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A manhunt is underway in London after a bucket bomb exploded on a crowded subway train during rush hour Friday morning, sending a fireball through the passenger car and leaving at least 22 people hospitalized. British authorities are treating the blast as a terror attack.

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London Metropolitan Police announced they were on scene of an "incident" on a subway train at the Parsons Green station just before 9 a.m. local time.

We are aware of an incident at #ParsonsGreen tube station. Officers are in attendance. More info ASAP
- Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) September 15, 2017

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London Metropolitan Police announced they were on scene of an "incident" on a subway train at the Parsons Green station just before 9 a.m. local time. We are aware of an incident at #ParsonsGreen tube station. Officers are in attendance. More info ASAP- Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) September 15, 2017

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The Minnesota senator was concerned about the new iPhone X because the face recognition isn't secure and anyone with similar features could unlock your phone.

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Apple's new iPhone X can be unlocked with a scan of your face. But biometric identification like this raises important questions about privacy and security.

In a published letter written to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Democratic Senator Al Franken expressed concern over the use of the phone's new Face ID system.

The Minnesota senator asked the company to provide more information about how facial recognition will affect iPhone users' privacy and security and whether the tech will recognize differentraces, ages and genders.

Apple said its Face ID tech was trained with over 1 billion images, but it's unclear how diverse the data set was or where Apple got the images from.

Related: How secure is iPhone X's new Face ID tech?

The senator also shared concern over what happens to face scan data.

"Apple itself could use the data to benefit other sectors of its business, sell it to third parties for surveillance purposes, or receive law enforcement requests to access it facial recognition system -- eventual uses that may not be contemplated by Apple customers," Franken wrote.

Apple has previously addressed some privacy concerns around Face ID. The company said all facial information is stored on the device and not in the cloud, and it is protected by a "secure enclave." Face ID is also designed to prevent spoofing attempts by a photo or a mask.

Related: Apple's iPhone X: Face ID, no home button, $999

"To offer clarity to the millions of Americans who use your products, I ask that you provide more information on how the company has processed these issues internally, as well as any additional steps that it intends to take to protect its users," Franken wrote in the letter.

Franken also questioned how the company would respond to law enforcement requests to access Apple's faceprint data or its Face ID system.

It's a familiar question for Apple. Last year, Apple opposed a judge's order to assist the FBI with breaking into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters, calling it "an overreach by the U.S. government."

At the time, Cook said in an open letter that complying with the order would entail building "a backdoor to the iPhone" and "something we consider too dangerous to create."

Franken asked Apple to respond to the letter by October 13.

In 2013, Franken wrote a letter to Apple about privacy concerns about its fingerprint reader, Touch ID. He's also previously sent letters to other tech companies like Google and Uber about privacy issues.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 14, 2017: 11:40 AM ET

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Senator writes letter to Apple's Tim Cook on Face ID privacy concerns

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In a published letter written to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Democratic Senator Al Franken expressed concern over the use of the phone's new Face ID system. The Minnesota senator asked the company to provide more information about how facial recognition will affect iPhone users' privacy and security and whether the tech will recognize differentraces, ages and genders.

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A man has been killed after South Carolina authorities say a hunter using night-vision scope mistook him for a wild hog.

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A man has been killed after South Carolina authorities say a hunter using a night-vision scope mistook him for a wild hog.

Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman tells news outlets that 40-year-old Kenneth Jason Young of Starr was hunting wild hogs on private land Wednesday night. Boseman says a woman hunting on land nearby saw through her night-vision scope something "on all fours in the grass" and fired a shot, thinking she was aiming for a wild hog.

Boseman says the shot hit Young in the head, killing him. Boseman says foul play is not suspected, and the woman's name has not been released.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Anderson County Sheriff's Office are still investigating. No charges have been filed.

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A man has been killed after South Carolina authorities say a hunter using a night-vision scope mistook him for a wild hog. Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman tells news outlets that 40-year-old Kenneth Jason Young of Starr was hunting wild hogs on private land Wednesday night....

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London manhunt underway after subway explosion that is being treated as terror attack.

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Britain's terrorist threat level has been lowered from critical to severe after police arrested a second man in connection with Friday's terrorist attack on a London Underground subway car and authorities there cited progress in the investigation.

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Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Sunday that the decision was made "to lower that level from critical to severe," according to The Associated Press.

On Friday, an apparent bucket bomb exploded on a London Underground train at the during the morning rush hour. The blast propelled a fireball through a passenger car, sending at least 30 people to area hospitals, officials said.

Rudd warned that the lowering of classification doesn't mean the danger is over.

"'Severe' still means that an attack is highly likely, so I would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant, but not alarmed," she said, according to the AP.

Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Mark Rowley added that beyond the overnight arrests, a "rapid progress" in the investigation contributed to the decision to downgrade the threat level.

"There are now two searches continuing at addresses in Surrey, and we are getting a greater understanding of the preparation of the device," he said.

A 21-year-old man was arrested around 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Hounslow, a borough in west London, by detectives with the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command. The unidentified man was arrested under section 41 of the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, and taken to a south London police station where he remains in custody.

Earlier Saturday, police had evacuated a house in a London suburb as well as part of the Port of Dover after arresting an 18-year-old man that morning in the southeastern coastal city in connection with the attack, police said.

Kent Police arrested the man in the port's departure area -- about 75 miles from London -- at approximately 7:50 a.m. local time under section 41 of the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, according to London's Metropolitan Police Service. The section provides authorities the power to arrest a person suspected of terrorism-related offenses without a warrant.

"We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning," Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said in a statement. "He was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. He has now been transferred to custody at a police station in London."

Today, Rowley provided an update on the Parsons Green investigation and the change to the threat level.

"There is still much more to do but this greater clarity and this progress has led JTAC - the independent body that assess threat - to come to the judgement that an attack is no longer imminent. And you will have heard consequently the Home Secretary's announcement that the threat level has reduced from Critical to Severe which of course means that an attack is highly likely," he said.

Basu said that after they closed the Port of Dover, "they recovered a number of items during this search."

On Saturday afternoon, police evacuated and launched a search of a house in Sunbury-on-Thames, a town in Surrey county 15 miles southwest of central London, in connection with the investigation. Neighbors immediately surrounding the address were also evacuated as a precautionary measure.

"I want to reassure that community that our expert officers are quickly and thoroughly searching that address and working to ensure that it is safe. Once this is done a detailed search will take place," Basu said.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan hailed Saturday morning's arrest.

"This morning police have made a significant arrest as part of the investigation into the terrorist attack at Parsons Green station yesterday morning," Khan said in a statement. "The police investigation is ongoing and there will still be significant activity today and over the days ahead. I am sure I speak for London when I say we are incredibly grateful to the police and intelligence services for doing everything possible to keep Londoners safe."

"London will never be intimidated by terrorism. We will always defeat those who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life," the mayor added.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack through its Amag News Agency. Rowley told reporters that it is "routine" for ISIS to claim responsibility for such attacks, whether the group was involved or not.

Authorities had immediately launched a manhunt for suspects. Following Saturday's arrest, the Metropolitan Police Service announced it was still working to identify and locate any other potential suspects.

"At this stage we are keeping an open mind around whether more than one person is responsible for the attack and we are still pursuing numerous lines of inquiry and at a great pace," Basu said in a statement Saturday night. "We have identified 121 witnesses so far, and we have spoken to 100 of them already. Officers continue to trawl through many hours of closed circuit television footage and more than 180 videos and pictures that have been sent to them by the public."

Eyewitnesses told ABC News that the blast happened as the train pulled into the Parsons Green station in Fulham, an affluent, mainly residential area of West London.

"I heard a loud bang and as I looked to my right, there was a flame, a fireball came through the carriage. ... As the doors opened, people then began leaving the train straight away," said Martin Adams, a security manager for The Walt Disney Company who was riding in the subway car at the time. "I saw some flames coming from what I thought was a blue bag."

Another person who was at the station said she saw a number of people with what appeared to be facial burns and singed hair after the explosion.

"I saw a couple people with burns. One lady had her hair badly singed by the fire," said Sally Faulding, who witnessed the panic on the subway platform. "I also saw people injured obviously from having been stampeded on the platform because we were all running. People were falling over."

As of Friday, the London Ambulance Service said it had transported 19 patients to area hospitals and 10 others took themselves, but none of the injuries were serious or life-threatening. On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police Service said a total of 30 people have received treatment at hospitals for injuries from the attack.

Adams said the situation was managed well by train operators and emergency crews, and that passengers remained relatively calm.

"There were no casualties at all on the train. Everybody appeared to get off," Adams told ABC News. "There was nobody laying on the platform floor. I assessed that there were no serious casualties at that time."

Police said the improvised explosive device on the train did not fully explode. Apparent images of the device show wires hanging out of a white bucket.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has clashed with Khan in the past, shared his thoughts on Twitter just before 7 a.m. ET.

Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

Trump referred to the suspects being "in the sights of Scotland Yard," though London officials have not publicly provided any confirmation of that.

Law enforcement agencies across the United States said they are closely monitoring Friday's incident. New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Friday there were no known threats to the city's subway system, but reminded passengers to remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings.

However, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement Friday saying he was increasing security in public transportation areas across the Empire State.

"Out of an abundance of caution, I am directing state law enforcement to increase security at vital assets across New York, including airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems," Cuomo said. "The safety and security of New Yorkers is our No. 1 priority, and we remain in close contact with local and federal officials. We remain vigilant, and we stand with the people of London."

ABC News' Rashid Haddou, Dimitrije Steijic, Kelly Stevenson and M.L. Nestel contributed to this report.

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In Venezuela Maduro urges to either eat pets or meat because they are starving and eating rabbits.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has introduced a "Rabbit Plan" that encourages people to start eating rabbits rather than keep them as pets in a bid to tackle the country's food shortages.

Venezuela has been ravaged by an ongoing economic crisis spurred by the socialist policies of Maduro and his predecessor, the late former President Hugo Chavez.

Low supplies of food and medicine are leaving millions of people starving and desperate for medical treatment. A study published earlier this year reported that roughly 75 percent of Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in the last year due to food shortages, Fox News reported.

Appearing on state television, Maduro suggested people should start eating rabbits as a less expensive alternative to other meat, the BBC reported.

"For animal protein, which is such an important issue, a 'rabbit plan' has been approved because rabbits also breed like rabbits," he said.

The plan was devised as a fight back against an alleged economic war waged against the country by foreign governments, especially the U.S. and President Donald Trump, NPR reported.

But the move to start consuming rabbits has run into a "cultural problem," according to Freddy Bernal, Venezuela's minister of urban agriculture, who also appeared on the television program.

After Maduro gave rabbits to 15 communities as a pilot program to feed the country, most people decided to keep the animals as pets.

"When he came back, to his surprise he found people had put little bows on their rabbits and were keeping them as pets, it was an early setback to Plan Rabbit," Bernal said, according to the BBC, noting that most people "took them to bed."

"There is a cultural problem, because we have been taught that the rabbit is very nice. But seeing it from the point of view of the (economic) war, one rabbit arrives and in two months we have a rabbit of two and a half kilos," he added.

Bernal also said the government needs to begin a campaign in the media "so that the people understand that rabbits aren't pets but two and a half kilos of meat."

The "Rabbit Plan" prompted stark condemnation from the opposition, which called the program a "bad joke" and said Maduro believes the people are "stupid."

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has introduced a "Rabbit Plan" that encourages people to start eating rabbits rather than keep them as pets in a bid to tackle the country's food shortages. Venezuela has been ravaged by an ongoing economic crisis spurred by the socialist policies of Maduro and his predecessor, the late former President Hugo Chavez.

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Teen dies from disease called "Rapunzel syndrome"wich caused her to eat her hair and the hair ball got infected in her stomach at just 16.

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Jasmine Beever, from Skegness, collapsed at college and was sent home to rest

But the year 12 student later came out in 'blotches' and was rushed to hospital

Doctors fought to keep her alive and they resuscitated her for around 15 minutes

But the teenager lost her battle later that same evening in hospital (September 7)

A post mortem revealed she had peritonitis, caused by a hairball in her stomach

A 'bubbly' and 'amazing' teenager has died after a hairball that was lodged in her stomach became infected.

Jasmine Beever, 16, from Skegness, collapsed at college last week and was sent home to rest - but she later came out in 'blotches'.

Doctors fought to keep her alive when she was rushed to hospital. They managed to resuscitate her for 15 minutes, but she lost her battle later that evening.

A post mortem has since revealed she had peritonitis, which is an inflammation of a thin layer of tissue in the abdomen.

The pathologist revealed that Jasmine had a hairball in her stomach which became infected, causing the inflammation.

Tributes have flooded in for Jasmine, who had been sucking and chewing on her own hair for many years - often a sign of 'Rapunzel syndrome' - on Facebook.

One friend wrote: 'God took an angel last night. I hope you're cuddled and kept real tight. Miss ya already. Our clingon. Sleep tight.'

Just days before the year 12 student passed away, on September 7, she attended the funeral of her grandfather.

Her best friend Billy Jo Ashwell, who has known Jasmine since nursery, has decided to raise money to help her family. So far the campaign has raised £1,117.

Tributes have flooded in

Billy's mother, Donna Marshall, said that she will never forget the 'darling' teenager. She described the death as 'awful'. She said on Facebook that Jasmine had been 'sucking and chewing her hair for years'.

Miss Marshall said: 'Jasmine was amazing. She was one of those kids where she would make a sad face in the room smile. She was so bubbly.

'She was friends with Billy and she would always shout across the road to me "Donna are you okay?" and then she would ask if there was anything I wanted.

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'She said if I needed help then I should give her a shout. She was such a darling. I am going to miss her terribly. We are all in shock.'

Miss Marshall, 45, said her daughter wanted to help the family and the money will help the family in any way they need.

She added: 'It's been absolutely wonderful the support from local people. Billy is so proud of herself and she knows Jasmine would be proud too.

'We don't have a target we will just carry on. When we set up Just Giving it lasts for 30 days and we will carry on for that and hand over the money.'

Miss Marshall continued: 'Jasmine collapsed at college, she went home to bed and then later she came out in blotches and the rest is sad news.

'The ambulance came for her and when she got to hospital she was brought back to life for 15 minutes. It's so awful.'

What is Rapunzel syndrome?

Rapunzel syndrome, or trichophagia, is a rare condition where hairballs are found in the digestive tract after a person ingests their own hair.

It is predominantly found in young people who have learning disabilities or are emotionally disturbed.

Less than 120 cases have been reported in the medical literature, and almost always affects women, it was reported last year.

Anyone who would like to help by donating to family can do so on the Just Giving page here.

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Jasmine Beever, from Skegness, collapsed at college and was sent home to rest But the year 12 student later came out in 'blotches' and was rushed to hospital Doctors fought to keep her alive and they resuscitated her for around 15 minutes But the teenager lost her battle later that same evening in hospital (September 7) A post mortem revealed she had peritonitis, caused by a hairball in her stomach A 'bubbly' and 'amazing' teenager has died after a hairball that was lodged in her stomach became infected.

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Becca Longo is 18. She can kick a football really far and She's got a scholarship. And she's just getting started.

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They cruise down the dusty, open road, the teacher and the pupil, the making of history only months away.

What a pair they are as they roll through the 115-degree heat outside Phoenix on Highway 202, the intense desert sunlight bouncing off the black Mercedes sedan. Together they gaze into the barren landscape dotted with saguaro cacti and mesquite trees, and both see the same vision: a future in which a woman playing Division II football on scholarship is no longer a mirage.

"You are like my second father, and you're a huge reason I'm doing this," says Becca Longo, the pupil, riding shotgun. "You've made this happen."

"What separates you from everyone else is that you stuck with it, even in the hard times," says Alex Zendejas, the teacher and a member of football's most famous kicking family. "You have all the potential in the world. Keep at it, and who knows? Maybe you'll be the first female playing on Sundays."

Close your eyes and imagine that: a woman kicking in the NFL. This is how far the dream now stretches for Longo, 18, who in April became the first female to earn a football scholarship to a Division I or Division II school when she signed with D-II Adams State in Alamosa, Colorado.

About a dozen women have played college football at various levels. In 1997 Liz Heaston became the first female to score in a college football game when she kicked an extra point for Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, then an NAIA school. But it's safe to say that no female kicker has ever possessed the pure ability of the 5'11,'' 145-pound Longo, who has kicked a 50-yard field goal in practice and routinely splits the uprights from 45.

"If you can play football and you have determination, I don't care what your gender is," says Timm Rosenbach, a former NFL quarterback and the head coach at Adams State. "And Becca can play, simple as that. She's got accuracy and she's got a powerful leg, which will only get stronger. We brought her to Adams State for a reason: to compete for a job and help us win football games."

Longo's college career will begin in mid-July when she moves into her dorm room in Alamosa and starts working out with the Grizzlies. It will mark the culmination of an unlikely journey into history, one that began at Queen Creek High in Queen Creek, Arizona.
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The kicker is the loneliest player. The female kicker, well, she's as isolated on a football team as a wildflower in the desert.

Here was Longo on a late-summer afternoon in 2014. Kickoff in the season-opening junior varsity game between Queen Creek and Poston Butte High was an hour away.

A sophomore, Longo had put on her pads-she only recently had learned how to do this-and pulled on her No. 28 jersey with her teammates at Queen Creek before boarding the bus to Poston Butte. After arriving there for the first game of her high school career, she sat on a bench and tightened the laces on the soccer cleat on her right foot.

She visualized her kicking process-her approach, her plant foot, her swing-through. And even though the crowd was small, she could hear a hum of expectation. Longo thought she was going to throw up.

She walked out into the warm late-afternoon sun. After only a few steps, a cluster of young girls approached her, asking for pictures, autographs and hugs. Up in the bleachers, dozens of fans pointed at her. "There she is!" one yelled. "That's the girl trying to play football!"

Longo warmed up, drilling extra points and several field goals between 25 and 35 yards. Her father, Bob, who was pacing in the stands, recorded every practice kick with a video camera. He, too, felt the pressure of expectations and felt like he was going to vomit.

Becca, who would handle extra points and field goals for Queen Creek, then retreated to the locker room for a final moment of reflection before kickoff.

The game began. On Queen Creek's second play from scrimmage, a running back busted a 60-yard touchdown run. Longo ran onto the field, her heart thumping. Then she remembered what her personal coach, Zendejas, taught her, his words echoing in her head: Kick like you train. Win the mental battle.

Longo stood next to her holder. She took three steps back, two steps over to her left and bent forward. The ball was snapped. The hold was true. Her legs trembling, Longo took one small step forward-"a stab step" she calls it-then two more and swung her right foot back like a golf club.

She struck the ball perfectly, sending it sailing end over end into the red-orange sky. It floated between the posts. And so began the kicking career of Longo, a woman unlike anyone in the history of football.
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When Becca was 18 months old, she slept in a crib in her own upstairs room next to her parents' bedroom. Her mother, Andrea, used reading glasses in the evening, and every night she placed them on her bed stand. Then one morning Andrea discovered that her glasses had been transported downstairs. Same thing happened the next morning. "What's going on?" Andrea asked her husband.

They finally caught the glasses thief red-handed: little Becca. She had climbed out of her crib, snatched the glasses from the table, carried them down the stairs and surreptitiously returned to her crib. "I've got a solution," said Bob, an engineer at Boeing.

That night, using a lace from an old boot, Bob gently tied one of his daughter's legs to the side of the crib. "It was like a handcuff," Bob says now. Yet two nights later, the glasses once again were magically moved in the middle of the night; Becca had slipped out of her shackle.

"That's when we really knew that Becca was a determined little girl," Bob says. "She's a pistol."

When Becca was five, her older brother, Bobby, played defensive end at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California. Bobby was Becca's hero-she mimicked all he did-and the two often played catch in the backyard. Becca never missed one of his games.

Becca was sitting in the stands with her parents one game during that 2004 season when the team's kicker, a young woman named Heidi Garrett, blasted a 48-yard field goal through the uprights-still the national record for the longest high school field goal by a female. At an end-of-the-season team party for players and their families, Becca couldn't stop staring at Heidi, her new hero who practically glowed in the dark to little Becca. She had found her role model.

Bob Longo also was intrigued by this female kicker, but for a different reason. He had seen Heidi and her father, Rance, spend countless hours together on different football fields, the father shagging balls and offering love and support to his daughter. To Bob's eye, the two were a picture of joy.

"I always envied them," Bob says. "They had a great father-daughter relationship. I hoped that one day I'd have the same kind of connection with Becca."

Soon they would.
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The Zendejas Detailing shop in Phoenix sits in an industrial park near the airport. Most of the expansive square footage in this warehouse-like structure is devoted to cars, but Alex has partitioned a corner for what he considers his true calling: developing young kickers.

The indoor kicking space features 20-foot ceilings and a kicking net with tape plastered on it in the form of a goal post. The longest field goal a student can attempt is only 20 yards, but distance is not Zendejas' primary focus.

"About 80 percent of kicks are extra points, so we begin by teaching proper form and technique," says Zendejas, who has coached seven All-State kickers in Arizona since 2006 and who has had four family members kick in the NFL. "Kicking is like any other position in football in that it requires work and a tremendous amount of practice."

On a recent May afternoon, Longo strolled into the makeshift indoor kicking field, her long brunette hair pulled into a ponytail, her dark eyes flashing. "Let's do this," she says enthusiastically. "Time to get better."

Longo has an athlete's easy, confident gait. She began playing soccer at nine and was a star shooting guard on her high school basketball team. Sports have always come easy to her.

Now, in the sweltering heat of the Zendejas kicking gym, Longo stretches for 10 minutes while listening to the counsel of Zendejas and his son Alex Jr., who kicked for Arizona from 2008 to 2011. She then began to kick as Alex Sr. and Alex Jr. watched intently with their arms folded.

Over 30 minutes, she struck about 40 balls and split the bars on about 90 percent of them. At one point, Longo made 19 straight. The power and lift she generated on her kicks were staggering.

"The first thing I had to teach Becca was that hitting a football is different than striking a soccer ball," says the elder Zendejas. "You aim for the same sweet spot, but the momentum of the leg is different. In soccer you go straight through the ball. In football, you've got to let the leg go as you hit it and let it whip through the ball."

In high school Longo used a 2-inch tee, but in college she'll kick off the ground, which she's now been practicing for six months. "It only took her one week to adjust," says Zendejas, shaking his head in disbelief. "It's rare for a kicker to adjust so fast. But that just shows you that Becca is different-very different."

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It all began on an ordinary school day in the spring of 2014. Longo was walking from one class to another at Queen Creek High when she looked out a window and saw several freshman boys on the football field. "I'm going to play football," she casually told a friend.

After class Longo marched out to play with the boys. One challenged her to kick a ball. She lined up, strode forward and- wham! -sent the pigskin rocketing into orbit. The boys (and even Longo herself) were shocked at how far it flew.

That night Longo told her dad she was interested in becoming a kicker.

About a week later, Bob and Andrea drove their daughter to a kicking camp hosted by the Arizona Cardinals at Gilbert Christian High, about 20 minutes from Queen Creek. Becca was raw as she kicked in front of the likes of Nick Lowery, Mike Vanderjagt and Chandler Catanzaro, but she flashed so much potential that a few coaches and former NFL players handed their business cards to Bob, telling him that they could mold his daughter into something special. Bob eventually spoke to Alex Zendejas and asked him if he'd coach his daughter.

"I need to work her out," Zendejas told Bob. "I need to see how badly she wants it."

They met a few days later in a parking lot next to the football field at Queen Creek High. Zendejas eyed Longo as she stepped out of a car. "My first impression was that she was athletic and strong and tall," Zendejas says.

The teacher then quizzed Longo about her goals, wanting to know if she was serious about learning how to kick. "I'm strong-willed; trust me," Longo told Zendejas. "This is something I'm going to stick with."

They walked onto the field as twilight settled over the desert, Zendejas lugging a bag of balls over his shoulder. He had Longo run two laps and led her through a series of stretches. Then he asked her to go through her kicking motion without striking a ball.

After her first imaginary kick, Zendejas remember saying, "Wow, look at that swing. Her leg goes so high and she's got natural flexibility. We may have something here.''

Longo's first attempt was a 30-yard field goal: She swept through it perfectly-she knew instantly the kick was pure-and the ball easily cleaved the uprights. With her father shagging, Longo kicked about 30 footballs that evening and connected on 80 percent of her tries.

The next day Longo walked into the office of Paul Reynolds, the athletic director at Queen Creek High. She sat down in a chair, locked eyes with the A.D., held her chin high, smiled and said: "I want to play football. I want to kick."

"Well," Reynolds replied, a bit in shock, "I guess you should go for it and try out for the team."

And she did. In her first season of kicking on junior varsity, Longo made 30 of 33 point-after attempts and was four-of-four on field goals, with a long of 30 yards.

Day by day, kick by kick, her leg was growing stronger-and so was her confidence.

Alex Zendejas Jr. knows the struggle better than most.

In 2009 Zendejas, then a sophomore at Arizona, booted a 32-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Wildcats to a 20-17 victory over archrival Arizona State. The next year in the game known as the Territorial Cup, Zendejas had a chance to win it with 27 seconds left and the score tied at 20. Alas, an Arizona State defender blocked the extra point.

In double overtime, Arizona trailed 30-29 when Zendejas trotted onto the field for another extra-point attempt. He says now that he couldn't shake the earlier miss from his thoughts. "I questioned everything when I shouldn't have questioned anything," he says.

The kick was blocked. The game was lost.

Zendejas was despondent. For days he moved about in a daze, as fellow students heckled him in classes, taunted him in restaurants and even tried to start fights with him.

"I learned a valuable lesson," Zendejas says. "Kicking isn't about all the makes; it's about how you respond to the misses. This is what I tell Becca. She's going to confront difficult times. How she responds will define her. But she's ready. She's ready for anything."

At the end of the practice session inside the Zendejas training facility, Longo hangs on the words of Alex Jr. like a worshiper to clergy. He is her de facto mental coach, and she vows to keep his wisdom fresh in her mind as she begins her college career.

"I've heard people say that I'm just a publicity stunt, that I don't deserve this chance," Longo says. "I don't let that bother me. I just need to stay true to who I am-and stay true to what I've learned and keep improving-and I'll be just fine. I really believe that. I really do."

Longo transferred to Basha High before her junior year for "social reasons," she says. This forced her to sit out that football season.

But she still kicked. One evening in the summer of 2015 at a local park, with her father fetching balls, she drilled a 50-yarder, her career long in practice.

She joined the Basha varsity football team for the 2016 season. In one early-season game a player from Pinnacle High bumped into Longo after an extra point. She promptly pushed him back-an act that further endeared her to her teammates.

"The players embraced Becca from the first day of practice because they saw two things: one, she's good; and two, she's an athlete," says Gerald Todd, the former head coach at Basha.

Last season, Longo connected on 33 of 38 extra-point attempts-"The five misses were all blocks by guys coming around the ends," says Bob Longo-and made her only field-goal attempt from 30 yards. During the season she created a highlight video and sent it to 10 schools, including Adams State.

"I had heard of Becca because of the simple fact that she was a girl playing football, and I recruit the Phoenix area," says Josh Blankenship, the offensive coordinator at Adams State. "I met her at her school and was blown away by her poise, her confidence and her desire. I immediately thought, 'This is a player we can work with.'"

Bob Longo researched the Adams State coaches as much as the coaching staff dug into the background of his daughter. Bob wanted Becca to play for a coach who could empathize with her unique situation. "I wanted her to be coached by someone who had daughters," Bob says. "Coach Rosenbach has two great daughters. That sold me."

The Longos visited Adams State in February. At Division II schools, coaches are allowed to work out players during their official visits, so on a frigid, wintry afternoon Longo, several Adams State coaches, a snapper and a holder walked into Rex Stadium for what essentially was a tryout.

She made her first kick from 20 yards. Then she backed up five yards for another kick, then five yards for another kick, and so on, moving at the varying distances from the left hash mark to the right. Swinging her leg in the cold for the first time, she made all but two of her attempts.

"She crushed it," says Blankenship. "Our special teams coordinator thought she was extremely consistent and had a surprisingly strong leg. Her only flaw was that she was a little slow on her steps, but that's the most easily correctable thing for a kicker."

After accepting a scholarship, Longo returned to Alamosa in April to watch the Adams State spring game, taking in the action from the sideline. After the final whistle blew, Rosenbach gathered the team at midfield, where he introduced Longo to the players.

"Becca is a football player. That's it," Rosenbach told his squad. "You will treat her like any other teammate and welcome her onto our team."

Just then, in the middle of the field, several players approached Longo and exchanged high-fives with her.

It may have been the sweetest moment of her young football life.

It is early evening, and Longo's last day of high school is only hours away. She is riding shotgun with her dad in his 2016 GMC Terrain, passing the park in Queen Creek where the two spent so many hours together kicking, retrieving and dreaming.

"I'm not sad that high school is over," Becca tells her father. "I'm just happy and excited for the future. Who knows what will happen?"

Bob shares a story about Becca's delivering when it matters most. This past February she was picked out of the crowd at a high school state tournament basketball game to shoot a free throw between quarters. If she drained it, she was told, she could eat free fried chicken once a week for a year at Raising Cane's, a fast-food chain.

What happened? Becca grabbed a basketball and strolled to the free-throw line, that devilish smirk illuminating her face. Displaying textbook form, she arced a shot-it splashed nothing but net. "I don't get nervous," Becca says in the car. "But I can't eat that chicken anymore."

Bob and Andrea purchased an $80,000 RV this spring. They plan to hit the road in the autumn to watch their daughter kick her way into history in stadiums across the country. "Becca has come so far," Bob says from behind the wheel. "But her story is just beginning."

Lars Anderson is a senior writer at B/R Mag. A 20-year veteran of Sports Illustrated, Anderson is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including The Mannings, The Storm and the Tide and Carlisle vs. Army. Follow him on Twitter: @LarsAnderson71.
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Man who is on probation for having guns got caught with more guns again.

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A Staten Island man already on probation for collecting a small arsenal of guns and ammo was caught with another cache in his home -- when his probation officer stopped by, police said Monday.

The stash in Anthony Romano's New Springville home included three AR-15 rifles, an AK-47 rifle and an Uzi submachine gun, both disassembled, three disassembled pistols, armor-piercing bullets and an ammo press, authorities said.

Cops tweeted out a photo of the haul, laying it out on a table inside the 121st Precinct stationhouse.

"I purchased all those items on a website, but I don't remember which site it was," Romano told cops, according to a criminal complaint.

Man barricaded in Staten Island taken into custody after standoff

Police confiscated the weapons after a probation officer dropped in on Romano for a routine visit Friday, according to authorities.

Back in November 2014, cops found a similar stash in his home after he threatened a 43-year-old man with a replica assault rifle, cops said.

Police found five fake assault rifles, three fake long rifles, 12 fake handguns and a collection of knives and daggers, as well as two real AR-15 rifles and a several bullets.

Romano was convicted of attempted criminal weapon possession in May 2016. He now faces several felony weapon charges and remains held on $100,000 bail.

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Cassini, NASA's 13-year Saturn mission has ended

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The spacecraft deliberately sank into Saturn's upper atmosphere at a high speed and plunged itself into the planet just after 6:30a.m. ET Friday. Given the amount of time it takes signals to reach Earth, the final signal and last bits of data reached the Deep Space Network's Canberra Station in Australia about an hour and a half later.

NASA confirmed the spacecraft's demise at 7:55 a.m. ET, as predicted.

For about a minute, Cassini was able to transmit new data about the planet's composition as long as its antenna remained pointed toward Earth, with the assist from small thrusters. Then, the spacecraft burned and disintegrated due to the heat and high pressure of the hostile atmosphere. It became part of the planet it set out to explore.

"It was a perfect spacecraft," said Julie Webster, spacecraft operations chief. "Right to the end, it did everything we asked it to. It's perfect, it's perfect."

No spacecraft has ever been so close to Saturn. The last few seconds of the Cassini mission provided the "first taste" of the atmosphere of Saturn, NASA said.

"You can think of Cassini as the first Saturn probe," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist.

On Thursday, Cassini took its last images and transmitted all the data on its recorder to prepare for the final plunge. The final data from Friday is already being processed and analyzed.

For the team behind the mission, losing their spacecraft is bittersweet: Many are sad that the mission is over but excited to see the groundbreaking science provided by unprecedented proximity to Saturn during the final dive.

"The Cassini operations team did an absolutely stellar job guiding the spacecraft to its noble end," said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager. "From designing the trajectory seven years ago, to navigating through the 22 nail-biting plunges between Saturn and its rings, this is a crack shot group of scientists and engineers that scripted a fitting end to a great mission. What a way to go. Truly a blaze of glory."

The team members that have worked together from concept to the final minutes exchanged hugs and tears in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California after the loss of signal was confirmed.

"Things never will be quite the same for those of us on the Cassini team now that the spacecraft is no longer flying," Spilker said. "But, we take comfort knowing that every time we look up at Saturn in the night sky, part of Cassini will be there, too."

After launching in 1997 and reaching the Saturn system in 2004, Cassini spent 13 years exploring the planet and its moons. The data and images led to numerous discoveries that changed how scientists think about our solar system.

"A superb machine in an amazing place doing everything possible to reveal the mysteries and secrets of our solar system," Maize said. "This morning, a lone explorer, a machine made by humankind, finished its mission 900 million miles away. To the very end, the spacecraft did everything we asked. We believe we got every last second of data. We have indeed accomplished everything we set out to do."

Why the dramatic ending?

Cassini had its closest approach with Saturn's moon Titan on Monday, dubbed a "goodbye kiss" by the mission's engineers because it provided the gravity assist that sent the spacecraft on its final encounter with Saturn.

Mission scientists and operators gave Cassini this fiery send-off on purpose. Although many other options were considered -- such as "parking" the spacecraft in orbit -- they didn't want to risk Cassini colliding with any of Saturn's moons.

Cassini data and observations revealed that while seemingly inhospitable to us, the moons Enceladus and Titan could be habitable for some form of life. And NASA didn't want to risk contaminating the moons or any future studies of themwith Earth particles. Although Cassini has been in space for 20 years, microbes from Earth could still exist on the spacecraft without air, water or protection from radiation.

Although the mission itself has ended, the data and observations provided by Cassini will provide new details about the planet, its unique rings and its moons for decades to come.

"Cassini may be gone, but its scientific bounty will keep us occupied for many years," Spilker said. "We've only scratched the surface of what we can learn from the mountain of data it has sent back over its lifetime."

During the final plunge, the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer acted as the "nose" of the spacecraft, directly sampling the composition and structure of the atmosphere -- something that can't be done from orbit, said Hunter Waite, team lead for the spectrometer.

This was in the hopes of investigating the "ring rain" phenomenon discovered by NASA's Voyager mission in the early 1980s, in which it appeared that the rings were raining down material on the planet and causing changes in the atmosphere. The spectrometer could determine what material is from the rings and what material is part of the atmosphere.

Cassini's grand finale actually began in April, with a series of dives between Saturn's rings, close to the planet and its moons, providing unprecedented insight. This is another reason the mission scientists decided on Cassini's particular end-game: The final dive was a dramatic conclusion to this long and scientifically valuable goodbye.

What Cassini taught us and what's next

Inspired to learn more after flybys of Saturn by NASA's Voyager missions, the Cassini mission was designed to be an international effort that united NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

It is known as the Cassini-Huygens mission because it delivered the European agency's Huygens probe to Titan, the "first descent and landing on a world in the outer solar system," according to NASA.

The Cassini mission has been extended twice and finally used up the last of its rocket propellant this week.

In the end, Cassini witnessed about half of a Saturn year. When the craft arrived, Saturn's northern hemisphere was emerging from winter. As seasons on Saturn last about seven Earth years each, Cassini was just able to witness summer in the northern hemisphere before the mission ended.

Over the years, Cassini has revealed insights about Saturn, its rings and how they operate, the complexities of its moons, the history of the solar system and planet formation and even the other places in our solar system where life might exist: ocean worlds. Cassini has collected more than 450,000 images using a visible light camera.

It has traveled nearly five billion miles, executed 2.5 million commands, conducted 162 targeted flybys of Saturn's moons, completed 294 orbits and its collected data has led to the publication of nearly 4,000 research papers.

When Cassini arrived, it witnessed a giant storm circling the planet for nine months. We learned that there are 3-D structures in the rings. Serendipitous observations showed that icy jets erupt from Enceladus. And Titan not only has seas and lakes of liquid ethane and methane, it has an atmosphere of chemicals that rain down, forming a unique chemistry that could lead to life.

"This is the final chapter of an amazing mission, but it's also a new beginning," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Cassini's discovery of ocean worlds at Titan and Enceladus changed everything, shaking our views to the core about surprising places to search for potential life beyond Earth."

And the spacecraft itself, as well as its instruments, are informing future missions like NASA's Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon, launching in the 2020s.

"Cassini has enabled those future missions to be possible," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.

NASA's New Frontiers competition has called for proposals that include future missions to the Saturn system. The proposals include a Saturn probe that explore the planet deeper than Cassini. Intrigued by Cassini's discoveries, scientists have submitted concepts for future "spacecraft to drift on the methane seas of Titan and fly through the Enceladus plume to collect and analyze samples for signs of biology," according to NASA.

Finalists will be announced at the end of the year, and NASA will explore those mission concepts further.

"For future missions to Saturn, there are a lot of possibilities," Spilker said. "One certainly involves the tiny moon Enceladus and the potential for life in that global ocean. The potential for astrobiology in the ocean on Titan. There's questions about the rings -- can we get even closer and understand those individual ring particles? Lots of questions remain, so that's why we have to go back."

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Cassini, NASA's 13-year Saturn mission, has ended

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The spacecraft deliberately sank into Saturn's upper atmosphere at a high speed and plunged itself into the planet just after 6:30a.m. ET Friday. Given the amount of time it takes signals to reach Earth, the final signal and last bits of data reached the Deep Space Network's Canberra Station in Australia about an hour and a half later.

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Newborn makes it through Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma

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Less than a month old, Gabriella Coane is turning into quite the little storm chaser. She's survived both Hurricane Harvey AND Hurricane Irma.

She was born just a week before Hurricane Harvey. Her parents, Bruce and Jessica, sheltered in their Houston apartment with Gabriella while the hurricane flooded parts of the city. When they heard about toxic fumes in the air from a nearby chemical plant that had exploded, they decided it was time to travel to their other home in Miami.

However, they couldn't fly there because Gabriella hadn't received her vaccinations yet. So the family avoided Harvey and its aftermath by taking a 1,200-mile-long road trip through five states.

Bruce told People.com, "We spent the night in Dallas, and the next day we drove about 10 to 12 hours to Destin, Florida, and spent the night there. The next day, we drove 10 hours to Miami-that's when we heard Hurricane Irma was headed our way!"

So they evacuated again and found a hotel in a small town in Alabama. Since they had driven that far already, the family decided to head all the way back to Texas.

"It's unbelievable," said Bruce.

Watch the video to see how Gabriella and her parents navigated the storms

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Less than a month old, Gabriella Coane is turning into quite the little storm chaser. She's survived both Hurricane Harvey AND Hurricane Irma. She was born just a week before Hurricane Harvey. Her parents, Bruce and Jessica, sheltered in their Houston apartment with Gabriella while the hurricane flooded parts of the city.

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police get call from neighbor for a domestic violence and when they got there they were too late, 3 children dead.

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Police say 911 calls came too late to save three children found slain inside a California apartment.

Police late Wednesday found the bodies of 11-year-old Kelvin Hodges, 9-year-old Julie Hodges and Lucas Hodges, who was born in January and was a few days shy of eight months old.

Police say their father, 33-year-old Robert Hodges, had disappeared. West Sacramento police Sgt. Roger Kinney says their mother was traumatized, the victim of an assault by her husband.

He says the mother was close by when the killings occurred but didn't witness them.

Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil for the children Thursday night, leaving candles, stuffed animals and signed cards in their honor.

Hodges is being held without bail for a Monday court appearance, with charges likely to be announced that morning.

Autopsies that could show how the children were killed are expected to be released Friday.

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Police say 911 calls came too late to save three children found slain inside a California apartment. Police late Wednesday found the bodies of 11-year-old Kelvin Hodges, 9-year-old Julie Hodges and Lucas Hodges, who was born in January and was a few days shy of eight months old. Police...

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Man Claims McDonald's Served Him a Raw Hamburger.

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A California man claims he was served a raw hamburger in his meal from a McDonald's in Merced, California and posted a photo on social media to prove it. [related]Christian Knight, 33, says he ordered a Quarter Pounder at the fast food location and drove home.

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A man was found dead in a Maryland forest and his girlfriend has been charged with his murder

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The girlfriend of a man whose body was found in the western Maryland woods has been charged in his death.

The Cumberland Times-News reports that Garrett County State's Attorney Lisa Thayer Welch announced the charges against Megan Virginia Shaffer in Thursday.

Welch said in a news release that the 21-year-old is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and assisting another to commit or attempt to commit suicide.

In January, Shaffer told an emergency dispatcher she was lost all night after she and 24-year-old Alexander Stevens fell from the High Rock overlook in the Savage River State Forest. She says she eventually found a house and called 911.

The next day, Stevens' body was found on a logging road. The newspaper reported that in addition to his broken bones, his throat had been cut deeply, more than once.

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Girlfriend charged in death of man found in Maryland forest

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The girlfriend of a man whose body was found in the western Maryland woods has been charged in his death. The Cumberland Times-News reports that Garrett County State's Attorney Lisa Thayer Welch announced the charges against Megan Virginia Shaffer in Thursday.

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Trump supporters post videos burning "Make America Great Again" hats because he has "failed every campaign promise."

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Underground terror incident unfolded
police are treating an incident on a train at Parsons Green Tube station as terrorism. Wit nesses saw a small explosion on the District Line train.

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London police are treating an incident on a train at Parsons Green Tube station as terrorism. Witnesses saw a "small explosion" on the District Line train.

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A backpack bomb was set off in a train. This was in London. 23 people were injured.

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London attack Manhunt underway for suspects who detonated homemade bomb at Parsons Green station

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A manhunt was underway for any suspects linked to the bucket bomb that detonated on a packed subway train during Friday morning rush hour, injuring at least 29 people.

A source confirmed to Fox News that an ISIS affiliate took responsibility for the attack.

Police quickly called the explosion on the District Line train at Parsons Green station a "terrorist incident." It was the fifth terrorist attack in Britain this year.

Hours after the attack, officials in the United Kingdom raised the country's terrorism threat level to "critical" - the highest possible threat which means another attack is expected shortly.

Police said they have not arrested anyone in connection to the bombing, but hundreds of detectives were trying to hunt down the perpetrator or perpetrators.

The Metropolitan Police force said police "are making fast-time inquiries to establish who was responsible and are working closely with the security services."

Counterterrorism policing chief Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives were scanning surveillance camera footage, carrying out forensic work and speaking to witnesses.

Scotland Yard said an improvised explosive device was used in the attack, and London's Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism unit was also investigating; however, police did not immediately provide any details on any suspects.

The ambulance service said at least one of the injuries was thought to be serious or life-threatening and most of the injuries were flash burns.

Passengers reported seeing people with burns to their faces and bodies after the "massive flash of flames" on the tube station.

Peter Crowley, a passenger, told the BBC: "I heard a large bang from the doors on the other side of the tube train and this fireball came towards my heard and singed off all my hair - I have got burn marks at the top of my head. Everyone just ran off the train, it was quite scary."

"It was a really hot intense fireball above my head, I've just got red marks and burns to the top of my head. There were a lot of people a lot worse than me."

Photos taken inside a District Line train showed a white plastic bucket inside a supermarket shopping bag with flames and what appear to be wires visible.

Explosive experts told the Daily Mail that they were investigating the bucket and said if it exploded properly it could have killed dozens of people. The BBC reported that the homemade device contained a timer.

Police advised people to avoid the area.

"Our city utterly condemns the hideous individuals who attempt to use terror to harm us and destroy our way of life," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement. "As London has proven again and again, we will never be intimidated or defeated by terrorism."

"My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and emergency services who are responding bravely to this terrorist incident," British Prime Minister Theresa May tweeted.

Police said it was "too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command."

The London Ambulance Service said it was called in at 8:20 a.m. local time and dispatched multiple resources to the scene, including a hazardous area response team.

"Our initial priority is to assess the level and nature of injuries," a statement read.

President Trump tweeted about the attack, which he said was perpetrated by a "loser terrorist."

"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!" Trump wrote. "Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!"

May said speculation about the incident was unhelpful following Trump's tweets.

"I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation," May said.

London police have declined to comment on Trump's suggestion that it knew about the attacker.

Richard Aylmer-Hall, 53, who was on the train when the blast occurred, said he saw people injured after being trampled.

"There was a woman on the platform who said she had seen a bag, a flash and a bang, so obviously something had gone off," he said. "Some people got pushed over and trampled on, I saw two women being treated by ambulance crews."

Hall said he didn't believe anyone was injured by the actual device.

"It was an absolutely packed, rush-hour District Line train from Wimbledon to Edgware Road. I saw crying women, there was lots of shouting and screaming, there was a bit of a crush on the stairs going down to the streets," he told Sky News.

Emma Stevie, a passenger on the train during the fire, told the BBC she became mixed in a "human stampede."

"I wedged myself in next to a railing, I put myself in the fetal position," she said.

"There was a pregnant woman underneath me, and I was trying really hard not to crush her.

"I saw a poor little boy with a smashed-in head and other injuries. It was horrible.

"The injuries from the stampede seemed the worst. I'm outside now, there are women crying and people sitting on the floor."

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said people should "keep calm and go about their normal lives" following the incident, adding that it would be "wrong to speculate."

May said Britain's official threat level from terrorism remained at "severe," meaning an attack is highly likely, and has not been raised in the wake of the bombing.

The London Underground itself has been targeted several times in the past, notably in July 2005, when suicide bombers blew themselves up on three subway trains and a bus, killing 52 people and themselves. Four more bombers tried a similar attack two weeks later, but their devices failed to detonate fully.
Fox News' Allison Barrie, Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Harvard University with draws their case on 29 year old Chelsea Panning  the transgender U.S army soldier was accused of leaking classified data

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Harvard University withdraws fellowship invitation to Chelsea Manning

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Harvard University on Friday withdrew a fellowship invitation to Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of leaking classified data, after two top intelligence experts distanced themselves from the school over the invite.

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23 people injured in the explosion during rush hour Friday morning

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Reporter for prestigious newspaper eaten by a crocodile while washing his hands in a lagoon

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A Financial Times journalist was killed by a crocodile while washing his hands at a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with pals.

Paul McClean, 25, an Oxford University graduate, is understood to have wandered away from his group of friends to find a toilet when he was attacked.

The British victim is believed to have been dragged under water at a lagoon called Crocodile Rock near a popular surf spot after being ambushed by the reptile.

McClean graduated from Oxford with a First class honors degree in French in 2015 before joining the Financial Times later that year.

He had covered Brexit and the European Union for the newspaper and had recently returned to London after living in Brussels for a couple of months.

The lagoon, known to be crawling with crocodiles, is yards away from popular surf spot Elephant Rock near Arugam Bay on the southeast coast.

Sri Lankan police and the army are said to be searching the shore surrounding the area.

Locals claimed the victim had been staying at the East Beach Surf Resort - located just minutes away from the surfing area he went missing from.

Fawas Lafeer, owner of Safa Surf School, located up the coast from where the incident happened, said: "A local fisherman witnessed a man being dragged into a river, set back from the beach, by a crocodile. The fisherman was on the opposite side of the river and downstream of the incident location."

He added:"This is the first known crocodile attack in Sri Lanka. Both tourists and locals surf at Elephant Rock, which is a beautiful secluded beach and very safe.

"Crocodiles in Sri Lanka live only in the fresh, back waters of the jungle. It is almost unheard of for them to come close to the beach. The salt water actually turns them blind.

"Local search and rescue teams are working alongside the police and British Embassy in attempt to locate the man's body."

Meanwhile, a Scottish tourist, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: "A British tourist was at a surf spot called Elephant rock.

"There's a lagoon right next to the sea. He went to the toilet next to the lagoon and was grabbed by a crocodile.

"There are lots in the lagoon. People last saw his arms in the air in the water and then was grabbed under. I was there but didn't see it happen though. Horrible."
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North Korea launches missile over Japan

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In a major show of defiance to the international community, North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday.

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people from the ancient world liked to have luxury jewelry almost like the brand Rolex.

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Our perceptions of luxury are today defined by brands like Louis Vuitton, Lexus and Louboutin. But archaeological evidence shows that humankind's obsession with luxury objects stretches right back to the earliest civilizations, predating the invention of money itself.

A new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, " Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas," is dedicated to opulence in ancient cultures, in particular the pre-Columbian societies of the Aztecs and Mayans.

CNN spoke to the director of the Getty, Timothy Potts, about the exhibition that he co-curated.
CNN: What was it that inspired you to put on this exhibition?
Timothy Potts: The concept was developed by Joanne Pilsbury, who was then at the Getty Research Institute and is now a curator at the Metropolitan in New York. She's an expert in pre-Columbian archaeology. We developed the idea that, while there's been so much attention on goldwork going right back to the Spanish conquest (of the Americas), there has never been a series, study or exhibition on the other materials which these cultures valued -- in many cases -- much more than gold. This includes works made from shell, textiles, featherwork and semi-precious stones like jade.
What kind of themes and motifs do these items depict?
We know much more about the iconography of some cultures than others. Often we don't have any written documents, like we do with Greek and Roman artifacts. So, to some extent, it's guesswork. But from the context, we can presume that many of (the depictions are) to do with the gods. In the case of the Mayan culture, we do have written texts showing that these are usually representations of deities or underworld forces -- beings that relate to the control of the world.
Were they just ornamental, or did they serve a deeper purpose?
I think "ornamental" is the wrong term. A lot of these items would really be classified as regalia, which would have been literally worn by royal and religious figures. Not only was this regalia there to be seen, but the metal it was made from would rattle. The sounds they made were apparently an important part of the effect they had.

They were definitely calculated to impress and to resonate, but not just aesthetically. These were deeply meaningful acts that the king and others were performing.
Did any of these luxuries trickle down to the common people?
By and large, we're talking about a very elite level of society. Most of these objects were found in royal burial grounds and the pyramids of the Mayan realm. Materials like the (feathers) of macaw birds, which were imported across the Andes from Brazil, and shells, which could only be found by diving deep along the coast, were considered very precious and were essentially part of a royal prerogative.
What do we know about the people who made them?
Virtually nothing. We have one (attributable) Mayan work: a jade mask which is signed with the name of an artist. But that's the only work in the exhibition where we know anything about the maker. And frankly, a name doesn't tell you anything.

It's almost certain that these were (created in) royal workshops. The materials were controlled by the elite, and (the artifacts) were made by craftsmen who had passed these skills down for generations. But there wasn't a practice of naming these works, or the artist being a significant part of the creation.
What for you are the standout pieces in the show?
Gosh, there are so many of them. There's the Mayan jade mask, the great objects from the Aztec capital (and) a whole wall of blue and yellow featherwork which survived for many, many centuries because it was buried in jars. (We also have) a royal tunic with multiple motifs woven incredibly finely into it, which is extraordinarily beautiful and technical. The whole exhibition is really quite a feat. Visitors will be bowled over.

"Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas" is on at the Getty Center in Los Angeles from Sept. 16, 2017 to Jan. 28, 2018.

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Written by Clive Martin, CNN Our perceptions of luxury are today defined by brands like Louis Vuitton, Lexus and Louboutin. But archaeological evidence shows that humankind's obsession with luxury objects stretches right back to the earliest civilizations, predating the invention of money itself.