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74 year old business man, Steve Wynn has been accused with multiple sexual harrasment and assault cases.

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Las Vegas business mogul Steve Wynn will face at least two reviews of his behavior following a bombshell report published Friday by the Wall Street Journal, accusing Wynn of sexual misconduct.

According to the report, more than 150 people spoke out against the 74-year-old businessman, with dozens accusing him of sexually inappropriate behavior.

In response, the board of directors of Wynn Resorts Ltd., of which Wynn is CEO, formed a special committee Friday to investigate the allegations, Reuters reported.

The company says it was committed to operating with the "highest ethical standards and maintaining a safe and respectful culture."

In addition, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, which is overseeing a roughly $2.5 billion resort that Wynn's company is building in the Boston suburb of Everett, said its investigations and enforcement bureau will conduct a regulatory review of the allegations against Wynn.

"The suitability and integrity of our gaming licensees is of the utmost importance," a commission spokeswoman said.

The most egregious allegation against Wynn in the Journal report comes from a manicurist who claims Wynn forced her into sex in 2005. She alleges Wynn pressured her to remove her clothes and lie down on a massage table in his private suite after she had given him a manicure.

The manicurist said she told Wynn she was married and didn't want to have sex, but she did as she was told.

After the encounter, the women filed a detailed report with the hotel's supervisor and the casino mogul later settled a lawsuit over the incident, reportedly paying the woman $7.5 million.

Wynn denies the allegations.

"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," he told the Journal. "We find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations, regardless of the truth, and a person is left with the choice of weathering insulting publicity or engaging in multi-year lawsuits. It is deplorable for anyone to find themselves in this situation."

"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous. We find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations, regardless of the truth, and a person is left with the choice of weathering insulting publicity or engaging in multi-year lawsuits."
- Steve Wynn

A former massage therapist, who worked at the Wynn Las Vegas years ago, said the hotel owner would book multiple private massage appointments with her in his office suite where he would intentionally adjust his towel to expose himself. During one appointment Wynn reportedly told her, "Just get this thing off of me."

During another session with Wynn, the former employee said she was instructed to massage his penis to climax. The woman said she felt obligated to do so because he was her boss. She said she was paid $1,000 in cash at the end of each hour-long massage session - the same rate she had always been paid for the massages.

According to the Journal, some female employees in the salon would hide in back rooms if they knew Wynn was on his way to the casino. Employees told the Journal that Wynn's actions were well-known enough that employees would sometimes enter fake appointments to help other female workers avoid him.

"Everybody was petrified," said Jorgen Nielsen, a former artistic director at one of the hotel salons. Nielsen said he and other employees tried to report Wynn's behaviors to high-level company executives, but "nobody was there to help us."

Wynn Resorts Ltd. said there has never been a complaint made about Wynn to the company's independent hotline for reporting harassment.

Currently, Wynn is engaged in a messy split from his wife, Elaine Wynn, a co-founder and ex-board member of Wynn Resorts. She claimed her husband "recklessly exposed the company and other directors to liability" while making the settlement with the manicurist back in 2005 and not notifying the board.

Wynn blamed his ex for the influx of allegations stating, "The instigation of these accusations is the continued work of my ex-wife Elaine Wynn, with whom I am involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which she is seeking a revised divorce settlement."

In addition to building the luxury Wynn and Encore resorts on the strip, Wynn also built the Mirage, Treasure Island, and the Bellagio.

Wynn is the first CEO and founder of a major publicly held company to come under scrutiny since the Weinstein allegations surfaced.

Shares of Wynn Resorts Ltd. plunged more than 8 percent in afternoon trading and the company's stock fell more than 10.1 percent in heavy trading, Reuters reported.

President Trump has called Wynn a "great friend," despite the two men having previously been rivals in the business world. After the 2016 election, Wynn was named the Republican National Committee's finance chairman. Wynn has been a generous donor to Republican causes over the years, having contributed more than $600,000 in 2017 alone, according to the Federal Election Commission.

After the report was published, President Trump's Twitter account indicated a "like" on the Journal's posting of the story. Later, Trump's account appeared to "unlike" the post.
Fox News' Bradford Betz and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Vegas mogul Steve Wynn to face reviews after report alleges sexual misconduct

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Las Vegas business mogul Steve Wynn will face at least two reviews of his behavior following a bombshell report published Friday by the Wall Street Journal, accusing Wynn of sexual misconduct. According to the report, more than 150 people spoke out against the 74-year-old businessman, with dozens accusing him of sexually inappropriate behavior.

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Preston Cope died from a head wound due to a school shooting. As his parents rushed to the school, his father knew it was bad when he found Preston's socks laying in the back of an ambulance.

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Brian and Teresa Cope dropped everything and dashed to Marshall County High to get their boy when they heard about this week's school shooting.

They arrived just in time to say goodbye to their son Preston, 15, who was gravely wounded in Tuesday's shooting at the Benton, Kentucky, school.

"There's so many obstacles that could have prevented me from getting there," Brian Cope told The Louisville Courier-Journal.

"I could've been in a wreck. I could've had a flat tire, anything. But I'm firm in my faith that God guided us safelythrough all of that to get us there, so we could speak to our baby and just let him know we loved him."

A shooter killed Preston Ryan Cope and Bailey Nicole Holt, also 15, and wounded others.

The suspect - who hasn't been identified because he is a juvenile - was charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first-degree assault, said Marshall County Assistant Attorney Jason Darnall.

Brian Cope knew it was bad when he spotted Preston's socks in an ambulance as he and his wife, Teresa, reached the chaotic scene at the school, he told the Courier-Journal.

They arrived not long before Preston, sprawled on a stretcher with a head wound, was pronounced dead en route to a Nashville hospital, the newspaper said.

"Just senseless. it was just senseless," Brian Cope told the Courier-Journal.

In an interview with his family at his side, Cope described how Preston and his younger brother, Maddox, 11, enjoyed shooting hoops, playing baseball and spending time in the woods.

"They loved being outside and active," he said. "That's all you can ask for as a dad."

The parents said the boys were close and did a lot together.

"This boy here looked up to Preston, his hero, his idol," Cope said about Maddox. "He looked up to him so much."

The family told the paper it's been deeply touched at the outpouring of sympathy. They are thankful for the prayers and "just can't express enough," Cope said, for all everybody has done.

"God is lifting us and giving us this strength," Cope said.

The Copes expressed concern for the survivors and the witnesses to the school tragedy.

Teresa Cope urged people to "pray for these kids that witnessed this, and their strength, what they endured that day. Enable them to live and go on through this."

Her husband implored people there that day not to live with any guilt. "It's not your fault," he told the Courier-Journal.

"He was such a good son. I know he's in a better place than we are and we will all see him again."

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Dad saw his son's socks as he raced to school shooting -- and knew it was bad | CNN

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Brian and Teresa Cope dropped everything and dashed to Marshall County High to get their boy when they heard about this week's school shooting. They arrived just in time to say goodbye to their son Preston, 15, who was gravely wounded in Tuesday's shooting at the Benton, Kentucky, school.

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One would think the residents of Boston and Philadelphia would have better things to do than ban each other’s foods from their respective cities before the Super Bowl. But one would be wrong.

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One would think the residents of Boston and Philadelphia would have better things to do than ban each other's foods from their respective cities before the Super Bowl. But one would be wrong.

Boston's Esplanade Association, which is in charge of the city's esplanade (a river-side park) that runs along the Charles River, announced on Tuesday that pretty much anything remotely related to Philadelphia - including cheesesteaks and Philadelphia cream cheese - will be banned from the park until Feb. 5, according to The Boston Globe.
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The ban doesn't just concern food, either. Will Smith and Sylvester Stallone are also banned from the park, as the former was raised in Philly, and the latter set his "Rocky" series in the city. Even Bald eagles - the national bird of the United States, are not welcome to alight on the grounds, per the Association's edict.

"We realized that appearing in a Super Bowl for only the third time - and first time since losing to the Patriots in 2005 - was disorienting for Philadelphia fans and that clarity on acceptable items to bring in our park should be offered," said Michael Nichols, the executive director of the Esplanade Association, in a statement. "Given the Patriots are appearing in their record-extending 10th Super Bowl, we understand this information may not be needed by most park visitors."

The Esplanade Association did not specify what penalties, if any, the violators will face.
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The rest of the city has apparently embraced this petty food feud, too. According to Boston.com, breweries and bars have temporarily banned Philadelphia-based beers, and a Boston-area bakery chain has permanently cut ties with its Philadelphia cream cheese distributor for good.

"They said, 'You are kidding me, right?'" the bakery owner told Boston.com. "I said, 'Nope.' They said, 'OK.'"

A single bakery in Philadelphia, meanwhile, appears to be the only establishment that has publicly announced its ban on Boston cream doughnuts. Yet it was this bakery - Dottie's Donuts - that likely started this trend when it first announced it would temporarily ban the confection earlier this week.

"At first everything starts as an idea, but it just blew up I guess," Dottie's employee Quinton Johnson told CBS Philadelphia.

In the meantime, Dottie's will be supplying a different kind of doughnut for all its Boston-bashing fans: The "Creamed Boston" doughnut, featuring a matcha-based filling. "Eat your heart out, Brady," the bakery wrote on Facebook.
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As of press time, it's unclear whether other establishments in the Philly area will follow suit and start banning anything else that Bostonians hold dear, like Ben Affleck movies or pronouncing the word "chowder" wrong.

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Super Bowl spitefulness: Boston and Philadelphia are banning each other's signature foods ahead of the big game

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One would think the residents of Boston and Philadelphia would have better things to do than ban each other's foods from their respective cities before the Super Bowl. But one would be wrong.

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MMA Fighter Scores First Face plant Knockout of 2018 in Just 21 Seconds.

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MMA Nathan McCarter @McCarterN Featured Columnist
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2018-1-26 12:34:49

ONE Championship put on their Global Superheroes event at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on Friday, and it got started with a sensational knockout.

Edward Kelly (10-4) scored the fastest KO in featherweight history when he sent Meas Meu (6-1) to the canvas facefirst with a devastating knee.

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Meu threw a low left kick, and Kelly responded with a combination that would put an end to the fight at just 21 seconds. A right followed by a left connected, but it was the knee connecting flush that turned off the lights.

The knockout ended Meu's perfect MMA record.

Kelly's KO victory put him back in the win column after his three-fight streak was snapped last August. It also puts him on the shortlist for Knockout of the Year for 2018.

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MMA Fighter Scores First Faceplant Knockout of 2018 in Just 21 Seconds

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MMA Nathan McCarter @McCarterN Twitter Logo Featured Columnist ONE Championship @ONEChampionship A "Ferocious" KO just 21 seconds in, the fastest in ONE Featherweight history! #GlobalSuperheroes #Manila #MartialArts https://t.co/MUZyOT9oyH 2018-1-26 12:34:49 ONE Championship put on their Global Superheroes event at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on Friday, and it got started with a sensational knockout.

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Fire at hospital kills 37, injures scores in South Korea

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A fire agency official says 18 people have been killed and 63 injured in a hospital fire in southeastern South Korea.

An official at the National Fire Agency says the death toll is expected to rise from the fire at Sejong Hospital early Friday.

Yonhap news agency says the death toll has reached 33, but the official couldn't immediately confirm the report.

The official says the cause of the fire was under investigation. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to media.

Yonhap says the hospital has 193 beds including 98 beds for the elderly who needs nursing care with 35 medical staff.

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Hospital fire kills 18 people, injures 63 in South Korea

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A fire agency official says 18 people have been killed and 63 injured in a hospital fire in southeastern South Korea. An official at the National Fire Agency says the death toll is expected to rise from the fire at Sejong Hospital early Friday. Yonhap news agency says the death toll has...

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Kentucky dad saw his son's socks as he raced to school shooting and he knew it was bad

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Brian and Teresa Cope dropped everything and dashed to Marshall County High to get their boy when they heard about this week's school shooting.

They arrived just in time to say goodbye to their son Preston, 15, who was gravely wounded in Tuesday's shooting at the Benton, Kentucky, school.

"There's so many obstacles that could have prevented me from getting there," Brian Cope told The Louisville Courier-Journal.

"I could've been in a wreck. I could've had a flat tire, anything. But I'm firm in my faith that God guided us safelythrough all of that to get us there, so we could speak to our baby and just let him know we loved him."

A shooter killed Preston Ryan Cope and Bailey Nicole Holt, also 15, and wounded others.

The suspect - who hasn't been identified because he is a juvenile - was charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first-degree assault, said Marshall County Assistant Attorney Jason Darnall.

Brian Cope knew it was bad when he spotted Preston's socks in an ambulance as he and his wife, Teresa, reached the chaotic scene at the school, he told the Courier-Journal.

They arrived not long before Preston, sprawled on a stretcher with a head wound, was pronounced dead en route to a Nashville hospital, the newspaper said.

"Just senseless. it was just senseless," Brian Cope told the Courier-Journal.

In an interview with his family at his side, Cope described how Preston and his younger brother, Maddox, 11, enjoyed shooting hoops, playing baseball and spending time in the woods.

"They loved being outside and active," he said. "That's all you can ask for as a dad."

The parents said the boys were close and did a lot together.

"This boy here looked up to Preston, his hero, his idol," Cope said about Maddox. "He looked up to him so much."

The family told the paper it's been deeply touched at the outpouring of sympathy. They are thankful for the prayers and "just can't express enough," Cope said, for all everybody has done.

"God is lifting us and giving us this strength," Cope said.

The Copes expressed concern for the survivors and the witnesses to the school tragedy.

Teresa Cope urged people to "pray for these kids that witnessed this, and their strength, what they endured that day. Enable them to live and go on through this."

Her husband implored people there that day not to live with any guilt. "It's not your fault," he told the Courier-Journal.

"He was such a good son. I know he's in a better place than we are and we will all see him again."

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Brian and Teresa Cope dropped everything and dashed to Marshall County High to get their boy when they heard about this week's school shooting. They arrived just in time to say goodbye to their son Preston, 15, who was gravely wounded in Tuesday's shooting at the Benton, Kentucky, school.

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74 year old Las Vegas business mogul Steve Wynn is being accused of sexual harrassment and assault by several former employees at his properties.

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Las Vegas business mogul Steve Wynn is being accused of sexual harassment and assault by several former employees at his Wynn properties.

In a detailed reported in the Wall Street Journal, more than 150 people spoke about the 74-year-old business man and dozens accused Wynn of being sexually inappropriate.

The most egregious of the allegations comes from a manicurist who claims Wynn forced her to have sex with him in 2005. According to her account, after giving Wynn a manicure, she said he pressured her to remove her clothes and to lie down on a massage table in his private suite. The manicurist said she told Wynn that she was married and didn't want to have sex, but she did as she was told.

After the encounter, the women filed a detailed report with the hotel's supervisor and the casino mogul later settled a lawsuit over the incident, reportedly paying the woman $7.5 million dollars.

Wynn denied that he has been sexually inappropriate.

"The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous," he told The Journal. "We find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations, regardless of the truth, and a person is left with the choice of weathering insulting publicity or engaging in multi-year lawsuits. It is deplorable for anyone to find themselves in this situation."

But a former massage therapist, who worked at the Wynn Las Vegas years ago, said that the hotel owner would book multiple private message appointments with her in his office suite, where he would intentionally adjust his towel to expose himself. During one appointment Wynn reportedly told her of the towel "just get this thing off of me."

During another session with Wynn, the former employee said she was instructed her to massage his penis to climax. The woman said she felt obligated to do so because he was her boss. She said at the end of each hour-long massage session, she was paid $1,000 in cash - the same rate she had always been paid for the massages.

According to the Journal, some former employees admitted that they would enter fake appointments in their books to help other workers avoid Wynn's inappropriate requests.

"Everybody was petrified," said Jorgen Nielsen, a former artistic director at one of the hotel salon.

Nielsen explained that he, along with others, tried to report Wynn's behaviors to high-level company executives, but "nobody was there to help us."

The Journal reported many of the people the newspaper interviewed were nervous when speaking about Wynn's behavior for the fear of potentially damaging future job opportunities in Vegas.

Currently, Wynn is engaged in a messy split from his wife, Elaine Wynn, a co-founder of Wynn Resorts and ex-board member.

She has claimed her husband "recklessly exposed the company and other directors to liability" while making the settlement with the manicurist back in 2005 and not notifying the board.

According to the Journal, Wynn's wife said she discovered the settlement in 2009.

Wynn blamed his ex for the influx of allegations stating, "the instigation of these accusations is the continued work of my ex-wife Elaine Wynn, with whom I am involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which she is seeking a revised divorce settlement."

In addition to building the luxury Wynn and Encore resorts on the strip, Wynn also built the Mirage, Treasure Island, and the Bellagio.

Wynn is also someone President Trump has called "great friend" and following the election Wynn was named the Republican National Committee's finance chairman.

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Vegas mogul Steve Wynn accused of forcing manicurist to have sex with him, decades of sexual misconduct

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Las Vegas business mogul Steve Wynn is being accused of sexual harassment and assault by several former employees at his Wynn properties. In a detailed reported in the Wall Street Journal, more than 150 people spoke about the 74-year-old business man and dozens accused Wynn of being sexually inappropriate.

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jessica Chastain got Octavia spencer 5 times the pay.

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Spencer appeared recently on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's "Women Breaking Barriers" panel at the Sundance Film Festival and shared a story about how her costar in "The Help" stepped up to help her make more on a new film.

The pair are appearing together in an upcoming comedy and Spencer said last March their talk turned to the lack of pay equality for women in Hollywood.

The Academy Award-winning actress said she and Chastain were talking passionately, "dropping F bombs" and all, about the need for women to be paid as much as their male counterparts.

"I said, 'But here's the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women,'" Spencer recalled. "So, if we're gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table."

Spencer said Chastain, who had no idea there was another disparity, went quiet.

The recollection made Spencer visibly emotional.

"I love that woman, because she's walking the walk and she's actually talking the talk," Spencer said through tears. "[Chastain] said, 'Octavia, we're gonna get you paid on this film.'"

Spencer, who made history this week by becoming the first African American actress to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards after a win (she took home the best supporting actress Oscar for "The Help" in 2012 and was nominated in the same category for "Hidden Figures" last year and "The Shape of Water" this year), said the "Molly's Game" star made her a pledge.

"She said 'You and I are gonna be tied together. We're gonna be favored nations, and we're gonna make the same thing. You are going to make that amount,'" Spencer said. "Fast-forward to last week, we're making five times what we asked for."

And Spencer isn't the only one to get paid.

According to the Washington Post, Jada Pinkett Smith said during a diverse storytelling panel at Sundance that Chastain also negotiated more money for her for the same film.

"It's nice to go out and march, we can do that. It's nice to wear black at the Golden Globes," Pinkett Smith said. "But what are we doing behind closed doors? And I got to give our sister Jessica Chastain her props."

Last May, remarks from Chastain went viral when she used the closing press conference for the Cannes Film Festival jury to issue a sharp rebuke on the way women were depicted in the year's films.

"It was quite disturbing to me to be honest," the "Miss Sloane" star said. "There are some exceptions, I will say, but for the most part I was surprised with the representation of female characters on screen in these films."

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Ellen DeGeneres celebrates her 60th birthday at the end of January.

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'Disco ball' launched into space, glistens in orbit.

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A satellite bearing a striking resemblance to a disco ball was recently launched into space, giving sky watchers a chance to watch the glistening object as it orbits the Earth.

The "Humanity Star" is the brainchild of Peter Beck, founder and CEO of California-based Rocket Lab. The satellite, which was launched from New Zealand on Jan. 21 aboard the company's Electron rocket, aims to remind people of the vastness of space.

"No matter where you are in the world, rich or in poverty, in conflict or at peace, everyone will be able to see the bright, blinking Humanity Star orbiting Earth in the night sky," explained the New Zealand-born Beck, in a statement. "My hope is that everyone looking up at the Humanity Star will look past it to the expanse of the universe, feel a connection to our place in it and think a little differently about their lives, actions and what is important."
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The satellite, which is built from carbon-fibre, is covered with 65 reflective panels. "It spins rapidly, reflecting the sun's rays back to Earth, creating a flashing light that can be seen against a backdrop of stars," according to the Humanity Star website.

The object is visible in the night sky from anywhere on Earth at dawn or dusk as it passes overhead, according to the website, which lets users track its orbit. The site also shows when the orbiter is in and out of shadow.

Each of the satellite's Earth orbits lasts 90 minutes.
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The Humanity Star is expected to orbit the Earth for about nine months before it is pulled back into Earth's gravity and burned upon re-entry into the atmosphere. Rocket Lab says that the Humanity Star will be seen best in the U.S. from March due to its changing orbital position.

Beck said he is hoping to launch future Humanity Stars, but said the project is his own particular passion and he'll have to wait to see how other people react and also consider whether it's financially viable.

The Electron rocket carrying the Humanity Star also took three satellites into orbit for Rocket Lab customers Planet and Spire. The rocket was the first to launch into orbit from New Zealand.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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A Little Caesars pizza manager and her boyfriend were arrested for using heroin in the store.

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A manager at a Little Caesar's Pizza in Shelbyville, Indiana, and her boyfriend were arrested after allegedly using drugs while preparing food, local police said.

Police say the manager, Sasha Fletcher, 31, and her boyfriend, Joshua Parson, 34, were arrested after an anonymous tipster told police they used heroin at work and prepared food with open sores.

An officer with the Shelbyville Police Department met with the anonymous source who told him the manager of the Little Caesar's at 809 S. Harrison St. comes to work on heroin, buys heroin at work, and uses heroin in the employee bathroom, police said.

The source also told police that she has Hepatitis C and open sores on her body as she prepares food for customers.

Shelbyville Police Lt. Mike Turner says when an officer later brought the two individuals outside to talk they both appeared to be on heroin.

Fletcher and Parson admitted to police that there were syringes used for meth and heroin in their vehicle, Turner added.

The store voluntarily closed to clean but has now reopened. Police say Parson didn't work at the restaurant but was seen preparing food.

Shelbyville Health Department spokesman Robert Lewis said the restaurant is a safe place to eat and the public has nothing to fear.

"You would have to have intimate relations with that individual or share the needle they used to get Hepatitis C," Lewis said.

"Whenever we can get the public's help to remove people who are using and dealing off the street, it's a win-win for everybody," Lt. Turner said.

Both Fletcher and Parson face charges of possession of a syringe and possession of heroin.

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A manager at a Little Caesar's Pizza in Shelbyville, Indiana, and her boyfriend were arrested after allegedly using drugs while preparing food, local police said. Police say the manager, Sasha Fletcher, 31, and her boyfriend, Joshua Parson, 34, were arrested after an anonymous tipster told police they used heroin at work and prepared food with open sores.

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An Alabama stay-at-home mom who led a double life as an adult performer online turned up dead nearly two weeks ago -- and the reason remains a mystery.

Kathleen Dawn West, 42, a mother of a 12-year-old daughter, was found dead outside her home in central Alabama, AL.com reported.

She was found 5 a.m. Jan. 13 in Calera, Ala., wearing a sports bra, with her head bleeding, the report said. A neighbor's daughter had discovered her.

Sean Lemley, Calera's police chief, said West's death was being treated as a homicide, but he has not revealed the cause of death, the website reported.

At the scene, a cell phone was nearby with a green liquor bottle on top, as if it had been placed there, a witness told AL.com.

Surveillance footage obtained by Inside Edition shows West shopping and laughing inside R&R Wine and Liquor store, just hours before her body was found.

She was with a man who looked like her husband, Inside Edition reported.

"They came in, it looked like they were on their date night," Stacey Oglesby, a liquor store clerk told Inside Edition. "They bought a bottle of Jameson and a bottle of Lucid absinthe and made their purchase and went on their way. Everything was normal."

West presented herself as stay-at-home mom on social media, AL.com said, but in her paid adult website, she went by the name Kitty Kat West. Kat was her family nickname, Inside Edition reported.

Her Twitter and Instagram accounts, under the name of Kitty Kat West, featured revealing photos and directed viewers to her $15.99 per subscription adult website.

She was also a member of "The Cougar Club" Facebook group for women over 35, a place to "spread the word that a Cougar is beautiful, intelligent and classy," the report said.

"I wish for everyone to stop trying to connect online photos to her passing," Sandie Kay, who's a member of the Cougar Club, told Inside Edition. "It is not like that. It doesn't necessarily mean indiscretion. They're just pictures!"

Kay said the Kat she knew was a loving mom who was giving and "always had a smile.

"[She] was extremely supportive of every woman she was in contact with," Kay said. "She was beautiful and loved being photographed."

Thousands of citizens offering theories on social media about West's mysterious death, Inside Edition reported.

"It could have been a follower of hers," one comment wrote.

Another speculated that her death may not have been a murder: "I've come to the conclusion it was alcohol poisoning and she passed out and busted her head," the show reported.

Neighbors told AL.com that West and her husband Jeff West kept to themselves. Jeff is an unsworn campus police officer at Birmingham Southern College.

Her mother Nancy Martin provided the first and only public statement obtained by the publication from West's family.

"My family asks for your prayers and support in our time of loss," Martin said. "My beautiful daughter Kat was not just my daughter but a cherished wife to Jeff, as well as a loving mother to their daughter."

A private funeral was held for Kat West on Monday.

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Death of Alabama mom who hosted adult website remains unsolved

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An Alabama stay-at-home mom who led a double life as an adult performer online turned up dead nearly two weeks ago -- and the reason remains a mystery. Kathleen Dawn West, 42, a mother of a 12-year-old daughter, was found dead outside her home in central Alabama, AL.com reported.

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No hostages were harmed in Michigan bank standoff.

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A suspect is in custody after attempting to rob a bank and holding hostages on Thursday in Canton Township, Michigan.

"It's kind of disturbing. Makes you want to do direct deposit," Canton resident Craig Noble told ABC-affiliate WXYZ.

"I guess it's becoming more common. We just had one," said Noble, referring to a Jan. 18 robbery at Huntington Bank in Canton. That suspect remains at large.

The Canton Police Department received a call around 3:30 p.m. Thursday alerting them of an incident at a Citizens Bank, according to Joshua Meier, director of public safety in Canton. A male suspect entered the bank with a handgun and announced that it was a robbery, witnesses said.

When officers arrived, the suspect barricaded himself in the bank along with an undisclosed number of hostages, Meier said.

The Canton Police Department and the Western-Wayne Special Operations Team assisted in negotiating with the suspect, and all hostages were released around 6:30 p.m., according to the Canton Public Safety Department.

No hostages were harmed, and the suspect was taken into custody around 7:45 p.m. local time.

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A suspect is in custody after attempting to rob a bank and holding hostages on Thursday in Canton Township, Michigan. "It's kind of disturbing. Makes you want to do direct deposit," Canton resident Craig Noble told ABC-affiliate WXYZ. "I guess it's becoming more common. We just had one," said Noble, referring to a Jan.

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When dusk falls Friday on Michigan State University, some students will try to keep the light shining on Larry Nassar's sexual abuse of scores of girls and young women -- and the school's role in it.

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The grieving father of one of the students killed at a Kentucky high school Tuesday morning is calling his son's death "just senseless."Preston Cope, 15, and Bailey To take a life, take these two lives, these families loved ... and to take that away from us is so hard Preston Cope, 15, and Bailey Holt, 15, were both killed at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, when a fellow student started shooting. Fourteen others survived gunshot wounds.

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The grieving father of one of the students killed at a Kentucky high school Tuesday morning is calling his son's death "just senseless."

Preston Cope, 15, and Bailey Holt, 15, were both killed at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, when a fellow student started shooting. Fourteen others survived gunshot wounds.

"To take a life, take these two lives, these families loved ... and to take that away from us is so hard," Cope's father, Brian Cope, told the Louisville Courier Journal. "It shouldn't have happened."

He went on, "If you have children, hold them and squeeze them and tell them you love them every day. ... Don't go to bed without giving them a hug and telling them you love them."

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Preston Cope was a U.S. history buff who loved to read, the Louisville Courier Journal reported, and he was a "hero" to his 11-year-old brother, said his mother, Teresa Cope.

The family is now grateful for "the outpouring of people telling stories about how much he was loved," Brian Cope said. "It's such a blessing."

Teresa Cope added, "Pray for these kids that witnessed this, and their strength, what they endured that day. Enable them to live and go on through this."

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Hours after the shooting, senior Kennadi Spraggs told ABC News in an emotional interview that her friend was shot and injured moments after they were chatting in a group before class.

She said she thought the first gunshot was a balloon popping.

"I heard five more, and it was, like, unmistakable," Spraggs said. "You knew it was about to be really bad. Everyone was just screaming and crying and running and saying 'Get down.' No one knew what to do."

"I thought that if you get down, there's a chance that you'll never get back up," she added. "I just took off. I ran as fast as I could."

"There's so many people who weren't as lucky as I was to be able to get out," Spraggs said.

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The Kentucky State Police said it finished processing the crime scene at the high school and turned over the property to the school district. Students returned to the high school this morning, ABC affiliate WKRN in Nashville reported.

The suspect, a 15-year-old male whose name has not been released, has been charged with two counts of murder. He is also expected to be charged with counts of first-degree assault, officials said.

A closed door bail hearing was held Thursday in juvenile court and the teen was ordered detained.

Assistant Marshall County Attorney Jason Darnall will file a motion within the week to move the suspect to adult court, after which there will be a hearing on the issue, he said Thursday.

The funerals for Holt and Preston Cope are both set for Sunday, WKRN reported.

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The grieving father of one of the students killed at a Kentucky high school Tuesday morning is calling his son's death "just senseless." Preston Cope, 15, and Bailey Holt, 15, were both killed at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, when a fellow student started shooting. Fourteen...

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How the flu turns deadly.This flu season is fierce and has already claimed the lives of at least 37 children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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There were 11,965 new laboratory-confirmed cases during that week ending January 20, bringing the season total to 86,527. The number of people infected with influenza is believed to be much higher because not everyone goes to their doctor when they are sick, nor do doctors test every patient.

Added to those scary stats, the World Health Organization estimates that annual flu epidemics result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness globally and 290,000 to 650,000 deaths.

Although the fever and aches may feel terrible, most of us don't die from the flu. So how exactly does this common illness lead to so many dying?

"Influenza and its complications disproportionately affect people who are 65 and older. They account for 80% of the deaths," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

But young children and people who have an underlying illness, such as heart disease, lung disease or diabetes, are susceptible to dying from the flu as well, he said. There are three ways adults can succumb:

Pneumonia

"The usual flu death is a person who gets influenza, gets all that inflammation in their chest, and then has the complication of pneumonia," explained Schaffner, who added that this is a "long, drawn-out process."

Pneumonia is an infection that causes the small air sacs of the lungs to fill with fluid or pus. Though this is the most common route to death, flu can be fatal for more unusual reasons.

Sepsis

"Much of the systemic symptoms that any of us have with influenza -- the fever, the aches and pains, the sense of exhaustion -- all of those are part of (our body's) response to the virus," said Schaffner. The symptoms we experience are an inflammatory response to the immune system "soldiers" that our body sends to fight any pathogen, he said.

"Pushing the war analogy, we all know there is incidental damage that occurs during the course of a war," said Schaffner, and so the flu can also take a perfectly healthy person "and put them in the ER in 24 to 48 hours."

Flu stimulates an immune response in everyone's body, but for some people, this natural response can be "overwhelming," noted Schaffner. "Young robust people can have such an overwhelming response that it's called a cytokine storm." Cytokines -- proteins that are created as part of the inflammatory response -- create a "storm" in the body, explained Schaffner: "And this cytokine storm can actually lead to sepsis in the person."

Kyler Baughman, 21, is one example of that happening. He died unexpectedly in December at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh after a bout with the flu. Baughman, a college student, worked two jobs and often posted pictures of himself at the gym on social media. The cause of his death, as reported by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, was influenza, septic shock and multiple organ failure.

Heart attack

Chances of a heart attack are increased sixfold during the first seven days after a flu infection, a new study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found. The study looked at nearly 20,000 cases of flu in Ontario adults age 35 or older.

The risk may be higher for older adults, said Dr. Jeff Kwong, lead author of the study and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario. Heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is abruptly cut off; this is also called acute myocardial infarction.

Since a few days usually elapse between getting sick and getting a lab test, Kwong said "the increased risk is probably within the first 10 days or so after exposure to the virus."

The research, which identified 364 hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction among the flu cases studied, also showed a stronger association for influenza B than influenza A. "We would have needed more cases to determine if the difference was real or just a chance finding," said Kwong.

Though the new study did not identify the reasons why flu might lead to heart attack, Kwong and his co-authors theorize that infectious illness may cause inflammation, stress and constriction of blood vessels, which increases blood pressure.

Threats to children

The overwhelming majority -- 99% -- of children under age 5 who die from flu-related illness are in developing countries.

Children in the developed world may not face such high risks, but they are still vulnerable if they develop flu. Sepsis resulting from flu can cause the death of very young children, said Dr. Flor M. Munoz, an associate professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.

"Children have different risks depending on their age," said Munoz, and the most worrisome ages are "infants in the first year of life and those under 5 years of age."

"What's different from adults is children have a lot of opportunities to not only be exposed to flu but also to spread the flu," said Munoz. In general, children are the first to get sick when flu season begins, mainly because they are in school and playing with others -- and spreading germs.

"They can be completely healthy and still have problems with the flu," said Munoz. "The flu shot doesn't offer the same protection as it does for adults."

This is due to the lack of "immunologic experience" that children have. The immune system in infants is "still developing and it has different responses, let's say, to new things," said Munoz. "Young children will not necessarily have the same response that older children, adolescents or adults have." The same is true for very old people, said Munoz: "That's just a normal way the immune system works."

However, the worry whenever a young child or infant gets flu symptoms, including fever, is that they might have a more serious infection occurring at the same time. "Young children at that age can have meningitis, pneumonia, bacterial infections, not necessarily flu-related," said Munoz. "One needs to be more cautious."

"Certainly, we do tend to see secondary infections," said Munoz. So a child will start with the flu and the irritation in their noses and throats leave them exposed to more germs and so they develop another bacterial infection --- ear infections, say, or sinusitis or pneumonia.

With the child's immune system already fighting the flu and then another bacteria on top of that, sepsis may be the result. These are the cases we hear on the news, said Munoz, "previously healthy children that don't feel well and in a day or two they die of some complication."

Another threat? Though children and adults experience the same symptoms when sick with the flu, children are more likely to get diarrhea and to vomit. This can lead to dehydration in infants and small children, Munoz said, and it can be life-threatening at such a young age.

What do parents need to know?

"Every year we're going to have the flu. Every year we have anywhere between 50 and 100 deaths of children from the flu," said Munoz, who is also a member of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics. "This is something to be taken seriously."

Parents can make sure their children are vaccinated, she said. "As a mother, if you have something at hand that can protect your child, why not?"

"It's a very safe vaccine -- it is not true that you can get the flu with the vaccine," she added.

Lynnette Brammer, head of the CDC's Domestic Flu Surveillance team, supported Munoz' view. "We want to continue to emphasize that there's still a lot of flu activity to come, people that haven't been vaccinated should still get vaccine," said Brammer. "We may be getting close to the peak of this wave, it's not unusual to have a second wave of influenza B come through."

The flu shot is admittedly imperfect, Schaffner said, but there are still benefits. "If you get the vaccine and you have a flu-like illness, it's likely the illness is less severe," he said. "Data show you're less likely to get pneumonia and less likely to die."

If a child, especially a small one, becomes sick, parents should visit a doctor or health care provider who may prescribe medication, said Munoz.

By treating illness, antiviral drugs become a second line of defense against serious consequences. While most otherwise healthy people will not need to be prescribed antiviral drugs, those who may benefit from these medications are "people who are high risk, the elderly, children under 2, pregnant women and people with chronic health problems," said Brammer.

Antiviral drugs are known to work best when started within two days of getting sick. Studies show these drugs, which rarely produce side effects, can lessen symptoms and shorten the time a person is sick by one or two days.

"It's a brisk influenza season and I think it will end up being a moderately severe one," said Schaffner. "We'll take any bit of protection and prevention we can get."

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Iowa mom gets 3 life sentences in daughter's starvation death

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An Iowa woman convicted of murder in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter has been given three life sentences.

The sentences were handed down Friday to 43-year-old Nicole Finn of West Des Moines. She was convicted last month of first-degree murder and three counts of kidnapping.

Authorities say Natalie Finn weighed only 85 pounds when she died in October 2016. Experts testified that her siblings, Mikayla and Jaden, were at risk of starving to death as well and spent months recovering after Natalie suffered cardiac arrest.

Finn's ex-husband, Joe Finn II, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, neglect or abandonment and child endangerment. He wasn't living with the rest of the family when Natalie died. His trial begins April 30.

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This story has been corrected to show that Nicole Finn is from West Des Moines, not Des Moines.

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An Iowa woman convicted of murder in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter has been given three life sentences. The sentences were handed down Friday to 43-year-old Nicole Finn of West Des Moines. She was convicted last month of first-degree murder and three counts of kidnapping.

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'Disco ball' launched into space, glistens in orbit

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A satellite bearing a striking resemblance to a disco ball was recently launched into space, giving sky watchers a chance to watch the glistening object as it orbits the Earth.

The "Humanity Star" is the brainchild of Peter Beck, founder and CEO of California-based Rocket Lab. The satellite, which was launched from New Zealand on Jan. 21 aboard the company's Electron rocket, aims to remind people of the vastness of space.

"No matter where you are in the world, rich or in poverty, in conflict or at peace, everyone will be able to see the bright, blinking Humanity Star orbiting Earth in the night sky," explained the New Zealand-born Beck, in a statement. "My hope is that everyone looking up at the Humanity Star will look past it to the expanse of the universe, feel a connection to our place in it and think a little differently about their lives, actions and what is important."
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The satellite, which is built from carbon-fibre, is covered with 65 reflective panels. "It spins rapidly, reflecting the sun's rays back to Earth, creating a flashing light that can be seen against a backdrop of stars," according to the Humanity Star website.

The object is visible in the night sky from anywhere on Earth at dawn or dusk as it passes overhead, according to the website, which lets users track its orbit. The site also shows when the orbiter is in and out of shadow.

Each of the satellite's Earth orbits lasts 90 minutes.
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The Humanity Star is expected to orbit the Earth for about nine months before it is pulled back into Earth's gravity and burned upon re-entry into the atmosphere. Rocket Lab says that the Humanity Star will be seen best in the U.S. from March due to its changing orbital position.

Beck said he is hoping to launch future Humanity Stars, but said the project is his own particular passion and he'll have to wait to see how other people react and also consider whether it's financially viable.

The Electron rocket carrying the Humanity Star also took three satellites into orbit for Rocket Lab customers Planet and Spire. The rocket was the first to launch into orbit from New Zealand.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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There was a record number of acid attacks in London in 2017, police data shows, as perpetrators turn to household cleaning products as weapons.

In response to a freedom of information request by CNN, data from the London Metropolitan Police showed a sharp rise in attacks, with 465 recorded in 2017, up from 395 the previous year and 255 in 2015. The attacks increased six-fold over six years.

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In response to a freedom of information request by CNN, data from the London Metropolitan Police showed a sharp rise in attacks, with 465 recorded in 2017, up from 395 the previous year and 255 in 2015. The attacks increased six-fold over six years.

London has become the world capital for acid attacks on young men, and street gangs are increasingly using "face melters" against their targets.

Several cases that left victims with life-changing injuries last year prompted debate in the UK Parliament, where MPs are mulling banning the sale of highly corrosive liquids to minors and overhauling laws around possession of acid. Police say easy-to-obtain products such as drain and oven cleaners are often used in attacks.

UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd earlier called for a life sentence for serious acid attacks, arguing that such assaults often ruin victims' lives.

A male-on-male issue

Additional police data from the first 11 months of 2017 show that the attacks are predominantly a problem among young males.

More than 75% of suspected attackers and around 60% of victims were between the ages of 10 and 29. In terms of gender, 71% of attackers and 72% of victims were also male.

This is where London bucks the global trend. In many other parts of the world with high numbers of acid attacks, such as South Asia, the act is overwhelmingly carried out by men against women they know.

While the new figures show a dramatic rise in London acid attacks in recent years, they also show that previous records had been exaggerated.

Detective Superintendent Mike West, who leads the Met Police on acid attacks, explained that previous police data had included cases where someone possessed acid or threatened to use it as a weapon, but did not actually do so

He said that while acid was being used by street gangs, it was still on a relatively small scale.

"We do see around 25% of offenses in the robbery category, and this tends to be with ammonia-based substances that, whilst (they) cause injury, are less likely to be life changing. Other drivers have been drug disputes and general disputes between parties," he said.

The Met Police is creating a prevention and awareness campaign to be delivered in schools this year, in partnership with other emergency services, West said.

"We are training all of our officers to deal with first aid of victims and have placed treatment kits in all response cars across London."

For years, acid attacks have been heavily concentrated in east London, and 2017 showed the same trend.

A CNN report last year cited experts and social workers in that part of the capital as saying the problem was linked to austerity and the lack of opportunity for boys and young men from poorer households.

As it has every year since 2013, the eastern borough of Newham had the the highest number of acid attacks in 2017, with 85, the new data shows. Neighboring Barking and Dagenham has been second every year in that same time period.

Earlier this month, a 17-year-old boy admitted in court to carrying out acid attacks against six people in less than 90 minutes, including delivery drivers, as he tried to steal their mopeds.

Prosecutors said the attack, carried out with another person, left one victim with life-changing injuries.

Courts are beginning to hand out lengthy sentences for the attacks. Arthur Collins, 25, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November last year for spraying acid in a crowded east London nightclub, injuring 22 people.

Graphics by CNN's Henrik Pettersson.

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In response to a freedom of information request by CNN, data from the London Metropolitan Police showed a sharp rise in attacks, with 465 recorded in 2017, up from 395 the previous year and 255 in 2015. The attacks increased six-fold over six years.