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The United States pledged $60 million on Monday to a new United Nations-backed anti terrorism force from five African countries. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson said "Defeating terrorism depends on making sure terrorist organizations cannot have safe havens on any continent." The 5,000 person force is made up of police officers and soldiers. Such an expensive pledge suggests America is evolving and hopefully changing for the better.

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With little government control, the region is regarded as a fertile haven for Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and their offshoots.

The Security Council unanimously endorsed the force in June but questions of how its $500 million annual cost will be financed have not been resolved. The European Union, which has committed about $58 million to the force, will convene a donor conference in December.

The United States, the biggest single financial contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations, has been seeking to cut their costs and had resisted proposals to commit peacekeeping resources to the five-nation Sahel force.

But the $60 million pledge suggested the American position may be evolving. It was announced less than four weeks after four American soldiers, including Special Forces members, were killed during a joint patrol with counterparts from Niger near the Mali border.

Ms. Haley said in her remarks about the Sahel force at the Security Council that "we understand the force will need ongoing support and are eager for opportunities to work with our partners to make this effort a successful one."

The American pledge was welcomed by France, which has taken the lead in Western backing for the Sahel force. France has strong post-colonial ties to all five of the African countries that contributed.

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, who led the Security Council meeting on Monday, told reporters afterward that he was "delighted by the statement of American support" and that it was "unquestionably an important development."

It remains unclear exactly how the force will coordinate actions with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, known as Minusma, one of the biggest and most dangerous peacekeeping operations in Africa with more than 14,000 personnel. Minusma peacekeepers have been attacked frequently by militants.

Mr. Le Drian said he was confident that "we will be able to refine the coordination between Minusma and the Joint Force, which is by its very nature a multilateral force."

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U.S. Pledges $60 Million for Antiterrorism Force in Africa

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With little government control, the region is regarded as a fertile haven for Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and their offshoots. The Security Council unanimously endorsed the force in June but questions of how its $500 million annual cost will be financed have not been resolved.

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A deadly plague outbreak in Madagascar has infected about 1,800 people so far, killing 127 of them. Health experts say the outbreak is going away as deaths and infections are dwindling.
The man they think triggered the outbreak who had Malaria, died. Schools were closed initially and 9 treatment centers were designated. Schools are staring to open back up now and things are slowly getting back to normal as plague season ends.

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The annual plague season typically peaks in December and lasts into April, but this year's outbreak was unusual. Cases are usually concentrated in the rice-farming central highlands and spread by flea bites, producing in victims the swollen lymph glands of bubonic plague.

This year, most cases were in cities and of the pneumonic variety, which is spread by coughing.

The island's director of health promotion, Dr. Manitra Rakotoarivony, said on local radio this week that there were "almost no more deaths," Agence France-Presse reported. Daily bulletins from the National Office for Risk and Disaster Management bore that out.

Health authorities in Madagascar initially closed all schools, sprayed insecticide for fleas and banned public gatherings. Nine treatment centers were designated.

At roadside checkpoints all over the country, newly trained health workers boarded buses and taxis with thermometers to test passengers for fever. (The price for an infrared thermometer soared as high as $70, the AFP said.)

In cities, checkpoints were set up at banks and other buildings with heavy foot traffic.

Although many East African and Indian Ocean nations went on the alert, the only country with a confirmed case from Madagascar was the Seychelles.

Some alarmist news reports have suggested that the plague's spread was driven by the Malagasy ritual of Famadihana, or the "turning of the bones."

Relatives remove the bodies of their ancestors from family crypts, wrap them in new shrouds, catch them up on family gossip and dance with them. It usually occurs from July to September.

But medical experts dismissed the idea. The disinterred corpses are usually those of ancestors who died at least seven years previously. The withered remains do not attract fleas and, obviously, cannot cough.

Transmission could occur between live humans at the ceremonies, but they are far smaller than the sporting events, concerts and other gatherings that were banned to prevent the outbreak from spreading.

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A month after an Islam ambush in Niger that killed eight U.S. and Nigerien troops, neither side can determine what happened to lead to the deaths. Four soldiers from the U.S. and four from Niger were killed on Oct. 4 by militants with machine guns and grenades. The U.S. and Niger officials are disagreeing on what happened during their missions. It is still unclear which side is telling the truth.

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Hurricane Irma went through Florida a few weeks ago and destroyed large portions of the state. They were left without power for a while and the citizens were losing hope. It eventually came back and the whole state rejoices. Though, they still have to fix the damages from the hurricane.

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Millions of Floridians grappled with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, confronting a sweltering reality: More than 40 percent of Florida still lacked electricity, and for some of them, the lights might not come back on for days or even weeks.

"We understand what it means to be in the dark," said Robert Gould, vice president and chief communications officer for Florida Power and Light (FPL), the state's largest utility. "We understand what it means to be hot and without air conditioning. We will be restoring power day and night."

But, he acknowledged: "This is going to be a very uncomfortable time."

Across the nation's third most-populous state, that discomfort played out in homes that were silent without the usual thrum of perpetual air-conditioning. It meant refrigerators were unable to cool milk, laundry machines were unable to clean clothes and, for the particularly young and old, potential danger in a state where the temperatures can range from warm to stifling.
[ Irma's final danger: Flooding in the Southeast ]
Even for those who had power, some also were struggling to maintain cellphone service or Internet access, sending Floridians into tree-riddled streets in an effort to spot a few precious bars of signal to contact loved ones.

"It's a mess, a real mess. The biggest issue is power," said Bill Barnett, mayor of Naples, on Florida's Gulf Coast. "We just need power. It's 92 degrees and the sun is out and it's smoking out there."

Utility companies made progress as they undertook a massive recovery effort, restoring power to some. At its peak, the Department of Homeland Security said about 15 million Floridians - an astonishing three out of four state residents - lacked power.

By early Wednesday, state officials gradually lowered the number of customers without power, dropping it to about 4.4 million from 6.5 million on Monday. Because each power company account can represent multiple people, the sheer number of residents without electricity was massive: Going by the Homeland Security estimates, at one point Irma had knocked out power to one out of every 22 Americans.

It would take some time before all of them had electricity again. Duke Energy Florida said it would restore power to most customers by Sunday, a week after Irma made its first landfall in Florida. Some harder-hit areas could take longer due to the rebuilding effort.

Gould said that FPL, which powers about half of the state, expected customers on Florida's East Coast to have power back by the end of the weekend. People in western Florida, closer to Irma's path, should have it back by Sept. 22. That estimate does not include places with severe flooding or tornado damage, he said, and those areas could also face a longer wait to be able to switch on the lights.

Floridians reacted to the outages eclectically. Some welcomed the absence of perpetual air-conditioners. Others flocked to their local malls for a respite from the heat.

"There's no power at home, so we might as well just stay here and stay cool," Amanda Brack, who was with her son, Gavin, said while walking through a Brookstone at the Galleria shopping mall in Fort Lauderdale.

Blake Deerhog had walked to the mall from his powerless and steamy apartment in nearby Victoria Park, trekking some 20 minutes in the stifling heat and humidity after he Googled and learned it would be open.

"This is definitely better than being back at my apartment," he said, adding that he planned to spend the afternoon there.
[ Florida Keys are battered but bouncing back ]
The outages also caused rising alarm in some places. Here in Cape Coral, an assisted care facility for patients with dementia and memory impairment that sheltered in place during the storm went without power for three days, as elderly patients suffered in the rising heat.

The southwest Florida facility, Cape Coral Shores, had 20 patients stay during the storm as part of an agreement with state and local officials because the emergency shelters it would normally use were both evacuated as Irma approached. Power at the facility went out, and it stayed out, even as homes and businesses all around it saw their lights come back on.

As the indoor temperature climbed to the mid-80s Wednesday morning, humidity made the hard-surfaced floors slick with condensation. Patients gathered in a small day room to catch a slight breeze from screened windows. A handful of small fans powered by a borrowed generator were all that kept the situation from devolving into a medical emergency, said Dan Nelson, Cape Coral Shores' chief operating officer.

"People here are fragile," Nelson said, adding that air-conditioning in such facilities is a medical necessity. "This is not just about comfort, it's about safety. We have magnet door locks that don't work, fire suppression equipment whose batteries have run out, assisted bed lifts that don't work. And the temperatures today and tomorrow are headed back to the mid-90s."

A state emergency official said Wednesday afternoon he had found a large generator and 50 gallons of gas for the facility, but there was no need: The power came back on.
[ Most of Florida lost power in Hurricane Irma. Here's what it looks like from space. ]
While the Sunshine State was the hardest hit by the outages, they extended to the other states Irma raked as it headed north. Hundreds of thousands lost power in the Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia, where at one point 800,000 were experiencing outages on Tuesday, though that number declined during the day.

The deteriorating storm once known as Hurricane Irma - classified Tuesday as a post-tropical cyclone - grazed onward through the Mississippi Valley, losing essentially all of its prior strength but still drenching some areas with rainfall.

Across the southeast, even as people acknowledged that they had dodged the worst possible hit from Irma, they were still left to contend with destroyed homes, flooded cities, swollen rivers, canceled flights and debris in the streets.

The city of Jacksonville, Fla., remained flooded after the St. Johns River overflowed so severely the day before that it forced residents from their homes. Charleston, S.C., city officials said the intense flooding there on Monday closed more than 111 roads, most of which had reopened Tuesday.

Authorities said they were investigating several fatalities that came since the storm made landfall, though it was not clear how many were directly due to the storm.

Among them were a 51-year-old man in Winter Park, Fla., outside Orlando, who police said was apparently electrocuted by a downed power line in a roadway. In Georgia, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said a 67-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on her car; the mayor of Sandy Springs said a 55-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on the bedroom where he was sleeping.

In other cases, fatal car crashes claimed lives as the storm loomed. And other dangers also lurked: Officials warned of the risks posed by the generators people have used since the storm knocked out power. The Daytona Beach Fire Department said Wednesday morning that one person was dead and three others taken to a hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator inside a home, and the department urged people to keep their generators outside.
[ Why Irma wasn't far worse ]
In Key West, it remained unclear when power, cellphone service or supplies would be available again.

"What you have on hand is rationed to make sure you can get through," said Todd Palenchar, 48, noting that his supplies of food and water are designed to last for a week. "You don't know how long it's going to be."

Palenchar said he is used to camping and roughing it, but his main concern right now is his property.
"I've already posted signs where I'm at, 'Looters will be shot, no questions asked,'" he said as he pulled up his shirt to reveal a .380 caliber pistol.

Monroe County said in a statement that no assessments had been done yet determining the percentage of damage or the cost in the Keys, with Monroe County Commissioner Heather Carruthers saying in a statement: "Things look real damaged from the air, but when you clear the trees and all the debris, it's not much damage to the houses."

As Irma tore through the Caribbean and approached the Keys last week, authorities had ordered millions in Florida to evacuate and, in some cases, ordered them to hit the road again as the storm's path wobbled. On Tuesday, officials slowly began letting those people return home.

In Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, and other places that let residents back, officials warned that many areas are still without power, cellphone reception is questionable and most gas stations remain shut.

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said about half of the county's traffic signals were out. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said the number was closer to 45 percent of traffic signals there. Across the state, the explanations for the outages were visible alongside the road.

"It's a lot of trees and power lines and snapped poles," said Kate Albers, a spokeswoman for Collier County, which stretches across southwestern Florida and includes Marco Island, where Irma made her second landfall.

"I can tell you from driving around you see lines down all over the place," Albers said. "You see trees thrown through power lines and you'll see an occasional pole."

The high number of outages across Florida were due largely to the storm's massive size, said Ted Kury, director of energy studies for the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida.

"For a significant period of time, the entire state was under a hurricane warning," Kury said. "Normally it comes through, sometimes it comes through fast and sometimes it comes through slowly. But this one hit pretty much everybody."

Kury was among those who did not lose power but did lose Internet, cable and cellphone service, so he and his wife had to walk to the next development before his wife got enough signal to text their oldest son and her parents.

Storms that rip down power lines are frequently followed by questions about why more power lines are not buried underground, away from punishing winds.

Cost is one factor. A 2012 report for the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association representing investor-owned electrical utilities, found that it can be five to 10 times more expensive to put lines underground - otherwise known as "undergrounding" - than to hang them overhead.

The utilities also weigh issues such as how much cost they can pass on to their customers and the aesthetics of overhead wires, Kury said, noting that there is no uniform policy for power companies because diverse regions have different needs.

"It's kind of a misstatement when folks say undergrounding power lines protects them from damage," Kury said. "What it really does is insulates them from damage from wind events and flying debris. But it makes them more susceptible to things like flooding and things like storm surge."

He added: "If you're in an area where your biggest risk to the infrastructure is storm surge and flooding, putting the lines underground can actually make them more susceptible to damage and not less."
[ Richard Branson urges "Marshall Plan" for Caribbean after Irma ]
Florida utility companies embarked upon a massive response effort to get the lights back on. Gould, the spokesman for FPL, said the company had dispatched 20,000 workers to work day and night restoring power, first to critical care infrastructure - like hospitals and 911 systems - and then to feeders that send juice to the most customers. Finally, they get to individual neighborhoods.

In St. Petersburg, where gas-powered generators had growled through the night, residents lit their way with battery-powered lanterns, flashlights and tea lights.

"We've run out of power before," said Jeanne Isacco, 71, reaching for her walker to stand and punctuate her point. "Why do you think we live here? Excuse me! We know it's hot."
Berman and Zezima reported from Washington. Darryl Fears in St. Petersburg, Leonard Shapiro in Fort Lauderdale, Camille Pendley in Atlanta, Dustin Waters in Charleston, Kirk Ross in Raleigh, Scott Unger in Key West, Fla., and Brian Murphy, Angela Fritz and Carol Morello in Washington contributed to this report, which was updated throughout the day. Further reading: Hurricane Irma's impact, from the air: Florida Keys a bit battered but mostly spared Hurricane Irma spared one Florida coast and slammed into another

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Millions of Floridians grappled with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, confronting a sweltering reality: More than 40 percent of Florida still lacked electricity, and for some of them, the lights might not come back on for days or even weeks.

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A House of Cards actor Kevin Spacey was accused of sexually assaulting people while doing the show. He said on twitter he was sorry and he didn't remember the interaction. A crew member said Spacey touched him inappropriately many times on set. He also made sexual comments multiple times on set.

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Kevin Spacey made the set of Netflix's "House of Cards" into a "toxic" work environment through a pattern of sexual harassment, eight people who currently work on the show or worked on it in the past tell CNN. One former employee told CNN that Spacey sexually assaulted him.

The former production assistant, whose account has never previously been disclosed, told CNN that Spacey sexually assaulted him during one of the show's early seasons. All eight people, each of whom spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional repercussions for speaking out, described Spacey's behavior as "predatory," saying it included nonconsensual touching and crude comments and targeted production staffers who were typically young and male.

The new accusations follow an explosive article published less than a week ago by BuzzFeed News, in which actor Anthony Rapp said Spacey made sexual advances toward him in 1985, when Rapp was 14 years old.

On Monday, Spacey released an apology in response to Rapp's account. "I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago," Spacey said. "But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years."

Related: Kevin Spacey seeking treatment after sexual assault allegations

Spacey's publicist said in a statement on Wednesday that the actor is seeking unspecified treatment following Rapp's allegations.

On Thursday, that publicist -- Staci Wolf -- said she and Creative Artists Agency were parting ways with the actor.

Production of Season 6 of the series was shut down this week. Netflix and the production company Media Rights Capital issued a joint statement Tuesday to say that they are reviewing the "situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew." Spacey is also one of the show's executive producers.

The former production assistant who spoke with CNN said Spacey sexually assaulted him one afternoon when the assistant was assigned to drive to an offsite location to pick up Spacey and bring him to the "House of Cards" set, which is located about 30 miles outside of Baltimore.

Related: House of Cards' production halted

The production assistant says that when he and Spacey were just minutes away from the set and while the car was moving, Spacey, who was driving, put his hands down the production assistant's pants. The production assistant told CNN that the touching was nonconsensual.

"I was in a state of shock," he said. "He was a man in a very powerful position on the show and I was someone very low on the totem pole and on the food chain there."

The production assistant asked that what happened next in the car not be described, for fear that it would identify him.

Once they had arrived on set, the production assistant says he helped the actor take his belongings from the car to Spacey's trailer on set. While the two men were in the trailer, the production assistant says, Spacey cornered him, blocked his exit and made inappropriate contact with him.

"I told him, 'I don't think I'm ok with this, I don't think I'm comfortable with this,'" the production assistant said. That's when the actor became "visibly flustered," fled the trailer, got in his car and left for the remainder of the day, according to the production assistant.

The production assistant did not report the incident to any managers of the series or the police, but he did tell a coworker at the time. CNN has spoken to the coworker to corroborate the production assistant's story.

Related: London theater calls for information after Kevin Spacey allegations

The alleged sexual assault came months after the production assistant had, he told CNN, complained to a supervisor that Spacey was sexually harassing him. The supervisor's solution was to never let the production assistant be alone with Spacey while they were on set, the production assistant says.

The assistant said the harassment then stopped for long enough for him to feel comfortable driving with Spacey to the set.

"I have no doubt that this type of predatory behavior was routine for him and that my experience was one of many and that Kevin had few if any qualms about exploiting his status and position," he said. "It was a toxic environment for young men who had to interact with him at all in the crew, cast, background actors."

The other people who worked on "House of Cards" with whom CNN spoke all supported the idea that the set could be toxic for young men because of Spacey.

A crew member who worked on the show for all six seasons said that Spacey routinely harassed and touched him.

"He would put his hands on me in weird ways," the crew member said. "He would come in and massage my shoulders from behind or put his hands around me or touch my stomach sometimes in weird ways that in normal everyday conversation would not be appropriate."

This crew member said he did not "feel comfortable" telling Spacey to stop. "That's the worst part about this whole thing. I would love to be able to speak out about this kind of stuff and not fear."

Related: Kevin Spacey criticized for how he came out

CNN spoke to a close friend of the crew member, who says that the crew member had told him about Spacey's behavior over the course of the six seasons of the show that it happened.

When asked on Thursday about the new allegations, Netflix said in a statement to CNN that they sent a representative to the "House of Cards" set on Monday. Spacey did not respond to CNN's request for comment about the new allegations.

"Netflix was just made aware of one incident, five years ago, that we were informed was resolved swiftly," the statement said. "On Tuesday, in collaboration with MRC, we suspended production, knowing that Kevin Spacey wasn't scheduled to work until Wednesday. Netflix is not aware of any other incidents involving Kevin Spacey on-set. We continue to collaborate with MRC and other production partners to maintain a safe and respectful working environment. We will continue to work with MRC during this hiatus time to evaluate our path forward as it relates to the production, and have nothing further to share at this time."

MRC, the production company behind "House of Cards," told CNN in a separate statement on Thursday that they have implemented "an anonymous complaint hotline, crisis counselors, and sexual harassment legal advisors for the crew."

"We are deeply troubled to learn about these new allegations that are being made to the press concerning Kevin Spacey's interaction with members of the crew of House of Cards," the MRC statement said. "As the producer of the show, creating and maintaining a safe working environment for our cast and crew has always been our top priority. We have consistently reinforced the importance of employees reporting any incident without fear of retaliation and we have investigated and taken appropriate actions following any complaints. For example, during our first year of production in 2012, someone on the crew shared a complaint about a specific remark and gesture made by Kevin Spacey. Immediate action was taken following our review of the situation and we are confident the issue was resolved promptly to the satisfaction of all involved. Mr. Spacey willingly participated in a training process and since that time MRC has not been made aware of any other complaints involving Mr. Spacey."

MRC did not elaborate about the complaint it cited in the statement. They added that they will continue to investigate all claims brought to their attention.

Other people with whom CNN spoke describe behavior similar to that recounted by the crew member.

A former camera assistant, who said he witnessed Spacey's behavior but was never harassed by Spacey, said the touching largely occurred in an open space and that "everybody saw."

"All the crew members commented on his behavior," the former camera assistant said. "What gets me is we have to sign sexual harassment paperwork before the start of the show and apparently [Kevin Spacey] doesn't have to do anything and he gets away scott-free with this behavior." CNN confirmed that Spacey was given guidelines regarding sexual harassment in the workplace.

Colleagues never complained because they were afraid of losing their jobs, the former camera assistant said.

"Who is going to believe crew members?" he said. "You're going to get fired."

Related: Seth MacFarlane joked about Kevin Spacey on 'Family Guy' episode years ago

A former female production assistant who worked on several seasons of "House of Cards" said she witnessed Spacey's sexual misconduct with crew members on set.

"It was very known that Kevin was inappropriate, and males I worked with complained to me about how they felt uncomfortable," she said. "Kevin does this thing which was play fights with them in order to touch them." She said she saw Spacey approach "multiple people" to "say hello, greet them, shake their hand and pull their hand down to his crotch and touch their crotch. I have friends say he reached up their shorts on set."

Spacey also made sexually-charged comments on set, according to a former crew member.

"There was one instance [when] a grip bent over to pick something up and his ass crack was showing, and Kevin Spacey made a sexual comment about it," he recalled, adding that the comment Spacey made was "nice ass."

The allegations about Spacey also come as the entertainment world is reckoning with fallout from the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal. Dozens of women have accused him of sexual harassment and police are investigating assault claims. Weinstein has apologized for his behavior, but he denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 2, 2017: 6:52 PM ET

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'House of Cards' employees allege sexual harassment, assault by Kevin Spacey

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The former production assistant, whose account has never previously been disclosed, told CNN that Spacey sexually assaulted him during one of the show's early seasons. All eight people, each of whom spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional repercussions for speaking out, described Spacey's behavior as "predatory," saying it included nonconsensual touching and crude comments and targeted production staffers who were typically young and male.

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This article is about a former twitter employee. He shut down Donald Trump's twitter on the last day of his work there. He said it was an accident but we all know it wasn't because he has a huge bias against Trump. He only got is suspended for 11 minutes.

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On Thursday night around 7 p.m. ET, the unthinkable happened: The Tweeter-in-Chief disappeared from his beloved platform.

President Trump's verified @realDonaldTrump account briefly went offline. Anyone who navigated to his feed was given a generic blue landing page that read, "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"

And in a stunning plot twist, the world later learned it wasn't a glitch -- but the work of a Twitter employee on his or her last day at work.

Initially, one of the social media site's verified accounts said Trump's feed was "inadvertently deactivated due to a human error." But a couple of hours later, Twitter announced further investigation revealed "a Twitter customer support employee ... did this on the employee's last day."

Trump tweeted Friday morning, "I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact."

The company said it's conducting "a full internal review" of the incident.

Trump's account was restored within minutes -- 11 to be exact.

But Twitter lit up with speculation, conspiracy theories, and plenty of sarcastic jokes about Trump's brief exodus.

"In that moment, 'Sorry, that page doesn't exist!' [Trump] truly became President," one user wrote.

"That was like .003 Scaramuccis," wrote another user, referring to the president's short-lived communications director.

"If Trump's Twitter is down, does this technically mean he's no longer POTUS? I mean, it's the only part of the job he pays attention to," another said.

Some users, like New Republic editor Jeet Heer, mocked the furor. One tweet from Heer read, "Wait, Trump's twitter account has disappeared. Is this how we do coups now?"

Others speculated about whether Twitter barred Trump from the platform.

News that it was a Twitter worker behind the @realDonaldTrump shutout ignited a new flurry of tweets.

Perhaps one of the most defining elements of his presidency, Trump's Twitter use consistently makes headlines.

Trump often uses the platform to levy attacks publicly. Those on the receiving end of his tweets include Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill who he views as roadblocks to his policy initiatives. The press has often been the subject of vitriolic tweets. And NFL players who kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice have been targets of @realDonaldTrump.

Related: Trump's tweets lead to bad news coverage, study shows

Perhaps most notably, however, Trump has also used Twitter to lash out at North Korea, the rogue Asian nation that claims to have a newly bolstered nuclear arsenal.

"Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!" Trump tweeted in September, using his choice nickname for North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.

The North Korean government claimed the tweet constituted a declaration of war.

Many called for Trump to be booted from the platform, arguing his tweets -- which often seem to be typed out on a whim -- could plunge America into a nuclear war.

But Twitter declined to bar Trump's account, saying it must weigh the newsworthiness of Trump's tweets with its violent rhetoric.

Twitter has had issues with high-profile accounts disappearing before. The company's CEO, Jack Dorsey, had his account suspended accidentally in November 2016. Once it came back online, Dorsey tweeted that the suspension was the result of "an internal mistake."

- Jethro Mullen contributed to this report

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 2, 2017: 7:22 PM ET

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President Trump's verified @realDonaldTrump account briefly went offline. Anyone who navigated to his feed was given a generic blue landing page that read, "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" And in a stunning plot twist, the world later learned it wasn't a glitch -- but the work of a Twitter employee on his or her last day at work.

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This article is about ads on Facebook that may have ties to Russia. A lot of them seem to be targeting Donald Trump and  saying he rigged the election. Some are saying there was a petition to remove Hillary Clinton from the ballot and disqualify her. The ads were shown to people who showed interest in Donald Trump or his son.

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The House Intelligence Committee released on Wednesday a small sample of the ads a Russian troll farm purchased on Facebook during and after the U.S. presidential election. The ads released focused on divisive issues like immigration, religion and race, and some alluded specifically to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Facebook has said that it has found more than 3,000 ads linked to the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm with ties to the Russian government, and that the ads were seen by more than 11 million people between 2015 and 2017.

The House Intelligence Committee had been expected to release all of the ads, which Facebook has turned over to Congress and to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office, but ultimately put out only about two dozen on Wednesday. The committee's Democrats, who were responsible for the release, called the selection of ads that they made public a "representative sampling."

Related: Facebook, Twitter, Google face aggressive questioning at Senate hearing

Also included in the release was a document containing all of the Twitter account handles that Twitter has identified as being tied to the Internet Research Agency.

The Internet Research Agency posted thousands of other pieces of content that were not turned into ads. Facebook has said that the Internet Research Agency's content was served to as many as 150 million people on its platforms, including both Facebook and Instagram. It is not clear how many of those 150 million people actually saw the content, however.

Many of the ads released Wednesday came from Facebook pages whose Russian ties were previously reported by CNN, including "Blacktivist," a page designed to look like it was run by black American activists, and "Heart of Texas," a page supporting the secession of Texas.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 1, 2017: 3:09 PM ET

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Facebook has said that it has found more than 3,000 ads linked to the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm with ties to the Russian government, and that the ads were seen by more than 11 million people between 2015 and 2017.

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Chennel Rowe, a student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, said she had a sore throat and found out it is because her roommate had been sabotaging her belongings. Her roommate, Brianna Brochu, posted on Instagram that she'd been "spitting in her coconut oil, putting moldy clam dip in her lotions, rubbing used tampons oh [sic] her backpack, putting her toothbrush places where the sun doesn't shine, and so much more." She also called Rowe a "Jamaican Barbie."

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Chennel Rowe, a student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, had a sore throat for a month following the start of her first year. Soon, she found a possible source of this illness: There was period blood and mold on her things, Buzzfeed reports.

Her roommate, Brianna Brochu, wrote on Instagram that she'd been "spitting in her coconut oil, putting moldy clam dip in her lotions, rubbing used tampons oh [sic] her backpack, putting her toothbrush places where the sun doesn't shine, and so much more."

Rowe moved out after finding her things damaged, prompting Brochu to write, "I can finally say goodbye to Jamaican Barbie."

Rowe complained to the school, but the investigation took forever, she explained in a Facebook video. "The fact that I'm black and my old roommate was white...If the roles was switched, I want to know if it would be handled the same way," she said.

On Wednesday, November 1, university president Greg Woodward announced in an email to the community that Brochu had been expelled. "There has been an outpouring of concern for the victim of these acts from across the University and the country. In my meeting with her yesterday, I reiterated my personal commitment to ensuring she has all available personal and academic resources the University can provide," it reads. "It is clear there is work to be done at our University to ensure that all students feel safe, respected, and valued."

Brochu has turned herself in to the police and was charged with "breach of peace and criminal mischief," according to the Hartford Courant. Police are also recommending a charge of "intimidation based on bigotry or bias."

She told the police that she had spread bodily fluids on Rowe's backpack and licked her plate and utensils, but the rest of the things she wrote about were jokes. She said she "began to lash out due to a 'hostile environment' caused by [the victim's] rude behavior, not compromising, and posting Snapchat videos of me sleeping and making fun of me snoring."

A judge ruled on Wednesday that she could not reenter the campus or have further contact with Rowe.

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This article is about a restaurant in Allen, Texas. The restaurant in question used before and after pictures if Caitlyn Jenner o mark their men and women bathrooms. The Dallas Morning News tweeted about the trans phobic pictures. DiFurio said that Allen, Texas is very conservative and openly mocks the LGTBQ community.

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"Collin County, where Allen, Texas is, as a whole is considered a conservative bastion in North Texas," DiFurio told The Daily Dot. "I wouldn't consider it a particularly great place to be LGBTQ."

All LGBTQ individuals deserve to live in an area where they aren't brazenly mocked. Not everyone can simply pick up and move to a more progressive area and, more importantly, they shouldn't have to.

By using an image of Jenner before her transition as a men's room sign, Dodie's is perpetuating the damaging myth that transgender women are actually men. In reality, research has shown that transgender people experience their gender psychologically before they physically transition. Caitlyn Jenner and other transgender women were women before they changed their appearances and their names.

Furthermore, the images perpetuate another myth: That transgender women need to look and dress a certain way in order to be accepted as women. For women who are just beginning to transition, it sends the message that they're masculine and therefore a threat to cisgender women in the women's room.

"I saw it as a bit of a physical manifestation of the wink and nod jokes told often to me when I see people from that part of town," DiFurio said. "The kind of jokes where you feel like the person telling the joke wants you to laugh to verify their inclinations, but doing so would perpetuate a terrible environment for anyone in the LGBTQ community."

Refinery29 has reached out to Dodie's Place for comment.

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"Collin County, where Allen, Texas is, as a whole is considered a conservative bastion in North Texas," DiFurio told The Daily Dot. "I wouldn't consider it a particularly great place to be LGBTQ." All LGBTQ individuals deserve to live in an area where they aren't brazenly mocked.

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Donald Trump Jr. made a tweet about sexual assault. He said something about how the list is shorter of Hollywood stars that aren't creeps than that are. This backfired because his dad is one of the biggest creeps ever and people really came at him for saying that and forgetting Donald Trump is a sexual abuser himself.

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The son of the country's most powerful creep - you know, the guy who claimed he could "grab 'em by the pussy" because of his fame? - tried to make a "clever" observation about sexual harassment on Twitter that ultimately backfired. Hard.

"Why don't we simplify this greatly and publish a list of those in Hollywood who aren't creeps??? Apparently a much smaller group," he wrote in a post that included a link to an article titled, "Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein Show Hollywood Morals Absent."

"You realize your father has had these exact same allegations against him, right? And that he was also part of the Hollywood abuse of power?" the official account for the Party of Reason and Progress responded.

Of course, I'm not too surprised Jr. erased the women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, considering White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders literally accused them of lying during last Friday's press briefing. I am, however, left to wonder just how he can be so complicit in supporting his father's behavior.

Oh! Perhaps it's because he, too, is a predator in an expensive, ill-fitting suit.

To use his own words against him: "Life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid."

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The Astros won the world series for the first time in their history. George Springer was the Most Valued Player. He is the first player to hit home runs in 4 consecutive games. Their General Manager, Jeff Luhnow, has degrees in economics, engineering and business.

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LOS ANGELES - If the Houston Astros had plenty on their minds - and the weight of history on their backs - it hardly seemed like a burden when they arrived at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday.

A franchise that hadn't won a championship since joining the major leagues in 1962 faced the daunting task of playing Game 7 of the World Series in front of a boisterous crowd supporting the Dodgers.

But the Astros appeared oddly at ease. Manager A. J. Hinch kept his pregame news conference light, shortstop Carlos Correa and second baseman Jose Altuve lounged on the grass as they awaited batting practice, and the scene inside the clubhouse was reassuring: Music played, game plans were reviewed and no one was staring into his locker.

"I was thinking, well, let's see how everyone looks," said Carlos Beltran, one of the veteran leaders. "If I feel like we're tight, we might need to say something."

Words were not necessary, only deeds.

The Astros, playing coolly and confidently from the first pitch, got some big offensive contributions early from their leadoff hitter, George Springer, and used five pitchers to hold off the Dodgers for a 5-1 victory that had little of the drama that had defined the rest of the Series.

Springer, who was named the most valuable player of the Series, began Game 7 with a double and hit a two-run homer in his next at-bat to help stake the Astros to a 5-0 lead in the second inning. It was Springer's fifth home run of the Series, tying a record, and he also became the first player to hit homers in four consecutive games in the same World Series.

Lance McCullers Jr., Brad Peacock, Francisco Liriano and Chris Devenski combined to thwart the Dodgers' hitters through the first five innings before Charlie Morton, normally a starter, pitched the final four.

And when Morton retired Corey Seager on a grounder to second for the final out, the Astros sprinted out of the dugout and the bullpen and mobbed one another on the infield as catcher Brian McCann jumped into Morton's arms.

"I have faith that things work out," said Morton, who threw only 17 innings for Philadelphia last season, "but if you would have told me that, I would have laughed. I've never even come close to something like that. I'm fortunate to be here. It's unreal."

If the Astros played with a collective calm on Wednesday night, perhaps it was because their resolve had been tested so frequently, not just on the field but off it, as well. In late August, they returned home from a road trip to find Houston devastated by flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

In the postseason, they had to win Games 6 and 7 at home to survive the American League Championship Series against the Yankees. And in this Series they rallied for two epic comeback victories, winning both Game 2 and Game 5 in extra innings with a barrage of home runs.

And in Game 7, they prevailed the way they often had in the playoffs - with solid pitching, sufficient hitting and airtight baseball.

The Astros' defense, with few exceptions, was bold and brilliant during the postseason. They threw out four runners at home plate and forced out one more. Game 7 was no exception, with third baseman Alex Bregman diving to take a hit away from Austin Barnes and Springer racing into the right-center gap, and wheeling and firing to second to force Seager to retreat to first.

The Dodgers, by contrast, were not as decisive or sharp.

First baseman Cody Bellinger threw behind pitcher Yu Darvish, who was covering first base, allowing Springer to score the game's first run from second base. The Astros pushed two more runs home on groundouts to the right side that the Dodgers played conservatively, putting Los Angeles in a 3-0 hole. Then, in the second inning, Springer belted a 3-2 fastball from Darvish deep into the left-field pavilion.

"I just remember swinging and hearing the sound of the bat and I knew it was a good sound, and then I saw the flight of the ball," Springer said. "I got to first base and I rounded third and got home, and that's a crazy feeling. It's a very surreal feeling because this is Game 7. This is what you dream of as a kid and for that to happen is indescribable."

Springer, who has worked through a severe stutter since his childhood, was the embodiment of the resilient Astros in this series.

He struck out four times in Game 1, then hit the winning home run in the 11th inning of Game 2. After he misplayed a liner from Bellinger into a run-scoring triple in Game 5 that put the Dodgers ahead, 8-7, Springer led off the next inning with a game-tying home run, and the Astros won in 10 innings.

The Astros' triumph will also serve as a crowning moment for the analytics movement, which began to transform baseball after the 2003 publication of "Moneyball," the best-selling book that chronicled the low-budget Oakland Athletics' use of data to compete with baseball's big-moneyed behemoths.

While every team in baseball - and most in professional sports - now use advanced data, no team in baseball has embraced it as heartily as the Astros.

General Manager Jeff Luhnow has degrees in economics, engineering and business, and he founded a data-solutions company before his emergence in the major leagues. The Astros were among the first to embrace tanking, stripping their roster down for several years to acquire high draft picks. They fired eight scouts in August as part of a restructuring that is expected to lean even more heavily on data and video analysis.

"We took a lot of heat early," said the owner Jim Crane. "But we were ready for that. We knew that we would work hard and do the right thing. It's magical it all came together. It's been five or six years, but it seems like 100 when you're getting your butt kicked for 100 games."

The Dodgers, who had three more regular-season wins than the Astros, with 104, certainly had their own opportunities on Wednesday night.

McCullers hit four batters, and allowed three hits in just two and one-third innings. But Joc Pederson, who had three homers in the Series, grounded out to leave the bases loaded in the first and struck out against Peacock with two on to end the third. Logan Forsythe was doubled off second to end the second and Yasiel Puig, who had homered against Devenski in Game 5, was jammed by him and lined out to first to end the fifth with runners at the corners.

The Dodgers finally broke through in the sixth inning when Andre Ethier's ground ball sneaked through to right field, scoring Pederson. But Morton struck out Chris Taylor and shattered Seager's bat for a groundout that allowed him to escape.

In all, the Dodgers left 10 runners on base.

The Dodgers' winter of regret began even before Game 7. Their closer, Kenley Jansen, who was dominant throughout the season, could not hold a 3-1 lead in Game 2 and was beaten in Game 5. Clayton Kershaw, considered the best pitcher in baseball, throttled the Astros in Game 1 and threw four scoreless innings of relief on Wednesday night, but he could not hold leads of 4-0 and 7-4 in Game 5.

Darvish also had an opportunity to bounce back from a dreadful start in Game 3 and take his retribution against Yuli Gurriel, the Astros' first baseman who had mocked Darvish during that game by making an offensive gesture after hitting a home run off him. But he lasted just five outs - the same as he did in Game 3.

For the Dodgers, some of whom lingered in the dugout after the last out, the final scene was as painful as it was joyful for the Astros - the visitors enjoying a Hollywood ending.

ON BASEBALL

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World Series 2017: Astros Can Finally Call Themselves Champs

ON BASEBALL

Another Game 7 Provides a Perfect Ending for the Astros

ON BASEBALL

M.L.B. Spoiler Alert: Here's What Will Happen in the Playoffs

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World Series 2017: Astros Can Finally Call Themselves Champs

ON BASEBALL

Another Game 7 Provides a Perfect Ending for the Astros

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A man killed three people randomly at a Walmart in Denver Colorado. Scott Ostrem, 47, was taken in to custody Thursday morning. Police still don't know what his motive was and they beleive it was a random attack as of now. He killed 2 men and 1 woman.

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Scott Ostrem, the man suspected of killing three people at a Colorado Walmart on Wednesday night, has been arrested, Thornton police tweeted Thursday.

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A judge blocked the ban Trump wanted to put on transgender people joining and fighting in the military. Trump says it's because they "cost too much money with all the surgeries and hormones" but actually they account for less and .02 percent of military expenses.

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"She basically wiped the slate clean," said Shannon Minter, a lawyer at the National Center for Lesbian Rights who represented the plaintiffs, adding that while the ruling could be appealed, he was confident that it effectively marked the end of the ban because the judge said it violated the Constitution.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly did not impose an injunction on the ban on sex reassignment surgery because she said it did not apply to any of the plaintiffs. But the plaintiffs' lawyers argued that in blocking the entire policy, the ruling effectively shelved the ban on sex reassignment surgery as well.

In a statement, the Justice Department said, "We disagree with the court's ruling and are currently evaluating the next steps."

President Trump announced in a series of Twitter messages in July that American forces could not afford the "tremendous medical costs and disruption" of transgender troops, and said "the United States Government will not accept or allow them to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military." A presidential memorandum released in August required all transgender service members to be discharged starting in March 2018.

The announcement blindsided many in the military, which had been moving ahead with plans to integrate transgender troops, based on a 2016 study commissioned by the military that found that allowing transgender people to serve openly would "have minimal impact on readiness and health care costs" for the Pentagon.

It estimated that health care costs would rise $2.4 million to $8.4 million a year, representing an almost unnoticeable 0.04 to 0.13 percent increase in spending. The study also projected "little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness or readiness."

Civil rights groups immediately sued the administration on behalf of transgender service members, arguing that the ban was discriminatory and violated their constitutional right to due process and equal protection under the law. A number of lawsuits are still pending.

The government had asked that the case be dismissed, but Judge Kollar-Kotelly denied the motion, writing that while "perhaps compelling in the abstract," the government's arguments for dismissal "wither away under scrutiny." Judge Kollar-Kotelly was nominated to a lower court in the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan and was named to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton.

The suit was filed by GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of five unnamed transgender women serving in the Coast Guard, Army and Air Force. Many of the women had served for years as men and had been deployed to war zones before coming out to commanders when the ban was lifted in 2016. One is a few years from retirement, according to court documents. Another told her commander she wanted to keep serving, but would resign if the military moved to forcibly discharge her.

"Big, huge news today," said Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, a Navy supply corps officer who is transgender and is the director of Sparta, an L.G.B.T. military group with more than 650 active-duty members. "A lot of people's lives were put on hold. They thought their careers were ending. This means we can continue to serve with honor, as we have been doing."

Petty Officer Eva Kerry, 24, who is transgender and is training to operate nuclear reactors, said the ruling lifted an obsessive dread over the impending end of a Navy career she loves. "I remain optimistic that the Constitution I swore an oath to will continue to protect the rights of all Americans," she said on Monday.

The decision is the latest in a series of controversial White House policies halted by the courts, including limiting travel from predominantly Muslim countries and withholding federal grant money from so-called sanctuary cities. Asked for comment, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the Justice Department was reviewing the ruling.

The lawsuit is premature, the Justice Department said, because "none of the plaintiffs have established that they will be impacted by current policies on military service."

The decision is a blow for social conservatives, who have pushed to curtail transgender policies since the ban was lifted in 2016. In June, some Republicans in Congress unsuccessfully sought to force a ban on sex reassignment surgery by attaching it to the annual military spending bill. In response, Mr. Trump made a far bolder move to ban transgender service members entirely.

At the time, Representative Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri, openly praised what she said was the president's willingness to put national security first. On Monday, her press secretary said she would not comment on the ruling.

Democrats in Congress, who in September introduced legislation to protect transgender troops from discharge, were quick to mark a victory.

"Federal courts have again beat back the sinister specter of discrimination bred within the Trump White House," Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said in a statement. "This court order will allow our transgender troops to continue serving based on their ability to fight, train, and deploy - regardless of gender identity."

Logan Ireland, an Air Force staff sergeant who was not involved in the lawsuits, said he and other transgender troops were hopeful but cautious. He said the president could still take steps to discharge them.

More than anything, the Afghanistan veteran, who leads security forces, said he hoped the end of the ban would allow him to concentrate more on his work.

"We want to go back to serving," he said. "There are troops that work under me, there is work to be done. We want to do it. After all, we are here for our country, not who sits in the White House."

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A man drove a truck through a crowd of people in Manhattan and killed 8 people. He then got out and stood on the street holding a paint gun and a pellet gun and shouted "Allahu akbar". He injured 11 people. Police shot him in the abdomen and he is in the hospital in critical condition. Police are saying he has terrorist ties and is related to someone they have been watching/searching for.

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A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.

The rampage ended when the motorist - whom the police identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 - smashed into a school bus, jumped out of his truck and ran up and down the highway waving a pellet gun and paintball gun and shouting "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is great," before he was shot in the abdomen by the officer. He remained in critical condition on Tuesday evening.

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared the rampage a terrorist attack and federal law enforcement authorities were leading the investigation. Investigators discovered handwritten notes in Arabic near the truck that indicated allegiance to the Islamic State, two law enforcement officials said. But investigators had not uncovered evidence of any direct or enabling ties between Mr. Saipov and ISIS and were treating the episode as a case of an "inspired" attacker, two counterterrorism officials said.

Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference, "Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror, and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians."

Five of the people killed were Argentine tourists who traveled to New York for a 30-year high school reunion celebration, said a senior official in Santa Fe Province, where they were from. The Argentine authorities said they were Hernán Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi. Martín Ludovico Marro, a sixth member of the group, was wounded. Belgian officials said one of those killed and three of the injured were from Belgium.

Mr. Saipov came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and had a green card that allowed permanent legal residence. He had apparently lived in Paterson, N.J., and Tampa, Fla. An official said Mr. Saipov rented a truck from a Home Depot in Passaic, N.J., where a white Toyota minivan believed to be his was found parked.

The truck came crashing to a stop near the corner of Chambers and West Streets by Stuyvesant High School. Sirus Minovi, 14, a freshman there who was hanging out with friends, said people scattered.

"We heard people screaming, 'gun' 'shooter' and 'run away,'" Sirus said. "We thought it was a Halloween prank."

He realized it was not a joke when he saw the man staggering through the intersection, waving guns and screaming words he could not make out. A passer-by approached the attacker, apparently trying to calm him, Sirus said, until the man realized the attacker had a gun. The man "put his hands up and was backing away," Sirus said.

Almost immediately, as investigators began to look into Mr. Saipov's history, it became clear that he had been on the radar of federal authorities. Three officials said he had come to the federal authorities' attention as a result of an unrelated investigation, but it was not clear whether that was because he was a friend, an associate or a family member of someone under scrutiny or because he himself had been the focus of an investigation.

Over the last two years, a terrorism investigation by the F.B.I., the Department of Homeland Security, the New York Police Department and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn resulted in charges against five men from Uzbekistan and one from Kazakhstan of providing material support to ISIS. Several of the men have pleaded guilty. It is unclear whether Mr. Saipov was connected with that investigation.

Martin Feely, a spokesman for the New York F.B.I. office, declined to comment on whether Mr. Saipov was known to the bureau.

F.B.I. agents were expected to search Mr. Saipov's home in Paterson, N.J., and his car on Tuesday night, a law enforcement official said. A phone, which was recovered at the scene of the attack, also would be searched, another official said.

The attack unfolded as nearby schools were letting out on a Halloween afternoon. It ended five blocks north of the World Trade Center. The driver left a roughly mile-long crime scene: a tree-lined bike path strewn with bodies, mangled bicycles and bicycle parts, from wheels twisted like pretzels to a dislodged seat.

Mr. Saipov, a slim, bearded man, was seen in videos running through traffic after the attack with a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other. Six people died at the scene and two others died at a hospital, officials said. The authorities credited the officer who shot him with saving lives.

"He was Johnny-on-the-spot and he takes the guy down," a city official said.

Coming five months after a car rammed into pedestrians in Times Square, killing one, Tuesday's attack again highlighted the danger of a vehicle attack on busy city streets. The Times Square attack was not an act of terrorism. But both events brought to mind the terrorist attack last year in Nice, France, in which a cargo truck killed scores of people celebrating Bastille Day.

The episodes also evoked calls from terrorist magazines, including in an edition of Rumiyah, a magazine used by ISIS, for attackers to mow down pedestrians with trucks, continue the attacks with a knife or a gun and claim responsibility by shouting or leaving leaflets.

Students in Halloween costumes streamed out of nearby schools after lockdowns were lifted and huddled with parents. Their faces, once painted for the holiday, were streaked with tears.

Emily, 12, a seventh-grader at I.S. 289 whose father asked that her last name not be used, had been walking on her usual route home when other students turned and ran in the other direction.

"All the kids were screaming, 'Run!', 'Gun!' 'Run inside,'" she said, still wearing cat ears. She said mothers pushing strollers and children in costumes ran in a herd back toward the school.

President Trump responded to the attack on Twitter: "In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!"

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo cautioned at a news conference, "There's no evidence that suggests a wider plot or a wider scheme." In the aftermath, city and state law enforcement agencies increased security at high-profile locations.

Terrorism analysts noted that on Monday a French pro-ISIS media unit, known as the Centre Mediatique An-Nur, put out a specific threat for Halloween, mentioning the date on a banner spread on the encrypted app Telegram and on ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts.

Mr. Saipov wove a deadly path on a stretch usually bustling with commuters, runners and cyclists, drawn by the downtown offices nearby or the shimmering river.

He turned onto the bike path alongside the West Side Highway at Houston Street just after 3 p.m. and sped south, striking numerous pedestrians and cyclists, many of them in the back, the authorities said. People scattered and dived to the asphalt.

The truck, labeled with a sign saying, "Rent me starting at $19," rammed into the bus near Chambers Street. The bus serves two schools in Lower Manhattan and transports students with special needs. Two adults and two children on the bus were injured, the authorities said.

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Terror Attack Kills 8 and Injures 11 in Manhattan

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This article is about the football player Colin Kaepernick. He started the controversial trend of kneeling during the pledge of allegiance in protest to Donald Trump and where our country is going.

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In college, Kaepernick began a journey that led him to his position as one of the most prominent, if divisive, social activists in sports.

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This article is about how Donald Trump ordered the release of a bunch of documents regarding the assassination of president John F Kennedy. Some suspect Lyndon B Johnson was involved in the killing, some even suspect it can be traced back to Russia.

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Mr. Trump, who has indulged in his own wild speculation about the sensational killing, had expressed eagerness to finally open the last of the government files, only to run into a last-minute campaign by intelligence agencies to redact certain documents. Grudgingly, he gave the agencies until April 26 to go through the remaining papers again and make their case.

"I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted," Mr. Trump said in a memo to the agencies. Given their objections, he said, "I have no choice - today - but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security." But he ordered the agencies to "be extremely circumspect," noting that the rationale for secrecy has only "grown weaker with the passage of time."

For conspiracy theorists, the Kennedy assassination has been the holy grail, one that has produced an endless string of books, reports, lectures, articles, websites, documentaries and big-screen Hollywood movies. It was the first murder of an American president in the television age, touching off a wave of global grief for a charismatic young leader while also spawning a cottage industry of skeptical questioning of the official version of events.

Every government authority that has examined the investigation of his death, from the Warren Commission to congressional investigators, concluded that Kennedy was killed by Oswald, who fired three shots with a mail-order rifle from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository when the presidential motorcade passed by on Nov. 22, 1963. But that has never satisfied the doubters, and polls have consistently shown that most Americans still believe that someone other than Oswald must have been involved.

While the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone, the House Select Committee on Assassinations said in a 1979 report that Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" but did not identify who those conspirators might have been. It ruled out the Soviet and Cuban governments, organized Cubans opposing Fidel Castro, the Mafia, the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Secret Service, although the committee said it could not preclude that individuals affiliated with some of those groups might have been involved.

Among the doubters have been Mr. Trump, who last year alleged that the father of one of his Republican presidential primary rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, was somehow involved in the assassination. The president's longtime friend and adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. wrote a book accusing Johnson of being responsible for the shooting that elevated him to the presidency.

As it happened, Mr. Trump's deferral to the C.I.A. and F.B.I. invariably will lead to suspicions that the government is still protecting sensational secrets about the case. Administration officials said there was no cover-up, just an effort to avoid compromising national security, law enforcement or intelligence gathering methods.

The C.I.A., which for years has borne the brunt of suspicions from amateur assassination theorists, went out of its way on Thursday to try to dispel concerns that it was hiding important evidence.

The agency issued a statement noting that the vast majority of assassination-related records have been released, and that redactions were intended "to protect information in the collection whose disclosure would harm national security - including the names of C.I.A. assets and current and former C.I.A. officers, as well as specific intelligence methods and partnerships that remain viable to protecting the nation today."

The release of the documents owes as much to the moviemaker Oliver Stone as anyone else. After his 1991 conspiracy theory movie "J.F.K." stoked renewed interest, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which was signed into law by President George Bush on Oct. 26, 1992. The act mandated that all assassination records be released no later than 25 years from that date, which was Thursday, unless the president authorized further withholding for national security reasons.

In the years since the law was passed, the National Archives and Records Administration has released 88 percent of those documents in full and an additional 11 percent with portions redacted. Until Thursday, just 1 percent had been withheld in full.

Of the 2,891 documents released Thursday, only 53 had never been disclosed by the archives; the rest had been made public with redactions.

The papers range widely, and while many are not directly related to the assassination, others add context. One recounted the reaction of the Soviet Union to the killing, reporting that some in Moscow assumed it was a "coup" by the "ultraright" that would be blamed on the Soviet Union. An unnamed informant told American spies that the K.G.B. had proof that "President Johnson was responsible for the assassination."

An F.B.I. cable from April 1964 reconstructed Oswald's bus trip to Mexico weeks before the assassination, including the names of the people sitting around him and even what he was wearing: "a short-sleeved light colored sport shirt and no coat."

In Hoover's memo two days after the assassination, he expressed anxiety that Oswald's killing would generate doubts among Americans. "The thing I am concerned about," he wrote, "is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin." The F.B.I. director also fretted that discoveries that Oswald contacted the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and sent a letter to the Soviet Embassy in Washington could "complicate our foreign relations."

He called the Oswald killing "inexcusable" in light of "our warnings to the Dallas Police Department" and hinted at Ruby's mob connections, which would soon spawn an industry of research and speculation. "We have no information on Ruby that is firm, although there are some rumors of underworld activity in Chicago," Hoover wrote.

The documents will not end the debate or speculation - and a few may add to the questions. In a 1975 deposition, for example, Richard Helms, the former C.I.A. director, was asked: "Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or an agen..."

But the document ends there, and Mr. Helms's answer is missing.

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"There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead," the memo begins laconically, before reciting the day's events. Mr. Trump, who has indulged in his own wild speculation about the sensational killing, had expressed eagerness to finally open the last of the government files, only to run into a last-minute campaign by intelligence agencies to redact certain documents.

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Every detail of this indiscriminate mass murder seemed meticulously planned. Yet no one knows why Stephen Paddock morphed from a retired accountant to the deadliest mass murderer in modern US history.