# data[].attributes.body
A diver got sucked into a water intake pipe to a nuclear power plant. He survived with only minor bruises, and came out at a water reservoir inside the plant fences.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
scuba diver sucked into nuclear power plant intake pipe - cnn video

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Scuba diver sucked into nuclear power plant intake pipe - CNN Video

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A Florida man survived a harrowing experience after he was sucked into an intake pipe for a nuclear power plant while scuba diving. CNN affiliate WPTV has the story.

# data[].attributes.body
The alleged incident took place Tuesday evening during a flight from New Jersey to Charlotte, N.C., WSOC-TV reported. Sources for the site said the woman, 37, had informed the crew of the male passenger’s behavior, telling them that he had placed his hands between her legs and groped her.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The FBI is investigating an incident aboard a United Airlines flight, during which a female passenger alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the man seated beside her.

The alleged incident took place Tuesday evening during a flight from New Jersey to Charlotte, N.C., WSOC-TV reported. Sources for the site said the woman, 37, had informed the crew of the male passenger's behavior, telling them that he had placed his hands between her legs and groped her.
INTOXICATED UNITED PASSENGER PEED ON SEATMATE MID-FLIGHT, LAWSUIT CLAIMS
Flight attendants reportedly separated the two and told passengers to remain seated after landing. Upon arrival, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg arrived to remove the man, who is 73 years old, from the plane.

Federal authorities will be investigating the claim, as it happened outside of the local police's jurisdiction, Fox 46 noted.

The suspect, from Lithuania, later told investigators that his hand merely fell into the woman's lap by accident, WSOC-TV reported.
DELTA DIVERTS PLANE BECAUSE PASSENGERS HAD TO 'GO' REALLY BAD
A fellow passenger who spoke to the station, however, said the man's account seems highly unlikely.

"I'm sure a woman knows the difference between a hand hitting her versus being groped," said Sherrell Ealy.

United is said to be cooperating with the FBI's investigation.
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS
The case is just one of several similar mid-flight groping incidents reported in recent years. In July, a 28-year-old doctor was charged with engaging in sexual conduct with a minor after allegedly groping a 16-year-old while she slept aboard a United Airlines flight.

Also this year, an Oregon woman pleaded guilty to licking and groping a female passenger aboard a 2016 Alaska Airlines flight, and a California man was accused of groping and kissing a 16-year-old girl while she slept on a separate 2016 Alaska Airlines flight.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Woman claims she was sexually assaulted on United Airlines flight

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The FBI is investigating an incident aboard a United Airlines flight, during which a female passenger alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the man seated beside her. The alleged incident took place Tuesday evening during a flight from New Jersey to Charlotte, N.C., WSOC-TV reported.

# data[].attributes.body
The Lees Summit North boys sophomore basketball team did just drop 100 on park hill last night in a huge W

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
california fires: two people burned in new blaze - cnn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
California fires: Two people burned in new blaze

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
With weary firefighters continuing their assault on several major wildfires wreaking devastation across Southern California, two new blazes fired up Thursday, adding to the region's smoke-filled misery.

# data[].attributes.body
California wild fires cause a huge evacuation.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds continue to ravage Southern California Wednesday evening, as firefighters anticipate conditions worsening through the night.

The Skirball Fire - named after the Skirball Cultural Center in northern Los Angeles - burned 475 acres in the Sepulveda Pass near the Getty Center, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The museum closed Wednesday while the fire was held back. The fire was five percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon.

To the north, in Sylmar, California, the 'Creek fire' has spread 12,605 acres and forced 150,000 people to evacuate their homes. Forecasters predict some areas to have 80 mph winds. It is only 5 percent contained, The Times reported. A total of 180 structures were destroyed.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has responded by declaring a local state of emergency.

"Both Emergency Declarations direct relevant City departments to take all necessary steps to protect life and property in the area affected by the fires," Garcetti's office said in a statement. "(These) declarations also request that state and federal assistance be provided to the City quickly. "

The eruption of the Skirball Fire prompted mandatory evacuation orders and the closure of the 405 freeway - one of the busiest in the nation - for part of Tuesday afternoon. The freeway reopened on Wednesday.

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced that at least 265 schools in the San Fernando Valley will be closed through the weekend.

According to the National Weather Service, the wildfires are expected to exacerbate overnight, as winds reach speeds of 65 MPH.

Hundreds of engines are coming from fire departments in other states, LA County Fire Department Chief Daryl Osby said.

CalFire officials anticipate the fire to continue to grow in the coming days due to strong winds. Red Flag warnings will remains in effect until Saturday night.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Southern California wildfires force mass evacuations in Los Angeles

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds continue to ravage Southern California Wednesday evening, as firefighters anticipate conditions worsening through the night. The Skirball Fire - named after the Skirball Cultural Center in northern Los Angeles - burned 475 acres in the Sepulveda Pass near the Getty Center, The Los Angeles Times reported.

# data[].attributes.body
Professor gives extra credit for protesting Trump tax plan

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Professor gives extra credit for protesting Trump tax plan

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Federalist's Bre Payton reacts on 'Fox & Friends First.'

# data[].attributes.body
Google is going on a hiring spree to try to stamp out offensive videos and comments on YouTube.

The company is recruiting thousands of reviewers to reduce the amount of "problematic content" on its video platform. It's also introducing tougher restrictions on advertising and making greater use of smart technology.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Google is going on a hiring spree to try to stamp out offensive videos and comments on YouTube.

The company is recruiting thousands of reviewers to reduce the amount of "problematic content" on its video platform. It's also introducing tougher restrictions on advertising and making greater use of smart technology.

By 2018, Google aims to have more than 10,000 people "working to address content that might violate our policies," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a blog post. She did not say how many people currently monitor YouTube for offensive videos.

"Some bad actors are exploiting our openness to mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm," Wojcicki said, adding that YouTube's trust and safety teams have reviewed nearly 2 million videos for violent extremist content over the past six months.

"We are also taking aggressive action on comments, launching new comment moderation tools and in some cases shutting down comments altogether," she said.

Related: Google loses more advertisers over hate videos

YouTube has grappled with a series of controversies this year concerning videos available on its platform. It was forced to adopt additional screening measures last month on its kid-friendly platform, YouTube Kids, after reports showed many of the videos there contained profanity and violence.

Companies such as Etihad Airways, Marriott and Deliveroo pulled their advertisements in June -- as did the U.K.'s Labour Party -- after finding they were appearing alongside videos made by a hate preacher.

Wojcicki said YouTube was taking a "new approach to advertising," with more manual curation, stricter criteria for videos eligible to show ads, and a greater number of ad reviewers.

"We want advertisers to have peace of mind that their ads are running alongside content that reflects their brand's values," she said. "Equally, we want to give creators confidence that their revenue won't be hurt by the actions of bad actors."

Related: Google cracks down on disturbing cartoons on Youtube Kids

The company isn't just banking on more human intervention, however. Its machine learning algorithms have helped remove more than150,000 videosfrom YouTube since June that depict violent extremism.

Wojcicki said 180,000 people would have had to work 40 weeks to assess the same amount of content.

"Because we have seen these positive results, we have begun training machine-learning technology across other challenging content areas, including child safety and hate speech," she added.

While most of the new hires are content reviewers, Google is also recruiting for related jobs, including engineers and policy specialists to work on refining its machine learning technology.

CNNMoney (New Delhi) First published December 5, 2017: 6:59 AM ET

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Google is hiring 10,000 people to clean up YouTube

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Youtube is stepping up its efforts to reduce the amount of offensive and extremist content on its platform.

# data[].attributes.body
People in Philly are outraged after the city has pushed through a ban on bullet proof glass. Shopkeepers have been saved by the glass several times and feel that taking it down because people's feelings are hurt isn't the way to go, and it will lead to more robberies and deaths.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales -- but it's triggered backlash from the shopkeepers.

The city's Public Health and Human Services Committee passed a bill that enables Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections to regulate the bullet-resistant barricades that stand between customers and cash registers in many neighborhood corner stores, according to Fox 29.

"No establishment required to obtain a Large Establishment license ... shall erect or maintain a physical barrier that requires the persons serving the food either to open a window or other aperture or to pass the food through a window or other aperture, in order to hand the food to a customer inside the establishment," the bill states. It also calls for larger establishments to have bathrooms for customers.

Many of the hundreds of deli owners feel as though they are being singled out and are among those protesting the bill, according to Fox 29.

"If the glass comes down, the crime rate will rise and there will be lots of dead bodies," Rich Kim, the owner of Broad Deli, which sells soda, meals and beer by the can, said. "The most important thing is safety and the public's safety."

Kim said the glass went up after a shooting and says it saved his mother-in-law from a knife attack.

Fox News previously reported that the bill, put forward by Councilwoman Cindy Bass, focuses on "stop-and-go" convenience stores that act more like bars than the restaurants they are licensed to be, selling beer and shots of liquor over the counter and attracting crowds that end up becoming public nuisances, according to lawmakers.

Pennsylvania state law mandates businesses with restaurant licenses should regularly sell food and have tables and chairs to seat 30 people. But some businesses keep their seating locked up or out of reach and the grills shut down, selling little more than alcohol and forcing customers to wander outside.

Bass told Fox News that in "more than 90 percent of cases they are breaking the law in terms of operating outside the requirement of their license."

Bass said the bulletproof glass and partitions at some of these businesses are a concern of the city's health department, as if a customer is choking or having an allergic reaction, a barrier should not stand in the way of safety.

She also addressed the security concerns. "Thousands of businesses operate in the same neighborhoods with no Plexiglass," she told Fox News, mentioning stores like Rite-Aid and barber shops. "I've never been to a bar with Plexiglass."

Kim objected to the claims that the bill stemmed from nuisance complaints city officials got from constituents, and said that calls to police often were met with slow responses.

The chairman of the Asian American Licensed Beverage Association of Philadelphia, which represents 217 'beer delis' in the city, also said most of the businesses being targeted "are in not-as-safe neighborhoods."

A full council vote is slated for Thursday, December 14, according to Fox 29.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Outrage as Philly pushes through ban on bulletproof glass in crime-plagued neighborhood shops

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Philadelphia is one step closer to getting rid of bulletproof glass in many of its small businesses as part of a larger effort to crack down on loitering, public urination and potential drug sales -- but it's triggered backlash from the shopkeepers.

# data[].attributes.body
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops who deployed tear gas and stun grenades during a second day of demonstrations against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the American embassy.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops who deployed tear gas and stun grenades during a second day of demonstrations against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate the American embassy.

Demonstrations that began in the morning as largely peaceful and muted changed took a more violent turn in the afternoon as hundreds of residents in the West Bank cities of Rahhallah and Bethlehem vented their frustration with Trump's decision to break with decades of U.S. policy and long-standing international assurances that Jerusalem's fate would be decided in negotiations with Israel-which captured the eastern half of the city in 1967.

Protesters set fire to tires, hurled stones at troops in riot gear, burned U.S. flags and chanted anti-American and anti-Trump slogans. Troops fired water cannons and tear gas in Bethlehem and in Rahmallah, the seat of the Palestinian government. Fires set by protesters sent a plume of black smoke over the city. A truck reportedly plowed into a group of protesters in the city of Beit Jala.

In the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to launch a new intifada, or uprising, against Israel on Friday.

Hamas, a terrorist group that seeks Israel's destruction, killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks in the early 2000s. But the group's capabilities are more limited now. Gaza, Hamas' stronghold, is closed by an Israeli blockade while in the West Bank many of its members have been arrested. Nonetheless, it possesses a large arsenal of rockets capable of striking much of Israel.

The U.S. State Department advised Americans to avoid Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank in anticipation of Trump's announcement.

Protesters demonstrated for a second day against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plan to relocate the American embassy.
TRUMP OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL'S CAPITAL, ORDERS EMBASSY MOVE FOR US
Trump was warned that these clashes were likely. However, the question is whether they last for a few days or morph into a sustained uprising.

The Israeli military said it would deploy several battalions to the West Bank ahead of Friday, while other troops have been put on alert to address "possible developments."

The conflicting claims to Jerusalem, and especially its Old City, where sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites are located, lie at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although Trump's decision had no immediate impact on the city's daily life, it carried symbolic meaning, and was seen as siding with Israel and an attempt to impose a solution on the Palestinians.

Israel, which claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, welcomed Trump's decision.

Negative reaction in the Arab world and parts of Europe about Trump's decision was swift.

Turkey, where thousands of people took to the streets late on Dec. 6, called Trump's move "irresponsible."

Qatar's foreign minister said Trump's undertaking was "a death sentence for all those who seek peace."

"This can rock global security and stability," Indonesian President Joko Widodo, leader of the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, told a news conference in which he called for the United States to reconsider its decision, reports Yahoo! News.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he didn't support America's "unilateral" move, while British Prime Minister Theresa May said through a spokesman that she disagreed with Trump's embrace of Jerusalem as Israel's capital before a peace agreement could be signed in the region.

U.S. embassies across much of the Middle East and parts of Africa warned American citizens of possible protests following Trump's move.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has suggested that with Trump's move, the United States disqualified itself as mediator between Israelis and Palestinians, a role it has played exclusively in more than two decades of stop-and-go negotiations aimed at setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

"With its decision, the U.S. has isolated itself and Israel, and has pushed the area into a dangerous situation and stopped the peace process," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a senior Abbas aid. "Without a doubt, this decision will not help at all in solving the problems in the area, but rather strengthen the extremists."
The Associated Press and Fox News Foreign Correspondent Conor Powell contributed to this report.
Christopher Carbone is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @christocarbone.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Trump's Jerusalem decision triggers violent clashes in Palestinians areas

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops who deployed tear gas and stun grenades during a second day of demonstrations against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plan to relocate the American embassy.

# data[].attributes.body
Three teenagers, ages 14,16, and 17, got arrested for beating a homeless man and left him to die. The two younger ones were charged for criminal conspiracy and robbery, and the older one was also charged for attempted murder and aggravated assault.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Three teenage boys were charged as adults Monday after they allegedly beat a homeless man in Philadelphia, robbed him and left him for dead, police said.

Brandon Conrad, 14, and Malik Page, 16, were charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery and other related offenses, FOX29 Philadelphia reported. Emmanual Harris, 17, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery and other offenses.

Kevin Cullen was in the Philadelphia's Holmesburg neighborhood on Nov. 26 when the teenage boys allegedly beat and robbed him, Philly.com reported. Police found Cullen unconscious with his pockets emptied out. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead the next day.

Cullen's family thanked nearby residents in the neighborhood for attempting to help the 57-year-old man after the beating. Tom Cullen, his brother, specifically thanked a woman named Donna who sat with Kevin Cullen, according to FOX29.

"Especially, the woman, Donna, who sat with him when he was dying. Glad somebody was there to show him compassion when he was dying," Tom said.

Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
3 teens charged as adults in deadly beating of homeless man in Philadelphia

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Three teenage boys were charged as adults Monday after they allegedly beat a homeless man in Philadelphia, robbed him and left him for dead, police said. Brandon Conrad, 14, and Malik Page, 16, were charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery and other related offenses, FOX29 Philadelphia reported.

# data[].attributes.body
A mothers children were all adopted at birth. Her sons had another sister before their current one, which causes anger in them. "Our other sister was a real girl

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
This article is part of the Race/Related newsletter. You can sign up here to have it delivered weekly to your inbox.
She grew up a tomboy in suburban Chicago, a fan of Hot Wheels, baseball cards and Blackhawks hockey. So when her two brothers tossed a football in the family's half-acre backyard one day, Amy Roost insisted on playing. They said no, she begged, and one of them whipped the ball at her so hard that it sent her to the ground in tears.

"Our other sister was a real girl," one of the boys blurted out.

The comment left Amy, about 8 at the time, dumbfounded. There was no other sister, or so she thought.

She raced inside, found her mother smoking at the Eames tulip table in the kitchen, and told her what her brother Bobby had said.

"Is it true that you had a daughter before me?" asked Amy, who, like her brothers, was adopted at birth.

Marge Sandberg slowly blotted out her cigarette in an ashtray.

"Listen carefully," Amy recalled her mother saying, "because I'm only going to tell you this story once."

It was around 1970 in Deerfield, Ill., and Ms. Sandberg told her youngest child a closely guarded secret about a choice the family had made, one fueled by the racial tensions of the era, that sent a black girl and the white girl that took her place on diverging paths.

Decades later, the journeys of the two women tell a nuanced story of race in America, one that complicates easy assumptions about white privilege and black hardship. Lives take unexpected twists and turns, this family story suggests, no matter the race of those involved. And years later, it is not easy to figure out the role of race when looking for lessons learned.

It all started in 1959 when a developer bought a plot of land in Deerfield to build 51 homes. He said he would sell a dozen of them to black people.

This small community about 30 miles north of Chicago had spent years growing in the image of mid-20th-century suburban America: tract housing, green lawns and a population that was virtually all white. Deerfield residents made it clear that they wanted to protect the racial order.

Vandals struck two houses under construction. Someone burned a cross on the lawn of a resident who supported the development. A local pastor who advocated the housing received an anonymous letter that called him a vicious racial slur and told him to "let your children marry one of them and present you with a nice dark brown grandson or daughter," The New York Times reported on April 17, 1960.

Among those who wanted to see the housing built were Marge Sandberg and her husband, Len, who had moved to Deerfield with their two adopted sons in the mid-1950s. As a Jew, Mr. Sandberg said he had always had sympathy for persecuted minority groups. Ms. Sandberg joined a local group that supported the development. But the efforts to get the homes built were unsuccessful; the city ultimately seized the land from the developer and built a park.

While the talk of the town was about the housing development, the Sandbergs were talking about expanding their family. They wanted a daughter. And so they hired a lawyer, who found a woman looking to put up her newborn girl for adoption. The baby, whom they planned to name Rebecca, was born on April 19, 1962, and when she arrived at the Sandberg house days later, what they saw surprised them.

She was black.

Immediately, Mr. Sandberg said, he thought of the burning crosses and racist taunts, the upheaval in their community over the prospect of black people moving in. Interracial adoptions were far less common then.

"I said at that point that I wasn't going to go forward with it," Mr. Sandberg, now 89, recalled.

His wife protested vigorously. She cried. She called on a pastor at the Unitarian church they attended to try to convince him to change his mind. Mr. Sandberg would not budge.

"I thought, 'My God, how are you going to raise a child in this neighborhood with the way people are feeling about this thing?'" said Mr. Sandberg, the owner of a prosperous manufacturing company. "It just wouldn't have been great for her."

The Sandbergs returned the child. A few months later, they adopted a newborn white girl and named her Amy.

Even as the Sandbergs moved on, the impact of what they did lingered. Ms. Sandberg, who died of cancer in 1997, kept journal entries saying she thought about the girl every April, the month she was born. The Sandbergs eventually separated and divorced. The family almost never talked about what had happened.

But Ms. Roost began thinking about the family secret again in 2012, after Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, was killed by a neighborhood watchman in Florida, setting off a national conversation about racial disparities in America. Ms. Roost wondered if the girl her parents had sent back had ended up on the short end of the country's racial divide.

Ms. Roost, now 55, had graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political science, and worked as a press aide on Capitol Hill, as a university administrator, and as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations. She became a freelance journalist, and, using her reporting skills, set out to find the woman her parents had given up. Ms. Roost documented this search for a story that will air on WNYC's Snap Judgment podcast.

Ms. Roost dug through Illinois adoption and birth records and searched the internet, eventually finding the woman: Angelle Kimberly Smith. It was 2015, and Ms. Roost called Ms. Smith, nervous about what she might say.

The conversation did not go as Ms. Roost had imagined.

"She was really, really cool about it," Ms. Roost said.

That's because after the Sandbergs had given her up, Ms. Smith had landed with a loving couple, Harry and Ruth Smith, who were black. Her father ran a stationery store. He also was heavily involved in an underground lottery, with tentacles that extended into the city's political and organized crime worlds, she said. Her mother was a homemaker. Her upbringing, Ms. Smith said, was comfortable and loving in a solid, black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. She attended a private grammar school.

But tragedy struck when Harry Smith died of a heart attack when his daughter was just 8.

Ms. Smith and her mother endured. Her mother ran the stationery store, she said, and neighbors treated them like family.

"I was raised by people that really loved me and really wanted me," said Ms. Smith, now 55.

As she entered adulthood, Ms. Smith moved to Los Angeles, lured by the prospect of a glamorous life. Instead, she found trouble.

In spite of her stable home life, Ms. Smith said she was sucked into freewheeling circles in which drugs were common. She became addicted to cocaine, she said, and became homeless and was incarcerated for burglary. She had four children, two of them while living on the streets, and lost custody of all of them.

Ms. Smith eventually pulled her life back together. She earned an associate degree, started working on bachelor's and master's degrees online and worked as a counselor. By 2007, all of her children were back in her life. She wanted to learn more about who she was, so she searched for her biological parents, listed as Neal Gordon and Juanita Green on her birth certificate, but never found them.

But life had taken so many twists and turns that by the time she heard from Ms. Roost, she felt she could handle anything. She greeted the news that she had been given up by a white family by telling Ms. Roost that she held no hard feelings, and would not have wanted to be raised by white parents in a white neighborhood.

Over time, the two women built a relationship, discussing the good and the bad places that life had taken them. They talked openly about whether they had traveled stereotypical racial trajectories - the white girl soaring to success with the support of a wealthy, white family; the black girl struggling in despair.

That jaded narrative, it turned out, was far from the reality. Ms. Smith wondered whether she actually would have been worse off had the Sandbergs kept her.

The way she saw it, Ms. Smith said, race never felt like much of a determining factor in her life. She went to school with white children and enjoyed some of the same benefits as white people, from her education to her family's vacation home. She felt lucky to have grown up in a predominantly black neighborhood, rather than in Deerfield, where she said she likely would have faced discrimination.

"There were no people of color in that community at all," Ms. Smith said, adding that "when white people have to deal with black people, I think, there's a misperception of who we are, what we stand for."

When Ms. Roost learned what Ms. Smith had gone through as an adult - hustling to make ends meet, living in Los Angeles's once notorious MacArthur Park - she could not help but think of how different her own life had turned out and how her parents' racially motivated decision might have impacted both of them.

As she contrasted her life with Ms. Smith's, Ms. Roost said she believed that without having to face racism, her family was able to do well financially, allowing her to get a college education and stable jobs. It felt like white privilege, she said.

Yet she also realized that her assumptions about Ms. Smith's life did not fully ring true.

"When I found out she had been adopted by a black family, I assumed her life probably wasn't as good as mine," Ms. Roost said.

But Ms. Roost has endured her own tumultuous times, despite enjoying the overseas vacations and luxe Christmas parties that her family's wealth afforded her. A family member sexually assaulted her. With her parents divorced by the time she was 10, her relationship with her father grew distant and her mother's alcoholism complicated their relationship.

"You can look at it and think, 'Oh, the white child probably had the better childhood in this ritzy, tony suburb,'" Ms. Roost said. "But then again, peel it back a layer and you'll see it was a horrible childhood."

Had she experienced Ms. Roost's childhood, Ms. Smith said, she very well might have slid into drug addiction more quickly.

Those possibilities, however, are of little consolation to Mr. Sandberg, the man who refused to keep a girl because of the color of her skin.

"It was a tough decision and I did feel guilty," he said. "I'm ashamed of myself. I don't know whether I made the right decision or the wrong decision. As I look now, in this day and age, I feel that I was wrong."

When he met Ms. Smith two years ago for the first and only time at a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., she ran toward him and they embraced.

"Thank you so much," Ms. Smith recalled whispering in his ear.

He asked why she was thanking him.

"'I don't know if you've battled with this through the years, but you did the right thing,'" Ms. Smith recalled telling him, adding that he seemed visibly relieved. "I watched 50 years worth of guilt and shame roll off of him."
Are you a parent or child in a transracial adoption? We'd like to hear about your experience. Share your story here.

'I'd Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen'

With Trump Visit, Protest May Follow Opening of Civil Rights Museum

Turner Prize Goes to Lubaina Himid, Whose Work Depicts African Diaspora

Myanmar's Rohingya Actions May Be Genocide, U.N. Official Says

Framing the Unruliness of Life and Loss in a Black Box

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
This article is part of the Race/Related newsletter. You can sign up here to have it delivered weekly to your inbox. She grew up a tomboy in suburban Chicago, a fan of Hot Wheels, baseball cards and Blackhawks hockey. So when her two brothers tossed a football in the family's half-acre backyard one day, Amy Roost insisted on playing.

# data[].attributes.body
Three teenage boys were charged as adults Monday after they allegedly beat a homeless man in Philadelphia, robbed him and left him for dead, police said.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Three teenage boys were charged as adults Monday after they allegedly beat a homeless man in Philadelphia, robbed him and left him for dead, police said.

Brandon Conrad, 14, and Malik Page, 16, were charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery and other related offenses, FOX29 Philadelphia reported. Emmanual Harris, 17, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery and other offenses.

Kevin Cullen was in the Philadelphia's Holmesburg neighborhood on Nov. 26 when the teenage boys allegedly beat and robbed him, Philly.com reported. Police found Cullen unconscious with his pockets emptied out. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead the next day.

Cullen's family thanked nearby residents in the neighborhood for attempting to help the 57-year-old man after the beating. Tom Cullen, his brother, specifically thanked a woman named Donna who sat with Kevin Cullen, according to FOX29.

"Especially, the woman, Donna, who sat with him when he was dying. Glad somebody was there to show him compassion when he was dying," Tom said.

Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
3 teens charged as adults in deadly beating of homeless man in Philadelphia

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Three teenage boys were charged as adults Monday after they allegedly beat a homeless man in Philadelphia, robbed him and left him for dead, police said. Brandon Conrad, 14, and Malik Page, 16, were charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery and other related offenses, FOX29 Philadelphia reported.

# data[].attributes.body
On Tuesday night, the LSN Boys Rassling team was in action here at North. One of the newcomers, Peyton Kramer, secured an easy victory versus a trashy kid that obviously doesn't even belong on the same mat as him. Peyton was up 15-0 before he pinned the kid and put him out of his misery. Norht is now 3-0 on the season.

# data[].attributes.body
Praise and Alarm From American Jews Over Trump’s Jerusalem Move

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
If he was hoping for thunderous applause from American Jews, President Trump may be disappointed.

His announcement on Wednesday that he will recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital went down well with those on the political right, who have urged the step for years. They will be telling him so at the White House Hanukkah party on Thursday, they said.

But other Jewish leaders said they were more worried than glad, fearing that the precipitous step would inflame tensions in the region, provoke more terrorism, put peace with the Palestinians even farther out of reach, and worsen the diplomatic isolation of both Israel and the United States. They say they wish he had held off, as previous presidents have done.

"Jerusalem has always been the most delicate issue in every discussion about peace," said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest branch of American Judaism. "So we're very concerned that the announcement will either delay or undermine the very, very important resuming of a serious peace process."
Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter
Debra DeLee, the president of Americans for Peace Now, an affiliate of the Israeli peace group Shalom Achshav, said, "Trump is causing severe damage to the prospects of Middle East peace, imperiling lives, and degrading U.S. leadership."

Jewish leaders are not alone in expressing alarm at Mr. Trump's move. Leaders of other faiths decried it, including Pope Francis, Orthodox patriarchs and Protestant church leaders in Jerusalem and the United States, and Muslims around the world.

The words Mr. Trump uttered about Jerusalem sounded sweet to many Jews, who belong to a faith that has revered the city as its holiest site for 3,000 years. But Jerusalem is also holy to Christians and to Muslims, and for centuries, attempts by any side to take exclusive control have brought trouble. Balancing their competing claims has been seen as the stickiest part of any peace effort.

American Jews are debating whether Mr. Trump's decision to end decades of diplomatic ambiguity and recognize the disputed city as the Israeli capital will help or hurt Israel and the effort to make a lasting peace with the Palestinians, who also want Jerusalem for their capital. Israel, long a unifying cause among American Jews, has increasingly become a point of polarization, and Mr. Trump's move may only deepen that divide.

There were Jewish leaders who celebrated the president's announcement on Wednesday as a historic step that many Jews had longed for, and that might shake things up enough to restart the stalled Middle East peace process.

Nathan J. Diament, executive director of public policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, said in an interview, "This move puts pressure where it belongs, which is on the Palestinians and on Arab governments that support the Palestinians, because it sends the message that you can't just sit still and refuse to be in negotiations and, oh, by the way, sponsor terrorism, and think that everything is just going to remain status quo."

Mr. Diament said he was not troubled by the criticism from some Jewish leaders that by taking sides on Jerusalem, Mr. Trump had squandered America's ability to serve as an "honest broker," or mediator, between the Israelis and Palestinians.

"I've never thought the U.S. should be an honest broker," said Mr. Diament, who represents the largest umbrella group of Orthodox Jews, who comprise about 10 percent of American Jews. "Pro-Israel Americans aren't looking for the U.S. to be an honest broker. Pro-Israel Americans are looking to the U.S. to be a friend to our ally, Israel."

Jewish organizations like B'nai B'rith International and the American Jewish Committee also welcomed the president's decision. But liberal groups that are critical of the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu and have a following among younger Jews, like IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace, protested the move and promised to rally against it.

They said it would lead to the displacement of more Palestinians from East Jerusalem and would entrench the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian land, deepening grievances and making any kind of acceptable compromise harder for both sides to reach.

American Jews as a group tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, and only about 24 percent of Jews who voted in the 2016 presidential election backed Mr. Trump. Soon after he took office, Mr. Trump appointed his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as his chief negotiator for the Middle East, but neither man has made public any details about the contours or status of the process.

In his speech on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that his decision on Jerusalem "is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement." He continued, "We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis, and a great deal for the Palestinians."

A question that divides many American Jews, though, is how to get there.

At the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, where more than 6,000 leaders of the Union for Reform Judaism were beginning to gather on Wednesday for their biennial convention, the group's president said he was still assessing Mr. Trump's speech.

To hear Jerusalem recognized as the capital of Israel, Rabbi Jacobs said, "is the age-old dream of the Jewish people and all of us who love and care about Israel."

He said he was open to the possibility that the move could prove to be a "concrete step closer to a peace process."

"Or will it be an obstacle?" he said. "Only time will tell."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Praise and Alarm From American Jews Over Trump's Jerusalem Move

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
If he was hoping for thunderous applause from American Jews, President Trump may be disappointed. His announcement on Wednesday that he will recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital went down well with those on the political right, who have urged the step for years.

# data[].attributes.body
Tennessee is finalizing a deal with Alabama Defensive Coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Tennessee Volunteers Football Tim Daniels David Goldman/Associated Press Twitter Logo Featured Columnist
The Tennessee Volunteers are trying to finalize a deal with Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, ESPN's Chris Low reported Wednesday.

The University of Tennessee has cycled through several candidates to fill the vacant position since withdrawing an offer to Ohio State Buckeyes defensive coordinator Greg Schiano amid fan backlash.

Low reported fellow defensive coordinators Kevin Steele (Auburn) and Mel Tucker (Georgia) had second interviews with new UT athletic director Phillip Fulmer. Pruitt is expected to join that list Wednesday.

"The University of Tennessee is a fantastic institution," Fulmer told reporters last week. "Our football program has the history, the facilities, tradition and the resources to play with anyone anytime. That's what we're going to do again. This is an important time in our history. It's time that we all pull together to be a part of the solution. I am honored to have this opportunity."

Pruitt, who played defensive back for the Tide in 1995 and 1996, returned to the program in 2007 as the director of player development. He started working with the defensive backs in 2010 before leaving to become the Florida State Seminoles' defensive coordinator three years later.

The 43-year-old Alabama native spent one year in that role with theNolesbefore accepting the same position with the Georgia Bulldogs in 2014. He rejoined Nick Saban's staff in 2016, spending the last two seasons as the program's defensive coordinator.

If Tennessee selects him, it would be his first time as a head coach.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Tennessee Reportedly Trying to Finalize Contract with Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Tennessee Volunteers Football Tim Daniels David Goldman/Associated Press Twitter Logo Featured Columnist The Tennessee Volunteers are trying to finalize a deal with Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, ESPN's Chris Low reported Wednesday. The University of Tennessee has cycled through several candidates to fill the vacant position since withdrawing an offer to Ohio State Buckeyes defensive coordinator Greg Schiano amid fan backlash.

# data[].attributes.body
California wildfires have ravenged over 200 homes overnight and over 200,000 people have evacuated as well and no accurate death toll but many reports have said it was started by a cigarette.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds continue to ravage Southern California Wednesday evening, as firefighters anticipate conditions worsening through the night.

The Skirball Fire - named after the Skirball Cultural Center in northern Los Angeles - burned 475 acres in the Sepulveda Pass near the Getty Center, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The museum closed Wednesday while the fire was held back. The fire was five percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon.

To the north, in Sylmar, California, the 'Creek fire' has spread 12,605 acres and forced 150,000 people to evacuate their homes. Forecasters predict some areas to have 80 mph winds. It is only 5 percent contained, The Times reported. A total of 180 structures were destroyed.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has responded by declaring a local state of emergency.

"Both Emergency Declarations direct relevant City departments to take all necessary steps to protect life and property in the area affected by the fires," Garcetti's office said in a statement. "(These) declarations also request that state and federal assistance be provided to the City quickly. "

The eruption of the Skirball Fire prompted mandatory evacuation orders and the closure of the 405 freeway - one of the busiest in the nation - for part of Tuesday afternoon. The freeway reopened on Wednesday.

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced that at least 265 schools in the San Fernando Valley will be closed through the weekend.

According to the National Weather Service, the wildfires are expected to exacerbate overnight, as winds reach speeds of 65 MPH.

Hundreds of engines are coming from fire departments in other states, LA County Fire Department Chief Daryl Osby said.

CalFire officials anticipate the fire to continue to grow in the coming days due to strong winds. Red Flag warnings will remains in effect until Saturday night.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Southern California wildfires force mass evacuations in Los Angeles

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds continue to ravage Southern California Wednesday evening, as firefighters anticipate conditions worsening through the night. The Skirball Fire - named after the Skirball Cultural Center in northern Los Angeles - burned 475 acres in the Sepulveda Pass near the Getty Center, The Los Angeles Times reported.

# data[].attributes.body
On December 12th, Chipotle will give you a free side of queso if you wear a cheesy sweater.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Chipotle really wants you to try its queso.

On December 12, the company will give a free side of queso to anyone who orders an entree wearing a "cheesy" sweater, according to a tweet.

The fast food retailer did not specify what it means by "cheesy" sweater, saying cryptically that "just like your burrito order, it's what you make of it. (Surprise us.)" A representative narrowed the type of garment down slightly to "your cheesiest holiday sweater."

The company announced the one-day giveaway on Tuesday.

Chipotle has had a hard time getting people excited about its interpretation of queso, the melted cheese dish popularized in Tex-Mex cuisine.

The company's first batch of queso received largely negative reviews: On Twitter, disgruntled customers called Chipotle's queso "gritty" and a "crime against cheese" that "tastes like crayons."

Chipotle defended the product, insisting that the unusual texture may have been caused by the dip's all-natural ingredients. But later, it went back to the drawing board.

Related: Chipotle unveils creamier queso and starts testing nachos

Spokesman Chris Arnold told CNNMoney last week that tweaks to the recipe have resulted in a version that "is creamier than the initial recipe, and still has a really delicious flavor." The new queso, he said, still leaves out preservatives and artificial ingredients.

On Wednesday, however, customers didn't seem to be aware that the recipe has already changed. One person asked on Twitter, "When is the recipe changing?" Another said, "Why are y'all not listening to the people and changing the recipe of the queso?" A few people said they would prefer free guacamole. Chipotle noted in a tweet that "the promotion only covers queso."

Related: Chipotle looking to hire a new CEO

Regardless of the less-than-glowing reviews, the company said the new menu item has been good for its sales, which rose 17% last quarter, ending a long streak of declines.

"This new menu item not only increased sales with existing customers, it also attracted new and lapsed customers into our restaurants," Chipotle's chief marketing officer Mark Crumpacker said during an earnings call with investors in October.

"About 19% of these new and returning customers are trying queso, while many of the others were simply driven in by the advertising," Crumpacker added.

-- CNNMoney's Jackie Wattles contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published December 6, 2017: 4:46 PM ET

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
On December 12, the company will give a free side of queso to anyone who orders an entree wearing a "cheesy" sweater, according to a tweet. The fast food retailer did not specify what it means by "cheesy" sweater, saying cryptically that "just like your burrito order, it's what you make of it.

# data[].attributes.body
High winds in southern California threaten to strengthen the wild fires which have already driven 110,000 people out of their homes.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
california fires: two people burned in new blaze - cnn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
California fires: Two people burned in new blaze

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
With weary firefighters continuing their assault on several major wildfires wreaking devastation across Southern California, two new blazes fired up Thursday, adding to the region's smoke-filled misery.

# data[].attributes.body
Two Texas residents took road rage to a new level. A minor fender bender turned into open firing at each other and injuring a bystander.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Two Texas residents took road rage to a new level when a minor fender bender turned into a pistol-wielding showdown that left an innocent bystander and one of the shooters injured.

On Wednesday around 2:45 p.m. gunfire erupted after two men were involved in a car crash on Houston's busy Westheimer and South Kirkwood roads. The two drivers emerged from their vehicles and began opening fire on each other. The entire incident was captured on video by ABC affiliate KTRK, as video journalist Gerzain Garcia and reporter Erica Simon happened to be at a nearby Starbucks.

Hearing gunshots nearly 100 yards away, Garcia and Simon jumped into action, driving closer to the scene to find the aftermath of a relatively minor rear-end collision between a Jeep and a gray Nissan sedan.

Capturing the entire display on camera, Garcia said, "I thought they had stopped shooting."

Garcia began recording after the last shot ended, but the men continued to threaten and wave the guns at each other.

After the gunfire ended, Simon recalls walking from behind the truck where she took cover, to find a woman bleeding. A bystander from across the street had been grazed in the head by one of the bullets. Simon says she attempted to comfort the woman by assuring her medical help was on the way.

KTRK

An off-duty paramedic nearby helped stop the bleeding until ambulances arrived.

After arriving to the scene, police discovered one shooter had sustained a wound to the chest.

Police took both men into custody and the wounded shooter was taken to Ben Taub Hospital.

"If you get into an accident, call the police, or drive to a gas station to wait," Garcia said. "Don't start shooting at each other. A bystander who had nothing to do with this was injured. And it could have been even worse."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Drivers open fire on each other in Houston street after road rage incident

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Two Texas residents took road rage to a new level when a minor fender bender turned into a pistol-wielding showdown that left an innocent bystander and one of the shooters injured. On Wednesday around 2:45 p.m. gunfire erupted after two men were involved in a car crash on Houston's busy Westheimer...

# data[].attributes.body
Lindsey Vonn, current U.S skier in the Olympics spoke out about the upcoming winter Olympics and who she will really be supporting. Vonn said that she will NOT support Trump nor will she compete for him. She said that she will compete for her country and her people... not the U.S president.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
lindsey vonn: us skier says she won't be representing us president at winter games  - cnn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Vonn: I'll represent US, not Trump at Winter Games

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A number of US athletes have spoken out against Donald Trump during his presidency -- and skier Lindsey Vonn has become the latest to have her say.

# data[].attributes.body
After Trump has decided to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, protests have broken out in reaction to the announcement. This uprising is the new "intifada" (uprising) by leader of the Islamist group Hamas.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
jerusalem: protests break out following trump's decision  - cnn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Protests break out following Trump's Jerusalem decision

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Dozens of people were injured in the West Bank on Thursday as Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli security forces over US President Donald Trump's controversial decision on Jerusalem.