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Atlanta women charged for putting her sons in oven.

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.

Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday.

A third boy, 3-year-old Jameel Penn Jr., was found unharmed.

Williams waived a court appearance Monday and was denied bail.

The father of all three children, Jameel Penn, says Williams called him by video chat Friday night to tell him his children were dead. Penn says he called police after seeing his sons on the floor.

Williams' sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth, says Williams should be put on suicide watch in the Fulton County jail.

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Atlanta mom charged with murder after allegedly putting 2 young sons in oven

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on. Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m.

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Good Samaritan arrested and jailed for having crystal meth in his car that turned out to be flakes from a doughnut: Wait, what? This all happened in one day to Daniel Rushing in Orlando in December 2015, and NPR reports the 65-year-old now has a $37,500 settlement from the city after he sued them.

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Good Samaritan takes a friend to chemo: check. Good Samaritan drives a fellow churchgoer home: check. Good Samaritan arrested and jailed for having crystal meth in his car that turned out to be flakes from a doughnut: Wait, what? This all happened in one day to Daniel Rushing in Orlando in December 2015, and NPR reports the 65-year-old now has a $37,500 settlement from the city after he sued them.

Rushing was leaving a 7-Eleven (one being monitored by cops for drug activity, per the Orlando Sentinel) with his church friend when he was pulled over for speeding and another minor infraction; the police officer noticed he had a concealed-weapons permit, confirmed he had a pistol on him, and asked him to step out of the car.

He agreed to let his car be searched, and when officers spotted crystals on the floor and tested them, they came up positive for methamphetamine. "I've never even smoked a cigarette!" he told cops, explaining it was just Krispy Kreme residue, but he was arrested on charges of meth possession while armed and thrown in jail, where he sat for 10 hours before making bail.

NPR reports that the cheap drug-testing kits that law enforcement rely on in the field are often inaccurate: A 2016 ProPublica-New York Times probe found false positives often emerge from these kits, with 21% of evidence wrongly determined by Florida cops to be meth.

The results of these kits can be marred by everything from weather to human error. In Rushing's case, the cops weren't trained correctly in using the kits, per WHAS.

Rushing has no hard feelings and says his goal now is to get his arrest wiped: He's trying to get security work and having a hard time due to his record.

(More on that ProPublica investigation here.)

This article originally appeared on Newser: He Ate a Krispy Kreme in His Car. Now He's $37K Richer

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Good Samaritan takes a friend to chemo: check. Good Samaritan drives a fellow churchgoer home: check. Good Samaritan arrested and jailed for having crystal meth in his car that turned out to be flakes from a doughnut: Wait, what?

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A mother in Atlanta, who was 24 years old, was charged with murder of two of her sons, ages of 1 year old and 2. She allegedly killed two of her sons by putting them in the oven and turning it on. She says she left the children in the care of relatives, but her husband said she called him by video, showing her two sons dead. A third son was found unharmed.

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on.

Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday.

A third boy, 3-year-old Jameel Penn Jr., was found unharmed.

Williams waived a court appearance Monday and was denied bail.

The father of all three children, Jameel Penn, says Williams called him by video chat Friday night to tell him his children were dead. Penn says he called police after seeing his sons on the floor.

Williams' sister, Tabitha Hollingsworth, says Williams should be put on suicide watch in the Fulton County jail.

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Atlanta mom charged with murder after allegedly putting 2 young sons in oven

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A warrant says an Atlanta woman put her two young sons in an oven and turned it on. Local media reported Monday that the warrant charging Lamora Williams with murder in the deaths of 1-year-old son Ja'Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke-Yaunte Penn says she put them in the oven sometime between midnight Thursday and 11 p.m.

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Hillary Clinton has said that she won't run again in 2020 because she feels that not running would amplify her voice when she criticizes Trump.

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Hillary Clinton has reiterated, yet again, that she is not going to run for president a third time, despite President Donald Trump's latest urging that she do so.

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During an interview that aired today with BBC Radio 4 in the U.K., Clinton was asked whether she will make another run for the White House and she said, "No, I'm not going to run again."

She maintained that she will continue to monitor and criticize Trump, saying she believes her voice will "be magnified because I am not running."

This is not the first time she has said she will not make a third presidential bid, but this latest rebuttal comes after Trump said he would like to run against her again.

"Oh, I hope Hillary runs," he said during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden Monday afternoon. "Is she going to run? I hope. Hillary, please run again."

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He had tweeted a similar sentiment earlier in the day. "I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, 'I hope so!'" he wrote Monday morning.

Trump won the White House with 306 Electoral College votes to Clinton's 232, while she won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.

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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment."

Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly's disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to "such an extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s - and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense.

He pointed to large-scale military exercises every year using "nuclear assets" and said what is more dangerous is what he called a U.S. plan to stage a "secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership."

This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its "state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets."

"The entire U.S. mainland is within our firing range and if the U.S. dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe," he warned.

Kim's speech follows escalating threats between North Korea and the United States, and increasingly tough U.N. sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his country is curtailing economic, scientific and other ties with North Korea in line with U.N. sanctions, and the European Union announced new sanctions on Pyongyang for developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the North Korean crisis "will continue until the first bomb drops." His commitment to diplomacy came despite President Donald Trump's tweets several weeks ago that his chief envoy was "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom he derisively referred to as "Little Rocket Man."

North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador called his country's nuclear and missile arsenal "a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything."

"Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the U.S. is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table under any circumstances," Kim said.

He told the disarmament committee that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - North Korea's official name - had hoped for a nuclear-free world.

Instead, Kim said, all nuclear states are accelerating the modernization of their weapons and "reviving a nuclear arms race reminiscent of (the) Cold War era." He noted that the nuclear weapon states, including the United States, boycotted negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that was approved in July by 122 countries at the United Nations.

"The DPRK consistently supports the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the efforts for denuclearization of the entire world," he said. But as long as the United States rejects the treaty and "constantly threatens and blackmails the DPRK with nuclear weapons ... the DPRK is not in position to accede to the treaty."

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North Korea says 'a nuclear war may break out any moment'

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North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment."Kim In Ryong told the U.N.

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year's deficit means the projects have lost a combined £40.5 million ($53 million) since Trump acquired them, and the president continues to provide financial support.

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President Trump's businesses in Scotland are losing huge amounts of money.

Trump has two golf resorts in the country -- one near Aberdeen and the other at Turnberry. Their combined losses nearly doubled to £19 million ($25 million) in 2016, according to accounts filed in the U.K.

Trump resigned as director of the Scottish companies before his inauguration in January 2017, but remains the owner via a trust set up when he became president. His son Eric is a director of both resorts.

Trump valued each of the resorts at "over $50 million" in a disclosure form published in June by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

However, last year's deficit means the projects have lost a combined £40.5 million ($53 million) since Trump acquired them, and the president continues to provide financial support.

He has supplied both businesses with huge loans: at the end of 2016 they owed him £152.5 million ($200 million).

Officials at the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

Related: Trump reports hundreds of millions in income

The Trump Turnberry resort in southwest Scotland lost £17.6 million ($23.1 million) in 2016, a sharp increase from losses of £8.4 million ($11.3 million) in 2015.

The resort was closed for six months of renovations in 2016. In June, Eric Trump unveiled a new layout for the resort's "King Robert the Bruce" course.

His father purchased the resort in 2014 -- that year it lost £3.6 million ($4.8 million).

Asked about the losses, Turnberry general manager Ralph Porciani told CNNMoney Monday that business has been "fantastic" over the past two years.

"I've been here for 13 years and I've never been this busy," he said, adding that business had not slowed since Trump became president.

Related: Trump's Scottish golf plans face new obstacles after Charlottesville

Trump's second resort in Scotland -- Trump International Golf Links -- reported a loss of £1.4 million ($1.8 million) in 2016.

Trump built the resort near Aberdeen from scratch after purchasing the land in 2006. Financial statements show that it lost nearly £11 million ($14.4 million) between 2006 and 2016.

The resort has also been the subject of environmental and political controversies.

Almost 95,000 people have signed a petition opposing plans to expand the course, which would include the addition of a second 18-hole course.

A decision from local authorities is due later this year on the proposed expansion.

Trump refused to sell his business holdings as president, as experts in government ethics urged him to do. Instead, he transferred them into a trust in his name. Any business profits will ultimately accrue to him when he leaves office.

Trump businesses have become lightning rods for protest since he became president.

A flurry of charities canceled events at his Mar-a-Lago club after he equated white supremacists with counterprotesters following violent clashes in Charlottesville.

CNNMoney (London) First published October 9, 2017: 8:17 AM ET

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Trump has two golf resorts in the country -- one near Aberdeen and the other at Turnberry. Their combined losses nearly doubled to £19 million ($25 million) in 2016, according to accounts filed in the U.K. Trump resigned as director of the Scottish companies before his inauguration in January 2017, but remains the owner via a trust set up when he became president.

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Cher and Meryl Street are starring in Mama Mia 2

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Cher announced over the weekend in several tweets that she has been cast in "Mama Mia! Here We Go Again," the sequel to the hit 2008 film, "Mama Mia!"

Details on Cher's character still remain a mystery but she did tell fans on Twitter that "her look is amazing, not like anything I've done & she's a pistol." She also gave her followers a glimpse of her sky-high platform boots.

This also marks a reunion for Cher and Meryl Streep, both of whom co-starred in the the 1983 film, "Silkwood." Streep played Donna Sheridan in 2008's "Mamma Mia!" and she will be reprising her role for the 2018 sequel.

Cher's last film, also a musical, was "Burlesque" in 2010.

CNN has reached out to Universal Pictures to confirm Cher's role in the sequel.

"Mama Mia! Here We Go Again" hits theaters next summer.

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The Tennessee Historical Commission has rejected a request from Memphis officials to remove a 112-year-old bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. City officials plan to appeal the decision within 60 days.

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The Tennessee Historical Commission has rejected a request from Memphis officials to remove a 112-year-old bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park.

After almost two hours of discussion, the 29 commission members voted down a measure that would have given Memphis a waiver to remove the statue. City officials plan to appeal the decision within 60 days.

"We demand that immediate action is taken. These statues can no longer stand and represent inaccurate history," Tamera Sawyer with Take Em Down 901, an activist group calling for the monument's removal, told the Commission during the meeting.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT REMOVAL COSTS PILING UP FOR CITIES
While denying the city's request, the commission approved another proposal allowing the city to obtain a legal order that could bypass the commission.

The former Confederate general was chosen to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in 1867, although he later renounced the group.

Communities across the country have been grappling with whether to remove Confederate statues and symbols following a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that resulted in the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer. The August protest prompted a number of munipalities across the country to take down Confederate monuments.

But Memphis has been trying to take down the Forrest statute for years - to no avail.

Memphis city council members voted to take it down in August 2015, according to the Memphis Appeal. A year later, state lawmakers tightened preservation rules and required any city that wants to take down or "disturb" a historical military figure obtain a waiver from the Tennessee Historic Commission. The commission then strengthened its powers to give itself the ability to deny a waiver.

But Memphis is trying to fight those rules because it filed a waiver before the state law went into effect, so it believes it should be grandfathered in to the prior rules.

The council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a measure that would call for immediate removal, a move that, without state approval, would violate the law, City Attorney Bruce McMullen told the Commercial Appeal.
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The Commercial Appeal reports that Council chairman Berlin Boyd said the council will explore all options to remove the statue before MLK50 in 2018, the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while he was planning a demonstration in Washington, D.C.

"Memphis is a different city than it was 100 years ago and I think some of what the statue tends to perpetuate is the notion of the old South rising again," former National Civil Rights Museum president Beverly Robertson said after the meeting. "So I don't think it paints a true picture of the Memphis that we are now."

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The Tennessee Historical Commission has rejected a request from Memphis officials to remove a 112-year-old bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. After almost two hours of discussion, the 29 commission members voted down a measure that would have given Memphis a waiver to remove the statue.

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The Super Bowl of Chinese politics takes place this week

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This week Beijing marks the opening of China's most important political event: the 19th Communist Party Congress. This gathering, held every five years, brings together China's top Communist Party members and the country's top leaders. It is the Super Bowl of Chinese politics, if the the Super Bowl is played largely behind closed doors.

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Presiding over the proceedings is Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party - a title that is more influential domestically than the "president" title he is associated with abroad.

Xi's unprecedented and ruthless anti-corruption campaign affected over 1.3 million officials, and he holds unquestionable sway over his party. He has strengthened the Communist Party's influence in the Chinese government to an extent not seen in almost 40 years.

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Xi is all but certain to be nominated by his fellow members for a second five-year term, consolidating his position as the most powerful Chinese leader in generations. He joins the pantheon of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

What is the Party Congress?

The Communist Party technically provides guidance and direction to China's government: the State Council. The party uses these gatherings to discuss and approve the party's long-term goals as well appoint top leadership. This is the 19th nation-wide Congress held by the Chinese Communist Party since its founding in 1921.

The gathering has been used in recent history to reshuffle and announce the party's leadership transition. More than 2,000 party members will meet to elect 205 of its members to the Central Committee and at least 11 new members into the 25-seat Politburo. Party members will also decide who gets to a seat in the inner sanctum of party power: the Politburo Standing Committee. This is the top decision-making body in China and is made up of five to nine members.

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For example, after much of his adult life in local-level politics, Xi Jinping was first elevated on to the national stage at the 16th Party Congress in 2002 and then elected into the Standing Committee in 2007 during the 17th Party Congress, marking him a next generation top leader. Then at the 18th Party Congress, he successfully rose to the top in an opaque jockeying process. 2012 was famously known as one of the most tumultuous years in party politics, but you would have hardly known observing from the outside.

What to expect this week

Xi will open the Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People with a "work report" - a speech recapping the achievements of the party under his leadership over the past five years. He will also lay out out his vision and priorities for the next five years and possibly beyond. Then much of the proceeding will retreat behind closed doors. The party is expected to amend its charter to include Xi Jinping by name, alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, who opened up China's economy, enshrining Xi's place in history.

The Party Congress will run from Oct. 18 to Oct. 24. The "main event" for China watchers will likely take place on the morning of Oct. 25: the lineup of the Politburo Standing Committee. Members of the committee will be unveiled to the public one by one, in the order of seniority, starting with Xi and then followed, most likely but not certain, by current Premier Li Keqiang. Only Xi's place is secure.

Will Xi elevate a potential successor?

Xi was seen as the next leader-in-waiting exactly 10 years ago. Will he do the same for an appointed successor? If, by the end of the Congress, there is no clear rising star among the ranks of the Standing Committee, it may signal that Xi intends on staying beyond the unofficial retirement age of 68. Xi will be 69 at the next Party Congress in 2022.

Will Wang Qishan stay on?

Wang is a current member of the Standing Committee, Xi's longtime friend, and most importantly, Xi's anti-corruption czar who spearheaded his relentless campaign. Wang is 69 years old and beyond the unofficial retirement age for a Chinese official Because it's unofficial, Xi could opt to break this rule and thus pave a precedent for himself in 2022.

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Where will Xi take China?

If Xi's first term was about consolidating power within the party and instituting an aggressive and active foreign policy, where will he take the country once he's got his allies on board? When Xi came to power, it was hoped that he would tackle much needed economic and social reforms in the face of a slowing and changing Chinese economy. That, however, has taken backseat to Xi's power grab. The stewardship of Chinese economy is seen as Xi's most pressing challenge in his second term. It will underpin the very legitimacy of the party and no amount of nationalistic fervor can distract from that for very long.

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Google doodle honors Selena Quintanilla, a Tejano singer who was murdered in 1995.

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Fans of slain Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla know October 17 is a special day.

That was the date in 1989 when her first studio album "Selena" debuted.

Four more albums would come later, including the posthumous "Dreaming of You" which was released after the singer was shot and killed at age 23 by her former employee Yolanda Saldívar on March 31, 1995.

Google's latest Doodle pays tribute to Quintanilla, who was professionally known as "Selena."

The Google Doodle's animated video tells her story, from childhood to stardom, and features Selena singing her hit single "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom."

Google often alters the logo on its homepage to celebrate holidays, people, events and achievements. Recent Google Doodles have include tributes to visual artist Oskar Fischinger, African American singer Josephine Baker and the Rubix Cube.

Perla Campos, Global Marketing Lead for Google Doodles and project manager for the Selena Google Doodle, told Billboard she idolized the Mexican-American singer growing up.

"I grew up as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant single mom living in a small (primarily white) town outside of Fort Worth, Texas," Campos said. "There were always two women who taught me I could do anything and be anything I set my mind to: my mom and Selena. Selena has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember."

Related: Singer Selena's brother on Texas most wanted list

Campos said she and her team worked with the late singer's family for two years to ensure that the Doodle told the story accurately.

"The little details I gave...that Selena had red nail polish on instead of bright pink," her sister, Suzette Quintanilla, told Billboard. "That she had hoop earrings. They even put red on the microphone the way she used to have it."

The family also helped create a special collection of Selena content as part of Google's Online Arts & Culture Exhibit. The collection includes art work, fashion and some of the late singer's favorite items.

Known as the "Queen of Tejano," Quintanilla has become even more famous in death. Fans frequently flock to her grave site in Corpus Christ, Texas.

Her life and subsequent murder were the subject of the 1997 biographical film "Selena" starring Jennifer Lopez, which has become a cult classic for fans.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 17, 2017: 11:53 AM ET

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The bill, SB179, makes California the first state in the country to offer the nonbinary option for people who want their documents to match their gender identity. While most recent bills that Brown, a Democrat, signed will go into effect January 1, 2018, this bill will take effect a year later.

"Nonbinary" is the umbrella term for people who do not consider themselves either female or male.

The law also will allow people to be able to change their gender identity on their birth certificates.

In July, Oregon became the first state to allow people to mark their gender as "not specified" on driver's licenses and identity cards. Instead of a M or F for male or female, Oregon's licenses have an X.

"I want to thank Governor Brown for recognizing how difficult it can be for our transgender, nonbinary and intersex family members, friends and neighbors when they don't have an ID that matches their gender presentation," Democratic state Sen. Toni Atkins, who helped author the bill, said in a statement. "I have dear friends in San Diego and around the state who have been waiting a long time for this."

Not everyone in the state supported the bill. The conservative California Family Council opposed it, telling SFGate that the legislation "advances a lie; that being male or female, or no gender at all, is a choice each person has a right to make."

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Tina Frost has taken her first steps since being shot in the head at the Las Vegas mass shooting

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Less than two weeks after a gunshot wound to the head, Tina Frost is recovering. Over the weekend, the 27-year-old took her first steps since the Las Vegas shooting.

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An AirAsia flight dropped from 34,00 to 10,00 feet due to technical difficulties. The passengers reported that the crew panicking made the passengers panic as well, and that if the crew hadn't screamed, the plane would've stayed calm.

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Passengers aboard an AirAsia flight have criticized the flight crew for allegedly screaming as the plane plummeted, following an apparent pressurization issue in the cabin.

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Last Friday, the Summit Tigers defeated the Lees Summit West Titans by a score of 20-17. The Tigers were led by future High School Football Hall of Fame coach, Ty kohl, whose defense made a crucial stop during overtime and forced the Titans to settle for a field goal. Later the Tigers scored the game winning touchdown on a running play.

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Kaepernick had started the National Anthem protests that are now going on in the NFL. He hasn't been signed by a team since. If the arbitrator hearing the case decides in Kaepernick's favor, he stands to win millions in lost wages and damages.

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Colin Kaepernick isn't playing this season, and that's costing him millions.

Kaepernick had started the National Anthem protests that are now roiling the NFL. He hasn't been signed by a team since. In a grievance filed against the league, he alleges that NFL teams colluded not to sign him due to his controversial protest.

Whether he isn't playing because of his politics or his playing ability is debatable. But the fact is, Kaepernick made $14.3 million with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. The contract would have paid him $16.9 million this season. But when it looked like he would be cutbefore he got that money, he became a free agent.

Kaepernick had good reason to believe he'd get signed by another team. Although the 49ers lost 10of the11 of the games he started last year, he threw 16 touchdowns and only four interceptions -- a very respectable record.

There were no offers.

If the arbitrator hearing the case decides in Kaepernick's favor, he stands to win millions in lost wages and damages.

It's hard to say just how much he could have earned this season.

"I'd say that $10 million is about what quarterbacks who are thought to be on the downside of their careers are getting," said Michael Ginnitti, managing editor of Spotrac, which tracks player salaries.

That's what quarterbackJay Cutler agreed to when he came out of retirement and signed a one-year deal with Miami. Tyrod Taylor signed a $30.5 million, two-year extension with Buffalo, but only half that money was guaranteed.

Related: NFL Commissioner - 'We need to move past this controversy'

Kaepernick's collusion complaint points out he never even got an offer to be a backup. A deal like that would have meant a big pay cut. But there are former starting quarterbacks, including Colt McCoy and Ryan Fitzpatrick, who agreed to deals worth about $3 million a year to be backups this season.

Kaepernick has already missed six weeks of a 17-week season, so even if he signed with a team now, he'd be looking at only about two-thirds of a full-year contract.

The absolute minimum for a veteran like Kaepernick to play the rest of this year would be about $500,000, under the collective bargaining agreement.

Kaepernick's complaint will be heard by an independent arbitrator, but collusion can be difficult to prove.

The agreement between the NFL and the players union specifically statesthatsimply presenting evidence of a player's skills, and the lack of offers from teams, is not enough to meet the "burden of proof" needed to prove collusion.

Related: NFL No fines for teams that skilled National Anthem

It will help Kaerpnick's case if his lawyers find emails between clubs, or between the clubs and the league office, that show they discussed whether to sign him. But that kind of evidence isn't necessary to win, said Gene Orza, who was the chief counsel for the baseball players union when it won a massive $280 million case against Major League Baseball after teams stopped signing free agents in the late 1980s.

"A smoking gun was not the basis of that decision. Instead it was simply the inference of collusion, that all of sudden not one player who was a free agent was getting an offer," Orza told CNNMoney on Monday.

But it's tougher to prove collusion in the case of a single player, rather than with a series of players who don't get contract offers.

Barry Bonds also filed a collusion case against the league when didn't get a single offer back in 2007. But it was widely believed that the allegations he used steroids made him too toxic for a team to sign, and he lost his case.

"The better analogy might be the Bonds case and not be the free agent collusion case," said Orza. "And if that's the case, it is problematic for Kaepernick."

If each team decided independently that Kaepernick is too controversial to sign, without communicating about it with each other or the league office, then there would be no collusion.

"It's a very tough case," said CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. "Picking quarterbacks is a very subjective process. And collusion requires not one team rejecting Kaepernick, it requires agreements between two or more teams. And that is very difficult to prove, even though all of us who are football fans know intuitively that Kaepernick is better than a lot of the quarterbacks who have been hired."

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 17, 2017: 12:15 AM ET

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How much could Colin Kaepernick win in his collusion case against the NFL?

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Kaepernick had started the National Anthem protests that are now roiling the NFL. He hasn't been signed by a team since. In a grievance filed against the league, he alleges that NFL teams colluded not to sign him due to his controversial protest. Whether he isn't playing because of his politics or his playing ability is debatable.

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A drone crashed into a passenger plane in Canada. According to Canadian government this is the first time an incident like this has happened.

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A drone crashed into a commercial airplane in Canada, the first time such an incident has occurred in the country, the government said Sunday.

A plane operated by charter airline Skyjet was approaching Quebec City's Jean Lesage International Airport on Thursday when a drone struck one of its wings, according to local media reports. There were six passengers and two crew members aboard the plane.

"I am extremely relieved that the aircraft only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely," Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement Sunday.

Based in Quebec, Skyjetoperates a fleet of small twin-engine aircraft, according to its website. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.

Related: Drone's operator detained for flying near Chinese airplane

The rapidly growing use of drones by consumers around the world has led to an upswing in the number of encounters between the remote-controlled devices and planes. Transportation authorities have been trying to come up with rules to avoid a disaster.

Earlier this year, Canada announced safety measures making it illegal to fly recreational drones within 5.5 kilometers (3.5 miles) of an airport, and restricting the height of a drone's flight to 90 meters (about 300 feet). Punishment for breaking the regulations can include a fine of as much as 25,000 Canadian dollars ($20,000) and a prison sentence.

The drone that struck the passenger plane last week was following the 3.5-mile restriction, but was flying much higher than legally allowed, hovering some 450 meters (1,500 feet) above the ground.

"If a drone were to hit the window of a cockpit and incapacitate the pilot, or were to damage in anyway an engine, this could have catastrophic results," Garneau said at a news conference.

Related: Dubai deploys a 'drone hunter' to keep its airport open

A commercial drone flew dangerously close to a passenger plane in China earlier this year, prompting authorities to detain the drone's pilot. In the U.K., the pilot of a British Airways flight said a drone struck the front of the aircraft during its approach to Heathrow airport last year.

Dubai's airport last year said it was carrying out trials of a "drone hunter" -- a remote-controlled aircraft to detect drones that are in danger of straying into the airport's space -- after unauthorized drone activity forced the airport, the third busiest in the world, to shut down several times.

In Canada, officials say that of the roughly 1,600 drone incidents reported to authorities so far this year, 131 posed a threat to aviation safety.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published October 16, 2017: 2:02 AM ET

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Plagues are breaking out in Madagascar. So far, there are 58 deaths and over 680 cases. The diseases included are  pneumonic plague, bubonic plague, and 1 case of septicemic.

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The latest figures are from October 12. An estimated 329 of these cases, and 25 deaths, were in the capital, Antananarivo.

The cases, reported by both the World Health Organization ( WHO) and the National Bureau for Risk and Disaster Management ( BNGRC) in Madagascar, include probable and suspected cases as well those that have been confirmed by laboratory tests.

While the country experiences regular outbreaks, with an estimated 400 cases of plague each year, this time things are very different, experts warn.

This year, health officials report the infections started much earlier than usual, and they're occurring in new areas, including urban settings. They've also seen an unexpected number of cases of pneumonic plague, which transmits more easily from person to person.

Of the 684 cases reported as of October 12, 474 were pneumonic plague, 156 bubonic and 1 septicemic plague. A further 54 were unspecified, according to WHO.

Of Madagascar's 114 districts, 35 have reported cases of plague, including at least 10 cities.

Plague is caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is typically spread through the bite of infected fleas, frequently carried by rats, causing bubonic plague. Symptoms include painful, swollen lymph nodes, called bubos, as well as fever, chills and coughing.

Pneumonic plague is more virulent or damaging and is an advanced form characterized by a severe lung infection. The infection can be transmitted from person to person via airborne droplets -- coughing or sneezing. The incubation period is short, and an infected person may die within 12 to 24 hours.

Both forms can be treated with antibiotics, making early detection a priority.

Occasionally there can be cases of septicemic plague, where the infection has spread to a person's bloodstream and can cause bleeding and necrosis of tissue, turning it black.

The government has mobilized resources to spray schools and other public places to fight fleas and rodents and curb the spread of infection. People have also been lining up at pharmacies in the capital -- some wearing face masks -- to get medications or protection.

To further reduce the spread of the disease, public schools are closed and the government has forbidden public gatherings, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC).

International control effort

"The international community is taking this very seriously," said Daniel Bausch, director of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team. Launched in 2016, this team consists of clinicians, scientists and academics deployed to tackle outbreaks of disease around the world within 48 hours.

An international response is being mustered to support the Madagascar Ministry of Public Health, with contributions from the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, WHO, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), the Institute Pasteur and many others, said Bausch.

WHO delivered more than 1.2 million doses of antibiotics and released $1.5 million in emergency funds earlier this month.

The Red Cross has released more than $1 million to deploy a treatment center and has mobilized more than 1,000 volunteers and is upgrading their skills on community surveillance, finding and monitoring people who have been in contact with infected patients and insightful messaging to stop the spread of this disease.

The treatment center will "take the pressure off the hospitals and clinics so they can handle other issues," an IFRC spokesperson told CNN. "Pneumonic plague can be controlled, so it's really about scaling up treatment and community awareness." The size and location of the center is yet to be confirmed.

The IFRC further stressed the importance of getting local communities in Madagascar to understand the differences in this year's outbreak, as they are used to outbreaks of bubonic plague, spread by rats and fleas, rather than humans.

Why things escalated this year

Though the country is endemic for the plague, the surprising occurrence of cases in cities as well as them presenting earlier than usual meant health authorities weren't ready -- fueling a rapid spread of the disease, according to Dr. Charlotte Ndiaye, WHO representative in Madagascar.

Typically, outbreaks occur during the rainy season, between November and March. "The rains drive the rodents out," said Bausch, which also explains why cases are usually the bubonic form.

But this year, cases began three months early, in August.

The outbreak began after the death of a man in the central highlands of the country -- a plague-endemic area -- after which the Ministry of Public Health began investigating and tracing his contacts, according to the WHO.

In late September, a man from the Seychelles -- who was in Madagascar to take part in the Indian Ocean Club Championship basketball tournament -- died in a hospital from pneumonic plague. Health officials are urgently tracing individuals who had contact with the man and have started an investigation into the case.

Going up before coming down

"There is still considerable risk of national spread within Madagascar," said Bausch.

Ndiaye agreed more cases are likely to be reported. "We expect there to be a further increase, in part because surveillance has improved and therefore health authorities will receive reports of more cases from more areas," she said.

"We don't have estimations on what is expected," Ndiaye told CNN, adding that everything is now in place to treat people, provide drugs and trace contacts.

"The problem in Madagascar is we have 25 million people and it's a very big island," she said.

'Low risk of international spread'

While experts predict the number of cases will rise in the coming weeks within Madagascar, there is only a moderate risk of spread within the region -- likely to be isolated cases -- and a low risk internationally, said Bausch.

Ndiaye agreed that "the risk of international spread is low, because generally, people with plague are too sick to travel."

She explained that WHO is working closely with Madagascar's airport authorities to ensure sanitary measures -- such as temperature checks and medical teams -- are in place at airports and ports to prevent the spread of infection outside the country. The group is also working closely with neighboring countries.

Travel and trade restrictions have not been advised.

It's "important to recognize that, unlike Ebola, plague is easily treated with antibiotics," said Bausch. "With very good outcomes, as long as detected and treated early."

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California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will allow state residents who do not identify as male or female to have a third option on driver's licenses and birth certificates.

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The bill, SB179, makes California the first state in the country to offer the nonbinary option for people who want their documents to match their gender identity. While most recent bills that Brown, a Democrat, signed will go into effect January 1, 2018, this bill will take effect a year later.

"Nonbinary" is the umbrella term for people who do not consider themselves either female or male.

The law also will allow people to be able to change their gender identity on their birth certificates.

In July, Oregon became the first state to allow people to mark their gender as "not specified" on driver's licenses and identity cards. Instead of a M or F for male or female, Oregon's licenses have an X.

"I want to thank Governor Brown for recognizing how difficult it can be for our transgender, nonbinary and intersex family members, friends and neighbors when they don't have an ID that matches their gender presentation," Democratic state Sen. Toni Atkins, who helped author the bill, said in a statement. "I have dear friends in San Diego and around the state who have been waiting a long time for this."

Not everyone in the state supported the bill. The conservative California Family Council opposed it, telling SFGate that the legislation "advances a lie; that being male or female, or no gender at all, is a choice each person has a right to make."

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The bill, SB179, makes California the first state in the country to offer the nonbinary option for people who want their documents to match their gender identity. While most recent bills that Brown, a Democrat, signed will go into effect January 1, 2018, this bill will take effect a year later.

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A stray dog crashed a wedding and ended up finding a forever home. During the wedding, "Snoop", kept on coming in and out of the tent that the ceremony was being held in. He finally came in and ended up lying on the bride's veil to take a nap.

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Stray Dog Crashes A Wedding And Finds His Own Happily Ever After

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Wedding crashers can often be unwelcome and obnoxious freeloaders. But that was not the case with this one.

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Alex Smith’s evaluation of 1st loss: ‘Self-inflicted’ — ‘Didn’t execute fundamentals

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Sports | FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports

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LENEXA, Kan. - The home of the Kansas City Royals won't be the same. Over the weekend, word broke that a celebrated mascot and fan favorite was fired from his job with the Royals as the season began. The face of "KayCee" was a familiar one during the Royals' recent run to glory.

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Coolest thing all year. It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created.

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It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created.

Forbes estimated that the collision created an estimated $10 octillion in gold, which is $10 billion, billion, billion.

What they witnessed in mid-August and revealed Monday was the long-ago collision of two neutron stars - a phenomenon California Institute of Technology's David H. Reitze called "the most spectacular fireworks in the universe."

The crash happened 130 million years ago, while dinosaurs still roamed on Earth, but the signal didn't arrive on Earth until Aug. 17 after traveling 130 million light-years. A light-year is 5.88 trillion miles.

"We already knew that iron came from a stellar explosion, the calcium in your bones came from stars and now we know the gold in your wedding ring came from merging neutron stars," said University of California Santa Cruz's Ryan Foley.

Measurements of the light and other energy emanating from the crash have helped scientists explain how planet-killing gamma ray bursts are born, how fast the universe is expanding, and where heavy elements like platinum and gold come from.

"This is getting everything you wish for," said Syracuse University physics professor Duncan Brown, one of more than 4,000 scientists involved in the blitz of science that the crash kicked off. "This is our fantasy observation."

It started in a galaxy called NGC 4993, seen from Earth in the Hydra constellation. Two neutron stars, collapsed cores of stars so dense that a teaspoon of their matter would weigh 1 billion tons, danced ever faster and closer together until they collided, said Carnegie Institution astronomer Maria Drout.

The crash, called a kilonova, generated a fierce burst of gamma rays and a gravitational wave, a faint ripple in the fabric of space and time, first theorized by Albert Einstein.

"This is like a cosmic atom smasher at a scale far beyond humans would be capable of building," said Andy Howell, a staff scientist at the Las Cumbres Observatory. "We finally now know what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object and it's a kilonova."

Signals were picked up within 1.7 seconds of each other, by NASA's Fermi telescope, which detects gamma rays, and gravity wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington state that are a part of the LIGO Laboratory , whose founders won a Nobel Prize earlier this month. A worldwide alert went out to focus telescopes on what became the most well-observed astronomical event in history.

Before August, the only other gravity waves detected by LIGO were generated by colliding black holes. But black holes let no light escape, so astronomers could see nothing.

This time there was plenty to see, measure and analyze: matter, light, and other radiation. The Hubble Space Telescope even got a snapshot of the afterglow.

Finding where the crash happened wasn't easy. Eventually scientists narrowed the location down to 100 galaxies, began a closer search of those, and found it in the ninth galaxy they looked at.

It is like "the classic challenge of finding a needle in the haystack with the added challenge that the needle is fading away and the haystack is moving," said Marcelle Soares-Santos, an astrophysicist at Brandeis University.

"The completeness of this picture from the beginning to the end is unprecedented," said Columbia University physics professor Szabolcs Marka. "There are many, many extraordinary discoveries within the discovery."

The colliding stars spewed bright blue, super-hot debris that was dense and unstable. Some of it coalesced into heavy elements, like gold, platinum and uranium. Scientists had suspected neutron star collisions had enough power to create heavier elements, but weren't certain until they witnessed it.

"We see the gold being formed," said Syracuse's Brown.

Calculations from a telescope measuring ultraviolet light showed that the combined mass of the heavy elements from this explosion is 1,300 times the mass of Earth. And all that stuff - including lighter elements - was thrown out in all different directions and is now speeding across the universe.

Perhaps one day the material will clump together into planets the way ours was formed, Reitze said - maybe ones with rich veins of precious metals.

The crash also helped explain the origins of one of the most dangerous forces of the cosmos - short gamma ray bursts, focused beams of radiation that could erase life on any planet that happened to get in the way. These bursts shoot out in two different directions perpendicular to where the two neutron stars first crash, Reitze said.

Luckily for us, the beams of gamma rays were not focused on Earth and were generated too far away to be a threat, he said.

Scientists knew that the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang. By using LIGO to measure gravitational waves while watching this event unfold, researchers came up with a new estimate for how fast that is happening, the so-called Hubble Constant. Before this, scientists came up with two slightly different answers using different techniques. The rough figure that came out of this event is between the original two, Reitze said.

The first optical images showed a bright blue dot that was very hot, which was likely the start of the heavy element creation process amid the neutron star debris, Drout said. After a day or two that blue faded, becoming much fainter and redder. And after three weeks it was completely gone, she said.

This almost didn't happen. Eight days after the signal came through, the LIGO gravitational waves were shut down for a year's worth of planned upgrades. A month later the whole area where the crash happened would have been blocked from astronomers' prying eyes by the sun.

Scientists involved with the search for gravitational waves said this was the event they had prepared for over more than 20 years.

The findings are "of spectacular importance," said Penn State physicist Abhay Ashtekar, who wasn't part of the research. "This is really brand new."

Almost all of the discoveries confirmed existing theories, but had not been proven - an encouraging result for theorists who have been trying to explain what is happening in the cosmos, said France Cordova, an astrophysicist who directs the National Science Foundation.

"We so far have been unable to prove Einstein wrong," said Georgia Tech physics professor Laura Cadonati. "But we're going to keep trying."
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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