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East high school cheerleaders were being forced to do the splits. Coach Ozell Williams was fired after a video of the girls in pain leaked.

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Jamoni Merrit got 2nd-3rd degree burns from sleepover prank, by school bully.

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It used to be thought that snow on Mars was very uncommon. Now, recent studies show that Mars' atmosphere is very active; major snowstorms occur regularly.

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Mars may experience snowstorms at night, a new study finds, suggesting that the Martian atmosphere is far more active than previously thought.

Mars is dry compared to Earth: Its cold nature makes it unlikely that any of the ice on the Red Planet's surface would melt, and its extremely thin atmosphere would cause any liquid water on the surface to vaporize nearly immediately. Still, Mars' atmosphere does possess clouds of frozen water.

Previous research suggested that if snow did fall from those clouds, it would waft down very slowly. "We thought that snow on Mars fell very gently, taking hours or days to fall 1 or 2 kilometers [0.6 to 1.2 miles]," said study lead author Aymeric Spiga, a planetary scientist at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. [ Photos: Most Powerful Storms of the Solar System]

Now, Spiga and his colleagues have found that snow can rapidly descend on Mars in storms. "Snow could take something like just 5 or 10 minutes to fall 1 to 2 km [0.6 to 1.2 miles]," Spiga told Space.com.

The researchers were analyzing data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft when they noticed a strong mixing of heat in the Martian atmosphere at night "about 5 km [3 miles] from the surface," Spiga said. "This was never seen before.

"You expect heat to get mixed in the Martian atmosphere close to the surface during the daytime, since the surface gets heated by the sun," Spiga explained. "But my colleague David Hinson at Stanford University and the SETI Institute saw it higher up in the atmosphere and at night. This was very surprising."

To explain these findings, the researchers developed an atmospheric model to simulate the weather on Mars. "It took something like three to four years to come up with a model sophisticated enough to reproduce Mars' clouds," Spiga said.

The scientists discovered that the cooling of water-ice cloud particles during the cold Martian night could generate unstable turbulence within the clouds.

"This can lead to strong winds, vertical plumes going upward and downward within and below the clouds at about 10 meters [33 feet] per second," or about 22 mph (36 km/h), Spiga said. "Those are the kinds of winds that are in moderate thunderstorms on Earth."

Snow can get caught inside these winds and rapidly fall downward. The researchers said that such Martian snowfall is analogous to small, localized storms on Earth called microbursts, in which cold, dense air carrying snow or rain gets rapidly transported downward from a cloud.

Any snow landing on Mars would not last long. Once the sun rises, any water ice on the surface would turn to vapor, "unless it was in a very cloudy region or high latitudes," Spiga said.

If the clouds the snow falls from are more than about 1.2 miles (2 km) from the Martian surface, the snow might turn to vapor before it even hits the surface, Spiga added. "This is something observed on Earth sometimes, with something called virga - streaks of rain falling from the clouds can vaporize before reaching the surface," he said.

Martian snowstorms could explain previously unexplained signs of snow detected in 2008 by the laser scanner aboard NASA's Phoenix lander.

"We are able to explain two different mysterious and surprising observations with a single meteorological phenomenon - these snowstorms," Spiga said.

These findings suggest that the Martian atmosphere is more dynamic than previously thought. "Since you have these powerful winds, these are able to vigorously mix anything, such as heat, water, methane, ozone, dust," Spiga said. "We can now use this data to see what impact these winds have on, say, how water moved from one region to another on Mars in the present and past."

Future research will aim to get more glimpses of these Martian snowstorms, Spiga said. "We want to look all over Mars and see when they happen at night, and what seasons they occur and the effect they have on a global scale," he said.

The scientists detailed their findings online yesterday (Aug. 21) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Follow Charles Q. Choi on Twitter @cqchoi. Follow us @Spacedotcom , Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Nighttime snowstorms may swirl across Mars

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Mars may experience snowstorms at night, a new study finds, suggesting that the Martian atmosphere is far more active than previously thought. Mars is dry compared to Earth: Its cold nature makes it unlikely that any of the ice on the Red Planet's surface would melt, and its extremely thin atmosphere would cause any liquid water on the surface to vaporize nearly immediately.

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Tin Vu-Police: 2-year-old thrown from dirt bike, killed by car

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Authorities say a 2-year-old was killed after being thrown from a dirt bike he was riding with his father and struck by a car in Virginia.

Virginia State Police say the crash in King George County happened late Wednesday.

Police say 21-year-old De'Shon T. Brown was riding the youth dirt bike with his son when he crashed the bike while trying to cross a road.

Police say Brayden C. Brown of Colonial Beach was thrown from the bike into the travel lane.

Police say a 22-year-old who was driving on the road tried to avoid hitting the child and his father, but his car struck and killed the child.

Police said late Thursday that De'Shon Brown was flown to the hospital and was being treated for life-threatening injuries.

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Police: 2-year-old thrown from dirt bike, killed by car

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Authorities say a 2-year-old was killed after being thrown from a dirt bike he was riding with his father and struck by a car in Virginia. Virginia State Police say the crash in King George County happened late Wednesday. Police say 21-year-old De'Shon T. Brown was riding the youth dirt...

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Hiker hit by lightning woke up with 'blood everywhere'
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Denver police investigate after cellphone video shows East High School cheerleader forced into splits

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Florida uses new drug to execute man convicted of two murders.

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Florida has put a man to death with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two racially motivated murders.

Authorities said 53-year-old Mark Asay, the first white man executed in Florida for the killing of a black man, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Starke. Asay received a three-drug injection that began with an anesthetic called etomidate.

Though approved by the Florida Supreme Court, etomidate has been criticized by some as being unproven in an execution. Etomidate replaced midazolam, which became harder to acquire after many drug companies began refusing to provide it for executions.

Prosecutors say Asay made racist comments in the 1987 fatal shooting of a 34-year-old black man, Robert Lee Booker. Asay also was convicted of the 1987 murder of 26-year-old Robert McDowell, who was mixed race, white and Hispanic. Asay had hired McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, as a prostitute, and killed him after learning his true gender, according to prosecutors.

Asay was asked whether he wanted to make a final statement.

"No sir, I do not. Thank you," he replied.

The execution protocol began at 6:10 p.m. About a minute after the first drug was administered, Asay's feet jerked slightly and his mouth opened. A minute or two later, he was motionless and subsequently was pronounced dead by a doctor.

Michelle Glady, a spokeswoman for the corrections department, said there was no complication in the procedure and Asay did not speak during it.

The execution was Florida's first since the U.S. Supreme Court halted the practice in the state after finding its method for sentencing people to death to be unconstitutional. The high court earlier Thursday had rejected Asay's final appeal without comment.

Asay was the first white man to be executed in Florida for killing a black man. At least 20 black men have been executed for killing white victims since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center. A total of 92 Florida inmates had been executed previously in that time period.

The inmate's spiritual adviser, Norman Smith of Cavalry Chapel in Melbourne, Florida, spent two hours with Asay before his execution. He said he admitted spouting racial epithets prior to Booker's murder, but said he was drunk and angry, not a racist.

"Until I heard that I would've never known that this man was tagged as a racist," said Smith, who is black.

Etomidate is the first of three drugs administered in Florida's new execution mixture. It's followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and finally, potassium acetate, which stops the heart. It is Florida's first time using potassium acetate too, which was used in a 2015 execution in Oklahoma by mistake, but has not been used elsewhere, a death penalty expert said.

State corrections officials have defended the choice of etomidate, saying it has been reviewed. The corrections department refused to answer questions from The Associated Press about how the drug was chosen.

Doctors hired by Asay's attorneys raised questions about etomidate in court declarations, saying there were cases in which it caused pain along with involuntary writhing in patients.

But in its opinion allowing the drug to be used, the state's high court said earlier this month that four expert witnesses demonstrated that Asay was "at small risk of mild to moderate pain."

Executions in Florida were put on hold for 18 months after the Supreme Court ruled that the old system was unconstitutional because it gave judges, not juries, the power to decide.

Since then, Florida's Legislature passed a law requiring a unanimous jury for death penalty recommendations.

In Asay's case, jurors recommended death for both murder counts by a 9-3 vote. Even though the new law requires unanimity, Florida's high court ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling did not apply to older cases.

Asay was the 24th inmate executed since Gov. Rick Scott took office, the most under any governor in Florida history.

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Associated Press writer Curt Anderson in Miami contributed to this report.

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Florida uses new drug to execute man convicted of 2 murders

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Florida has put a man to death with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection, carrying out its first execution in more than 18 months on an inmate convicted of two racially motivated murders. Authorities said 53-year-old Mark Asay, the first white man executed in Florida...

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Beloved chicken chain of the south recently made a very big announcement and you may not like it much. Chick-fil-A is retiring its chicken salad sandwich. As of September 30th, you will no longer be able to order the southern picnic staple.
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spoke to Chick-fil-A and spokeswoman Leigh Jackson said, "The decision to remove Chicken Salad from the menu was a difficult one. We know that many of our customers loved our Chicken Salad, but we have also heard from guests that they are looking for new tastes and fresh flavors on the menu in our restaurants. "

To soften the blow a little, the good folks at Chick-fil-A are providing the recipe on their website and handing out flyers at many locations. You can get the recipe yourself right here.

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Chick-fil-A Removes a Popular Item From The Menu-For Good!

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Beloved chicken chain of the south recently made a very big announcement and you may not like it much. Chick-fil-A is retiring its chicken salad sandwich. As of September 30th, you will no longer be able to order the southern picnic staple.

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This Woman's Potentially Fatal Brain Condition Was Misdiagnosed as Allergies.

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Health 16 hrs ago Amanda MacMillan

When Andrea Syron began noticing a buzzing in her ear-that later grew to a strange "whooshing"-she knew something was wrong. But for months, doctors told her it was just allergies, a bad cold, or fluid trapped in her ear.

It wasn't until the 36-year-old actress and model saw an ear-nose-and-throat doctor, and underwent imaging scans, that she got a correct diagnosis: an irregularity in the arteries lining her brain, called an ateriovenous malformation (AVM), that was causing the blood vessels above her ear to pulsate.

"I went for a CT scan and when it came back they saw a shadow behind my right ear," Syron, who lives in Grand Blanc, Michigan, told the Daily Mail. "I had an MRA scan and then they discovered I had an AVM."

Syron was relieved to know that she "wasn't crazy," but was faced with a new worry: AVMs can be extremely dangerous. People who have these irregular blood-vessel connections are at increased risk of a fatal brain bleed, blood clot, or stroke -often with little or no warning beforehand.

Luckily, AVMs are treatable if doctors can identify them before one of those complications occurs. Syron had surgery two months ago to repair about half of the irregularities in or around her brain, and she may need another operation in the future. Now, the Daily Mail reports, Syron is raising awareness about the condition that turned her into a self-described "ticking time-bomb," and the symptoms that were missed and misdiagnosed by her doctors.

To be clear, AVMs aren't common; it's estimated they affect about one in every 2,000 to 5,000 people. Even so, they can happen to anyone-and getting a diagnosis, as Syron was finally able to do, can be life-saving. Here are a few things to know.
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AVMs are tangles of abnormal blood vessels

In a healthy cardiovascular system, arteries carry high-pressure, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the brain, and veins carry it back (low-pressure, sans oxygen) in the other direction.

But where AVMs form, those blood vessels are tangled or abnormally connected. Blood may bypass normal brain tissue, and be diverted directly from the arteries to the veins.

When this happens, the normal slow-flow of blood through the veins becomes "very fast, swirling, and turbulent," Huy Do, MD, an interventional neuroradiologist with Stanford Health Care, tells Health. (Dr. Do is not involved with Syron's diagnosis or treatment, but has operated on many other patients with AVMs.)

That's dangerous, says Dr. Do, because the vein's higher pressure can cause it to swell like a balloon. "At some point, the walls of these veins will rupture, and then the patient will have bleeding in the brain that can lead to a major stroke," he says.
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They don't usually cause symptoms

In many ways, Syron is lucky that one of her AVMs was located just above her ear, says Dr. Do. "She was probably able to notice that fast-flowing stream of blood because it was right next to her hearing apparatus," he says. "A lot of people don't have symptoms at all until these things cause problems-and the number one problem they cause is bleeding."

That doesn't mean that everyone else with an AVM is doomed, though. Headaches, vision or nerve problems, and seizures can also be signs of an otherwise hidden AVM, and should always be taken seriously by physicians, says Dr. Do. And even if a brain bleed does occur, most are not fatal-although seeking treatment right away is very important, and some do cause permanent neurological damage.
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Surgery can be very effective

If doctors can identify and diagnose an AVM before it's too late, they can also treat it with surgery or embolization-a process in which parts of blood vessels are blocked off-or a combination of both. In Syron's case, surgeons inserted a catheter into a large artery in the actress's groin, and threaded it through her body, around her heart, and into the lining of her brain, the Daily Mail reported.

They then injected onyx, an embolization material, to close off the abnormal connections in her veins and arteries. Doctors only intended to close off three of Syron's ten fistulas, or abnormal openings, "but the surgery was going so well my doctor, Dr. Boyd Richards, decided he was able to close off three more," she said.

Dr. Do says it's important for people with AVMs to know that a diagnosis is not a death sentence. "We have very good techniques and surgical procedures to treat and cure these problems and prevent life-ending or life-altering strokes," he says.
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They're often congenital, but not usually hereditary

Scientists don't know why AVMs affect some people and not others. They are usually congenital, which means they form even before a person is born. And according to the American Stroke Association, they're not usually inherited from parents or passed onto children.

Still, cases of AVMs in families have been reported. If you have a family history of hemorrhagic stroke (stroke due to bleeding), Dr. Do says it's not a bad idea to mention this to your doctor and ask if you should be monitored with specific screenings. "Your primary care doctor might not know much about this topic," he adds, "so you may have to be referred to a neurosurgeon or an interventional neuroradiologist who deals with and treats these problems."
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A healthy lifestyle is a good defense

Eating well, exercising, not smoking, and otherwise taking care of yourself won't prevent AVMs from forming or make existing ones go away-but it can help keep your blood pressure in a healthy range, which may reduce the risk of an AVM rupturing, says Dr. Do.

"High blood pressure is a common risk factor for a lot of vascular diseases," he explains. "I don't think it's been proven that high blood pressure could increase the chances of an AVM rupturing, but it makes sense that the vessels could weaken under higher pressure."

Plus, he adds, staying fit and healthy-and getting regular physicals-can help you and your doctor stay in tune with your body and recognize anything out of the ordinary. "A good lesson here is to listen to your body, alert your doctor to any new symptoms, and get a second opinion if you still aren't satisfied," he says.
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This Woman's Potentially Fatal Brain Condition Was Misdiagnosed as Allergies

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Health 16 hrs ago Amanda MacMillan When Andrea Syron began noticing a buzzing in her ear-that later grew to a strange "whooshing"-she knew something was wrong. But for months, doctors told her it was just allergies, a bad cold, or fluid trapped in her ear.

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Police investigate a video sent by the superintendent of East High School of a cheerleading practice. A girl was doing the splits and a teacher was pushing her down and another student was grabbing her arms. The girl cried out for them to stop multiple times. There were 5 teachers sent on leave and there are child abuse detectives are looking into it.

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power ball winner makes her first mistake by coming forward too quickly and making it public that she took the lump sum of $450 million. Experts say she needs to get an attorney quick to help her before money seeker come at her

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CNBC 2 hrs ago Sarah O'Brien

For 53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk, the newly minted winner of Wednesday night's $758.7 million Powerball jackpot drawing, life is about to get crazy. And that might be putting it mildly.

"She better get ready. She's going to be hit up for investment opportunities, charity requests, even people she knows are going to come to her," said Jason Kurland, an attorney with Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, a law firm in East Meadow, New York.

"She has an insane amount of money now."

Wanczyk's lucky windfall - the odds of matching all six numbers is one in 292.2 million - marks the largest win on a single ticket in U.S. history. Almost 10 million additional tickets won prizes totaling more than $135 million.

Although Massachusetts law requires lottery winners to be made public, some recipients in the past have created a trust and had a trustee accept the winnings to protect their anonymity.

By choosing to come forward so quickly - the state allows lottery winners a full year to claim their winnings - Wanczyk, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, has already made what many experts would call a mistake by not protecting her identity.

Kurland said the best thing she can do at this point is immediately hire an attorney who can shield her as much as possible from the onslaught of attention she's in for from money-seekers.

"Her life will be much easier if she can hide behind someone else, so to speak, when she gets all these calls and questions," Kurland said.

There also are a few other things she needs to do, he said. For one, because she chose the $480.5 million lump sum instead of 30 payments over 29 years, she should alert her financial institution that it's about to get a deposit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

An estimated $120.1 million will go to Uncle Sam and $24 million to Massachusetts state coffers, according to USAMega.com estimates, before Wanczyk gets her take of about $336 million.

She also needs to set up a team of professionals, which would include a financial advisor and accountant in addition to an attorney, to help guide her through the steps necessary to protect her wealth. Even estate planning - putting a will and other documents in place to ensure that if something unfortunate happens to her tomorrow, her wealth is protected - needs to be on her radar screen immediately.

"She's now one of the world's wealthiest people and she has to start acting like it," Kurland said.

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$758.7 million Powerball winner already broke one rule. What else not to do

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CNBC 2 hrs ago Sarah O'Brien For 53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk, the newly minted winner of Wednesday night's $758.7 million Powerball jackpot drawing, life is about to get crazy. And that might be putting it mildly. "She better get ready.

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The woman who won the powerball picked her numbers  by using birthdays, one was her lucky number 4 and others were random.Wednesday's winning jackpot is second only to a $1.6 billion prize shared by three people in January 2016.

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One Powerball ticket among the millions sold across the country has made 53-year-old Massachusetts resident Mavis Wanczyk a very rich person.

The Massachusetts State Lottery announced Wanczyk as the holder of the lucky ticket for Wednesday's $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, the largest haul in North American history for a single winning ticket.

"It's just a pipe dream I've always had," Wanczyk told reporters during a press conference Thursday. "It's just a chance I had to take."

Wanczyk bought the Powerball ticket at the Pride Station and Store near where she works in Chicopee, located some 90 miles west of Boston. The winning numbers for the jackpot drawn Wednesday night were 6, 7, 16, 23, 26, and the final number, called the Powerball, was 4.

Wanczyk said she bought two quick-pick tickets and a third ticket for which she picked out the numbers herself, and the latter was the lucky one. Some of the numbers she chose were birthdays, one was her lucky number 4 and others were random, she said.

A colleague was with her at the time she checked her numbers and told her she had won the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, the second-largest in the game's history. Wanczyk, a mother to a 31-year-old daughter and a 26-year-old son, said she was in shock.

"I couldn't drive anywhere, I couldn't do anything," Wanczyk, who still appeared stunned by her luck, told reporters Thursday.

The odds of matching all six numbers are only one in 292.2 million.

In addition to the single jackpot winner, there were 9,397,723 other players who won non-jackpot prizes totaling $134,981,575. California had the most winners by far, with 1,172,477.

Massachusetts was home to two other winning tickets worth $1 million -- one was sold at Handy Variety in Watertown and the other at Sandy's Variety in Dorchester.

Initially, the Massachusetts State Lottery erroneously announced that the jackpot winning ticket was sold at Handy Variety. The lottery issued a correction Thursday morning.

"When manually recording the names of the retailers that sold the jackpot winning ticket and the $1 million winning tickets, the information was transcribed incorrectly. We apologize for the confusion this created and remain thrilled that a jackpot winning ticket and two $1 million winning tickets were sold here in Massachusetts," Michael Sweeney, executive director of the Massachusetts State Lottery, said in a statement.

The estimated Powerball jackpot will now be reset to $40 million.

Wednesday's winning jackpot is second only to a $1.6 billion prize shared by three people in January 2016.

The $758.7 million amount reflects the annuity payout option, in which the winner receives 30 payments over 29 years, increasing 5 percent annually.

Lottery officials said nearly all winners take the cash option, which would be around $443.3 million minus federal and state taxes. Federal tax for the Powerball jackpot is 25 percent and Massachusetts, state tax is 5 percent, so they would collectively eat up 30 percent of the winnings.

As ABC News reported Wednesday morning, Powerball officials told ABC News they expected to sell 170 million tickets between last Saturday and tonight's drawing.

Powerball is played in 44 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, all of which collectively oversee the game.

ABC News' Kelly McCarthy and Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

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$758.7M Powerball winner speaks out, calls jackpot 'a pipe dream'

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After 50 years of research German engineers have found a way to pack new hearing aids into a smaller, more technologically advanced system.

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A 6 year old boy named Branson Lee saved his drowning 21 month old cousins. The baby gate was left open, thus leading to the young children to enter the pool. While Lee can't swim, he managed to jump in and push them to the shallow water as fast as he could. They were blue and almost lifeless, but luckily he got to them in time to save their lives.

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A 6-year-old Louisiana boy is being praised for his quick reactions after what could have been a horrific accident on Aug. 20.

Branson Lee of Calhoun saw his 21-month-old twin cousins, Isaac and Kaden Kelley, floating in their pool. Even though he can't swim, the little boy jumped into the shallow end to pull them out as fast as he could.

The twins' mom, Jeannie Kelley, said Branson had left a baby gate open while playing hide and seek with her sons that "is always supposed to be shut."

"He went to the restroom and when he came back he noticed his own little brother was on the first step of the pool," Kelley, 32, told ABC News. "He saw that and went after him and when he did that he saw my boys in the pool."

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A devastated Kelley explained the family always leaves the doors locked on the ground floor except for one, which is separated by a locked baby gate.

"That is the only way people can come in," she said. "They're supposed to lock the baby gate behind them. They left the baby gate unlocked and the babies were able to gain access outside because the baby gate was left unlocked."

She said once Branson got the twins out he started screaming, which caught the attention of the rest of the family inside the house who didn't realize the children had gotten into the backyard in the short 3-minute time frame.

"We ran out there and they were laying on the side of the pool and were completely blue and completely lifeless," Kelley recalled. "My husband immediately fell down to his knees and started doing compressions and CPR. He is a first responder."

About 30 seconds into the horrific incident, Kelley said Kaden started showing a "slight response," followed shortly after by Isaac.

Once the ambulance arrived the boys were "full-blown crying," which the mom said was a good sign. They were medevac'd separately to University Health in Shreveport when Kelley said a surreal experience happened.

"When we got into the helicopter Kaden sat up in my lap and said, 'Hi Mama. I love you,'" the overwhelmed mom said while fighting back tears. "I was so blown away. Ten minutes ago I thought I lost my baby and now he's talking to me."

She said she didn't know it at the time, but her pastor had started a prayer chain with their fellow parishioners repeating the same prayer she had been praying over her sons the whole time: "Bring them back and make them perfect God."

Shortly afterward, "They were both playing and talking like nothing ever happened to them," Kelley said. "The doctors were just astounded. This is just a miracle. I'm so overwhelmed that God was so good to us."

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A 6-year-old Louisiana boy is being praised for his quick reactions after what could have been a horrific accident on Aug. 20. Branson Lee of Calhoun saw his 21-month-old twin cousins, Isaac and Kaden Kelley, floating in their pool. Even though he can't swim, the little boy jumped into the shallow end to pull them out as fast as he could.

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Chief of Samsung sentenced to 5 years in prison.

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Postal worker who faked cancer sentenced to community service at treatment center.

A Colorado woman who faked cancer to take paid leave from her job as a postal worker must spend 652 hours doing community service at a cancer treatment center, research center or hospice, and pay a $10,000 fine as well as $20,798.38 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service.

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A Colorado woman who faked cancer to take paid leave from her job as a postal worker must spend 652 hours doing community service at a cancer treatment center, research center or hospice, and pay a $10,000 fine as well as $20,798.38 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service. Caroline Zarate Boyle, 60, learned of her fate on Tuesday after she plead guilty without a plea agreement in April.

According to a news release, investigators discovered that Boyle, who once accused a subordinate of faking cancer and denied the employee's request for accommodations, forged notes from two different doctors about treatment related to non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In total she was granted 112 days of sick leave, was allowed to work part-time or from home and received paid administrative leave.
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She was caught after an interview with the Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in February 2017, during which she revealed that she was planning on continuing to take time off until her scheduled retirement in April 2017. According to the news release, Boyle said she decided to take time off from work after being passed over for a promotion.

"This type of behavior within the Postal Service is not tolerated and the overwhelming majority of Postal Service employees, which serve the public, are honest, hardworking, and trustworthy individuals who would never consider engaging in any type of criminal behavior," OIG Special Agent in Charge Scott Pierce said, in the news release.

In addition to the penalties, Boyle was sentenced to 5 years' probation with the first 6 months in home confinement.

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A Colorado woman who faked cancer to take paid leave from her job as a postal worker must spend 652 hours doing community service at a cancer treatment center, research center or hospice, and pay a $10,000 fine as well as $20,798.38 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Singh, who is known as the "guru of bling", was found guilty of rape in a case that dates back to 1999. Rape in India carries a minimum sentence of seven years. Supporters of Singh's began to attack journalists and launch projectiles at security forces.Singh is also at the center of an ongoing murder investigation.

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Deadly clashes break out in India after guru convicted of rape

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Deadly clashes broke out Friday in northern India after followers of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh clashed with officers in the city of Panchkula.

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California Supreme Court upholds Proposition 66, which is supposed to speed up the death penalty cases.

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California's state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Proposition 66. The voter initiative is intended to speed up the state's death penalty cases, which sometimes take more than 20 years to be resolved.

But the court also eased the strict deadlines called for in the proposal, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The plan called for death penalty cases to be completed within five years, but the five justices who formed the majority opinion said such a time schedule could not be guaranteed.

The justices noted that placing death penalty cases on a faster schedule would likely result in higher court-related costs for the state.

The initiative was supported by 51 percent of voters in November, the Bee reported.

Despite the death penalty being legal in California, the state has not carried out an execution in more than a decade, with multiple appeals being among the contributing factors.

Meanwhile, another key obstacle remained before executions can resume in the state: Getting approval for a new lethal injection method.

The next step in that process was expected Friday, when state corrections officials say they will seek regulatory approval for a revised drug protocol to execute inmates.

The new regulations would allow California's death row inmates to be executed using one of two different drugs or choose the gas chamber.

In California, condemned inmates are more likely to die of old age than be executed. The state has nearly 750 inmates on death row, and only 13 have been executed since 1978 -- the most recent in 2006.

Nearly 400 death penalty appeals are pending.
The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.

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California's state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Proposition 66. The voter initiative is intended to speed up the state's death penalty cases, which sometimes take more than 20 years to be resolved. But the court also eased the strict deadlines called for in the proposal, the Sacramento Bee reported.

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Revealed Afghanistan strategy: reconciliation and peace talks

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"We are there to facilitate and ensure that there is a pathway for reconciliation and peace talks," Tillerson said. "As the pressure begins to take hold, we believe we already know there are certain moderate elements of the Taliban who we think will be ready and develop a way forward."

Trump's South Asia plan is meant to force the Taliban to accept that they "will not win a battlefield victory," Tillerson said. Addressing the terrorist group directly, he said, "We may not win one, but neither will you."

He cautioned that the effort will take time. "It is time to begin a process, a lengthy process, of reconciliation and a peace accord in Afghanistan," he said. "How long that will take will be based on conditions on the ground."

Tillerson was expanding on Trump's Monday speech that laid out the administration's approach to the war of almost 16 years, which has claimed more than 2,000 US lives and billions of dollars since it was launched by President George W. Bush in October 2001.

Trump's plan resembles the strategies of previous administrations, with a few tweaks and deliberately few details, including how long the US will stay.

The President authorized more troops and declared that the US will avoid nation building, concentrating instead on empowering the Afghans to fight their own battles. Under Trump, the US will also continue to engage regional neighbors, such as India and Pakistan, in efforts to stabilize Afghanistan.

And while the President is continuing past pressure on Pakistan, he and Tillerson are taking a much more public route with US complaints over Islamabad's ties to terror groups.

No signals ahead

On Tuesday, Tillerson declined to offer many more details beyond what the President had. "We are not going to signal ahead what our plans are," he said.

"We're not going to signal an increase, decrease, timing, any of that," he added, referring to troop levels, among other things. "It will be driven by conditions on the ground."

He added, though, that "the intent is there will be visibility to troop levels once the decision has been made." And Tillerson added that, "the only way we can defeat an enemy that is as nimble and as cagey, tactically, as this enemy is, we have to be as cagey and tactical as they are. And we've not been fighting that way."

The top US diplomat also doubled down on Trump's comments about Pakistan, noting that it can play an important role in delivering the Taliban to the negotiating table but warned that Islamabad must stop offering safe haven to terrorist groups or face consequences.

A spokesperson for Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Abbasi said late Tuesday the leader was "disappointed" by the US's policy statement, adding it "ignores the enormous sacrifices" made in the fight against terrorism.

"Pakistan has been and will continue to be part of the global counter terrorism efforts," the statement said.

The US and Pakistan have long maintained a close security partnership, with the US providing hundreds of millions of dollars in security assistance to Islamabad in recent years. Much of that money goes toward supporting counter terrorism efforts and capabilities.

"We have witnessed terrorist organizations being given safe haven inside Pakistan to plan and carry out attacks against US servicemen and officials, disrupting peace efforts inside Afghanistan," Tillerson said. "Pakistan must adopt a different approach."

The US will condition future support for Pakistan "on them delivering results in this area," Tillerson said. Consequences could include Pakistan's loss of status as a non-NATO ally and cuts to aid.

"We have put people on notice that if you're providing safe haven to terrorists, be warned: we are going to engage those providing safe haven and ask them to change what they are doing," Tillerson said.

Apart from the Afghan people, Tillerson said, Pakistan "will benefit more than any other nation," particularly as the Taliban and other terror groups such as the Haqqani network strengthen to such a degree that they might soon threaten Islamabad itself, he said.

Trump, like his predecessors, will pursue a strategy that combines military and diplomatic levers of influence to stabilize the country and deny a safe haven to terrorist groups, including ISIS and al Qaeda.

The President offered little elaboration about the diplomatic side of that campaign, particularly how it would be carried out without a US ambassador in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

"A vacuum for terrorists"

Tillerson said Tuesday that, "we have very competent capable people on the ground now" to handle the diplomatic challenges. He added that the administration's diplomatic approach, like the military approach, will be "conditions based."

"We must continue the reform efforts we've been working on for some time," Tillerson said, "in particular much more rigorous efforts" around fighting government corruption.

In his Monday address to troops at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, Trump offered few specifics, but he did outline reasons for his decision to extend and expand the US presence in Afghanistan, a reversal from his strident past criticism of previous administrations for involvement there.

Leaving "would create a vacuum for terrorists, including ISIS and al Qaeda," Trump said, as he described an extended deliberative process with his national security staff about how to proceed in Afghanistan. Trump said he had been told that decision making from within the Oval Office is more complicated.

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"We are there to facilitate and ensure that there is a pathway for reconciliation and peace talks," Tillerson said. "As the pressure begins to take hold, we believe we already know there are certain moderate elements of the Taliban who we think will be ready and develop a way forward."

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2 North Korean spices were caught taking pictures of Ukrainian missle designs

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Grainy surveillance images show two North Korean spies photographing what they think are top-secret missile designs in Ukraine.

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Are energy bars healthy?

Some nutrition bars can be very nutritious but some can mimic a candy bar

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But, like many foods in a specific category, not all energy bars are created equal. Those that are low in saturated fat and sugars, with a decent amount of protein and fiber, can provide a nutritious, satisfying pick-me-up. Others can closely mimic a candy bar. For example, some bars covered in chocolate contain as much saturated fat as a Snickers bar; others contain almost as much sugar.

Energy bars containing mostly fruit and nuts can serve as satisfying snacks. But if you're looking for a meal replacement, aim for a bar with a higher amount of protein: about 10 to 20 grams. Athletes can also benefit from choosing a bar with more protein and carbohydrates, as their needs are higher.

You can afford more calories if bars are consumed in place of meals and not as snacks. But if a bar is intended only to tide you over until dinner, limit it to 150 to 200 calories.

In general, try to aim for bars with less than 3 grams of saturated fat and at least 4 grams of fiber. Palm kernel oil in yogurt and chocolate coatings will boost saturated fat. Also watch out for bars with ingredients such as brown rice syrup or cane invert syrup listed first, as they are generally higher in sugars than others and are better suited for athletes, not weight watchers.

Note that some bars contain sugar alcohols such as maltitol or erythritol, to lower the sugar content. Because they are not fully absorbed, sugar alcohols provide fewer calories than sugar -- but they can also cause some gastrointestinal distress.

One last point: Don't be fooled by the word "energy." In the nutrition world, energy is synonymous with "calories," and all food gives you energy because it provides calories. There's nothing magical about energy bars in and of themselves, and they won't give a boost in strength or focus unless you've been skipping meals and snacks.

Additionally, energy bars shouldn't take the place of whole foods, especially fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts, which provide a package of beneficial nutrients that are important not only for energy but for overall health.

So stock up on a stash of healthful energy bars to keep in your bag or at your desk and enjoy them on days that don't allow for a break to sit and eat. Just don't make them the main staple of your diet.

Seven energy bars that meet the above recommendations:

SimplyProtein's Maple Pecan protein bar: 150 calories; 5g fat; 0.5g sat fat; 16g protein; 7g fiber; 1g sugar

PowerBar's Plant Protein snack bar: 230 calories, 2.5g sat fat, 10g protein, 8g fiber, 10g sugars

Kind Snacks' Cranberry Almond + Antioxidants with Macadamia Nuts bar: 190 calories, 13g fat, 1.5g sat fat, 4g protein, 5g fiber, 8g sugar

Luna Whole Nutrition Bars' Chocolate Peppermint Stick: 190 calories, 2.5g sat fat, 8g protein, 4g fiber, 8g sugar

Kashi's GoLean Plant-Powered Dark Chocolate Cashew Chia bar: 200 calories, 2g sat fat, 8g protein, 4g fiber, 8g sugars

Lärabar's Apple Pie: 190 calories, 1g sat fat, 4g protein, 5g fiber, 18g sugar

Pure Protein Plus' Apple Pie bar: 190 calories, 1.5g sat fat, 20g protein, 16g fiber, 3g sugar (2g sugar alcohols)

Lisa Drayer is a nutritionist, author and health journalist.

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But, like many foods in a specific category, not all energy bars are created equal. Those that are low in saturated fat and sugars, with a decent amount of protein and fiber, can provide a nutritious, satisfying pick-me-up. Others can closely mimic a candy bar.

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A fight broke out between the New York Yankees, and the Detroit Tigers. Austin Romine and Miguel Cabrera were caught in the middle of it. Words were exchanged between Romine and Cabrera which were then followed with punches.

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Hurricane Harvey sets for TExas