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Comey scoffs at Barr testimony, claims ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’

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Former FBI Director James Comey joined the chorus of Democratic critics complaining about Attorney Genera l Bill Barr's testimony this week that "spying did occur" against the 2016 Trump campaign, claiming he has no idea what the Justice Department leader is talking about -- and saying he "never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying."

Comey sought to draw a distinction between surveillance -- which was authorized against a Trump adviser -- and spying during a cybersecurity conference in California on Thursday, echoing Democratic lawmakers who have accused Barr of going too far in his Senate testimony this week.
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"I have no idea what he's talking about so it's hard for me to comment," Comey said.

"When I hear that kind of language used, it's concerning because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance," he continued. "I have never thought of that as spying."

He added: "If the attorney general has come to the belief that that should be called spying, wow."

"That's going to require a whole lot of conversations inside the Department of Justice. But I don't know what he meant," Comey said.

Before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, Barr testified that he believes "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign, adding, "the question is whether it was adequately predicated." Barr said he believed it was his "obligation" to review where there was any misconduct in the intelligence gathering during the origins of the Russia investigation.

But despite the backlash from Democrats over his use of the term, Barr's testimony appeared to refer to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page are currently the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation looking at potential misconduct in the issuance of those warrants. That review also reportedly is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who had contacts with Trump advisers in the early stages of the Russia investigation.
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When asked about the controversy surrounding Barr's remarks, a person familiar with his thinking denied that he was trying to fuel conspiracy theories or play to the conservative base.

"When he used the word spying, he means intelligence collecting," the source told Fox News, also noting Barr's history as a CIA analyst in the 1970s. "He wasn't using it in a pejorative sense, he was using it in the classic sense."

The Oxford Dictionary defines 'spying' as: "to collect information about something to use in deciding how to act," or to "observe furtively."

The use of the term as it applies to the FBI's surveillance in 2016 has been fiercely disputed. The New York Times, even as it reported last year on how the FBI sent an informant to speak to campaign advisers amid concerns about suspicious Russia contacts, stated that this was to "investigate" Russia ties and "not to spy."

But Barr's testimony suggests he makes no distinction between the two. He also stressed that the question for him is whether that "spying" was justified.

"I want to make sure there was no unauthorized surveillance," Barr said.

President Trump defended the attorney general Thursday, saying that his statement was "absolutely true."

"There was absolutely spying into my campaign," Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office. "I'll go a step further and say it was illegal spying. Unprecedented spying."

Meanwhile, Comey touted Barr's experience at the Justice Department.

"I think his career has earned him a presumption that he will be one of the rare Trump Cabinet members who will stand up for truth," Comey said. "Language like this makes it harder, but I still think he's entitled to that presumption and because I don't understand what the heck he's talking about, that's all I can say."

Whether proper or improper, the issue of surveillance of the Trump campaign has been widely documented.

The FISA warrants, for example, were the subject of a GOP House Intelligence Committee memo last year. That memo alleged the unverified anti-Trump dossier provided much of the basis for law enforcement officials to repeatedly secure FISA warrants against Page, though Democrats have pushed back on parts of the GOP report.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Thursday notified Barr of criminal referrals related to the case alleging several "potential violations" of the law.

"In late 2015, early 2016, spying began on the Trump campaign," Nunes said on "Hannity" on Thursday. "That information leaked, that led to what they considered to be 'legal spying' that began, that they acknowledge they started doing at the end of July."

He added, referring to Comey's memo-taking from high-level meetings: "You have the culmination of the ultimate spying where you have the FBI director spying on the president, taking notes, illegally leaking those notes of classified information. Why? So they can appoint a special counsel to spy on an acting president again. So there's a lot of spying and a lot of leaking."

Meanwhile, as part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation, he is reportedly probing the involvement of FBI informant Stefan Halper-whose role first emerged last year. During the 2016 campaign, Halper reportedly contacted several members of the Trump campaign, including former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and Page. Halper also reportedly contacted former campaign aide Sam Clovis.
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Barr also testified this week that he is conducting a Justice Department review of the "conduct" of the original Russia investigation.

"[I'm] trying to get my arms around all of the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted in the summer of 2016," Barr said before the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday.
Fox News' Jake Gibson and Gregg Re contributed to this report.

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Comey scoffs at Barr testimony, claims 'surveillance' is not 'spying'

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Former FBI Director James Comey joined the chorus of Democratic critics complaining about Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony this week that "spying did occur" against the 2016 Trump campaign, claiming he has no idea what the Justice Department leader is talking about -- and saying he "never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying."

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Olivia Jade is 'devastated' by college cheating scandal

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YouTube star Olivia Jade Giannulli is "devastated" by the allegations her parents are facing in the college admissions scandal.

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Woman crashes car and injures leg after spotting spider in driver’s area, police say

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A woman in New York totaled her car and injured her leg - all over a spider.

An unidentified woman let her arachnophobia get the best of her on Wednesday when she spotted a spider inside the car while she was driving and panicked, Cairo police said. She lost control of the vehicle, crashed into stone barrier and injured her leg.

Photos showed the front of the vehicle wrecked. Cairo fire and ambulance, Green County medics and sheriffs all responded to the scene on Silver Spur Road.
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Police said they were posting about the crash to "bring up a contributing factor [of collisions] that is not covered too often."

"We know that it is easier for some drivers than others but PLEASE, try to teach new drivers and yourselves to overcome the fear and pull over to a safe place. Lives depend on it," police wrote in the post.

Cairo is about 42 miles south of Poughkeepsie.

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Woman crashes car and injures leg after spotting spider in driver's area, police say

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A woman in New York totaled her car and injured her leg - all over a spider. An unidentified woman let her arachnophobia get the best of her on Wednesday when she spotted a spider inside the car while she was driving and panicked, Cairo police said.

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Anti Vax parents are winning social media wars and this is what professionals have to say about it

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Concerned that anti-vaccination activists are winning the war on social media, advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say public health authorities need to figure out how to fight back.

"Have we done enough? I think the answer to that is no," said Patricia Stinchfield, a pediatric nurse practitioner and a liaison representative to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

While anti-vaxers were once considered fringe, there are now dozens of anti-vaccine groups on Facebook trying to convince parents of various untruths, such as that vaccines cause autism.

"This anti-vaccine issue has been driven by social media and will continue to be driven by social media," said Dr. Matthew Zahn, another liaison representative to the committee. "I don't see it as a scenario we are going to win anytime soon."

The results have become painfully obvious. As vaccination rates have declined, measles rates have increased.

This year, at least 465 cases of measles have been reported in the United States, according to the CDC. That's the second highest number of cases in the country in any year since 2000 - and the year isn't even halfway over.

'The good guys haven't gotten themselves organized'

To get an idea of what the CDC and others could do to combat anti-vaxer propaganda on social media, CNN interviewed 10 current and former liaison members of the CDCs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which develops recommendations on the use of vaccines.

They represent professional organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Although none of the liaison members was critical of the CDC, they said the agency could play a role in finding a more effective approach for encouraging vaccination on social media.

"I feel like on social media, the anti-vaxers are very sophisticated and active and way ahead of us," said Stinchfield, who, as senior director of infection control at the Minnesota Children's Hospital, helped manage a large measles outbreak in 2017.

Liaison member Dr. William Schaffner added, "I don't think the good guys have gotten themselves organized. There's a frustration that we don't have a clear plan going forward. It's almost as though we've left the field to" the anti-vaxers.

Some of the advisers said the CDC could, for example, fund social media outreach efforts and then help study which work best.

It's unclear whether the agency itself thinks public health needs to up its social media game.

A representative declined an interview, instead issuing this statement:

"Parents have many questions about vaccines and are seeking answers. There is a lot of information about vaccines available, unfortunately, some of the information about vaccines is inaccurate. It is critical that parents and anyone seeking information about vaccines have access to credible information. CDC is a critical source for credible health information about vaccines. We are committed to providing up-to-date, science-based recommendations that anyone, including parents, kids, health departments, businesses, and healthcare providers, can use to make informed health decisions. Additionally, CDC's online information is in the public domain and free for anyone to access, use or repurpose.

"When CDC engages in social media, we aim to consistently provide science-based and timely information in understandable language. We provide information to parents and the general public. We also focus on providing information to health care providers that they can utilize to talk to their patients. Parents still trust their healthcare provider to help them make healthcare decisions."

Getting into the mud

The challenge for public health authorities, including the CDC, is formidable: to dislodge the fear of vaccines that anti-vaxers have planted in the minds of some parents.

"It's a lot easier to instill fear in someone's head than to remove it," said Dr. Sean O'Leary, another liaison member. "And I think the scientific community was somewhat caught off-guard by this."

Explaining that more than a dozen studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism might not help.

"The conventional wisdom has been to provide the scientific facts, and people will make the right decisions," O'Leary said. "But I think it's a lot more complicated than that."

Going beyond the scientific facts is problematic, too. Health care professionals say they don't want to sink to the level of anti-vaxers, who often use fear-mongering to get their point across.

"They're persistent and vociferous, and it's unpleasant. And so in a sense, I don't want to get down into the mud with these people," said Schaffner, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

He added that the CDC in particular is at a disadvantage for two reasons. One, there's a distrust of authority in general in the Trump era. Two, the anti-vaxers have villainized the CDC in particular, planting seeds of doubt in the minds of parents who might be hesitant about vaccines.

"The CDC is handcuffed from the start," Schaffner said.

Not a lost cause

While the challenges are formidable, some of the advisers see light at the end of the tunnel.

O'Leary, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and his colleagues had some success with creating a special social media site for new parents.

As part of a study, 888 pregnant women were divided into three groups. One of those groups had access to a website that included networking options where the mothers could communicate with each other and with doctors.

The babies of the women who had access to that social media site were more likely to be fully vaccinated at 6 months old than the babies of the women who didn't have access to that site.

It was just one study, but the advisers said it indicates that there is a way to win the social media war.

"A silver bullet doesn't exist out there," said Zahn, medical director of the Division of Epidemiology and Assessment for the Orange County Health Care Agency in California. "But I certainly don't see this as a lost cause."

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DNA found on coffee cup finally ends an investigation that has been pending for decades

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Authorities in Washington state said a 1972 rape and homicide cold case is one step closer to being solved after DNA evidence from a coffee cup led to the arrest of a suspect on Wednesday.

Terrence Miller, 77, was arrested in his Snohomish County home around 10:30 a.m. and charged with first-degree murder for the August 1972 rape and killing of 20-year-old Jody Loomis, police said in a press release.

Loomis had been riding her bike through a wooded area in present-day Mill Creek Road when she was raped and shot in the head, police said. A couple found her alive less than an hour later but she died on the way to the hospital.
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Authorities said Miller became a suspect after DNA evidence was uploaded to a public genetic genealogy website. Snohomish County investigations captain Rob Palmer told The Seattle Times that DNA collected from Miller's cup matches semen that was collected at the 1972 crime scene.

Police said the genetic genealogy was the same technique that had led to the arrest of the " Golden State Killer " and a suspect in the murderer of a Canadian couple near Seattle in 1987.

Miller is being held at Snohomish County Jail on $1 million bail. He has reportedly refused to discuss the case. According to charging documents cited by The Times, Miller has been accused of multiple sex crimes since the 1960s.

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Authorities in Washington state said a 1972 rape and homicide cold case is one step closer to being solved after DNA evidence from a coffee cup led to the arrest of a suspect on Wednesday. Terrence Miller, 77, was arrested in his Snohomish County home around 10:30 a.m.

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Cierre Wood, ex-NFL running back, charged with murder of abused 5-year-old girl

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Former Notre Dame and NFL running back Cierre Wood faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter, Las Vegas police said Thursday.

Wood, 28, was arrested early Wednesday at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas after La-Rayah Davis died there Tuesday night. Woods' girlfriend, 25-year-old Amy Taylor, also was arrested. Both initially were charged with first-degree child abuse and neglect, but an online inmate database showed that the murder charge had been added against Wood.

Jail records showed that Wood was being held without bail. He was scheduled to make his next court appearance Monday morning. It was not immediately clear whether Talyor had been released on $5,000 bond.

A native of Bloomington, Calif., Wood played three seasons for the Fighting Irish, recording 2,447 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns. He also caught 52 passes in his college career for 384 receiving yards and two touchdowns. In his final season, Notre Dame recorded a 12-0 regular season and reached the BCS National Championship Game before losing to Alabama, 42-14.

Wood played in just five regular-season games over his NFL career. Three of those games were in 2013 for the Houston Texans and two were for the Buffalo Bills in 2015. He was cut by the Texans in October 2013 and was signed by the New England Patriots for their practice squad two weeks later. He dressed for but did not play in two games for New England during the 2013 season.
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In January 2014, Wood was signed by the Baltimore Ravens who released him that August. That November, he was signed to the Seattle Seahawks' practice squad only to be cut four days later. The Bills signed Wood for the following season but he was placed on injured reserve in October 2015 with a torn ACL.

Wood signed with the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats in March 2017 and was traded to the Montreal Alouettes that May. He was released by Montreal in May of last year.
Fox News' Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.

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Cierre Wood, ex-NFL running back, charged with murder of abused 5-year-old girl

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Former Notre Dame and NFL running back Cierre Wood faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter, Las Vegas police said Thursday. Wood, 28, was arrested early Wednesday at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas after La-Rayah Davis died there Tuesday night.

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A Miami student was charged after he attempted an "RKO" on the school's principal.

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A Miami high school student was arrested Wednesday after allegedly attempting a popular wrestling move on his principal.

Gianny Sosa, a senior at Miami Southridge Senior High School, was in a hallway when he allegedly placed his arm around the neck of Principal Humberto Miret to allegedly attempt an "RKO" move caught on cellphone video. It was unclear what led to the alleged incident.

An "RKO" is performed by jumping into the air and grabbing the back of an opponent's head and slamming their face into the mat. Miret was able to get Sosa into a chokehold and appears to punch him, WLPG-TV reported.

Sosa, 18, a recorded a video of himself and Miret after the incident.

"Oh, now that I'm recording you don't want to touch me? You don't want to hit me now?" Sosa said to Miret in the video. "It's crazy, ain't it? Now that the camera has your face, you don't want to hit me. Now that the superintendent might see this, you don't want to touch me."
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The teen is charged with battery on a school official and interference with an educational institution, according to the station. It was not immediately whether the student or Miret will face discipline by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district.

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A Miami high school student was arrested Wednesday after allegedly attempting a popular wrestling move on his principal. Gianny Sosa, a senior at Miami Southridge Senior High School, was in a hallway when he allegedly placed his arm around the neck of Principal Humberto Miret to allegedly attempt an "RKO" move caught on cellphone video.

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The first privately funded aircraft crashed on its way to the Moon.

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Why are Firetrucks red?

Because they have eight wheels and four people on them, four plus eight equals 12, there are twelve inches in a foot, and one foot is a ruler, Queen Elizabeth was a ruler, Queen Elizabeth was also a ship, and ships sail seas, and seas have fish, and fish have fins, and the Finns fought the Russians, and the Russians are red, and Firetrucks are red because they're always "Russian" around

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Dora Alvarado felt something was off when she arrived at immigration court in Houston March 12 with her two daughters. A court translator told her that she and her 15-year-old, Adamaris Alvarado, were listed on the docket that day. Her 11-year-old, Laura Maradiaga, was not.

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Dora Alvarado felt something was off when she arrived at immigration court in Houston March 12 with her two daughters. A court translator told her that she and her 15-year-old, Adamaris Alvarado, were listed on the docket that day. Her 11-year-old, Laura Maradiaga, was not.

Days later, Alvarado received a letter in English - a language she cannot speak or read - bearing Laura's name. It wasn't until the trio returned to court this week that a different translator told her the letter was the 11-year-old's removal order.

"I don't want to leave my mom," Laura said Thursday. "I want to stay with her."

At a news conference Thursday led by FIEL, a local immigration advocacy group, the family's lawyer, Silvia Mintz, said she will file a motion to re-open the case. Mintz said immigration officials were at fault for the girl's missed court appearance, which led to her deportation order.

The family entered through the southern border in early October, telling U.S. government officials that they feared returning to their native El Salvador. They were released to pursue their asylum case in the backlogged civil immigration courts, and since then have complied with court orders and appearance dates.

They are part of a record number of Central American parents and children fleeing poverty and gang violence who have arrived in recent months - more than 57,200 in March alone - even as the Trump administration has tried to curtail access to asylum to deter more from coming. The government has overturned a provision allowing those fleeing gang and domestic violence to qualify for the protection and made it more difficult for immigration judges to close cases on their own, exacerbating a backlog of more than 800,000 cases that was further jeopardized by the month-long government shutdown earlier this year.

The administration has also tried to ban those crossing illegally from seeking asylum and force others to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases proceed through the courts, though federal judges have blocked both the latter measures.

Mintz blamed the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a branch of the Justice Department overseeing immigration courts, for the error resulting in the 11-year-old's deportation.

"This mistake done by the immigration court has put this family in jeopardy," Mintz said. "They will be separated if this is not stopped."

The Executive Office for Immigration Review confirmed the removal order was issued and said it was looking into the case.

The official order states that Laura is subject to deportation because she was not present for the March 12 court appearance. Whether the court translator available that day provided incorrect information, or the girl's case fell through the cracks, is unclear.

Generally speaking, Laura's attorney has about 30 days from the order's date to try to re-open the case, said Ruby L. Powers, a Houston immigration lawyer. Powers noted that the immigration courts system has become chaotic; some clients have been given incorrect court dates, Powers said, while others have experienced clerical errors that led to serious consequences like deportation orders.

It is not uncommon for child migrants to be deported alone, but this typically happens when they arrive on their own rather than with their parents, other legal experts note.

Maradiaga's fate, should she be deported without her family, could be dire.

Her home in a rural area of El Salvador's La Paz region became a death trap when a relative testified against a local gang member, Alvarado said. Uncles, nephews, classmates and others have been kidnapped or murdered in retaliation, she added. At the news conference, she held up a photo of a young girl, a neighbor, left for dead on a dirt road close to her home.

Alvarado, who lived through El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, said the country was safer then.

"The gangs don't play by the rules of war," she said. "It's just violence for the sake of violence."

Late last year, Adamaris Alvarado told her mother that a gang member had been harassing her and threatened to kill the rest of her family if she spoke about it.

"That's when mom told us we were going to the United States," Laura said.

As the family pursued its case, a February court date was rescheduled to March 12 due to the government shutdown.

Alvarado said she trusted the court translator when she told her everything was going to be all right with Laura. But the removal order says otherwise.

Thanks to Alvarado's elder daughter, who told her school counselor about the deportation threat, the family contacted FIEL and Mintz, who will represent Laura without a fee.

While her future remains uncertain, Laura is doing her best to live out her days in what she calls an unfamiliar yet beautiful new country. She takes comfort in studying her multiplication tables, in sharing a bed with her mom and older sister, and in caring for Lalo, the scruffy dog her mother and aunt got her when she arrived.

At her southwest Houston apartment complex, Laura said she still misses the friends she left behind. These friends, living in the same dangerous environment, would come to her home to study or walk with her to buy snacks at a corner store.

"I want to be a police officer when I grow up," she said. "I want to keep people safe from the bad guys."

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The Trump Administration is considering leaving illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities to target political adversaries in retribution for defying Federal immigration policy.

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The Trump administration proposed releasing immigrant detainees onto the streets of " sanctuary cities"--including San Francisco-- on at least two occasions within the past six months as retribution against the president's political enemies, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed Department of Homeland Security officials and emails.

The proposal was first floated in November amid reports of a large migrant caravan from Central America making its way to the southern border. The other time it was considered-- in February-- occurred during a standoff between Trump and Democrats over border wall funding.

It was rejected both times by immigration agencies, the report said. A Nov. 16 email from the White House to officials at several agencies reportedly asked whether migrants could be arrested and bused to "small-and mid-sized sanctuary cities" and other Democratic strongholds.

The White House and DHS did not immediately respond to Fox News early Friday for comment.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco was considered one of the areas targeted, according to the paper. Pelosi blasted the plan Thursday, calling it was "despicable" to use "human beings - including little children - as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants."

The proposal was intended to alleviate crowded detention centers, the White House told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). An ICE official responded the inquiry was littered with budgetary and liability issues, but said "there are PR risks as well." Trump has repeatedly blasted "sanctuary cities," areas where local authorities refuse to cooperate with immigration agencies.
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"This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion," a White House statement to the paper said.

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The Trump administration proposed releasing detained undocumented immigrants onto the streets of "sanctuary cities" on at least two occasions within the past six months as retribution against the president's political enemies, according to Department of Homeland Security officials and emails reviewed by the Washington Post.

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Scientists have their own ideas or theories about what would happen to people if they were sucked up by a black hole.

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First, your insides are strung out like hot mozzarella, before you're yanked into all-encompassing darkness that swallows you whole.

Life inside a black hole would be far from pretty, bestowing a fate more strange and gruesome than almost anything experts can imagine.

Following this week's release of the first photo of a black hole, people the world over have been pondering exactly what would happen if you fell into the ominous ring.
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Scientists have dozens of theories, and we've put together some of the wackiest below.

'Spaghettification'

Black holes are blobs of unbelievably dense matter with a gravitational pull millions of times greater than the force we feel on Earth.

If you got too close, these gargantuan forces would pull your body apart.

As you got closer, the difference in gravity between your head and your feet would stretch you out like a piece of chewing gum.

Scientists affectionately call this process "spaghettification".

You eventually become a stream of subatomic particles that swirl into the black hole like water down a plug.

According to TV physicist Neil De Grasse Tyson: "As you get closer and closer, the force of gravity grows astronomically. You stay whole until the stretching force exceeds the molecular bonds of your body's flesh.

"At that moment, your body would snap into two segments. Everything of you that ever was gets funneled to the black hole's center.

"Not only have you been ripped in half - you've been extruded through the fabric of space and time like toothpaste through a tube."

Live forever

The bigger a black hole is, the smaller its gravitational pull.

That's led some experts to ponder whether larger black holes would spaghettify you at all, as the forces aren't strong enough to pull you apart.

Instead, getting caught in one of these beauties could help you cheat death altogether.

Time is said to freeze at the edge of a black hole, due its extreme forces bending the very fabric of space and time.

If you reach this spot without being torn apart, you could become immortal - well, almost.

Your lengthy life would only seem stretched to someone on Earth, while to you it would still feel like a normal lifespan.

"Whenever you think about time dilation in relativity theory, keep in mind that the theory is not about you. It is about what others see," explained physicist Viktor Toth.

"You can still expect a normal human lifespan as measured by your own watch and calendar.

"Sure, billions of years would pass on the Earth in the meantime, but you will not experience billions of years. You will experience a few decades, like any human being."

See through time

The bending of space time could have other weird effects.

As you're sucked in to a black hole, time would bend in front of and behind you, allowing you to "see" into the past and future.

"First of all, you approach the speed of light as you fall into the black hole. So the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time," Charles Liu, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, told Live Science.

"Furthermore, as you fall, there are things that have been falling in front of you that have experienced an even greater 'time dilation' than you have. So if you're able to look forward toward the black hole, you see every object that has fallen into it in the past.

"And then if you look backwards, you'll be able to see everything that will ever fall into the black hole behind you.

"So the upshot is, you'll get to see the entire history of that spot in the universe simultaneously - from the Big Bang all the way into the distant future."

Travel to another universe and erase your past

The late Professor Stephen Hawking had his own ideas about life inside a black hole.

The physicist reckoned there's a chance you could make your way out of one, though you may end up in a different dimension.

Hawking said in 2016: "If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out."

He then claimed that anyone stupid enough to throw themselves into a black hole could be spat out into another universe.

"The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible," Hawking said.

"The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn't come back to our universe. So although I'm keen on space flight, I'm not going to try that.

"The message is that black holes aren't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly come out in another universe."

Another theory suggests traveling to one of these other dimensions may erase your past as it may not follow the fundamental laws of our own.

Your new universe would not be governed by the rules of cause and effect that apply to ours - so down is up, up is down, and your past and future are interchangeable.
This story originally appeared in The Sun.

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What happens if you get sucked into a black hole?

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First, your insides are strung out like hot mozzarella, before you're yanked into all-encompassing darkness that swallows you whole. Life inside a black hole would be far from pretty, bestowing a fate more strange and gruesome than almost anything experts can imagine.

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A military coup occurred in Sudan, and joy quickly turns into fear as various rules are put into place

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Protesters who rushed on to the streets to celebrate the ouster of Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir Thursday are facing the prospect of a long struggle ahead as the military figures who ended his 30-year rule seem to be preparing to hang on to power.

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Father, son charged for allegedly selling diseased body parts

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A father and son have been charged in Michigan for crimes related to allegedly selling diseased body parts through their company, the Biological Resource Center of Illinois (BRCI).

BRCI provides human remains to medical professionals to use in training and research, according to court documents filed last week.

Donald Greene Sr. and Donald Greene II allegedly sold body parts that had tested positive for infectious diseases, including hepatitis, or had not been tested at all, and concealed that information from their customers, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Michigan.

When reached by ABC News, the U.S. Attorney's office had no comment on the case.

Prosecutors allege the scheme was meant "to defraud customers of the Biological Resource Center of Illinois," according to court documents.

The Greenes allegedly knew that their clients would not purchase parts that had not been tested for diseases or had tested positive. The scheme allegedly allowed the Greenes to profit off parts that were otherwise worthless, according to federal prosecutors.

Some of the body parts were allegedly sold for as much as $100,000, and were infected with HIV and sepsis, according to ABC TV station WISN.

One mother was allegedly told her son's body was going to be donated, but it was instead sold for $5,000, according to WISN.

Donald Greene Sr. allegedly falsely told customers on at least eight occasions the parts BRCI was selling had received negative test results, according to authorities.

In 2013, the Greenes allegedly sold remains to the Detroit Medical Center's sports medicine department that had tested positive for hepatitis, and concealed this information, according to court documents.

Donald Greene Sr. has been charged with wire fraud. Donald Greene II has been charged with misprision of a felony - allegedly having knowledge of the scheme to defraud, not reporting it to law enforcement, and taking steps to conceal the scheme.

Donald Greene Sr. and Donald Greene II could not be reached for comment.

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A father and son have been charged in Michigan for crimes related to allegedly selling diseased body parts through their company, the Biological Resource Center of Illinois (BRCI). BRCI provides human remains to medical professionals to use in training and research, according to court documents filed last week. Donald Greene Sr.

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Police say they found 'Trivago' pitchman passed out in a car in a moving lane of traffic

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Timothy Williams, best known as the pitchman for travel site "Trivago," was arrested this week after Houston police say they found him passed out behind the wheel of a car in traffic.

"He was passed out with his foot on the brake in a moving lane of traffic," said Houston Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva. Police got the call Wednesday afternoon.

Williams failed a field sobriety test and submitted to a blood draw, she said.

He was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and his bail was set at $100.

When asked about Williams' arrest, a Trivago spokesperson told CNN in a statement: "At this stage, we do not have the full details of the situation, but we want to make clear that Trivago treats such incidents very seriously and strongly condemns drinking and driving, which poses a risk to others and goes against the Trivago culture."

CNN has also reached out to Williams and is waiting on a response.

Williams has had acting roles on "The Cosby Show" and "Law and Order." But he shot to fame as the rough-and-tumble pitchman for "Trivago."

In later ads, he came across as more polished - his hair nicely tousled and a fashionable touch of facial stubble.

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Timothy Williams, best known as the pitchman for travel site "Trivago," was arrested this week after Houston police say they found him passed out behind the wheel of a car in traffic. "He was passed out with his foot on the brake in a moving lane of traffic," said Houston Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva.

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After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the "Scala Sancta," or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in time for the thousands of people who will flock to rome and the vatican for Easter.

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After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the " Scala Sancta," or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in time for the thousands of people who will flock to Rome and the Vatican for Easter.

The steps were believed to be part of Pontius Pilate's palace in Jerusalem and are the same steps Jesus climbed before being tried by the Roman governor and sentenced to crucifixion.

It is believed that Emperor Constantine's mother, St. Helena, brought the steps from Jerusalem to Rome in the fourth century once Christianity became the Roman Empire's main religion. They are now housed in a building that contains part of the old papal Lateran Palace, across from the Basilica of St. John the Lateran in Rome.

(Andrew Medichini/AP) Faithful kneel on the newly restored Holy Stairs during a special opening, in Rome, Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Since the Middle Ages, when pilgrims started flocking to Rome to pray in churches and venerate relics, millions of faithful have made the traditional penitential ascent up the stairs on their knees as they pray and meditate on Christ's passion.

The stairs had not been seen without their wooden protection in almost 300 years.

"The newly restored frescoes help the faithful connect with the Holy history," Father Francesco Guerra said.

For the next two months, until Pentecost, pilgrims will be able to ascend the bare marble Holy Stairs on their knees -- since 1723, they had been encased in walnut wood for protection.

Before Thursday's unveiling ceremony, the Vatican Museum restorers described how moving it was to uncover the original stairs, which contain three small bronze crosses embedded in the marble and spots believed to be stained by Jesus' blood.

The restorers also found large furrows running along each step, which they deduced were caused by the toes of pilgrims' shoes as they knelt and rose to move up to the next step over the course of centuries.

(Andrew Medichini/AP) The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, blesses the restored Holy Stairs (Scala Sancta), which according to Catholic Church is the stair on which Jesus Christ stepped leading on his way to the crucifixion, in Rome, Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Along with the strata of dust and dirt, piles of notes, photos, coins and votive offerings were uncovered since the stairs' last cleaning in the 1950s. Pilgrims had shoved them under the wooden casing as they knelt.

The restoration of the entire sanctuary, not just the stairs, started six years ago and should be completed by summer 2020. Over 18,000 square feet of dingy-looking frescoes that decorate the stairs and the chapels in the building were carefully cleaned of grime to reveal them in their original splendor. Restorers uncovered stories of devotion in the ancient graffiti they found on the frescoes, like the slave who came to give thanks for being free of his Turkish master.

After Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of Rome, blessed the newly unveiled steps, a throng of faithful pushed forward to kneel and kiss the first step.

Others were handed plastic shoe-covers to protect the marble and be the first to start the ascent on their knees.

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Botched microblading procedure leaves metro woman with "crazy brows"

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A warning to anyone considering microblading: make sure the person touching your eyebrows knows what they're doing.

Jami Ledbetter was born without eyebrows, so she was excited when her daughters bought her a Groupon to have them microbladed in November. However, that excitement soon turned to horror when she looked in the mirror.

"I would never wish this on my worst enemy," the 42-year-old said. "What it's done to my self-confidence, it's been hard."

The $250 Groupon was for services by a woman who claimed she was certified in microblading, a beauty technique that involves tattooing someone's eyebrows on with tiny needles or a small blade.

Ledbetter ended up with botched eyebrows.

"I was devastated," Ledbetter said. "I was even dating a guy, and he stopped dating me at that point."

The mom of three said she was so embarrassed she only went to work, the grocery and back home. She tried covering her messed up brows with makeup. That didn't work. She went to another woman who told her she could "camouflage" her brows, but after six weeks they appeared to be getting worse.

"It was pretty painful," Ledbetter said. "I tried to have a good attitude, but it burned a lot. It kind of felt bruised."

Someone eventually referred her to Kara Gutierrez, a licensed and insured tattoo artist who owns Spot On Beauty in Lee's Summit.

"It took everything in me to hold back tears because this is the worse I've ever seen," Gutierrez said.

The small business owner has been in the beauty industry since 2011. She has specialized in permanent cosmetics for three of those years, including tattoo removal.

"Within 24 hours of a botched job, I can remove the bad brow," Gutierrez said.

Her first session with Ledbetter was in February. She's removing her fumbled eyebrows with a product known as Li-ft. She said it doesn't involve a laser but rather is a pigment lightening solution that's tattooed into the bad ink, which has to be removed in eight-week intervals.

"You want scabs so it will pull out that pigment," Gutierrez said. "It's very unpredictable to how much you can remove, but it works."

She worries more and more women will end up in situations like Ledbetter's because microblading isn't regulated in the state of Missouri. The practice is considered "semi-permanent" under the law.

"Nobody's governing this," Gutierrez said. "No one is saying, 'This is the right way. This is the wrong way.'"

The state's Office of Tattooing, Body Piercing & Branding has a disclaimer on its website about microblading that explains that "although the Office recognizes the potential for public safety issues, the Office has not been given specific statutory authority to regulate this practice."

The state of Kansas does have regulations in place for permanent makeup technicians. Those seeking a license are required to have 1,200 hours of training, at least 50 completed procedures that can be verified and an apprenticeship - among other qualifications, according to the Kansas Board of Cosmetology.

"This is something that is permanent on your face," Gutierrez said. "You have to make sure your artist knows what they're doing."

Missouri state Rep. Nate Tate understands the risks and, at the request of one his constituents, is sponsoring House Bill 71.

"I wanted to see what we could do to try to make the industry safer because it is becoming a very popular industry here lately," Tate said.

It's the same version of House Bill 877, filed in 2017, and would change the definition of a tattoo to include new cosmetic procedures like microblading to ensure more scrutiny.

"I'm not terribly in favor of more regulation when it comes to businesses, but in this particular situation whenever you're actually punctuating the skin, we need to have some more training," Tate said.

Currently, people wanting to practice microblading need a certificate, which can be obtained in a matter of days. Tate said some of that training doesn't always include education regarding sanitation and blood-borne pathogens.

"The money is good [in microblading]," Tate said. "You just take the class, pay your $2,500, and you can perform it. I think as we start seeing the propagation of these microblading shops popping up, it's going to become more of an issue."

Gutierrez is concerned that Tate's bill hasn't gone far in the legislative process, and there's little optimism that it will seriously be considered before the end of the session.

"Until a senator's daughter or someone who can pass a bill gets messed up, this will continue happening," Gutierrez said.

She cautioned for people wanting to undergo microblading to do their research.

"A certification is just a fancy piece of paper saying [someone] learned how to do this," she added. "It doesn't necessarily mean [they're] an expert. "Don't just look into the person that's doing it. Look into their instructor."

Ledbetter shared the same attitude but hopes her story serves as a warning to those considering microblading.

"If I would have known it was going to turnout like this, I probably would've never done it at all," she said.

The woman who botched Ledbetter's brows is no longer in business.

Ledbetter will likely have to see Gutierrez two or three more times before her bad brows are completely gone. The full removal procedure will cost her at least $1,000.

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'I looked hideous': Botched microblading procedure leaves metro woman with 'crazy brows'

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A warning to anyone considering microblading: make sure the person touching your eyebrows knows what they're doing. Jami Ledbetter was born without eyebrows, so she was excited when her daughters bought her a Groupon to have them microbladed in November.