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The two voyagers who claimed to be lost at sea for 5 months may have some untrustworthy claims in their remarkable story of surviving at sea.

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On Halloween morning, Wendy Williams fainted live on television. She was wearing a Statue of Liberty costume. While being her talk, she began to lose her balance, slur her words and eventually passed out. Thankfully, editors were able to jump to commercial quickly. Wendy is okay as she even came back to finish the broadcast.

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Wendy Williams fainted during Tuesday's live airing of The Wendy Williams Show.

The talk-show host, who was dressed as the Statue of the Liberty, passed out as she was introducing this year's costume contest this morning. Midway through her introduction, her voice cracked and her eyes widened as she stumbled backward before suddenly collapsing. The show immediately cut to commercial.

When it returned, Williams, still in costume, was already back on stage and explained that she fainted from overheating. "That was not a stunt," she said. "I overheated in my costume and I did pass out. But, you know what? I'm a champ and I'm back!"

A spokesperson from The Wendy Williams Show told EW that Williams overheated from her heavy costume, make-up, and the lights; however, she was able to finish the show and will be back tomorrow.

"Ms. Williams fainted on-air this morning. She is dehydrated and is on her way home for a good day and nite of sleep. She has been examined by medical professionals and is well. She is ok and will continue as shows as planned. She will address this on-air tomorrow," said Ronn Torossian, spokesperson for Wendy Williams, in a statement to EW. "She has never missed a day of work and is looking forward on November 13th to her 1500th show."

Wow @WendyWilliams fainted on today's show. "That was not a stunt. I'm overheated in my costume and I did pass out." pic.twitter.com/DsuwcS63Ye
- Dave Quinn (@NineDaves) October 31, 2017

Wendy Williams came back after commercial break. Said she overheated in her costume. pic.twitter.com/jccZaQ9oK2
- Baby Bye (@1BabyBye) October 31, 2017

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Wendy Williams fainted during Tuesday's live airing of The Wendy Williams Show. The talk-show host, who was dressed as the Statue of the Liberty, passed out as she was introducing this year's costume contest this morning. Midway through her introduction, her voice cracked and her eyes widened as she stumbled backward before suddenly collapsing.

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A 27 year old man stormed into an elementary school in California. He punched a substitute teacher in the face and broke his nose then took a female teacher hostage in a classroom. When the police showed up they shot the man and he was pronounced dead at the hospital later that day.

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JUPITER, Fla. - Sam Ruskin was surfing with his cousin in the Jupiter Inlet late Friday when he noticed a bunch of people gathered at the end of the jetty on the southern side of the inlet.

The 13-year-old said he saw containers floating away from a fishing boat that had just capsized and then noticed a man struggling against the current near the rocks that form the jetty's base.

The man wasn't wearing a life jacket, and Sam said the sea was choppy because of strong winds.

"If you don't get out of there you could easily drown," Sam recalled thinking. "He looked out of breath and tired."

He knew he had to help.

"I paddled out to where he was and told him to get on my surfboard," Sam said. "He looked pretty shocked. He got on the board and I paddled him in, and he said thank you and I went back to surfing."

Although Sam, who is in eighth grade at Independence Middle School, "didn't really think it was that much of a big deal," his dad, Ryan Ruskin, saw things differently.

"I was shocked, just ecstatic with pride," Ryan Ruskin said.

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He said his son had mentioned something about helping someone at the inlet when he picked him up Friday night, but he didn't realize how dramatic the incident was until one of his friends shared the drone video on Facebook later that weekend.

"It's really a very dangerous area. Someone dies in that inlet every year," Ryan Ruskin said. "He was just like, 'What's up? What are we doing tonight? What's for dinner?'"

Kevin Cadby, of Palm Beach Gardens, said he had been flying a drone over the area all afternoon.

"It wasn't really sunny and the water wasn't that beautiful blue," Cadby said.

So after a while, he turned to "chasing boats."

Cadby was standing along the jetty at the southern end of the inlet, peering out of binoculars and videoing boats as they approached the inlet.

"I saw a little fishing boat coming in," he said. "And I stuck with him the entire time."

He said the boat laid off the throttle as it entered the rough waters of the inlet, leading waves to sink the vessel in a matter of minutes. He said he watched the boat's only passenger until he was safely on land.

Once Sam helped the man to shore, he was checked out by rescue officials but left uninjured.

"My heart thumps every time I watch that video still," Cadby said.

Cadby said he and Sam plan to team up in the near future to capture drone video of the boy surfing.
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According to a detailed account delivered by a prosecutor, Frank DeGaetano, the incident occurred on Sept. 15, when Detectives Hall and Martins were conducting operations in the Coney Island neighborhood as part of an antidrug unit, Brooklyn South Narcotics. Around 8 p.m., Mr. DeGaetano said, the detectives broke off from the rest of their team and stopped an Infinity coupe in Calvert Vaux Park. The 18-year-old woman was driving, he said; two of her friends, both men, were also in the car.

As the detectives - both in plainclothes - approached the car, one of them shined his flashlight through the window and saw the young woman adjusting her bra. When Detective Hall asked if she was hiding something, she told him she was simply adjusting her nipple piercing, Mr. DeGaetano said. The detectives asked her to prove it, and the young woman lifted up her shirt, showing them her breasts.

A search of the car revealed a small amount of marijuana in a cup holder. The woman also had some marijuana and a few pills of Klonopin, an anti-anxiety drug, in her handbag, Mr. DeGaetano said. At that point, he added, the detectives took the woman from the car, placed her in handcuffs and put her into the second row of their Dodge police van. Driving off, they told her that she would be released within a few hours at the 60th Precinct station house.

Mr. DeGaetano said that Detective Martins used his cellphone to call the woman's friends and explicitly instructed them not to follow the van, using a blocking function to disguise the number he was calling from.

It was then that Detective Martins sat down next to the woman and said that he and his partner were "freaks," asking her what she wanted to do to avoid being arrested, Mr. DeGaetano said. After tightening the handcuffs, Detective Martins pulled out his penis and forced the woman to perform oral sex on him, Mr. DeGaetano said. Then he turned her around, pulled her pants down and raped her, Mr. DeGaetano added, as Detective Hall watched through the rearview mirror and the young woman cried and pleaded with Detective Martins to stop.

By that point, Mr. DeGaetano said, the van was in Bay Ridge, at least four miles from where the antidrug team had been working. Mr. DeGaetano said that Detective Hall switched places with his partner and also forced the woman to perform oral sex on him.

After the attack, Mr. DeGaetano said, the detectives returned to Coney Island and dropped the woman off about five blocks from their station house. Before she left, they made her take one of her Klonopin pills and told her to "keep her mouth shut," Mr. DeGaetano said.

Within days, the city medical examiner's office had analyzed a rape test performed on the woman and determined that it contained samples of both detectives' sperm, Mr. DeGaetano said. "These are extremely serious charges," he added, saying that each could face up to 25 years in prison.

Detective Martins, who joined the Police Department in July 2006, had his bail set at $250,000, and Detective Hall, who joined in July 2010, had his bail set at $150,000. Both were suspended and demoted on Friday, after the grand jury handed up the indictment.

Even with physical evidence like DNA, rape prosecutions are often difficult. A court document filed on Monday hinted at some of the vulnerabilities defense lawyers may seek to exploit.

One day after the encounter, investigators from the Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau interviewed her and found she that while she could identify Detective Hall from a photo array, she was unable to identify Detective Martins, according to the court document. The document also showed that her two friends were also unable to identify Detective Martins and that one of them misidentified Detective Hall.

Calling the indictment "schizophrenic," John Arlia, a lawyer for Detective Hall, noted at the arraignment that the charges included accusations of both "forcible" rape and of using sex to bribe a police officer - a "self-contradictory" position, suggesting that the prosecutors had two theories of the case and were not entirely confident about the young woman's account.

Mark A. Bederow, Detective Martins's lawyer, said his client had been subjected for weeks to a "circus" of allegations made in the media by the young woman's lawyer, Michael David. Mr. Bederow called the woman's account "uncorroborated." He told Justice Danny K. Chun, who is handling the case, that while prosecutors had furnished DNA evidence, they had not provided surveillance footage connected to the attack, which allegedly took place in the parking lot of a Chipotle restaurant, nor of the detectives releasing the woman near the station house.

Mr. Bederow added that he had "substantial information" that would undermine her story, suggesting that she had a "financial" motive to lie about the attack.

At a news conference after the arraignment, Eric Gonzalez, the acting Brooklyn district attorney, asked anyone who may have had similar encounters with the detectives to come forward. He also condemned the detectives' lawyers for attacking the victim.

"It is shocking and unfortunate that they would blame a teenager for the acts of their clients," Mr. Gonzalez said. "To think that these are grown men in a position of power over an 18-year-old, and for them to blame her, is ridiculous and demeaning. To my mind it speaks to desperation."

Correction: October 30, 2017

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Trump calls for more extreme vetting in Diversity visa program.

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The alleged ISIS fanatic authorities say was behind Tuesday's deadly New York City slaughter came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Program, details of Sayfullo Saipov's travel to America that could become all the more important as President Trump proposes revisions to his "extreme vetting" program.

The Diversity Visa Program is a State Department program which offers a lottery for people from countries with few immigrants in America.

The DV program makes up to 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, "drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration" to the U.S., according to the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services website. Applicants must prove they have a clean criminal record, have a high school diploma or its equivalent, or have at least two years of work experience within the past five years in order to qualify.

The program originated as part of a bill introduced in 1990 by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., then a member of the House. Schumer's measure to make a set number of visas available to "diversity immigrants" from certain countries was absorbed into a larger House immigration bill, which was sponsored by Schumer and 31 others, including several Republicans.

The House legislation passed in a bipartisan - but contested - vote, 231-192, while the Senate version containing the "diversity immigrants" part passed more easily, 89-8, and went on to be signed by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

The program has been in the crosshairs of Congress several times, most recently when the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, sponsored by Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., called for its elimination. The Trump White House came out in support of the bill, calling the DV program "outdated," adding that it "serves questionable economic and humanitarian interests."

A Schumer spokesperson didn't respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post on Wednesday, and Schumer kept his post-attack comments on Tuesday to praise of the NYPD.

Saipov is accused of killing eight people and injuring 11 others when he drove a rented Home Depot truck down a New York City bike lane, plowing into pedestrians, before slamming into a school bus.

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NYC terror attack suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, entered US through Diversity Visa Program

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The alleged ISIS fanatic authorities say was behind Tuesday's deadly New York City slaughter came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Program, details of Sayfullo Saipov's travel to America that could become all the more important as President Trump proposes revisions to his "extreme vetting" program.

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Pop star Selena Gomez and friend Francia Raisa talk about the kidney transplant that Gomez says saved her life.

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Hawaii women's tale of survival at sea unraveling as more evidence disputes claims

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A man from Illinois has been arrested and charged with murder after the discovery of the remains of his mother.

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Murder charges have been filed against a man whose mother's dismembered remains are believed to have been found in a Chicago park lagoon, police said Tuesday.

Brian Peck, 55, of the Chicago suburb of Elgin, faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death, Elgin police said. He was scheduled to appear for a bond hearing Tuesday afternoon in Cook County court in Rolling Meadows.

Police said Peck called authorities Friday afternoon and said his mother, Gail Peck, 76, went for a walk with her dog and the dog returned home without her. That prompted an hours-long search that included officers on foot, a drone, helicopter and all-terrain vehicles.

On Saturday, two duffel bags containing human remains were discovered in a lagoon at Chicago's Lincoln Park after a fisherman found one of the bags. Chicago police said a dive team found the second bag.

Elgin police said Tuesday that investigators have evidence the body is Gail Peck. They also are doing DNA testing, which isn't complete, but police have enough evidence to charge Brian Peck, deputy chief Bill Wolf said.

The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that DuPage County records show Gail Peck filed an order of protection against her son in March 2016. She told police they argued about loud music he was playing and he twice put her in a chokehold and said he was going to kill her.

Court records show Brian Peck pleaded guilty in June 2016 to domestic battery causing bodily harm and received a 100-day jail sentence.

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Murder charges have been filed against a man whose mother's dismembered remains are believed to have been found in a Chicago park lagoon, police said Tuesday. Brian Peck, 55, of the Chicago suburb of Elgin, faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death, Elgin police said.

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The terrorist in the New York Terrorist attack came to the US through the Diversity Visa Program. Putting the program under fire.

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The alleged ISIS fanatic authorities say was behind Tuesday's deadly New York City slaughter came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Program, details of Sayfullo Saipov's travel to America that could become all the more important as President Trump proposes revisions to his "extreme vetting" program.

The Diversity Visa Program is a State Department program which offers a lottery for people from countries with few immigrants in America.

The DV program makes up to 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, "drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration" to the U.S., according to the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services website. Applicants must prove they have a clean criminal record, have a high school diploma or its equivalent, or have at least two years of work experience within the past five years in order to qualify.

The program originated as part of a bill introduced in 1990 by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., then a member of the House. Schumer's measure to make a set number of visas available to "diversity immigrants" from certain countries was absorbed into a larger House immigration bill, which was sponsored by Schumer and 31 others, including several Republicans.

The House legislation passed in a bipartisan - but contested - vote, 231-192, while the Senate version containing the "diversity immigrants" part passed more easily, 89-8, and went on to be signed by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

The program has been in the crosshairs of Congress several times, most recently when the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, sponsored by Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., called for its elimination. The Trump White House came out in support of the bill, calling the DV program "outdated," adding that it "serves questionable economic and humanitarian interests."

A Schumer spokesperson didn't respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post on Wednesday, and Schumer kept his post-attack comments on Tuesday to praise of the NYPD.

Saipov is accused of killing eight people and injuring 11 others when he drove a rented Home Depot truck down a New York City bike lane, plowing into pedestrians, before slamming into a school bus.

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NYC terror attack suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, entered US through Diversity Visa Program

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The alleged ISIS fanatic authorities say was behind Tuesday's deadly New York City slaughter came to the United States seven years ago from Uzbekistan under the Diversity Visa Program, details of Sayfullo Saipov's travel to America that could become all the more important as President Trump proposes revisions to his "extreme vetting" program.

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Farmer gets killed by a rebellious cow in Georgia

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This was one mad cow.

A Georgia farmer was killed Wednesday morning when a cow he was attempting to move ultimately turned against him, according to the Rome-News Tribune.

The cow reportedly rammed farmer Nathan William Paris against a fence, causing massive chest trauma.

First responders attempted to revive the 72-year-old farmer to no avail. He was rushed to an emergency room where he was pronounced dead.

"It's the first time in a long time that I can recall a death attributed to a farm animal," Floyd County Coroner Gene Proctor told the Rome-News Tribune.
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Catalan leader will not return to Spain to testify

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MADRID (Reuters) - A lawyer for dismissed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who is due to appear in a Spanish court this week to answer charges relating to Catalonia's push for independence, said he was not expected to return to Spain soon.

If Puigdemont fails to appear before the court, an arrest warrant could be issued that would in turn prevent him from standing in the snap regional election called by the Spanish government for Dec. 21.

Puigdemont and his government were sacked on Friday by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hours after passing a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain through the regional parliament, a vote boycotted by the opposition and considered illegal by Spanish courts.

On Monday, Spain's state prosecutor accused Puigdemont of rebellion and sedition for organizing an independence referendum held on Oct. 1 in defiance of the Madrid government.

Puigdemont traveled to Belgium at the weekend with other members of the dismissed Catalan administration and hired a lawyer. Although he appeared at a news conference in Brussels on Tuesday, his plans and next movements were unclear.

"He has not told me but as the situation now stands, I don't see him going back to Spain in the coming weeks," Puigdemont's lawyer Paul Bekaert told Belgian state broadcaster VTM late on Tuesday.

Spain's High Court has summoned Puigdemont and 13 other former members of the Catalan government to testify in Madrid on Thursday and Friday on charges of rebellion, sedition and breach of trust. A judge will then decide whether those called to testify should go to jail pending an investigation that could take up to several years and a potential trial.

Three former Catalan government advisors returned to Spain from Belgium late on Tuesday and were greeted at Barcelona's international airport by crowds chanting "off to prison".

Puigdemont and three others were not among those returning to Spain. He said on Tuesday he would only go back to Spain when given unspecified "guarantees" by the Spanish government.

Prosecutors have asked the courts to order the Catalan secessionist leaders to deposit 6.2 million euros to cover potential liabilities. However, if Puigdemont and his associates do not turn up this could change and, if considered a flight risk, they could be jailed pending trial.

Attention in the crisis over Catalonia is now turning to the December election, called by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy when Madrid took over control of the autonomous region.

Puigdemont said in Brussels on Tuesday he accepted the election and the Madrid government has said he is welcome to stand, even though the legal issue could prevent that.

Wednesday is a national holiday in Spain and government offices are closed, giving a brief respite in the crisis after a tumultuous month.

Reporting by Paul Day in Madrid and Foon Yun Chee in Brussels, Editing by Angus MacSwan and Janet Lawrence

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Ousted Catalan leader unlikely to return to Spain to testify: lawyer

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MADRID (Reuters) - A lawyer for dismissed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who is due to appear in a Spanish court this week to answer charges relating to Catalonia's push for independence, said he was not expected to return to Spain soon.

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Meth found in child's Halloween Candy

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The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is demanding answers after a mystery person allegedly dropped a small package of crystal meth into a Wisconsin toddler's trick-or-treat bag over the weekend.

Menominee Tribal Police Chief Mark Waukau told ABC News the toddler's father found the questionable bag at a community event they were attending on Sunday.

The father alerted the police after pulling out a small baggie with yellow powder inside it, Waukau said.

"The father was going through the candy and he finds a really small clear plastic packet like the size of a quarter," Waukau said.

The family had attended the tribe's annual Halloween trick-or-treating event in Keshena, Wisconsin, alongside several other families to "go house-to house-with parents" to collect sweets, Waukau said.

"I think people are pretty upset," he went on. "That's what we want. We want people to get upset and come forward and give us information. We're already getting tips."

When the substance was field tested, it was proven the yellow powder was methamphetamine.

"We thought it looked a lot like Pop Rocks candy in that little baggie," Waukau said.

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Waukau said he immediately alerted families to dispose of the candy from the Sunday event, fearing there may be more crystal meth bags surreptitiously dropped in other trick-or-treat buckets.

The Menonminee Police posted a statement on Facebook confirming there was "a complaint of a suspicious package located in a child's Halloween Candy."

It also verified that the package contained crystal meth.

"A small yellow Ziploc type baggy containing crystalline powder was located. The crystalline powder tested positive for methamphetamine a.k.a (Meth)," according to the post.

The incident stoked fears in educators at the Keshena Primary School and they barred students from bringing to school any of their candy.

"Due to the very unfortunate incident with the trick-or-treat candy from Sunday, no students will be allowed to bring and distribute any candy or other treats tomorrow (10/31) for our Halloween parties," according to a statement from the school's Facebook page. "Instead, KPS will be providing cookies, popcorn and plenty of candy for our students to ensure it is safe for them."

Drugs have riddled the Menominee Indian Tribe community for years, Waukau said. But heroine and crystal methamphetamine have become the latest substances infiltrating the community, he noted.

"We're seeing such a big increase of people outside the reservation from Milwaukee and the Chicago area bringing drugs in here that are so lethal," he said. "We've been targeting them pretty good and kicking some people off [the reservation] when we catch them."

Waukau said a "controlled" Halloween "Trunk or Treat" event at the College of Menominee Nation campus will be held today for the local children.

"We'll be supplying the candy and this time we want families to dress up and participate without being afraid," he said.

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NYPD detectives charged with raping handcuffed women in police van.

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Eddie Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, of the Brooklyn South Narcotics unit, were arraigned Monday on a total of 50 charges, including first-degree rape, first-degree criminal sexual act and second-degree kidnapping, the district attorney's office said.

Both detectives pleaded not guilty to all counts, according to the district attorney's office. Martins was released on $250,000 bail and Hall was released on $150,000 bail. Each could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

The allegations represent a "flagrant betrayal of public trust," according to Eric Gonzalez, the Acting District Attorney for Kings County.

"It is incomprehensible that two veteran NYPD detectives would allegedly commit such an outrageous act. They took an oath to protect and serve, but allegedly violated that oath by raping a young woman who was in their custody," he said. "We will now seek to hold them accountable for this flagrant betrayal of public trust."

September 15 incident

Prosecutors with the district attorney's office described a gross misuse of police power and sexual misconduct in the case. The incident allegedly occurred on the evening of September 15 when Martins and Hall, plainclothes detectives, left their post without authorization and drove to Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn, the district attorney's office said.

There, the officers stopped a car driven by an 18-year-old woman with two male passengers. They arrested and handcuffed the woman on drug charges, and told the male passengers to leave and pick up the young woman later, the district attorney's office said.

Detective Martins allegedly told her that he and Hall are "freaks" and asked her what she wanted to do to get out of the arrest, the district attorney's office said. Martins allegedly then raped the handcuffed woman in the backseat as Hall drove and watched in the rear-view mirror.

The detectives then allegedly stopped the van in Bay Ridge, about four miles from the park. After they switched places in the van, Hall forced the woman to perform a sex act on him, according to prosecutors. Later the officers drove back to the 60th precinct and dropped off the woman, telling her to keep her mouth shut, the district attorney's office said.

The young woman went to Maimonides Medical Center and underwent a sexual assault evidence kit, prosecutors said. DNA from the woman matched both of the detectives, while video surveillance showed her leaving the police van at about 8:42 p.m. that evening, according to prosecutors.

Mark Bederow, an attorney for Martins, said in a statement that the detective is "entitled to the same presumption of innocence as anyone else."

"Being a police officer doesn't change his right to due process. We unequivocally deny the allegation that he forcibly attacked the young woman," Bederow said. "We don't believe that the credible evidence will support the claim that any rape or sexual assault occurred."

An attorney for Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

CNN's Kristina Sgueglia contributed to this report.

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Eddie Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, of the Brooklyn South Narcotics unit, were arraigned Monday on a total of 50 charges, including first-degree rape, first-degree criminal sexual act and second-degree kidnapping, the district attorney's office said. Both detectives pleaded not guilty to all counts, according to the district attorney's office.

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The Michigan official that was charged in the deadly flint water crisis, will be going back to court.

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The director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expected back in state court for a preliminary hearing Wednesday, as a judge weighs whether he should face criminal liability for his role in the Flint water crisis.

Nick Lyon was charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office in connection with a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint region in 2015. Lyon is accused of causing the death of a Flint man on Dec. 13, 2015, by failing to warn the public of the potential danger posed by the disease in a timely manner.

The city's water supply was switched to the Flint River in April 2014. Within months, Flint began issuing advisories for residents to boil their water due to sanitary concerns. On Dec. 14, 2015, the city's mayor declared a state of emergency because of elevated lead levels in the Flint drinking water.

The preliminary hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence for prosecutors to bring the case against Lyon, who oversaw the events leading to the crisis, to trial.

Judge David Goggins has not heard testimony since Oct. 6, when urban affairs adviser Harvey Hollins said he told Gov. Rick Snyder about a Legionnaires' outbreak several weeks before the governor made it public in January 2016. That testimony contradicted what Snyder previously told the U.S. House Oversight Committee under oath in March 2016.

Lyon is seeking to have the conflicting testimony thrown out on the grounds that it is irrelevant to the criminal case against him, according to WJRT.

Former Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley has criticized the case against Lyon.

"It's wrong for this particular charge to be brought against Nick Lyon, who's got nothing to do with making the decision --- it's just wrong, and he won't escape the stigma of it even if he's found innocent," he said, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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Michigan official charged in deadly Flint water crisis heads back to court

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The director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is expected back in state court for a preliminary hearing Wednesday, as a judge weighs whether he should face criminal liability for his role in the Flint water crisis.

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New York terrorist attack 8 dead and 11 severely injured.

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A terrorist in a rental truck sped for nearly a mile down a popular, bike-only path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday - killing eight people in the shadow of the World Trade Center and then shouting: "Allahu Akbar."

"This was an act of terror," Mayor de Blasio declared at an evening press conference.

"A particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at innocent people going about their lives."

Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan, was shot by a cop after getting out of his car at Chambers and West streets with two realistic-looking guns while screaming "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for God is good, police sources said.

"He was running around Chambers and somebody started to chase him," said a 14-year-old student at the nearby Stuyvesant HS, which was just letting out for the day.

"Everybody starts running."

Saipov's bloody, 17-block trail of terror began at 3:05 p.m., when he turned onto the bike path at West Houston Street in a Home Depot flatbed pickup truck he'd rented in Passaic, NJ, police sources said.

The maniac, who was carrying a Florida ID, rammed his car into nearly two dozen innocent cyclists and pedestrians as he sped south on the typically serene path along the Hudson River.

"The Home Depot truck starting running people over," said witness Nelson Arroyo, 58. "I heard a boom boom, a crushing noise from the bikes. People were sitting down crying. I saw two areas of blood."

Saipov collided with a school bus at Chambers Street, injuring two adults and two children inside.

He then got out with the pellet and paintball guns - sending panicked bystanders fleeing through the streets, sources said.

Tom Gay said he was walking near West Street and Warren Street when a woman came barreling around the corner shouting, "He has a gun! He has a gun!"

The school photographer spotted Saipov, who he described as a slender man in a blue track suit, running his way.

The man giving chase was a cop, who fired at least five shots. Saipov fell to the ground, still raising his weapon in the air until the officer kicked it out of his hand.

"The uniformed police officer assigned to the 1st Precinct, confronted the subject and shot him in the abdomen," NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said, adding that he "was wounded and transported to a local hospital."

Meanwhile, bodies covered in white sheets were left scattered on the path amid the crumpled remains of their rental bicycles, which included Citibikes.

Buildings in the area were put on lockdown, and part of the FDR Drive was shut down as first responders rushed some victims to Bellevue Hospital.

All told, the terror attack just blocks from the World Trade Center killed eight people and injured at least 11 others, including three children, who were rushed to local hospitals.

Six men were pronounced dead at the scene, while another man and woman perished at the hospital, police said.

One of the dead victims was a Belgian national, Didier Reynders, an official from his country said on Twitter.

"I am deeply saddened to announce a Belgian victim in Manhattan - I express my condolences to the family and friends," he tweeted.

At least two other fatalities were from Argentina.

Three victims remained in critical condition Tuesday evening, including the killer, who was undergoing surgery.

"Our thoughts and prayers with those New Yorkers who we lost today - it reminds us all how precious life is," Gov. Cuomo said at the press conference.

"They left the house this morning - they were enjoying the beautiful Westside of Manhattan on a beautiful fall day and they are not going to be returning home. And that shock and that pain is going to be very real."

Chilling NYPD audio recorded during the slaughter includes shaken cops describing the sight of the "mass casualty situation'' before them.

"There's multiple people on the ground, Central. We need buses all the way up to Houston [Street], Central,'' one officer says urgently, according to a tape obtained by CBS. "I've got four or five people on the ground.''

Another cop says, "We got multiple casualties. This is a mass-casualty situation here.''

The NYPD and FBI have opened a terror investigation into the attack, and are looking for computers and phones belonging to Saipov, who has a criminal record for several traffic violations.

Police were also executing search warrants in New Jersey, Ohio, and Tampa, Fla. - all locations where Saipov has lived since arriving in the US in 2010, according to records and police sources.

Cuomo described the disturbing act of bloodshed as a lone wolf attack, which is similar to others that have been perpetrated by terrorists using vehicles to mow victims down.

"The new terrorist tactic which they have called for publicly, are these lone wolves who commit an act of terror," the governor said.

"But at this point, there's no evidence to suggest a wider plot or a wider scheme, but the actions of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death, and the resulting terror, and that was the purpose."

President Trump tweeted his "condolences and prayers" to the victims of the attack.

"In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!" he wrote.

"We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!" Trump wrote in a subsequent tweet.

Despite the carnage, the Village Halloween Parade, which draws thousands of revelers every year, still went on.

"We know that this action was intended to break our spirit but we also know New Yorkers are strong, New Yorkers are resilient," de Blasio said.

"And our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence, an act meant to intimidate us."
Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin, Shawn Cohen and Gina Daidone

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8 killed as truck plows into pedestrians in downtown NYC terror attack

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A terrorist in a rental truck sped for nearly a mile down a popular, bike-only path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday - killing eight people in the shadow of the World Trade Center and then shouting: "Allahu Akbar." "This was an act of terror," Mayor de Blasio declared at an evening press conference.

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Terror Attack at Home Depot. Car rammed in to the building in New York.

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Editor's note: The following column first appeared in City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute.
The Halloween assault in Lower Manhattan was straight out of the ISIS playbook. Ever since October 2010, when Al Qaeda published the second issue of its online magazine Inspire, jihadi leaders have been urging the faithful to turn ordinary cars and trucks into killing machines to "mow down the enemies of Allah."

On Tuesday in New York, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, a green-card holder from Uzbekistan in Central Asia and resident of Florida, responded to the call.

He drove his rented Home Depot truck from West Houston Street onto a Hudson River Park bike path, one of New York's most beloved amenities. Within ten minutes, eight people were killed and 15 were injured. A note found in the truck, law enforcement officials said, indicated that Saipov committed the attack out of devotion to ISIS.

Saipov might have killed even more people had the NYPD not been the nation's premier counterterrorism force. NYPD officers showed up in force minutes after the attack began, shooting Saipov before he could kill even more New Yorkers.

At a news conference at 1 Police Plaza less than two hours after the deadly attack, John Miller, the New York Police Department's chief of counterterrorism, cited the Islamic State's updated guidance to jihadi aspirants contained in the third November 2016 issue of its own online journal, Rumiya(Rome), as the attacker's probable inspiration. The article encouraged followers to attack "large outdoor conventions and celebrations, pedestrian-congested streets, outdoor markets, festivals, festivals, parades, [and] political rallies." It even specified the ideal type, weight, and speed of a car needed for terror purposes, according to a translation provided by the Counter-Extremism Project.

It seems likely that the killer's original target may have been the famous Greenwich Village Halloween parade, another beloved New York tradition that close to 1 million people typically attend. But the NYPD's overwhelming security presence, and the numerous street closures adjacent to the parade, may have dashed his dreams of an even more memorable massacre.

While the attack investigation is ongoing and details of Saipov's motives and plans are still being gathered, the vehicle assault bore the hallmarks of the attacks that ISIS and other militant jihadi groups have long been promoting. NYPD commissioner James O'Neill said that the terrorist emerged from his rental vehicle after crashing into a school bus screaming a statement that indicated terrorist intent. While the politically attuned O'Neill declined to identify what the attacker shouted, the language in which he was shouting, or his suspected nationality, numerous eye witnesses said that the man, dressed in dark clothing and carrying a pellet gun and a paint-ball gun, was screaming "Allahu Akhbar"-"God is Great" in Arabic.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pointed out another hallmark of a vehicle assault. The perp, he said, was one of those "lone wolves" who "meant to cause pain and harm and probably death and the resulting terror."

But it takes a pack to raise a lone wolf. Even if Saipov acted alone, he was part of a growing ideological fraternity numbering in the tens of thousands who now inhabit every region of the globe.

Those seeking eternal glory have staged similar attacks in at least a dozen other cities-from Nice to Paris to Barcelona to London to Jerusalem.

Like the attacks in these cities, the Halloween attack in Lower Manhattan was aimed at inflicting maximum carnage. Schools in the area were letting out students shortly after three o'clock when Saipov drove his rented truck off West Houston Street onto the bike path.

There was no shortage of targets. The streets between West Houston and Chambers were crowded with parents picking up their costumed children prepared for an evening of trick-or-treating. Pedestrians and bikers on the Hudson River bike path were stunned and helpless as Saipov careened his weapon through the crowd.

With the collapse of its self-declared "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is on the run. So are its adherents. But as the extremists disperse, the terrorist threat, paradoxically, increases. American and other intelligence agencies have long warned of a likely rise in vehicle and other attacks as the frustrated, furious faithful are forced to reorient their campaign. In May 2017, the U.S. Transportation and Security Agency (TSA) warned truck and bus companies to be on guard for suspicious individuals seeking to rent vehicles.

According to TSA data, Islamist terrorists have carried out more than a dozen vehicular assaults since 2014 that have killed more than 170 people. Such attacks are ever more likely, the TSA memo warned, since "unsophisticated tactics such as vehicle-ramming" are hard to prevent and capable of inflicting "mass casualties if successful."

Saipov might have killed even more people had the NYPD not been the nation's premier counterterrorism force. NYPD officers showed up in force minutes after the attack began, shooting Saipov before he could kill even more New Yorkers.

The NYPD, in fact, was already responding to the vehicular threat long before this type of terror became the focus of federal concern.

At Tuesday's press conference, Miller discussed the department's SHIELD program, which has sent officers to brief some 20,000 businesses in the private sector about the growing terrorist threat post-9/11.

Miller noted that after Rumiya reissued its call for vehicular attacks and suggested an assault on the Thanksgiving Day parade, the NYPD visited over 148 truck rental offices in the metropolitan area asking employees to watch for "suspicious indicators." The police department conducted repeated visits in person and by phone, he said.

Even more essential has been the NYPD's intelligence division, which has long collected information about suspicious individuals. After being heavily, and in many instances unfairly, criticized for allegedly violating civil liberties, Miller's former boss, William Bratton, shut down a particularly controversial program that the intelligence unit had run early in its existence-a so-called "demographic unit" that collected information on the location and activities of Muslims suspected of terrorist intentions.

Another critic was New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who lambasted the NYPD for surveilling New Jersey-based Muslims and asked whether the spying was "borne out of arrogance, or out of paranoia, or out of both." Unconfirmed news reports Tuesday night indicated that Saipov had lived for some time in Paterson, New Jersey.

But the NYPD has not scaled back most of its vital surveillance activities. In fact, New York's Finest, working in tandem with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies that comprise the Joint Terrorism Task Force, have continued collecting information on suspected terrorists living in and visiting the city.

They were unable to prevent the Halloween attack. The so-called "flash-to-bang" trajectory of lone-wolf radicalization is accelerating. An individual intent on mayhem against "soft" targets is the toughest law enforcement terrorist challenge.

Eight people were killed Tuesday. But the toll could have been much higher had the police not responded so quickly and New Yorkers not been so stubbornly resilient.

Concluding his remarks Tuesday, Governor Cuomo issued his own call to arms. "We're not going to let them win," he said. "And if we change our lives, we contort ourselves to them, then they win and we lose."

Three and a half hours after Saipov's wicked rampage, hundreds of thousands of costumed New Yorkers poured into the streets to celebrate Halloween, as planned. Paradoxically, Saipov's perverse mission failed: New Yorkers were not cowed, and he was denied the martyrdom that he was clearly seeking.

Shot in the stomach, Saipov will probably live to be brought to justice, not far from the scene of his heinous crime.
Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal and project director of the NYC Initiative at the Manhattan Institute.

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NYC terror attack: Halloween horror would have been much worse without top notch NYPD

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Editor's note: The following column first appeared in City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute. The Halloween assault in Lower Manhattan was straight out of the ISIS playbook. Ever since October 2010, when Al Qaeda published the second issue of its online magazine Inspire, jihadi leaders have been urging the faithful to turn ordinary cars and trucks into killing machines to "mow down the enemies of Allah."

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Can Japan burn flammable ice for energy?

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Can Japan burn flammable ice for energy? | CNN

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Japan's relationship with the energy sector is, at best, complicated.

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Actress Rose McGovan for drugs

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According to a statement from Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department, the warrant was issued in February for an incident alleged to have occurred in January near Washington. DC.

"On February 1, 2017, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for Rose McGowan, an actress from Encino, California, for possession of a controlled substance," the statement read. "The felony charge stems from a police investigation of personal belongings that tested positive for narcotics and were left behind on United flight 653 arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on January 20, 2017."

Authorities said they have been trying to reach McGowan to get her to court.

"Since obtaining the warrant in February, Airports Authority police have attempted to contact Ms. McGowan so she can appear in a Loudoun County, Virginia, court to respond to the charge," the statement read. "The arrest warrant was also entered into a national law enforcement database."

It's unclear as to when McGowan learned of the warrant, but on Monday she tweeted about it.

"Are they trying to silence me," she tweeted. "There is a warrant out for my arrest in Virginia. What a load of HORSES**T."

McGowan has become one of Harvey Weinstein's most high-profile accusers in one of Hollywood's biggest scandals, which has found the mogul accused by more than 60 women of acts of harassment, sexual assault and rape.

Weinstein, through his spokesperson, has denied "any allegations of non-consensual sex."

On Friday McGowan gave a rousing speech at the Women's Convention in Detroit, Michigan where she talked about her rape allegation against Weinstein and the ensuing fallout of the scandal.

She said she wanted "to be a voice for all of us who've been told we are nothing."

"I have been silenced for 20 years," McGowan said. "I have been slut shamed, I've been harassed, I've been maligned. And you know what, I'm just like you."

CNN has reached out to a rep for McGowan for further comment.

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rose mcgowan responds to arrest warrant - cnn

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According to a statement from Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department, the warrant was issued in February for an incident alleged to have occurred in January near Washington. DC. "On February 1, 2017, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for Rose McGowan, an actress from Encino, California, for possession of a controlled substance," the statement read.