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After a killing driven by hate, family wonders 'How many red flags does it take?'

They told police about the barrage of racist taunts coming from next door, but the hate persisted. They got a protective order to keep him away, but nothing changed. They complained he wasn't complying -- and then he allegedly ran down their mother with his car. Then later killing their son.

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They told police about the barrage of racist taunts coming from next door, but the hate persisted. They got a protective order to keep him away, but nothing changed. They complained he wasn't complying -- and then he allegedly ran down their mother with his car.

The family now wants to know: Why did it take the death of Khalid Jabara for people to notice the opportunities that had been missed to stop a hateful man? They say his death is proof that words matter and hate speech should be taken more seriously.

"How many red flags does it take to keep somebody that's obviously dangerous to the community, to the public in general, who's a flight risk ... How many red flags does it take to keep this guy in custody so that he can face trial?" asks Jabara's younger brother, Rami. "It's like the law can't catch up with him."

His family say Khalid Jabara was everything their neighbor wasn't.

"Very compassionate, very loving, very caring," Haifa Jabara says about her eldest son. "He had no enemies. He had no problem with anybody."

As for Stanley Vernon Majors, who lived next door with his husband, Haifa Jabara asks, "Why is there so much hate in him? What did we do? Nothing."

From slurs to violence

The road to tragedy started with racial slurs.

According to the Jabara family, Majors would stand on their adjoining property line, their lawn or their driveway or on their quiet Tulsa suburban street and shout that they were "dirty Arabs." He called them "Mooslems," and "dirty Lebanese." He apparently had no idea, nor did he care to find out, that they were Christians who fled civil war and religious persecution in Lebanon decades ago.

Neighbors say Majors' slurs and racist remarks were sometimes directed at others as well. They recalled him repeatedly shouting at a man who cuts their lawns, calling him a n***er. And the time he called a couple on the street "dirty Mexicans," though they weren't from Mexico.

But they agree the Jabara family bore the brunt of Majors' anger.

For five years, Haifa Jabara says she and her family were harassed repeatedly by Majors. And when they called police, the family says, Majors would retaliate with complaints against them.

Tulsa Police Detective David Walker says the number of calls between the two households was enough that anyone patrolling the area would have known about the issues between them.

In November 2013, Haifa Jabara grew tired of Majors' harassment and got a protective order against him. He was to stop communicating with the family and to remain 300 yards away from Haifa Jabara or at least 25 feet away when he was home on the property adjacent to the Jabara house. In addition, he was prohibited from possessing any firearms for five years.

Instead of calming or stopping the behavior though, it may have exacerbated it, the family says.

"We realized every time we call the cops, whether if it was right away or a few weeks later, he would retaliate with something crazy, crazier, and be angrier," says Victoria Jabara Williams, Haifa's daughter and Khalid's sister.

Majors took out his own protective order against Khalid Jabara. He lied that the family left trash outside his window so he would have to smell it, Haifa Jabara says.

And he didn't let up with the verbal abuse, Haifa Jabara told police, yelling racial slurs at her as she stood in her driveway and threatened to kill her. He was charged with violating the protective order but still allowed to live next door.

Then, one evening in September 2015, Haifa Jabara went for a walk to get some exercise. She used the time to call her son Rami, to talk about his upcoming wedding.

A car struck her.

"I just hear screaming ... I could obviously tell it was her. I had no idea what was going on," Rami Jabara says.

Officers found Majors that evening, appearing drunk and urinating in public. He later asked about Haifa by name, according to police accounts of the event, and made comments about her and her family as "filthy Lebanese." He was arrested and charged for the hit and run.

Today, Haifa Jabara stands at the spot where she was hit, still incredulous about what happened. She calls Majors "the monster" or "the criminal." She refuses to utter his name.

"He has no heart," she says.

She describes the aftermath -- a brain hemorrhage, being in critical condition with broken ribs, a broken ankle and damaged shoulder and points towards a scar down the side of her arm from yet another broken bone.

But there was also a sense of relief. She and her family assumed the worst was over. Majors would be behind bars before a trial, at which they hoped he would be convicted and then finally leave them alone.

"I said it's done, he did what he wants to do. And that's it," Haifa Jabara says. "Now that he hit me ... he's not going to do anything else."

How a bond hearing changed everything

For eight months, the process the Jabaras imagined played out. Majors was charged in connection with the hit and run and jailed as he awaited trial.

But then he came home. He'd been released on $30,000 bond on the charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

The Jabaras couldn't believe it. The man charged with attacking Haifa Jabara was back next door. They begged the district attorney's office to go back to court to get bond revoked or reconsidered.

At that bond hearing, the judge was told Majors was a dangerous man, with a prior conviction of threatening with intent to terrorize someone in California. That he was a flight risk. That hitting Haifa Jabara was an intentional act and it was likely he would be convicted.

During the discussion, Majors jumped in and offered to move, according to a transcript of the hearing. But the idea was tabled for attorneys to work out later. It is unclear from records if it was pursued and nobody CNN has spoken with has been able to clarify what happened.

In the end, Judge William LaFortune allowed Majors to remain on bond. But he doubled the bond to $60,000, and issued a stern warning.

"I am very concerned with you out of custody and living next door to the victim and the victim's family of what might happen on any given day given this history," the judge said, according to the transcript. "I'm just putting you on notice there cannot be any, even a hint... of contact, attempted contact et cetera with this family or this victim's family."

Majors replied: "Yes, your honor."

With their nemesis again just feet away, the Jabara family debated moving, but the parents resisted. After all, what more could Majors do?

'Lost in the shuffle'

Two months later, Haifa Jabara heard the sound of her son being killed.

Khalid Jabara had called his mother to warn her. "He said mom, don't come home... he said because [of] the neighbor," Haifa Jabara says.

She called Khalid back every 10 or 15 minutes to see if it was safe to return.

"He kept telling me don't come home, don't come home," Haifa Jabara says. "Then the last call, I called him, and [Majors] came [and] attacked him while I was on the phone."

It is alleged that Majors had gotten into a dispute with his husband, Stephen Schmauss, taken a gun owned by Schmauss and fired off rounds in his home. Schmauss fled. Some time later, Majors marched over to the Jabara house, police say, still armed with the gun, and shot Khalid Jabara as he stood on the front porch.

Khalid Jabara died at a hospital from his wounds.

A previous attorney for Majors filed paperwork showing he intended to argue at trial that Majors was not guilty by reason of insanity.

Majors' current attorney, public defender Richard Koller, declined an interview with CNN at his client's request. Koller later filed a request for a gag order, saying he was concerned about media coverage tainting the jury pool. A judge has not ruled on the order. The trial, where Major will answer to first degree murder and hate crime charges, is scheduled for November.

Compounding the loss of a son and brother for the Jabaras are the questions about what else could or should have been done.

"He came here!" Haifa Jabara says angrily about Majors allegedly coming onto her property to kill her son. "What is this protective order? What does that mean? Is that a joke? Really? It's just [a] joke."

Her daughter Victoria Jabara Williams doesn't understand how a violent felon was able to post bond and return home next door to his alleged victim.

"We are the victims. And we look towards our city officials who are more well versed in the judicial and criminal system to help protect us. And I feel that didn't happen at all," Jabara Williams adds. " It was just a system failure. And we got lost in the shuffle."

Tulsa detective Walker said there were no easy answers, "but to say that there's nothing that we could have done different on this one would be a lie."

"You start looking at the types of calls and the opportunities for intervention, you learn from it," he says.

"I don't want to sound like it's their fault, because it is absolutely not their fault," Walker says. "But I don't know that you can legislate us being able to go, us being law enforcement, to go into every drunk ... mean person and take their guns and put them in some sort of institute.

"It hurts some, but we again have to go on and prevent the next one, and that's what I think to make Jabara's death meaningful," Walker says.

For the Jabara family, the sense of loss is permanent.

They will never see Khalid fully live the American dream they worked so hard to build for him after fleeing Lebanon, where they hid in basements as bombs went off and where Haifa Jabara always wondered if her children would return safe from school.

All they wanted, Haifa Jabara says, was to build a life for their family "to live in peace and be safer then Lebanon."

"And we discovered that it wasn't safer for us at least," she says. "We love this country and it's beautiful, but that's what happened to us."

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Saudi women will be allowed to drive, but hurdles remain

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As Venezuela starves, Maduro tells army to prepare for US 'threats'

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has “rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready” amid a war of words with the United States.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has "rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready" amid a war of words with the United States.

Maduro made the declaration Monday during a military exercise in the city of Maracay, two days after the Trump administration signed new restrictions imposing bans on the entry of some Venezuelan government officials and their families into the U.S.

"We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," Maduro said, according to AFP.

The Venezuelan president, wearing military garb, also said he wanted prosperity for his country, but added "we need to have rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready...to defend every inch of the territory if needs be."

Nearly two weeks ago Maduro encouraged people to start eating rabbits for protein as Venezuela faces a severe food shortage. After being given the rabbits, many people who took part in a pilot project for the rabbit-eating initiative placed bow ties on the bunnies, kept them as pets and cuddled with them in bed.

Low supplies of food and medicine are leaving millions of people starving and desperate for medical treatment. A study published earlier this year reported that roughly 75 percent of Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in the last year due to food shortages, Fox News reported.

The ongoing economic crisis has been spurred by the socialist policies of Maduro and his predecessor, the late former President Hugo Chavez.

The U.S. government in August hit Maduro and 20 other top officials with financial sanctions, and also banned American finance companies from lending money to Venezuela's government and its state-run oil company, AFP reported.

Trump said in August he wouldn't rule out a "military option" to resolve Venezuela's political struggles.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has "rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready" amid a war of words with the United States.

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Saudi Women will be able to drive as of next summer. but they still face other struggles in the ultraconservative Muslim Kingdom.

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Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive as of next summer, following a landmark royal decree, but they still face other hurdles in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.

Here's a look at some of those obstacles:

GUARDIANSHIP LAWS

Under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of Islamic law, a male guardianship system bars women from traveling abroad, obtaining a passport, marrying or even leaving prison without the consent of a male relative. This consent is also often demanded whenever a woman tries to do any number of things, including rent an apartment, buy a car, undergo a medical procedure, open a bank account or take a job. As a result, women are practically consigned to the status of minors for their entire lives. No other Muslim country enforces such strict guardianship measures.

ABILITY TO SERVE IN TOP GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

There are no women in charge of government ministries in Saudi Arabia and there has been no woman ruler since the kingdom's founding in 1932. Saudi women can, however, run and vote in local elections though ultimate power resides with the throne. The same day as the driving decree, Saudi Arabia also announced its first spokeswoman for its embassy in Washington, a high-profile role.

SEGREGATION OF THE SEXES

Saudi Arabia's enforcement of gender segregation means women cannot attend sporting matches or sit in restaurants that do not have separate "family" sections. These rules also impact the ability of some employers to hire women where segregated office spaces are not available. Privately, the segregation rules often relegate women to the home unless a male relative, such as a father or brother, is available to escort them outside. Many conservative families also bar male cousins from seeing their female cousins past childhood age.

RULES ON WHAT THEY CAN WEAR

Women in Saudi Arabia must wear long, loose robes known as abayas in public. Most also cover their hair and face with a black veil, though exceptions are made for visiting dignitaries.

DIVORCE AND OTHER ISSUES

If a woman divorces her husband, she cannot travel abroad with their children without the permission of the father, who remains the children's legal guardian. Women cannot provide consent for their daughters to marry, or pass their nationality to their children. Women also are not afforded equal inheritance rights nor are they guaranteed custody of children after the age of seven or eight years old.

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Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive as of next summer, following a landmark royal decree, but they still face other hurdles in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom. Here's a look at some of those obstacles: GUARDIANSHIP LAWS Under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of Islamic...

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Puerto Ricans still waiting for aid a week after Maria's devastation

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Puerto Rico's governor said officials were working to get food, fuel and water "everywhere on the island" as millions of people continued to suffer without the basics and reports emerged of vital supplies stranded at Puerto Rico's main port.

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Archeologists believe that they found Paul Revere's outhouse in Boston

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Police arrested woman who was in a killer clown costume when she kill her former husband wife 27 years ago.

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Twenty-seven years ago a clown walked up to the front door of Marlene Warren's Wellington, Florida house and fatally shot her.

Now, nearly three decades later, police say they've identified the killer clown: Sheila Keen Warren, 54, who later married Marlene Warren's widower, Michael Warren.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that Sheila Keen Warren was arrested Tuesday in Washington County, Virginia, without incident.

Police have not said whether Michael Warren was involved in his former wife's death.

According to the Sheriff's Office, Marlene Warren was at her home on May 26, 1990, when she answered her front door and was met by a clown carrying a flower arrangement and two balloons, who offered the items to her. Witnesses said they heard a gunshot and Marlene Warren fell to the ground. The clown then walked back to a vehicle in the driveway. Marlene Warren was hospitalized and died two days later.

Police did identify Sheila Keen Warren as a suspect but she was never arrested.

Then in 2014, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit reopened the homicide investigation.

"Witnesses were re-contacted and additional DNA analysis was conducted," the Sheriff's Office said in its release. "It was also learned that Sheila Keen had married Michael Warren, Marlene Warren's husband, in 2002. Both had been living in Tennessee operating a restaurant together. As a result of the investigation, probable cause was established linking Sheila Keen Warren to the murder of Marlene Warren."

The case was then presented in late August to a grand jury, which issued a true bill for First Degree Murder, which led to an arrest warrant for Sheila Keen Warren.

It was unknown if Sheila Keen Warren has an attorney.

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Twenty-seven years ago a clown walked up to the front door of Marlene Warren's Wellington, Florida house and fatally shot her. Now, nearly three decades later, police say they've identified the killer clown: Sheila Keen Warren, 54, who later married Marlene Warren's widower, Michael Warren. The...

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It appears as if the whole Kardashian-Jenner family is experiencing a major case of baby fever. Khloe Kardashian with her boyfriend Tristan Thompson,  just announced that she is expecting and is about 3 to 4 months along.
Kylie Jenner announced her pregnancy a couple days ago with her boyfriend Travis Scott.
A while ago we also received information that Kim and Kanye's surrogate was due in January.

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There appears to be a baby boom going on with the Kardashian-Jenner clan.

Khloe Kardashian is expecting a child with her NBA player boyfriend Tristan Thompson, TMZ, People and Us Weekly reported on Sept. 26.

The TV star, 33, is believed to be three months along. It will be her first child.

According to TMZ, Khloe "conceived naturally" and doesn't know the sex of the baby yet.

The report comes just a few days after multiple outlets reported that Kylie Jenner, Khloe's half sister, is pregnant and due in February. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West are expecting baby No. 3 in January via a surrogate.

Khloe, who's been dating Thompson for about a year, has made no secret of her desire to be a mother. Her beau is apparently ready for a big family, too.

On the season 13 finale of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," Khloe joked that Tristan, 26, wants "five or six kids with me."

"We could start at one and then grow from there. But now, knowing I'm not on birth control, it's really scary. It's like a really big step," she said.

In April, a source told Us of Khloe, "She definitely wants a big family. She wants multiple kids."

The reality TV star is incredibly confident that the basketball star is the one for her.

"I'm in the best relationship I've ever been in and it doesn't take a ring for me to feel that way," she told You magazine after being asked about engagement rumors. "My boyfriend is very protective of me. Feeling loved and validated and secure is a huge thing. Tristan is protective of my entire family, which is beautiful. And I love that everything we do is as a union. When he speaks, it's 'us' and 'we,' and that's important because it shows that you're sharing life."

Tristan is already a father, as he shares a 9-month-old son, Prince, with his ex-girlfriend Jordan Craig.

Related slideshow: Khloe through the years (via Photo Services)

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The Venezuelan President has told his army to be prepared for war with The United States. Also calling him "Hitler"

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has "rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready" amid a war of words with the United States.

Maduro made the declaration Monday during a military exercise in the city of Maracay, two days after the Trump administration signed new restrictions imposing bans on the entry of some Venezuelan government officials and their families into the U.S.

"We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace," Maduro said, according to AFP.

The Venezuelan president, wearing military garb, also said he wanted prosperity for his country, but added "we need to have rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready...to defend every inch of the territory if needs be."

Nearly two weeks ago Maduro encouraged people to start eating rabbits for protein as Venezuela faces a severe food shortage. After being given the rabbits, many people who took part in a pilot project for the rabbit-eating initiative placed bow ties on the bunnies, kept them as pets and cuddled with them in bed.

Low supplies of food and medicine are leaving millions of people starving and desperate for medical treatment. A study published earlier this year reported that roughly 75 percent of Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in the last year due to food shortages, Fox News reported.

The ongoing economic crisis has been spurred by the socialist policies of Maduro and his predecessor, the late former President Hugo Chavez.

The U.S. government in August hit Maduro and 20 other top officials with financial sanctions, and also banned American finance companies from lending money to Venezuela's government and its state-run oil company, AFP reported.

Trump said in August he wouldn't rule out a "military option" to resolve Venezuela's political struggles.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh off calling on the inhabitants of his starving nation to eat rabbits that had been kept as pets, is now asking his army to make sure it has "rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready" amid a war of words with the United States.

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"We hope we can move forward and improve health care, not engage in another battle to take it away from people, because they will fail once again if they try," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.

The decision by Senate Republican leaders may prove to be a milestone in the decades-long fight over health insurance in the United States, suggesting that the Affordable Care Act had gained at least a reprieve and perhaps a measure of political acceptance.

Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Senate health committee, and Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the senior Democrat on the panel, have been working on legislation to stabilize insurance markets and hold down premiums in the next couple of years. Both said on Tuesday that they hoped to resume those efforts.

Millions of people who buy insurance on their own face sharp increases in premiums next year, and Trump administration officials have taken a number of steps that have already undermined the operations of the health law.

And health care is sure to be an issue in next year's midterm elections.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, said the concept behind the Graham-Cassidy bill would help Republicans define their differences with Democrats in the campaign season.

"Single payer, socialism - or federalism, returning power to the states to make decisions," Mr. Thune said. "I think that's a great contrast for us, and I think that's an argument eventually we can win."

For their part, Democrats have tried to use health care as a bludgeon against the few Senate Republican targets they have next year, mainly Senators Dean Heller of Nevada and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

"We know Republicans like Dean Heller and Jeff Flake won't stop until they force Americans to pay more for less, and we will make sure voters hold them accountable for it," the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said in a statement this week.

The Graham-Cassidy bill would have taken money provided under the Affordable Care Act for insurance subsidies and the expansion of Medicaid and sent it to states in the form of block grants.

The bill's demise was welcomed by consumer groups, doctors, hospitals and insurance executives who mobilized opposition to the proposal. The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the bill would have reduced projected federal Medicaid spending by $1 trillion over a decade, added millions of Americans to the ranks of the uninsured and eliminated consumer protections for some people with pre-existing conditions.

Senate Republicans tried in July to approve a repeal bill, but that attempt ended in defeat when Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, gave a thumbs-down, killing that version of the legislation.

This time, Senate Republicans were trying to pass a different proposal, and a deadline was fast approaching: They had only until the end of this week to pass a repeal bill using special budget rules that shield it from a Democratic filibuster.

Mr. McConnell had planned for a vote before that deadline, but he could afford to lose only two Republicans. By Tuesday, three members of his party had already gone public with their firm opposition: Ms. Collins, Mr. McCain and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

None of the three senators seemed likely to change their minds. Mr. McCain detested the hasty, partisan process used to push the bill; Ms. Collins had broad concerns about the legislation's effects on health care; and Mr. Paul objected to the fundamental architecture of the bill, which in his view constituted "fake repeal."

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he saw no reason for the Senate to vote.

"If you don't have the votes," he said, "I don't see why we would waste the time of the Senate."

And other Republican senators might have opposed it had party leaders moved forward. In a statement released after Senate Republicans decided not to do so, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against the last repeal attempt in July, denounced what she described as "a lousy process."

"The U.S. Senate cannot get the text of a bill on a Sunday night, then proceed to a vote just days later, with only one hearing - and especially not on an issue that is intensely personal to all of us," Ms. Murkowski said, without saying which way she would have voted.

Mr. Cassidy was blunt: "We don't have the votes," he said, adding, "Am I disappointed? Absolutely."

And Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, was left fuming.

"I am kind of disgusted that after nine months, the self-interest is still outweighing the national interest in our caucus in some ways," he said.

But Mr. Graham still held out the hope that the repeal proposal would pass - just later, after Republicans tackle taxes, and when Republicans can consider the repeal plan in a more deliberative fashion.

"There are 50 votes for the substance," Mr. Graham said. "There are not 50 votes for the process."

But that could be months away - if not years.

The tax effort will probably occupy Congress through the remainder of this year, and into next year.

After tackling the tax overhaul, Republicans could make another attempt at passing a health bill without needing any Democratic votes. But such an undertaking would require passing yet another budget blueprint, in order to protect the bill from a Democratic filibuster, and it would put health care front and center as lawmakers head into the midterm elections.

Even as Republicans shift their focus to taxes, pressure is building for a bipartisan response to the problems of the health care system. The Alexander-Murray stabilization package has two main elements: money for subsidies paid to insurance companies, to reimburse them for reducing out-of-pocket costs for low-income people, and more freedom for states to revamp their insurance markets.

Democrats see the cost-sharing subsidy payments as essential. But many Republicans, including Mr. Trump, have described them as a bailout for insurance companies that would prop up the Affordable Care Act.

"I think most of the members would suggest they really don't know that they can stabilize the product at this stage of the game," said Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota. "I think there's a number of them that are going to be very hesitant to try to put more money into a system that they are convinced is going south."

Earlier Tuesday, with little hope of success in the Senate, Mr. Trump expressed his displeasure.

"At some point there will be a repeal and replace, but we'll see whether or not that point is now or will it be shortly thereafter," he said at the White House. "But we are disappointed in certain so-called Republicans."

The failure in the Senate was also a disappointment to Republicans in the House, who managed to pass a repeal bill in May after their own struggles.

"We're a little frustrated that the Senate has not acted on a seminal promise," said Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.

Then he returned to talking up the need for a tax overhaul.

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An Oklahoma woman said she found a newborn baby boy abandoned on the side of a highway inside of a car seat stuffed with cash.

Alexis Harrison said she and her church group spotted the 4-week-old baby on Saturday afternoon while they were returning from an amusement park in Oklahoma City. The group, members of the Abba's House of Worship Center in Ada, Oklahoma, located about 90 minutes southeast of Oklahoma City, said it immediately called 911.

"I think that church van was in the right place at the right time because they were the first ones who got the baby," Harrison told ABC affiliate KOCO on Tuesday. "It's just surreal."

She said the baby appeared to be sleeping when the group spotted his carrier sitting about 10 feet away from a busy stretch of Interstate 40 in Oklahoma. He appeared to be well cared for, officials with the Department of Human Services said.

"I said, 'Please tell me that's not what we think it is,'" Harrison said. "You see this in movies. This isn't real life."

Authorities also found a birth certificate, a Social Security card and about $5,500 in cash stuffed in the baby's car seat. Police have located the baby's mother through relatives and took her to a hospital for evaluation. They are still investigating.

Emergency workers estimated the child had been left in the 91-degree heat about 30 minutes.

"We don't know why she did what she did," Police Sgt. Gary Knight told local reporters on Tuesday. "But people do the strangest things sometimes. I don't recall seeing a case like this where a baby was just left on the shoulder of the highway. This could have had a very tragic ending."

He said it will be up to the Oklahoma County district attorney to decide if charges will be filed against the child's mother.

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Okla. woman finds baby in car seat filled with cash sitting by side of highway

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An Oklahoma woman said she found a newborn baby boy abandoned on the side of a highway inside of a car seat stuffed with cash. Alexis Harrison said she and her church group spotted the 4-week-old baby on Saturday afternoon while they were returning from an amusement park in Oklahoma City.

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Taliban claims it targeted US defense chief's plane in attack on Kabul airport

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The Taliban and ISIS are both taking credit for a rocket attack on Kabul's airport early Wednesday just hours after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis landed in Afghanistan for a surprise visit.

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A barrage of up to 40 rounds of munitions hit the airport, including 29 rocket-propelled grenades, according to a U.S. military official.

In response to the attack, the U.S. conducted an airstrike to support an Afghan crisis unit on the ground, but "one of the missiles malfunctioned," causing injuries to Afghan civilians, the U.S.-lead coalition said in a statement.

Mattis had left the airport hours before the attack took place. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who was in Afghanistan with the U.S. defense chief, was similarly out of harm's way when the rockets hit.

A separate U.S. military official told reporters traveling with Mattis that the secretary's C-17 aircraft had already departed Kabul for Bagram Airfield when the attack occurred. A spokesperson for the U.S. military in Afghanistan told ABC News that there are no reports of damage to coalition or Afghan military aircraft.

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Though no U.S. personnel were injured, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesperson Najib Danish said one Afghan woman was killed and 11 civilians were wounded in the incident. Rockets hit two civilian homes close to the airport.

A U.S. military official told ABC News that two Hellfire missiles were fired from an Apache helicopter. One missile hit its target, while the second accidentally struck a structure, killing the one civilian and wounding several others.

"Resolute Support deeply regrets the harm to non-combatants," the coalition said in a statement on Wednesday. "We take every precaution to avoid civilian casualties, even as the enemies of Afghanistan continue to operate in locations that deliberately put civilians at very high risk. An investigation into the attack and the malfunctioning ammunition has begun."

Danish said later that four people allegedly involved in the attack were killed by Afghan special forces in an operation near the airport.

A Taliban spokesman tweeted that the attack was aimed at the secretary's plane.

ISIS also claimed responsibility for the rocket barrage.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said at a press conference that his country's special forces are "dealing with" the incident.

Mattis, standing with Ghani, called the attack a "criminal act by terrorists."

"It's designed to go after generally innocent people to make some sort of statement," the U.S. defense chief said. "This is a classic definition of what the Taliban are up to right now. It defines their approach to how they see their role here and if in fact this is what they have done, they will find the Afghan security forces continuing on the offensive against them in every district of the country right now. So it is what it is, but it's also the reason why we band together, and we don't question what we're doing here."

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This is Mattis' first trip to Afghanistan since President Donald Trump announced a new South Asia strategy that will send an additional 3,000 U.S. troops to the country.

Speaking to reporters traveling with the secretary, a U.S. military official said the Afghan conflict is at a "stalemate."

"We'd still put the conflict in this kind of bounds of the stalemate where neither side really has the capability right now to kind of have a decisive victory," the official said.

There are approximately 11,000 U.S. forces in Afghanistan now advising and assisting the country's military fight against the Taliban, as well as adding additional firepower to the counterterrorism mission against ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Hedayatullah Amid/EPA

Next month, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its 17th year.

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Taliban claims it targeted US defense chief's plane in attack on Kabul airport

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The Taliban and ISIS are both taking credit for a rocket attack on Kabul's airport early Wednesday just hours after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis landed in Afghanistan for a surprise visit. Add Afghanistan as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Afghanistan news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

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Illegal immigrants are costing US taxpayers 135 billion dollars a year.

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Illegal immigration costing record $135 billion a year, study shows

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The swelling population of illegal immigrants and their kids is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the the most authoritative report on the issue yet.

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Nurse Shopping at Target Delivers Baby After Customer's Water Breaks:

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Perhaps Tanya St. Preux took multi-tasking a tad too far.

The heavily pregnant woman was already feeling contractions when she stopped by a Target store in her Georgia neighborhood to pick up a few items, she said.

Labor and delivery nurse Caris Lockwood was shopping with her mother in the same store, unaware she would soon be dropping everything to help bring a stranger's baby into the world.

Her mom overheard St. Preux talking about contractions. "I saw a very pregnant woman who looked to be in pain," said Lisa Bozeman. "She mentioned that she needed a few things, then 'might' go to the hospital to be checked since her contractions seemed to be getting strong," she told Fox5 Atlanta.

Ahem, Bozeman said. You might want to talk to my daughter.

The birthing nurse was able to persuade St. Preux that she really ought to leave for the hospital right now. The pregnant woman's friend went to bring the car to the store's entrance.

Bozeman and her daughter helped St. Preux to the massive market's front. Meanwhile, her contractions bore down faster, as did her pain.

And then her water broke.

Someone was sent for surgical gloves and towels. Seconds later, a baby boy weighed in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and was swaddled in a fluffy, purple towel.

As it turned out, there was more than once nurse shopping in that Target. An ER nurse stopped to help. And a NICU nurse also came forward. Thankfully, the latter's services were not needed.

"Caris was God-sent and amazing. She was sweet and caring and exceeded everyone's expectations," said the new mother. "She went way over far and beyond."

"We feel so blessed to have been part of this," said the nurse's mom. "We have visited the family at the hospital and their home, and plan to have a lifetime friendship with them."
Watch: Neighbors Form Human Chain to Help 9-Months Pregnant Woman Get to Hospital

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Nurse Shopping at Target Delivers Baby After Customer's Water Breaks: 'She Was Sweet and Caring'

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Perhaps Tanya St. Preux took multi-tasking a tad too far. The heavily pregnant woman was already feeling contractions when she stopped by a Target store in her Georgia neighborhood to pick up a few items, she said.

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After nobody shows up to a young boys birthday party. Two days after, 4 Arkansas State Troopers show up to surprise him and bring him birthday gifts to cheer Toxey up after his upset at the party nobody came to.

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Teen girl allegedly abducted by her teacher says she doesn't regret it.

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The 15-year-old girl who became the center of a nationwide manhunt after she vanished -- allegedly abducted by her 50-year-old teacher -- has opened up about the case, saying: "I don't regret it, nor do I say it was the right thing to do."

Elizabeth Thomas disappeared from her home in Tennessee with her teacher, Tad Cummins, in mid-March, sparking the massive search, police said. Investigators received more than 1,500 tips from people following the case, and the two eventually were spotted in mid-April in a remote county in northern California.

Speaking at a fast-food restaurant in Columbia, Tenn. on Saturday, Thomas told The Daily Herald that "there's been a lot of rumors about me I'd like to clear up."

Thomas said she was in therapy after she returned home, but said it was for "way too long," adding she "should not have been up there."

Before Thomas was reported missing, emails discovered between the student and Cummins showed the two had what investigators labeled a "romantic interest in each other."

The two were once caught kissing in school, according to reports. Both Thomas and Cummins denied kissing, according to the school's investigative files.

Cummins has pleaded not guilty to charges including transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to commit illegal sexual acts. He's set to face trial in January, the Tennessean reports.

Cummins was fired one day before the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Amber Alert for the missing teen.

Now living with her brother, Thomas said she "can't really complain right now" about her life - she's being homeschooled until she finishes high school in two years, and she's babysitting, and working in Columbia.

"It was an experience I'll have to live with the rest of my life," Thomas said of her time on the run. "It's good and bad. It's there. No matter what we do, we'll have to deal with it."

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Teen girl allegedly abducted by her teacher says she doesn't regret it

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The 15-year-old girl who became the center of a nationwide manhunt after she vanished -- allegedly kidnapped by her 50-year-old teacher -- has opened up about the case, saying: "I don't regret it, nor do I say it was the right thing to do."

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A U.S. embassy in Cuba might shut down after an unexplained sonic weapon attacked it, causing hearing loss and concussions for many people within the building.

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As the U.S. government considers closing its embassy in Cuba, scientists remain baffled by the mysterious sonic weapon that was apparently used to target American diplomats in Cuba.

On Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the U.S. is considering the closure of its embassy in the Cuban capital following a spate of unexplained incidents that have left American diplomats injured.

Of the 21 medically confirmed U.S. victims, some have permanent hearing loss or concussions, while others suffered nausea, headaches and ear-ringing. Some are struggling with concentration or common word recall, the Associated Press has reported.
SONIC WEAPONS REPORTED IN CUBA: COULD SOUND BE HARNESSED IN AN ATTACK?
Some victims felt vibrations or heard loud sounds mysteriously audible in only parts of rooms, leading investigators to consider a potential "sonic attack." Others heard nothing but later developed symptoms.

The U.S. hasn't identified either a culprit or a device. Investigators have explored the possibility of sonic waves, an electromagnetic weapon, or an advanced spying operation gone awry, U.S. officials briefed on the probe told the AP. The U.S. hasn't ruled out that a third country or a rogue faction of Cuba's security services might be involved.

The strange incidents continue to puzzle scientists. There has been speculation that infrasound (a low frequency sound below the human hearing range) or ultrasound (above 20 KHz and can not be heard by humans), may have been harnessed in the attacks.
SOUND WEAPONS THAT DELIVER INVISIBLE AMMO IN SPOTLIGHT AFTER AMERICAN DIPLOMATS INJURED
"Ultimately, devices working in either spectrum could cause hearing damage but it is unlikely to be infrasonic given the size of the speaker required to produce the requisite frequency and decibel level," explained Dr. Toby Heys, leader of Manchester Metropolitan University's Future Technologies research centre, in a statement emailed to Fox News. "Infrasound is also very difficult/next to impossible to direct, within current technological dictates."

"There's no efficient way to focus infrasound to make it into a usable weapon," said Mario Svirsky, an expert on ear disorders and neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine.

Heys added that ultrasound could be directed at a target's head, but would require extremely precise targeting within a building's infrastructure.
SONIC WEAPON KNOCKS DRONES RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY
Experts say that it is also difficult to explain the concussions experienced by some of the victims of the attacks. Usually, those follow a blow to the head or proximity to something like a bomb blast.

"The frequency-based trauma in question would have to be very severe to cause this," explained Heys. "There is a history of brain injury and hearing loss that stretches back to WW1 when soldiers had to endure not only the intense and massive sounds of conflict for extended periods of time but also the shock waves produced by large artillery."

The academic cited a French study in 1918 that concluded, that, when exposed to intense noise over a prolonged period of time, the skull does not particularly protect the brain. "The difference of course here is that this is audible sound, whereas the frequencies in question in Cuba are supposedly 'non-audible', which makes it more difficult to explain as a phenomenon," he added.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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Scientists still baffled by mysterious sonic weapon attack on US embassy in Cuba

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As the U.S. government considers closing its embassy in Cuba, scientists remain baffled by the mysterious sonic weapon that was apparently used to target American diplomats in Cuba. On Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the U.S.

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Forty to Forty-Five rockets were fired at a Kabul airport just two hours after Defense Secretary Mattis had left. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

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At least six mortar rounds landed in or around part of the Kabul international airport just as U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is in Afghanistan for a visit, Afghan officials say.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter.

The attack took place Wednesday in the eastern part of the airport. A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Najib Danish, said there were no reports of any casualties.

All flights in and out of the airport were delayed, airport Director Tumor Shah Hamedi said.

Mattis and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg are in Afghanistan to hold a news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Mortar rounds land at Kabul airport just after Mattis arrival

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At least six mortar rounds landed in or around part of the Kabul international airport just as U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is in Afghanistan for a visit, Afghan officials say. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter. The attack took place Wednesday in the eastern part of the airport.

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Rapper B.O.B wants to prove that the Earth is actually flat.

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b.o.b has started a gofundme to prove the earth is flat - cnn

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B.o.B has started a GoFundMe to prove the Earth is flat

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The self-proclaimed "flat-earther" wants to send a satellite into space to decide whether earth really is round after all.