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Former CIA officer is arrested, accused of stashing top secret info.  A former CIA officer believed to have helped China dismantle a US spy network in the country and identify informants who were later killed or imprisoned was arrested Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to multiple reports.

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Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a 13-year veteran of the spy agency, was charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The notebooks, described in a court filing as a datebook and an address book, were discovered in FBI searches of hotel rooms Lee stayed in in 2012, wrapped in a "small, clear plastic travel pack" inside his luggage, according to the court documents.

Written in their pages were the names and phone numbers of CIA assets and undercover employees, as well as the addresses of covert facilities and operational notes -- pieces of secret and top secret information "the disclosure of which could cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States," the government wrote.

Lee, 53, made an initial court appearance in Brooklyn on Tuesday and did not enter a plea, the Justice Department said. His attorney could not be immediately reached Tuesday evening.

A trained CIA case officer, Lee maintained a top secret security clearance from 1994 through 2007, when he left the agency, court documents say.

Lee, a naturalized US citizen currently living in Hong Kong, was in the process of moving to northern Virginia from Hong Kong when the FBI conducted the hotel room searches in August 2012. Lee and his family lived in northern Virginia until June 2013, court documents say.

Monday, when Lee was arrested in New York, was his first time back in the country since he moved in 2013, a person familiar with the case said.

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Ex-CIA officer arrested, accused of stashing top secret info

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Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a 13-year veteran of the spy agency, was charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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USA Gymnastics threatened to fine McKayla Maroney if she spoke out about Larry Nassar’s sexual misconduct. Chrissy Teigen offered to pay this fine for Maroney and USA Gymnastics has decided to revoke the fine.

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Supermodel Chrissy Teigen offered on Tuesday to pay a fine imposed on Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney if she wanted to speak at former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's Tuesday sentencing due to a non-disclosure agreement Maroney had signed. USA Gymnastics later said they would revoke the NDA and allow Maroney to speak if she wanted.

"The entire principle of this should be fought- an NDA to stay quiet about this serial monster with over 140 accusers," wrote Teigen in a tweet on Tuesday. She also wrote that she would be "honored" to pay the fine.

The entire principle of this should be fought - an NDA to stay quiet about this serial monster with over 140 accusers, but I would be absolutely honored to pay this fine for you, McKayla. pic.twitter.com/lsBEgEqZpD
- christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 16, 2018

ABC News previously reported about Maroney's NDA, which was part of the terms of a settlement with USA Gymnastics in 2016. The NDA stated that if Maroney said anything about Nassar's abuse, she could be fined $100,000 or more, according to her lawyer John Manly.

Maroney responded to Teigen on Tuesday evening in a statement through Manly, saying, "I'm shocked by your generosity, and I just want you to know how much hope your words bring to all of us! I just can't get over the fact that someone I don't personally know is sticking up for me, let alone a strong women that I've looked up to for years!"

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Late Tuesday, USA Gymnastics said they would not seek money from Maroney if she chose to offer her testimony in court. A statement reads, "USA Gymnastics encourages McKayla and anyone who has been abused to speak out. USA Gymnastics remains focused on our highest priority -- the safety, health and well-being of our athletes and creating a culture that empowers and supports them."

Several victims of Nassar confronted him in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday, telling him how he robbed them of their childhoods by using his position as a star physician to allege he sexually assaulted them and scarred them for life.

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Prosecutors said they have scheduled 98 of 125 victims to address the court over the next four days. All of the women said they were molested by Nassar, and about 20 addressed the court over a span of eight hours on Tuesday.

It was unclear whether Maroney would now testify.

Maroney won a gold medal as part of the women's gymnastic team in 2012, and was an individual medalist on vault, winning silver. Fellow star gymnasts Simone Biles and Maroney teammates Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas have also come forward to say they were abused by Nassar.

ABC News' Rachel Katz and Shah Rahmanzadeh contributed to this report.

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USA Gymnastics revokes fine for McKayla Maroney after Chrissy Teigen offers to pay

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Supermodel Chrissy Teigen offered on Tuesday to pay a fine imposed on Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney if she wanted to speak at former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's Tuesday sentencing due to a non-disclosure agreement Maroney had signed. USA Gymnastics later said they would revoke...

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North and South Korea have agreed to march under the same flag at the winter Olympics. The will create a joint women's ice hockey team for the Winter  Olympics. The flag the will use is the "Korean Peninsula flag."

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Flash of light in Michigan Freaks people out.

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The flash and boom was "NOT thunder or lightning, but instead a likely meteor," tweeted the National Weather Service for Detroit. It was monitoring feeds from astronomical agencies for official confirmation that it was a meteor, the NWS said.

The massive, flash of light was captured on people's cameras attached to their homes and cars, which was then posted on social media.

Chelsea Means captured the moment on her security cameras. Although she didn't see the light, she told CNN that she heard a "loud thunder, rumble noise."

"It shook my house," she said. "At first, it sounded like someone hitting my house."

The Ingham County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management received several 911 calls and tweeted: "There is no need to call 911. All indications are that it was just a natural meteor fireball."

It also stated that no fires had been reported as a result of the meteor.

In Allen Park, Michigan, one camera captured the bright streak going across the sky and then fading out.

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Flash of light in Michigan is likely a meteor, says National Weather Service

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A bridge under construction near Bogota, Colombia, partially collapsed, killing at least 10 people.

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Two men of the state of California have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities. It is motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government" that doesn't follow the U.S. Constitution or the state constitution. The process to reach a consensus must be reached by the state legislatures of California as well as Congress. According to New California representatives, this process could take 10 to 18 months.

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into 6 states, the "New California" movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a dinstinct economy separate from the coast.

Preston and Reed say the citizens of the state live "under a tyrannical form of government that does not follow the California and U.S. Constitutions."

The "founders" have evoked Article IV Section 3 of the United States Constitution as justification for establishing a new economy with a new state constitution.

It states that a consensus must be reached by the state legislatures of California as well as congress. The process, according to New California representatives, could take 10 to 18 months.

The New California movement unveiled a " Declaration of Independence," earlier this week that called for a "free and Independent State" with "full power to establish and maintain law and order, to promote general prosperity."

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'New California' movement seeks to divide the Golden State in half

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Washington state QB Tyler Hilinski was found in his apartment dead after committing suicide at age 21. The team sent police to check in on him after missing a morning practice.

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Washington State Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski was found dead after apparently killing himself, police in Pullman, Washington, announced Tuesday.

The Seattle Times' Stefanie Loh shared a statement about Hilinski's death from the Pullman Police Department:

Stefanie Loh @StefanieLoh
Pullman PD has confirmed Tyler Hilinski's demise. https://t.co/c83GNV74ZY
2018-1-17 04:02:41

yler's younger brother Ryan tweeted, "Please keep my family in your prayers tonight."

Hilinski, 21, appeared in 11 games for Washington State in two years. He threw for 1,149 yards and seven touchdowns with seven interceptions.

He started his first career game with the Cougars in their 42-17 Holiday Bowl defeat to the Michigan State Spartans. He was 39-of-50 for 272 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

Hilinski's best game came in Washington State's 58-37 loss to the Arizona Wildcats last October. He had 509 yards through the air on 45-of-61 passing.

With Luke Falk graduating, Hilinski was among the early favorites to take over as Washington State's starting quarterback in 2018.

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Washington State QB Tyler Hilinski Dies at Age 21

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A bridge under construction near Bogota, Colombia partially collapsed. Killing at least 10 people.

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Anthony Rinando was diagnosed with sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing repeatedly starts and stops during sleep, during his teen years.  It's a serious condition and potentially fatal, as having it for 4-5 years can increase your risk for death by 30%. It occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax and the airways narrow. After his failed surgery to have his tonsils removed, he was referred to Dr. Krespi, who uses a snake-like robot that navigates through the body to safely remove or repair tissue.

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Anthony Rinando, who was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea in his teenage years, had to wait almost two decades to get a good night's sleep.

"I tried everything. Snoring strips, sleeping with a tennis ball behind your back... I tried using different pillows," Rinando, a 31-year-old New Yorker, told Fox News.

Sleep apnea is not just a snorer's disorder, but a serious and sometimes fatal condition. It's estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a disorder that causes your breathing to stop or get very shallow while you sleep.

It occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax and the airway narrows or closes as one breathes in.

"This may lower the level of oxygen in your blood," Mayo Clinic explains in its website. "Your brain senses this inability to breathe and briefly rouses you from sleep so that you can reopen your airway. This awakening is usually so brief that you don't remember it."

Studies show having sleep apnea for four or five years can raise a person's risk of death by 30 percent.

"I would sleep and I would almost choke for air," Rinando said.

Like many Americans, Rinando knew he had to do something and didn't feel comfortable wearing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask, a common treatment that uses a hose and mask or nosepiece to deliver steady air pressure while you sleep.
STIFLED SNEEZE RUPTURES MAN'S THROAT, MEDICAL STUDY ENCOURAGES SNEEZERS TO LET IT ALL OUT
Rinando's next plan of action was to go in for nasal surgery to remove his tonsils, but the operation was unsuccessful.

"The doctor told me, 'I couldn't remove your tonsils because they were just too large. If I was going to remove them, there was a chance that you could bleed out and I couldn't get to it'," he said.

After his failed surgery, Rinando was referred to Dr. Yosef Krespi, a surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who performs surgery using a Flex Robotic System to treat cases of sleep apnea.

The robot is designed to navigate the body's natural twists and turns so tissue can be removed or repaired safely and efficiently. High definition cameras on the robotic equipment can give surgeons a look into the throat with high definition cameras and magnification.

"The robotic equipment can go in multiple directions and is much more effective than the surgeon's hand," Krespi told Fox News. "The robot itself is no bigger than my thumb and that gets into the oral cavity in an appropriate position and it's flexible, similar to a snake."

Flex robotic surgery is covered by most insurances and is also FDA-cleared for head and neck and colorectal cases.

Krespi said the procedure does carry minor bleeding and anesthesia risks, but believes the surgery is minimally invasive under robot guidance.

"There is less blood loss, smaller incisions or no incisions, and so the recovery is much easier. The need for pain medication post-operatively is less," he explained.
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According to Krespi, most patients can also be sent home the same day of the operation.

Rinando said his recovery was painful for a few weeks but that now he can sleep peacefully.

"I can breathe much better. I didn't know that I was supposed to be able to breathe like I am now," Rinando said. "I don't snore. I don't wake up. Months down the road now, I feel like [I'm] a totally different person."

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Anthony Rinando, who was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea in his teenage years, had to wait almost two decades to get a good night's sleep. "I tried everything. Snoring strips, sleeping with a tennis ball behind your back... I tried using different pillows," Rinando, a 31-year-old New Yorker, told Fox News.

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Roberts County is the most pro Trump county in America.

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Miami is a town in the Texas panhandle where everyone knows everyone at the grocery store and servers at the local diner know who likes what kind of pie with their chicken fried steak.

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The community's busy season is largely dictated by the needs of the cattle, tended to on sprawling ranches surrounding the town. With a population of about 600, there are more cows than people in Miami, pronounced locally as my-AM-uh.

But the results of the November 2016 election brought an influx of new human faces to Roberts County as news crews descended.

Roberts County, where Miami is the only incorporated community, was dubbed the "most pro-Trump county in America" after national voting records showed it had the highest percentage -- more than 95 percent -- of Trump voters.

Of the 550 who voted in the county, 524 went for President Donald Trump. Trying to name people who voted for Hillary Clinton turned into a local guessing game, and none of the suspected Clinton supporters whom ABC News contacted were willing to talk about their vote.

But a handful of Trump voters and local residents spoke with ABC News and agreed to be interviewed over the course of the first year of the Trump administration. Why? Because ABC News wanted to learn and observe: What issues mattered most to their lives, and how -- if at all -- their initial impressions of Trump evolved a year into his presidency.

While some parts of America have been consumed with the Russia investigations or slammed Trump as a divisive figure sowing discord, residents of Roberts County take a different view. They are more than 1,500 miles from the White House, but it feels even farther to some.

The nearest nationally recognized city is probably Amarillo, which is just shy of an hour-and-a-half drive away. Miami's town newspaper comes out once a week and dedicates large portions of the coverage to the Miami High School Warriors, the town school's athletes. Those who live and work right in Roberts County are mostly connected to cattle - ranching, selling, showing -- and many others have office jobs or public sector jobs in the nearby city of Pampa, which is just over the county line.

As the new administration settles into Washington, the reality of a political shift has taken root among voters like those in Miami, Texas. And while Trump's actions can unsettle some of his supporters, they all appeared united in their conviction that the alternative would have been worse.

Clashing with "core values"

Steve and Martha Porter are essentially local legends, having lived and worked in the area for decades. They were the first couple awarded the "sweetheart" prize at Miami's annual National Cow Calling Championship and Steak Cook Off in the summer of 2017 and have personal connections to many in the community. Steve Porter taught generations of high school government and economics students and Martha Porter taught special education at a nearby prison.

While they have recently been living in the neighboring town of Pampa, they still maintain a presence in Miami due to the more than 1,000 acres of property they own in Roberts County, which includes a pecan farm and apple orchard.

Steve Porter was drawn to Trump for his character, citing taxes and immigration as equally important issues he wanted to see improved.

"Donald Trump showed a great strength," Porter said in June. "A great powerful person for the American people first. First in immigration, first in jobs, first in everything. And I realized that we needed a president who believed America was great. Greater than all other countries."

One person who Porter said didn't fit that description was Hillary Clinton. Her unpopularity came up repeatedly in conversations with Roberts County voters over the course of the year, and the Porters made sure their distaste for Clinton was passed down in their household to their miniature Australian shepherd named Buddy, whom they taught to bark like mad whenever he heard the name "Hillary."

Porter, like many in Roberts County, says his faith and core values guide much of his life. As much as he supports the president, Porter concedes, he occasionally disagrees with Trump's conduct.

"Many times, we find that our presidents have been men that have faults and failures. They've had sin about them. And they've made gross mistakes. And the one we have right now is no different from ones we've had before," he said.

"He has made a number of mistakes and probably would be the first to admit that he said some things, done some things since he's been president that he wishes that he could change and take back," Porter said in December, without mentioning specific examples of what he viewed as those "gross mistakes."

When pressed on the fact that Trump so rarely apologizes, Porter likened him to someone else known for his strength.

"He probably is, in a way, like [actor] John Wayne. John Wayne said, 'Never say you're sorry. It's a sign of weakness.' Now, I don't agree with that, but that's the way many men are," Porter said.

Taxes affect family legacies

Another voter who spoke to ABC News was cattle rancher Mitchell Locke, a fourth-generation county resident whose family helped settle the town in 1887.

He left Miami to go to college elsewhere, but he said he returned because he loves the simple, quiet life, where he spends his free time teaching himself how to play the "Game of Thrones" theme on his banjo. His photo, like many Miami High School alums, was on the wall in the school, and his relatives have pictures and mementos on display in the Roberts County Museum just blocks from his house.

When Locke, 36, first met with ABC News in February, just a month into the Trump administration, he didn't hold back on his feelings about the new president, for whom he voted.

"I think he's a buffoon. I think he's a blowhard," Locke said. "But I still could not vote for the left for tax reasons, for some of the economic reasons, and things like that ... it was that simple."

The biggest tax issue for the Locke family is the estate tax, which applies when someone dies and his or her estate is passed on to a relative or heir. The thousands of acres of land and roughly 1,000 cattle the Locke family owns, which is largely tended to by Locke and his father, David Locke, is the major source of the family's income and they see it as their legacy.

The Lockes are part of a select group of people affected by the estate tax. In 2013, 0.18 percent of people who died that year were eligible to pay estate taxes, according to data released by the Tax Policy Center in 2017.

When it came to the 2016 presidential campaign, the candidates announced contrasting plans for how they would handle the estate tax, which many conservatives call the "death tax." Hillary Clinton proposed raising the estate tax, in some cases reaching 65 percent, and Trump promised to eliminate it altogether.

That made Mitchell Locke's choice crystal clear.

"You give me two choices, I'll make a choice. Sometimes you have to put blinders on to some of it and you have to take the lesser of two evils .... Neither candidate was good in my opinion. One was worse than the other," he said.

His sister Erin, who lives three blocks away, holds similar beliefs, especially when it comes to the importance of Trump's help on the new tax law. In addition to being affected by how her father's estate will be divided upon his eventual death, she's also concerned about her husband Chad Breeding, a rancher himself.

Chad Breeding, who serves as the Miami mayor when he isn't busy on the ranch, stressed to ABC News it would be "great" to get rid of the estate tax.

Breeding discussed how "a lot of people don't really have a lot of wealth, as like dollar bills in their pocket," in rural parts of the country like Roberts County. But "they have a lot of wealth built up in land, that they've inherited," he said.

In the minds of Mitchell Locke and Chad Breeding, the hope for tax law change was the touchstone because, they say, issues such as Russian interference in the election, violence at a white nationalists rally in Virginia and the proposed travel ban don't directly affect their lives. Things have been busy at their respective houses, as much of Mitchell and wife Ashlee's year was consumed by their ultimately successful struggle to conceive a child, while Chad and Erin Breeding were getting used to life with their newborn twins.

While talking to ABC News in October 2017, Locke posed a hypothetical: He imagined that if Clinton had won, his family "would have had to sell our land to the point where it wasn't sustainable for two families," losing what they had worked for generations to accumulate.

"Those DACA people, should they be concerned about us, in that scenario?" he said of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy affecting hundreds of thousands of people who entered the county as minors.

He added, "I have to try and take care of me and my own. I don't know if that was right, but that's kind of what it comes down to."

Praying for a change of heart

One Miami resident who supports Trump but takes issue with a possible policy change is Sonia Lopez. She immigrated to Texas from Mexico to live with her then-boyfriend, now husband, and has been living in Miami for more than a decade. She is still going through the citizenship process, so she wasn't able to vote in 2016. But her eldest son and husband, who are both U.S. citizens, voted for Trump.

Each time she met with ABC News, she stressed that "the only concern to me is if he separate[s] families."

Trump painted himself as a hardliner on immigration during the campaign, with the plan to "build the wall" becoming one of the best-known campaign lines. He signed an executive order to deport undocumented immigrants during his first week in office, and went on to openly debate what to do about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

He also ended special protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador and Haiti, with other countries expected to come.

"How do you expect to have a good country if you are divided in the foundations of the family?" Lopez told ABC News in June.

Lopez stands out in Miami, not because of her loud cheers at the football games or her infectious smile, but because of the little diversity in Roberts County. According to the 2010 Census, 93.5 percent of the county is white, and only 74 people identify as Hispanic or Latino. Hers is one of three Mexican-American families who live in Miami, Lopez said.

Lopez, 48, told ABC News she is often asked whether she is in the country legally. A man once asked whether she swam through "the river" to get across the border, Lopez said.

"I say, 'You know what, you have the privilege to be born here ... I didn't. God didn't ask me ... I'm the same, like you. I want something better for my kids. I want good education. I want they have a good future." she said.

Like Porter and many others in the community, Lopez is Christian, telling ABC News that she regularly prays for Trump.

"I'm still praying every morning. Every morning, every night, every time that I remember, I just say, 'God, please, go in his heart, in all the Congress heart.' .... Why they don't do something good for the people that they don't have papers?" Lopez said in December.

Looking forward with a lack of enthusiasm

The breakneck pace of news and political dramas that have consumed many parts of the country in the first year of the Trump administration didn't seem to make it to Roberts County.

That was particularly true of the Russia investigations, where some arrests and indictments were issued for members of the Trump campaign. All the people ABC News met in Roberts County dismissed the issue.

"In all reality, it probably will never affect me," Miami Mayor Chad Breeding said in December, saying that would even be true if Trump faces legal questions about any alleged involvement.

"So, he gets indicted, he goes to jail, there's another president. That's not going to affect poor little Chad down here," he said.

While a number of the president's campaign promises failed to come to fruition during the first year, his major legislative win came in the form of a tax bill, which included changes to the estate tax.

Since the tax bill became law in late December, the amount of assets that can be passed on tax-free has been doubled to cover roughly $11 million passed on by an individual. While certainly a boost, it is a far cry from eliminating the estate tax altogether, especially because that measure expires in 2025.

The expiration date means that if there are no deaths in the family in the next seven years, the next president could hold the financial fate of these Texas ranches in his or her hands.

But that doesn't seem to bother rancher Mitchell Locke.

"I got other things out of it," he said. "I got a Supreme Court candidate I like [now Justice Neil Gorsuch], reductions in regulations and things like that. And things haven't gotten worse for us. And they would have."

While some, like Mayor Breeding, couldn't fathom voting for anyone but a Republican, fellow rancher Locke says his allegiance to Trump isn't guaranteed in 2020.

"I'm not married to the guy. I'm not locked into him like, 'He's my guy.' He never was," Locke said. "I'm just, like I said, I had a set of scales and I was putting good, bad, good, bad and the good slightly outweighed the bad."

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN´s Chief medical correspondent weighs in on Trumps medical exam. Saying the numbers provided by Dr. Ronny Jackson prove Trump has heart disease.

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Collaspsing bridge kills at 10 people. In Bogota, Colombia

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A bridge under construction near Bogota, Colombia, partially collapsed, killing at least 10 people.

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Tyler Hilinski, Washington State Cougars QT, died on January 16th by killing himself. He was found in his Aspen Village apartment after not showing up to practice earlier that day. There was a suicide note left and also a rifle. The police found him with a bullet to his head.

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Washington State Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski was found dead after apparently killing himself, police in Pullman, Washington, announced Tuesday.

The Seattle Times' Stefanie Loh shared a statement about Hilinski's death from the Pullman Police Department:

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Pullman PD has confirmed Tyler Hilinski's demise. https://t.co/c83GNV74ZY
2018-1-17 04:02:41

yler's younger brother Ryan tweeted, "Please keep my family in your prayers tonight."

Hilinski, 21, appeared in 11 games for Washington State in two years. He threw for 1,149 yards and seven touchdowns with seven interceptions.

He started his first career game with the Cougars in their 42-17 Holiday Bowl defeat to the Michigan State Spartans. He was 39-of-50 for 272 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

Hilinski's best game came in Washington State's 58-37 loss to the Arizona Wildcats last October. He had 509 yards through the air on 45-of-61 passing.

With Luke Falk graduating, Hilinski was among the early favorites to take over as Washington State's starting quarterback in 2018.

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13 kids, aged 2-29 years old, were held captive in their home by their parents. They were malnourished and chained to their beds. The investigation was started Sunday morning, when a 17-year old climbed out the window and called 911, telling them that her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive. The Turpins were arrested on accounts of torture and child endangerment, and are currently on a $9 million bail each.

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&#151; -- The aunt of 13 siblings allegedly abused and held captive by their parents in a Southern California home says her family tried "for years" to get in touch with her sister but "she just shut us out of her life."

"I want to reach out to the kids, I want them to know that for years we begged to Skype, we begged to see them, the whole family," Elizabeth Jane Flores said tearfully in an interview today on ABC News' " Good Morning America" with co-anchor Robin Roberts.

Flores' sister Louise Anna Turpin, 49, was arrested Monday along with her husband, David Allen Turpin, 57, for allegedly holding their 13 children "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings" inside their home in Perris, California, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

Mugshots of David Turpin and Louise Turpin of Perris, Calif., provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Jan. 15, 2018.

The siblings, ages 2 to 29, "appeared to be malnourished and very dirty," the sheriff's department said.

"I was shocked because my sister and I haven't really had a sister relationship for about 20 years. So other than maybe like a call every once in a while, and sometimes those calls are like a year apart. So I was shocked, I was devastated," Flores said. "We were never allowed to be a part of their lives."

Flores said she lived with her sister and brother-in-law for a few months when she was in college. At the time, the couple only had four children and the eldest was in elementary school, Flores said.

Louise and David Turpin were arrested in the torture and child endangerment case in Perris, Calif.

"I thought they were really strict, but I didn't see any type of abuse," she said of the parents. "Now that I'm an adult, I look back, I see things that I didn't see then."

She too had to follow strict "rules" and was "treated like one of the kids" when she lived with her sister, Flores added. She also said she had "uncomfortable" experiences with her brother-in-law but never told anyone because she was "young" and "scared."

"He did things that made me feel uncomfortable," she said. "If I were to get in the shower, he would come in there while I was in there and watch me, and it was like a joke. He never touched me or anything."

The Turpins have lived at their home in Perris since about 2014, authorities said, and had previously lived in Murrieta, California, and in Texas.

Elizabeth Jane Flores appears on ABC News' "Good Morning America," Jan. 17, 2018.

Flores said she saw her sister frequently in 2008 when she and her husband moved to Texas, only a couple hours away from where her sister lived at the time. But her sister would usually come to their house to visit and she was rarely invited to her sister's home, Flores said.

"I was only allowed in the driveway," she said. "There was never any children, it was just always her and David. I would always say, 'I wish you would bring the kids.'"

Flores said her mother drove hours to visit the family in Texas at one point, but the Turpins didn't let her inside the house either. A few years later, Flores said, her father bought a flight ticket to see the family but his daughter told him not to come, insisting she would visit them instead. The family never showed up and didn't answer any phone calls, Flores said.

"When that happens for 20 years ... you don't think it's abnormal. You just think that they were always funny and private anyway, even before they had children," she said. "They shut us out years and years and years ago."

The investigation began early-Sunday morning when a 17-year-old girl left the home through a window and called 911, saying her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive there, the sheriff's department said. The teen was slightly emaciated and "appeared to be only 10 years old," responding officers said.

The siblings, who are all believed to be the biological children of the Turpins, were home-schooled, according to authorities. There is no indication there were any other children at the home, authorities said, but the investigation is ongoing.

The Turpins were arrested on charges of torture and child endangerment and are being held on $9 million bail each, according to the sheriff's department. The couple is expected to be arraigned Thursday.

Flores said she still loves her sister but she too wants explanations.

"I want her to know that she's still my blood and I love her. I don't agree with what she did and her actions have made the whole family suffer. But I want her to know that I'm praying for her salvation and that we do love her," Flores said in between tears. "I love Louise, but the kids are my concern."
ABC News' Kelly McCarthy and Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.

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The aunt of 13 siblings allegedly abused and held captive by their parents says her family tried "for years" to get in touch with her sister.

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With people still going with their resolution of #newyearnewme outlook to live a better life. One of the most re-occuring resolutions is hitting the gym more, losing weight, and exercising. But some people, don´t really seem to be in the #workout mood... one is Donald Trump. Dr. Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump´s doctor, characterized his health as excellent, however, much like the rest of America, he is overweight and doesn´t get enough exercise. Donald trump is 239 lbs. and has gained 3 over the last year according to his last year officials. At 6´3, Donald has put himself in the overweight range according to the National Institute of Health. Appearently Donald is 1 lb shy of being obese. Donald is not the only one as more that one in three adults are considered obese or overweight that ranges between 20 and up. IN total over 70% of Americans are obese. PUT DOWN THE PIZZA AND PUT ON THE SNEAKERS!!!!!

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The President weighs 239 pounds. That means he's gained 3 pounds over the last year, according to his last official records. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, Trump had a body mass index, or BMI, that puts him in the "overweight" range, according to the National Institutes of Health's online BMI calculator. Being overweight is simply defined as a person whose weight is higher than what is considered a normal weight adjusted for height. The President is one pound shy of being considered obese, according to these calculations.

He is not alone. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than one in three adults were considered to be overweight and more than one in three were considered obese. That means the percentage of adults age 20 and older who are overweight or obese is 70.7%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BMI, however, is considered by some experts too limited a measure, since this calculation doesn't distinguish between fat and muscle. It's the fat, rather than the weight, that hurts your health. A better way to measure obesity is an X-ray, which can distinguish between fat and other innards. Or some hospitals use a bioelectrical impedance analysis, which runs an electrical current through body tissue to determine fat composition. Even measuring waist circumference is thought to be a better measure of fat than BMI. None of those tests was performed. A doctor could even eyeball it and if the patient's waist is bigger than the hips, the risk of premature death is considered much higher for that person than someone whose waist circumference is smaller.

Jackson said he will work with Trump to design an exercise routine and eating program that will help him get a better handle on his weight. The President said he would like to lose some, according to Jackson.

Being overweight, or in this case borderline obese, does increase Trump's risk for diabetes, heart disease and high cholesterol. Tests have shown he has high cholesterol and there's evidence of heart disease, but Jackson said tests show his heart is functioning well.

"I think a reasonable goal over the next year or so would be to lose 10 to 15 pounds," Jackson said. "We talked about diet and exercise a lot. He is more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part, but we're going to do both."

Trump is also not alone in his lack of interest in exercise. Of adults over the age of 18, 51.7% met the US Physical Activity Guidelines for aerobic activity, and 21.7% of adults meet the aerobic and muscle strengthening activity guidelines, according to the CDC. Adults are supposed to do two hours and 30 minutes a week of moderate intensity aerobic activityor one hour and 15 minutes a week of vigorous intensity aerobic activity for "substantial health benefits," according to the guidelines. Trump has been seen out on the golf course, and the guidelines do say that "some activity is better than none," but if his doctor has any say in the matter, Trump will be exercising more.

"If we get diet and exercise right, then weight loss will come," Jackson said.

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The President weighs 239 pounds. That means he's gained 3 pounds over the last year, according to his last official records. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, Trump had a body mass index, or BMI, that puts him in the "overweight" range, according to the National Institutes of Health's online BMI calculator.

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Anthony Rinando was diagnosed with sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing repeatedly starts and stops during sleep, during his teen years. It's a serious condition and potentially fatal, as having it for 4-5 years can increase your risk for death by 30%. It occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax and the airways narrow. After his failed surgery to have his tonsils removed, he was referred to Dr. Krespi, who uses a snake-like robot that navigates through the body to safely remove or repair tissue.

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Anthony Rinando, who was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea in his teenage years, had to wait almost two decades to get a good night's sleep.

"I tried everything. Snoring strips, sleeping with a tennis ball behind your back... I tried using different pillows," Rinando, a 31-year-old New Yorker, told Fox News.

Sleep apnea is not just a snorer's disorder, but a serious and sometimes fatal condition. It's estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a disorder that causes your breathing to stop or get very shallow while you sleep.

It occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax and the airway narrows or closes as one breathes in.

"This may lower the level of oxygen in your blood," Mayo Clinic explains in its website. "Your brain senses this inability to breathe and briefly rouses you from sleep so that you can reopen your airway. This awakening is usually so brief that you don't remember it."

Studies show having sleep apnea for four or five years can raise a person's risk of death by 30 percent.

"I would sleep and I would almost choke for air," Rinando said.

Like many Americans, Rinando knew he had to do something and didn't feel comfortable wearing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask, a common treatment that uses a hose and mask or nosepiece to deliver steady air pressure while you sleep.
STIFLED SNEEZE RUPTURES MAN'S THROAT, MEDICAL STUDY ENCOURAGES SNEEZERS TO LET IT ALL OUT
Rinando's next plan of action was to go in for nasal surgery to remove his tonsils, but the operation was unsuccessful.

"The doctor told me, 'I couldn't remove your tonsils because they were just too large. If I was going to remove them, there was a chance that you could bleed out and I couldn't get to it'," he said.

After his failed surgery, Rinando was referred to Dr. Yosef Krespi, a surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who performs surgery using a Flex Robotic System to treat cases of sleep apnea.

The robot is designed to navigate the body's natural twists and turns so tissue can be removed or repaired safely and efficiently. High definition cameras on the robotic equipment can give surgeons a look into the throat with high definition cameras and magnification.

"The robotic equipment can go in multiple directions and is much more effective than the surgeon's hand," Krespi told Fox News. "The robot itself is no bigger than my thumb and that gets into the oral cavity in an appropriate position and it's flexible, similar to a snake."

Flex robotic surgery is covered by most insurances and is also FDA-cleared for head and neck and colorectal cases.

Krespi said the procedure does carry minor bleeding and anesthesia risks, but believes the surgery is minimally invasive under robot guidance.

"There is less blood loss, smaller incisions or no incisions, and so the recovery is much easier. The need for pain medication post-operatively is less," he explained.
MAN'S ENERGY DRINK ADDICTION LED TO HIS SUICIDE, FATHER CLAIMS
According to Krespi, most patients can also be sent home the same day of the operation.

Rinando said his recovery was painful for a few weeks but that now he can sleep peacefully.

"I can breathe much better. I didn't know that I was supposed to be able to breathe like I am now," Rinando said. "I don't snore. I don't wake up. Months down the road now, I feel like [I'm] a totally different person."

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Anthony Rinando, who was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea in his teenage years, had to wait almost two decades to get a good night's sleep. "I tried everything. Snoring strips, sleeping with a tennis ball behind your back... I tried using different pillows," Rinando, a 31-year-old New Yorker, told Fox News.

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At least five men were gored to death during a bull-taming festival held in southern India. The festival was banned for a period of time, due to animal cruelty concerns.

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At least five men were gored to death during a bull-taming festival in southern India known as Jallikattu.

During the controversial event, which started Sunday across the southern state of Tamil Nadu, bulls are released into a crowd and the wild animals are forced to fend off people trying to either ride them or pluck bundles of money and gold tied to their specially sharpened horns.

On Wednesday, at least five people - including a 45-year-old vendor - were killed by raging bulls.

The Hindu reported the vendor, identified as M Jeeva Kumar of Koilpatty, was watching the events when a ferocious bull gored him in Vadamalapur, near the exit point.

One person was killed in Palamedu on Monday, while two died in Siravayal and another in Palakurishi on Tuesday.

Officials said at least 60 people have been injured or mauled since Sunday.

The controversial sport was banned by the Indian Supreme Court in 2014 on grounds of animal cruelty. However, the government lifted the ban last year after widespread protests, BBC News reported.

In its decision to overturn the ban, government officials said Jallikattu was important for the "survival and well-being of the native breed of bulls and preserving cultural traditions."

Animal rights activists claim the event causes unnecessary stress to the bulls. According to the BBC, Jallikattu is more than 2,000 years old and is considered one of the world's oldest sports still practiced today.

Unlike traditional bullfighting, the bull is not killed in Jallikattu. Instead men try to dominate and tame the animal without using weapons.
Lucia I. Suarez Sang is a Reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @luciasuarezsang

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At least five men were gored to death during a bull-taming festival in southern India known as Jallikattu. During the controversial event, which started Sunday across the southern state of Tamil Nadu, bulls are released into a crowd and the wild animals are forced to fend off people trying to either ride them or pluck bundles of money and gold tied to their specially sharpened horns.

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TPS (temporary protected status) is being terminated. This was set in place due to earthquakes in 2001 in El Salvador. Trump announced this on Monday. About 200, 000 Salvadorians will be faced with deportation. The administration is saying September 9, 2019 is the final day for Salvadorians to leave the U.S or get a green card.

Also the Department of Homeland Security has requested $18 billion in funding to complete the wall bordering the southern border.

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The Trump administration announced Monday that it will terminate the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them to face deportation.

The administration said it will give the Salvadorans until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the United States or find a way to obtain a green card, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. After earthquakes hit the country in 2001, Salvadorans were granted what is known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, and their permits have been renewed on an 18-month basis since then.

Monday's announcement is the latest step by the administration to cut the number of foreigners living in the United States - by squeezing the flow of legal immigration and intensifying efforts to expel those who arrived illegally.

The efforts span nearly every facet of the American immigration system. Arrests by immigration enforcement agents have increased 40 percent. Trump has slashed the number of refugees accepted by the United States to the lowest level since 1980. And last week his administration sent lawmakers an $18 billion blueprint for the first phase of a Mexico border wall.

The 200,000 Salvadorans are among the nearly 1 million immigrants whose lives in the United States have been upended and set to a deadline under President Trump. The largest group, nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, are set to begin losing their temporary work permits in March at the rate of nearly 1,000 per day.

Democrats and immigrant rights groups denounced the Trump administration's TPS decision, which they characterized as another attack on the United States' tradition of humanitarianism toward immigrants and refugees. On Monday, however, DHS officials resisted suggestions that the decision by Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was part of a broader anti-immigrant agenda. They described it in narrower legal terms, as a recognition that conditions in El Salvador have improved enough since the earthquakes to no longer warrant the TPS designation.

"Based on careful consideration of available information, including recommendations received as part of an inter-agency consultation process, the Secretary determined that the original conditions caused by the 2001 earthquakes no longer exist," the DHS statement read.

The statement noted that the U.S. government has deported more than 39,000 Salvadorans in the past two years, demonstrating, it said, "that the temporary inability of El Salvador to adequately return their nationals after the earthquake has been addressed."

Nielsen recently met with El Salvador's foreign minister and spoke with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, according to the DHS.

[How Trump is building a border wall no one can see]

In total, DHS officials said, 262,500 Salvadorans have been granted TPS permits, but recent estimates indicate that closer to 200,000 people with that status reside in the United States.

Immigrant advocates, Salvadoran government officials and others had implored Nielsen to extend the TPS designation, citing the country's gang violence and the potentially destabilizing effect of so many people being sent home. El Salvador's homicide rate - 108 per 100,000 people in 2015 - was the world's highest for a country not at war, the most recent U.N. data shows.

Others urged Nielsen to consider the approximately 190,000 U.S.-born children of Salvadoran TPS recipients. Their parents must now decide whether to break up their families, take their children back to El Salvador or stay in the United States and risk deportation.

Senior DHS officials told reporters Monday that Salvadoran parents would have to make that choice. "We are not going to get involved in an individual family's decision," said the official, whom the agency did not allow to be quoted by name.

The potential economic impact on American companies and businesses was not a factor either, officials said. The mayors of Houston, Los Angeles and other cities with large numbers of Salvadorans had urged Nielsen to taken into account the wider contributions of TPS recipients, a third of whom are U.S. homeowners, according to recent surveys.

"Only Congress can legislate a permanent solution addressing the lack of an enduring lawful immigration status of those currently protected by TPS who have lived and worked in the United States for many years," Monday's DHS statement read. "The 18-month delayed termination will allow Congress time to craft a potential legislative solution."

['I consider this my country': Salvadorans in U.S. devastated by TPS decision]

Trump administration officials have repeatedly said they considered the TPS program an example of American immigration policy gone awry, noting that when Congress created the designation in 1990, its purpose was to provide "temporary" protection from deportation following a natural disaster, armed conflict or other calamity.

In November, the DHS ended TPS for 60,000 Haitians who arrived after a 2010 earthquake and for 2,500 Nicaraguan migrants protected after Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

A six-month extension was recently granted to 57,000 Hondurans, a decision made before Nielsen's arrival, by then-acting DHS secretary Elaine Duke. That move frustrated White House officials who wanted Duke to end the program.

Lawmakers from both parties who represent cities and states with large immigrant populations blasted the DHS decision. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) called it a "cynical move" whose purpose is to "score political points with the extreme right-wing Republican base."

On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) urged the Trump administration to reconsider, warning that it would be "devastating" to send Salvadorans home "after they have created a humble living for themselves and their families."

The TPS decision came as Congress deliberates DACA's fate. Some lawmakers see the looming Jan. 18 deadline for a must-pass government spending bill as leverage to forge a DACA solution.

Trump is demanding significant concessions. He wants to beef up border security and scale back legal immigration channels in exchange for supporting permanent legal residency, and possibly citizenship, for DACA recipients.

The president is scheduled to meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday to continue the talks.

There were new signs Monday that TPS could end up as a bargaining chip in the DACA negotiations. A person familiar with the talks said Congress could step in to help the Salvadorans, Haitians and other groups whose TPS permits are now set to expire in 2019.

Democrats and Republicans have been privately discussing the possibility of curbing the diversity visa lottery program - which grants about 55,000 green cards each year to people from nations with low immigration rates to the United States - in exchange for sparing TPS recipients from deportation. Trump has insisted that any DACA deal must get rid of the lottery.

[Salvadorans fear TPS decision will be a huge economic blow to their country]

One aide on Capitol Hill familiar with the negotiations said Democrats would prefer a narrow deal to legalize DACA recipients. But this person added that if Trump insists on seeking significant border security upgrades and cuts to legal immigration, then Democrats will insist on extending TPS.

Some Republicans fear that if a DACA deal falls through, it could harm the party in immigrant-heavy voting districts during a midterm election year. Meanwhile, immigration hawks are urging Trump to motivate his base by holding a harder line, as he did throughout the 2016 campaign. The president's top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, has been opposed to continuing DACA, and he is said also to have championed ending the TPS program.

"The fix has been in for these TPS decisions, regardless of the facts on the ground in these countries," said Kevin Appleby of the New York-based Center for Migration Studies.

"The decision on El Salvador is particularly damaging," he said. "It not only will uproot families and children who have lived here for years; it also will further destabilize an already violent country."

The DHS said in its announcement that it conducted extensive outreach to Salvadorans living in the United States, including "community forums on TPS, panel discussions with Salvadoran community organizers, stakeholder teleconferences, regular meetings with TPS beneficiaries, news releases to the Salvadoran community, meetings with Salvadoran government officials, meetings at local churches, and listening sessions."

Jaime Contreras, vice president of Local 32BJ, the largest property-service local in the Service Employees International Union, called Monday's decision "shameful." In the Washington area, he said, TPS recipients clean Reagan National Airport, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and "every major landmark you can think of."

"They have families here. A lot of these people own homes," said Contreras, whose union represents about 160,000 commercial office cleaners, security officers and others nationwide. "It's time for Congress to do the right thing."

Ed O'Keefe and Maria Sacchetti contributed to this report.

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The Trump administration announced Monday that it will terminate the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them to face deportation. The administration said it will give the Salvadorans until Sept.

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'New California' movement seeks to divide the Golden State in half

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into 6 states, the "New California" movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a dinstinct economy separate from the coast.

Preston and Reed say the citizens of the state live "under a tyrannical form of government that does not follow the California and U.S. Constitutions."

The "founders" have evoked Article IV Section 3 of the United States Constitution as justification for establishing a new economy with a new state constitution.

It states that a consensus must be reached by the state legislatures of California as well as congress. The process, according to New California representatives, could take 10 to 18 months.

The New California movement unveiled a " Declaration of Independence," earlier this week that called for a "free and Independent State" with "full power to establish and maintain law and order, to promote general prosperity."

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a “tyrannical form of government” that doesn’t follow the U.S. Constitution or the state one. Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into six states, the “New California” movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a distinct economy separate from the coast.

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into 6 states, the "New California" movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a dinstinct economy separate from the coast.

Preston and Reed say the citizens of the state live "under a tyrannical form of government that does not follow the California and U.S. Constitutions."

The "founders" have evoked Article IV Section 3 of the United States Constitution as justification for establishing a new economy with a new state constitution.

It states that a consensus must be reached by the state legislatures of California as well as congress. The process, according to New California representatives, could take 10 to 18 months.

The New California movement unveiled a " Declaration of Independence," earlier this week that called for a "free and Independent State" with "full power to establish and maintain law and order, to promote general prosperity."

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Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a "tyrannical form of government," that doesn't follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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When Riverside County sheriff's deputies entered the Perris house where a married couple was said to be holding their 13 children captive, they found a horrific scene.

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There was a strong, foul smell. The house was filthy. Three young people were chained to pieces of furniture. Children were badly emaciated.

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Riverside County sheriff's deputies who found the girl were struck by her small size and emaciated appearance. She looked to be only 10, authorities said, and she had photos to back up her claims.
When deputies arrived at the house, they found a scene as nightmarish as she had described.

The parents, David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were arrested on suspicion of torture and child endangerment, and each was being held in lieu of $9 million bail.

The youngest child is 2. Deputies at first assumed from their frail and malnourished appearance that all in the group were minors, but they later determined that seven of them were adults ages 18 to 29, a Sheriff's Department statement said.

The children are believed to all be the couple's biological children, Fellows said. County adult and child protective services workers and medical professionals are assessing the siblings, he said.

Fellows said the parents showed "no indication of mental illness at this time."

He said the children's recovery would be long and praised the courage of the teenager who called 911.

"If you can imagine, being 17 years old and appearing to be a 10-year-old, being chained to a bed and being malnourished and injuries associated with that - I would call that torture," he said.

The children were home-schooled at the house, and the family had lived in Perris since about 2014, Fellows said.

"I can truly say that I am devastated at this act of cruelty," Perris Mayor Michael Vargas said, adding that his heart went out to the victims.

"I can't even begin to imagine the pain and suffering that they have endured."

Susan von Zabern, director of the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, said county children's services officials are seeking court authorization to care for the siblings, "including the adult children to the extent that that's necessary."

Von Zabern said she could not comment on whether there were prior calls from or about the family but said the 911 call received Sunday - which was cross-reported to social workers - was "the first opportunity we had to intervene."

It is too early to know how long the siblings have been malnourished or subjected to abuse, she said, but "their condition indicates it has been a prolonged period of time."

Social workers, as is custom, will try to identify relatives who could care for the children, she said. They would "be subject to all kinds of background investigations to make sure they're suitable and stable."

Mark Uffer, chief executive of the Corona Regional Medical Center, said seven of the adult children - five females and two males ages 18 to 29 - are patients at his hospital.

"It's hard to think of them as adults when you first see them because they're small and their malnutrition," he said. "They're stable; they're being fed."

Uffer said the siblings are staying in a secured area where they are together. They are being treated with a team of nurses familiar with the case.

"They're very friendly. They're very cooperative, and I believe very hopeful that life will get better for them after this event," he said."

Uffer said hospital staff members were "horrified" by the case and the young people's conditions.

"I've been CEO for a long time," he said. "I've been in health care a long time. I've never seen this."

Public records show the couple own the tract house where the children were found. Its address is also listed in a state Department of Education directory as the location of the Sandcastle Day School, a private K-12 campus. David Turpin is listed as the principal.

During the last school year, the school was listed in state records as a nonreligious and co-ed institution. There were six students enrolled - one each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.

Kimberly Milligan, 50, who lives across the street from the Turpins' single-story house, said a lot about the family struck her as strange. The children she saw were very pale - an observation several other neighbors made as well. And she often wondered why, if there were so many children in the house, they never came out to play.

"I thought the kids were home-schooled," she said. "You know something is off, but you don't want to think bad of people."

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(Times staff writer Esquivel reported from Perris, and Branson-Potts reported from Los Angeles.)

And yet, Riverside County Sheriff's Capt. Greg Fellows said Tuesday, the children's mother was surprised to see authorities.

"It seemed that the mother was perplexed as to why we were at the residence," Fellows said.

Sheriff's deputies had never received a call from the house or about suspected child abuse, Fellows said at a news conference. A county child protective services official said this was the "first chance we had to intervene."

Authorities on Tuesday released more details about the nightmarish scene they found at the house on Muir Woods Road and about the conditions of the 13 siblings who appeared to have undergone years of abuse.

A 17-year-old girl called 911 early Sunday, saying she had escaped from her family's home, where her parents had been holding her captive.

On Tuesday, Fellows, commander of the sheriff's Perris station, said the girl escaped from a window in the house and called 911 from a deactivated cellphone.

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When Riverside County sheriff's deputies entered the Perris house where a married couple was said to be holding their 13 children captive, they found a horrific scene. There was a strong, foul smell. The house was filthy. Three young people were chained to pieces of furniture. Children were badly emaciated.

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Holding in a sneeze can be a pain in the neck. Literally. A 34 year old man in Britain learned that the hard way when it caused him to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks. He told doctors that he held in his sneeze and felt a popping sensation in his neck, it became swollen and his voice changed. The man thought sneezing was unhygienic to sneeze into the atmosphere. The pain was caused by air bubbles getting into the man's muscles and deep into his tissue. In other words, he blew a hole in his throat. There is no permanent damage.

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According to the report, this "previously fit" man pinched his nose and kept his mouth closed during a "forceful" sneeze. He later told doctors he immediately felt a popping sensation in his neck. He didn't notice any problems right away, but a couple of hours later he felt pain in his throat and neck. When it became swollen and his voice changed, he took himself to the hospital.

"This 34-year-old chap said he was always trying to hold his sneeze because he thinks it is very unhygienic to sneeze into the atmosphere or into someone's face. That means he's been holding his sneezes for the last 30 years or so, but this time it was different," case report author Dr. Wanding Yang said. She works in the department of ear, nose and throat at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Initially, doctors saw swelling in his neck and when they examined the soft tissue they heard popping and crackling. Yang said that meant there were air bubbles getting into the man's muscles and deep into his tissue.

Scans confirmed the problem. The tests showed actual streaks of air in the retropharyngeal region and extensive surgical emphysema in the neck anterior to the trachea. In other words, by trying to hold in his sneeze, he actually blew a small hole in his throat.

"Luckily, it was a very small perforation," Yang said. "He didn't need any operation."

When you sneeze, it's your body's protective reflex to get rid of an irritant that has gotten into your nose. With a sneeze, a significant amount of air pressure builds up in the lungs and forces its way through the nasal cavity to get rid of that irritant.

A sneeze can propel mucous droplets at a rate of 100 miles an hour. If you hold a sneeze back, that pressurized air will need to go somewhere. In this case, it injured the tissue in the man's throat. In past cases, doctors have also seen a stifled sneeze cause sinus problems, middle and inner ear damage, ear infections and a ruptured ear drum.

The patient was given antibiotics and had to be fed through a tube, which was removed after seven days. His symptoms got better while he rested and gradually he was able to eat soft food.

This kind of sneezing injury is unusual, according to the report. Doctors have seen patients with similar injuries after coughing heavily or after vomiting forcefully.

"It is a rare injury that we would more likely see with trauma, like if someone were to be in a car accident or was injured with a gunshot or knife, or if they swallowed something sharp," said Dr. Adam M. Klein, who did not see the British patient and was not involved inthe study. Klein is the director of the Emory Voice Center and chief of the division of laryngology in the department of otolaryngology.

Klein said if you are worried about spreading germs with your sneezes, rather than hold it in, the best thing to do to avoid injury is to let it out. If you don't have a tissue, sneezing into the crook of your elbow, rather than onto your hand, is "a good practice."

The good news for this patient is that there was no permanent damage. Doctors did advise the man not to pinch his nose closed for future sneezes and they advise others to heed the same advice.

"Halting sneeze via blocking nostrils and mouth is a dangerous maneuver," the report recommended. It "should be avoided, as it may lead to numerous complications."

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Holding a sneeze blew a hole in a man's throat

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According to the report, this "previously fit" man pinched his nose and kept his mouth closed during a "forceful" sneeze. He later told doctors he immediately felt a popping sensation in his neck. He didn't notice any problems right away, but a couple of hours later he felt pain in his throat and neck.

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President Trump has been diagnosed as overweight by his doctor. The report said that while he is healthy his BMI puts him in the overweight range. He is not alone though as one in every three adults are considered overweight.

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The President weighs 239 pounds. That means he's gained 3 pounds over the last year, according to his last official records. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, Trump had a body mass index, or BMI, that puts him in the "overweight" range, according to the National Institutes of Health's online BMI calculator. Being overweight is simply defined as a person whose weight is higher than what is considered a normal weight adjusted for height. The President is one pound shy of being considered obese, according to these calculations.

He is not alone. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than one in three adults were considered to be overweight and more than one in three were considered obese. That means the percentage of adults age 20 and older who are overweight or obese is 70.7%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BMI, however, is considered by some experts too limited a measure, since this calculation doesn't distinguish between fat and muscle. It's the fat, rather than the weight, that hurts your health. A better way to measure obesity is an X-ray, which can distinguish between fat and other innards. Or some hospitals use a bioelectrical impedance analysis, which runs an electrical current through body tissue to determine fat composition. Even measuring waist circumference is thought to be a better measure of fat than BMI. None of those tests was performed. A doctor could even eyeball it and if the patient's waist is bigger than the hips, the risk of premature death is considered much higher for that person than someone whose waist circumference is smaller.

Jackson said he will work with Trump to design an exercise routine and eating program that will help him get a better handle on his weight. The President said he would like to lose some, according to Jackson.

Being overweight, or in this case borderline obese, does increase Trump's risk for diabetes, heart disease and high cholesterol. Tests have shown he has high cholesterol and there's evidence of heart disease, but Jackson said tests show his heart is functioning well.

"I think a reasonable goal over the next year or so would be to lose 10 to 15 pounds," Jackson said. "We talked about diet and exercise a lot. He is more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part, but we're going to do both."

Trump is also not alone in his lack of interest in exercise. Of adults over the age of 18, 51.7% met the US Physical Activity Guidelines for aerobic activity, and 21.7% of adults meet the aerobic and muscle strengthening activity guidelines, according to the CDC. Adults are supposed to do two hours and 30 minutes a week of moderate intensity aerobic activityor one hour and 15 minutes a week of vigorous intensity aerobic activity for "substantial health benefits," according to the guidelines. Trump has been seen out on the golf course, and the guidelines do say that "some activity is better than none," but if his doctor has any say in the matter, Trump will be exercising more.

"If we get diet and exercise right, then weight loss will come," Jackson said.

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President is overweight, like most Americans

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The President weighs 239 pounds. That means he's gained 3 pounds over the last year, according to his last official records. At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, Trump had a body mass index, or BMI, that puts him in the "overweight" range, according to the National Institutes of Health's online BMI calculator.

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North and South Korean athletes will march together at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony under a unified flag. The nations have also agreed to form a joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team for the Games in Pyeongchang.

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The decision was made during ongoing negotiations between the two Koreas taking place at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two countries.

They will also field a joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which begin early next month, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

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North and South Korea to march together at Olympics

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The decision was made during ongoing negotiations between the two Koreas taking place at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two countries. They will also field a joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which begin early next month, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

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A small satellite is investigating a planet and its star. The satellite name is PicSat. The satellite is about 2.3 in diameter. It uses 5 watts of power. It is studying the beta pictorics system. The stars very bright. It is also 23.5 million years old. It is a very young star. If PicSat's one-year mission goes according to plan, the scientists could determine the exact size of the planet, its atmosphere and its chemical composition.

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The nanosatellite, about 2.3 inches in diameter, is the size of three apples stacked on top of each other and uses about 5 watts of power -- the same as an economical light bulb. It was designed and built by scientists and engineers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paris Observatory in France.

It will study the Beta Pictoris system, 63.4 light-years from Earth. The Beta Pictoris star is very bright, but it's surrounded by a giant disk made of dust, gas and debris -- the leftovers of the star's formation. And to astronomers, this 23-million-year-old-star is quite young.

The star was discovered to be orbited by a giant gas exoplanet in 2009, dubbed Beta Pictoris b. The planet is seven times more massive than Jupiter and orbits its star at the same distance as Saturn orbits our sun, though Beta Pictoris b orbits within the debris disk.

If PicSat's one-year mission goes according to plan, the scientists could determine the exact size of the planet, its atmosphere and its chemical composition.

In September 2014, the 30th anniversary of the star's discovery was celebrated at a conference in Paris. Scientists realized that the planet would pass in front of its star sometime between summer 2017 and summer 2018. It won't happen again for 18 years.

And the planet will only actually be crossing in front of its star for a few hours.

In order to observe the transit and narrow down the time when the planet would pass in front of the star, it would need to be monitored continuously. The scientists knew that was possible only from space, and decided to see what they could put together in three years' time.

They didn't want to reinvent the wheel, PicSat principal investigator Sylvestre Lacour said. Instead, using the CubeSat structure developed in the United States largely for educational purposes, they focused on the payload.

The satellite has a radio emitter and receiver, an onboard computer, solar panels and a telescope. CubeSats aren't the best when it comes to pointing accurately, so the scientists had to build their own system.

On Friday, just before 5 a.m. Paris time, the PicSat and 30 other satellites took their trip on board India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The vehicle placed PicSat in orbit 313 miles above the Earth, where it began transmitting about an hour after launch.

"It is exciting, but really frightening," Lacour wrote of the launch in an email. "So many things can go wrong. Once it is in space, there is no 'reboot button.' If the software crashes, if the antennas do not deploy, or if any subsystem decides that it wants to go on strike, the mission is over. All you get is a very expensive brick in space. This is the true difficulty of space."

On top of that, Lacour said, there is the possibility that the planet won't pass in front of the star. If that is the case, the nanosatellite can still gather information on exocomets, of which they believe there are many in the Beta Pictoris disk.

But he is hopeful about what they can learn if everything goes according to plan. Because the star is young, the planet is also young and still going through formation. Such an observation would be an incredible opportunity.

Because we still do not know for sure how the Earth formed, seeing this process could give us insights about our own planet, Lacour said.

And if the planet does pass in front of its star, the European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Sille, Chile, will also be activated in order to use its High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher instrument.

Those interested in following the mission as it unfolds can do so through the mission's website.

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this little satellite will investigate a curious star and its planet - cnn

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This little satellite will investigate a curious star and its planet

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The nanosatellite, about 2.3 inches in diameter, is the size of three apples stacked on top of each other and uses about 5 watts of power -- the same as an economical light bulb. It was designed and built by scientists and engineers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paris Observatory in France.