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A recent birthday fishing trip yielded more than a record-breaking catch for the birthday boy, after what some are calling a "ghost man" turned up in a selfie.

Georgia mother Jessica Ogletree took to Facebook to tell the story. Ogletree wrote that her 13-year-old daughter Haley and son Kolton were on a fishing trip with their grandparents in Tifton, GA when the unexpected guest showed up in one of Haley's selfies.
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While her brother is seen in the background wearing a green shirt, the man appearing to the right of him caused quite a stir for the family and social media has followed suit. "Ya'll this gentleman was NOT with them today and there was no one else at these back ponds where they were fishing," wrote Ogletree, who added that her daughter spotted the mysterious "ghost man" when she was going back through the pictures later on.
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Although her daughter "freaked out," according to FOX 46, Ogletree was excited about the unexpected visitor. "I personally think it's pretty cool because today is Kolton's birthday and he caught the biggest fish he's ever caught! It looks like the man is happy for him," wrote Ogletree.

Stories involving so-called "ghost selfies" emerge from time to time. And when they do, they generate plenty of buzz. Ogletree's post is not exception. As of this article's publishing, the post has been shared over 3,000 times and received over 1,100 comments.

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A recent birthday fishing trip yielded more than a record-breaking catch for the birthday boy, after what some are calling a "ghost man" turned up in a selfie. Georgia mother Jessica Ogletree took to Facebook to tell the story.

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Mysterious 'ghost man' appears in teen's selfie

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A recent birthday fishing trip yielded more than a record-breaking catch for the birthday boy, after what some are calling a "ghost man" turned up in a selfie.

Georgia mother Jessica Ogletree took to Facebook to tell the story. Ogletree wrote that her 13-year-old daughter Haley and son Kolton were on a fishing trip with their grandparents in Tifton, GA when the unexpected guest showed up in one of Haley's selfies.
GIRL CAPTURES CHILLING IMAGE OF 'GHOST CHILD' IN BACK OF HER MOM'S CAR
While her brother is seen in the background wearing a green shirt, the man appearing to the right of him caused quite a stir for the family and social media has followed suit. "Ya'll this gentleman was NOT with them today and there was no one else at these back ponds where they were fishing," wrote Ogletree, who added that her daughter spotted the mysterious "ghost man" when she was going back through the pictures later on.
'GHOST SHIP' VIDEO GOES VIRAL
Although her daughter "freaked out," according to FOX 46, Ogletree was excited about the unexpected visitor. "I personally think it's pretty cool because today is Kolton's birthday and he caught the biggest fish he's ever caught! It looks like the man is happy for him," wrote Ogletree.

Stories involving so-called "ghost selfies" emerge from time to time. And when they do, they generate plenty of buzz. Ogletree's post is not exception. As of this article's publishing, the post has been shared over 3,000 times and received over 1,100 comments.

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A recent birthday fishing trip yielded more than a record-breaking catch for the birthday boy, after what some are calling a "ghost man" turned up in a selfie. Georgia mother Jessica Ogletree took to Facebook to tell the story.

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New owners of Houston home find human remains in attic wall.

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The new owners of a Houston bungalow found human remains in an attic wall that may be those of the previous owner, who was declared missing two years ago.

The residents were moving into the home Saturday when they found the remains in a gap in the wall. They also found a pair of red eyeglasses similar to those worn by the previous owner, 61-year-old Mary Cerruti, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Authorities are trying to determine if the remains are those of Cerruti, who was declared a missing person in 2015 after neighbors contacted police because they hadn't seen her for a while and her mail was piling up.

Neighbors described Cerruti as shy and frail, but she joined them in speaking out against a luxury apartment complex planned for the land around her house. She spoke at a 2013 planning commission meeting.

"Literally this project is going to be in my backyard," she said. "I'm surrounded. And I just don't see the sense of this project. It seems like just too many apartments for such a small space."

But the project was approved and Cerruti, who lived alone, had to contend with construction that made getting to her house more difficult. Neighbors say she rarely emerged.

A bank foreclosed on her home in 2015 after the mortgage payments stopped. Liens on the property were settled, the house was cleaned out - dead cats were found inside - and it was eventually placed on the market and sold.

Police Detective Jason Fay said the new owners were a bit worried because of the body.

"Was it someone who was killed and stuffed in the wall, or did they accidentally pass away by ending up in the wall?" he said.

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The new owners of a Houston bungalow found human remains in an attic wall that may be those of the previous owner, who was declared missing two years ago. The residents were moving into the home Saturday when they found the remains in a gap in the wall.

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Monday's announcement vacates a lower court's decision in the case of Gavin Grimm, a Virginia student who is seeking to use school bathrooms that align with his gender identity. Monday's decision means the case will go back to a court of appeals and likely removes the possibility that the Supreme Court will hear it this term.

The decision comes in the wake of a change in policy by the Trump administration, which last month revoked Obama-era guidance on protections for transgender students in public schools.

The lower court will now have to answer the bigger -- and far more important -- question of whether federal law and not just Executive Branch interpretations of it treat discrimination on the basis of gender identity as tantamount to sex discrimination. The Supreme Court's announcement has the effect of letting a lower court answer that question first.

"While we're disappointed that the Supreme Court will not be hearing Gavin's case this term, the overwhelming level of support shown for Gavin and trans students by people across the country throughout this process shows that the American people have already moved in the right direction and that the rights of trans people cannot be ignored," said Joshua Block, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing Grimm. "This is a detour, not the end of the road, and we'll continue to fight for Gavin and other transgender people to ensure that they are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve."

Last April, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Grimm, who fought a school board policy that denied him access to the boys' bathroom but allowed him the use of recently constructed single-stall unisex restrooms.

When siding with Grimm and against the school district, the appeals court deferred to the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX.

The Gloucester County School Board, which had appealed the case, said it looked "forward to explaining why its common sense restroom and locker room policy is legal under the Constitution and federal law."

Activists on both sides of the issue quickly weighed in on the ruling.

"It only makes sense for the Supreme Court to vacate the 4th Circuit's earlier decision and instruct it to reconsider this case. The 4th Circuit should affirm the plain meaning of Title IX, which protects boys' and girls' privacy in locker rooms, showers, and restrooms," Aliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Kerri Kupec said in a statement. "School officials should be free to protect their students' privacy, safety, and dignity without federal government interference."

An LGBT-rights group, however, said "we remain confident" that Grimm will prevail.

"The Supreme Court has missed an opportunity to end the painful discrimination currently faced by tens of thousands of transgender students nationwide," Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network Executive Director Eliza Byard said. "In the meantime trans students are left without clear protections from our Federal government while the case is reheard."

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Monday's announcement vacates a lower court's decision in the case of Gavin Grimm, a Virginia student who is seeking to use school bathrooms that align with his gender identity. Monday's decision means the case will go back to a court of appeals and likely removes the possibility that the Supreme Court will hear it this term.

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Quicker. Smarter. More dangerous.

North Korea's missile program is evolving, experts say, as the country develops and produces missiles at a faster rate, and deploys them in ways which potentially help evade new and existing defenses.

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North Korea's missile program is evolving, experts say, as the countrydevelops and produces missiles at a faster rate, and deploys them in ways which potentially help evade new and existing defenses.

"They did a launch a month ago, they're now launching (more) in 30 days, that's a third of the time they used to need," Carl Schuster, Hawaii Pacific University professor and former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center told CNN.

On Monday, North Korea launched four intermediate-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, three of which landed within 200 nautical miles of Japan's coastline and the country's Japan's exclusive economic zone.

It came less than a month after North Korea launched the Pukguksong-2,a new type of missile which uses solid rocket fuel which allows for faster fueling before launch.

Just over five months earlier, they fired three missiles more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) into Japan's air defense zone.

"There's two ways to look at it -- one, they're quicker at doing the (launch) set up (and) they're quicker at making the missiles and transporting them," Schuster said.

"Keep in mind if they're doing a test shot you want to keep some (missiles) in reserve in case you go to war, so you're shooting a missile that is operationally spare. That means their missile stockpiles are larger than they were before."

Can North Korea overwhelm THAAD?

Not only is North Korea producing more missiles, their techniques are getting more advanced.

Jeffrey Lewis, adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, told CNN these launches were, in fact, North Korea's way of signaling that they're not testing missiles anymore.

"They're testing the units that fire the missiles. Can you fire them all at once to overwhelm a missile defense?" he said.

"This is the sort of behavior you see from a state that is planning to deploy nuclear weapons to its military units. That's a change that's important."

North Korea announced last September it had successfully detonated a nuclear warhead capable of being mounted on ballistic missiles, however some analysts doubt that claim.

Recent missile tests come as South Korea pushes to deploy a US-made THAAD missile defense system as a deterrent to any North Korean launches.

Lewis said multiple missiles fired simultaneously could be a technique to avoid THAAD, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense. "That's a basic missile defense countermeasure," he said.

"It's just harder for something like THAAD to deal with four targets at once rather than one. If you plan to use a nuclear missile on a target in South Korea, you want to fire them all at the same time."

Warning against South Korea drills

Most experts said North Korea's missile launch on Monday was in retaliation for the start of South Korea's annual military drills with the United States on March 1, also known as Foal Eagle.

"North Korea was looking for them to be scaled down somewhat so this maybe some way of expressing their discontent and warning the US and South Koreans that they are not going to tolerate being pushed around by large intimidating exercises," Josh Pollack, editor of the Nonproliferation Review told CNN.

Lewis said North Korea was demonstrating that any US or South Korean invasion would be met with nuclear force.

"The fact that they programmed against the US exercises is a message that now that they have nuclear weapons, on the first day of (a) war, they're not going to sit. They're going to use them," he said.

Launch likely to infuriate China

The launch comes as China, North Korea's closest international ally, convenes its annual National People's Congress in Beijing.

"They won't be happy," Pollack said. "(North Korea) wants to signal they do not feel the need to provide formal warning to the Chinese and show deference to them anymore (although) they may be doing it in private."

It is just the latest example of Pyongyang antagonizing Beijing in the past six months.

In September, during China's big international moment at the G20 in Hangzhou, North Korea fired three missiles into the Sea of Japan.

In February, North Korean agents were accused of murdering the exiled half-brother of Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Nam, who was widely considered to be under China's protection. North Korea denies any involvement.

"They don't care (about China)," Lewis said. "There's always been a kind of relationship of coercion or bullying (between the two) ... It's fairly standard for North Korea to find that infuriating."

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97-year-old twin sisters possibly freeze to death after they both fall

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Both were found dead the next morning, and police believe they may have frozen to death.

The tragic deaths took place over the weekend in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Martha Williams was walking to her car after having dinner with her sister Jean Haley on Friday.

"Ms. Williams may have fallen in the driveway," Police Chief John LaCoss said in a statement. "Ms. Haley may have tripped on a rug on the floor of the garage as she attempted to enter her house to call for assistance."

The precise cause of death hasn't been issued but extremely cold temperatures might have been a factor in the deaths, La Coss said.

CNN's Joe Sutton contributed to this report.

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Both were found dead the next morning, and police believe they may have frozen to death. The tragic deaths took place over the weekend in Barrington, Rhode Island. Martha Williams was walking to her car after having dinner with her sister Jean Haley on Friday.

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many tombstones at a Jewish cemetery were damaged, yet it wasn't vandalism. they were damaged by environmental cause

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A New York City Police Department hate-crime task force had been investigating whether the damage to the granite and marble tombstones at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn was intentional.

The task force concluded its investigation on Sunday, finding that the cause was environmental, which can include soil erosion and lack of maintenance.

News of the disturbed tombstones cameamid a series of bomb threats and vandalism targeting Jewish institutions, including cemeteries, schools and community centers.

Last week, at least a dozen headstones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, New York, following similar incidents in St. Louis and Philadelphia. In late February, at least 170 headstones were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will launch a statewide investigation of the vandalism at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, New York, and the overall rise in crimes targeting Jewish organizations throughout the state.

Members of the Muslim community in St. Louis have started a fundraising effort to help pay for the toppled headstones to be repaired.

Since the start of the year, four mosques have gone up in flames, according to the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which documented 139 incidents of "damage/destruction/vandalism" at mosques in 2016 -- the most since record-keeping started in 2009.

CNN's Sarah Jorgensen contributed to this report.

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Tombstones damaged at New York cemetery not vandalism, say police

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A New York City Police Department hate-crime task force had been investigating whether the damage to the granite and marble tombstones at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn was intentional. The task force concluded its investigation on Sunday, finding that the cause was environmental, which can include soil erosion and lack of maintenance.

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Bill Paxton's cause of death was revealed and it turns out that he died from a stroke after his heart surgery.

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Navy pilot builds roller coaster in backyard for 3-year-old son.

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OAK HARBOR, Wash. (KOMO) - An Oak Harbor man might have earned himself "Dad of the Year" honors for building a roller coaster in the backyard of his home for his 3-year-old son.

"We went to Disneyland and he just loved this really simple coaster that they had there," said Scott Brazelton.

Brazelton was planning to build a treehouse in the backyard, but decided to build the complex coaster instead.

"We just decided to go for it," said Brazelton. "If it was a complete failure, then that's what it was but it was a fun project and, I mean, what kids don't like coasters, right?"

The coaster wasn't just about the challenge. Brazelton built it to spend quality time with his son, Wyatt. Brazelton is a Navy pilot and was deployed in the Persian Gulf when Wyatt was born.

"Being in the military, we are gone a lot," said Brazelton. "It's a great career, great opportunity but the time at home definitely counts and definitely matters. So this was a way to bring us all together, do something constructive and spend time together doing something fun."

Brazelton, who got his wife's approval before building in the backyard, spent three months designing and building the coaster under the guidance of Paul Gregg, a retired Boeing engineer who's published books about building backyard roller coasters.

"It looks complicated, but It's really just a bunch of (polyvinyl chloride) and two-by-fours put together in a way that makes it work," said Brazelton who spent about $1,000 for the project materials and about $300 on tools.

For Brazelton, the coaster is a way for him to be a kid again too -- a way to amuse the entire family.

"Doesn't get better than that for me," he said. "I love it. It's great."

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67-year-old Liang Weiming was an avid Pokemon Go player who had a level 28 account and a collection of over 200 creatures. Anyone who plays "Pokemon Go" knows how much work it takes to get to a high level, and reaching level 28 is a remarkable achievement all on its own. But despite his best efforts, one prized Pokemon had eluded him: Lapras.

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"Pokemon Go" has gotten countless players up off of the couch and on their feet in search of the endlessly charming creatures, and it's been hailed as a great fitness tool for that very reason. Unfortunately, it seems the pure joy of snatching a particularly elusive monster was a bit too much for one Singaporean man who, after nabbing a prized catch, suffered a fatal heart attack.

According to a report from Lianhe Wanbao (via AsiaOne), 67-year-old Liang Weiming was an avid Pokemon Go player who had a level 28 account and a collection of over 200 creatures. Anyone who plays "Pokemon Go" knows how much work it takes to get to a high level, and reaching level 28 is a remarkable achievement all on its own. But despite his best efforts, one prized Pokemon had eluded him: Lapras.

Weiming finally cornered the rare beast at the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore, where he ultimately caught it. Weiming and his wife frequented the hotel because it was a good spot for Pokemon hunting, and had just come from a birthday celebration when the incident occurred.

According to his wife, the excitement of the catch caused him to have a heart attack right on the spot. Weiming was transported to the Singapore General Hospital but was unable to be saved and passed away shortly after arriving. He had reportedly also suffered from heart disease and cardiac issues for some time, so it's possible or even probable that any level of excitement would have triggered the dire event, and it just happened to be the glee of finally catching a Lapras.

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Man suffers fatal heart attack after catching one of the rarest creatures in 'Pokemon Go,' report says

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GM to cut another 1,100 jobs.

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General Motors is laying off 1,100 workers in Michigan -- the fourth layoff it's announced since November.

The company is eliminating the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant, which makes three SUVs built on the same platform -- the Chevrolet Traverse, the Buick Enclave and the GMC Acadia. But the new version of the Acadia is being built on a smaller platform, so production of that car moved to a Spring Hill, Tenn., plant last summer.

Related: GM pulls plug on Europe, sells operations there after 17 years of losses

There are currently 3,144 workers at the Lansing plant. The workers who are keeping their jobs are pretty safe -- the company just invested $583 million in the plant to make the new generation of Traverses and Enclaves there.

GM has been scaling back production and employment due to lower U.S. sales.

In November, GM said it was eliminating the third shift at the nearby Lansing Grand River plant, as well as at the Lordstown Ohio plant. Those layoffs, which were the first U.S. job cuts announced by GM since 2010, took place in late January.

Related: GM sells 10 million cars for first time -- thanks to China

Then in December it announced plans to eliminate the third shift at its only remaining facility within Detroit city limits -- the Detroit Hamtramck plant.

The four rounds of layoffs will cut a total of 4,400 jobs. The company employed 105,000 as of the end of last year. However, GM still has more U.S. employees now than it did in 2015, when it employed 97,000 workers.

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 6, 2017: 11:39 AM ET

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The company is eliminating the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant, which makes three SUVs built on the same platform -- the Chevrolet Traverse, the Buick Enclave and the GMC Acadia. But the new version of the Acadia is being built on a smaller platform, so production of that car moved to a Spring Hill, Tenn., plant last summer.

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The US Defense Department is investigating reports that dozens of US Marines shared “hundreds – possibly thousands” of naked photos of female recruits, veterans, and other women on a secret Facebook page, many of whom were unaware they had been photographed.

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The US Defense Department is investigating reports that dozens of US Marines shared "hundreds - possibly thousands" of naked photos of female recruits, veterans, and other women on a secret Facebook page, many of whom were unaware they had been photographed.

The photographs were reportedly shared on a page entitled 'Marines United', which boasted some 30,000 followers, triggering an avalanche of obscene comments, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

The closed Facebook group's membership allegedly consisted of active-duty and retired male Marines, Navy personnel, and British Royal Marines.

More than two dozen active-duty women, officers, and enlisted service members were identified by their rank, full name, and location in the photographs posted on the Facebook page, according to CIR. Some containing active duty and veteran women were also posted and linked through a Google Drive link, the report said.

CIR reports that, in one case, a female corporal pictured in uniform had been followed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina by a fellow Marine who secretly photographed her. Rude comments reportedly burst through like a flood after the picture was posted to the 'Marines United' page.

One Facebook user allegedly wrote " Take her out back and pound her out," adding " video it though... for science."

"These negative behaviors are absolutely contrary to what we represent," Sergeant Major Ronald L. Green, the top enlisted man in the Marine Corps, said in response to the CIR report, as quoted by AP.

The embarrassing activity on the 'Marines United' page was revealed by the War Horse, an NGO news organization run by Marine veteran Thomas Brennan. Within a day of Brennan getting in touch with the Marine Corps on January 30, the social media accounts involved in the sharing were removed by Facebook and Google at the Corps' request.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is investigating the incident.

"We are thankful that Thomas Brennan, a Marine veteran, notified the Marine Corps and NCIS about what he witnessed on the 'Marines United' page," Marine Corps spokesman Captain Ryan E. Alvis said, as quoted by AP. " It allowed us to take immediate action to have the explicit photos taken down and to prepare to support potential victims," he added.

"The Marine Corps is deeply concerned about allegations regarding the derogatory online comments and sharing of salacious photographs in a closed website," Alvis said, adding "this behavior destroys morale, erodes trust, and degrades the individual."

A Marine Corps official speaking on condition of anonymity told AP that at least one government contractor had been removed from his job for posting a link to the photos.

According to an internal Marine Corps document cited by AP, a former Marine maintained the Google Drive account. The NCIS investigation is "in support of two individuals affected by postings," according to the document.

A Marine proven to have posted an explicit photo of another person could potentially be charged with violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, while a Marine who directly participates in, encourages, or condones such actions could be subjected to criminal proceedings or punitive administrative actions, the internal document said.

Representative Adam Smith, a ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, has called the online behavior "degrading, dangerous and completely unacceptable."

"The military men and women who proudly volunteer to serve their country should not have to deal with this kind of reprehensible conduct," Smith said.

According to an annual report released by the Pentagon in May of 2016, the US military received a total of 6,083 reports of sexual assault in 2015, while noting that such crimes are underreported.

"Our efforts are having an impact, but there are still many hurdles to overcome," Army Major General Camille Nichols, director of the Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, said. " Reporting the crime is essential for our ability to bring care and advocacy to survivors, and hold offenders appropriately accountable, " she stressed.

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US Marines in hot water over pictures of '100s of naked recruits' posted on secret FB page

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Duterte´s Davao death squad investigated

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President Donald Trump signs new travel ban, exempts Iraq

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday banning immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, notably dropping Iraq from January's previous order.

The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump's original executive order was rolled out to chaos and confusion at airports nationwide, and eventually blocked by a federal court.

The new version exempts people who hold current visas and drops an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees, reducing it to 120 days. It also makes clear that lawful permanent residents are excluded from ban.

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The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump's original executive order caused chaos at airports nationwide before it was blocked by federal courts. It removes out language in the original order that indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and called for prioritizing the admission of refugees who are religious minorities in their home countries. That provision drew criticism of a religious test for entry and would have prioritized Christians over Muslims fleeing war-torn countries in the Middle East.

The new ban, which takes effect March 16, also explicitly exempts citizens of the six banned countries who are legal US permanent residents or have valid visas to enter the US -- including those whose visas were revoked during the original implementation of the ban, senior administration officials said.

"We cannot compromise our nation's security by allowing visitors entry when their own governments are unable or unwilling to provide the information we need to vet them responsibly, or when those governments actively support terrorism," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.

The new measures will block citizens of Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from obtaining visas for at least 90 days. The order also suspends admission of refugees into the US for 120 days, directing US officials to improve vetting measures for a program that is already widely regarded as extremely stringent.

Trump signed the executive order earlier Monday in the Oval Office outside the view of reporters and news cameras, after more than three weeks of repeated delays, the latest of which came after White House officials decided last week to delay the signing to avoid cutting into positive coverage of Trump's joint address to Congress.

The delays also came amid an intense lobbying effort from Iraqi government officials, including from the country's prime minister, to remove Iraq from the original seven-state list of banned countries.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Iraq's removal from the list came after an intense review from the State Department to improve vetting of Iraqi citizens in collaboration with the Iraqi government, though he did not specify how vetting had been improved.

"The United States welcomes this kind of close cooperation," he said. "This revised order will bolster the security of the United States and our allies."

The rollout of the revised travel ban marks an important moment for the administration, which has little room for error after the chaotic debut of the original plan. That failure raised questions about the new White House's capacity to govern and to master the political intricacies needed to manage complicated political endeavors in Washington. It also brought Trump into conflict with the judiciary in the first sign of how constitutional checks and balances could challenge his vision of a powerful presidency built on expansive executive authority.

The original order came under intense criticism as an attempt to bar Muslims from entering the country, and Trump's call during the campaign for a "Muslim Ban" was cited in court cases attacking the ban.

The new order does not prioritize religious minorities when considering refugee admissions cases.

Administration officials Monday stressed they do not see the ban as targeting a specific religion.

"(The order is) not any way targeted as a Muslim ban ... we want to make sure everyone understands that," an official told reporters.

"The Department of Justice believes that this executive order just as the first executive order is a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority," Sessions said.

Democrats responded by calling Trump's order a repeat version of the first attempt.

"Here we go again...Muslim Ban 2.0 #NoBanNoWall" tweeted Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims serving in the House of Representatives.

Working to contain fallout

The newly crafted order also revealed that the administration wasn't just paying attention to the legal criticism in the courts, but also recalibrating in light of the heavy political fire they faced after the first order's messy rollout.

While administration lawyers argued the original travel ban went into effect immediately to prevent terrorists from rushing into the country, the revised ban will phase in after 10 days. The previous order will be rescinded on that date.

Trump had previously said he opposed giving any advance notice of the ban.

"If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad "dudes" out there!" he tweeted on January 30.

The White House also abandoned the sense of urgency with which it implemented the first travel ban, delaying the signing of a new executive order multiple times over the last three weeks. Politics also came into play as White House officials delayed the signing from last Wednesday in part to allow positive coverage of the President's joint address to Congress to continue uninterrupted.

"We want the (executive order) to have its own 'moment,'" a senior administration official told CNN last week.

The President signed the action Monday morning without the fanfare he has given to other executive orders. No media was present during the signing at the White House, an administration official confirmed. White House spokesman Sean Spicer tweeted a picture of Trump signing the order.

White House officials collaborated for several weeks with officials at the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and kept congressional leaders apprised of their progress this time around after the White House drew a backlash for keeping Congress and relevant federal agencies almost entirely in the dark during the first rollout.

To bolster its national security claims, the new executive order also states FBI has reported that approximately 300 people who entered the United States as refugees are "currently the subjects of counter-terrorism investigations."

"The fact remains that we are not immune to terrorist threats and that our enemies often use our own freedoms and generosity against us," Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said. "We cannot risk the prospect of malevolent actors using our immigration system to take American lives."

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said the ban "has the same fundamental flaws" as the first order.

"We know that country of origin is a poor predictor of a propensity to commit acts of terror. If it were, Pakistan has been a far more problematic source of attack planning and would be at the top of the President's list, but that country merits not even a mention in the order," Schiff said in a statement.

Why Iraq was removed

But the new order was also delayed in part because of a debate within the administration over how to handle Iraq.

Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and national security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster had all advocated for Iraq to be removed from the Trump administration's list of banned countries in the new executive order for diplomatic reasons, including Iraq's role in fighting ISIS, sources told CNN's Elise Labott and Evan Perez. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly also supported the move.

Iraq was removed from the revised travel ban executive order after intensive lobbying from the Iraqi government at the highest levels, according to a senior US official.

That included a phone call between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on February 10 and an in-person conversation between Abadi and Vice President Mike Pence in Munich on February 18.

Those conversations were followed by discussions between Tillerson and members of the Iraqi government about vetting measures in place that would prevent suspected terrorists from leaving Iraq and coming to the United States. Iraq did not implement new measures; rather, the country provided more detail to US officials about how it screens travelers.

In Trump's call with Abadi, the President vowed to seek a resolution to his counterpart's concerns about his citizens' being unable to enter the United States, according to a readout of the phone call from Baghdad. The US official said Trump asked Tillerson to get greater clarity on vetting measures in Iraq.

Trump also faced pressure to remove Iraq from the order from some American national security officials, who argued the restriction burdened a key anti-ISIS partner. Some of those voices were holdovers from the Obama administration.

Iraq's Foreign Ministry welcomed reports of its removal from the list of countries affected by the travel ban.

"(The) Iraqi Foreign Ministry expresses deep relief regarding the executive order that was issued by the American president Donald Trump, which excludes the Iraqis from the travel ban to the United States," said Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ahmad Jamal. "This is considered an important step in the right direction that strengthen and reinforces the strategic alliance between Baghdad and Washington in many fields, in particular the fight against terrorism."
This story is breaking and will be updated. CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct Kelly's name.
CNN's Kareem Khadder contributed from Erbil. Stephen Collinson contributed from Washington.

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The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump's original executive order caused chaos at airports nationwide before it was blocked by federal courts. It removes out language in the original order that indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and called for prioritizing the admission of refugees who are religious minorities in their home countries.

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The new executive order, which will go into effect next week, revokes and replaces the controversial order that Trump signed in late January and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked last month. The new order has been crafted to attempt to withstand legal challenge, exempting permanent legal residents and applying only to future visa applicants, not to those who already hold valid visas.

The new order narrows the list of countries; it's now six majority-Muslim countries instead of seven. Iraq has been removed from the original list at the urging of the Pentagon and State Department. The countries that remain on the list are Iran, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Sudan. It's a 90-day ban on new visa applications from those countries.

Iraq is no longer one of the banned countries "because we have received firm commitments from the government of Iraq about increased cooperation in terms of info sharing and other related activities," a senior U.S. official said on a background call with reporters before the executive order signing.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said this morning at a news conference, "Iraq is an important ally in the fight to defeat ISIS."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly were also on hand to defend the new ban.

"This executive order responsibly provides a needed pause so we can carefully review how we screen people coming from these countries of concern," Sessions said at the news conference.

Kelly said, "We cannot risk the prospect of malevolent actors using" the immigration system to their advantage.

"The fact remains that we are not immune to terrorist threats and our enemies use our own freedoms and generosities against us," Kelly said.

Trump was not at the news conference. White House press secretary Sean Spicer shared a tweet with a picture that he said shows Trump signing the executive order.

A source told ABC News that Trump was reluctant to replace the original executive order and wanted to continue to defend it in court, preferring the new one as a supplement to the first. Members of his legal team, however, made the case that the first one had to be revoked, and he reluctantly decided to defer to them, the source said.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official said today that there was "nothing wrong with the first executive order as a legal matter."

Still, the provision on refugees has been changed. The new order puts a 120-day halt on all refugees entering the United States. The first order put an indefinite halt on Syrian refugees. They are no longer singled out.

"More than 300 people, according to the FBI, that came here as refugees are under an FBI investigation today for potential terrorism-related activities," Sessions said today.

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But the new executive order gives just two examples of refugees who have been convicted of terrorism-related crimes in the U.S.: In January 2013 two Iraqi nationals were sentenced for multiple terrorism-related offenses, and in October 2014 a native of Somalia who had been brought to the United States as a child refugee was sentenced for plotting to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon.

The administration has not provided additional examples.

Federal officials today said the new order was coordinated with the DHS, the Department of Justice and the Department of State, emphasizing that this would be an orderly rollout.

"You should not see any chaos or alleged chaos at airports," one official said.

In addition, the prioritization of admissions of religious minorities as refugees, which was part of the previous executive order, is absent from the one issued today.

This ban will not go into place immediately; it is slated to to into effect March 16 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.

Americans "can have high confidence that we are identifying ways to improve the vetting process," Tillerson said today.

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General Motors is laying off 1,100 workers in Michigan -- the fourth layoff it's announced since November.

The company is eliminating the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant, which makes three SUVs built on the same platform -- the Chevrolet Traverse, the Buick Enclave and the GMC Acadia. But the new version of the Acadia is being built on a smaller platform, so production of that car moved to a Spring Hill, Tenn., plant last summer.

Related: GM pulls plug on Europe, sells operations there after 17 years of losses

There are currently 3,144 workers at the Lansing plant. The workers who are keeping their jobs are pretty safe -- the company just invested $583 million in the plant to make the new generation of Traverses and Enclaves there.

GM has been scaling back production and employment due to lower U.S. sales.

In November, GM said it was eliminating the third shift at the nearby Lansing Grand River plant, as well as at the Lordstown Ohio plant. Those layoffs, which were the first U.S. job cuts announced by GM since 2010, took place in late January.

Related: GM sells 10 million cars for first time -- thanks to China

Then in December it announced plans to eliminate the third shift at its only remaining facility within Detroit city limits -- the Detroit Hamtramck plant.

The four rounds of layoffs will cut a total of 4,400 jobs. The company employed 105,000 as of the end of last year. However, GM still has more U.S. employees now than it did in 2015, when it employed 97,000 workers.

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