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Fatal shootings mark beginning of holiday week

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Thanksgiving week got off to a violent start Monday.

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When parents wanted to name a street after their late son who was a war veteran, community board rejects the proposal.

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Multiple students sickened during Thanksgiving prayer in school gym, Florida fire officials say

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Multiple students sickened during Thanksgiving prayer in school gym, Florida fire officials say

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A reported 27 people fell ill on Monday during a Thanksgiving prayer hosted in a Fort Lauderdale high school gym.

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A whale was found dead with 115 cups and two flip flops, pollution is taking over the sea.

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A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting countries.

Rescuers from Wakatobi National Park found the rotting carcass of the 9.5-meter (31-foot) sperm whale late Monday near the park in Southeast Sulawesi province after receiving a report from environmentalists that villagers had surrounded the dead whale and were beginning to butcher the rotting carcass, park chief Heri Santoso said.

Santoso said researchers from wildlife conservation group WWF and the park's conservation academy found about 5.9 kilograms (13 pounds) of plastic waste in the animal's stomach containing 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, 2 flip-flops, a nylon sack and more than 1,000 other assorted pieces of plastic.

"Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful," said Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation coordinator at WWF Indonesia.

She said it was not possible to determine if the plastic had caused the whale's death because of the animal's advanced state of decay.

Indonesia, an archipelago of 260 million people, is the world's second-largest plastic polluter after China, according to a study published in the journal Science in January. It produces 3.2 million tons of mismanaged plastic waste a year, of which 1.29 million tons ends up in the ocean, the study said.

Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia's coordinating minister of maritime affairs, said the whale's discovery should raise public awareness about the need to reduce plastic use, and had spurred the government to take tougher measures to protect the ocean.

"I'm so sad to hear this," said Pandjaitan, who recently has campaigned for less use of plastic. "It is possible that many other marine animals are also contaminated with plastic waste and this is very dangerous for our lives."

He said the government is making efforts to reduce the use of plastic, including urging shops not to provide plastic bags for customers and teaching about the problem in schools nationwide to meet a government target of reducing plastic use by 70 percent by 2025.

"This big ambition can be achieved if people learn to understand that plastic waste is a common enemy," he told The Associated Press.

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Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach

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A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting...

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A fight broke out over "broken engagement"

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The deadly rampage at a hospital on Chicago's South Side Monday that claimed the lives of a police officer and two medical professionals appears to have been sparked over a "broken engagement," according to reports.

Chicago Police said that Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28, who joined the department in February 2017 and was married with three children, was shot in the lobby of Mercy Hospital when he responded to a call of shots fired. Two other hospital workers, Dr. Tamara O'Neal and Dayna Less, 25, a first-year pharmacy resident, were also killed in the shooting.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Jimenez was "selfless in his actions," and added the city "lost a doctor, pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer" in the shooting.
CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER CONFIRMED DEAD FOLLOWING HOSPITAL SHOOTING
"All [were] going about their day. All [were] doing what they love," Emanuel said. "This tears at the soul of our city."

The attacker, identified by police as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, also died Monday but it was not clear if he took his own life or was killed by police at Mercy Hospital on the city's South Side, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.

O'Neal appeared to be the intended target of the attack, after calling off her engagement with the gunman in September, WLS-TV reported.

The shooting spree began with a confrontation between Lopez and O'Neal in the parking lot of the hospital around 3:30 p.m. A witness, who asked not to be identified, told WGN News that the doctor ran asking for help.
COP ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SECURITY GUARD AT BAR IN CHICAGO SUBURBS: REPORT
"She got on the phone and she was trying to call the police," the witness told WGN. "She asked us not to leave her alone because he is going to kill her."
CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER CONFIRMED DEAD FOLLOWING HOSPITAL SHOOTING
Lopez then approached O'Neal and demanded he give her a ring, the witness claimed. When she told the man she didn't have it, the man reemerged with a gun, according to the witness.

"The guy comes really quickly from behind the van and just pulls out a gun and shoots her six times before she even hits the ground," the witness told WGN.

When police arrived at Mercy Hospital, Lopez had shot O'Neal repeatedly, standing over her as he fired the last shots, witness and police sources told the Chicago Tribune.

Lopez fired at the officer's squad car as they arrived before running inside the hospital. Inside the medical center, he then exchanged fire with officers and "shot a poor woman who just came off the elevator" before he was killed, Johnson said, referring to pharmaceutical assistant Less.

"We just don't know how much damage he was prepared to do," Johnson said, adding that Less "had nothing to do with nothing."

Less was a first year pharmacy resident who had recently graduated from Purdue University, while O'Neal worked as emergency room physician who worked as a resident for two years but never worked on Sunday because of her religious faith.

An emotional Emergency Department director Patrick Connor said during a press conference that O'Neal would help raise money for disadvantaged children, and was dedicated to her congregation.

"That was her one thing she wanted, to be able to go to church on Sunday," he told reporters. "We'll make sure you go to church on Sunday."

During the gun battle in the lobby of the hospital, a second officer was also shot at but was not injured because a bullet struck his holster and embedded itself in his gun.

The death of Jimenez, a married father of three, comes nine months after another member of the Chicago Police Department, Cmdr. Paul Bauer, was fatally shot while pursuing a suspect in the Loop business district.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that Jimenez didn't typically work in the hospital area, but that the officer responded when he heard that shots were fired. He says it "speaks volumes about his character."

Mercy has a rich history as the city's first chartered hospital. It began in 1852, when the Sisters of Mercy religious group converted a rooming house. During the Civil War, the hospital treated both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war, according to its website.
Fox News' Nicole Darrah and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Chicago hospital shooting that left officer, doctor dead came after fight over ring, 'broken engagement': reports

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The deadly rampage at a hospital on Chicago's South Side on Monday that claimed the lives of a police officer and two medical professionals appears to have been sparked over a "broken engagement," according to a witness to the attack and local reports.

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The USS Sioux is 378 feet long, can travel at 52 miles per hour and boasts an endurance of 21 days.

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The USS Sioux City was commissioned by the U.S. Navy over the weekend in front of 4,000 people, as reported by Military.com.

The combat ship is the first to be commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, because it is the only ship of its kind that can operate in as little as 14 feet of water. After the ceremony it will enter active service. It was built in Wisconsin by Lockheed Martin.

The Navy spent $360 million to buy 10 ships under a block contract, according to its website.

The littoral combat ship is the Navy's newest class of warships: relatively small surface combatants designed to operate in congested, shallow waters. The primary missions of these ships include surface warfare, mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare.

The USS Sioux is 378 feet long, can travel at 52 miles per hour and boasts an endurance of 21 days. It is the fastest ship in the fleet. It is capable of carrying 15 to 50 core crew members - 75 including mission crew - and can accelerate from 0 to nearly 50 miles per hour in less than two minutes.

It has a helicopter pad, a ramp for small boats, a flight deck that is 1.5 times larger than current combatants and an aircraft hangar that is two times larger.

The ship is named after a city in Iowa and will be stationed in Florida.

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Navy to commission new Lockheed Martin warship: What to know

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The USS Sioux City was commissioned by the U.S. Navy over the weekend in front of 4,000 people, as reported by Military.com. The combat ship is the first to be commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, because it is the only ship of its kind that can operate in as little as 14 feet of water.

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Rain will bring much-needed relief to California fires, but also new dangers

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Rain will bring much-needed relief to California fires, but also new dangers

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Northern California is now at risk of debris flow and mudslides, which could be especially dangerous for firefighters battling the inferno.

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1 person died and 4 injured after a shooting in Denver

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DENVER - One person was killed and four others were wounded in a shooting on a downtown Denver street Monday, but it was unclear what caused the violence and no one had been arrested, authorities said.

The shooting occurred in a neighborhood of new apartment buildings, restaurants and bars near the Colorado Rockies' stadium just as the evening rush hour was getting underway.

Police spokesman Doug Schepman said investigators did not know whether more than one shooter was involved and had no descriptions of any suspects.

A witness told The Denver Post he saw a man holding a handgun in both hands fire into a group of indigent people, and someone in the group fired back.

"Oh my God, oh my God," Hisam Derani said. "I saw him approach the crowd."

Derani said he was returning home from work when he heard about six gunshots. He said he saw one or two shots fired before he ducked.

He said a gunman got into a car, slammed the door and drove away.

Derani says police interviewed him and later asked him if a man they had detained as a potential suspect was the shooter, but Derani said he was not.

Schepman said investigators did not yet know what led to the shooting.

"It's too early in the investigation right now to be able to say exactly what happened here and why," he said. Investigators were interviewing witnesses and looking for video.

The wounded victims were taken to Denver Health medical center. Schepman said they were considered to be in critical condition because they had been shot but their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Hospital spokesman Simon Crittle said he did not know their conditions.

Authorities released conflicting numbers of the wounded in the first few hours after the shooting, first saying it was four, then three, then four again. Schepman said uncertainty in the immediate aftermath of the shooting caused the varying reports.

Police said witnesses had told officers they saw a potential sixth victim, a woman who was wounded in the leg, but investigators had not been able to confirm that.

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1 dead, 4 injured after downtown Denver shooting

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DENVER - One person was killed and four others were wounded in a shooting on a downtown Denver street Monday, but it was unclear what caused the violence and no one had been arrested, authorities said. The shooting occurred in a neighborhood of new apartment buildings, restaurants and bars near the Colorado Rockies' stadium just as the evening rush hour was getting underway.

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London architects have plans to build 'The Tulip' and will be used for cultural and educational reasons rather than commercial or business.

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Written by Jack Guy, CNN London

First there was the Gherkin, then the Walkie-Talkie and the Cheese Grater. Now, meet the Tulip: London's new skyscraper design with a playful name and ambitious plans.

On Monday British architects Foster + Partners revealed designs for a 305-meter (1,000-feet) tower that will become the second-tallest building in the British capital.

Subject to approval, work on the building could begin by 2020 and finish in 2025.

The Tulip will stand next door to 30 St Mary Axe, better known as the Gherkin, which was also designed by Foster + Partners.

Instead of hosting office or commercial space, however, the new structure will become a cultural and educational resource, according to the architects.

Plans show a tall stem topped by a glass bud, which will house viewing galleries, a bar and restaurants offering 360-degree views of the city.

Visitors will be also able to enjoy internal slides and ride in viewing pods at the top of the tower, plus there will be an educational facilities for local schoolchildren, with 20,000 free visits offered per year.

The scheme will be funded by billionaire Jacob J Safra, who also owns the Gherkin.

"We are delighted to benefit from the exceptional talent of Foster + Partners in bringing to London this world-class visitor attraction," said Safra in a statement. "The Tulip's elegance and soft strength complements the iconic Gherkin."

The new tourist attraction would fit in with local authority plans to create a so-called 'Culture Mile,' which would bring more visitors to London's financial district.

A small park and a two-story pavilion housing a public rooftop garden on the site will also help to attract visitors to the area, according to the plans.

"Continuing the pioneering design of 30 St Mary Axe, the Tulip is in the spirit of London as a progressive, forward-thinking city," said Norman Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners, in a statement.

"It offers significant benefits to Londoners and visitors as a cultural and social landmark with unmatched educational resources for future generations."

At 305 meters tall, the Tulip will stand just short of the 306-meter Shard across the River Thames. Another planned skyscraper, 1 Undershaft, which is yet to acquire a nickname, will be 304 meters tall.

The height of buildings in the city's financial district are restricted by flight paths into London City airport.

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Meet 'the Tulip,' London's new skyscraper design

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Written by Jack Guy, CNN London First there was the Gherkin, then the Walkie-Talkie and the Cheese Grater. Now, meet the Tulip: London's new skyscraper design with a playful name and ambitious plans. On Monday British architects Foster + Partners revealed designs for a 305-meter (1,000-feet) tower that will become the second-tallest building in the British capital.

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Chicago hospital shooting caused by a "Broken Engagement

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The deadly rampage at a hospital on Chicago's South Side Monday that claimed the lives of a police officer and two medical professionals appears to have been sparked over a "broken engagement," according to reports.

Chicago Police said that Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28, who joined the department in February 2017 and was married with three children, was shot in the lobby of Mercy Hospital when he responded to a call of shots fired. Two other hospital workers, Dr. Tamara O'Neal and Dayna Less, 25, a first-year pharmacy resident, were also killed in the shooting.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Jimenez was "selfless in his actions," and added the city "lost a doctor, pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer" in the shooting.
CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER CONFIRMED DEAD FOLLOWING HOSPITAL SHOOTING
"All [were] going about their day. All [were] doing what they love," Emanuel said. "This tears at the soul of our city."

The attacker, identified by police as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, also died Monday but it was not clear if he took his own life or was killed by police at Mercy Hospital on the city's South Side, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.

O'Neal appeared to be the intended target of the attack, after calling off her engagement with the gunman in September, WLS-TV reported.

The shooting spree began with a confrontation between Lopez and O'Neal in the parking lot of the hospital around 3:30 p.m. A witness, who asked not to be identified, told WGN News that the doctor ran asking for help.
COP ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SECURITY GUARD AT BAR IN CHICAGO SUBURBS: REPORT
"She got on the phone and she was trying to call the police," the witness told WGN. "She asked us not to leave her alone because he is going to kill her."
CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER CONFIRMED DEAD FOLLOWING HOSPITAL SHOOTING
Lopez then approached O'Neal and demanded he give her a ring, the witness claimed. When she told the man she didn't have it, the man reemerged with a gun, according to the witness.

"The guy comes really quickly from behind the van and just pulls out a gun and shoots her six times before she even hits the ground," the witness told WGN.

When police arrived at Mercy Hospital, Lopez had shot O'Neal repeatedly, standing over her as he fired the last shots, witness and police sources told the Chicago Tribune.

Lopez fired at the officer's squad car as they arrived before running inside the hospital. Inside the medical center, he then exchanged fire with officers and "shot a poor woman who just came off the elevator" before he was killed, Johnson said, referring to pharmaceutical assistant Less.

"We just don't know how much damage he was prepared to do," Johnson said, adding that Less "had nothing to do with nothing."

Less was a first year pharmacy resident who had recently graduated from Purdue University, while O'Neal worked as emergency room physician who worked as a resident for two years but never worked on Sunday because of her religious faith.

An emotional Emergency Department director Patrick Connor said during a press conference that O'Neal would help raise money for disadvantaged children, and was dedicated to her congregation.

"That was her one thing she wanted, to be able to go to church on Sunday," he told reporters. "We'll make sure you go to church on Sunday."

During the gun battle in the lobby of the hospital, a second officer was also shot at but was not injured because a bullet struck his holster and embedded itself in his gun.

The death of Jimenez, a married father of three, comes nine months after another member of the Chicago Police Department, Cmdr. Paul Bauer, was fatally shot while pursuing a suspect in the Loop business district.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that Jimenez didn't typically work in the hospital area, but that the officer responded when he heard that shots were fired. He says it "speaks volumes about his character."

Mercy has a rich history as the city's first chartered hospital. It began in 1852, when the Sisters of Mercy religious group converted a rooming house. During the Civil War, the hospital treated both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war, according to its website.
Fox News' Nicole Darrah and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Chicago hospital shooting that left officer, doctor dead came after fight over ring, 'broken engagement': reports

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The deadly rampage at a hospital on Chicago's South Side on Monday that claimed the lives of a police officer and two medical professionals appears to have been sparked over a "broken engagement," according to a witness to the attack and local reports.

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Ivanka Trump used her personal account for government business such as emailing Cabinet officials, White House aides and assistants.

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Ivanka Trump used personal account for emails about government business | CNN Politics

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Ivanka Trump last year used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released by a nonpartisan watchdog group.

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Instagram and Facebook are currently down.

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Facebook and Instagram are both having issues as users reported problems with the social media sites Tuesday morning.

According to downdetector.com, the East coast is reporting the most problems with Facebook in the United States, but issues are being reported globally as well. This is the second time this month users from all over have reported Facebook being down.

Instagram users were also reporting problems, according to downdetector.com.

Some of the problems with Facebook included not being able post status updates, the page not loading at all or loading very slow, not being able to send messages over Facebook's separate Messenger app and some saying they received an error message indicating the site was doing maintenance, among other issues.

Instagram users reported the app not loading and showing an error message.

Users took to Twitter to report the outages, using the hashtags #FacebookDown and #InstagramDown.

Facebook is down. Hello everyone. Welcome to Twitter. It's nice you could join us. #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/qqeGa3AwAS
- Rob Jeffries (@RobJeffries) November 20, 2018

BREAKING: We're taking numerous reports regarding #FacebookDown.

We've deployed a team of social media detectives who are carrying out enquiries.

In the meantime we'd encourage you to use other platforms to share your pictures of lunch 🍴🙈😁 |#SocialMediaPolice
- NottsPolice Specials (@NottsSpecials) November 20, 2018

People trying to find out what happened to Facebook.

#FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/liOD7bN6CA
- Cameron Grant (@coolghost101) November 20, 2018

"Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."#facebook #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/8emRbr4nSi
- Pekka Nurmela 💾 (@PegZor) November 20, 2018

#InstagramDown #FacebookDown

Facebook and Instagram are down.

Twitter - pic.twitter.com/eyGus6CPuZ
- Cameron Grant (@coolghost101) November 20, 2018

When Instagram lags for 1 second #instagramdown

Me: pic.twitter.com/sCMEqqGVc5
- ㅤㅤㅤ (@lensofmohnish) November 20, 2018

The first thing I do when I notice a glitch in Facebook or Instagram is come on to Twitter and look for a trending topic.

Ah, there's#FacebookDown. Right on time. pic.twitter.com/D5jk62Tsqo
- James Michael Sama (@JamesMSama) November 20, 2018

- applefessings (@applexfessings) November 20, 2018

Neither social media site has said what is causing the problems yet or when the issues will be resolved.
This story is developing.

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Facebook, Instagram down: Social media sites not working for many

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A game that Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff fittingly called "four quarters of craziness" earned multiple entries in the NFL record book as the Rams won an epic battle with the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51.

The highest-scoring game in Monday Night Football history saw a back-and-forth battle that ended with the Chiefs becoming the first team in NFL history to score 50 or more points and lose.

The 105 combined points -- which blew past the lofty over-under of 64 set by sportsbooks -- was the third-highest total ever for an NFL game, surpassed only by the Washington Redskins over the New York Giants 72-41 in 1966, and the Cincinnati Bengals over the Cleveland Browns 58-48 in 2004.

In a game that was supposed to be all about offense, the Rams and Chiefs combined for three defensive touchdowns on Monday Night Football, led by outside linebacker Samson Ebukam's fumble recovery and interception, both returned for TDs, for L.A.

Patrick Mahomes threw for a career-high 478 yards and a Monday Night Football record six touchdowns, but he lost two fumbles and threw three INTs.

Chiefs stud Kareem Hunt has seven receiving touchdowns and seven rushing touchdowns -- a feat not achieved since Lenny Moore did so 57 years ago in 1961.

"It was a whirlwind," said Rams coach Sean McVay. "I feel like I might need a couple beverages to relax tonight. But it was great. This is what you love so much about the game.''

Among other notable numbers:

-- It was the fourth time this season a team lost when scoring 40 or more points, the most such instances in a season in the Super Bowl era.

-- Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes became the first to throw six TD passes in a Monday night game.

-- Goff threw for 413 yards and had a QB rating of 117.1, but Mahomes topped him with 478 yards and a 117.6 rating.

-- Mahomes is the first player with five passing touchdowns and five turnovers in a game since Gus Frerotte in 2000.

-- The Chiefs are averaging more points per game in losses (45.5) than in wins (34.8) this season.

-- Rams LB Samson Ebukam is the first player since sacks became official in 1982 to record a sack, interception and multiple touchdowns in a single game.

-- Rams TE Gerald Everett was an unlikely hero, scoring the Rams' final two touchdowns, with all three of his catches coming in the fourth quarter. He had had only three fourth-quarter catches in his first 26 career games.

-- Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill topped all receivers with 215 yards (two TDs), becoming the first KC player with a 200-yard receiving game since Stephone Paige on Sep. 17, 1990.

-- There were 14 combined touchdowns in this game. The Buffalo Bills have scored 13 touchdowns all season.

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Rams, Chiefs combine for record night on MNF

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A game that Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff fittingly called "four quarters of craziness" earned multiple entries in the NFL record book as the Rams won an epic battle with the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51.

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WeWork's first school teaches math and science but yoga and farming, too

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WeWork's first school teaches math and science but yoga and farming, too

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WeGrow students start every morning with live music, followed by yoga and meditation. They also spend time in nature and opt to take either Hebrew or Mandarin courses.

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A dark matter hurricane is headed our way

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a dark matter hurricane is headed our way (opinion) - cnn

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A dark matter hurricane is headed our way

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A careful catalog of nearby stars has opened the prospect of a better possibility of finding and identifying dark matter, which is one of the great unanswered mysteries of modern physics, Don Lincoln writes.

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There was a shooting at Mercy Hospital in Chicago at 3:30 pm.Three were killed in this shooting while the gunman was now dead while it is unknown what the shooter died from. This shooting occurred yesterday. A second shot was fired at an officer, but that bullet hit the officers gun.

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Elevator drops 84 floors after cables snap in Chicago's famed Hancock building

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Six people left the dining room on the 95th floor of Chicago's famed Hancock building early Friday, stepped into an express elevator and fell 84 floors before they were rescued by firefighters who had to break through a brick wall to access them.

The 100-story skyscraper is the twelfth tallest building in the world, 141 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower.

The Chicago Fire Department were called after passengers became stuck at 12:30 a.m. Friday, and officials soon realized two cables had snapped and six people, including a pregnant woman, were trapped in a "blind shaft" elevator.

Katy Martinez via Reuters

Found in parking garages and other tall buildings, these elevators travel express between floors - in a shaft constructed without openings in between.

This caused a big problem for Chicago FD's Special Ops: "It was a pretty precarious situation where the cables that were broke were on top of the elevator," Battalion Chief Patrick Maloney said. "We couldn't do an elevator to elevator rescue."

Katy Martinez via Reuters

They broke through a brick wall on the 11th floor, where the elevator was halted, to open the doors.

Thankfully, Maloney said the group was "very gracious that the Fire Department did a nice job" and unharmed after they waited nearly three hours to be rescued.

He explained because there are "multiple" cables on elevators, they "were still safe in there" - the car was just not operational.

"They're from out of town, came to visit the great city of Chicago," Maloney said. "They were just joyous that we were able to assist."

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A Chicago police officer and two other people were killed in an attack at a South Side hospital Monday afternoon

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A Chicago police officer and two other people were killed in an attack at a South Side hospital Monday afternoon that sent medical personnel and police scrambling through halls, stairwells and even the nursery in search of victims and the shooter before he was found dead.

Officer Samuel Jimenez, on the force less than two years, was gunned down as he went to the aid of other officers who had been called to Mercy Hospital & Medical Center around 3:20 p.m. about an assault. Jimenez, 28, was married with three small children. He's the second Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty this year, the most since 2010 when five officers were fatally shot. The first was Near North District Cmdr. Paul Bauer, killed Feb. 13 outside the Thompson Center.

"Those officers that responded today saved a lot of lives," said Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. "They were heroes because we just don't know how much damage (the shooter) was prepared to do."

Police had been called to the hospital after Juan Lopez, 32, confronted emergency room doctor Tamara O'Neal, apparently over a "broken engagement," sources said. By the time Jimenez and his partner arrived on the scene, Lopez had shot O'Neal repeatedly, standing over her as he fired the last shots, according to police sources and witnesses.

"When they pulled up, they heard the gunshots, and they did what heroic officers always do - they ran toward that gunfire," Johnson said. "So they weren't assigned to that particular call, but they went because that's what we do."

Lopez, who sources say had a concealed carry license, exchanged gunfire with Jimenez and other officers as he ran into the hospital. Jimenez was shot in the lobby as Lopez continued firing. A squad car was hit, and a bullet hit the holster and lodged in the gun barrel of another officer, according to Johnson.

Dayna Less, 25, a first-year pharmacy resident, was hit as she walked out of an elevator. "That woman got off an elevator and was shot, why?" Johnson asked. Lopez was found inside the hospital, apparently suffering a wound to the head. Johnson said it was unclear how he was shot.

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At a press conference late Monday night, Emergency Department director Patrick Connor grew emotional as he described O'Neal as dedicated to her church and patients. The 38-year-old physician graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 2016 and had worked as a resident at Mercy for two years. She raised money for disadvantaged children and led her church choir, Connor said, choking up with emotion and pausing frequently.

"That was her one thing she wanted ... to be able to go to church on Sunday," Connor said, adding that they assured her she could. "We'll make sure you go to church on Sunday."

Less recently graduated from Purdue University and started working at the hospital in July.
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Michael Davenport, Mercy's chief medical officer, said the hospital had conducted an active shooter drill last month. About 200 patients were being treated in the hospital on Monday, but authorities only evacuated the emergency room. The hospital's emergency plans include barricading doors and ensuring patient safety.

In the confusion of the first moments, it was unclear how many people were shot, how many officers were among them and how many shooters there were.

As dispatchers and responding officers tried to make sense of the scene, reports came in of an officer shot somewhere in the lobby, a woman and an assistant also wounded. Finally, there was word of the gunman apparently shot in the head.

Even then, dispatchers continually checked on officers' status and whether another gunman might still be on the loose.

"How many officers shot?" a dispatcher asked repeatedly.

"Trying to find that out," an officer radioed.

Officers rushed to lock down the first floor of the hospital for a search, then closed off the stairwells. "We're checking for victims," a dispatcher said. "We also need officers on the third floor to check the nursery."

By 4 p.m., the officer was being taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died.

Meanwhile, medical personnel continued to be brought out of the hospital by police, who radioed ahead to warn officers outside. At 4:40 p.m., the hospital tweeted that "patients are safe."

Steven Mixon, an emergency room clerk, said he had received a call hours earlier, around 1 p.m., from a man he believed to be the ex-fiance of the woman shot outside the hospital. "He called and asked to speak with his fiancee," said Mixon. "And she said, 'Oh, just tell him I'm in with a patient.' "

Mixon said he got off work around 3 p.m. and waited for an Uber in front of the hospital. "I look up and I see her being harassed by some gentleman," he said. "She was trying to avoid him and move around. And when she saw me, she waved for me to come that way."

Mixon said he started to run toward his colleague to help when Lopez fired. "I guess it wasn't my time to go because if I had made it to her, I would have been dead too," Mixon said.

He watched as the gunman then shot at a police car and shot again at the woman, who had fallen to the ground. Mixon said he ran back into the emergency room, where it was "total chaos."
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"Everyone was running every which way," he said. "We ran into surgery because they had locked doors. That's when we heard more shots inside the hospital."

Mixon said he remembers the woman looking beautiful this year at the hospital's annual gala. "She was a sweetheart, just a sweetheart. What a fireball.

"Before all this, she was looking forward to getting married," he said. "Talking about dresses, all of that. But then something happened and it was called off."

James Gray was coming out of the clinic area when he said he saw a man in a black coat, black hat and dark pants shoot a woman three times in the chest. The man and the woman had been walking and talking to each other before the shooting, he said. The gunman stood over the woman and shot her three more times after she fell to the ground, said Gray. Then a squad car turned its lights on and came down the drive and the gunman shot at the squad car.

"It was chaos," said Gray. "It was just mass chaos."

Gray said the gun looked like a 9 mm handgun; a police source said authorities had identified it as a 9 mm.

When the gunman came into the hospital, it appeared that he was shooting people at random, said Gray, who saw one other person shot.

"And then I ran into the X-ray department and locked the door behind us," he said. "I thought it was unbelievable. It's like a movie scene. Nothing like that ever happened to me before."

Hector Avitia was watching television in a waiting room at the hospital with his wife when the first woman was shot. Avitia watched through windows as a person in blue scrubs was shot outside and fell to the ground, he said. When the shooter made his way inside the hospital, Avitia and those with him hid by a desk. "Oh my God," said Avitia, when asked how many gunshots he heard. "Reloaded twice. So 32 bullets each."

"I've heard shootings," he said. "I've known people that have died in the neighborhood like that. But something like that? No."

Avitia said he was more alert than scared for his life. "It's just a messed up situation and I was trying to help out as much as I could," he said. "Get people to get out of the way of the windows. Because he could have easily just aimed at us, too. Because he was just shooting like a maniac. And he obviously knows how to shoot because he was holding the gun with both hands."

Erix Horton, who works in environmental services at the hospital, spoke to a Tribune reporter while outside smoking a cigarette after being inside the hospital when the shooting occurred. "I was checking out, getting ready to leave," said Horton. "One of the nurses ran back here and it was like she was about to collapse and said (a staff member had) been shot. And she's like, 'Call the police. We have an active shooter.' And that's when everybody took cover. They got on the PA, letting everybody know."

Horton said he took cover with others in the break room across from the ER, which has a combination lock, until police entered and escorted everyone out. A Fire Department crew that had just brought in a patient took cover in the room also, Horton said.

While in the break room, they could hear someone firing gunshots in the hallway, eight or nine of them, Horton said. "We had to duck. A lot was going through my mind. Make it home to see my wife and my kids. Everybody was just worried about the rest of our coworkers making it out safe."

Moments after Charlie Wells walked into the emergency room to treat an injury, he heard gunfire and dove behind the registration desk. He sat huddled there with about 15 other people. He heard screams, and more gunfire.

Wells, 37, said people dropped to the ground. "It was chaos," he said. "All panic."

Tanisha Smith held her 10-year-old daughter's hand and walked quickly away from Mercy Hospital. They were visiting Smith's grandfather at the hospital when someone yelled at them to run. Smith grabbed her daughter and sprinted toward a waiting room, looking frantically for a door.

They couldn't find one, so they hid under a desk.

"I heard gunshots," the girl said while she clutched her mother's hand while an officer hurried them away from the scene.
The Chicago Tribune's Patrick M. O'Connell, William Lee, Elvia Malagon, Elyssa Cherney, Dan Hinkel, Annie Sweeney, Deanese Williams-Harris, David Heinzmann and Liam Ford contributed.

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A Chicago police officer and two other people were killed in an attack at a South Side hospital Monday afternoon that sent medical personnel and police scrambling through halls, stairwells and even the nursery in search of victims and the shooter before he was found dead.

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An animal rescue group is outraged after its president said he recovered a dolphin shot to death at a beach in Southern California.

Peter Wallerstein, president of Marine Animal Rescue based out of El Segundo, California, told ABC News he spotted the freshly-killed dolphin in the surf on Manhattan Beach on Nov. 8.

Wallerstein said he pulled the animal -- known as a common dolphin -- out of the water. When he saw the hole in its side, he brought the animal to an animal rehab center where the bullet was removed.

Usually officials with the Los Angeles Natural History Museum will pick up a dead animal for a necropsy, according to Wallerstein. But since this seemed to be case in which the dolphin was purposefully killed, he wanted it to be analyzed immediately.

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Wallerstein called the incident "barbaric" and a "senseless act of aggression." He noted that he's seen sea lions who have been shot over the years, but this is the first dolphin killing he has come across.

It's possible other dolphins in the area have been shot, but if they float further out to sea instead of towards shore, they wouldn't be noticed.

"We don't know if it's the only one," said Wallerstein. "There could be others being shot out there, too."

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Marine Animal Rescue, which saves hundreds of marine animals every year in Los Angeles County, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the dolphin's shooter.

"We're gonna pursue it until we get the killer," Wallerstein said.

Killing a wild dolphin -- as well as harassing, hurting or feeding one -- is illegal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, according to NOAA Fisheries. The offender could face up to one year in jail and up to a $100,000 fine.

Earlier this year, a dolphin was shot and killed off the coast of Mississippi. The NOAA wrote on its website that "the number of violent incidents towards dolphins in the Northern Gulf have increased in recent years."

An NOAA spokesperson told ABC News the agency was aware of the reports that a dolphin had been shot in Manhattan Beach, but they would not comment on any potential or ongoing investigation.

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A police officer, a doctor and a pharmaceutical assistant were killed after a Monday afternoon shooting at Chicago's Mercy Hospital.

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A police officer, a doctor and a pharmacy resident were killed after a Monday afternoon shooting at Chicago's Mercy Hospital, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.

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A gunman who shot and killed three people, including a police officer, at a hospital on the South Side of Chicago, had recently broken up with one of the victims, a doctor who he confronted to demand she give him back the engagement ring he bought her, police said Tuesday.

The suspected gunman, who died in the rampage, was identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, who had been kicked out of the Chicago Fire Academy in 2014 for harassing an individual, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a news conference.

On Monday, violence erupted about 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in the city's Bronzeville District and continued inside the hospital with police trading shots with Lopez, Johnson said.

He said Lopez had been in a romantic relationship with Dr. Tamara O'Neal, an emergency room physician at the hospital, who had recently broken off their engagement.

Lopez went to the hospital and allegedly confronted O'Neal in the parking lot, demanding she give back the engagement ring he gave her, Johnson said.

A friend who was with O'Neal at the time tried to intervene in the argument when Lopez pulled up his shirt and showed O'Neal's friend that he had a gun, officials said.

O'Neal called 911 to report Lopez and told a dispatcher that he was armed, Johnson said.

As police officers arrived at the hospital, Lopez shot and killed O'Neal in the parking lot and ran into the hospital, Johnson said.

When he entered the lobby, two women, including Dayna Less, 25, a pharmacy resident in training, were getting off an elevator and Lopez allegedly opened fire on them for no apparent reason, Johnson said.

Less was shot and killed in the encounter, Johnson said.

Lopez then ran back out of the hospital and fired at officers in a squad car who were trying to shield O'Neal's body with their vehicle.

"He fired at those units and ran back into the hospital," Johnson said of Lopez.

He said Officer Samuel Jimenez chased Lopez into the facility and down a hallway, where a gun battle broke out.

"What we do know is that Lopez was struck twice," Johnson said. "So, it's only fair to assume that one of our bullets struck him."

An autopsy conducted by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office showed that while Lopez was shot in the abdomen, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

He said Lopez was armed with a 9mm handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Lopez had purchased four guns over the past five years, Johnson said.

"This tears at the soul of our city," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a news conference Monday night. "It's the face and consequence of evil."

O'Neal's family said she broke up with Lopez in September.

"She saw something in the relationship that did not line up with the way she wanted to live the rest of her life," said O'Neal's father, Thomas O'Neal, told ABC Chicago station WLS-TV.

O'Neal was a 38-year old emergency room doctor, who at been a resident at Mercy hospital before joining the staff in 2016, officials said. Less graduated from Purdue University in May and became a pharmacy resident at the hospital in July, officials said.

Jimenez, 28, a married father of three young children, had been a member of the Chicago Police Department less than two years, Johnson said.

"The City of Chicago lost a doctor, pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer, all going about their day, all doing what they love," Emanuel said.

The emergency room at Mercy hospital was closed most of the day Tuesday but reopened in the afternoon.

"A hospital should be a safe place," Dr. Patrick Connor, the emergency department director at Mercy, said during the Monday night news conference. "Every shooting in America is a tragedy -- it is a national tragedy. And it is especially senseless when a shooting occurs in a healing space of a hospital."

The hospital had its first active-shooter drill three or four weeks ago, said Michael Davenport, the chief medical officer.

"We never thought we would have to experience what we had," Davenport said. "Everyone did what they were trained to do."

About 200 patients were being cared for at the time of the shooting, he added. Everyone from the emergency room was relocated.

"When you look at what the officers did in responding, while what happened was horrific, they did save and potentially prevent a lot worse loss of life," Emanuel said Tuesday.

Johnson echoed Emanuel's assessment in a post on Twitter. Jimenez "saved a lot of lives," Johnson wrote on Twitter, adding that the suspect "was just shooting" and they "just don't know how much damage he was prepared to do."

Jimenez's police colleagues were mourning his death. Officers stood at attention and saluted Monday night as his body was removed from the hospital and taken to the medical examiner's office.

"Today, the Fraternal Order of Police lost a valued brother -- a courageous police officer who got up this morning, went to work and wanted to protect the city of Chicago," said Kevin Graham, president of Chicago chapter of the police union. "He did that today, and he did so with his life."

Less than 24 hours after Jimenez was shot to death, another Chicago police officer was shot in an unrelated gun battle with a suspect who opened fire on him and his partner, Johnson said. Police returned fire and shot and wounded the suspect in the neck.

Emanuel said one of the officers involved in Tuesday's shooting was hit in the back of his bulletproof vest and was being treated for bruising left by a bullet.

"These are young men in this situation doing heroic work to protect us and other residents," Emanuel said at Tuesday news conference. "Here are two officers less than 24 hours [after Jimenez was shot] doing their job, stopping somebody that in the end did have a gun."
ABC News' Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.

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A gunman who shot and killed three people, including a police officer, at a hospital on the South Side of Chicago, had recently broken up with one of the victims, a doctor who he confronted to demand she give him back the engagement ring he bought her, police said Tuesday.