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Where Ohio State's insane rookie class ranks all time

Best ever? It sure looks that way. Zeke Elliott. Joey Bosa. Michael Thomas. That's just the start. A huge Buckeyes group could be the best rookie class in history.

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Range is now as high as 335 miles

In case there was ever any doubt about Tesla's commitment to being the preeminent electric car maker in the world, a new update for the 100D variants of the Model S and Model X that have 100 kWh battery packs is proof that the California-based automaker is serious about holding on to that title. The new update is significant for a number of different reasons, none more so than the increase in range from the Model S 90D's 294-mile battery range to 335 miles with the non-performance version of the 100 kWh battery pack. Just as important, the Model X 100D also received a hefty increase in range amounting to 30 miles over the outgoing 90D variant, bringing that total to a sniff of 300 miles.

The updates come as part of Tesla's continued push towards becoming one of the biggest electric car makers in the world. It still has a lot of miles to cover to get to that point. Tesla even fell short of hitting its sales targets for the year, selling 2,750 fewer cars than it initially expected. But, these new updates should help more people get on board Tesla as it continues its long drive towards electric car supremacy.

With the updates in tow, prospective Tesla customers are now left with an interesting to choice to make, especially when it comes to picking between the 100D and P100D variants of both the Model S and Model X. Outside of the disparity in range, the non-performance versions of the 100D are also significantly cheaper than their P100D counterparts. For instance, a Model S 100D is now priced at $95,800 while the P100D variant of the electric sedan starts at $137,800. Do the math and that equates to a significant difference of $42,000, enough money to actually buy another car. The same gap in price tags can be seen with the updated Model X as the 100D variant now starts at $98,500 whereas the P100 D's price sits pretty at $135,500.

It's unclear if the large disparity in prices will turn off prospective buyers from getting the P100D variants of both Model S and Model X. But the numbers do point favourably to the 100D variants, not only because they're a lot cheaper than their performance counterparts, but also because the improved battery range also benefits both 100D variants of the Model S and Model X. The increase in range is actually significant when you consider that with the old price tag of the P90D, customers would only have to pay a little more than $3,000 to get those extra 40 miles in battery range.
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In case there was ever any doubt about Tesla's commitment to being the preeminent electric car maker in the world, a new update for the 100D variants of the Model S and Model X that have 100 kWh battery packs is proof that the California-based automaker is serious about holding on to that title.

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A man who broke into a classmate's home in 2007 and stabbed the teenager and his parents to death has killed himself in prison.

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After a quarter century, the daughter of the longest-held American hostage during Lebanon's civil war says she's found her father's love

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The Warriors were riding a seven-game win streak heading into Miami but Dion Waiters had other plans on Monday night. Waiters scored 33 points on the night, hitting six three-pointers and leading the Heat over the Warriors, 105-102. His final three-pointer came with 0.6 seconds left to put the Heat ahead for good after Kevin Durant had tied the game.

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MIAMI (AP) - Dion Waiters went from air ball to game-winner.

Waiters made a 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to cap his 33-point effort, and the Miami Heat beat Golden State 105-102 on Monday night to end the Warriors' seven-game winning streak.

It was the second straight game in which Waiters tied his career high, and this one came after a frantic final few minutes in which the Heat blew a 10-point lead - with a Waiters air ball of a 15-footer as part of that collapse. But he more than atoned with his last shot of the night, sending Miami to its biggest surprise of the season.

"He's not scared. He's not afraid," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He's fearless. He wants those moments as much as anybody."

Kevin Durant tied the game on a dunk with 11.7 seconds left. With no timeouts, Waiters walked the ball up the court, made a couple moves on Klay Thompson, and then connected from straightaway.

"I knew it was good," Waiters said. "He let me get to my shot."

Goran Dragic scored 19 points for Miami (15-30), which finished a 4-0 homestand. Luke Babbitt added 11, and Hassan Whiteside had 10 points and 15 rebounds.

Durant scored 27, Thompson had 22 and Stephen Curry added 21 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Warriors (38-7). Curry missed a corner jumper as time expired, though referee Brian Forte signaled his attempt was a two-point try anyway.

"We get everybody's best shot," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who even with the loss clinched the right to coach the Western Conference in next month's All-Star Game. "Miami played great."

Waiters shot 13 for 20 from the floor, 6 for 8 from 3-point range.

"Those are tough shots that Dion made," Curry said. "He obviously played well, but we didn't do anything to help ourselves."

Miami was up 98-88 before the Warriors started rallying. Curry made a pair of free throws, Thompson hit a 3-pointer and Durant added another 3 as Golden State ran off eight straight points. Waiters answered with a 3 for the Heat, but Durant and Shaun Livingston both scored at the rim in the final minute as the Warriors closed to 101-100 with 21.4 seconds left.

Dragic made one of two free throws, and the Warriors set up a play where Durant went baseline for the tying score. But Waiters had the last make of the night.

"It's good to see guys in the locker room feel good about beating a great basketball team," Spoelstra said.

TIP-INS

Warriors: Andre Iguodala (rest) got the night off. ... Monday was the second anniversary of Thompson's NBA-record 37-point quarter against Sacramento. ... Livingston has now played more games in Miami as a member of the Warriors (three) than he did as a member of the Heat (two)

Heat: Miami was 13 for 30 from 3-point range, and survived on a night where it shot 16 for 27 from the line. ... Okaro White became the 232nd player to score in a Heat uniform, getting his first points on a putback in the second quarter.

CURRY HONORS

Curry will have a busy Tuesday in his native North Carolina.

First, his old number will be retired at Charlotte Christian High. And after that, the student section at Davidson's Belk Arena will be named in his honor at halftime of the game there against Duquesne.

JOHNSON OUT

Heat guard Tyler Johnson missed his second straight game with a left shoulder strain. It's unclear if he'll accompany Miami when the team flies to New York on Tuesday. Johnson has 14 consecutive double-digit scoring efforts off the Miami bench, the second-longest such streak in franchise history.

UP NEXT

Warriors: Visit Charlotte on Wednesday, ending a four-game trip. Curry averaged 30.8 points in six previous games at Charlotte.

Heat: Visit Brooklyn on Wednesday, starting a two-game trip that also has them facing Dwyane Wade in Chicago on Friday.
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FBI Director James Comey has told top FBI officials that President Trump asked him to stay on as head of the bureau. Comey told the officials on a conference call in recent days.

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Comey was appointed by President Obama in 2013 for a 10-year term, but his future at the FBI came into question after his handling of the FBI probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server.

On July 5, 2016, Comey held a news conference, announcing that the FBI was recommending no charges be filed against Clinton.

Although he called her actions "extremely careless," he said the FBI concluded there was no evidence that she intended to violate laws.

Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee running against Clinton, released a statement the same day calling the FBI's conclusions part of a "rigged system."

"Because of our rigged system that holds the American people to one standard and people like Hillary Clinton to another, it does not look like she will be facing the criminal charges that she deserves," Trump said in the statement, later tweeting that it was "unfair."

Then at the end of October, with 11 days until Election Day, Comey sent a letter to members of Congress informing them that the FBI learned of the "existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation" into her use of a private email server. The new messages were discovered through a separate FBI investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. The emails came from Weiner's now estranged wife, Huma Abedin, who is one of Clinton's closest aides and worked in the State Department under Clinton.

Trump and his supporters praised Comey's decision to announce the new email review, while Democrats were flabbergasted. Comey's letter was viewed by leaders in the Justice Department as a break in a long-standing tradition of avoiding actions that could influence an election's outcome.

On Nov. 6, 2016, Comey wrote a second letter to members of Congress, alerting them that the review of the newly discovered emails was complete and the FBI found nothing criminal that would change its July conclusion that Clinton shouldn't be charged.

With the FBI clearing her a second time, Trump criticized Comey and the FBI again. "It's a totally rigged system," Trump said a campaign rally in Michigan.

After Clinton lost to Trump in the election, she said she believed Comey's announcement of the email review 11 days before the election was a turning point in the race.

The Justice Department inspector general has opened an investigation into Comey's and the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation. The probe will look at whether he failed to comply with department policies and procedures by publicly releasing details of the case and announcing that the investigation was being reopened so close to a presidential election.

On Sunday, Trump and Comey embraced before cameras during a White House reception to honor law enforcement leaders.

"He's become more famous than me," Trump said as he singled out Comey for recognition.

ABC News' Mike Levine, Josh Margolin and Jonathan Karl contributed to this report.

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Authorities in Iceland detained two Greenlandic sailors in the suspected murder of a 20-year-old woman that has left the tiny Arctic nation stunned.

Birna Brjansdottir was found dead on a beach south of Reykjavik on Sunday after a nationwide search that last eight days. Police said they were treating her death as a murder, although "currently it is not possible to determine the cause of death."

Brjansdottir was reported missing on Jan. 14 after a night of drinking at bars in Reykjavik. Surveillance footage showed her walking down city streets and purchasing food at around 5 a.m.

Her shoes were found in Hafnarfjordur, south of Reykjavik, near a Greenlandic fishing boat. Surveillance video showed a small red Kia Rio parked near the boat at around 6:30 a.m. Authorities said it was the same car that was spotted near where Brjansdottir was last seen. According to BBC, Brjansdottir's blood was found inside the car. The sailors had reportedly rented the car.

Iceland's special police force tracked down the fishing boat the two sailors were and brought them into custody. The sailors, aged 25 and 30, were not immediately identified.

The Guardian reported more than 720 volunteers took part in the manhunt to find Brjansdottir, the largest in the country's history, local media reported.

Iceland, with a population of more than 330,000, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and has fewer than two homicides per year, according to BBC.
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The storm was created by the weather system that spawned deadly tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend and then moved north. One death has been reported in the Northeast -- a 60-year-old man died after being struck by a car lot sign that was knocked down by wind Monday, Philadelphia police said.

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

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

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

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

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

Some snow expected

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

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

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

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

Midwest, Plains brace for snow

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

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

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

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

Southeast digs out

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

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

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

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

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

The barreling twisters left people stunned and communities devastated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

California governor declares state of emergency

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

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

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

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A helicopter ferrying an injured skier off the slopes crashed Tuesday into a mountainside in central Italy killing all six people aboard

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The sister of the 17-year-old boy suspected in an Ohio school shooting that injured two says she doesn't know his motives.

She tells WHIO-TV that her brother made a mistake but, in her words, "he's not a monster." She says she hasn't had contact with him since Friday, when authorities allege he fired a 12-gauge shotgun at a high school in West Liberty, 45 miles northwest of Columbus.

The teen's attorney, Michael Pentecost, told the Springfield News-Sun he can't discuss his client's mental condition or possible motives.
STUDENT IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOOTING AND WOUNDING CLASSMATE AT OHIO HIGH SCHOOL
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The teen remains in custody. The prosecutor says he'll seek to have the case moved from juvenile court to adult court.

The school was resuming classes Tuesday.

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SNL writer, Katie Rich, is suspended for a rude tweet about 10 year old Barron Trump

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A writer for "Saturday Night Live" has been suspended for a tweet that ridiculed Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump.

The "SNL" writer, Katie Rich, has been suspended indefinitely, according to a person familiar with the situation.

NBC, which airs "SNL," had no comment on the suspension.

During Trump's inauguration on Friday, Rich sent out a tweet that mocked Barron Trump, who is 10 years old. The tweet was widely criticized by many on social media. One of those critical of people mocking Barron Trump, though not necessarily this specific tweet, was former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton, who tweeted, "Barron Trump deserves the chance every child does-to be a kid."

The backlash went as far as an online petition that called for NBC to fire Rich. That petition has so far accumulated more than 85,000 signatures on online petition site Change.org.

I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet. I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I'm so sorry.
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Rich ultimately deleted the tweet as well as her Twitter account, which she then reactivated on Monday in order to post an apology.

"I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet," Rich tweeted. "I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I'm so sorry."

President Trump has been on the attack against "SNL" throughout the season in large part thanks to the show's unflattering depiction of him via Alec Baldwin. He has called the show "unwatchable," "not funny," and "biased."

Baldwin will be hosting the February 11 episode of "SNL," NBC announced on Monday.

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 23, 2017: 5:51 PM ET

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Trump signed an executive order called the "gag rule" , which is said to lead to an increase in abortions

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Since 1973, under the Helms Amendment, it has been illegal to use US government money to directly fund abortions overseas. The global gag rule, introduced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 as part of his Mexico City Policy, made discussion of abortion by a group receiving federal support for any purpose illegal.

"The United States does not consider abortion an acceptable element of family planning programs and will no longer contribute to those of which it is a part," read the rule. "The United States will no longer contribute to separate nongovernmental organizations which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."

Implementation of the global gag rule went well beyond abortion to effectively limit all discussions of family planning, including condom use to prevent HIV infection and multiyear spacing of pregnancies to avoid maternal deaths. Organizations as diverse as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and Family Health International lost millions of dollars in support from the US government during the years the gag rule was enforced.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton rescinded the global gag rule. However, in 2001, President George W. Bush not only reinstated it, but appointed Bill Steiger, head of the Office of Global Health Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services, to act as its enforcer. Even as the historic President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, unfolded, Steiger's team made sure AIDS groups promoting condom and birth control strategies lost government funding. In the original 2003 language of PEPFAR, the Bush administration added still more teeth to the global gag rule, prohibiting funding of any group that "promotes or advocates" legalization and practice of prostitution and sex trafficking.

Women's health and HIV/AIDS organizations felt, justifiably, that the global gag rule made it impossible to engage in family planning and HIV prevention efforts, and many American groups that accepted US government funds after acceding to the rules were denied access to international meetings, shunned by counterpart non-American groups.

In 2006, the Congressional General Accountability Office concluded that the global gag rule, coupled with abstinence promotion, was impeding the global fight against HIV. A series of legal challenges arguing the rule violated the First Amendment right to free speech made their way through federal courts.

Three days after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama rescinded the global gag rule. And in 2011, researchers from Stanford University published striking evidence that the global gag rule had, perversely, increased abortion rates. In a survey of 20 poor countries receiving foreign assistance from the United States during the 1994 to 2008 time frame, the researchers, "found robust empirical patterns suggesting that the Mexico City Policy is associated with increases in abortion rates in sub-Saharan African countries."

Where the Mexico City Policy was "high exposure" and enforced by US agencies, and adopted by the local government and NGOs, birth control use was low, particularly compared to use rates in countries that hadn't been saturated with anti-abortion, pro-abstinence messaging.

And in those same "high exposure" countries saturated with abstinence messaging, and gagged under the Mexico City Policy, abortion rates soared.

Now President Trump wants to turn back the clock to the 1980s, when televangelist Billy Graham declared, "AIDS is a judgment of God."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters in a press conference on Monday that, "It's no secret," that Trump "is a pro-life president." Trump "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," Spicer continued.

But this isn't 1984, and Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan. In the United States, abortion rates last year were the lowest seen since the CDC started tracking the numbers. The procedure is less frequently used today because women and teenagers have access to birth control, sex education and the right to make choices about reproduction.

Contraceptive technology has improved since the 1980s, more women are in the labor force trying to balance work and family care duties and the global health community has become accustomed to incorporating family planning into general health and medical programs.

The world begrudgingly worked around the gag rule in the 1980s, fought it and the abstinence prevention strategy during the George W. Bush years and will likely do battle with reinstated gags in 2017. Limiting family sizes to slow population expansion and prevent maternal mortality is a matter of policy throughout the United Nations and most of the 194 nations today.

All the failures, bureaucratic nightmares and -- yes -- increases in abortion rates will now follow the gag rule reinstatement. It is an irrational 2017 policy that will produce a backlash. I cannot imagine what effect Trump imagines, but reinstating the gag rule in 2017 will certainly fail to have the effect Reagan envisioned.

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

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