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Laura Raines' mother asked her to lose weight while approaching death due to cancer as her dying wish for her to pursue a healthier lifestyle. So far, she has lost 162 pounds.

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A British woman who spent years eating junk food lost 162 pounds to fulfil her late mother's dying wish to get healthy.

Laura Raines' cancer-stricken mother asked her daughter to lose weight from her deathbed for the sake of her children.

"It was the last thing she asked me to do" the 42-year old told news service SWNS. "It took a while to actually do anything about her wish because at the time I just don't think I was ready."

But then she decided to join a friend at a weight-loss meeting, and in her first week of attending, lost six pounds.

"I was very nervous about going to the meetings. I hated walking through those doors thinking everyone was looking at me or laughing thinking 'God, look at the size of her'.

"I've been lucky with my journey, it's been good to me. Nearly every week losing more made me more determined to continue."

After joining Slimming World last January, Raines lost a total of 162 pounds.

"I can't put into words how proud my mum would be.

"She was an amazing lady and this amazing thing I have done was not only for me but for her too."

Laura says she went from a size 28 dress size to a 14.

"I feel amazing. It's funny when I'm walking past shop windows getting a glimpse of myself and suddenly realizing 'oh that's me'."

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Junk-food addict lost 162 pounds to grant late mother's deathbed wish

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A British woman who spent years eating junk food lost 162 pounds to fulfil her late mother's dying wish to get healthy. Laura Raines' cancer-stricken mother asked her daughter to lose weight from her deathbed for the sake of her children. "It was the last thing she asked me to do" the 42-year old told news service SWNS.

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Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies at the age of 91 in his Sweden home. He founded Ikea at the age of 17 by using the money his father gifted him for doing well in school despite his dyslexia.

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced.

Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement.

The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

The Ikea founder had faced questions over his past links to the Nazis, which he referred to as the "greatest mistake" of his life.

Mr Kamprad was born in 1926 in Småland and founded Ikea at the age of 17. He "peacefully passed away at his home", Ikea's statement said.

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His company's designs became popular in part because of their simplicity and value.

Furniture designer Jeff Banks said that Mr Kamprad's creations radically changed how people made and designed products for the home.

"People have tried to reproduce and copy that, but unsuccessfully," he said.

Mr Banks added that the designs produced and sold through the retailer made good use of recyclable products, adding that Mr Kamprad was "head and shoulders above the rest".

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced. Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement. The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

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Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Alex Smith was traded to the Washington Redskins. They traded Alex Smith for a third-round pick in the 2018 draft.

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Alex Smith's impending trade from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Washington Redskins could have a seismic impact on the 2018 NFL draft

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Boy's skull pierced with screw in treehouse-building accident

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Darius Foreman was building a treehouse Saturday when he fell from a branch, knocking over a five-foot-long wooden board, which came down on top of his head, his mother Joy Ellingsworth recounted.

An X-ray from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the boy was airlifted, shows a portion of the screw lodged right between the two halves of the brain -- threatening to tear the largest channel that drains blood and other fluids from the brain. Injury to this part of the brain could have been "catastrophic," according to his surgeon, Dr. Alan Cohen.

"He was a millimeter away from having himself bleed to death," Cohen, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, told CNN.

"I absolutely panicked," Ellingsworth said. "It was very scary, one of the scariest things I've ever been through."

Because the board was still attached to him by the screw in his head, fire rescue couldn't fit Foreman into the ambulance at first, so they used the family's saw to cut the board down from 5 feet to 2, Ellingsworth said.

Even then, he still had trouble fitting into the first of two helicopters that came to airlift him to the hospital.

"We were on pins and needles" during the delicate operation, said Cohen. He removed tiny fragments of bone and a small blood clot during a two-hour surgery early Sunday.

"He had the board in there a total of about seven hours," his mother said.

Cohen said he had been at home with his wife, neurosurgeon Dr. Shenandoah "Dody" Robinson, when they got the call.

"It doesn't matter who's on call; you both wake up," Cohen said. "So she went in first and cut the bolt and the board off his head," leaving the end of the screw for Cohen's team to operate on.

"He's a lucky kid," Cohen added.

The operation was a success, and Foreman was discharged Thursday.

He kept the screw, a memory of his close call and a gift from the hospital on his 13 th birthday -- the day he was discharged.

Foreman said he learned a valuable lesson that day: "Never build a tree fort."

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the title of Doctor Alan Cohen

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Darius Foreman was building a treehouse Saturday when he fell from a branch, knocking over a five-foot-long wooden board, which came down on top of his head, his mother Joy Ellingsworth recounted.

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Top-secret government files left in cabinets sold at secondhand shop.

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Filing cabinets containing thousands of classified documents from the Australian government ended up being sold at a second-hand shop, prompting government officials Wednesday to launch an investigation into how the highly sensitive documents were disposed of.

The cache of documents was obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which reported the two cabinets were sold by a Canberra furniture shop at a discount price because they were locked and no one could find keys.

The ABC described the incident as an "extraordinary breach of national security," and that nearly all the documents are classified with some documents being marked "top secret," "sensitive," "Australian eyes only," and "cabinet-in-confidence."

The state-owned broadcaster did not say when the documents, known as the Cabinet Files, were found or who the buyer was who removed the locks with a drill -- but in recent weeks the outlet has reported stories on embarrassing moments during the tenures of former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.

The documents contain information detailing Australia's intelligence priorities, counter-terrorism strategies, missile upgrades and profiles of terror suspects that spans more than a decade and four prime ministers, the most recent being Abbott. Abbott was replaced in 2015 by current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

When questioned about the ABC's reporting of Cabinet documents on Tuesday, Turnbull told reporters: "I think they've come across someone's bottom draw in Canberra," Sky News reported.

Some of the files reveal former finance minister Penny Wong left nearly 200 top-secret papers in her old office when her government was voted out in 2013. The documents included Middle East defense plans, national security briefs and updates on the war in Afghanistan.
EX-NSA CONTRACTOR TO PLEAD GUILTY TO 'BREATHTAKING' HEIST OF TOP-SECRET DATA
The files also revealed that former Prime Minister John Howard's National Security Committee at one point gave serious consideration to removing the right to remain silent to terrorism suspects when being questioned by police.

"I would also like NSC to consider whether amendments should be made to a suspect's right to remain silent to allow a court to draw adverse inferences in a terrorism trial where an accused relies on evidence which he or she failed to mention when questioned by police," Ruddock wrote in his NSC submission obtained by the ABC.

The proposal was then supported by the Australian Federal Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organization, but later rejected by the majority of the committee.

Another document reveals that AFP had lost almost 400 national security files over five years ending 2013. While the content of the missing security files was not revealed, "troop deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, counterterrorism operations, foreign relations and Australia's border protection were among the top-secret and sensitive issues decided in the five-year period," according to the ABC.

Australian Cabinet documents are usually kept secret for 20 years before they are made public in a heavily redacted form. The sale of the ex-government furniture in the country's capital was not limited to Australians, meaning anyone could make a purchase and could have handed the contents to a foreign agent or government.

The ABC said it chose to publish some of the files because "national security and the inner workings of our government affect the lives of all Australians."

The broadcaster said it had not chosen to report on some of the documents on national security grounds, but said the leak shows the "casual attitude of some of those charged with keeping the documents safe."

Rory Medcalf, head of the Australian National University's National Security College, told the Associated Press the incident is "very weird and embarrassing." He added that while the U.S. and other Aussie allies should be concerned, the leak is not as damaging as prior ones.

"This is not catastrophically damaging for national security in the sense that that something like the Snowden revelations must have been," Medcalf told the AP, referring to the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who disclosed classified information in 2013.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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Filing cabinets containing thousands of classified documents from the Australian government ended up being sold at a second-hand shop, prompting government officials Wednesday to launch an investigation into how the highly sensitive documents were disposed of.

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Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad died on Sunday at the age of 91. Kamprad founded Ikea at the age of 17 using the money his father gave him as a gift for doing well in school despite his dyslexia. He passed away peacefully at his home.

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced.

Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement.

The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

The Ikea founder had faced questions over his past links to the Nazis, which he referred to as the "greatest mistake" of his life.

Mr Kamprad was born in 1926 in Småland and founded Ikea at the age of 17. He "peacefully passed away at his home", Ikea's statement said.

Is Ikea the Marmite of retailers?

How Ikea's Billy took over the world

His company's designs became popular in part because of their simplicity and value.

Furniture designer Jeff Banks said that Mr Kamprad's creations radically changed how people made and designed products for the home.

"People have tried to reproduce and copy that, but unsuccessfully," he said.

Mr Banks added that the designs produced and sold through the retailer made good use of recyclable products, adding that Mr Kamprad was "head and shoulders above the rest".

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced. Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement. The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

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Tokyo tries to cut back on cost for the 2020 Olympics but it's not working.

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Darius Foreman, 13 year old boy from Maryland, was building a tree house when he fell from a branch. While falling he knocked a five foot long wooden board which did fall on him. A six inch long nail entered his skull almost ripping the largest channel that drains blood and other fluids from the brain. The boy did survive but he was just a millimeter away from bleeding to death.

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Darius Foreman was building a treehouse Saturday when he fell from a branch, knocking over a five-foot-long wooden board, which came down on top of his head, his mother Joy Ellingsworth recounted.

An X-ray from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the boy was airlifted, shows a portion of the screw lodged right between the two halves of the brain -- threatening to tear the largest channel that drains blood and other fluids from the brain. Injury to this part of the brain could have been "catastrophic," according to his surgeon, Dr. Alan Cohen.

"He was a millimeter away from having himself bleed to death," Cohen, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, told CNN.

"I absolutely panicked," Ellingsworth said. "It was very scary, one of the scariest things I've ever been through."

Because the board was still attached to him by the screw in his head, fire rescue couldn't fit Foreman into the ambulance at first, so they used the family's saw to cut the board down from 5 feet to 2, Ellingsworth said.

Even then, he still had trouble fitting into the first of two helicopters that came to airlift him to the hospital.

"We were on pins and needles" during the delicate operation, said Cohen. He removed tiny fragments of bone and a small blood clot during a two-hour surgery early Sunday.

"He had the board in there a total of about seven hours," his mother said.

Cohen said he had been at home with his wife, neurosurgeon Dr. Shenandoah "Dody" Robinson, when they got the call.

"It doesn't matter who's on call; you both wake up," Cohen said. "So she went in first and cut the bolt and the board off his head," leaving the end of the screw for Cohen's team to operate on.

"He's a lucky kid," Cohen added.

The operation was a success, and Foreman was discharged Thursday.

He kept the screw, a memory of his close call and a gift from the hospital on his 13 th birthday -- the day he was discharged.

Foreman said he learned a valuable lesson that day: "Never build a tree fort."

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the title of Doctor Alan Cohen

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boy's skull pierced with screw in treehouse-building accident - cnn

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Darius Foreman was building a treehouse Saturday when he fell from a branch, knocking over a five-foot-long wooden board, which came down on top of his head, his mother Joy Ellingsworth recounted.

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A 7 year old girl saved her family from an oven fire.

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Seven-year-old Tracy Durant became a local hero when she saved her family from a house fire Sunday morning.

The Escambia County, Florida, house fire broke out while a 13-year-old girl was cooking chicken inside the home, the family told local ABC affiliate WEAR.

"It looked like when the stove was on and it came up top and then it kept getting bigger and bigger so I didn't want us to get killed," Tracy said of the moment she saw the flames.

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Tracy, whose mother wasn't at home at the time, quickly ran for help at a neighbor's house and asked for a phone to call 911.

Thanks to Tracy's actions, everyone escaped the fire, including her 11-month-old cousin, WEAR reported.

Tracy's 13-year-old cousin sustained serious injuries but is expected to live.

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The little girl credited fire safety lessons at school with helping her save her family.

"[My teacher] said one day I would be a hero ... and I wanted to start practicing now," Tracy told WEAR.

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Seven-year-old Tracy Durant became a local hero when she saved her family from a house fire Sunday morning. The Escambia County, Florida, house fire broke out while a 13-year-old girl was cooking chicken inside the home, the family told local ABC affiliate WEAR.

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2 Tennessee teenagers were arrested for bringing loaded guns to school with them. Both of them said the guns were for protecting themselves. Metro Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron doesn't believe either of the teens were planning shootings.

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez walked out of President Trump's first State of the Union.

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They scowled as President Trump touted soaring jobs numbers, sat stone-faced when he honored veterans, and one even walked out after becoming triggered by a patriotic chant.

Democrats at President Trump's first State of the Union, after a year of partisan rancor, showed they were in no mood to accept his call for bipartisanship.

"Tonight, I call on all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people," Trump said. "This is really the key. These are the people we are elected to serve."

The call was met with one of more than 100 rounds of applause - but from just one side of the aisle. While Trump has undeniably contributed to the division in Washington, the images of petulant partisans seething at feel-good rhetoric was jarring for many observers.

"Why are @TheDemocrats not applauding job growth, higher wages and the drop in Latino and African-American unemployment?" pollster Frank Luntz asked in a tweet. "I thought economic success is good for everyone regardless of party."

Rep. Luis Gutierrez walked out after chants of "USA, USA!" erupted in the House chamber of the Capitol Building. After the speech, the Illinois Democrat quipped that, "whoever translated it for him from Russian did a good job."

Afterward, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Trump's calls for unity, after a year of "divisive actions, petty insults and disgraceful race-baiting ... ring hollow."

The Congressional Black Caucus led the opposition, as expected. The roughly 45-member, all-Democrat group vowed early Tuesday to show its discontent with Trump's policies and his reported derogatory remarks about African nations.

Members during the address chose not to stand when Trump honored Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and praised his resolve for returning to work less than four months after he "took a bullet" from a gunman and "almost died."

And they chose not join in the applause for a 12-year-old boy in the gallery whom Trump praised for putting flags on soldiers' graves on Veterans Day.

"Democrats are no longer just the party of resistance and obstruction, they are now also the party of sitting on their hands," said the Republican National Committee. "No matter the issue, Democrats chose to sit on their hands tonight."

There were three notable exceptions among Democrat senators. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., all red state Democrats facing tough re-election bids in November, stood and applauded multiple times.
Fox News' Joseph Weber contributed to this report

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State of the Union: Glum Democrats sit on hands, walk out and rip President Trump's call for unity

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They scowled as President Trump touted soaring jobs numbers, sat stone-faced when he honored veterans, and one even walked out after becoming triggered by a patriotic chant. Democrats at President Trump's first State of the Union, after a year of partisan rancor, showed they were in no mood to accept his call for bipartisanship.

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The pace of Americans signing  contracts to buys homes has increased for the third straight month in December. This raised an index of pending home sales by 0.5%. National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its index of pending sales reached 110.1, up from a revised 109.6 in November. The index is now at its highest lever since registering 111.3 in March.

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The pace of Americans signing contracts to buy homes increased for a third straight month in December, raising an index of pending home sales by 0.5 percent.

The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its index of pending sales reached 110.1, up from a revised 109.6 in November. The index is now at its highest level since registering 111.3 in March.

More Americans are looking for homes as the economy has improved, though a shrinking supply of properties on the market has made the hunt difficult and driven up prices.

Low borrowing costs have somewhat offset the rise in home prices. But mortgage giant Freddie Mac said last week that the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose for a third straight week to 4.15 percent. That's the highest average rate since March.

The number of signed contracts rose in the South and West in December but declined in the Northeast and Midwest. A 5.1 percent decline in the Northeast was offset by a 2.6 percent gain in the South and a 1.5 percent increase in the West. Pending sales in the Midwest declined slightly by 0.3 percent.

Pending sales contracts are a barometer of future purchases. Sales typically follow a month or two after a signed contract.

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The pace of Americans signing contracts to buy homes increased for a third straight month in December, raising an index of pending home sales by 0.5 percent. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its index of pending sales reached 110.1, up from a revised 109.6 in November.

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Warrants in Las Vegas massacre reveal name of additional 'person of interest'

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LAS VEGAS - Authorities were looking into an additional person of interest following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others, according to search warrants unsealed by a Nevada judge Tuesday.

While Stephen Paddock has been identified as the lone gunman in the Oct. 1 massacre, and authorities had been looking at his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, as a person of interest, a new name emerged when the court mistakenly failed to redact a name from the warrants: Douglas Haig.

Douglas Haig is the name of a Mesa, Ariz., ammunition dealer who runs a website called Specialized Military Ammunition, which touts itself as "your source for premium, MILSPEC, tracer and incendiary ammunition in popular military calibers," including ammunition that "ignites diesel and kerosene." (Officials have said that Paddock shot at aerial fuel tanks near the concert during the attack, although they did not ignite.)

"We Will Be Closed Indefinitely," the website said Tuesday. "Check back to see if / when we are up and running again." Haig did not immediately respond to messages for comment, and it was not certain that he was the man named in the warrant, although there have been reports that Paddock purchased ammunition from a dealer in Mesa.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal was the only publication to receive the mistaken document that identified Haig as a "person of interest" related to the mass shooting. It's the first public acknowledgment by law enforcement that a third person had been looked at in relation to the crime.

District Court Judge Elissa Cadish apologized for the error and issued a gag order on any publication of the original document that included the name.

"I ordered them redacted and thought they were redacted not only to protect the investigation, but because of concerns about possible danger to this individual," Cadish said.

No other publication received the page that mistakenly revealed the person of interest's name amid the more than 300 pages of search warrants and affidavits unsealed by Cadish. News organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, sued the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to unseal the warrants. Earlier this month a federal judge unsealed more than 300 pages of search warrants and affidavits.

There was little new in the latest batch of released court documents and nothing that helped explain the motive behind Paddock's attack from his Mandalay Bay hotel room on Oct. 1.

For almost four months, little had been released about the shooting and subsequent investigation. But in recent weeks - along with the unsealed warrants - Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo held his first news conference since mid-October and took the unusual step of releasing an 81-page preliminary investigative report on the crime.

While the FBI continues to investigate the shooting, Lombardo dismissed conspiracy theories about multiple shooters or ties to Islamic State.

"There was one shooter in the 1 October massacre," Lombardo said. "There was only one person responsible, and that was Stephen Paddock."

The report revealed that Paddock had planned the attack for months, scouted out various locations that included Boston and downtown Las Vegas, and noted that Paddock's girlfriend, Danley, had said he'd been acting "distant" with her over the year leading up to the shooting and that they were no longer intimate.

The report also said Danley observed Paddock behaving strangely during their stay at Mandalay Bay the month before the attack.

According to the report, she told investigators Paddock was constantly looking out the windows of the room, which overlooked the site where the Route 91 Harvest country music festival would take place weeks later.

Through the release of the warrants and the report, the picture of Paddock grew a little clearer, but also seemed to raise more questions. Authorities found child pornography on a seized computer. His doctor was interviewed and said Paddock was "odd" and showed "little emotion." He refused to take an antidepressant and was labeled a "germaphobe" by Danley.

He also had been stockpiling weapons over the course of the year. In the 34 years prior to September 2016, Paddock had purchased 29 firearms. In the next 11 months, he purchased more than 55 firearms and more than 100 accessories, including scopes, cases, "bump stocks" and ammunition. When police raided the room and discovered him dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, they found 23 guns.

Paddock fired more than 1,100 bullets from his room, and investigators found more than 4,000 rounds of unused ammunition. In his parked car at Mandalay Bay, they found Tannerite, which when struck by a bullet explodes.

The Associated Press, citing an unidentified law enforcement official, reported in October that Paddock bought 1,000 rounds of tracer ammunition in September from a private seller he met at a Phoenix gun show. The official said investigators searching Paddock's hotel room found tracer rounds and a document with the name of the Mesa man who sold him the ammunition.

The website for Haig, the Arizona dealer, says: "SMA tracer is always bright ignition and bright tracer; that means it lights right out of the barrel and is easily visible in daylight."

It also says: "We only accept orders by phone. This is done to protect the customer. Online shopping carts are best suited for mass production items. Our ammunition is hand made and it takes time to fabricated and load. Speaking to us on the phone also allows questions and establishes what the customer really wants to have our ammunition for."

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(Montero reported from Las Vegas and Pearce from Los Angeles.)

Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com

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James Mattis, Secretary of Defense Is considering banning phones from US military and civilian personnel in the Pentagon

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The officials told CNN that while the issue is under review and a final decision has not been made, the recent revelations that a fitness tracking app that maps people's exercise habits could pose security risks for US troops has only underscored the need for the review.

The officials added that the review was ordered after Mattis expressed his intent to ban personal cell phones in the Pentagon.

A defense official told CNN that the intelligence about the risk of cell phone vulnerabilities that drove the Pentagon's review is the same intelligence that helped lead to a similar ban of personal cell phones among White House staffers in the West Wing, a ban that went into effect this month.

"We takes threats to security seriously and are always looking into any potential additional measures to further enhance the security of our of Department of Defense personnel," Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Audricia Harris told CNN when asked about the review.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters Monday that Mattis had been recently briefed on the issue of wearable devices and that the Department of Defense was reviewing policy regarding the use of smartphones and wearable devices by military personnel.

There are approximately 23,000 military and civilian staff that work in the Pentagon.

There is no cell signal in the majority of the building and rooms with classified and sensitive information as well as computers require those entering to place their cell phones in an outside box or locker prior to entry.

Two defense officials told CNN that the current review was sparked by a small number of cases of Pentagon employees improperly bringing their personal devices into classified areas.

Multiple officials said that given the large number of people working at the Pentagon, many of them commuting in by public transit, the logistical challenges of installing lockers or other means to allow staff to store their personal cell phones upon entering the building will be the biggest challenge to implementing a ban, casting doubt on its feasibility, with one defense official saying that given all the challenges the ban was unlikely to come into effect.

Two officials said one possible remedy will be tighter enforcement of the rules that are already in place, with one official saying that additional screening technology could be emplaced at the entrances of those classified areas to prevent cell phones from being brought in.

The White House took similar action earlier this month with regard to personal cell phone use, issuing a memorandum prohibiting staffers from carrying personal cell phones into the West Wing, citing similar security concerns.

That plan was floated by White House Chief of Staff retired Gen. John Kelly in July but was not executed until this month.

Officials told CNN that the move prompted widespread frustration among staffers, many of whom are questioning how they are expected to stay in touch with their families and spouses while often working 12-hour days.

CNN's Barbara Starr contributed reporting.

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Secretary of Defense James Mattis is actively considering banning US military and civilian personnel from bringing their personal cell phones into the Pentagon, the world's largest office building, according to three US defense officials familiar with an ongoing review of the issue.

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Will be visible in the western hemisphere for the first time in 152 years.

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The cosmic event -- a combination of lunar eclipse, blood moon and super moon -- will be visible in the western hemisphere for the first time in 152 years.

Where can people see it?

People in Australia, Asia and parts of Russia were treated to the lunar triple whammy during moonrise on January 31, while sky watchers across North America should look up from 5:51 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning.

NASA predicted the best spots to watch the entire celestial show were California and western Canada.

The super blue blood moon will not be visible in western Europe or most of Africa and South America, but CNN will be updating this story all day with pictures and video from people who were able to witness the eclipse.

Be sure to tag your social media photos with #CNNSpace for a chance to be featured.

Latest photos

Shirley Tomioka took a photo of the lunar convergence from her terrace in Tokyo, Japan.

Joe Stuart took this incredible 15 minute time-lapse from his house in Melbourne in Australia. He told CNN: "It was amazing, it looked like it was popping out of the sky!"

What is a 'Super blue blood moon?'

A "supermoon" occurs when a full moon falls at the same time as its perigee, which is the closest point of the moon's orbit with the Earth. This makes the moon larger and brighter by 14%, according to NASA. The first supermoon of 2018 took place on New Year's Day and was previously described by NASA as the "biggest and brightest" one expected for the entire year.

As the popular idiom suggests, blue moons are rare and refer to when there is a second full moon in one calendar month.

To complete the "lunar trifecta," the blood element is not a sign that the end is nigh, but occurs during a lunar eclipse when faint red sunbeams peek out around the edges of the Earth, giving it a reddish copper color.

Virtual Telescope will be streaming the event live for anyone unable to view the eclipse up close.

There are usually a couple of lunar eclipses each year so if you do miss it this time around, the next one will happen on July 27 -- though it won't be visible in North America. It'll be a long wait for skywatchers in the US as Johnston predicts the next visible lunar eclipse will be on January 21, 2019.

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'Super blue blood moon' dazzles sky gazers across the world

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The cosmic event -- a combination of lunar eclipse, blood moon and super moon -- will be visible in the western hemisphere for the first time in 152 years. Where can people see it? People in Australia, Asia and parts of Russia were treated to the lunar triple whammy during moonrise on January 31, while sky watchers across North America should look up from 5:51 a.m.

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Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies at the age of 91 in his Sweden home. He founded Ikea at the age of 17 by using the money his father gifted him for doing well in school despite his dyslexia.

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced.

Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement.

The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

The Ikea founder had faced questions over his past links to the Nazis, which he referred to as the "greatest mistake" of his life.

Mr Kamprad was born in 1926 in Småland and founded Ikea at the age of 17. He "peacefully passed away at his home", Ikea's statement said.

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His company's designs became popular in part because of their simplicity and value.

Furniture designer Jeff Banks said that Mr Kamprad's creations radically changed how people made and designed products for the home.

"People have tried to reproduce and copy that, but unsuccessfully," he said.

Mr Banks added that the designs produced and sold through the retailer made good use of recyclable products, adding that Mr Kamprad was "head and shoulders above the rest".

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The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced. Mr Kamprad died at his home in Småland, Ikea confirmed in a statement. The company said that Mr Kamprad was "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century".

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People are considered prejudice due to the fact that they don't like broken patterns. While many people may have controversy and overwhelming study proved this to be true. The fact that we may see things out of the norm sends a signal to the brain to instantly see that something is wrong even if it is not.

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But these prejudices are largely unfounded and the justifications don't hold water, so what is driving them in the first place? In the December Nature: Human Behavior, we -- with colleagues Julia Marshall and Yimeng Wang -- report a basic root of social prejudice: People's dislike of broken patterns.

Our starting premise was that society feels prejudice toward people who deviate from the norm, those who break physical or social patterns. In their skin color or dress, they break the pattern of what looks "normal." In their religious or cultural practices, they deviate from long-established social norms, which are consensually agreed-upon patterns of social behavior.

Given this insight, we reasoned that social prejudice may originate from our general dislike of deviancy -- breaks in regularities and what we are accustomed to. If true, then how we think and feel about people who look different, or behave differently than the norm, should be analogous to how we think and feel about objects that break the overall regularity of our visual experience -- the pencil that is slightly out of line in a row of pencils, the patch of paint on the bedroom wall that's just a shade darker than the rest of the room.

Our first set of studies established that a dislike of such non-social broken patterns is highly prevalent, early-emerging in life and exists across different cultures. Large samples of adults in China and the United States, for example, disliked broken patterns made up of geometric shapes -- for instance, a row of triangles with one triangle out of line.

In these studies, we also found that the greater a person's discomfort toward broken patterns in everyday scenes and geometric shapes, the greater their dislike of social norm-breakers (such as someone who cross-dresses), people with unusual physical characteristics (such as Dwarfism) and racial minority group members (black individuals).

However, and we should caution, this accounted for only 10% of participants' prejudicial judgments. Though not insignificant, this leaves a lot of unexplained variance. In other words, a dislike of broken patterns does not by itself mean you are a racist. Also, being a neat or tidy person does not mean you are more prejudiced.

And it is important to note that our findings at this stage are correlational, not causal. We cannot conclude just yet that disliking broken patterns is a causal "root" of prejudice. What we can say, though, is that some of the discomfort that most of us experience in response to social deviancy, those negative gut feelings, is merely from seeing a social pattern being broken, nothing more.

We tend to assume that the thoughts and feelings we hold about our families, friends, partners, and strangers are the product of reasoning and experience, and largely removed from how we think about the physical world. However, our findings show that our social attitudes, our likes and dislikes for various types of people and various forms of behavior, are related more than we might think to our preferences in the physical world.

There have been several other recent demonstrations of how our feelings are influenced and affected by our physical experiences. For instance, recent neuroscience research shows that our representations of physical and social warmth are actually connected in our brains -- from birth we associate physical warmth (being held close) with social warmth (trust and caring), and this effect persists throughout our lives.

Physical and social pain also overlap. Social pain experienced from rejection by another person or group activates the same underlying brain region as does the experience of physical pain -- so much so that studies have found that taking over-the-counter pain relievers for two weeks actually helps the person get over the break-up faster.

Unfortunately, unlike taking Tylenol to reduce social pain, there is no magic pill to reduce social prejudice. (There may be medical risks to taking painkillers to get over social pain.) However, by illustrating that people's social prejudices are not necessarily rational, they may be able to eschew the false beliefs they adopt to justify their prejudices (e.g., the mentally ill are dangerous, Muslims are terrorists).

While abandoning false justifications for prejudice is a good start, interventions to reduce prejudice are the ultimate goal. People potentially can reduce their prejudice by training themselves to be more tolerant of broken patterns in the physical world. If such interventions are effective at a young age, we will have a better chance of reducing social prejudices in the long term.

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Why are people prejudiced? The answer is not what you think

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But these prejudices are largely unfounded and the justifications don't hold water, so what is driving them in the first place? In the December Nature: Human Behavior, we -- with colleagues Julia Marshall and Yimeng Wang -- report a basic root of social prejudice: People's dislike of broken patterns.

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Sky-watchers were treated to the extremely rare phenomenon of a super blue blood moon early Wednesday, The unusual lunar trifecta occurred for the first time in North America since 1866. it’s the third in a series of ‘supermoons,’ when the Moon is closer to Earth in it's orbit and is brighter ,second full moon of the month (blue moon), and earth's shadow gives the moon a reddish tint (Blood Moon) and there is going to be a total lunar eclipse

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Skywatchers are being treated to the extremely rare phenomenon of a super blue blood moon early Wednesday.

The unusual lunar trifecta is occurring for the first time in the Western hemisphere since 1866.
SUPER BLUE BLOOD MOON 2018: WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE
"The Jan. 31 full moon is special for three reasons: it's the third in a series of 'supermoons,' when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit -- known as perigee -- and about 14 percent brighter than usual," explains NASA. "It's also the second full moon of the month, commonly known as a 'blue moon.' The super blue moon will pass through Earth's shadow to give viewers in the right location a total lunar eclipse. While the Moon is in the Earth's shadow it will take on a reddish tint, known as a 'blood moon.'

"For the (continental) U.S., the viewing will be best in the West," explained Gordon Johnston, program executive and lunar blogger at NASA Headquarters in Washington, in a statement.

Across the globe, skywatchers are closely monitoring the moon to see the rare event.

A NASA live feed of the event can be viewed here.

The unusual lunar showstopper won't happen again until 2037.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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Skywatchers are being treated to the extremely rare phenomenon of a super blue blood moon early Wednesday. The unusual lunar trifecta is occurring for the first time in the Western hemisphere since 1866. SUPER BLUE BLOOD MOON 2018: WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE "The Jan.

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James Harden made history Tuesday night with the NBA's first ever 60 point triple-double. He finished with 60 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds and four steals.

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James Harden has put together plenty of big games in the past few years, but he outdid himself with his historic effort Tuesday night against the Orlando Magic.

The guard finished with 60 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds and four steals while helping the Houston Rockets earn a 114-107 win.

He put himself in the record books in a few ways with the incredible showing:

Harden was nearly unstoppable throughout the game, shooting 19-of-30 from the field and 17-of-18 from the free-throw line:

Many were impressed by the showing:

Chris Paul was proud of his teammate's performance:

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade also praised their rival:

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey made sure to let people know he was there to witness the feat:

Harden's massive outing raised questions about how this changes the MVP race:

This was just Harden's third triple-double this year after he totaled 22 last season, but it was one of the best in NBA history. After one night of rest, he will hope to keep it going in his next matchup Thursday against the San Antonio Spurs.

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Twitter Explodes as James Harden Records 1st-Ever 60-Point Triple-Double

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Houston Rockets Rob Goldberg @TheRobGoldberg Twitter Logo Featured Columnist James Harden has put together plenty of big games in the past few years, but he outdid himself with his historic effort Tuesday night against the Orlando Magic. The guard finished with 60 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds and four steals while helping the Houston Rockets earn a 114-107 win.

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North Korea is going to parade dozens of long-range missiles a day before the Winter Olympics begin in South Korea, February 8th. One source said it would be an attempt, "To scare the hell out of Americans".

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North Korea is planning to show off dozens of long-range missiles at a February 8 parade, the day before the Winter Olympics is set to begin in South Korea, two diplomatic sources with deep knowledge of North Korea's intentions told CNN Wednesday.

The display of "hundreds" of missiles and rockets would be an attempt "to scare the hell out of the Americans," one of the sources said.

The parade is expected to include dozens of intercontinental-range Hwasong-15 missiles, which the North Koreans test-fired for the first time in late November, the sources said.

They also didn't rule out a missile test "in the near future" to send a strong message to American forces currently deployed in the region.

The news comes after US President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union speech, during which he criticized the Kim Jong Un regime's human rights abuses and "reckless pursuit" of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that could soon threaten the US homeland.

In his address, Trump highlighted personal stories of victims of the Kim regime, inviting as guests North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho and the parents of Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after returning from North Korea where he spent 17 months in captivity.

Winter Olympics woes

The inter-Korean talks which led to the North's decision to participate in the Winter OIympics had been hailed as a breakthrough that could ease escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. However, the process has not been smooth.

On Monday, North Korea said it canceled a joint cultural performance that was to be held in advance of the Olympics in response to unflattering coverage by South Korean media.

According to a statement from South Korea's Unification Ministry, the North Koreans pulled out because "South Korean media continue to insult North Korea's genuine measures regarding the PyeongChang Olympics and take issues with its domestic festival."

The sources that spoke to CNN said that other planned events could be canceled.

Cracks

Chad O'Carroll, managing director of the Korea Risk Group in Seoul, said the planned military parade could undermine Washington's support of dialogue between the two Koreas.

"The ongoing US support for inter-Korean rapprochement already appears to be showing cracks and will likely be seriously tested in the event of a major DPRK ICBM parade on the eve of the Olympics," he said.

Foreign media will be banned from covering the upcoming military parade, the sources said.

This is a dramatic change from last year, when many global news organizations were invited to cover a military parade in April that saw Pyongyang unveil new long-range missiles. A diplomatic source said this was due to the sensitivity of the weapons that will be on display, and to avoid questions about the deploy ability of the missiles. By banning foreign press, North Korea controls all of the imagery the world sees.

North Korean state media in recent days has been increasing its anti-US rhetoric, warning of grave consequences if p ostponed joint military exercises resume after the Olympics.

Policy divisions

Earlier Tuesday, sources told CNN that the Trump administration had decided not to nominate Victor Cha, its widely rumored selection as US ambassador to South Korea, apparently because of a difference over Korea policy, specifically over its consideration of a pre-emptive strike.

Cha, a widely respected former academic and former Bush administration official, said in a Washington Post op-ed Monday that the answer to the "real and unprecedented threats" North Korea presents is not, "as some Trump administration officials have suggested, a preventive military strike."

Instead, Cha laid out what he called "a forceful military option available that can address the threat without escalating into a war that would likely kill tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans."

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A Virginia Tech student, Yunsong Zhao, originally born in China, was arrested on Monday. He claimed he had an assault riffle and was planning on buying 5,000 rounds of ammunition. He was charged with illegal possession of an assault riffle while not being a US citizen. Finding out about this student, pulled on some of the administration and faculty´s heart strings as the 11 year anniversary of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting is coming up. This shooting consisted of a 23 year old student who killed 32 other people before taking his own life.

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Yunsong Zhao, 19, has been charged with illegal possession of an assault rifle while not being a US citizen, according to an arrest warrant obtained by CNN affiliate WSLS.

Police say Zhao had bought a former police vehicle -- which still had police markings -- and installed a special bumper to the car. The freshman student had also researched bulletproof vests, the document states.

Virginia Tech Police Chief Kevin Foust said Zhao was arrested without incident following a "lengthy investigation."

No more details about his arrest or the investigation have been released.

Zhao is from China and had been living in the area for about six months, the warrant said.

He remains in custody at the Montgomery County Jail without bail, officials said.

CNN has attempted to reach Zhao's attorney, but did not receive a reply late Tuesday night.

In a statement, university officials said unsubstantiated rumors had been circulating on campus about an individual stockpiling weapons and that Zhao's arrest was not linked to those rumors.

"As always, the safety of the Virginia Tech community is the top priority of the university and its police department. Police remain vigilant at all times and work around the clock to keep our campus safe," the university said in a statement.

This April marks the 11-year anniversary of the 2007 campus shootings at Virginia Tech where a 23-year-old student shot and killed 32 people before taking his own life.

CNN's Connor Spielmaker contributed to this report.

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Yunsong Zhao, 19, has been charged with illegal possession of an assault rifle while not being a US citizen, according to an arrest warrant obtained by CNN affiliate WSLS. Police say Zhao had bought a former police vehicle -- which still had police markings -- and installed a special bumper to the car.

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MONEY MAKER: Scott Tucker, professional race car driver and business schemer, has been sentenced to a 16 year and 8 months in prison on Friday of January 5, 2018. In October Scott was convicted of over 14 criminal counts in a $2B payday lending enterprise that federal prosecutors claim ¨exploited 4.5 M consumers through deceptive loan terms and illegal interests rates¨. Scott Tucker had earned $380 M in a payday loan scheme that exploited Native American sovereign immunity laws as a loophole to provide payday loans in states were they were illegal, with the additional illegal high interests rates that would have people repaying $750 - $2000 dollars back who only got a $500 dollar loan.

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Scott Tucker, the Leawood businessman and professional race car driver who built a financial empire through an illegal payday loan enterprise, received a 16-year, 8-month prison sentence on Friday.

Kevin Castel, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, nearly split the difference between requests by federal prosecutors for at least 20 years in prison and pleas by Tucker's lawyers for no more than 15 years.

In October, Tucker, 55, was convicted of 14 criminal counts related to a $2 billion payday lending enterprise that federal prosecutors said exploited 4.5 million consumers through deceptive loan terms and illegal interest rates. Tucker's conviction came after a five-week jury trial.

It will be Tucker's second stint in prison. He spent a year in prison related to a bank fraud scheme and was released in 1992.

On Friday, Tucker was immediately taken into custody after his sentencing.

Tucker's attorney and co-defendant, Tim Muir, was sentenced to seven years. Muir will report to prison at a later date. Restitution will be determined in February.

"For more than 15 years, Scott Tucker and Timothy Muir made billions of dollars exploiting struggling, everyday Americans through payday loans carrying interest rates as high as 1,000 percent," said acting deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joan Loughnane in a written statement. "And to hide their criminal scheme, they tried to claim their business was owned and operated by Native American tribes. But now Tucker and Muir's predatory business is closed and they have been sentenced to significant time in prison for their deceptive practices."

Tucker, who started his foray into payday lending with a storefront operation in Kansas City in the late 1990s, became an early pioneer of online consumer lending.

Payday loans extend small amounts of cash to consumers, often financially strapped and with poor credit histories, with the expectation that the loan is repaid within weeks. Payday lenders charge high interest rates to hedge for the possibility that some consumers can't pay their debts back.

Tucker's businesses, which operated under brand names like 500FastCash and Ameriloan, charged interest rates ranging from 400 percent to 700 percent, far beyond rates permitted by states that regulate payday lending.

Regulators and law enforcement authorities claimed, and a jury agreed, that Tucker established his businesses on American Indian tribal land as a way to sidestep state laws and charge illegal interest rates.

Moreover, Tucker's businesses duped customers by automatically withdrawing interest payments from a consumer's loan balance while not touching the principal amount so that the loan would renew on the consumer's next payday.

The result was that a $500 loan could turn into nearly $2,000 in repayments.

Tucker, who asked for leniency in his sentencing, wrote in a letter to Castel that he employed as many as 10,000 people and offered a "fast, simple, and reliable service."

"Although I saw myself as being an entrepreneur, a jobs provider, and a contributor to the American economy, I've learned that others view me through a different lens," Tucker wrote. "I am very sorry that our leaders castigate me as a villain, or some type of predator."

Federal prosecutors asked for a longer sentence, arguing that there was "every reason to believe he will again defraud others as soon as he has a chance to do so."

Tucker is also on the hook for a $1.3 billion penalty arising from a civil case brought against him by the Federal Trade Commission. Tucker is appealing the FTC case, and has said he plans to appeal his criminal conviction.

Tucker was also charged last month in Kansas, along with Shawnee attorney Brett Chapin, for filing a false tax return that did not reflect more than $100 million in income that Tucker made through his businesses.

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Payday lender Scott Tucker gets 16 years, 8 months in prison for $2 billion ripoff scheme

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Scott Tucker, Leawood payday loan businessman and professional race car driver, was taken into custody immediately after receiving a 16 year, 8 month prison sentence for a lending scheme that prosecutors said ripped off 4.5 million customers. His attorney, Tim Muir, received a seven year sentence.