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Canada has received around 7,000 asylum seekers from the U.S. in the past 7 weeks. Asylum seekers are political refugees who seek refuge in different countries.

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10 US sailors missing from the Singapore collision. 5 sailors were injured. This was the fourth incident with the navy this year.

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Thousands march in boston protest. Rally was taken place after the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

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Crowds of counterprotesters descended on Boston in opposition of a self-described free speech rally.

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From baby  boomers to millennials, the food industry that seeing some big chances, in particular, a loss of cooking skills in younger adults.

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Boy with heart transplant dies on first day of school

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Peyton West, 13, lived a full life in the five months since his heart transplant, his father said. But on Thursday, he died unexpectedly on the first day of eighth grade.

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In Madeira, Portugal. 12 people we killed and many more were injured from a tree that fell during a Catholic festival.

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Ex-gym teacher, 31, sentenced for cemetery sex romp with teen boy students. Former gym teacher at a private Christian school in Alabama has been accused of having sexual intercourse with two male underage students. She has been sentenced to three years of prison after she pleaded guilty to one charge.
She was originally sentenced to 12 years, but she will only have to serve 3 years in prison and 5 five years of probation.

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A former teacher at a private Christian school in Alabama accused of having sex with two underage male students -- including once at a cemetery -- was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to one charge.

Under the agreement, Charli Jones Parker, 31, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, though she'll only have to serve three years, followed by five years of probation. Parker must also follow the state's sex offender law and cannot have contact with the victim.

She was arrested in March and indicted on 13 counts of a school employee having sex with a student under the age of 19. The constitutionality of the state's teacher-student sex law is currently under appeal.

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Although the student's name was redacted from official documents, authorities previously said her victim was male.

"There needs to be a definitive line drawn in the sand that makes a statement to the public that this behavior will not be tolerated," Chief Assistant Pickens County District Attorney Andy Hamlin told WBRC.

Parker, who was the head coach for the girls' basketball team and taught physical education at Pickens Academy, had sex 11 times with one of the students between October 2014 and March 2016 - including at her home and in a cemetery.

Not long after Parker's arrest, her husband Jamie, who also taught at the school and was the boys' basketball coach, was charged with having sex with a female student.

"Nobody wants to have to see their kids going through something like that. I've tried three or four of those cases in the last year and it's hard on the kids and it's hard on the parents," said Hamlin.

Parker has been ordered to begin serving her sentence on Sept. 11. Her husband's case is set for trial on Nov. 27.

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Surveillance footage shows a man on a motor bike ride into a sinkhole in China.

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Stunt driver on the set of Deadpool 2 died after jumping a curb and crashing into a window.

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A female stunt person has died while performing a motorcycle stunt on the set of "Deadpool 2," according to a statement from the Vancouver police.

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Peyton West, a 13 year old boy, dies on his first day of school. After surviving a full heart transplant in March, he collapsed on his first day of school. Medics tried for two and a half hours to try to revive him, but the final verdict was his heart just stopped. Peyton was born with hypoplastic heart syndrome, meaning he was missing the left half of his heart.

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UCF Interns find a two-headed loggerhead sea turtle. It was a straggler in it's nest. Loggerhead's are known for their large heads, and two-heads is an uncommon mutation among turtles. They released the turtle into the sea

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MELBOURNE, Fla. - This one's worth a double take.

University of Central Florida interns recently found a two-headed baby loggerhead sea turtle in Brevard County.

Loggerheads are know for their massive heads.

But two?

Double-headers are not unheard of and are among a litany of developmental abnormalities this threatened species faces.

"We often find stragglers in the nest and the two-headed turtle was one such straggler," Kate Mansfield, assistant professor and director UCF's Marine Turtle Research Group, said via email. "There are so many eggs laid by sea turtles throughout Florida. It is not uncommon to find unhatched eggs in a nest with embryos that ceased development for a variety of reasons, including developmental issues."

Among the stragglers, the UCF researchers find missing flippers, odd scales on shells, missing eyes and other developmental abnormalities.

Two-headed hatchlings are fairly rare, Mansfield said.

The likelihood of any hatchling surviving to maturity (25+ years) is low, she added, and those with these developmental anomalies face tougher challenges.

"The other two-headed hatchlings I've seen or heard of did not survive long ... I don't know of any two-headed sea turtle adults. Personally, I've never seen one."

The UCF interns found the two-headed hatchling just south of Patrick Air Force Base, about a week ago. They released it the morning they found it, per guidelines of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The two-headed turtle crawled energetically towards the ocean, Mansfield said.

"With any live hatchling, we typically release them," she added. "If the hatchling had been dead, we likely would have saved the specimen, but we don't have a facility for long-term care or study of hatchlings. And the state prefers that live animals be released."

The cause of the double-headed turtle may be genetic, developmental or environmental, Mansfield said.

"Healthy sea turtle hatchlings at best have a difficult road ahead in terms of early survival rates (a number of things eat them)," she said.

The interns who encountered the turtle didn't get samples.

"We are not currently permitted to take hatchling samples, unfortunately," she said.
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Confederate statues being removed after Charlottesville.

The statues are believed to be racist in Charlottesville. Some of the monuments are towards the family of the soldiers who died in the war. The name of the states removing statues are Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Virginia, Wisconsin. Many more are considering or have removed statues.

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Bodies of some of the 10 missing sailors have been found in flooded compartments of the USS John S. McCain, a Navy destroyer that collided with a commercial vessel east of Singapore early Monday morning, the U.S. Navy said.

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Ten sailors have been missing since the collision, and the remains of some were found by divers performing recovery operations inside the ship, Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.

Remains that may belong to another sailor missing from the McCain were found by the Royal Malaysian Navy as it assisted the U.S. in waters east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, Swift said.

"Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those sailors and the families of our sailors who were injured," he said in the statement, issued from Singapore's Changi Naval Base today, where the damaged USS McCain is docked and where the tanker that it collided with is anchored. "The search-and-rescue efforts continue."

One of the missing sailors was identified by government officials as Ohio resident Jacob Drake.

Drake's cousin, Brandie Roberts, told ABC News that he joined the Navy right out of high school at 17 years old.

Roberts described her cousin as a "hilarious" and "ridiculously smart" person.

"We are all begging for answers and begging he is found safe," she said.

Courtesy Brandie Roberts

Drake is engaged, Roberts said. He has plans to marry next summer, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

In a statement, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, offered his support to Drake's family and the U.S. Navy.

"Connie and I are thinking of Jacob's family during this horrible time and we join Ohioans in praying for Jacob's well-being and safety," Brown said. "Servicemembers like Jacob represent the very best of our state, and I'm hopeful the divers searching for these brave sailors can find him and bring him home safely."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich wrote on Twitter that he is "praying for all, especially Ohio's own Jacob Drake."

Collision followed by flooding

The McCain was heading to Singapore on a routine port visit after conducting a sensitive freedom-of-navigation operation near one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea, according to the Navy.

The destroyer collided with a tanker vessel, the Alnic MC, off the coast of Singapore around 5:20 a.m. local time Monday, the Stealth Maritime Corp. said in a statement.

Reports of the damage to the two ships seem to indicate that they were crossing paths or at least attempting to move in different directions at the time of the collision.

The McCain's hull received significant damage as a result of the collision, according to the Navy. Photos show what looks like a wide cave on the port side of the ship at the water line.

An initial report about the collision indicated that the ship reported a loss of steering three minutes prior to the impact, a U.S. official said. The official notes this was an initial report, and that it's not clear if this is what led to the collision, as the crew could have taken several evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision -- something crews are trained to deal with.

After the collision, adjacent compartments on the McCain -- including crew berth, machinery and communications rooms -- flooded, according to the Navy, which added that a damage-control response prevented the situation from becoming more serious.

Ships from multiple countries searched for the missing sailors after the collision.

President Trump tweeted that his "thoughts and prayers" are with the McCain's sailors.

Several politicians on both sides of the aisle echoed his sentiment, including Sen. John McCain. The ship is named for his grandfather John Sidney McCain Sr. and his father, John Sidney McCain Jr.

"Cindy and I are keeping America's sailors aboard the USS John S McCain in our prayers tonight -- appreciate the work of search & rescue crews," McCain wrote in a tweet.

Call for an operational pause

The collision was hardly an isolated incident for the Navy.

It comes only two months after the USS Fitzgerald's collision with a Philippine container ship in the middle of the night off the coast of Japan. Seven U.S. sailors lost their lives in that collision, and last week the Navy relieved the Fitzgerald's commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted sailor for mistakes that led to the crash.

The USS Lake Champlain, a guided missile cruiser, collided with a fishing boat in the Sea of Japan in May. There were no injuries from that crash. The Navy ship tried to alert the fishing boat before the collision, but it was too late.

The USS Antietam, also a guided-missile cruiser, ran aground off the coast of Japan in February, damaging its propellers and spilling oil into the water.

John Richardson, the Navy's top admiral, called for an operational pause in the region and "a deeper look into how we train and certify forces operating in and around Japan," after the McCain's collision.

"We'll examine the process in which we train and certify our forces that are deployed in Japan to make sure we're doing all we can to make them ready for operations and war fighting," he told reporters.

"This will include but not be limited to looking at operational tempo, trends in personnel, material, maintenance and equipment. It will also include a review of how we train and certify our service warfare community, including tactical and navigational proficiency," he said yesterday at a press conference.

ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman, Luis Martinez, Ben Gittleson and Marcus Mewborn contributed to this report.

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Alex Gordon was the first and best cornerstone player of the Kansas City Royals' back-to-back World Series teams. So, it's fitting that he owns the largest contract in franchise history.

And yet, it's also increasingly inconvenient.

When the Royals re-signed Gordon for four years and $72 million in January 2016, he was 10 years removed from being the club's No. 2 draft pick in 2005, fresh off a starring role in their first World Series title since 1985 and, oh yeah, well-established as one of Major League Baseball's best players.

Between 2011 and 2015, only six position players racked up more wins above replacement. That had much to do with Gordon's peerless defense in left field, but good offense was also part of the bargain. He averaged an .809 OPS with 18 home runs and 10 stolen bases per season.

"No man has greater symbolized the Royals' rise from charred rubble to championship rings like Gordon, and that continues now," Sam Mellingerof the Kansas City Star wrote to commemorate Gordon's re-signing.

But in just the second year of the pact, the 33-year-old has turned into a symbol for the Royals' descent into mediocrity. And it has everything to do with his once-solid offense deteriorating into nothing.

Gordon's bat showed signs of decline last year, producing just a .692 OPS across 128 games. Now it's downright bad. Through 112 games, he has a .572 OPS that ranks dead last among batting title qualifiers:

Albert Pujols has accounted for less offensive WAR than Gordon, but he's hit 18 home runs to Gordon's five. Since Gordon also ranks last among qualified hitters in adjusted OPS+ and is the only qualified hitter with a slash line worse than .200/.300/.300, calling him MLB's worst offensive player is fair game.

Mind you, continuing to play him every day hasn't been a total loss for the Royals.

He remains an elite defender, as he leads all left fielders in ultimate zone rating and ranks second in defensive runs saved. This is keeping his WAR out of the red, hence why he didn't make the cut as one of the most overpaid stars of 2017.

Another silver lining is that Kansas City's payroll doesn't revolve around Gordon. His $16 million salary accounted for just 11.2 percent of the club's $143 million Opening Day commitments. Among payroll-hogging stars, that ranks near the bottom.

That's it for the bright sides, though. And none of them can hide the dark side that is Gordon's offense.

He can still put the ball in play, as his strikeout rate is back down to a passable 22.3 percent after spiking in 2016. The catch is that he's no longer dangerous when he does make contact. Both his average launch angle and exit velocity are at their lowest points of the Statcast era.

In plain English: He's hitting the ball lower and softer. And that's leading to all sorts of trouble.

Gordon's ground-ball percentage is the highest it's been since 2009, and his spray heatmap reveals how an overwhelming majority of his grounders have been pulled to the right side of the infield.

That's no way for a left-handed hitter to live in this, the Golden Age of Shifts. Sure enough, Gordon's seeing more of those and is being humbled by them to an even greater degree than usual:

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Bodies of some of 10 missing sailors have been found in flooded compartments of the USS John S. McCain, after a collision with a commercial vessel near Singapore.

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Bodies of some of the 10 missing sailors have been found in flooded compartments of the USS John S. McCain, a Navy destroyer that collided with a commercial vessel east of Singapore early Monday morning, the U.S. Navy said.

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Ten sailors have been missing since the collision, and the remains of some were found by divers performing recovery operations inside the ship, Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.

Remains that may belong to another sailor missing from the McCain were found by the Royal Malaysian Navy as it assisted the U.S. in waters east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, Swift said.

"Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those sailors and the families of our sailors who were injured," he said in the statement, issued from Singapore's Changi Naval Base today, where the damaged USS McCain is docked and where the tanker that it collided with is anchored. "The search-and-rescue efforts continue."

One of the missing sailors was identified by government officials as Ohio resident Jacob Drake.

Drake's cousin, Brandie Roberts, told ABC News that he joined the Navy right out of high school at 17 years old.

Roberts described her cousin as a "hilarious" and "ridiculously smart" person.

"We are all begging for answers and begging he is found safe," she said.

Courtesy Brandie Roberts

Drake is engaged, Roberts said. He has plans to marry next summer, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

In a statement, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, offered his support to Drake's family and the U.S. Navy.

"Connie and I are thinking of Jacob's family during this horrible time and we join Ohioans in praying for Jacob's well-being and safety," Brown said. "Servicemembers like Jacob represent the very best of our state, and I'm hopeful the divers searching for these brave sailors can find him and bring him home safely."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich wrote on Twitter that he is "praying for all, especially Ohio's own Jacob Drake."

Collision followed by flooding

The McCain was heading to Singapore on a routine port visit after conducting a sensitive freedom-of-navigation operation near one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea, according to the Navy.

The destroyer collided with a tanker vessel, the Alnic MC, off the coast of Singapore around 5:20 a.m. local time Monday, the Stealth Maritime Corp. said in a statement.

Reports of the damage to the two ships seem to indicate that they were crossing paths or at least attempting to move in different directions at the time of the collision.

The McCain's hull received significant damage as a result of the collision, according to the Navy. Photos show what looks like a wide cave on the port side of the ship at the water line.

An initial report about the collision indicated that the ship reported a loss of steering three minutes prior to the impact, a U.S. official said. The official notes this was an initial report, and that it's not clear if this is what led to the collision, as the crew could have taken several evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision -- something crews are trained to deal with.

After the collision, adjacent compartments on the McCain -- including crew berth, machinery and communications rooms -- flooded, according to the Navy, which added that a damage-control response prevented the situation from becoming more serious.

Ships from multiple countries searched for the missing sailors after the collision.

President Trump tweeted that his "thoughts and prayers" are with the McCain's sailors.

Several politicians on both sides of the aisle echoed his sentiment, including Sen. John McCain. The ship is named for his grandfather John Sidney McCain Sr. and his father, John Sidney McCain Jr.

"Cindy and I are keeping America's sailors aboard the USS John S McCain in our prayers tonight -- appreciate the work of search & rescue crews," McCain wrote in a tweet.

Call for an operational pause

The collision was hardly an isolated incident for the Navy.

It comes only two months after the USS Fitzgerald's collision with a Philippine container ship in the middle of the night off the coast of Japan. Seven U.S. sailors lost their lives in that collision, and last week the Navy relieved the Fitzgerald's commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted sailor for mistakes that led to the crash.

The USS Lake Champlain, a guided missile cruiser, collided with a fishing boat in the Sea of Japan in May. There were no injuries from that crash. The Navy ship tried to alert the fishing boat before the collision, but it was too late.

The USS Antietam, also a guided-missile cruiser, ran aground off the coast of Japan in February, damaging its propellers and spilling oil into the water.

John Richardson, the Navy's top admiral, called for an operational pause in the region and "a deeper look into how we train and certify forces operating in and around Japan," after the McCain's collision.

"We'll examine the process in which we train and certify our forces that are deployed in Japan to make sure we're doing all we can to make them ready for operations and war fighting," he told reporters.

"This will include but not be limited to looking at operational tempo, trends in personnel, material, maintenance and equipment. It will also include a review of how we train and certify our service warfare community, including tactical and navigational proficiency," he said yesterday at a press conference.

ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman, Luis Martinez, Ben Gittleson and Marcus Mewborn contributed to this report.

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On Friday in Central Florida there was a shooting that has killed two police officers. One had died at the scene and the other has just died due to injuries. They were walking in an area known for its drug activity. The two officers had approached two men and all of a sudden gun shots went off. The man charged was Everett Glenn Miller.

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Sgt. Richard "Sam" Howard died Saturday afternoon, a day after Officer Matthew Baxter died at the scene of a shooting in the central Florida city near Orlando.

Earlier, Police Chief Jeff O'Dell said Everett Glenn Miller, 45, had been charged with first-degree murder in Baxter's killing.

The officers were in an area known for drug activity, and Baxter approached Miller and two other men before 9:30 p.m. Friday, the chief said. Howard came as backup. There was a scuffle and gunfire, O'Dell said.

"Officers immediately responded to the area and found two of their fallen brothers gravely injured on the roadway," O'Dell said.

Baxter, a three-year veteran of the Kissimmee Police Department, was pronounced dead.

Miller is the only one charged of three people the police questioned, the chief said. He also faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

O'Dell said he was found at a bar and had a 9 mm pistol and a .22-caliber revolver.

Condolences from Trump, governor

Following the news of the shooting, President Donald Trump tweeted his condolences.

"My thoughts and prayers are with the @KissimmeePolice and their loved ones. We are with you!" the President said.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott described Baxter as a husband, a father and a hero.

"Heartbroken to hear loss of @kissimmeepolice officer Matthew Baxter. Praying for a quick recovery for officer in critical condition," Scott tweeted.

Later he added: "Our grieving hearts become even heavier with the terrible news of Sgt. Sam Howard's passing."

Kissimmee is about 20 miles south of Orlando.

Case given to new prosecutor

Scott on Saturday took the prosecution of Miller away from a state attorney who has refused to consider the death penalty in other first-degree murder cases.

Aramis Ayala, the state attorney for the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida, won't handle the case.

Scott said Saturday: "I am using my executive authority to reassign this case to State Attorney Brad King to ensure the victims of last night's attack and their families receive the justice they deserve."

Ayala has sued the governor after he reassigned 24 of her prior first-degree murder cases.

In March, Ayala announced she wouldn't seek the death penalty in the high-profile case of Markeith Loyd, a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, gunning down an Orlando police officer and triggering a massive manhunt.

She also hasn't pursued the death penalty in other cases. Ayala had said evidence shows the death penalty is overly expensive, slow, inhumane and does not increase public safety.

Ayala's lawsuit was argued before the state Supreme Court in late June. There has been no ruling.

CNN called Ayala's office on Saturday for comment on Scott's latest decision, but didn't receive an immediate response.

Florida's 9th Judicial Circuit covers Orange and Osceola counties.

Other officer shootings

Two officers in Jacksonville were also injured Friday. When officers arrived in response to an attempted suicide call, they encountered a man armed with a high-powered rifle and exchanged gunfire, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Director Mike Bruno said.

One officer was struck in both hands, while the other was hit in his stomach, Bruno said. The suspect, who was also injured, died after being taken to a local hospital, he said.

And in Pennsylvania, two state troopers were shot late Friday, said Melinda Bondarenka, a spokeswoman with the Pennsylvania State Police.

One suffered a wounded hand; he was released from the hospital, State Police Capt. Joseph Ruggery said Saturday. The other trooper was shot in the abdomen. His condition has not been released.

The troopers returned fired and killed the suspect, Ruggery said.

CNN's Tony Marco and Evan Simko-Bednarski contributed to this report.

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A woman's water breaks as she steps into her bathroom, and she goes into labor. The woman's mother is told to call 911 by the son, Jayden Fontenote. He asks his mother what he needs to do, knowing that his mother nor the baby had an ample amount of time. Jayden pulled the baby out, but his newborn brother had not been breathing, so he saves him by retrieving a nasal aspirator.

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A 10-year-old boy is being credited with saving the lives of both his newborn baby brother and mother, who did not realize that she was in labor. Ashley Moreau, who was 34 weeks pregnant, said she went to use the bathroom on August 11 when her water broke.

Her son, Jayden Fontenot, of Sulphur, Louisiana, ran next door to alert his grandmother who called 911, and then returned ready to help his mother, who was bleeding out on the bathroom floor.

Fontenot's stepfather, Kelsey Richard, had already left for work, and the boy knew his mother and baby brother couldn't wait for paramedics to arrive, KPLC reported.
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"When he got to the bathroom, he just took a deep breath and said, 'OK Mom, just tell me what I need to do,'" Moreau told KPLC. "He didn't look scared, he looked calm and brave and I said 'OK I'm going to tell you what to do and we need to get your brother out as fast as possible because he's breech and he can't breathe."

Fontenot then gently pulled the baby out by his legs but noticed that he was not breathing, KPLC reported. The quick-thinking big brother ran to the kitchen for a nasal aspirator to clear the baby's nose.

"I wasn't even thinking, I was just amazed," Fontenot said. "I didn't know what was going on."

Paramedics arrived shortly after and the two were transferred to a local hospital where doctors called Fontenot's actions life-saving.

"I am so proud of him," Moreau told KPLC. "He is brave, he is strong, he is my hero. I'm just so proud of him. He saved me and his brother's life."
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Fontenot's baby brother, named Dax, has been recovering in the hospital's NICU but is expected to be released in the coming days. Fontenot was recognized by the city's mayor at a special assembly at his elementary school, and Aug. 11 has been declared "Jayden Fontenot Day."

"You don't hear about stuff like this," Richard, who didn't find out what had happened until after everyone arrived at the hospital, told KPLC. "It's amazing how brave and everything he was. Calm, collected, he saved their life. He's a hero."

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A 10-year-old boy is being credited with saving the lives of both his newborn baby brother and mother, who did not realize that she was in labor. Ashley Moreau, who was 34 weeks pregnant, said she went to use the bathroom on August 11 when her water broke.

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A bad work environment can be bad for your health. Hostile social interactions, like verbal abuse and sexual harassment, happened to 1 in 5 US workers. Actions like this can be prevented depending on what the boss is like. Some bosses will stop any abuse from happening to workers and some bosses will treat their workers like that.

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Some dread going to work, and some look forward to it, but how important is it to actually enjoy and feel satisfied with your job?

Nearly two-thirds of US workers experience some degree of mismatch between their desired and actual working conditions, according to a recent survey by RAND. To make things worse, a study conducted in the UK found that there were more physical markers of stress in people who went from being unemployed to working in a bad job than in those who remained unemployed.

Together, these studies provide insight into the struggles of the work force and the negative health impacts a poor work environment can have on employees.

How Americans really feel

The RAND report reflects the responses of more than 3,000 Americans ages 25 to 71 on a variety of questions regarding their jobs.

"The thing that surprised me most was how many people experienced some kind of hostile social interaction in the workplace," said Nicole Maestas, co-author of the study and associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. The report found that one in five US workers had such experiences, with the interactions including verbal abuse and sexual harassment.

A big factor in this statistic is the level of support that a boss provides in the work environment, Maestas said. A supportive boss can cut the amount of hostile interactions in the workplace in half, she said, and lower it even more than that for young women without a college degree.

"The top of the organization sets the tone about what this culture values and tolerates as far as behavior and codes of conduct, which filters down to all of the supervisory levels," Maestas said. "So at every point, having a boss that will either not be disrespectful or intervene if you're being treated disrespectfully by someone else is really, really important."

The study also found that nearly three-fourths of Americans report intensive or repetitive physical exertion at least a quarter of the time while on the job. And more than half report exposure to potentially dangerous working conditions.

One in four American workers said they don't feel like they have enough time to do their jobs, and about half reported working during their free time in order to meet expectations. Women report having more difficulty arranging time off to take care of personal and family matters than men, as well as earning less money.

A disparity is also seen in the complexity of jobs. Regardless of their level of education, younger and prime-age working women were significantly less likely to report having a job that requires solving complicated tasks and unforeseen issues in comparison with similarly aged men.

Although 75% of workers received training to improve on or learned a skillset in the past year, only 38% reported that their job "offers good prospects for advancement."

This study provides important information for employers, Maestas said. Within work environments, there is an attitude that if an employee is happy, he or she will be more productive. In respectful places of work, there is less turnover, so these numbers could help influence employers to aim for a better code of conduct, she said.

Seth Kaplan, an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, said it generally corroborates what is already known about American work experiences. But the percentage of people who reported a hostile environment was higher than he suspected.

"We focus a lot on very dramatic overt behaviors in the workplace, like workplace shootings, for example. Those are relatively rare," he said. "But it's usually the kind of harsh or mildly aggressive supervisor that's the chronic stressor that's there every day that doesn't get as much attention. And I think we kind of fail to realize how detrimental those types of stressors can be."

On the bright side, four out of five workers reported that their jobs were "meaningful" in at least one way, and 84% reported that they learn new things.

Is a bad job better than no job?

"Working in a bad job is not good for you. It's not good for your physical health, and it's not good for your mental health. And nearly everybody accepts that," said Tarani Chandola, lead author of the International Journal of Epidemiology study and professor of medical sociology at the University of Manchester.

"But there is some backward 'Oh, at least you have a job. Any job has got to be better than not having a job -- so being unemployed must be the worst thing for your health there can be.' It's an assumption that people make, but not many people actually test this assumption."

He and co-author Nan Zhang, also of the University of Manchester, decided to test it. They surveyed 1,116 people in the UK aged 35 to 75 years and found that those who transitioned from unemployment to a poor-quality job had higher biological indicators of stress than people who remained unemployed.

These biological indicators are an issue because they show that the individual could develop metabolic- or cardiovascular-related diseases, according to the study.

The individuals who transitioned into good-quality jobs had the lowest amounts of stress indicators seen from measurements across the cardiovascular, metabolic and immune systems, the study said.

Chandola said they did not find any mental health improvement in either the people who stayed unemployed or those who went on to poor-quality jobs, which also counters the assumption that a bad job is better than no job.

George Mason University's Kaplan said "it would be nice if they were able at some point to collect data on objective health outcomes." As the study suggests that the biological markers are indicators of eventual illness, a followup report on health outcomes would be advantageous, he said. But overall, he thought the study provided a clever new look at the effects of poor-quality employment.

Workers who don't have flexibility in their schedules tend to have more biological stress indicators, Chandola said. In his next study, he wants to delve deeper into flexibility's impact on the work force.

"You can't just look at whether an unemployment program is successful because someone has got a job. It has to be a good-quality job," he said. "I think that the flexibility dimension is really key because not many workplaces allow for flexibility and workers being able to schedule their own hours. But it is one of the ways in which people can reduce their stress levels at work."

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Bodies of some of 10 missing sailors have been found in flooded compartments of the USS John S. McCain, a Navy destroyer that collided with a commercial vessel east of Singapore on Monday morning

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Bodies of some of the 10 missing sailors have been found in flooded compartments of the USS John S. McCain, a Navy destroyer that collided with a commercial vessel east of Singapore early Monday morning, the U.S. Navy said.

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Ten sailors have been missing since the collision, and the remains of some were found by divers performing recovery operations inside the ship, Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.

Remains that may belong to another sailor missing from the McCain were found by the Royal Malaysian Navy as it assisted the U.S. in waters east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, Swift said.

"Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those sailors and the families of our sailors who were injured," he said in the statement, issued from Singapore's Changi Naval Base today, where the damaged USS McCain is docked and where the tanker that it collided with is anchored. "The search-and-rescue efforts continue."

One of the missing sailors was identified by government officials as Ohio resident Jacob Drake.

Drake's cousin, Brandie Roberts, told ABC News that he joined the Navy right out of high school at 17 years old.

Roberts described her cousin as a "hilarious" and "ridiculously smart" person.

"We are all begging for answers and begging he is found safe," she said.

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Drake is engaged, Roberts said. He has plans to marry next summer, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

In a statement, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, offered his support to Drake's family and the U.S. Navy.

"Connie and I are thinking of Jacob's family during this horrible time and we join Ohioans in praying for Jacob's well-being and safety," Brown said. "Servicemembers like Jacob represent the very best of our state, and I'm hopeful the divers searching for these brave sailors can find him and bring him home safely."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich wrote on Twitter that he is "praying for all, especially Ohio's own Jacob Drake."

Collision followed by flooding

The McCain was heading to Singapore on a routine port visit after conducting a sensitive freedom-of-navigation operation near one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea, according to the Navy.

The destroyer collided with a tanker vessel, the Alnic MC, off the coast of Singapore around 5:20 a.m. local time Monday, the Stealth Maritime Corp. said in a statement.

Reports of the damage to the two ships seem to indicate that they were crossing paths or at least attempting to move in different directions at the time of the collision.

The McCain's hull received significant damage as a result of the collision, according to the Navy. Photos show what looks like a wide cave on the port side of the ship at the water line.

An initial report about the collision indicated that the ship reported a loss of steering three minutes prior to the impact, a U.S. official said. The official notes this was an initial report, and that it's not clear if this is what led to the collision, as the crew could have taken several evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision -- something crews are trained to deal with.

After the collision, adjacent compartments on the McCain -- including crew berth, machinery and communications rooms -- flooded, according to the Navy, which added that a damage-control response prevented the situation from becoming more serious.

Ships from multiple countries searched for the missing sailors after the collision.

President Trump tweeted that his "thoughts and prayers" are with the McCain's sailors.

Several politicians on both sides of the aisle echoed his sentiment, including Sen. John McCain. The ship is named for his grandfather John Sidney McCain Sr. and his father, John Sidney McCain Jr.

"Cindy and I are keeping America's sailors aboard the USS John S McCain in our prayers tonight -- appreciate the work of search & rescue crews," McCain wrote in a tweet.

Call for an operational pause

The collision was hardly an isolated incident for the Navy.

It comes only two months after the USS Fitzgerald's collision with a Philippine container ship in the middle of the night off the coast of Japan. Seven U.S. sailors lost their lives in that collision, and last week the Navy relieved the Fitzgerald's commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted sailor for mistakes that led to the crash.

The USS Lake Champlain, a guided missile cruiser, collided with a fishing boat in the Sea of Japan in May. There were no injuries from that crash. The Navy ship tried to alert the fishing boat before the collision, but it was too late.

The USS Antietam, also a guided-missile cruiser, ran aground off the coast of Japan in February, damaging its propellers and spilling oil into the water.

John Richardson, the Navy's top admiral, called for an operational pause in the region and "a deeper look into how we train and certify forces operating in and around Japan," after the McCain's collision.

"We'll examine the process in which we train and certify our forces that are deployed in Japan to make sure we're doing all we can to make them ready for operations and war fighting," he told reporters.

"This will include but not be limited to looking at operational tempo, trends in personnel, material, maintenance and equipment. It will also include a review of how we train and certify our service warfare community, including tactical and navigational proficiency," he said yesterday at a press conference.

ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman, Luis Martinez, Ben Gittleson and Marcus Mewborn contributed to this report.

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This month we now have 31 states that have authorized the legal use of the death penalty. Many have been executed already.

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Since 1973, there have been 159 death row exonerations (as of April 19, 2017). Twenty-seven of them are from the state of Florida.

Between January 1, 2017 and July 28, 2017, 16 executions were carried out in seven states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Federal Government:
The US government and US military have 61 people awaiting execution. (As of July 25, 2017)

The US government has executed four people since 1963.

There are 54 women on death row in the United States (as of October 1, 2016).

Sixteen women have been executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty (as of October 1, 2016).

Twenty-two individuals were executed between 1985 and 2003 for crimes committed as juveniles.

March 1, 2005 - Roper v. Simmons. The Supreme Court rules that the execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional.

Since 1976, 282 individuals have been granted clemency for humanitarian reasons.

For federal death row inmates, the president alone has the power to grant a pardon.

Pennsylvania becomes the first state to move executions into correctional facilities, ending public executions.

1838 - Discretionary death penalty statutes are enacted in Tennessee.

1846 - Michigan becomes the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except treason.

1890 - William Kemmler becomes the first person executed by electrocution.

1907-1917 - Nine states abolish the death penalty for all crimes or strictly limit it. By 1920, five of those states had reinstated it.

1924 - The use of cyanide gas is introduced as an execution method.

1930s - Executions reach the highest levels in American history, averaging 167 per year.

June 29, 1972 - Furman v. Georgia. The Supreme Court effectively voids 40 death penalty statutes and suspends the death penalty.

1976 - Gregg v. Georgia. The death penalty is reinstated.

January 17, 1977 - A 10-year moratorium on executions ends with the execution of Gary Gilmore by firing squad in Utah.

1977 - Oklahoma becomes the first state to adopt lethal injection as a means of execution.

December 7, 1982 - Charles Brooks becomes the first person executed by lethal injection.

1984 - Velma Barfield of North Carolina becomes the first woman executed since reinstatement of the death penalty.

1986 - Ford v. Wainwright. Execution of insane persons is banned.

1987 - McCleskey v. Kemp. Racial disparities are not recognized as a constitutional violation of "equal protection of the law" unless intentional racial discrimination against the defendant can be shown.

1988 - Thompson v. Oklahoma. Executions of offenders age 15 and younger at the time of their crimes are declared unconstitutional.

1989 - Stanford v. Kentucky, and Wilkins v. Missouri. The Eighth Amendment does not prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed at age sixteen or seventeen.

1994 - President Bill Clinton signs the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that expands the federal death penalty.

1996 - The last execution by hanging takes place in Delaware, with the death of Billy Bailey.

January 31, 2000 - A moratorium on executions is declared by Illinois Governor George Ryan. Since 1976, Illinois is the first state to block executions.

2002 - Atkins v. Virginia. The Supreme Court rules that the execution of mentally retarded defendants violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

January 2003 - Before leaving office, Governor George Ryan grants clemency to all of the remaining 167 inmates on Illinois's death row, due to the flawed process that led to the death sentences.

June 2004 - New York's death penalty law is declared unconstitutional by the state's high court.

March 1, 2005 - Roper v. Simmons. The Supreme Court rules that the execution of juvenile killers is unconstitutional. The 5-4 decision tosses out the death sentence of a Missouri man who was 17 years old when he murdered a St. Louis area woman in 1993.

December 2, 2005 - The execution of Kenneth Lee Boyd in North Carolina marks the 1,000th time the death penalty has been carried out since it was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. Boyd, 57, is executed for the 1988 murders of his wife, Julie Curry Boyd, and father-in-law, Thomas Dillard Curry.

June 12, 2006 - The Supreme Court rules that death row inmates can challenge the use of lethal injection as a method of execution.

December 15, 2006 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends the death penalty after the execution of prisoner Angel Diaz. Diaz had to be given two injections, and it took more than 30 minutes for him to die.

December 17, 2007 - New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signs legislation banning the death penalty in the state. The death sentences of eight men are commuted to life terms.

December 31, 2007 - Due to the de facto moratorium on executions, pending the Supreme Court's ruling, only 42 people in the US are executed in 2007. It is the lowest total in more than 10 years.

April 14, 2008 - In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court upholds Kentucky's use of lethal injection. Between September 2007, when the Court took on the case, and April 2008 no one was executed in the US.

March 18, 2009 - Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico signs legislation repealing the death penalty in his state. His actions will not affect two prisoners currently on death row: Robert Fry, who killed a woman in 2000, and Tim Allen, who killed a 17-year-old girl in 1994.

November 13, 2009 - Ohio becomes the first state to switch to a method of lethal injection using a single drug, rather than the three-drug method used by other states.

2010 - Execution by firing squad is used for the last time in Utah, with the death of Ronnie Lee Gardner.

March 9, 2011 - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announces that he has signed legislation eliminating the death penalty in his state, more than 10 years after the state halted executions.

March 16, 2011 - The Drug Enforcement Agency seizes Georgia's supply of thiopental, over questions of where the state obtained the drug. US manufacturer Hospira stopped producing the drug in 2009. The countries that still produce the drug do not allow it to be exported to the US for use in lethal injections.

May 20, 2011 - The Georgia Department of Corrections announces that pentobarbital will be substituted for thiopental in the three-drug lethal injection process.

July 1, 2011 - Lundbeck Inc., the company that makes pentobarbital (brand name Nembutal), the drug used in lethal injections, announces it will restrict the use of its product from prisons carrying out capital punishment.

July 7, 2011 - Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., a Mexican national, is executed by lethal injection in Texas for the 1994 kidnap, rape and murder of Adra Sauceda in San Antonio. Despite pleas from the US State Department and the White House, Texas Governor Rick Perry does not grant clemency and the US Supreme Court does not intervene.

November 22, 2011 - Governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon grants a reprieve to Gary Haugen, who was scheduled to be executed December 6. Kitzhaber, a licensed physician, also puts a moratorium on all state executions for the remainder of his term in office.

April 25, 2012 - Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signs S.B. 280, An Act Revising the Penalty for Capital Felonies, into law. The law goes into effect immediately and replaces the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole. The law is not retroactive to those already on death row.

June 22, 2012 - The Arkansas Supreme Court strikes down the state's execution law, calling the form of lethal injection the state uses unconstitutional.

August 7, 2012 - The Supreme Court allows the execution of Marvin Wilson, 54, a Texas inmate with low IQ.

November 6, 2012 - A measure to repeal the death penalty in California fails.

May 2, 2013 - Maryland's governor signs a bill repealing the death penalty. The legislation goes into effect October 1.

January 16, 2014 - Ohio executes inmate Dennis McGuire with a new combination of drugs, due to the unavailability of drugs such as pentobarbital. The state uses a combination of the drugs midazolam, a sedative, and the painkiller hydromorphone, according to the state corrections department. The execution process takes 24 minutes, and McGuire appears to be gasping for air for 10 to 13 minutes, according to witness Alan Johnson, a reporter with the Columbus Dispatch.

February 11, 2014 - Washington Governor Jay Inslee announces that he is issuing a moratorium on death penalty cases during his term in office.

May 28, 2014 - A judge in Ohio issues an order temporarily suspending executions in the state so that authorities can further study new lethal injection protocols.

July 23, 2014 - Arizona uses a new combination of drugs for the lethal injection to execute Joseph Woods, a convicted murderer. After the injection, it reportedly took him nearly two hours to die. A state review board later rules that future executions will be conducted with a three-drug formula or a single drug injection if the state can obtain pentobarbital.

September 4, 2014 - The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety issues a report about the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014. Complications with the placement of an IV into Lockett played a significant role in problems with his execution, according to the report. It took 43 minutes for him to die.

December 31, 2014 - Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley commutes the death sentences of the four last men in the state scheduled for execution. It is one of his final acts in office.

January 8, 2015 - Ohio announces that it is reincorporating thiopental sodium, a drug which it used in executions from 1999-2011, into its execution policy. The state is also dropping the two-drug regimen of midazolam and hydromorphone.

January 23, 2015 - The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case concerning the lethal injection protocol in Oklahoma. The inmates claim that the state protocol violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

January 30, 2015 - The Ohio State Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announces it will delay the executions of seven death row inmates while searching for an adequate supply of drugs that complies with its new execution protocol.

February 13, 2015 - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf halts all executions in his state, citing the state's "error prone" justice system and "inherent biases" among his reasons for the moratorium. Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams later announces he has filed a petition to block Gov. Wolf halting executions, claiming the moratorium is an unconstitutional takeover of powers.

March 23, 2015 - Utah Governor Gary Herbert signs legislation making the firing squad an authorized method of death if the drugs required for lethal injection are unavailable.

May 20, 2015 - The Nebraska legislature passes a bill to repeal the state's death penalty and replace it with life without parole.

June 29, 2015 - The Supreme Court rules, in a 5-4 decision, that the use of the sedative midazolam in lethal injections is not a violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Midazolam is one of three drugs that are combined to carry out the death penalty in Oklahoma.

October 19, 2015 - Ohio delays executions until 2017, citing difficulties obtaining the necessary drugs.

May 23, 2016 - The Supreme Court rules 7-1 in favor of black death row inmate Timothy Foster, who contended there was racial discrimination in his 1987 jury selection. "The focus on race in the prosecution's file plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

August 2, 2016 - The Delaware Supreme Court rules the state's death penalty law unconstitutional. Attorney General Matt Denn later announces that he will not appeal the decision.

November 8, 2016 - Voters in California, Nebraska and Oklahoma are asked to weigh in on the death penalty with referendum questions on ballots. In all three states, majorities vote in favor of the death penalty.

February 22, 2017 - The Supreme Court rules in favor of Duane Buck, a death row inmate in Texas whose defense lawyers introduced evidence at trial that he was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he is black.

April 2017 - Of the eight prisoners Arkansas had planned to execute before the state's supply of a lethal injection drug expires, four are put to death: Ledell Lee, Jack Jones, Marcel Williams, and Kenneth Williams. The other four - Jason McGehee, Stacey Johnson, Don Davis and Bruce Ward - receive stays of execution.

April 25, 2017 - The Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission releases a report recommending the continuation of the moratorium on the death penalty, citing the need for significant reforms.

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Since 1973, there have been 159 death row exonerations (as of April 19, 2017). Twenty-seven of them are from the state of Florida. Between January 1, 2017 and July 28, 2017, 16 executions were carried out in seven states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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In 2014 Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed their classmate, Payton Leutner, 19 times to impress a fictional character named Slender Man. Anissa Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree homicide. There will be a trial in September to determine if she is legally responsible for the crime or if she is not guilty by reason of mental illness. If she is found guilty she could face 10 years in prison and if she is found not guilty she will spend 3 years in a mental hospital.

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One of two Wisconsin girls charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress the fictitious horror character Slender Man pleaded guilty Monday, but she still faces a trial in the case next month focused on her mental health.

Anissa Weier, 15, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree homicide as a party to a crime, with use of a deadly weapon. She initially faced a charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the 2014 attack on Payton Leutner in park in Waukesha, a city west of Milwaukee.

Weier spoke at length during the hearing, telling Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael O. Bohren that she understood her plea and its ramifications. She also explained her motivation for participating in her classmate's stabbing.

"I believed that if I didn't go through with it, Slender Man would come and attack and kill myself, my friends and my family. Those I cared about the most," she said.

The plea means her trial next month will look only at whether she is legally responsible for the crime or not guilty because of mental illness. She could face 10 years in prison if she's found guilty. If not, she'll spend three years in a mental hospital.

Prosecutors allege she and her co-defendant, Morgan Geyser, stabbed Leutner 19 times in a wooded area following a sleepover, then left her. The girls planned to walk hundreds of miles north to meet Slender Man in a forest. Both suspects were 12 at the time of the attack.

Leutner was able to crawl out of the woods in the park to a path where she was found by a bicyclist.

Bohren questioned Weier about the attack. He asked her to describe what happened to ensure she understood her guilty plea.

Weier told the judge she didn't want to harm Leutner. She said she told Geyser she couldn't stab her.

"I told her that I couldn't do it," Weier said, adding that her co-defendant "asked me whether or not she should do it" when they were in the woods.

"And I just wanted it to be over with so I said, 'Go do what you have to do,' and Peyton was then hurt," Weier said.

"How was she hurt?" the judge asked.

"Morgan (Geyser) jumped on top of her and stabbed her repeatedly," Weier said.

Hours after Weier's plea, Geyser also was in court Monday for a status hearing that focused on scheduling issues before her Oct. 16 trial. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease to attempted homicide charges in adult court. Weier initially entered the same plea.

Geyser's attorney, Anthony Cotton, said Monday that he and his client plan to proceed to trial. He declined comment on Weier's plea, saying it would be inappropriate to do so.

Cotton said he and his team have been holding mock trials weekly.

"We have continued to gather crucial information from the focus groups we've been convening repeatedly," he said, adding that they "are confident in our approach."

Slender Man started with an online post in 2009, as a mysterious specter photo-shopped into everyday images of children at play. He is typically depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face. He was regarded by his devotees as alternately a sinister force and an avenging angel.

The Wisconsin case is the subject of the HBO documentary, "Beware the Slenderman." The film examines how children can become easily drawn into beliefs spread through the Internet.

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Associated Press writer Carrie Antlfinger contributed to this report.

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President Trump has laid out a new strategy in Afghanistan for the war on terrorism

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President Donald Trump outlined his plan for the 16-year US war in Afghanistan Monday evening, vowing that the US would find victory while no longer "nation-building."

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Matt LeBlanc turned down the role for Phil Dunphy simply because he thought he wasn't right for the role. The role was given to Ty Burrell who has won Emmy Awards for the role.

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LeBlanc revealed he was offered the role of Phil Dunphy on "Modern Family," which eventually went to Burrell and made him a star.

The "Friends" star told USA Today the offer came in 2009 after his series "Joey" was canceled.

"I remember reading it thinking, this is a really good script, [but] I'm not the guy for this," LeBlanc said. "I'd be doing the project an injustice to take this."

Burrell has won Emmy Awards for his performance as the affable Dunphy in 2011 and 2014.

LeBlanc isn't the only actor to turn down parts that worked out really well for someone else.

Thomas Jane and "Mad Men"

It seems hard now to picture anyone but Jon Hamm as Don Draper.

But Hamm said during a "WTF" podcast in 2011 that AMC was initially interested in Jane for the part.

"I think they went to Thomas Jane for it and they were told that Thomas Jane doesn't do television," Ham revealed. "[He's] now starring in 'Hung,' by the way."

Jane's "Hung" series on HBO didn't last nearly as long as "Mad Men" did on AMC, but who's keeping score?

Jack Nicholson and "The Godfather"

In 2004, the esteemed actor told Movieline he passed on a role in the iconic film based on the Mario Puzo novel about a mafia family.

"Back then I believed that Indians should play Indians and Italians should play Italians," Nicholson said. "Mario Puzo had written such a great book that if you go back to it, you'll see so much of what was special about the movie."

The role of Michael Corleone instead went to Al Pacino, as it should have Nicholson said.

"There were a lot of actors who could have played Michael, myself included, but Al Pacino was Michael Corleone," Nicholson said. "I can't think of a better compliment to pay him."

Christina Applegate and "Legally Blonde"

The "Married...with Children" star told "Entertainment Tonight" in 2015 that she completely regretted passing up the role of law student Elle Woods, which Reese Witherspoon played.

Applegate said she was afriad of playing another ditzy blonde.

"The script came along my way and it was right after I had just finished, "Married [...with Children"], and it was a blonde who in that first script didn't win it but ends up going to Yale, or Harvard, I don't remember," Applegate said. "I got scared of kind of repeating myself."

"What a stupid move that was, right?" Applegate added.

The star said she does not begrudge Witherspoon the success the role brought her.

"Reese deserved that," Applegate said. "She did a much better job than I ever could, and so that's her life. That's her path."

Will Smith and "The Matrix"

Fans have had so much fun imagining Smith as Neo that they have made their own videos of what that film might look like.

While he's gone on to star in other sci-fi hits like "Men In Black" and "Independence Day," Smith told Wired he knows "The Matrix" was not for him.

"In the pitch, I just didn't see it," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" star said. "I watched Keanu's performance -- and very rarely do I say this -- but I would have messed it up."

Dana Delany and "Sex and the City"

In 2009, Delany told the Los Angeles Times that she passed on playing Carrie Bradshaw when her friend and "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star offered her the role.

"I should clarify this one: I had done a movie called 'Live Nude Girls' with Kim Cattrall that was somewhat similar," Delany said. "It was women sitting around talking about sex. Darren Star was a friend of mine and he had joined up with Candace Bushnell and came up with this idea and he asked if I'd be in it."

Delany said she demurred on potentially being typecast.

"It was very much in the early stages, and I had just done 'Nude Girls' and 'Exit to Eden' and I just said to Darren, "I cannot do a show with 'sex' in the title," Delany said. "People will lynch me if I do one more thing about sex."

Instead, of course, the role went to Sarah Jessica Parker.

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matt leblanc was up for 'modern family's' phil dunphy  - cnn

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Matt LeBlanc: I could have been Phil Dunphy

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LeBlanc revealed he was offered the role of Phil Dunphy on "Modern Family," which eventually went to Burrell and made him a star. The "Friends" star told USA Today the offer came in 2009 after his series "Joey" was canceled. "I remember reading it thinking, this is a really good script, [but] I'm not the guy for this," LeBlanc said.

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A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread, four days after undergoing surgery for constipation.

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Zoo gorilla dies of cancer, days after constipation surgery

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A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread, four days after undergoing surgery for constipation.