for Alleged 'Hurtful Campaign of Defamation and Privacy Invasions'

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Rockets center Nene out for rest of playoffs with groin injury

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HOUSTON -- Rockets reserve center Nene will miss the remainder of the playoffs with a left adductor tear, the team announced Monday.

Nene left Sunday's Game 4 win over the Spurs after suffering the left groin injury in the first quarter.

Nene played only 1 minute, 43 seconds before suffering the injury. Houston coach Mike D'Antoni opted to play power forward Ryan Anderson as the backup center after Nene's departure.

Nene entered Sunday's game against the San Antonio Spurs averaging 10.8 points and 5.3 rebounds in 19.9 minutes per game during the playoffs.

With Houston's 125-104 win, the series returns to San Antonio tied 2-2.
ESPN's Tim McMahon and Michael C. Wright contributed to this report.

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Rockets' Nene out for playoffs with groin injury

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HOUSTON -- Rockets reserve center Nene will miss the remainder of the playoffs with a left adductor tear, the team announced Monday. Nene left Sunday's Game 4 win over the Spurs after suffering the left groin injury in the first quarter. Nene played only 1 minute, 43 seconds before suffering the injury.

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Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn, sources say

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Obama warned Trump about hiring Flynn, sources say

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Then-President Barack Obama warned then-President-elect Donad Trump about hiring Michael Flynn as his national security adviser in their Oval Office meeting on November 10, former Obama officials confirm to CNN.

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Royals play the Tampa Bay today at Tropicana field at 6:10

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Prisoner of North Korea: An American safe at home shares his ordeal

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Jeffrey Fowle lost his job, feared for his life and wondered if he would ever see his family while being held prisoner by North Korea, yet the Ohio man considers himself lucky.

A devout Christian and father of three, Fowle, 58, traveled to the secretive dictatorship in 2014, driven by a long-abiding curiosity about the Hermit Kingdom and a desire to spread the Gospel to its people. In May, in the northern port city of Chongjinin, he made a mistake that cost him his freedom: He left a Bible under a trash can in the men's room at a nightclub. In a nation where visitors are under constant watch, he was arrested immediately.

"I advise anyone planning personal travel to North Korea to seriously reconsider their plans."

- Former U.S. Rep. Tony Hall

"North Korea had always intrigued me," said Fowle, who arranged his visit with Koryo Tours, a British-run firm based in Beijing.
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News that yet another American had been taken prisoner by the authoritarian dictatorship of Kim Jong Un quickly made its way back to the U.S., and the small, southern Ohio town of Moraine, where Fowle had worked for 26 years in the streets department.

Few Americans have traveled to North Korea. The State Department "strongly urges U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to North Korea/the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) due to the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea's system of law enforcement."

The U.S. has no diplomatic relations in North Korea. Foreigners who have been detained or imprisoned in the Hermit Kingdom often have a shared experience: confusion, coached confessions, communication blackouts and isolation.

Four U.S. citizens are currently known to be held in North Korea: 21-year-old college student Otto Warmbier, accounting professor Kim Sang Duk, businessman Kim Dong Chul and Kim Hak-Song, who worked at Pyongyang University.

Fowle understands why many would question his decision to travel to North Korea. He told Fox News that, having grown up in the Cold War era, he was fascinated with communism. He has visited the former Soviet Union, the birthplace of his wife Tanya, six times.

Fowle hoped the Bible he smuggled into North Korea, which contained his name and family photos, would find its way to someone in the underground Christian community. But a day after he concealed it, his tour group's leader confronted him. The book had been found and turned in almost immediately, and Fowle said he knew the "jig was up." He was allowed to continue the tour, but when he arrived at the airport in Pyongyang to depart, authorities grabbed him.
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Following his arrest, Fowle said he was in an "information black hole." He repeatedly asked his guards what North Korea wanted in exchange for his release, but he never got an answer. Early on, Fowle passed the time watching television at the Yanggakdo hotel where he was initially held. He was pleased to find not just state-run channels and propaganda, but options in English and Chinese. But as soon as his minders realized the error, he was limited to just three or four official channels.

Fowle, who stresses that unlike Americans held before and after him, he was never placed in one of the brutal nation's infamous work camps. But in his quarters, he was isolated and monitored constantly. He was given pen and paper and coached on his "statement of guilt," a coerced confession he was made to re-write over and over.

Later, Fowle was moved to a heavily guarded "guest house," where he was limited to one small room. He spent up to 23 hours a day in isolation, his only human contact with a translator, with whom he took a daily walk.

Fowle said that his minders were part of the Korea International Travel Company (KITC), the state-run organization that deals with "herding tourists through the country." He believed they were carefully chosen and "well-trusted" by Kim Jong Un's regime.
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Throughout his detention, a liaison from the U.S. government kept his wife and children informed, but he said they kept the message realistic, without false optimism. His family was aware that the U.S. had to negotiate through the Swedish Embassy.

Relying on his faith throughout his detention, Fowle said he knew "God was in control." He remains grateful for the "army of people praying for [his family]."

In October of 2014, Pyongyang announced that Fowle would be freed. One month later, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper visited Pyongyang to secure the release of Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, accused of evangelizing and committing "crimes aimed to topple the DPRK with hostility toward it," and American Matthew Todd Miller, accused of "hostile acts" after he arrived in Pyongyang requesting asylum and tearing up his visa.

Although he was in the dark about events, Fowle remembers the moments leading up to his return to the U.S. On his last day in North Korea, he was called to his final "inspection" and felt certain that he was going to be sent off to a forced labor camp. Instead, he was taken to the Pothonggang hotel, escorted into a conference room and given what he said sounded like a "pre-planned spiel" in English.

"The First Party Chairman and Marshal Kim Jong Un recommended" that he be released," a handler told him. Stunned, Fowle was approached by someone from the U.S. Department of Defense who told him that a plane was waiting to transport him.

Hours later, as he touched down at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Fowle felt like he was "walking on a cloud." He embraced the family he hadn't seen in six months: his wife Tanya, his daughter Stephanie and two sons, Alex and Chris.

Since his return, Fowle hasn't left the country. One might assume that his wanderlust has been dampened by 6 months spent in captivity, but the calculation is far more practical. His job with the city was re-instated, and one condition of his re-employment was that he must refrain from taking any dangerous trips, he told Fox News.

Fowle credits one person above all others in securing his release: former U.S. congressman and former Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture Tony Hall. Hall used contacts and leverage acquired during humanitarian work in the 1990s, when deadly famine gripped North Korea.

Hall told Fox News Fowle's ordeal should serve as a warning to Americans curious about life in the rogue nation.

"I advise anyone planning personal travel to North Korea to seriously reconsider their plans," Hall said.

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Prisoner of North Korea: An American safe at home shares his ordeal

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Jeffrey Fowle lost his job, feared for his life and wondered if he would ever see his family while being held prisoner by North Korea, yet the Ohio man considers himself lucky. A devout Christian and father of three, Fowle, 58, traveled to the secretive dictatorship in 2014, driven by a long-abiding curiosity about the Hermit Kingdom and a desire to spread the Gospel to its people.

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a big search for a toddler lost in a tall flower field the two year-old ran off to look for a dog being walked by his dad in littlehampton, west sussex

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The Royals Play the Tampa Bay Rays today at tropicana feild

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Lightning bolt kills Colorado woman and her horse

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Mr. Kohl- Penn State. On Friday, 18 students from the same fraternity were charged in connection with the death of a pledge. Back in February, 19-year-old Timothy Piazza drank a lot of alcohol at a Beta Theta Pi pledge party. 

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Mr. Kohl- Penn State. On Friday, 18 students from the same fraternity were charged in connection with the death of a pledge. Back in February, 19-year-old Timothy Piazza drank a lot of alcohol at a Beta Theta Pi pledge party. 