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Senior citizen uses cane to beat bus attacker

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Surveillance cameras capture dramatic attack on public bus in Kansas City, Missouri

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278 cases of mumps in 5 countries . huge outbreak

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To stop the spread, officials urge people to get vaccinated and to take precautions.

"The best protection against mumps is the MMR vaccine," said Dave Johnson, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, though it is not 100% effective. Though not currently on-site in Washington, the CDC is working closely with the state department of health and providing technical assistance as needed, said Dr. Manisha Patel, a medical officer at the CDC.

If you suspect someone of having mumps, you should avoid kissing, hugging and other close contact. Anyone feeling sick should contact their health care providers, local health departments or the Family Health Hotline at 1-800-322-2588, said Washington health authorities.

"We are telling folks if you're sick or you think you have mumps, stay home," Johnson said, adding that this advice is especially true for kids and folks in contact with schools, universities and colleges.

The CDC has received reports of 228 cases of mumps between January 1 and 27.

"Almost half of them are being reported from Arkansas," Patel said. "Arkansas is also having a large outbreak that is continuing into 2017."

Mumps typically begins with fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness and loss of appetite lasting a few days. Most people will then see salivary glands swell, causing puffy cheeks and a swollen jaw. Although the incubation period ranges from 12 days to 25, symptoms last at least two days but usually more than 10 days.

Mumps can occasionally cause complications, especially in adults. These include deafness and inflammation of the brain, ovaries, breast tissue or testicles. Occasionally, mumps can cause encephalitis, which in rare cases can lead to death, says the CDC.

Because it is caused by a virus, mumps will not respond to antibiotics. Doctors generally recommend bed rest and over-the-counter pain relievers.

"Our goal is simple: stopping the outbreak by helping local health care providers," Johnson said. "Make sure you and your family members receive health care."

The outbreak began with no real "trigger point," he said. "When you have an outbreak like this, it happens sometimes in one county and it kind of spreads." He noted that people in close contact, such as those attending schools, universities and churches, could become affected if one person among them becomes sick.

Each year, the number of mumps cases fluctuates within a range of a couple hundred to a couple thousand cases, Patel explained. During 2016, 5,311 cases in 46 states and the District of Columbia were reported to the CDC.

The 2016 total will not be finalized for many months due to delayed state reports and the need to "clean" the data, Patel said. "At least it does give you a glimpse that 2016 was one of our high years."

Outbreaks in just a few states pushed the numbers above the average. "We know Arkansas was one of our largest outbreaks, and then Iowa, Oklahoma, New York and Illinois -- they all have reported more than 300 cases in 2016," she said.

The CDC recommends that children get their first dose of MMR vaccine at 12 to 15 months of age and the second dose at 4 to 6 years old. In people who receive just one shot, the vaccine is less effective. The alternative MMVR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox), is licensed for use in children between the ages of 12 months and 12 years.

The MMR vaccine effectiveness is 88% with two doses. This means that if 100 vaccinated people are exposed to the mumps, 12 will still become sick.

In December, the CDC said that most of the individual state outbreaks had been occurring among vaccinated people. Outbreaks in recent years, most notably one involving NHL players in 2014, have spurred debate over the need for a third dose of vaccine.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices -- a panel of medical and public health experts who meet three times a year to offer vaccination guidance for the United States -- has begun the work to consider the recommendation of a third dose of vaccine.

A work group will consider multiple components and data from ongoing effectiveness studies and then present its recommendations to the committee for a vote, Patel said.

"Safety, effectiveness, implementation -- a number of things are considered when a recommendation is put forth," she said, adding that this process will probably take 12 to 18 months.

In studies of the safety of a third vaccine dose, Patel said, there have been no side effects reported beyond those typically seen with the shot. Common side effects include soreness in the arm (from the needle), fever, mild rash and temporary pain. Rarely, febrile seizures have been reported, though these are not associated with long-term effects.

Before the US mumps vaccination program started in 1967, the CDC received reports of 186,000 cases each year. Since most doctors considered the mumps a typical childhood disease, the actual number of cases was probably much higher. Cases decreased by more than 99% in the US in the years after the vaccination program began.

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Washington state mumps outbreak: 278 cases, 5 counties

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To stop the spread, officials urge people to get vaccinated and to take precautions. "The best protection against mumps is the MMR vaccine," said Dave Johnson, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get two doses of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, though it is not 100% effective.

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Samsung is making lots of money with the note 7 crisis fades:The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years.

The bumper earnings highlight Samsung (SSNLF)'s ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7. It's strength comes from its sheer scale -- not just in smartphones themselves, but in the parts out of which they're made.

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Samsung has emerged from the ashes of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle in pretty good shape.

The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years.

The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7. It's strength comes from its sheer scale -- not just in smartphones themselves, but in the parts out of which they're made.

Even Samsung's mobile division, which was nearly dragged into the red by the Note 7 crisis in the previous quarter, booked a 12% profit increase in the latest report as other smartphones like the S7 sold well.

Related: Samsung blames batteries for Galaxy Note 7 fires

On Monday, the company took a major step toward moving on fromthe embarrassing affair. It announced the results of investigations into what caused some of the Note 7 phones to catch fire, blaming defects with batteries from two suppliers and outlining steps to prevent a similar fiasco from happening again.

Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker, but the majority of the company's profits now come from selling components like semiconductors, memory chips and display screens. Competitors like Oppo, LG and Dell use Samsung parts in phones, televisions, and laptops.

The South Korean company's products are even found in Apple devices. When Samsung's brand image and smartphone profits were taking a beating from the embarrassing Note 7 recall, it was still pulling in revenue derived from iPhone 7 sales.

Related: Apple sues Qualcomm for nearly $1 billion

Samsung's strength is that it's "leading in terms of technology and controlling a fair amount of the supply chain," said TuanAnh Nguyen, mobile phone analyst with Canalys.

The company will release its flagship Galaxy S8 in the coming months, a key test of consumers' trust in its tarnished brand. While fans speculate over the smartphone's design, what's on the inside is also important for Samsung's bottom line.

Popular U.S. chip maker Qualcomm partnered with Samsung to develop its latest processor, the Snapdragon 835. The much lauded chip will debut in the Galaxy S8 and is expected to be in rival devices coming out later in the year.

Premium smartphone makers are also likely to be turning to Samsung as they shift to a new type of screen, known as OLED. Samsung controls 90% of the OLED market, according to Nguyen.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published January 24, 2017: 5:33 AM ET

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The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years. The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7.

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In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, former CIA Director Leon Panetta expressed concern over the remarks President Donald Trump made at the CIA.

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Samsung has emerged from the ashes of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle in pretty good shape.

The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years.

The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7. It's strength comes from its sheer scale -- not just in smartphones themselves, but in the parts out of which they're made.

Even Samsung's mobile division, which was nearly dragged into the red by the Note 7 crisis in the previous quarter, booked a 12% profit increase in the latest report as other smartphones like the S7 sold well.

Related: Samsung blames batteries for Galaxy Note 7 fires

On Monday, the company took a major step toward moving on fromthe embarrassing affair. It announced the results of investigations into what caused some of the Note 7 phones to catch fire, blaming defects with batteries from two suppliers and outlining steps to prevent a similar fiasco from happening again.

Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker, but the majority of the company's profits now come from selling components like semiconductors, memory chips and display screens. Competitors like Oppo, LG and Dell use Samsung parts in phones, televisions, and laptops.

The South Korean company's products are even found in Apple devices. When Samsung's brand image and smartphone profits were taking a beating from the embarrassing Note 7 recall, it was still pulling in revenue derived from iPhone 7 sales.

Related: Apple sues Qualcomm for nearly $1 billion

Samsung's strength is that it's "leading in terms of technology and controlling a fair amount of the supply chain," said TuanAnh Nguyen, mobile phone analyst with Canalys.

The company will release its flagship Galaxy S8 in the coming months, a key test of consumers' trust in its tarnished brand. While fans speculate over the smartphone's design, what's on the inside is also important for Samsung's bottom line.

Popular U.S. chip maker Qualcomm partnered with Samsung to develop its latest processor, the Snapdragon 835. The much lauded chip will debut in the Galaxy S8 and is expected to be in rival devices coming out later in the year.

Premium smartphone makers are also likely to be turning to Samsung as they shift to a new type of screen, known as OLED. Samsung controls 90% of the OLED market, according to Nguyen.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published January 24, 2017: 5:33 AM ET

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The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years. The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7.

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Yordano ventura robbed and left to die after car accident in D.R.

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Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura was robbed and left to die after the car accident in the Dominican Republic that took his life on Sunday, former MLB star and Yordano's compatriot Pedro Martinez said.

In a series of Monday night tweets, the Hall of Famer demanded an investigation on the matter and said he would be embarrassed of his country if the robbery report was confirmed.

Ahora es más doloroso al saber que Yordano quedo vivo luego del accidente y en vez de alguien socorrerlo, le robaron y lo dejaron morir.
- Pedro Martinez (@45PedroMartinez) January 24, 2017

"How outrageous to know that a life like Yordano's could have been saved had it not been looted in the way they looted him," said the three-time Cy Young Award winner.
BIRTH MOM SNATCHED HER 4-YEAR-OLD FROM ADOPTIVE MOTHER IN GEORGIA, POLICE SAY
Ventura, 25, passed away after his vehicle veered of the road reportedly due to heavy fog.

"Now it is more painful to know that Yordano was alive after the accident and instead of being rescued, they robbed him and let him die," Martinez wrote.

Ventura burst onto the baseball scene with a 100 mph fastball and an explosive attitude to match. He was a fierce competitor always willing to challenge hitters inside, then deal with the ramifications when they decided to charge the mound.

He went 14-10 with a 3.20 ERA in 2014, his first full season in the big leagues, and the next year he helped the long-downtrodden Royals reach the World Series for the first time since 1985. He proceeded to dominate San Francisco in both of his starts, though the Royals would ultimately lose in seven games.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Yordano Ventura reportedly robbed and left to die after car crash

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Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura was robbed and left to die after the car accident in the Dominican Republic that took his life on Sunday, former MLB star and Yordano's compatriot Pedro Martinez said.

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Deadly storms moved to the Northeast in the U.S. It's killed over 22 people so far.

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The storm was created by the weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend and then moved north. One death has been reported in the Northeast -- a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a car lot sign that was knocked down by wind Monday, Philadelphia police said.

Gusts of nearly 50 mph were reported Tuesday morning in Central Park in New York City and 60 mph gusts were recorded in the Hamptons on Long Island, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. One weather station in east Boston -- where a cold rain fell -- reported a gust of 52 mph.

By Tuesday evening much of the precipitation had moved north of Boston, though much of western Massachusetts was under a freezing rain advisory.

The weather caused the cancellation of flights out of LaGuardia, Newark and JFK airports on Monday and there were more than 1,300 air travel delays and 250 cancellations Tuesday, according to FlightAware.com.

"A little rain you can deal with, but the wind is crazy," Josh Huber, who lives in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, told CNN affiliate WCBS. "It's hollering at my house."

CNN affiliate WABC reported street flooding on Tuesday morning in Sea Bright, New Jersey, and Freeport and other towns on the south shore of Long Island. About 1,000 people lost power on Long Island, the New York City station reported.

Some snow expected

The low pressure system was centered off the Jersey coast on Tuesday and produced snow in some cities in the Northeast, Hennen said. Snow was already falling in the interior sections of New England, upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, he said. Six inches of snow is expected in Maine.

The National Weather Service said the bad weather should clear up Wednesday for New York and New Jersey.

That will make things easier for cleanup crews moving downed trees, debris and part of a roof blown off a condo building in Long Branch, New Jersey.

"We heard a huge bang in our parking lot," Rose Carich, a condo resident, told WCBS. "I ran outside to move my car but my back windshield was already smashed in."

Midwest, Plains brace for snow

Meanwhile, a storm system is moving from the Rocky Mountains and bringing widespread snow across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, the National Weather Service said.

Winter storm warnings extend from Wyoming to Wisconsin and where 6 or more inches of snow is expected to fall, Hennen said.

The heaviest snow is expected just north of Omaha, Nebraska, and just south of Minneapolis, he said.

The weather service predicted 1 inch of snow in Minneapolis on Tuesday night and another inch Wednesday.

Southeast digs out

The Southeast is picking up the pieces after dozens of tornadoes tore through the region over the weekend, killing 20 people -- 15 in Georgia, four in Mississippi and one in Florida.

The latest death was reported from Lake City, Florida, where a woman died when a tree fell on her home Sunday, Columbia County EMA Director Shayne Morgan told CNN.

The tornadoes killed more people in one weekend than in all of last year, when 17 died across the country.

Overall, four weather-related deaths were also reported in California and one person died in Pennsylvania, increasing the nationwide total to 25 since the storms hit last weekend.

Fifty tornadoes struck between Louisiana through south Florida, from Thursday through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service estimates. The majority of them struck south Georgia.

The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated.

"All you hear is people screaming, 'Help me, help me,'" said AJ Miley, a resident of the Sunshine Mobile Home Park near Adel, Georgia, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV.

Devocheo Williams, also at the trailer park, said he saw people "tossed through the air," the Atlanta-based station reported.

"All I saw was a little girl flown up and thrown in a ditch. Three seconds later, the trailer got picked up off the ground and landed on top of the mother and son," Williams said.

At least six people were believed to be missing in Georgia, including a 2-year-old boy who was caught in the tornado in Dougherty County, officials said.

Chris Cohilas, the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission in southwestern Georgia, urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get "boots on the ground" to help the community. So far, he said, FEMA has not been responsive.

"To get caught up in the bureaucratic red tape at a time of this amount of human suffering is disgraceful," he said at a news conference on Monday.

In an email Monday, FEMA said the agency "is doing initial assessments of damages in Georgia today, including a flyover." FEMA will start federal and state preliminary damage assessments for individual and public assistance this week, the agency said.

FEMA representatives were also recently deployed to emergency centers in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida to support the response, officials said.

The Georgia House of Representatives voted Tuesday to put $5 million into the governor's emergency fund to help south Georgia storm victims, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

California governor declares state of emergency

In California, where a winter weather system has unleashed torrential rain and strong winds, Gov. Jerry Brown late Monday declared a state of emergency across 50 counties, including the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco. The move allows local officials to seek recovery money to repair damage from flash flooding, erosion, mudslides and debris flows.

Early estimates indicate losses in the tens of millions of dollars, according to the declaration.

Four deaths have been reported in California since the weekend: Two in San Diego County, one in Mendocino County and one in Los Angeles County. Two more people were missing off the coast of Pebble Beach, but the search was stopped because of deteriorating weather conditions, the US Coast Guard said Monday.

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The storm was created by the weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend and then moved north. One death has been reported in the Northeast -- a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a car lot sign that was knocked down by wind Monday, Philadelphia police said.

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Where's the best place to hide millions of dollars in cash?

In a safe? Buried deep underground?

How about the box spring of your mattress?

That's where a Brazilian man reportedly hid $20 million that authorities said was related to a massive pyramid scheme.

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In a safe? Buried deep underground?

How about the box spring of your mattress?

That's where a Brazilian man reportedly hid $20 million that authorities said was related to a massive pyramid scheme.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said the suspect, Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, flew from Brazil to the US a few days ago to met a person who is a cooperating witness in the pyramid scheme case. Rocha and the witness met at a restaurant in Hudson, Massachusetts. There the witness allegedly gave Rocha a suitcase filled with $2.2 million in bills.

Federal agents followed Rocha to an apartment complex in Westborough, Massachusetts, where they arrested him. Later that night the agents searched the apartment and found the cash, packed inside the box spring of a mattress. It wasn't immediately clear if the $2.2 million in the suitcase was part of the $20 million found in the box spring.

Rocha was charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. The feds say Rocha was acting as a courier for Carlos Wanzeler, one of the founders of TelexFree Inc., a Massachusetts-based Internet phone service company. Federal authorities said TelexFree morphed into a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of around $1 billion.

Wanzeler fled to Brazil in April 2014, the U.S. Attorney's Office said, just a couple of months before he was indicted on charges with co-founder James Merrill. Rocha was in the United States to secure millions of dollars of hidden TelexFree cash and get it to Brazil by laundering the money through Hong Kong, the feds said.

Rocha faces up to 20 years in prison on the money laundering charge.

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Florida man stabbed dog that wouldn't stop barking

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Police say a South Florida man stabbed his dog in the leg with a kitchen knife when it wouldn't stop barking.

The SunSentinel reports the dog was injured in November but Michael O'Brien wasn't arrested until Jan. 20, when the investigation was completed. He's charged with cruelty to animals and was released on a $2,500 bond.

Sunrise police say the dog, named Nala, is healthy and in the custody of animal control.

Police say the 22-year-old O'Brien took the heavily bleeding dog to an animal clinic. He told the veterinarian the dog ran through a glass door. The dog needed two blood transfusions and was resuscitated by CPR.

A police report says the veterinarian doubted O'Brien's account. A witness later told police O'Brien used a kitchen knife to stab Nala in the leg.

Records don't say whether O'Brien has a lawyer.

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Police say a South Florida man stabbed his dog in the leg with a kitchen knife when it wouldn't stop barking. The SunSentinel reports the dog was injured in November but Michael O'Brien wasn't arrested until Jan. 20, when the investigation was completed. He's charged with cruelty to animals and was released on a $2,500 bond.

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Federal officials posted a picture of the jaw-dropping scene on Twitter Monday, just weeks after uncovering the cash during a money laundering bust related to TelexFree Inc.’s $3 billion global fraud case. “Photo of $20M seized in box spring following arrest of Brazilian national in scheme to launder proceeds of TelexFree,” the prosecutors’ office tweeted, along with the photo.

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Ever wondered what $20 million looks like hidden underneath a mattress? Well, the US Attorney's Office in Boston has you covered.

Federal officials posted a picture of the jaw-dropping scene on Twitter Monday, just weeks after uncovering the cash during a money laundering bust related to TelexFree Inc.'s $3 billion global fraud case.

"Photo of $20M seized in box spring following arrest of Brazilian national in scheme to launder proceeds of TelexFree," the prosecutors' office tweeted, along with the photo.

The image stems from a search conducted on Jan. 4 inside the Westborough, Mass. apartment of Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, who was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering in connection to the alleged pyramid scheme involving TelexFree.

According to the complaint, the internet phone service company ripped off about half of their participants, or roughly 1 million people across the world.
Read more at the New York Post.

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Samsung is making lots of money with the note 7 crisis fades

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Samsung has emerged from the ashes of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle in pretty good shape.

The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years.

The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7. It's strength comes from its sheer scale -- not just in smartphones themselves, but in the parts out of which they're made.

Even Samsung's mobile division, which was nearly dragged into the red by the Note 7 crisis in the previous quarter, booked a 12% profit increase in the latest report as other smartphones like the S7 sold well.

Related: Samsung blames batteries for Galaxy Note 7 fires

On Monday, the company took a major step toward moving on fromthe embarrassing affair. It announced the results of investigations into what caused some of the Note 7 phones to catch fire, blaming defects with batteries from two suppliers and outlining steps to prevent a similar fiasco from happening again.

Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker, but the majority of the company's profits now come from selling components like semiconductors, memory chips and display screens. Competitors like Oppo, LG and Dell use Samsung parts in phones, televisions, and laptops.

The South Korean company's products are even found in Apple devices. When Samsung's brand image and smartphone profits were taking a beating from the embarrassing Note 7 recall, it was still pulling in revenue derived from iPhone 7 sales.

Related: Apple sues Qualcomm for nearly $1 billion

Samsung's strength is that it's "leading in terms of technology and controlling a fair amount of the supply chain," said TuanAnh Nguyen, mobile phone analyst with Canalys.

The company will release its flagship Galaxy S8 in the coming months, a key test of consumers' trust in its tarnished brand. While fans speculate over the smartphone's design, what's on the inside is also important for Samsung's bottom line.

Popular U.S. chip maker Qualcomm partnered with Samsung to develop its latest processor, the Snapdragon 835. The much lauded chip will debut in the Galaxy S8 and is expected to be in rival devices coming out later in the year.

Premium smartphone makers are also likely to be turning to Samsung as they shift to a new type of screen, known as OLED. Samsung controls 90% of the OLED market, according to Nguyen.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published January 24, 2017: 5:33 AM ET

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The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years. The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7.

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A new image released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Monday shows $20 million in cash that authorities found stashed in a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment.

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A new image released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Monday shows $20 million in cash that authorities found stashed in a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment.

The money is believed to be linked to a $1 billion pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a Massachusetts-headquartered company that claimed to provide Internet phone services.

Authorities allege that it was a pyramid scheme that operated from January 2012 to March 2014.

"TelexFree purported to aggressively market its VOIP [voice over internet protocol] service by recruiting thousands of 'promoters' to post ads for the product on the Internet," the Department of Justice said in a statement on its website.

The promoters were required to buy into the company at a price, after which they were to be compensated by TelexFree, "under a complex compensation structure, on a weekly basis so long as they posted ads for TelexFree's VOIP service on the Internet," according to the DOJ.

The cash stash was discovered earlier this month when police raided the apartment of Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, 28, in Westborough. He was arrested and charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering.

TelexFree reported sales of $1.02 billion in 2013, but roughly all that revenue came from people who bought into the company's scheme, authorities said.

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Elite Iraqi units clearing Mosul from Islamic State occupation face aerial bombardment from modified ISIS drones every day.
ISIS is using snipers, suicide car bombs and drones to attack Iraqi forces.

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Elite Iraqi units clearing Mosul from Islamic State occupation face aerial bombardment from modified ISIS drones every day.

I just returned from two weeks on the ground inside Mosul with Iraq's Emergency Response Division and the Counter Terrorism Service. These two units are Iraq's best, and are taking the fight to ISIS daily.

ISIS is using snipers, suicide car bombs and drones to attack Iraqi forces.
HISTORY OF REMOTE WEAPONS IN PICTURES
ISIS modifies commercial drones to drop 40mm rifle grenades. They are flown by the operator over Iraqi troops and the grenade is dropped by electronic command.

Iraqi forces call the drones "tieyara," (Arabic shorthand for UAV, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and open fire with rifles and machine guns when they are spotted. Nearly half the time, they are successful in bringing the drones down.

The threat from these aerial robot snipers is expected to continue as Iraqi forces cross the Tigris River and clear the west side of Mosul from ISIS.
VIDEO SHOWS FIGHTER JETS LAUNCH SWARM OF TINY DRONES
Earlier this month a U.S. Commander said that American and Iraqi forces were enjoying increasing success in taking down ISIS drones in the fight for Mosul. Citing U.S. Army Col. Brett Sylvia, Military.com reported that, while ISIS had previously relied on winged drones, it was now harnessing small quadcopters to drop munitions.

Sylvia declined to describe how U.S. forces are taking down the ISIS drones, but said that Iraqi forces are using direct small arms fire.

Reports also indicate that ISIS has been using the drones as a diversion to attract the fire of Iraqi forces, according to Military.com.

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How ISIS is turning commercial drones into weapons in the battle for Mosul

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Elite Iraqi units clearing Mosul from Islamic State occupation face aerial bombardment from modified ISIS drones every day. I just returned from two weeks on the ground inside Mosul with Iraq's Emergency Response Division and the Counter Terrorism Service. These two units are Iraq's best, and are taking the fight to ISIS daily.

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One in three residents, or 33% of the under-65 population, bought insurance on Obamacare exchanges, official data from a year ago show. The national average is just 5%, which raises the question: In a place so tied to the Affordable Care Act, why would people back the man who vowed to repeal it? Wouldn't that seem a vote against the community's own interests?

"People may think we're slow," explains one man, "but we're not stupid."

In their world, one they feel is overlooked by those in big cities or on the coasts, their actions make perfect sense. You can't possibly understand, they say, unless you've lived here. I set out to try.

Breaking the news

Just mention politics to a group of men unwinding over gas station coffee and the insults come fast and fierce, political correctness be damned.

"The black bomb" is how one rancher describes Trump's predecessor. "This guy came out of the sewers of Chicago. How could he be good?"

The rancher's not about to give his name to someone with the "Clinton News Network" -- what he calls CNN -- but he and his friends are happy to rail against the former administration. Obamacare is right up there on the list of things gone wrong, they say.

The hands they extend for shakes are rough and callused, symbols of how hard people here work. They are self-sufficient and don't like being told what to do any more than they like taking handouts. They take care of themselves, and each other, and don't need government stepping in to muck things up.

That their county leads the nation in Obamacare enrollees is news to everyone I meet.

"If they're on it, they're not saying," one man theorizes. People are on it only because the government "put a gun to people's heads," offers another. And just because they're on it, they warn, doesn't mean they like it.

No other choice

Walking through Hyannis, the county seat, I hear stories of skyrocketing premiums, deductibles that can't be met and brewing resentment. If people don't want to pay the penalty for not having insurance, which is taken out of the tax refunds they rely on, they're trapped.

What they tell me might give pause to Obamacare experts, who say the Affordable Care Act is complicated, is hard to navigate and often leaves people misinformed about costs and choices. But these are the experiences and perceptions of how the law has played out in Grant County.

Some have appreciated newfound coverage: With it, they were able to take care of longstanding problems, like the woman with a prolapsing uterus who could finally have a hysterectomy. But most people I meet complain that they're on Obamacare only because they have no other choice.

Unless they work for the school, the county, the railroad or the electric company -- and the vast majority of people in cattle country don't -- these aren't Americans fortunate to be covered by an employer's insurance plan.

Some might have been so lucky in the past, but that luck ran out when the Affordable Care Act came in, they say.

Ginger Fouse curates the Grant County museum in the county courthouse. She's rushing to make a doctor's appointment in Alliance, 60 miles away and home to the closest hospital. Before she goes, she makes her feelings about Obamacare clear: "Nothing but horseshit."

Fouse's husband is a ranch hand, and they used to get coverage through the ranch. But once Obamacare hit the scene, she says, the rancher believed everyone could take care of themselves. Only problem is, Fouse says, she and her husband can no longer afford the premiums. So they're now covered by nothing.

"We're not going to quit eating to pay insurance," she says before heading out the door.

Ellen White, a museum volunteer, steps in to introduce me to the area she's always called home.

She shows off aged photographs: the old town hall where they used to dance, images from the 1949 blizzard that wiped out cattle and snapshots from the first old-timer rodeo.

A man's barbed-wire collection is on display, as is memorabilia from the deceased military doctor who delivered White and countless other locals.

The highlight, though, is a collection of keepsakes from the late Chuck Hayward, who took his horses to Hollywood and worked as John Wayne's stuntman. Included are action shots, the saddle Hayward used while filming in Afghanistan and wooden stirrups from a shoot in Chile. There's also a saddle said to have been used by Wayne himself during the filming of "True Grit."

White, 69, describes a time she wishes younger generations would appreciate. She grew up on a ranch south of Ashby, an unincorporated community just west of Hyannis. She, like so many others, rode a horse to her country school.

She had three older brothers, and if they told her she couldn't do something, she proved she could. She was able to drive a team of horses by age 5 and helped milk 12 to 15 cows every morning and night.

Life was tough, but it made people who they are. They worked for everything they had.

Sometimes she watches HGTV and is stunned by house hunters shopping for $500,000 homes.

"They'll pay on those houses forever and ever," she says. "We didn't buy anything unless you could pay cash for it."

It's that sort of responsibility and practicality that courses through this ranching community's veins.

Assessing life here

Roughly 150 ranches dot the county, most of them passed down through families. It's an area where the first homesteaders arrived in the 1880s, tried to farm and failed. The sandy soil worked against them but proved a sweet spot for cattlemen, who snatched up tracts of land.

The ranches are private and sit far off the main roads, in some cases miles off, and are impossible to assess by driving past. Ask a rancher about the size of his land or his herd, and he'll keep those numbers to himself.

The question is uncouth, explains Dan Vinton, a lifetime rancher and longtime county commissioner; it's like prying into a person's salary.

"We have enough grass to feed the cows," says Vinton, 66. "We have enough cows to take care of the grass."

Over chicken-fried steak in the Hyannis Hotel Restaurant, one of a handful of businesses on Main Street, Vinton and fellow Commissioner Tom White -- who worked in the feed business and is married to Ellen, the museum volunteer -- regale me with their own stories of growing up in Grant County.

They didn't have electricity till the 1950s, got up and went to sleep along with the sun and like to say they "had running water because you had to run and get it." They took Saturday night baths in the same water used by their siblings.

"We didn't know we were stinky little buggers because we all smelled the same," White, 71, says with a laugh.

Life here has always made sense to them, no matter the challenges. When White needed chemo and radiation to treat cancer a couple months back, he and his wife simply rented an apartment near the hospital in Scottsbluff, more than 100 miles away, for five weeks. They'll travel to Denver for his upcoming surgery.

They aren't city folk and don't want to be. Vinton drives that point home when he admits he and his wife have cell phones only so they can find each other when they get separated in the Walmart, which is well over an hour from home.

Vinton's son works at the family ranch and is on Obamacare. His folks and the Whites aren't on it themselves, but they look forward to the day when it's abolished. They hear people complain about rates rising and call the program "ridiculous."

Not wanting to be dependent

A 31-year-old woman sits in the restaurant beside her towheaded boy. To her, Obamacare is maddening, and she unleashes her frustration.

She's a college grad who does her research. When she and her husband got married, they picked out a policy and were happy. But then, Obamacare changed everything.

They could no longer afford the private plan they liked. The number of companies she could choose from on the Obamacare exchange dwindled; only two choices exist today. They switched to one company only to see it get absorbed by another. They watched their premiums and deductibles increase, along with out-of-pocket expenses. They've been on four plans in two years.

She's married to a rancher, and in ranching, it's hard to estimate how much a person will earn each year. When cows sell high, ranchers do well. But, as in any market, the numbers fluctuate. One year, her family might make $20,000; another $50,000, she says. Financial uncertainty makes planning a crapshoot.

A stunning thing happened, though, when she got pregnant with her son. Suddenly, she was told she qualified for Medicaid, a notion that made her Republican head spin.

"I want to be responsible for myself. I don't want to be dependent," says the woman, who didn't want her name used. "But you priced me out of what I did to take care of myself and forced me into government assistance."

Pregnancies only last so long, though, and she doesn't meet the Nebraska Medicaid qualifications for parents. That means she's back to fretting about what this year's premiums will be.

"I have to get knocked up," she says, half joking, half disgusted. "Mama needs dental care."

Fans turned foes

Across the street in the grocery store, I spot Clarissa "Casey" Sanchez working behind the counter. She was a fan of Obamacare at first.

Paying $50 a month for herself was both doable and a source of comfort for the 30-year-old employee.

But then she got married. With their combined gross incomes, she says, her monthly premium jumped to more than $600, and they make too much to qualify for Medicaid. Her husband has his own private policy, but she says she can't join it because she's pregnant. He bought the low-premium policy before Obamacare, and it doesn't include maternity coverage.

Sanchez is determined to take care of herself but feels punished for trying. She's 13 weeks pregnant, scared and crossing her fingers.

"I'm going without insurance and hope Trump does something quick," she tells me.

Nearby, working at a cash register, Julie Braun, 36, chimes in: "I got married to get off Obamacare."

She, too, once enjoyed low premiums -- just $30 a month -- only to see them soar. She needed two ankle surgeries last year, and with a high deductible, copays, therapies, braces and boots -- which aren't covered -- she says she's staring down a $20,000 bill she can't pay. She makes $9 an hour and even with her husband's salary plans to file for medical bankruptcy.

Though Braun and her husband had intended to marry at some point, they moved up their wedding date by a couple years. He teaches in the school and has good benefits, and that was all she needed to rush down the aisle.

'A scam and racket'

People here say they've had it with Washington and "mealy-mouthed politicians," the sort who speak pretty but say nothing, one local explains. This is why they backed Trump en masse. They like that he has a business record and trust that he can do better by them.

"The man didn't get rich as he is by being stupid," says one man who refuses to give his name but pulls me aside to tell his own story.

He's 50 and has never paid for health insurance. He calls the health care system "a scam and a racket." When he had a cracked tooth not long ago -- the first dental problem he'd ever had -- the dentist told him it would cost more than $4,000 to fix. "For one tooth!" he exclaims.

So he looked at the dentist and asked how much it would cost to pull out all his teeth and give him fake ones instead. It was half the price, so he came back with his checkbook and had every tooth yanked.

He now says he's facing a stiff penalty for not having insurance, which enrages him.

"I pay for my own medical, and now I have to pay for someone else's?" he says. "Don't get me wrong; I want to do my part. But when does my part stop?"

'Garden of Eden'

The Sandhills Oil Company gas station -- just "the station" to locals -- is a popular gathering spot where people gab over coffee.

Robin Jameson, 56, sits in the corner office. She moved here to oversee the station, one of several in a family business portfolio.

"It felt like home immediately," she says. She likes how people watch out for one another, donating propane and groceries to those in need, and she gives back in her own way.

An old rancher strolls into her office, seeking help deciphering a credit card bill. Retired ranchers down the road visit whenever their grandson competes in out-of-town rodeos, so she can set them up on a computer to watch the live-stream.

One of the regulars at a station table is Woody Thompson, 76. He landed in this area more than 60 years ago, when he came out of the Dust Bowl looking for work. He says he was brought here by "a drunk and a horse thief."

For decades, he worked on ranches. It's been a life rich in independence and great neighbors, the sort who once kept reselling a white leghorn rooster to raise money for a friend dying of brain cancer. These qualities made even the toughest days worthwhile. Digging harnesses out of snow drifts, riding miles and miles in 30-below temperatures, the winter of '78-'79 when the ground never saw less than 3 feet of snow -- he wouldn't take back his time here for anything.

"It might not be heaven, but it's the Garden of Eden," Thompson says.

A heart problem eventually took him away from ranching. Twice a month, he drives 70 miles south to see his Denver cardiologist, who meets him in Ogallala -- the nearest town on the nearest interstate. (Locals like that the interstate runs through flat Nebraska, allowing them to keep their hills to themselves.)

Thompson, who moved to Hyannis 15 years ago, hands over one of his business cards. He's now a traveling rep for a company that performs castrations. With a couple golf balls in a bag, he demonstrates how they're done.

Like so many people in this county, he says that Trump's business know-how spoke to him -- even if he doesn't suspect that he'd like the guy personally.

"I have three daughters," Thompson says. "If Megyn Kelly had been my daughter, I would have beat the hell out of him."

Respecting the law

A couple blocks uphill, in the old courthouse, I find Christee Haney. She's in her second term as county clerk and keeps official records in the same books and logs used by clerks in the late 1800s.

When she was elected seven years ago, it was to fill multiple offices. In an area as rural as this, she's more than the country clerk. She's also the county assessor, the registrar of deeds, the clerk of the court and the election commissioner.

Party registration doesn't dictate votes here, where 81% of registered voters cast ballots in November. She has 40 registered Democrats, she says, but only 20 people voted for Hillary Clinton. Haney's cousin is one example; she's a Democrat who voted for Trump and refused to back Obama, whom she never trusted.

Haney, 54, considers the high rate of Obamacare enrollment in Grant County and offers this: People are abiding by the law, simple as that.

"It's a matter of respect out here, and that's what we've all taught our kids," she says.

The K-12 school in Hyannis, which serves several counties and has fewer than 150 students, is a source of pride here. The teacher-to-student ratio is 1-to-9, the principal tells me. Students are more than cowboys and cowgirls: They test above the national average, are given their own laptops, flourish in the arts and play sports that draw the community together.

Parents who've raised kids here brag about them getting scholarships; one proud dad says his daughter turned down Stanford, MIT and Yale because she wanted to be a Cornhusker. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with perfect grades.

People here may not have what big cities offer, but that suits them. When Haney takes a day to run errands in Ogallala, population 4,570, she finds the traffic and all the people exhausting.

She and others here prefer this quiet life with wide-open spaces and fewer stresses. They aren't facing a drug epidemic and don't worry about crime. They leave their keys in the ignition and don't lock their doors. They don't have a homeless problem and don't fret about unemployment. If anyone wants to work, there's work to be had.

The folks in Grant County wish people elsewhere would take responsibility in their own lives and stop blaming others for their problems.

"People on welfare in big cities make more money not working than we do working," says one woman. She's not the only one I meet who believes this.

Not wanting to go without

In a small house on the north side of the tracks, where the railroad carries coal from Wyoming and Montana, Terry Keys feeds and burps his 3-month-old son, Deacon.

The baby shouldn't be this old. He was born two months early, when severe preeclampsia sent Terry, 34, and his wife, Trish, on an emergency trip to Lincoln at the end of October. Trish and Deacon had to stay there for a month until it was safe to bring the baby home. Terry, who helps drill and service wells, drove more than 300 miles each way to join them on weekends.

Trish, the village's 37-year-old salon owner, curls up in the chair beside her husband and son and recounts an odyssey she's still processing.

The couple, both Trump supporters, had been uninsured when Obamacare came along. The first year, they paid a penalty of $90. But fearing the prospect of steeper fines, they signed up. With the Affordable Care Act, they could purchase what had previously evaded them for about $150 a month.

"It was reasonable, and we didn't have insurance before," Trish says. It helped them, she says, until it didn't.

She'd been told their policy would cover Deacon and the exorbitant neonatal intensive care expenses for the first 30 days of his life "no matter what." But she says the insurance company stopped the family's policy without notice. Trish and Terry found out only when they stepped into a pharmacy in Lincoln for flu shots and were told they had no coverage.

A panicked phone call later, she was told they qualified for Medicaid and should apply, which meant a flurry of paperwork and bureaucracy. After the trauma of having a preemie and being stuck in a city far from the world she knows, Trish came home to the stress of fighting a $104,000 bill. She still isn't sure who's responsible -- Medicaid or the insurance company -- and only knows she and Terry won't be able to pay it.

"There has to be a simpler way. I feel like they've overcomplicated everything," she says.

"It's mind-boggling to me," she says before turning her gaze to her son, who finally weighs 9 pounds. "Now that this has happened, you don't want to go without insurance."

She hopes to still be able to afford it. And like others in this remote heartland county, she trusts that her new president won't let her down.

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One in three residents, or 33% of the under-65 population, bought insurance on Obamacare exchanges, official data from a year ago show. The national average is just 5%, which raises the question: In a place so tied to the Affordable Care Act, why would people back the man who vowed to repeal it?

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A Trump sign hangs on a farming tractor near an Arizona polling station in November.

The US Department of Agriculture has banned scientists and other employees in its main research division from publicly sharing everything from the summaries of scientific papers to USDA-branded tweets as it starts to adjust to life under the Trump administration, BuzzFeed News has learned.

The ban was rescinded on Tuesday.

According to an email sent Monday morning and obtained by BuzzFeed News, the department told staff - including some 2,000 scientists - at the agency's main in-house research arm, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), to stop communicating with the public about taxpayer-funded work.

"Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents," Sharon Drumm, chief of staff for ARS, wrote in a department-wide email shared with BuzzFeed News.

"This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content," she added.

Indeed, the last tweet from ARS's official account was sent the day before Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

Join us 4 Farm Science Day @USDA_ARS' Maricopa, AZ lab 4 fun farm &amp; science activities, Feb. 18, 10 am w/ @UofA.

Though the terse internal note did not explicitly mention the new presidential administration, department scientists around the country interpreted it as a message from Trump that changes were coming to the department.

The memo was also met with some confusion. When asked if the notice constituted a halt on the publication of academic articles, one regional director told scientists that research papers could be published in academic journals and presented at conferences, but that all media interviews must be approved by the office of communications in Washington.

In a statement on Tuesday to BuzzFeed News, the department acknowledged sending an internal email that halted the release of "informational products like news releases and social media content" on Monday. "Scientific publications, released through peer reviewed professional journals are not included," he added.

"As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific in-house research agency, ARS values and is committed to maintaining the free flow of information between our scientists and the American public as we strive to find solutions to agricultural problems affecting America," Christopher Bentley, a spokesperson for ARS, said in the statement.

Though some Agricultural Research Service work touches on sensitive subjects like pesticides and genetically modified food, its research is generally less politically charged than that conducted by other agencies, especially those focused on understanding climate change, such as the Environmental Protection Agency.

But under the Obama administration, the Agriculture Department funneled research money into finding ways of cutting down the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from cows.

The nomination of former Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia as agriculture secretary puts the fate of that and other department research touching on climate change into question. Like President Trump himself, Perdue has in the past bucked the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming due to human activity.

"It's become a running joke among the public," Perdue wrote in the National Review in 2014, "and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality."

Other agencies are under lockdown as well since Trump moved into the White House.

Employees at the National Park Service were told to stop tweeting from official park accounts. The Trump administration has also imposed a freeze on grants and contracts from the EPA, the Huffington Post and ProPublica reported on Monday. The EPA, too, is no longer issuing press releases or posting on social media, according to the reports.

Dino Grandoni is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Contact this reporter at dino.grandoni@buzzfeed.com

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Brazilian man reportedly hid $20 million in the box spring if his mattress.

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In a safe? Buried deep underground?

How about the box spring of your mattress?

That's where a Brazilian man reportedly hid $20 million that authorities said was related to a massive pyramid scheme.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said the suspect, Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, flew from Brazil to the US a few days ago to met a person who is a cooperating witness in the pyramid scheme case. Rocha and the witness met at a restaurant in Hudson, Massachusetts. There the witness allegedly gave Rocha a suitcase filled with $2.2 million in bills.

Federal agents followed Rocha to an apartment complex in Westborough, Massachusetts, where they arrested him. Later that night the agents searched the apartment and found the cash, packed inside the box spring of a mattress. It wasn't immediately clear if the $2.2 million in the suitcase was part of the $20 million found in the box spring.

Rocha was charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. The feds say Rocha was acting as a courier for Carlos Wanzeler, one of the founders of TelexFree Inc., a Massachusetts-based Internet phone service company. Federal authorities said TelexFree morphed into a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of around $1 billion.

Wanzeler fled to Brazil in April 2014, the U.S. Attorney's Office said, just a couple of months before he was indicted on charges with co-founder James Merrill. Rocha was in the United States to secure millions of dollars of hidden TelexFree cash and get it to Brazil by laundering the money through Hong Kong, the feds said.

Rocha faces up to 20 years in prison on the money laundering charge.

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President Trump is reviving the Keystone XL pipeline, which was rejected by Barack Obama.

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Three fluffy Abruzzo sheepdog puppies were rescued from a hotel in Italy which had been buried by an avalanche.

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Samsung is making a lot of profits after the Note 7 crisis fades out.

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Samsung has emerged from the ashes of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle in pretty good shape.

The South Korean tech giant reported quarterly profit of 9.2 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on Tuesday, up 50% from a year earlier to its highest level in three years.

The bumper earnings highlight Samsung 's ability to shrug off the $5 billion profit hit it took from killing off the fire-prone Note 7. It's strength comes from its sheer scale -- not just in smartphones themselves, but in the parts out of which they're made.

Even Samsung's mobile division, which was nearly dragged into the red by the Note 7 crisis in the previous quarter, booked a 12% profit increase in the latest report as other smartphones like the S7 sold well.

Related: Samsung blames batteries for Galaxy Note 7 fires

On Monday, the company took a major step toward moving on fromthe embarrassing affair. It announced the results of investigations into what caused some of the Note 7 phones to catch fire, blaming defects with batteries from two suppliers and outlining steps to prevent a similar fiasco from happening again.

Samsung is the world's largest smartphone maker, but the majority of the company's profits now come from selling components like semiconductors, memory chips and display screens. Competitors like Oppo, LG and Dell use Samsung parts in phones, televisions, and laptops.

The South Korean company's products are even found in Apple devices. When Samsung's brand image and smartphone profits were taking a beating from the embarrassing Note 7 recall, it was still pulling in revenue derived from iPhone 7 sales.

Related: Apple sues Qualcomm for nearly $1 billion

Samsung's strength is that it's "leading in terms of technology and controlling a fair amount of the supply chain," said TuanAnh Nguyen, mobile phone analyst with Canalys.

The company will release its flagship Galaxy S8 in the coming months, a key test of consumers' trust in its tarnished brand. While fans speculate over the smartphone's design, what's on the inside is also important for Samsung's bottom line.

Popular U.S. chip maker Qualcomm partnered with Samsung to develop its latest processor, the Snapdragon 835. The much lauded chip will debut in the Galaxy S8 and is expected to be in rival devices coming out later in the year.

Premium smartphone makers are also likely to be turning to Samsung as they shift to a new type of screen, known as OLED. Samsung controls 90% of the OLED market, according to Nguyen.

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The storm was created by the weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend and then moved north. One death has been reported in the Northeast -- a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a car lot sign that was knocked down by wind Monday, Philadelphia police said.

Gusts of nearly 50 mph were reported Tuesday morning in Central Park in New York City and 60 mph gusts were recorded in the Hamptons on Long Island, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. One weather station in east Boston -- where a cold rain fell -- reported a gust of 52 mph.

By Tuesday evening much of the precipitation had moved north of Boston, though much of western Massachusetts was under a freezing rain advisory.

The weather caused the cancellation of flights out of LaGuardia, Newark and JFK airports on Monday and there were more than 1,300 air travel delays and 250 cancellations Tuesday, according to FlightAware.com.

"A little rain you can deal with, but the wind is crazy," Josh Huber, who lives in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, told CNN affiliate WCBS. "It's hollering at my house."

CNN affiliate WABC reported street flooding on Tuesday morning in Sea Bright, New Jersey, and Freeport and other towns on the south shore of Long Island. About 1,000 people lost power on Long Island, the New York City station reported.

Some snow expected

The low pressure system was centered off the Jersey coast on Tuesday and produced snow in some cities in the Northeast, Hennen said. Snow was already falling in the interior sections of New England, upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, he said. Six inches of snow is expected in Maine.

The National Weather Service said the bad weather should clear up Wednesday for New York and New Jersey.

That will make things easier for cleanup crews moving downed trees, debris and part of a roof blown off a condo building in Long Branch, New Jersey.

"We heard a huge bang in our parking lot," Rose Carich, a condo resident, told WCBS. "I ran outside to move my car but my back windshield was already smashed in."

Midwest, Plains brace for snow

Meanwhile, a storm system is moving from the Rocky Mountains and bringing widespread snow across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, the National Weather Service said.

Winter storm warnings extend from Wyoming to Wisconsin and where 6 or more inches of snow is expected to fall, Hennen said.

The heaviest snow is expected just north of Omaha, Nebraska, and just south of Minneapolis, he said.

The weather service predicted 1 inch of snow in Minneapolis on Tuesday night and another inch Wednesday.

Southeast digs out

The Southeast is picking up the pieces after dozens of tornadoes tore through the region over the weekend, killing 20 people -- 15 in Georgia, four in Mississippi and one in Florida.

The latest death was reported from Lake City, Florida, where a woman died when a tree fell on her home Sunday, Columbia County EMA Director Shayne Morgan told CNN.

The tornadoes killed more people in one weekend than in all of last year, when 17 died across the country.

Overall, four weather-related deaths were also reported in California and one person died in Pennsylvania, increasing the nationwide total to 25 since the storms hit last weekend.

Fifty tornadoes struck between Louisiana through south Florida, from Thursday through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service estimates. The majority of them struck south Georgia.

The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated.

"All you hear is people screaming, 'Help me, help me,'" said AJ Miley, a resident of the Sunshine Mobile Home Park near Adel, Georgia, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV.

Devocheo Williams, also at the trailer park, said he saw people "tossed through the air," the Atlanta-based station reported.

"All I saw was a little girl flown up and thrown in a ditch. Three seconds later, the trailer got picked up off the ground and landed on top of the mother and son," Williams said.

At least six people were believed to be missing in Georgia, including a 2-year-old boy who was caught in the tornado in Dougherty County, officials said.

Chris Cohilas, the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission in southwestern Georgia, urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get "boots on the ground" to help the community. So far, he said, FEMA has not been responsive.

"To get caught up in the bureaucratic red tape at a time of this amount of human suffering is disgraceful," he said at a news conference on Monday.

In an email Monday, FEMA said the agency "is doing initial assessments of damages in Georgia today, including a flyover." FEMA will start federal and state preliminary damage assessments for individual and public assistance this week, the agency said.

FEMA representatives were also recently deployed to emergency centers in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida to support the response, officials said.

The Georgia House of Representatives voted Tuesday to put $5 million into the governor's emergency fund to help south Georgia storm victims, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

California governor declares state of emergency

In California, where a winter weather system has unleashed torrential rain and strong winds, Gov. Jerry Brown late Monday declared a state of emergency across 50 counties, including the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco. The move allows local officials to seek recovery money to repair damage from flash flooding, erosion, mudslides and debris flows.

Early estimates indicate losses in the tens of millions of dollars, according to the declaration.

Four deaths have been reported in California since the weekend: Two in San Diego County, one in Mendocino County and one in Los Angeles County. Two more people were missing off the coast of Pebble Beach, but the search was stopped because of deteriorating weather conditions, the US Coast Guard said Monday.

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The storm was created by the weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend and then moved north. One death has been reported in the Northeast -- a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a car lot sign that was knocked down by wind Monday, Philadelphia police said.

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Mr. Kohl-  A new study found that cervical cancer is a bigger threat to US women than people realized. For years, the mortality rate for the disease was based on data that included women who’ve had hysterectomies. Hysterectomy: the procedure that typically removes a woman’s cervix, and - yup - the risk of cervical cancer.