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Two sources close to the "overjoyed" family tell CNN that Kylie Jenner, 20, is pregnant and due in February.

The makeup mogul and reality star has been in a relationship with rapper Travis Scott since April.

Jenner has had some practice with kids.

Not only is she an aunt to sister Kim's two children, sister Kourtney's three kids and brother Rob's daughter, but she often spent time with rapper Tyga's son when the pair were dating.

The couple had an off-and-on relationship for several years. In January 2016, E! aired an episode of her family's reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" in which Kylie is seen with Tyga asking her parent Caitlin Jenner, "What do you feel like is a good age to have kids?"

Caitlyn Jenner advises that 30 is a good age.

"I feel like 30 is too late," Kylie Jenner responds. "Every psychic said I'm only going to have two kids."

Jenner currently stars on her own reality show, "Life of Kylie."

The news spread fast and furiously on the internet Friday.

Some found the timing interesting given that this weekend marks the 10th anniversary of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."

The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" 10th anniversary special airs Sunday on E!.

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Two sources close to the "overjoyed" family tell CNN that Kylie Jenner, 20, is pregnant and due in February. The makeup mogul and reality star has been in a relationship with rapper Travis Scott since April. Jenner has had some practice with kids.

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A mountain of food, water and other vital supplies has arrived in Puerto Rico's main Port of San Juan.

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But a shortage of truckers and the island's devastated infrastructure are making it tough to move aid to where it's needed most. Only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work since Hurricane Maria swept through, according to a spokesperson for Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.

On top of that, a diesel fuel shortage and a tangle of blocked roads mean the distribution of supplies is extremely challenging. Even contacting drivers is a problem because cell towers are still down.

"When we say we that we don't have truck drivers, we mean that we have not been able to contact them," Rosselló said.

Shipping companies have aid and supplies either waiting at the port to be delivered -- or held up at ports in the mainland United States.

Shipping company Crowley is one of them. It has 3,000 containers sitting at the Port of San Juan filled with clothes, food, medicine, water, construction materials and even cars.

'This hurricane was catastrophic'

Crowley's vice president in Puerto Rico, Jose Ayala, said the company can't get truck drivers or trucks filled up with diesel to pick up supplies for distribution across the island.

Crowley has only been able to dispatch 4% of its 3,000 containers, he said.

"The problem has been with the logistics, the parts of the supply chain that move the cargo from our terminal to the shelves or to the tables of the people in Puerto Rico," Ayala said Wednesday. "This hurricane was catastrophic."

Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans are waiting hours in line to get gas, food and cash. Gas stations and supermarkets are rationing supplies, while banks are running low on cash.

Natalia Manteiga waited outside a supermarket on Wednesday in Old San Juan that was letting in a few people at a time. She wanted to get water, tuna, and Chef Boyardee for her two children and her husband -- who had waited several hours on Tuesday to get $20 worth of gas.

With stifling humidity and temperatures in the high 90s, it started to rain on Mantiega and dozens of other hopeful shoppers trying to get food.

Manteiga, who works for a tourism firm, said she's running low on cash too.

"It's difficult when you have kids: You want to make sure they have enough food," said Manteiga. "They told me the banks are refilling, but we don't know and the lines are very long."

CNN's Marilia Brocchetto, Patricia Pedraza and Bijan Hosseini contributed to this report.

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But a shortage of truckers and the island's devastated infrastructure are making it tough to move aid to where it's needed most. Only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work since Hurricane Maria swept through, according to a spokesperson for Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.

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They found who killed the girl after 3 years

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Three men are arrested in connection to the killing of a 10-year-old KCK girl. Machole Stewart was shot and killed during a drive-by on October 26, 2014.

On Wednesday afternoon authorities confirmed the arrests to FOX 4, and police are looking for a fourth man. FOX 4 will not name the suspects until they are formally charged.

"The family has been wanting closure in this case for a while, and we had gathered a lot of information and facts about the situation that happened. We're just happy that we're able to take this to the next step and possibly get some closure for the family," KCKPD Officer Cameron Morgan said.

The drive-by happened outside of the victim's home in the 1400 block of New Jersey on a Sunday evening. Police say the shooting went on for a couple of blocks with dozens of shell casings left on the street.

Machole was at home playing with her older brother and a cousin when police say gunmen drove by and suddenly turned their fun into a frightening time. The 10-year-old girl was in a rear bedroom and shot once in her head, she died instantly.

"She tried to run to the bedroom to hide. She's a 10-year-old kid, afraid, didn't know what to do," said Grandmother Krystal Stewart.

"She was a sweet child. She was adorable. She was smart, she was loving. She was just something you would love to be around. And it's hard. It's terrible. It's absolutely terrible," cousin Patrick Blackman said. "It's nothing that wouldn't make you smile about her. Everything about her would make you smile."

Machole's relatives have long believed the shooting was linked to an ongoing feud between two groups of teenaged boys and young men.

"I have been waiting and waiting on this day," her grandmother said Wednesday night. "I have been praying with my prayer sisters every morning. I prayed that the lord would remove these boys off the streets."

FOX 4 will give updates about the suspects and their charges when they are filed.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Three men are arrested in connection to the killing of a 10-year-old KCK girl. Machole Stewart was shot and killed during a drive-by on October 26, 2014. On Wednesday afternoon authorities confirmed the arrests to FOX 4, and police are looking for a fourth man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A toddler from Detroit accidentally shot two other kids at a home daycare killing one and wounding the other.

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Police say a toddler accidentally shot and injured two other children at a home day care facility in suburban Detroit.

Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad says a preliminary investigation has revealed the toddler "accessed a handgun and the weapon discharged" about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday.

The wounded children both are believed to be 3 years old. They have been hospitalized in critical, but stable condition.

Haddad says the gun was kept in the Dearborn home, west of Detroit. Several other children were at the home at the time of the shooting. Those children were taken to the police station to be reunited with their parents.

The shooting remains under investigation. No one has been charged.

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Police say a toddler accidentally shot and injured two other children at a home day care facility in suburban Detroit. Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad says a preliminary investigation has revealed the toddler "accessed a handgun and the weapon discharged" about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday. ...

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A student was stabbed to death during a New York school fight

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A New York City high school student was fatally stabbed and another was critically wounded during a fight in a Bronx classroom on Wednesday, police said.

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Tiger Woods, says he see's a

scenario where he doesn't return back to the golf course from his recent injury.

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As Tiger Woods continues to rehab from his most recent back surgery in April, the legendary golfer says it's possible he may not return to the golf course.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Woods was asked if he can see a scenario in which he doesn't play in a professional tournament again.

"Yeah, definitely," he said. "I don't know what my future holds for me."

In a Sept. 22 post on his official website, Woods said he's started some golf work and regular exercise activities.

"I have not taken a full swing since my back fusion surgery last April, but continue to chip and putt every day," he wrote. "I'm working out six days a week, alternating between the treadmill, bike riding, swimming and lifting twice a day. My muscle tone is coming back, but I'm not in golf shape yet. That's going to take time."

Woods played in three tournaments this season before back spasms forced him to withdraw from the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 3. He underwent surgery in April to alleviate pain in his back and leg, with an estimated recovery time of six months.

Injuries have limited Woods, who will turn 42 on Dec. 30, to 15 tournaments since 2015. He missed the entire 2015-16 PGA Tour season after having his second microdiscectomy surgery.

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Golf Adam Wells Kamran Jebreili/Associated Press Twitter Logo Featured Columnist As Tiger Woods continues to rehab from his most recent back surgery in April, the legendary golfer says it's possible he may not return to the golf course. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Woods was asked if he can see a scenario in which he doesn't play in a professional tournament again.

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Mental detectors were installed at a New York City school after a student stabbed two boys in the chest in the middle of class, killing one of them.

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Metal detectors were brought into a New York City school this morning one day after a student allegedly stabbed two boys in the chest in the middle of class, killing one of them.

A 15-year-old was killed, and a 16-year-old boy was injured in the incident, which took place Wednesday morning at a building housing the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation and P.S. 67, police said.

An 18-year-old suspect, Abel Cedeno, was taken into custody, interviewed and arrested, police said.

The stabbing appeared to be the result of an argument involving the three students that had been going on for about two weeks, police said.

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Wednesday marked the first time in nearly 25 years that a New York City public school student was killed inside a school.

On Feb. 24, 1993, a 15-year-old was fatally stabbed in the hallway of Junior High School 25 in Manhattan.

A knife with a 3-inch blade and a 4-inch handle was recovered at the scene, police said.

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The school did not have metal detectors at the time, officials said, adding that this knife would have been detected if there had been.

Before students arrived for school this morning, metal detectors were brought into the building. Officials said there will be additional school safety officials as well as random checks with the metal detectors.

Officials said Wednesday that prior to the stabbing, approximately 75 to 78 schools in the city had some type of scanning system and that this facility had been determined to not need metal detectors.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the school community is "reeling."

"Our hearts are very heavy right now," DeBlasio said. "My heart goes out to the families who have been affected by this tragedy."

Cedeno was arrested on charges of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

He is due to appear in court today.

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Metal detectors were brought into a New York City school this morning one day after a student allegedly stabbed two boys in the chest in the middle of class, killing one of them. A 15-year-old was killed, and a 16-year-old boy was injured in the incident, which took place Wednesday morning at a...

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Death toll raised to 337 on Wednesday.

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Mexico authorities say the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has risen by four to 337.

National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reports on Twitter that the dead include 198 in Mexico City.

He said Wednesday that there were also 74 in Morelos, 45 in Puebla, 13 in the State of Mexico, six in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca.

The Sept. 19 quake collapsed 38 buildings in the capital, and search and rescue efforts continue at some sites.

It followed an even stronger earthquake less than two weeks earlier off the country's southern Pacific coast. That one had a magnitude of 8.1 and killed nearly 100 people.

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Mexico authorities say the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has risen by four to 337. National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reports on Twitter that the dead include 198 in Mexico City. He said Wednesday that there were also 74 in Morelos, 45 in Puebla, 13...

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New Zealand shoots a test rocket into the space testing the satellites so they can see their crops grow by time lapse and see if they have grown because their government says that there is to much pollution from the cars.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - California-based company Rocket Lab said Thursday it had launched a test rocket into space from its New Zealand launch pad, although the rocket didn't reach orbit as hoped.

The company said its Electron rocket lifted off at 4:20 p.m. Thursday and reached space three minutes later.

"It was a fantastic flight and we are really, really happy with the performance of the vehicle," said company founder Peter Beck.

Beck, a New Zealander, said the early stages of the mission went to plan, right up to the final separation.

He said his team would be working through terabytes of data over the coming weeks to find out why the rocket didn't reach orbit. He said a second test rocket has been built but it would take the team at least a couple of months before they were ready to launch it.

Rocket Lab was given official approval last week to conduct three test launches from the remote Mahia Peninsula on the North Island. The company hopes to begin commercial launches later this year and eventually launch about one rocket every week.

Beck said it will target getting to orbit on the second test and will look to carry a heavier payload.

New Zealand has never had a space program but officials hope regular launches could change perceptions of the South Pacific nation and generate hundreds of millions of dollars each year in revenue.

Rocket Lab plans to keep costs low by using lightweight, disposable rockets with 3D-printed engines. It sees an emerging market in delivering lots of small devices into low Earth orbit. The satellites would be used for everything from monitoring crops to providing internet service.

Politicians are rushing through new space laws and the government has set up a boutique space agency, which employs 10 people.

"So far, it's only superpowers that have gone into space," Simon Bridges, New Zealand's economic development minister, told The Associated Press last week. "For us to do it, and be in the first couple of handfuls of countries in the world, is pretty impressive."

Rocket Lab's Electron rocket is unusual in many respects. It carries only a small payload of about 331 pounds. It's made from carbon fiber and uses an electric engine. Rocket Lab says each launch will cost just $5 million, a tiny fraction of a typical rocket launch.

It's a different plan than some other space companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX, which uses larger rockets to carry bigger payloads.

Rocket Lab, which is privately held, has received about $150 million in venture capital funding.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - California-based company Rocket Lab said Thursday it had launched a test rocket into space from its New Zealand launch pad, although the rocket didn't reach orbit as hoped. The company said its Electron rocket lifted off at 4:20 p.m. Thursday and reached space three minutes later.

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sonic thinks they are the latest company to be hacked at this moment. They are experiencing some difficulty with there credit card systems.

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Here we go again: Sonic may be the latest company to face a cybersecurity breach.

The drive-in restaurant chain -- which has 3,500 locations across the United States -- said Wednesday that a credit card processing company noticed peculiar activity on some Sonic customers' cards. That's a telltale sign that hackers targeted Sonic, cybersecurity experts say.

The company said it's not yet clear how many restaurants or customers may be impacted.

Sonic was first notified about the suspiciousactivitylast week, according to a statement. The company "immediately engaged third-party forensic experts and law enforcement when we heard from our processor," it said.

"We are working to understand the nature and scope of this issue," the statement reads. "While law enforcement limits the information we can share, we will communicate additional information as we are able."

KrebsOnSecurity, a notable cybersecurity blog that earlier identified a potential breach, said millions of credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen.

Related: The biggest data breaches ever

A KrebsOnSecurity blog post about the ordeal says hackers likely gained remote access to "point-of-sale systems" -- or the machines where you swipe or insert your credit card -- in order to steal people's payment information.

A similar method was used in an attack against Wendy's earlier this year, the blog post says. The company said more than 1,000 of its U.S. restaurants were targeted by hackers, compromising an unknown number of credit and debit cards.

Chipotle was also targeted this year. It said in May that "most, but not all" of its restaurants may have been involved in a credit-card theft scheme carried out by hackers who installed malware on cash registers.

The Sonic breach also follows one of the most high-profile data breaches in history.

Just weeks ago, credit reporting bureau Equifax admitted that hackers were able to gain access to personal information for as many as 143 million Americans. That breach went beyond stolen credit card numbers -- it put large numbers of individuals at risk for identity theft.

Major corporations that have faced large data breaches in recent years include Yahoo, Verizon, Walmart, Anthem, Myspace and LinkedIn.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 27, 2017: 3:35 PM ET

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The drive-in restaurant chain -- which has 3,500 locations across the United States -- said Wednesday that a credit card processing company noticed peculiar activity on some Sonic customers' cards. That's a telltale sign that hackers targeted Sonic, cybersecurity experts say. The company said it's not yet clear how many restaurants or customers may be impacted.

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Ian Dow traveled the world out of an old ambulance.  He traveled with his best friend.

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Ian Dow is living his best life - out of an ambulance.

The nomad, from Newport Beach, California, revamped the unconventional wheels to travel the world.

He said he was inspired to buy the ambulance after getting in a motorcycle accident.

"I'd been searching for a van to convert and was blinded by the Sprinter fad," Dow, 33, wrote to ABC News of the trendy Mercedes van. "After getting burned by a Craigslist seller -- he backed out after I drove 12 hours to buy his Sprinter -- I was depressed and I crashed my motorcycle. Then I had an epiphany. I was in pain and needed some emergency help. Sitting on the couch that night with a busted shoulder, I searched eBay for ambulances, found a cheap one, and even Google Earthed the charity listed as the seller, finding the ambulance parked right outside."

He paid the charity $2,800 for it last year, and after some work, he said, the interior makes him feel "comfortable and happy."

"Considering the Sprinter would have cost me $8,000, I felt like I got a screamin' deal," said Dow. "I finished it with materials I like. The teak floors, subway tiled kitchen, exotic hardwood table, cedar-lined closet, bamboo cutting surfaces and guitar inlay accents all keep a smile on my face."

The adventurer even added a sundeck on the roof with an extendable umbrella.

"It's a beast of a machine and draws a lot of interest from locals and travelers alike," he told ABC News.

But there are some drawbacks.

"It's really heavy and restricts my ability to get far off the beaten track," said Dow. "I'm accustomed to traveling on a motorcycle where I can get up or down any trail but I've thrown that away for my comforts. Although I've brought the bike along with me I can't leave the dog and ambulance for days on end while getting lost somewhere."

How does he make a living to pay for his travels?

"I have been on the move for 10 years now and haven't had a steady job the whole time," he said. "I once was an art director on a film, a set designer and fabricator, an artist manager, music producer, graphic designer, painter. Life on the road is surprisingly cheap and I manage to survive with very little funds."

Dow said a big reason he is living this wanderer life, although he loves it, is due to a nasty breakup.

"My ex-fiancé and I spent a year making music together which she now sells in Poland and has yet to send me a cent for," he said, adding, "Ew, I sound bitter, but then again I guess I should."

He said that's what made his travel companion, his friend Dylan Griffin, such a good match for the road.

"Dylan also recently was broken up with by his fiancé in Australia so we had a similar mindset for traveling together," said Dow.

For four months, Griffin, Dow and his pup, Dino, have traveled south through Baja, across the ferry to mainland Mexico, then "hugged the Pacific coastline surfing and fishing along the way south through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua," he said.

They are in Costa Rica now with no immediate plans to leave, because Dow likes to "play it by ear."

His advice for others looking to do something similar?

"Just do it," he said.

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Scalise returns to Capitol Hall for the frist time since shooting, Declaring 'I'm back'

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Majority Whip Steve Scalise made a surprise and triumphant return Thursday to the floor of the House of Representatives, for the first time since he was badly wounded in the June mass shooting at a congressional baseball practice.

Colleagues erupted in applause and gave Scalise a standing ovation as he entered the chamber on crutches, wearing a dark suit and a striped red tie. Colleagues embraced him as he walked to the podium, where he delivered a first-hand and emotional telling of the journey that brought him back to Washington these past three months.

"It starts with God," Scalise said, recalling how when he was laying on the ballfield that day and unable to move, "I just started praying."

"Pretty much every one of those prayers were answered," Scalise said. "He really did deliver for me and my family, and it just gives you that renewed faith and understanding that the power of prayer is just something that you cannot underestimate."

He added, "I'm definitely a living example that miracles really do happen."

Scalise went on to laud the heroic actions of the Capitol Police officers on the scene who helped take down the shooter, crediting them for saving lives. He expressed gratitude for the "little miracles" in the days and weeks that followed, as well as the "outpouring of love" - from colleagues, foreign leaders and people he had never met before.

Scalise concluded with a reminder to a body that is often sharply divided that it's important to "rise above" their challenges.

'I'm definitely a living example that miracles really do happen.'
- House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.

The Louisiana Republican has spent more than three months in recovery, first undergoing multiple surgeries followed by extensive rehabilitation at an in-patient facility.

Scalise's office said in a statement the congressman is "returning to work at the United States Capitol." The congressman will also complete "an extended period of out-patient rehabilitation over the coming months," his office said.

"I'm back," Scalise tweeted Thursday morning, along with a photo of him looking out across the National Mall.

Scalise met earlier with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

"I don't have words right now," Ryan said after the meeting.

Scalise and several others were shot on June 14 when gunman James Hodgkinson opened fire at a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va. The gunman was later killed by police.

Scalise sustained a single rifle wound, entering his left hip and passing through his right hip, also known as a trans-pelvic gunshot wound.

The round did substantial damage to bones, internal organs and blood vessels, according to Dr. Jack Sava, the director of trauma at MedStar Washington Hospital where Scalise had been treated after the shooting.

Scalise, a top-ranking member of GOP leadership, returned to Capitol Hill a day after his colleagues unveiled a far-reaching tax reform plan - expected to be the party's top legislative priority, after several failed attempts at passing health care legislation.

Scalise presumably will resume his role in helping steer the GOP agenda on the House side. Returning to the public eye, he also is giving an interview with "60 Minutes" set to air Sunday.

Lobbyist Matt Mika, House GOP aide Zack Barth and Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner also were shot in the June rampage, while Capitol Police Officer David Bailey and Texas Rep. Roger Williams were injured.

The shooting fueled concerns about the adequacy of security for lawmakers traveling in large groups, as well as the broader threat of political tensions turning violent.

At the time, one witness told Fox News that the apparent gunman specifically asked whether Republicans or Democrats were on the field, before the shooting broke out.
Fox News' Chad Pergram and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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Singer Pit bull sends private plane to Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients.

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Rapper Pitbull sent his private plane to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients to the mainland US for chemotherapy treatments.

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Belligerent, topless soccer fan, 23, charged with 'indecent exposure' to 7-year-old boy

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A female soccer fan who was caught watching a game while topless in the presence of a child has been charged with "indecent exposure."

Rose Picklo, 23, was arrested Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis after a 7-year-old boy spotted her watching the game, sitting behind him and his mother, without a shirt on, WCCO-TV reported.

"Don't look. Just watch the game. That's what we're here for," the boy's mother, Tori Hintzman, told the Star Tribune.

Police were notified of Picklo showing "her bare breasts in a section full of people" at the stadium, which is located on the University of Minnesota's campus.

Picklo was reportedly ordered by university police to put a shirt on and was threatened with arrest, but the soccer fan refused and argued with authorities.
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During the encounter, Picklo said she "was filming the incident" to get the officers on video.

"I don't remember a whole lot about what happened," Picklo told the Star Tribune. She told the news outlet that she was "on my third beer" during the event.

Hintzman said that other men watching the game in the area were also not wearing shirts.

After being handcuffed by two officers, Picklo was subsequently carried out of the stadium because she refused to walk on her own. She was later taken to the Hennepin County Jail.

Picklo is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 9. She was charged with indecent exposure, a gross misdemeanor charge, and could face up to a year in jail or a $3,000 fine.

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Belligerent, topless soccer fan, 23, charged with 'indecent exposure' to 7-year-old boy

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A female soccer fan who was caught watching a game while topless in the presence of a child has been charged with "indecent exposure." Rose Picklo, 23, was arrested Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis after a 7-year-old boy spotted her watching the game, sitting behind him and his mother, without a shirt on, WCCO-TV reported.

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Trump has lifted the Jones Act which limits shipping to Puerto Rico so that they can have more necessities and supplies.

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The cubs clutch a win against the cardinals putting them in the play offs.

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An NYPD crossing guard, who is 70, got arrested for attacking her husband with a broom

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An off-duty NYPD school crossing guard was arrested for attacking her husband with a broomstick in Staten Island, cops said Saturday.

Olga Perez, 70, was arguing with her 54-year-old husband inside their home near Nicholas and Charles Aves. in Elm Park when she grabbed a broomstick and struck him in the arm and chest with it about 11 p.m. Friday.

When police arrived, Perez's husband complained of pain to his forearm and upper shoulder but did not have visible injuries, police said.

Cops charged Perez with felony assault, misdemeanor assault and harassment.

Her arraignment was pending in Staten Island criminal court Saturday.
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NYPD crossing guard, 70, busted for hitting husband with broom

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An off-duty NYPD school crossing guard was arrested for attacking her husband with a broomstick in Staten Island, cops said Saturday. Olga Perez, 70, was arguing with her 54-year-old husband inside their home near Nicholas and Charles Aves. in Elm Park when she grabbed a broomstick and struck him in the arm and chest with it about 11 p.m.

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Obama's daughter goes off to collage and Obama cries after watching her leave.

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Former President Barack Obama describes leaving his daughter at college "like open-heart surgery." CNN's Jeanne Moos says leaving Malia left him in tears.

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dead at 91

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Hugh Hefner -- the silk-robed Casanova whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term "centerfold," glamorized an urbane bachelor lifestyle and helped spur the sexual revolution of the 1960s -- has died, the magazine said late Wednesday. He was 91.

Hefner founded Playboy in 1953 with $600 of his own money and built the magazine into a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire that at its 1970s peak included TV shows, a jazz festival and a string of Playboy Clubs whose cocktail waitresses wore bunny ears and cottontails.

Over the years, the legend of "Hef" only grew as he bedded hundreds of young women, married a few of his magazine's "Playmates" and cavorted on reality TV shows with a stable of girlfriends less than a third his age.

Some critics dismissed him as a relic of a sexist era, especially in his later years, when Hefner spoke openly of his Viagra-fueled sex romps at the Playboy Mansion. But many men envied his adolescent-fantasy lifestyle.

And his pioneering magazine, his biggest legacy, may have helped the buttoned-up America of the 1950s and early 1960s loosen up a little about sex.

"I would like to be remembered as somebody who has changed the world in some positive way, in a social, sexual sense, and I'd be very happy with that," Hefner told CNN. "I'm a kid who dreamed the dreams and made them come true."

Related: Playboy and Hugh Hefner in pictures

A 'male point of view'

Hefner was born April 9, 1926, in Chicago to Glenn Hefner, an accountant, and Grace Hefner, a teacher. Both parents were conservative Protestants from Nebraska.

"My folks were raised pure prohibitionist," Hefner told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. "They were very good people, with high moral standards -- but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home."

In 1944, after graduating from high school, Hefner joined the U.S. Army as a writer for a military newspaper. Following World War II, he became a promotional copywriter at Esquire magazine, where he began toying with the idea of publishing a men's magazine.

"Esquire was always for older guys, but ... it was very much devoted to male bonding and outdoor adventure," Hefner told CNN. "And I wanted to read a magazine that was a little more sophisticated and was focused really on the romantic connection between the sexes from a male point of view."

Related: Key facts about Hugh Hefner

After raising $10,000 from investors, Hefner published the debut issue of Playboy in December 1953.

The premiere issue had no date, in case it sold poorly and there wasn't a second issue. On its cover was actress Marilyn Monroe, who also appeared in a nude centerfold -- a photograph that had been originally used for a pin-up calendar.

Hefner contributed an introductory essay in which he envisioned the magazine's readers: "We like our apartment. We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex ..."

Instant success

Playboy was an immediate success, selling more than 50,000 copies.

Hefner helped personally select monthly "Playmates," persuaded famous sex symbols such as Jayne Mansfield and Ursula Andress to pose nude for the magazine and added "centerfold" to the popular lexicon. He was also arrested in 1963 on charges that Playboy violated obscenity laws, but a jury acquitted him after a trial.

"I've never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine," he told CNN. "I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient."

As if to prove his point, Playboy published articles and short fiction by some of the most celebrated writers of the day, including Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, Carl Sagan, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov -- inadvertently creating a joke phrase, "I only read Playboy for the articles."

The magazine also earned respect for its lengthy interviews with high-profile figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon and Jimmy Carter, who made headlines after granting Playboy an interview during his 1976 campaign for president.

CNNMoney (Atlanta) First published September 27, 2017: 11:24 PM ET

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None of the dogs at Puerto Rico's "Dead Dog Beach" - known as a site where people dump their stray animals - have survived Hurricane Maria that hit the territory last week.

Puerto Rico remains devastated after the hurricane slammed last week, leaving 3.4 million people without electricity, drinking water and essential services. Some residents remain isolated because of damaged roads.

But the dogs at Sato Beach - also known as "Dead Dog Beach" for its free-roaming packs of abandoned animals - did not survive.

Christina Beckles, a New York resident who started a nonprofit called the Sato Project aimed at saving the dogs in Puerto Rico, flew to the island immediately after the disaster to help her staff - only to learn the sad truth, the New York Post reported.

"Once the hugs and tears were over, the first thing we all wanted to do was go to the beach to look for our feral dogs," she wrote on Facebook.

"Sadly, we did not find them and our hearts are heavy with the reality upon seeing the utter devastation at the beach - they did not survive."

Beckles described the situation in Puerto Rico to the Post as "a war zone," as Puerto Ricans coped with difficult living conditions.

"There is no power or water. We are under curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Food is becoming scarce and people are getting desperate. Looting has already begun. The lines to get gas are seven to 10 hours long - to receive $10 worth of gas," she said, according to the Post.
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None of the dogs at Puerto Rico's "Dead Dog Beach" - known as a site where people dump their stray animals - have survived Hurricane Maria that hit the territory last week. Puerto Rico remains devastated after the hurricane slammed last week, leaving 3.4 million people without electricity, drinking water and essential services.

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The US will provide a humanitarian aid package worth nearly $32 million to Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine

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"Through this support, the United States will help provide emergency shelter, food security, nutritional assistance, health assistance, psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene, livelihoods, social inclusion, non-food items, disaster and crisis risk reduction, restoring family links, and protection to over 400,000 displaced persons," according to a State Department press release.

More than 400,000 Rohingya, many of them women and children, have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence since August 25, according to the United Nations -- an average of almost 20,000 a day. The refugees speak of indiscriminate clearance operations, huts set on fire and family members being taken away and never heard from again.

The announcement of a US aid package comes just one day after Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally broke her silence on the Rohingya refugee crisis in a speech that drew widespread criticism.

Suu Kyi did not denounce alleged atrocities against the Rohingya community and claimed the government needed more time to investigate the exodus from Myanmar of the minority Muslim group.

Much of the speech appeared intended to frame the crisis as a complex internal issue and contrasted the violence -- which she depicted as isolated -- with the government's ongoing development agenda, specifically its efforts to deliver "peace, stability, harmony and progress" to the nation as a whole.

The Rohingya are considered to be among the world's most persecuted people. The predominantly Buddhist Myanmar considers them Bangladeshi, but Bangladesh says they're Burmese.

The government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has blamed terrorists for starting the recent violence that has killed more than 1,000 people, according to recent a recent estimate from Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Myanmar.

Almost 40% of all Rohingya villages in Myanmar's Rakhine State are now empty, a government spokesperson confirmed earlier this week.

The new aid funding "reflects the US commitment to help address the unprecedented magnitude of suffering and urgent humanitarian needs of the Rohingya people," according to the State Department press release.

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The original play boy who built it from the ground up, Hugh Hefner died wensday at the age of 91.

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"We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex."

This scene projected an era's "premium boys' style," Todd Gitlin, a sociologist at Columbia University and the author of "The Sixties," said in an interview. "It's part of an ensemble with the James Bond movies, John F. Kennedy, swinging, the guy who is young, vigorous, indifferent to the bonds of social responsibility."

Mr. Hefner was reviled, first by guardians of the 1950s social order - J. Edgar Hoover among them - and later by feminists. But Playboy's circulation reached one million by 1960 and peaked at about seven million in the 1970s.

Long after other publishers made the nude "Playmate" centerfold look more sugary than daring, Playboy remained the most successful men's magazine in the world. Mr. Hefner's company branched into movie, cable and digital production, sold its own line of clothing and jewelry, and opened clubs, resorts and casinos.

The brand faded over the years, and by 2015 the magazine's circulation had dropped to about 800,000 - although among men's magazines it was outsold by only one, Maxim, which was founded in 1995.

Mr. Hefner remained editor in chief even after agreeing to the magazine's startling decision in 2015 to stop publishing nude photographs. Mr. Hefner handed over creative control of Playboy last year to his son Cooper Hefner. Playboy Enterprises' chief executive, Scott Flanders, acknowledged that the internet had overrun the magazine's province: "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passé at this juncture." The magazine's website, Playboy.com, had already been revamped as a "safe for work" site. Playboy was no longer illicit. (Early this year, the magazine brought back nudes.)

Mr. Hefner began excoriating American puritanism at a time when doctors refused contraceptives to single women and the Hollywood production code dictated separate beds for married couples. As the cartoonist Jules Feiffer, an early Playboy contributor, saw the 1950s, "People wore tight little gray flannel suits and went to their tight little jobs."

"You couldn't talk politically," Mr. Feiffer said in the 1992 documentary "Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time." "You couldn't use obscenities. What Playboy represented was the beginning of a break from all that."

Gallery: Hugh Hefner: Life in pictures [via GES]

Playboy was born more in fun than in anger. Mr. Hefner's first publisher's message, written at his kitchen table in Chicago, announced, "We don't expect to solve any world problems or prove any great moral truths."

Still, Mr. Hefner wielded fierce resentment against his era's sexual strictures, which he said had choked off his own youth. A virgin until he was 22, he married his longtime girlfriend. Her confession to an earlier affair, Mr. Hefner told an interviewer almost 50 years later, was "the single most devastating experience of my life."

In "The Playboy Philosophy," a mix of libertarian and libertine arguments that Mr. Hefner wrote in 25 installments starting in 1962, his message was simple: Society was to blame. His causes - abortion rights, decriminalization of marijuana and, most important, the repeal of 19th-century sex laws - were daring at the time. Ten years later, they would be unexceptional.

"Hefner won," Mr. Gitlin said in a 2015 interview. "The prevailing values in the country now, for all the conservative backlash, are essentially libertarian, and that basically was what the Playboy Philosophy was.

"It's laissez-faire. It's anti-censorship. It's consumerist: Let the buyer rule. It's hedonistic. In the longer run, Hugh Hefner's significance is as a salesman of the libertarian ideal."

The Playboy Philosophy advocated freedom of speech in all its aspects, for which Mr. Hefner won civil liberties awards. He supported progressive social causes and lost some sponsors by inviting black guests to his televised parties at a time when much of the nation still had Jim Crow laws.

The magazine was a forum for serious interviews, the subjects including Jimmy Carter (who famously confessed, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times"), Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and Malcolm X. In the early days Mr. Hefner published Ray Bradbury (Playboy bought his "Fahrenheit 451" for $400), Herbert Gold and Budd Schulberg. It later drew, among many others, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.

Hugh Marston Hefner was born on April 9, 1926, the son of Glenn and Grace Hefner, Nebraska-born Methodists who had moved to Chicago. Decades later, he still told interviewers that he grew up "with a lot of repression," and he often noted that his father was a descendant of William Bradford, the Puritan governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Though father and son reached an accommodation - the elder Mr. Hefner became Playboy's accountant and treasurer - neither changed moral compass points. Glenn Hefner, who died in 1976, said he had never looked at the pictures in the magazine.

As a child, Mr. Hefner spent hours writing horror stories and drawing cartoons. At Steinmetz High School, he said, "I reinvented myself" as the suave, breezy "Hef," newspaper cartoonist and party-loving leader of what he called "our gang." At the University of Illinois, after serving in the Army, he edited the humor magazine and started a photo feature called "Co-ed of the Month."

He married a high school classmate, Millie Williams, and began what he described as a deadening slog into 1950s adulthood: He took a job in the personnel department of a cardboard-box manufacturer. (He said he quit when asked to discriminate against black applicants.) He wrote advertising copy for a department store, and then for Esquire magazine. He became circulation promotion manager of another magazine, Children's Activities.

Meanwhile he was plotting his own magazine, which was to be, among other things, a vehicle for his slightly randy cartoons. The first issue of Playboy was financed with $600 of his own money and several thousand more in borrowed funds, including $1,000 from his mother. But his biggest asset was a nude calendar photograph of Marilyn Monroe. He had bought the rights for $500.

Plenty of other men's magazines showed nude women, but most were unabashedly crude and forever dodging postal censors. Mr. Hefner aimed to be the first to claim a mainstream readership and mainstream distribution.

When Playboy reached newsstands in December 1953, its press run of 51,000 sold out. The publisher, instantly famous, would soon become a millionaire; after five years, the magazine's annual profit was $4 million and its rabbit logo was recognized around the world.

Mr. Hefner ran the magazine and then the business empire largely from his bedroom, working on a round bed that revolved and vibrated. At first he was reclusive and frenetic, powered past dawn by amphetamines and Pepsi-Cola. In later years, even after giving up Dexedrine, he was still frenetic, and still fiercely attentive to his magazine.

His own public playboy persona emerged after he left his wife and children, Christie and David, in 1959. That year his new syndicated television series, "Playboy's Penthouse," put the wiry, intense Mr. Hefner, pipe in hand, in the nation's living rooms. The set recreated his mansion on North State Parkway, rich in sybaritic amusements, where he greeted entertainers like Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, and intellectuals and writers like Max Lerner, Norman Mailer and Alex Haley, while bunches of glamorous young women milled around. (A later TV show, "Playboy After Dark," was syndicated in 1969 and 1970.)

In the Playboy offices, life imitated image. Mr. Hefner told a film interviewer that in the early days, yes, "everybody was coupling with everybody," including him. He later estimated that he slept with more than 1,000 women. Over and over, he would say, "I'm the boy who dreamed the dream."

Friends described him as both charming and shy, even unassuming, and intensely loyal. "Hef was always big for the girls who got depressed or got in a jam of some sort," the artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the magazine's main illustrators for more than 50 years, said in an interview in 1999. "He's a friend. He's a good person. I couldn't cite anything he ever did that was malicious to anybody."

At the same time, Mr. Hefner adored celebrity, his and others'. Mr. Neiman, who sometimes lived at the Playboy mansion, said: "It was nothing to breakfast there with comedians like Mort Sahl, professors, any kind of person who had something on his mind that was controversial or new. At the parties in the early days, Alex Haley used to hang around. Tony Curtis and Hugh O'Brian were always there. Mick Jagger stayed there."

The glamour rubbed off on Mr. Hefner's new enterprise, the Playboy Club, which was crushingly popular when it opened in Chicago in 1960. Dozens more followed. The waitresses, called bunnies, were trussed in brief satin suits with cotton fluffs fastened to their derrières.

One bunny briefly employed in the New York club would earn Mr. Hefner's lasting enmity. She was an impostor, a 28-year-old named Gloria Steinem who was working undercover for Show magazine. Her article, published in 1963, described exhausting hours, painfully tight uniforms (in which half-exposed breasts floated on wadded-up dry cleaner bags) and vulgar customers.

Another feminist critic, Susan Brownmiller, debating Mr. Hefner on a television talk show, asserted, "The role that you have selected for women is degrading to women because you choose to see women as sex objects, not as full human beings." She continued: "The day you're willing to come out here with a cottontail attached to your rear end. ..."

Mr. Hefner responded in 1970 by ordering an article on the activists then called "women's libbers." In an internal memo, he wrote: "These chicks are our natural enemy. What I want is a devastating piece that takes the militant feminists apart. They are unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes."

The commissioned article, by Morton Hunt, ran with the headline "Up Against the Wall, Male Chauvinist Pig." (The same issue contained an interview with William F. Buckley Jr., fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer and an article by a prominent critic of the Vietnam War, Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana.)

Mr. Hefner said later that he was perplexed by feminists' apparent rejection of the message he had set forth in the Playboy Philosophy. "We are in the process of acquiring a new moral maturity and honesty," he wrote in one installment, "in which man's body, mind and soul are in harmony rather than in conflict." Of Americans' fright of anything "unsuitable for children," he said, "Instead of raising children in an adult world, with adult tastes, interests and opinions prevailing, we prefer to live much of our lives in a make-believe children's world."

Many, of course, questioned whether Playboy's outlook could be described as adult. Harvey G. Cox Jr., the Harvard theologian, called it "basically antisexual." In 1961, in the journal Christianity and Crisis, Dr. Cox wrote: "Playboy and its less successful imitators are not 'sex magazines' at all. They dilute and dissipate authentic sexuality by reducing it to an accessory, by keeping it at a safe distance."

In a 1955 television interview, a frowning Mike Wallace asked Mr. Hefner: "Isn't that really what you're selling? A high-class dirty book?"

Such scolding sounded quaint by the time crasser competitors like Penthouse and Hustler appeared in the 1960s and '70s. Playboy began showing pubic hair on its models, while the others doubled the dare with features on kinkier sexual tastes and close-up photos that bordered on the gynecological. Mr. Hefner would decide, after furious debate among the staff, not to compete further.

Playboy Enterprises still prospered, and in 1971 went public to finance resorts in Jamaica, Lake Geneva, Wis., and Great Gorge, N.J., and gambling casinos in London and the Bahamas.

The heady mood broke in 1974, when Mr. Hefner's longtime personal assistant, Bobbie Arnstein, committed suicide. Ms. Arnstein had just been convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and Mr. Hefner said bitterly that investigators had hounded her to set him up.

He left Chicago for his second home in Los Angeles, an enormous mock-Tudor house in Holmby Hills with a grotto and a zoo (Mr. Hefner loved animals), where he could orchestrate the company's move into films.

The 1980s brought a huge retrenchment for Playboy. The company lost its London casinos in 1981 for gambling violations and was denied a gambling license in Atlantic City, partly because of reports that Mr. Hefner had been involved in bribing New York officials for a club license 20 years earlier.

The company shed its resorts and record division and sold Oui magazine, a more explicit but less successful version of Playboy, while the flagship's circulation plunged. The Playboy Building in Chicago, its rabbit-head beacon illuminating Michigan Avenue, was also sold, as was the corporate jet with built-in discothèque. Bunnies were going the way of go-go dancers, and the Playboy Clubs closed.

Mr. Hefner relied more and more on his daughter, Christie, named company president in 1982 and then chief executive, a position she held until 2009. Mr. Hefner suffered a stroke in 1985, but he recovered and remained editor in chief of Playboy, choosing the centerfold models, writing captions and tending to detail with an intensity that led his staff to call him "the world's wealthiest copy editor."

In 1989 Mr. Hefner married again, saying he had rethought Woody Allen's line that "marriage is the death of hope." His second wife was Kimberley Conrad, the 1989 Playmate of the Year, 38 years his junior. They had two sons: Marston Glenn, born in 1990, and Cooper Bradford, born in 1991.

The couple divorced in 2010, and Mr. Hefner plowed into his work, including the editing of "The Century of Sex," a Playboy book. When a New York Times interviewer later prodded him about the rewards of marriage, he replied, "Unfortunately, they come from other women." Meanwhile, to widespread snickering, he became a cheerleader for Viagra, telling a British journalist, "It is as close as anyone can imagine to the fountain of youth."

The re-emerged Hef reveled in the new century. In 2005 he began appearing on television on the E! channel reality show "The Girls Next Door," although his onscreen role consisted mostly of peering in while his three young, blond girlfriends planned adventures at the mansion. When the three original "Girls Next Door" went their separate ways after five seasons, he replaced them with three others, also young and blond - and shortly afterward asked one of them, Crystal Harris, to marry him.

Five days before the 85-year old Mr. Hefner was to marry the 25-year-old Ms. Harris in June 2011 - the wedding was to have been filmed by the Lifetime cable channel as a reality special - the bride called it off. Mr. Hefner, by this time a man of the 21st-century media, announced on Twitter, "Crystal has had a change of heart."

But Ms. Harris had another change of heart, and the two married on New Year's Eve 2012. On their first anniversary, Mr. Hefner tweeted to his 1.4 million followers, "It's good to be in love."

In addition to his wife, Mr. Hefner's survivors include his daughter, Christie; and his sons, David, Marston and Cooper.

Another of the "Girls Next Door," Holly Madison, offered a much more depressing version of life in the mansion in a 2015 tell-all book. In the years when Mr. Hefner was calling her his "No. 1 girlfriend," she wrote in "Down the Rabbit Hole," she endured a dysfunctional household of petty rules, allowances, quarrels and backstabbing, all directed by an emotionally manipulative old man.

Through those years, however, the Playboy brand marched forward. In 2011 Mr. Hefner took Playboy Enterprises private again. Mr. Flanders, after taking over as chief executive in 2009, focused on the licensing business, shrinking the company and raising its profits. The website, cleansed of any whiff of pornography, enjoyed huge growth, while Mr. Hefner, who retained his title and about 30 percent of the company's stock, cheerfully tweeted news and pictures of the many festivities at the mansion, along with hundreds of photographs from his past, in the glory decades of the '60s and '70s.

Mr. Hefner will be buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, where he bought the mausoleum drawer next to Marilyn Monroe.

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