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Who: 5 year old boy
What: Body was found in the Murray river
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The body of a five-year-old son was found in the Murray River at Moama, the police have confirmed.

Divers discovered the body about 11.35am on Saturday.

His body is yet to be formally identified but police believe it to be that of the five-year-old son of a 27-year-old woman who is alleged to have tried to drown both her sons on Thursday.

The boy's nine-year-old brother is in a stable condition at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

NSW Police on Saturday upgraded the charge against the 27-year-old woman to attempted murder.

The mother faces one charge of attempted murder relating to the nine-year-old and did not attend her scheduled court hearing at Deniliquin Local Court on Saturday morning.

Another charge is expected to be filed, police say.

The 27-year-old turned herself in to police in Echuca, on the NSW-Victoria border, on Thursday night after she was apparently attacked by a dog at the scene of the incident.

The woman's older son, aged nine, was also mauled and was taken to hospital but authorities spent Friday scouring the river for the younger boy, aged five, but couldn't find him.

Police divers scouring the river will be assisted by Marine Rescue NSW, Echuca Moama Search and Rescue and the SES on Saturday.

The boy's mother was released from jail a month ago.

NSW police have said further charges relating to the five-year-old will depend on the result of the search.

The nine-year-old son is in hospital in Melbourne after also suffering serious dog bites on Thursday evening.

Fairfax Media reports the woman appeared via video-link in a Bendigo court on Friday where a detective said she'd "made full admissions about her role and told police of her 'intention to kill both children'".

The court also heard she had allegedly told witnesses she "had to drown my babies".

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The body of a five-year-old son was found in the Murray River at Moama, the police have confirmed. Divers discovered the body about 11.35am on Saturday. His body is yet to be formally identified but police believe it to be that of the five-year-old son of a 27-year-old woman who is alleged to have tried to drown both her sons on Thursday.

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Who is involved: Australian man

What happened : An Australian man has died while trekking

When did it happen: Thursday night

Where did it happen:  Everest base camp in Nepal.

Why did it happen: The man became ill at the 5,380m (17,600ft) camp

How did it happen: experiencing breathing difficulties while descending

Direct quotation: "We stand ready to offer consular assistance," a spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the BBC.

Indirect quotation: The man was travelling with three other Australians, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.

Source: BBC

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An Australian man has died while trekking back from Everest base camp in Nepal.

The man became ill at the 5,380m (17,600ft) camp on Thursday night before experiencing breathing difficulties while descending the next day, Australian media reported.

The father of two had not attempted to reach the summit and was travelling with local Sherpa guides.

Australian consular officials are aware of his death.

"We stand ready to offer consular assistance," a spokeswoman for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the BBC.

The man was travelling with three other Australians, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.

Ten people died during the last spring climbing season in the Himalayas, according to The Himalayan Database.

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An Australian man has died while trekking back from Everest base camp in Nepal. The man became ill at the 5,380m (17,600ft) camp on Thursday night before experiencing breathing difficulties while descending the next day, Australian media reported. The father of two had not attempted to reach the summit and was travelling with local Sherpa guides.

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Who: A mother named Kim Margaret Earle, age 49

What: Jailed for killing her disabled son

When: This year in Feburary

Where: Gold Coast

Why: for killing her disabled son due to paedophilic tendencies.

How: Overdose

Example of a direct quote: "I loved him very much. It was a privilege to be his mum," she said.

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After already spending just over three years in custody, Justice Atkinson said Earle had suffered enough and should be released in three months.

The court heard Earle had planned to die alongside her son but had woken up from an attempted overdose and made several other unsuccessful attempts to kill herself.

She now suffers from memory loss after undergoing electric shock therapy and has to be reminded of what she has done.

Asked if she had anything to say after pleading guilty, Earle spoke of her love for her son.

"I loved him very much. It was a privilege to be his mum," she said.

The court heard Earle struggled for 18 years to raise her boy, who had an undiagnosed condition thought to be Asperger syndrome and had been spending a lot of time on child porn websites and writing sexually violent stories.

She feared he would be arrested and he vowed to stab himself to death if he was ever caught.

When police raided their home in December 2013, he clashed violently with police and Earle feared what he would do when he was released.

She took a taxi to the Gold Coast University Hospital, where she worked as a nurse, donned scrubs, and stole drugs and equipment from a controlled-medication store.

After spending the night crying, she collected her son from the watchhouse and when they got home, he tried to find a knife to carry out his plan to kill himself.

That's when she told him she could help.

Brandon wrote four pages of final words and was given a fatal overdose while lying on his bed.

Earle covered his body with a sheet and placed a frangipani on top of it.

She then had her dog put down and tried to kill herself.

Earle has been in custody for three years and three months, and has undergone treatment for depression and anxiety.

Justice Atkinson ordered she be released from jail on May 28 to live with her mother and sister in NSW.

"It is time you got out of custody," Justice Atkinson said.

"You have had more than your fair share of suffering."

Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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After already spending just over three years in custody, Justice Atkinson said Earle had suffered enough and should be released in three months. The court heard Earle had planned to die alongside her son but had woken up from an attempted overdose and made several other unsuccessful attempts to kill herself.

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What: Current U.S President Donald Trump accusing former U.S. President Barack Obama of wire-tapping;similar to the 1970's Nixon/Watergate Scandal

Who: Donald Trump (plus current Trump Administration), and Barack Obama (plus former Obama Administration

When: 5.35am Saturday March 4th 2017 (U.S Eastern Time)

Where: Trump Tower, New York City, U.S)

Why/How: A leadup and contribution to the Russia/Trump Election Scandal. If true, similar to the 1970's Nixon/Watergate Scandal

Direct Quote: "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy" Donald Trump, 11.02pm, March 4 2017

Indirect quote: Barack Obama had met Russian Ambassador more than Jeff Sessions had, making accusation of shady interrelations with Russia ridiculous

Partial Quote: “I am very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally." such behaviour is low and unprofessional. Not focusing on what's important for the American people.

Source: The Guardian

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Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of "wire tapping" his offices in New York City before the presidential election in November, claiming the former president had overseen a "Nixon/Watergate"-style intervention.

Launching a series of tweets at 5.35am eastern time on Saturday, the US president said: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"

He followed up that initial tweet with a string of others in the following 30 minutes which claimed Obama had defied a court's rejection of a request to tap his office, and invited a "good lawyer" to make a case against the alleged operation.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!

The president then compared the alleged surveillance of his communications to Watergate - the scandal in the early 1970s that brought down Republican president Richard Nixon after he ordered a break-in of the Democrat party's Washington headquarters.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

Trump also made efforts to defend Jeff Sessions, the US attorney general, who is facing questions over his meeting with the Russian ambassador to Washington during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

He tweeted: "The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs..." .

He added: "Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone."

There was no additional information provided to substantiate the president's claims that Obama had "wire tapped" Trump Tower, and it was not clear on what information Trump was basing the allegations.

There has been no response to the tweets from Obama.

The Trump administration has been on the back foot over its contacts with Russian officials before the president took office in January.

Last month Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser over conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington and misleading statements about them to the press and the vice-president, Mike Pence.

This week it was revealed that Sessions had two meetings with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, last year twhich he failed to disclose to senators during his confirmation hearing.

Sessions said on Friday that he would recuse himself from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election despite backing from Trump, who described the controversy as "a total witch hunt".

Trump's tweets follow claims made by the conservative radio host Mark Levin on his Thursday night show about the alleged steps taken by the Obama administration to undermine the Republican candidate's campaign to win the White House.

The presenter called the effort a "silent coup" by the Obama administration and called for a congressional investigation into the issue. That contrasts with demands from across the US political spectrum to examine Russian interference in the presidential election.

Levin's comments were followed up by Breitbart News, the "alt-right" website formerly run by Steve Bannon, who ran the Trump campaign and is now the president's chief strategist.

The article stated: "The Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorisation to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA [National Security Agency] rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media."

The Breitbart story references recent claims that the FBI had asked the foreign intelligence surveillance court for a warrant last year to monitor members of the Trump team suspected of being in contact with Russian officials. The request for the warrant was initially rejected before being granted in October, the reports have said.

Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, said: "I am very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally. I would be very worried if, in fact, the Obama administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully about the Trump campaign activity with foreign governments. It's my job as a United States senator to get to the bottom of this - I promise you I will."

The Democratic congressman Seth Moulton, a member of the House armed services and budget committees, told the MSNBC channel: "This is right out of Donald Trump's reality TV playbook. He's trying to distract attention from the real story here, which is his campaign, his administration's contact with Russian officials ... There's clearly a deeper story here and we the American people need to know how high this conspiracy goes."

Moulton added: "Obviously contacts with Russian intelligence officials are monitored - that's part of maintaining our national security. So if under the Obama administration they were simply monitoring contacts with Russian officials - not trying to wiretap into the Trump campaign but simply looking at who Russian officials were talking with - and then Trump campaign officials got ensnared in that net, then it's a total mischaracterisation to say President Obama was wiretapping Trump."

Rep Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who is a member of the House intelligence committee, told Fox News that Trump "is not credible when it comes to talking about Russia".

Swalwell downplayed Trump's allegations. "I think this is just the president up early doing his routine tweeting, he said. "Presidents don't wiretap anyone. These are pursued by the Department of Justice in accordance with the FBI and signed off by a judge."
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'This is McCarthyism!': Trump accuses Obama of 'wire-tapping' his office before election

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Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of "wire tapping" his offices in New York City before the presidential election in November, claiming the former president had overseen a "Nixon/Watergate"-style intervention. Launching a series of tweets at 5.35am eastern time on Saturday, the US president said: "Terrible!

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who: 6 year old girl
what: killed in quad bike accident
when: Sunday 12:15pm
why: The bike left the road and crashed into a tree
where: Pilliga, west of Narrabri
how: The bike left the road and crashed into a tree
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When: March 1st 2017
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She's using a colorful analogy to make her point -- comparing Trump to a friend's boyfriend who is a "jerk."

"The way I told my members: It's like telling your friend the guy she's dating is a jerk. You can't tell her that. She has to find out for herself. You can give her clues and then eventually one thing will lead to another, she'll come to her conclusion. But if you tell her right up front, you'll lose a friend. So we're not interested in losing any friends. Let them find out," Pelosi recounted during a small briefing for reporters in her Capitol suite Tuesday.

"They made a judgment and they're not willing to walk away from their own judgment," she said.

Pelosi did, however, make a sweeping judgment about educated women who voted for Trump rather than Hillary Clinton.

"White educated women who voted against Hillary? They voted with their husbands on taxes and they always have," declared Pelosi.

Clinton got 51% of white educated women. Trump got 44%.

Matt Gorman, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, blasted Pelosi's comments Tuesday evening,

"Leave it to a San Francisco liberal to belittle and condescend to the 63 million voters who called for real change last November," Gorman said. "Pelosi's comments underscore just how hard it'll be for this out-of-touch party to compete across the country in 2018."

Pelosi also discussed the first White House meeting that she and other lawmakers had with the President after he was inaugurated, when he insisted that millions of votes were fraudulent and Pelosi told him he was wrong.

Beyond that widely reported incident, Pelosi said Trump worked very hard in the meeting to charm lawmakers, especially Democrats, though she conceded Trump worked harder on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer because he probably knows she is a "lost cause."

"He uses the charm offensive -- which is offensive, very offensive," said Pelosi.

She also described the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a top White House aide, as starry-eyed to the point that he missed the mark with Democrats.

"We went to the meeting when Jared was there -- and he said, 'Is everyone so excited about the change?' And we're like 'What?' I said, 'No, we're so excited about the women's march,'" recalled Pelosi.

House Democrats are also planning to push for a vote once a week on a resolution demanding that Trump release his tax returns, which they hope to use to pressure Republicans.

Pelosi insisted that as time goes on, Republicans will start to break with the President and vote with Democrats.

She also made note of a congressional rule that allows House and Senate chairmen of tax writing committees (Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means) to acquire tax returns from the IRS.

Democrats plan to pressure the GOP chairmen of both committees to invoke that rule, created after the so-called Teapot Dome scandal during Warren Harding's administration in the 1920s, to get Trump's tax returns. The rule says the tax returns would be kept private within the committee unless a majority votes to make them public.

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She's using a colorful analogy to make her point -- comparing Trump to a friend's boyfriend who is a "jerk." "The way I told my members: It's like telling your friend the guy she's dating is a jerk. You can't tell her that. She has to find out for herself.

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