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Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief after an alleged bus attack, the New York Police

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Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor made a $50,000 bond Friday and will be back in court in June over allegations that he and others attacked a bus carrying UFC fighters in Brooklyn.

The incident Thursday at the Barclays Center left at least two athletes injured and unable to fight in Saturday night's UFC 223, set to be held at the same arena, UFC said.

McGregor, who wasn't on the UFC 223 card, is accused of three counts of criminal mischief, two counts of assault, one count of attempted assault, five counts of menacing and one count of reckless of endangerment, a court document says. Two of the criminal mischief charges are felonies.

His also was was ordered to stay away from five people involved in the incident. McGregor, who was not asked to enter a plea, left the courthouse without saying anything to the media.

Ira Judelson, a bail bondsman, said that McGregor, an Irish citizen, would be able to keep his passport. McGregor will have to check in with Judelson once a week, the bondsman said.

McGregor is accused of throwing something through the window of a bus, injuring a passenger, according to an NYPD source with knowledge of the event. Video from TMZ Sports shows someone picking up a two-wheeled dolly and throwing it into a bus window, smashing the glass.

Prosecutors said in court that McGregor punched a security guard at Barclays Center during the melee. The person was treated at a hospital and released.

A second mixed martial arts fighter, Cian Cowley, faces three criminal mischief, one assault and one reckless endangerment charge, police said. Cowley allegedly threw a chair at the bus. His bail was set at $25,000.

Their next court appearance was scheduled for June 14.

CNN could not immediately reach representatives for McGregor or Cowley for comment.

Ahead of the court appearance, McGregor and Cowley were seen separately being escorted out of the NYPD's 78th precinct building and into cars, with their hands apparently restrained behind their backs.

The bus attack is just one issue clouding Saturday night's events. Fighter Max Holloway tweeted Friday that he'd been forced to withdraw from his top-billed match against Khabib Nurmagomedov for the lightweight title, which UFC is stripping from McGregor because of his long absence from UFC fights.

Holloway - who'd only just accepted the match days ago after another fighter was injured - was deemed unable to safely cut his weight to the required 155-pound limit in time for the event, ESPN reported.

UFC announced Nurmagomedov will fight Al Iaquinta, who didn't make the weight limit and will not be eligible to win the title. Should Nurmagomedov prevail, he will take the title that was held by McGregor.

Customers can receive a refund where they bought their tickets, if they choose, UFC said.

McGregor had 'beef' with fighter, UFC president says

McGregor and his entourage of about 20 people were let into the arena through a door during a media-day event by someone affiliated with a credentialed website, UFC president Dana White told the website MMAjunkie.

The group went down to the loading dock where some fighters who were to participate in Saturday's event were getting on buses.

McGregor's group attacked a bus using trash cans, metal barricades and the dolly, White said.

"This is the most disgusting thing that has ever happened in the history of the company," White told MMAjunkie, adding later, "This was a real bad career move for him."

White said McGregor had "some sort of beef" with Nurmagomedov, who was on the bus and is fighting Saturday for the lightweight title McGregor is vacating.

Two fighters injured; another removed for alleged attack 'involvement'

Two fighters were injured in the bus attack, UFC has said, and their UFC 223 bouts have been canceled.

Lightweight fighter Michael Chiesaand suffered head and facial cuts from broken glass, White told MMAjunkie. Chiesa later said on Twitter that the New York State Athletic Commission determined he would not be allowed to fight on Saturday.

Flyweight Ray Borg, who was scheduled to face Brandon Moreno, is also unfit to fight due to multiple corneal abrasions, according to the UFC.

"The organization deems today's disruption completely unacceptable and is currently working on the consequences that will follow," UFC said in a statement.

UFC's statement also alleges featherweight fighter Artem Lobov was in McGregor's entourage during the attack.

It said Lobov has been removed from his scheduled bout Saturday against Alex Caceres " due to Lobov's involvement in the incident." The UFC did not elaborate on what that involvement entailed.

ESPN reported that Lobov, a teammate of McGregor's, had been involved in a minor scuffle this week with Nurmagomedov at a hotel.

Despite the lineup shuffles, "UFC 223 will proceed ... with 10 bouts," the UFC said. "Moving to the Pay-Per-View main card is the featherweight bout between Zabit Magomedsharipov and Kyle Bochniak."

McGregor (21-3) last fought for UFC in November 2016, when he won the lightweight (155-pound) championship, according to Bleacher Report.

McGregor last competed eight months ago, losing to undefeated Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match that reportedly paid Mayweather more than $100 million and McGregor at least $30 million.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor made a $50,000 bond Friday and will be back in court in June over allegations that he and others attacked a bus carrying UFC fighters in Brooklyn. The incident Thursday at the Barclays Center left at least two athletes injured and unable to fight in Saturday night's UFC 223, set to be held at the same arena, UFC said.

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'Disco ball' launched into space, glistens in orbit

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A satellite bearing a striking resemblance to a disco ball was recently launched into space, giving sky watchers a chance to watch the glistening object as it orbits the Earth.

The "Humanity Star" is the brainchild of Peter Beck, founder and CEO of California-based Rocket Lab. The satellite, which was launched from New Zealand on Jan. 21 aboard the company's Electron rocket, aims to remind people of the vastness of space.

"No matter where you are in the world, rich or in poverty, in conflict or at peace, everyone will be able to see the bright, blinking Humanity Star orbiting Earth in the night sky," explained the New Zealand-born Beck, in a statement. "My hope is that everyone looking up at the Humanity Star will look past it to the expanse of the universe, feel a connection to our place in it and think a little differently about their lives, actions and what is important."
JUPITER'S STRIPES REVEAL STUNNING DETAILS IN NEW JUNO PROBE IMAGES
The satellite, which is built from carbon-fibre, is covered with 65 reflective panels. "It spins rapidly, reflecting the sun's rays back to Earth, creating a flashing light that can be seen against a backdrop of stars," according to the Humanity Star website.

The object is visible in the night sky from anywhere on Earth at dawn or dusk as it passes overhead, according to the website, which lets users track its orbit. The site also shows when the orbiter is in and out of shadow.

Each of the satellite's Earth orbits lasts 90 minutes.
IN HUNT FOR ALIEN LIFE, OXYGEN ISN'T THE ONLY POSSIBLE SIGN
The Humanity Star is expected to orbit the Earth for about nine months before it is pulled back into Earth's gravity and burned upon re-entry into the atmosphere. Rocket Lab says that the Humanity Star will be seen best in the U.S. from March due to its changing orbital position.

Beck said he is hoping to launch future Humanity Stars, but said the project is his own particular passion and he'll have to wait to see how other people react and also consider whether it's financially viable.

The Electron rocket carrying the Humanity Star also took three satellites into orbit for Rocket Lab customers Planet and Spire. The rocket was the first to launch into orbit from New Zealand.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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Reuters 6 hrs ago By Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski

Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said.

"One grave for 10 people," said Soe Chay, 55, a retired soldier from Inn Din's Rakhine Buddhist community who said he helped dig the pit and saw the killings. The soldiers shot each man two or three times, he said. "When they were being buried, some were still making noises. Others were already dead."

The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar's western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. None of Inn Din's 6,000 Rohingya remained in the village as of October.

The Rohingya accuse the army of arson, rapes and killings aimed at rubbing them out of existence in this mainly Buddhist nation of 53 million. The United Nations has said the army may have committed genocide; the United States has called the action ethnic cleansing. Myanmar says its "clearance operation" is a legitimate response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.

Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most Burmese consider them to be unwanted immigrants from Bangladesh; the army refers to the Rohingya as "Bengalis." In recent years, sectarian tensions have risen and the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education.

Reuters has pieced together what happened in Inn Din in the days leading up to the killing of the 10 Rohingya - eight men and two high school students in their late teens.

Until now, accounts of the violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine state have been provided only by its victims. The Reuters reconstruction draws for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.

This account also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves. Members of the paramilitary police gave Reuters insider descriptions of the operation to drive out the Rohingya from Inn Din, confirming that the military played the lead role in the campaign.
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A MASSACRE
The slain men's families, now sheltering in Bangladesh refugee camps, identified the victims through photographs shown to them by Reuters. The dead men were fishermen, shopkeepers, the two teenage students and an Islamic teacher.

Three photographs, provided to Reuters by a Buddhist village elder, capture key moments in the massacre at Inn Din, from the Rohingya men's detention by soldiers in the early evening of Sept. 1 to their execution shortly after 10 a.m. on Sept. 2. Two photos - one taken the first day, the other on the day of the killings - show the 10 captives lined up in a row, kneeling. The final photograph shows the men's bloodied bodies piled in the shallow grave.

The Reuters investigation of the Inn Din massacre was what prompted Myanmar police authorities to arrest two of the news agency's reporters. The reporters, Burmese citizens Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were detained on Dec. 12 for allegedly obtaining confidential documents relating to Rakhine.

Then, on Jan. 10, the military issued a statement that confirmed portions of what Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues were preparing to report, acknowledging that 10 Rohingya men were massacred in the village. It confirmed that Buddhist villagers attacked some of the men with swords and soldiers shot the others dead.

The statement coincided with an application to the court by prosecutors to charge Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo under Myanmar's Official Secrets Act, which dates back to the time of colonial British rule. The charges carry a maximum 14-year prison sentence.

But the military's version of events is contradicted in important respects by accounts given to Reuters by Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim witnesses. The military said the 10 men belonged to a group of 200 "terrorists" that attacked security forces. Soldiers decided to kill the men, the army said, because intense fighting in the area made it impossible to transfer them to police custody. The army said it would take action against those involved.

Buddhist villagers interviewed for this article reported no attack by a large number of insurgents on security forces in Inn Din. And Rohingya witnesses told Reuters that soldiers plucked the 10 from among hundreds of men, women and children who had sought safety on a nearby beach.

Scores of interviews with Rakhine Buddhist villagers, soldiers, paramilitary police, Rohingya Muslims and local administrators further revealed:

- The military and paramilitary police organized Buddhist residents of Inn Din and at least two other villages to torch Rohingya homes, more than a dozen Buddhist villagers said. Eleven Buddhist villagers said Buddhists committed acts of violence, including killings. The government and army have repeatedly blamed Rohingya insurgents for burning villages and homes.

- An order to "clear" Inn Din's Rohingya hamlets was passed down the command chain from the military, said three paramilitary police officers speaking on condition of anonymity and a fourth police officer at an intelligence unit in the regional capital Sittwe. Security forces wore civilian clothes to avoid detection during raids, one of the paramilitary police officers said.

- Some members of the paramilitary police looted Rohingya property, including cows and motorcycles, in order to sell it, according to village administrator Maung Thein Chay and one of the paramilitary police officers.

- Operations in Inn Din were led by the army's 33rd Light Infantry Division, supported by the paramilitary 8th Security Police Battalion, according to four police officers, all of them members of the battalion.
POTENTIAL CRIMINAL CASES
Michael G. Karnavas, a U.S. lawyer based in The Hague who has worked on cases at international criminal tribunals, said evidence that the military had organized Buddhist civilians to commit violence against Rohingya "would be the closest thing to a smoking gun in establishing not just intent, but even specific genocidal intent, since the attacks seem designed to destroy the Rohingya or at least a significant part of them."

Evidence of the execution of men in government custody also could be used to build a case of crimes against humanity against military commanders, Karnavas said, if it could be shown that it was part of a "widespread or systematic" campaign targeting the Rohingya population.

Kevin Jon Heller, a University of London law professor who served as a legal associate for convicted war criminal and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, said an order to clear villages by military command was "unequivocally the crime against humanity of forcible transfer."

In December, the United States imposed sanctions on the army officer who had been in charge of Western Command troops in Rakhine, Major General Maung Maung Soe. So far, however, Myanmar has not faced international sanctions over the violence.

Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has disappointed many former supporters in the West by not speaking out against the army's actions. They had hoped the election of her National League for Democracy party in 2015 would bring democratic reform and an opening of the country. Instead, critics say, Suu Kyi is in thrall to the generals who freed her from house arrest in 2010.

Asked about the evidence Reuters has uncovered about the massacre, government spokesman Zaw Htay said, "We are not denying the allegations about violations of human rights. And we are not giving blanket denials." If there was "strong and reliable primary evidence" of abuses, the government would investigate, he said. "And then if we found the evidence is true and the violations are there, we will take the necessary action according to our existing law."

When told that paramilitary police officers had said they received orders to "clear" Inn Din's Rohingya hamlets, he replied, "We have to verify. We have to ask the Ministry of Home Affairs and Myanmar police forces." Asked about the allegations of looting by paramilitary police officers, he said the police would investigate.

He expressed surprise when told that Buddhist villagers had confessed to burning Rohingya homes, then added, "We recognize that many, many different allegations are there, but we need to verify who did it. It is very difficult in the current situation."

Zaw Htay defended the military operation in Rakhine. "The international community needs to understand who did the first terrorist attacks. If that kind of terrorist attack took place in European countries, in the United States, in London, New York, Washington, what would the media say?"
NEIGHBOR TURNS ON NEIGHBOR
Inn Din lies between the Mayu mountain range and the Bay of Bengal, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Rakhine's state capital Sittwe. The settlement is made up of a scattering of hamlets around a school, clinic and Buddhist monastery. Buddhist homes cluster in the northern part of the village. For many years there had been tensions between the Buddhists and their Muslim neighbors, who accounted for almost 90 percent of the roughly 7,000 people in the village. But the two communities had managed to co-exist, fishing the coastal waters and cultivating rice in the paddies.

In October 2016, Rohingya militants attacked three police posts in northern Rakhine - the beginning of a new insurgency. After the attacks, Rohingya in Inn Din said many Buddhists stopped hiring them as farmhands and home help. The Buddhists said the Rohingya stopped showing up for work.

On Aug. 25 last year, the rebels struck again, hitting 30 police posts and an army base. The closest attack was just 4 km to the north. In Inn Din, several hundred fearful Buddhists took refuge in the monastery in the center of the village, more than a dozen of their number said. Inn Din's Buddhist night watchman San Thein, 36, said Buddhist villagers feared being "swallowed up" by their Muslim neighbors. A Buddhist elder said all Rohingya, "including children," were part of the insurgency and therefore "terrorists."

On Aug. 27, about 80 troops from Myanmar's 33rd Light Infantry Division arrived in Inn Din, nine Buddhist villagers said. Two paramilitary police officers and Soe Chay, the retired soldier, said the troops belonged to the 11th infantry regiment of this division. The army officer in charge told villagers they must cook for the soldiers and act as lookouts at night, Soe Chay said. The officer promised his troops would protect Buddhist villagers from their Rohingya neighbors. Five Buddhist villagers said the officer told them they could volunteer to join security operations. Young volunteers would need their parents' permission to join the troops, however.

The army found willing participants among Inn Din's Buddhist "security group," nine members of the organization and two other villagers said. This informal militia was formed after violence broke out in 2012 between Rakhine's Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, sparked by reports of the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men. Myanmar media reported at the time that the three were sentenced to death by a district court.

Inn Din's security group built watch huts around the Buddhist part of the village, and its members took turns to stand guard. Its ranks included Buddhist firefighters, school teachers, students and unemployed young men. They were useful to the military because they knew the local geography, said Inn Din's Buddhist administrator, Maung Thein Chay.

Most of the group's 80 to 100 men armed themselves with machetes and sticks. They also had a handful of guns, according to one member. Some wore green fatigue-style clothing they called "militia suits."
ORGANIZING THE ARSON ATTACKS
In the days that followed the 33rd Light Infantry's arrival, soldiers, police and Buddhist villagers burned most of the homes of Inn Din's Rohingya Muslims, a dozen Buddhist residents said.

Two of the paramilitary police officers, both members of the 8th Security Police Battalion, said their battalion raided Rohingya hamlets with soldiers from the newly arrived 33rd Light Infantry. One of the police officers said he received verbal orders from his commander to "go and clear" areas where Rohingya lived, which he took to mean to burn them.

The second police officer described taking part in several raids on villages north of Inn Din. The raids involved at least 20 soldiers and between five and seven police, he said. A military captain or major led the soldiers, while a police captain oversaw the police team. The purpose of the raids was to deter the Rohingya from returning.

"If they have a place to live, if they have food to eat, they can carry out more attacks," he said. "That's why we burned their houses, mainly for security reasons."

Soldiers and paramilitary police wore civilian shirts and shorts to blend in with the villagers, according to the second police officer and Inn Din's Buddhist administrator, Maung Thein Chay. If the media identified the involvement of security personnel, the police officer explained, "we would have very big problems."

A police spokesman, Colonel Myo Thu Soe, said he knew of no instances of security forces torching villages or wearing civilian clothing. Nor was there any order to "go and clear" or "set fire" to villages. "This is very much impossible," he told Reuters. "If there are things like that, it should be reported officially, and it has to be investigated officially."

"As you've told me about these matters now, we will scrutinize and check back," he added. "What I want to say for now is that as for the security forces, there are orders and instructions and step-by-step management, and they have to follow them. So, I don't think these things happened."

The army did not respond to a request for comment.

A medical assistant at the Inn Din village clinic, Aung Myat Tun, 20, said he took part in several raids. "Muslim houses were easy to burn because of the thatched roofs. You just light the edge of the roof," he said. "The village elders put monks' robes on the end of sticks to make the torches and soaked them with kerosene. We couldn't bring phones. The police said they will shoot and kill us if they see any of us taking photos."

The night watchman San Thein, a leading member of the village security group, said troops first swept through the Muslim hamlets. Then, he said, the military sent in Buddhist villagers to burn the houses.

"We got the kerosene for free from the village market after the kalars ran away," he said, using a Burmese slur for people from South Asia.

A Rakhine Buddhist youth said he thought he heard the sound of a child inside one Rohingya home that was burned. A second villager said he participated in burning a Rohingya home that was occupied.
"I STARTED HACKING HIM WITH A SWORD"
Soe Chay, the retired soldier who was to dig the grave for the 10 Rohingya men, said he participated in one killing. He told Reuters that troops discovered three Rohingya men and a woman hiding beside a haystack in Inn Din on Aug. 28. One of the men had a smartphone that could be used to take incriminating pictures.

The soldiers told Soe Chay to "do whatever you want to them," he said. They pointed out the man with the phone and told him to stand up. "I started hacking him with a sword, and a soldier shot him when he fell down."

Similar violence was playing out across a large part of northern Rakhine, dozens of Buddhist and Rohingya residents said.

Data from the U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Programme shows scores of Rohingya villages in Rakhine state burned in an area stretching 110 km. New York-based Human Rights Watch says more than 350 villages were torched over the three months from Aug. 25, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.

In the village of Laungdon, some 65 km north of Inn Din, Thar Nge, 38, said he was asked by police and local officials to join a Buddhist security group. "The army invited us to burn the kalar village at Hpaw Ti Kaung," he said, adding that four villagers and nearly 20 soldiers and police were involved in the operation. "Police shot inside the village so all the villagers fled and then we set fire to it. Their village was burned because police believed the villagers supported Rohingya militants - that's why they cleaned it with fire."

A Buddhist student from Ta Man Tha village, 15 km north of Laungdon, said he too participated in the burning of Rohingya homes. An army officer sought 30 volunteers to burn "kalar" villages, said the student. Nearly 50 volunteered and gathered fuel from motorbikes and from a market.

"They separated us into several groups. We were not allowed to enter the village directly. We had to surround it and approach the village that way. The army would shoot gunfire ahead of us and then the army asked us to enter," he said.

After the Rohingya had fled Inn Din, Buddhist villagers took their property, including chickens and goats, Buddhist residents told Reuters. But the most valuable goods, mostly motorcycles and cattle, were collected by members of the 8th Security Police Battalion and sold, said the first police officer and Inn Din village administrator Maung Thein Chay. Maung Thein Chay said the commander of the 8th Battalion, Thant Zin Oo, struck a deal with Buddhist businessmen from other parts of Rakhine state and sold them cattle. The police officer said he had stolen four cows from Rohingya villagers, only for Thant Zin Oo to snatch them away.

Reached by phone, Thant Zin Oo did not comment. Colonel Myo Thu Soe, the police spokesman, said the police would investigate the allegations of looting.
THE VICTIMS ARE CHOSEN
By Sept. 1, several hundred Rohingya from Inn Din were sheltering at a makeshift camp on a nearby beach. They erected tarpaulin shelters to shield themselves from heavy rain.

Among this group were the 10 Rohingya men who would be killed the next morning. Reuters has identified all of the 10 by speaking to witnesses among Inn Din's Buddhist community and Rohingya relatives and witnesses tracked down in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Five of the men, Dil Mohammed, 35, Nur Mohammed, 29, Shoket Ullah, 35, Habizu, 40, and Shaker Ahmed, 45, were fishermen or fish sellers. The wealthiest of the group, Abul Hashim, 25, ran a store selling nets and machine parts to fishermen and farmers. Abdul Majid, a 45-year-old father of eight, ran a small shop selling areca nut wrapped in betel leaves, commonly chewed like tobacco. Abulu, 17, and Rashid Ahmed, 18, were high school students. Abdul Malik, 30, was an Islamic teacher.

According to the statement released by the army on Jan. 10, security forces had gone to a coastal area where they "were attacked by about 200 Bengalis with sticks and swords." The statement said that "as the security forces opened fire into the sky, the Bengalis dispersed and ran away. Ten of them were arrested."

Three Buddhist and more than a dozen Rohingya witnesses contradict this version of events. Their accounts differ from one another in some details. The Buddhists spoke of a confrontation between a small group of Rohingya men and some soldiers near the beach. But there is unanimity on a crucial point: None said the military had come under a large-scale attack in Inn Din.

Government spokesman Zaw Htay referred Reuters to the army's statement of Jan. 10 and declined to elaborate further. The army did not respond to a request for comment.

The Rohingya witnesses, who were on or near the beach, said Islamic teacher Abdul Malik had gone back to his hamlet with his sons to collect food and bamboo for shelter. When he returned, a group of at least seven soldiers and armed Buddhist villagers were following him, these witnesses said. Abdul Malik walked towards the watching Rohingya Muslims unsteadily, with blood dripping from his head. Some witnesses said they had seen one of the armed men strike the back of Abdul Malik's head with a knife.

Then the military beckoned with their guns to the crowd of roughly 300 Rohingya to assemble in the paddies, these witnesses said. The soldiers and the Rohingya, hailing from different parts of Myanmar, spoke different languages. Educated villagers translated for their fellow Rohingya.

"I could not hear much, but they pointed toward my husband and some other men to get up and come forward," said Rehana Khatun, 22, the wife of Nur Mohammed, one of the 10 who were later slain. "We heard they wanted the men for a meeting. The military asked the rest of us to return to the beach."
FRESH CLOTHES AND A LAST MEAL
Soldiers held and questioned the 10 men in a building at Inn Din's school for a night, the military said. Rashid Ahmed and Abulu had studied there alongside Rakhine Buddhist students until the attacks by Rohingya rebels in October 2016. Schools were shut temporarily, disrupting the pair's final year.

"I just remember him sitting there and studying, and it was always amazing to me because I am not educated," said Rashid Ahmed's father, farmer Abdu Shakur, 50. "I would look at him reading. He would be the first one in the family to be educated."

A photograph, taken on the evening the men were detained, shows the two Rohingya students and the eight older men kneeling on a path beside the village clinic, most of them shirtless. They were stripped when first detained, a dozen Rohingya witnesses said. It isn't clear why. That evening, Buddhist villagers said, the men were "treated" to a last meal of beef. They were provided with fresh clothing.

On Sept. 2, the men were taken to scrubland north of the village, near a graveyard for Buddhist residents, six Buddhist villagers said. The spot is backed by a hill crested with trees. There, on their knees, the 10 were photographed again and questioned by security personnel about the disappearance of a local Buddhist farmer named Maung Ni, according to a Rakhine elder who said he witnessed the interrogation.

Reuters was not able to establish what happened to Maung Ni. According to Buddhist neighbors, the farmer went missing after leaving home early on Aug. 25 to tend his cattle. Several Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya villagers told Reuters they believed he had been killed, but they knew of no evidence connecting any of the 10 men to his disappearance. The army said in its Jan. 10 statement that "Bengali terrorists" had killed Maung Ni, but did not identify the perpetrators.

Two of the men pictured behind the Rohingya prisoners in the photograph taken on the morning of Sept. 2 belong to the 8th Security Police Battalion. Reuters confirmed the identities of the two men from their Facebook pages and by visiting them in person.

One of the two officers, Aung Min, a police recruit from Yangon, stands directly behind the captives. He looks at the camera as he holds a weapon. The other officer, police Captain Moe Yan Naing, is the figure on the top right. He walks with his rifle over his shoulder.

The day after the two Reuters reporters were arrested in December, Myanmar's government also announced that Moe Yan Naing had been arrested and was being investigated under the 1923 Official Secrets Act.

Aung Min, who is not facing legal action, declined to speak to Reuters.
VENGEANCE FOR A MISSING FARMER
Three Buddhist youths said they watched from a hut as the 10 Rohingya captives were led up a hill by soldiers towards the site of their deaths.

One of the gravediggers, retired soldier Soe Chay, said Maung Ni's sons were invited by the army officer in charge of the squad to strike the first blows.

The first son beheaded the Islamic teacher, Abdul Malik, according to Soe Chay. The second son hacked another of the men in the neck.

"After the brothers sliced them both with swords, the squad fired with guns. Two to three shots to one person," said Soe Chay. A second gravedigger, who declined to be identified, confirmed that soldiers had shot some of the men.

In its Jan. 10 statement, the military said the two brothers and a third villager had "cut the Bengali terrorists" with swords and then, in the chaos, four members of the security forces had shot the captives. "Action will be taken against the villagers who participated in the case and the members of security forces who broke the Rules of Engagement under the law," the statement said. It didn't spell out those rules.

Tun Aye, one of the sons of Maung Ni, has been detained on murder charges, his lawyer said on Jan. 13. Contacted by Reuters on Feb. 8, the lawyer declined to comment further. Reuters was unable to reach the other brother.

In October, Inn Din locals pointed two Reuters reporters towards an area of brush behind the hill where they said the killings took place. The reporters discovered a newly cut trail leading to soft, recently disturbed earth littered with bones. Some of the bones were entangled with scraps of clothing and string that appeared to match the cord that is seen binding the captives' wrists in the photographs. The immediate area was marked by the smell of death.

Reuters showed photographs of the site to three forensic experts: Homer Venters, director of programs at Physicians for Human Rights; Derrick Pounder, a pathologist who has consulted for Amnesty International and the United Nations; and Luis Fondebrider, president of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, who investigated the graves of those killed under Argentina's military junta in the 1970s and 1980s. All observed human remains, including the thoracic part of a spinal column, ribs, scapula, femur and tibia. Pounder said he couldn't rule out the presence of animal bones as well.

The Rakhine Buddhist elder provided Reuters reporters with a photograph which shows the aftermath of the execution. In it, the 10 Rohingya men are wearing the same clothing as in the previous photo and are tied to each other with the same yellow cord, piled into a small hole in the earth, blood pooling around them. Abdul Malik, the Islamic teacher, appears to have been beheaded. Abulu, the student, has a gaping wound in his neck. Both injuries appear consistent with Soe Chay's account.

Forensic pathologist Fondebrider reviewed this picture. He said injuries visible on two of the bodies were consistent with "the action of a machete or something sharp that was applied on the throat."

Some family members did not know for sure that the men had been killed until Reuters returned to their shelters in Bangladesh in January.

"I can't explain what I feel inside. My husband is dead," said Rehana Khatun, wife of Nur Mohammed. "My husband is gone forever. I don't want anything else, but I want justice for his death."

In Inn Din, the Buddhist elder explained why he chose to share evidence of the killings with Reuters. "I want to be transparent on this case. I don't want it to happen like that in future."
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(Reporting by Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski; editing by Janet McBride, Martin Howell and Alex Richardson.)

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Reuters 6 hrs ago By Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers.

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Chicago Tribune 22 hrs ago Carrie Napoleon

A Newton County, Indiana jury found a Cedar Lake man guilty of murder and other charges Wednesday for his role in an August 2016 triple homicide at Sumava Resorts.

Jurors deliberated about three hours before convicting Derrick Cardosi in the fatal stabbings of Justin Lee Babbs, 20, Richard Thomas, 23, and Kimberly A. Spears, 39, who were found fatally stabbed Aug. 28, 2016, in a Sumava Resorts residence.

Newton County Prosecutor Jeffrey Drinski said Cardosi and another man had plotted to rob Thomas, an alleged drug dealer whose residence previously had been robbed of drugs and money.

"People kill people they know," Drinski said. "They planned to rob and steal Ricky's money and his drugs and that's exactly what they did."

Cardosi's trial before Newton County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Molter lasted seven days. Cardosi could face life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the crime. A hearing on whether he's eligible for the more severe prison sentence is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Sebastian Wedding, 26, was sentenced in October to 55 years in prison for his role in the three deaths after striking a plea agreement. Cardosi was charged with murder, auto theft and assisting a criminal. A ninth charge of theft relating to a gaming system and tablet was dropped.

Evidence shows the number of wounds, size of the weapons and the defensive wounds on all three victims indicate the crime could not be committed by one person, Drinski said. At one point, he held up both large knives used in the attack and began swinging them to demonstrate how difficult it would be for one individual to wield both weapons.

"One guy couldn't have done that damage," Drinski said. "There were two murderers."

Drinski described Cardosi as a leader who could influence the weaker-willed Wedding and said the two acted in tandem to commit the crime, smoke the drugs and try to cover their tracks. Short of a photo of the crimes being committed, he said, the jury had enough evidence to convict.

"There's no smoking gun. There is a chain of evidence that is strong," Drinksi said.

Defense Attorney Joseph Falk argued the prosecution failed to tie Cardosi to the crime beyond a reasonable doubt and maintained Wedding acted alone in the killings and theft of Thomas' automobile. He pointed to no evidence of Cardosi ever driving the vehicle in the wake of the murders or of using it without Wedding behind the wheel.

Falk also cited the lack of fingerprint evidence tying Cardosi to the scene or the murder weapons and said the ease of which DNA can be transferred to a scene should not be convincing enough evidence to erase reasonable doubt.

He also tried to cast doubt on Cardosi's involvement by pointing the finger at other potential killers, including an elderly woman on oxygen who lived in the house, and a neighbor who owned one of the knives used in the attack. He questioned why the woman's room was not searched as part of the investigation.

Falk said the lack of fingerprint evidence tying Cardosi to the scene or the weapons meant Wedding was the sole person to blame for the murders.

"Wedding lived in the house. Wedding slept on that sofa we saw a picture of," Falk said. "He had access to the house, access to the victims and access to the knives."
Carrie Napoleon is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.

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Four metro girls have become some of the first in the country to join the Boy Scouts of America.

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Four metro girls have become some of the first in the country to join the Boy Scouts of America.

The organization celebrated its 108th anniversary Thursday. This year, the celebration included a historic change. Girls are now able to join the Cub Scouts.

Den Leader Jody Vanwey said this is the first time in the organization's history that girls could ever join the organization.

"There is nothing in any of the rank books that is male specific," she said. "All of the values that we try to instill in our little boys -- that parents want for their sons like being trustworthy and loyal -- now parents can get the same things for the daughters."

Tracy Wicks watched her two sons go through the Boy Scout. She said she was thrilled to see her daughter sharing the same uniform.

"I just want her to have the opportunity to do the different things she saw her older brothers doing," Wicks said.

Currently, girls can enroll in the Cub Scouts, which is for first through fifth grades. Future plans for girls to enroll in the Boy Scouts will not happen until 2019.

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After hearing about the deportation of Park University professor Sayed Jamal, many in our area have asked the questions: "Why didn't he just get legal? Why didn't he just become a citizen?" Sayed is from Bangladesh.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After hearing about the deportation of Park University professor Sayed Jamal, many in our area have asked the questions: "Why didn't he just get legal? Why didn't he just become a citizen?"

On Thursday, during a news conference attended by Jamal's wife, brother, three children and attorney Rheka Sharma-Crawford, Crawford answered those questions, saying that while some immigrants succeed, the immigration process isn't as easy as people think.

She called it "unforgiving" if you make a mistake at some point during the immigration-application process.

"That is not a reality. That is not a thing. It doesn't happen like that. It's not like a lottery ticket you buy. In this instance, what the facts do reveal is that he did in fact try to use the process in place, tried to use the mechanisms in place but was not perfect in getting those done. The minute you become imperfect in doing that, you've kind of changed the ability of.. you've damaged the future of how you can now use the process," she said.

Syed Jamal, from Bangladesh, has been in the United States for more than 30 years. In January, Jamal was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in Lawrence. His wife and three children watched as immigration officials arrested him.

"They were loading my dad into the car. They had him in handcuffs," said Taseen Jamal, Jamal's son, "That moment, it sort of felt like something was missing in my chest, and I couldn't breathe."

Since his arrest, Jamal was in custody in Versailles, Mo., and then in Platte County, Mo.

His attorney said she has received very little information from Homeland Security about their plans for him, but realized when he was moved to Platte County, that he was being prepared for deportation.

On his behalf, they filed a request for a stay of deportation, which was granted Wednesday while he was "in the air," being deported out of the country.

He has since returned to the United States and is in custody in El Paso, Texas. His attorney said Homeland Security has 10 days to respond to the filing to rescind the order of deportation.

Carl Rusnok, ICE's central region spokesperson, said due to security reasons, the agency doesn't provide advance notification of its deportations schedules and therefore couldn't confirm the date of deportation.

According to ICE, Jamal, a 55-year-old Park University professor has overstayed his visa twice and violated an order by a judge to leave the country.

His attorney says this is not how it happened and outlined what occurred, beginning in 2011. She said in 2011, Jamal appeared at a hearing where there were discussions about 'forms of relief' that could prevent him from having to leave the United States.

"Ultimately what occurred is that the judge gave him the ability to leave the country on his own," said Sharma-Crawford.

When he didn't leave the country by Feb. 23, 2012, Sharma-Crawford said the voluntary order converted into an order of deportation. However, she says there are a number of things that can be done to prevent the deportation, such as an order of supervision, which she described like this:

"Instead of us just kind of letting you out into the world, what we're going to do is put you on an 'order of supervision'," she explained the change of status. "That means you check in with us, stay out of trouble, you get a job, you do all the things that you're supposed to do and we'll continue to work on trying to see if there's a travel document that becomes available."

"Inherent in that is not that when we get the travel document we're going to by surprise, ambush you in your house while you're trying to take your child to school and scoop you up and throw you in a jail cell. That's really not how that works and you can understand that because it offends notions of decency, of humanity, of fair play and so in this instance, that's what's occurred," she said.

FOX4 Problem Solver Linda Wagar asked her to explain her arguments before a judge for why Jamal should be allowed to stay in the United States. She explained that "proceedings were flawed," and therefore the order of deportation was flawed. She said the law imposes certain requirements on a judge during immigration proceedings.

"There are a number of requirements that the law imposes on a judge to make sure that when they give someone the ability to leave on voluntary departure that they understand what that means," she said. "The law basically put it on the court to ensure that those protections, those understanding of those advisals are provided and that the court is satisfied that the individual that is taking the voluntary departure understands all of the consequences. In this instance that did not occur. The judge's order that we have clearly shows on its face that those advisals were not provided. As a result, the legal safeguards, the legal formalities provided in the law were not met and if the legal formalities and the legal procedures were not followed, then it's not a valid order."

Jamal's family hopes the judge agrees.

"I can't sleep at night. I'm awake all night. Every day he is not there," Jamal's wife said. "He really loved the community. He wants to contribute. He didn't want to move out from the Kansas. Even though his brothers are.... in different states, he loved Kansas and he wants to grow his kids here. We want him back please."

Jamal's sons and daughter also spoke at the news conference.

"Like my mom said, it felt like there's nothing to stand on; that I was going to fall over. But it also hurts to know that there's no one to blame for this at this point. It's just our policies and I just hope that people who can change those do really see how much it can hurt a family," Taseen Jamal, the oldest son, said. "I just wish people who were very influential and can do something about it will do something about it."

Jamal's brother thanked all those who signed the change.org online petition. He said change.org told him that it's the highest number of signatures ever received for an immigration-related petition. Donations have also been pouring in to a GoFundMe page set up to help the family with legal costs.

When asked if they blame President Trump, the family said they blame policies.

"We blame the policy," said Jamal's brother, also named Sayed. "We're upset about the policies. I mean he's a low priority individual. I mean he's teaching. He's teaching future generations of doctors, scientists, engineers. And they know where he is. He's not hiding. He's going to work every day. He's working away. So, he's a low priority individual. We don't understand the urgency of getting somebody like that picked up who has roots here for thirty years."

Jamal's attorney said it's possible that his wife could also eventually be deported. Right now, she remains in Lawrence and is taking care of the couple's three children.

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A county jail in Florida unveiled three neon signs. The sign has in big capital letters, "The Green Roof Inn" and underneath the title has the word "vacancy". Underneath the sign is poster of "accommodations" prisoners should encounter such as, no meal selection, group bathrooms and showers and no privacy. The department made a video promoting the "inn" and one county sheriff said during the video "We have a one star rating and we're working to lower that." They say the sign is a kind of warning to make prisoners think twice before breaking the law.

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Who says law enforcement officers don't have a sense of humor?

The Flagler County Jail in Florida has been known as the "Green Roof Inn." So the sheriff's office decided to make the nickname a little more official by installing three signs with the moniker.

One sign unveiled Thursday at the complex in Bunnell, Fla., uses classic neon lighting, with "GREEN ROOF INN" in green capital letters, and "VACANCY" flashing in red below, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.

Below the neon sign is a list of "ACCOMMODATIONS," highlighting what "guests" of the jail can expect from their stay, including: No privacy, group bathrooms and showers, no meal selection, and free transportation to the courthouse or state prison.

"We have a one-star rating and we're working to lower that as I'm speaking," Staly says in a video promoting the "inn," WESH-TV reported.

For those who complete their "stay," another sign near the exit reminds them that the Green Roof Inn "always has a light on," the News-Journal reported.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said the signs are an effort to make people think twice before breaking the law.

"It is a warning to potential offenders that the jail is not a 5-star hotel," Staly told the paper. "When you get arrested, we provide the minimum accommodations as required by law. Once an offender checks in, they lose their basic freedoms. They don't decide what to eat, wear, or do with their day."

The jail, which can hold more than 400 inmates, held approximately 217 prisoners as of Thursday.

Benjamin Brown is a reporter for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @bdbrown473.

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The service will pick up packages from businesses and ship them to consumers, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.

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Amazon ( AMZN) is preparing to launch a delivery service to compete directly with shipping stalwarts UPS ( UPS) and FedEx ( FDX).

The service will pick up packages from businesses and ship them to consumers, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.

While the service will be tested with third-party sellers in Los Angeles, the e-commerce giant will expand the service to other cities and will open the service to other businesses beyond third-party sellers.

The Journal also reported that Amazon is planning to undercut UPS and FedEx on pricing.

Amazon has tested a few delivery services including "Prime Air," a delivery system from Amazon designed to get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using drones.

Amazon already delivers its own packages in some cities and is actively recruiting delivery people to work through "Amazon Flex," which offers flexible hours and pay of $18-$25 per hour, according to Amazon.

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In 2017, Amazon shipped more than 5 billion items worldwide with Prime.

Shares of UPS and FedEx were lower on Friday.

FOX Business reached out to UPS, FedEx and Amazon for comment. A FedEx spokesman was not immediately available while UPS and Amazon hadn't responded.

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A kansas city school bus was caught between a gun battle Thursday around 4:45 pm near 4500 block and Elmwood avenue no one was hurt but a window was shot out of the bus

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City school bus was caught in a gun battle Thursday near 46th Street and Wabash Avenue, officials say.

Fortunately, none of the students on board were injured.

KC Police Capt. Lionel Colon said the apparent gun battle began around 4:45 p.m. Thursday near the 4500 block of Elmwood Avenue.

Two other people in separate vehicles were injured by gunfire from the shooting.

The school bus was not involved in the shooting, but a window was shot out. The driver immediately drove the bus to a safe location. Everyone on the bus was safe and secure, KCPS spokesperson Ray Weikal said.

Weikal said the bus was transporting students from Melcher Elementary. All of the children on the bus were transported to another bus and taken home, he said.

One of the cars hit with gunfire in the shooting stopped nearby, Colon said. The second vehicle went to a fire station near 32nd Street and Indiana Avenue.

The two injured people were transported to the hospital. One man had non-life threatening injures; a woman from the other vehicle had serious injuries but is stable.

Colon said investigators do not yet know if the two injured people were involved in the gun battle. Police are investigating the incident.

No suspects have been identified yet. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

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An Ohio man was sentenced in the murder of a teen girl whose body was concealed in a playpen and tossed into a dumpster. Ricki Williams 22, was handed a 62-year prison sentence Tuesday for the stabbing death of Gina Burger in Austintown, about 70 miles southeast of Cleveland. Prosecutors said Williams invited the 16-year-old girl over to his apartment, where he stabbed her in the chest. His neighbor, Ronisha Johnson, testified that she watched him pull the knife from the teen’s chest and smell it. He  hide her body in a portable playpen and throw it in a dumpster. The teen’s body was later discovered by employees at a Grover City garbage transfer station. The teen's mother told police that Williams asked her if she wanted to buy the playpen after the slaying.

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An Ohio man was sentenced in the murder of a teen girl whose body was concealed in a playpen and tossed into a dumpster.

Ricki Williams IV, 22, was handed a 62-year prison sentence Tuesday for the stabbing death of Gina Burger in Austintown, about 70 miles southeast of Cleveland, WFMJ reported.

Prosecutors said Williams invited the 16-year-old girl in June 2014 over to his apartment, where he fatally stabbed her in the chest.

His neighbor, Ronisha Johnson, testified that she watched him pull the knife from the teen's chest and smell it, WFMJ reported.

He then reportedly enlisted Johnson to help hide her body in a portable playpen and throw it in a dumpster.
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The teen's body was later discovered by employees at a Grover City garbage transfer station.

Burger's mom, Jacqueline Bacher, told police that Williams, in a particularly disturbing move, asked her if she wanted to buy the playpen after the slaying.

Williams pleaded guilty to a slew of charges last month including aggravated murder, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
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An Ohio man was sentenced in the murder of a teen girl whose body was concealed in a playpen and tossed into a dumpster. Ricki Williams IV, 22, was handed a 62-year prison sentence Tuesday for the stabbing death of Gina Burger in Austintown, about 70 miles southeast of Cleveland, WFMJ reported.

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Olympics opening ceremony. Vice President Pence and Kim Jong Uns sister seated close to each other during the winter Olympics.

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The Cavs have traded away Isaiah Thomas, Dwayne Wade, Derrick Rose, Jae Crowder, Channing Frye, and Iman Shumpert. They also gave up a first round pick. They get in return Rodney Hood, George Hill, Jordan Clarkson, and Larry Nance Jr. They have also gotten a second round pick.

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Syracuse University graduate

CLEVELAND -- After a nightmarish stretch of basketball since Christmas Day -- a 20-game slump in which the Cleveland Cavaliers went just 7-13 while repeatedly getting blown out in embarrassing fashion on national television -- the Cleveland front office realized how broken its team was and went for broke at the trade deadline.

A dizzying set of trades that started at just past noon on Thursday completely revamped Cleveland's roster, turning the oldest collection of talent in the league into a younger, more versatile group. It is, though, a group with only 29 games remaining in the regular season to coalesce before the playoffs begin.

All told, the shipping and receiving receipts look like this:

For simplicity's sake, let's group the guys the Cavs said goodbye to in pairs.

Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder came in during the Kyrie Irving trade in August, and the fit was never right. Crowder bounced between the starting lineup and the bench and struggled to find a comfort factor, as the Cavs are a rare team whose starters run a different offense than their second unit does. Thomas was out with a hip injury until early January and played only 15 games before Cleveland had to move on. He struggled to mesh on the court and off of it in a locker room full of strong personalities.

Dwyane Wade and Derrick Rose -- a former Finals MVP and former regular-season MVP, respectively -- came in on minimum deals, both sacrificing more lucrative opportunities to try to recapture the magic they once wielded. But they couldn't make it work. Wade showed flashes of his previous life as "The Flash" -- particularly when Cleveland reeled off 18 wins in 19 games November through December -- but his style of play did not mesh with the accelerated pace the Cleveland coaching staff wanted to see. Rose was still haunted by injuries, and after nearly walking away from the game completely in November, he never found his footing in Cleveland again.

Channing Frye and Iman Shumpert both played significant roles in Cleveland's splendid run to the championship in 2016 but had mostly fallen out of the rotation this season. They both were viewed as assets with something left to give, and they helped attract players the Cavaliers hope will help them immediately in the swaps that sent them out.

As for what's coming in:

George Hill is a long guard with plenty of playoff experience who can hit the 3-ball and will step into the void left by Thomas in the starting lineup.

Jordan Clarkson is a scoring option who can create his own shot and, at age 25, will give an infusion of youth to the Cleveland bench unit, a group that will also see more run from rookie SF Cedi Osman as the season wraps up.

Either Rodney Hood or Larry Nance Jr. could step into the starting lineup while PF Kevin Love is out, depending on what Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue decides to do.

Hood is a wing who can stretch the floor; Nance is a bouncy big man who can protect the rim and is devastating when running the floor. Not to mention, Nance is a legacy player, as his father, Larry Nance Sr., had his No. 22 retired by the Cavaliers after getting traded from the Phoenix Suns in February 1988 and spending the last 6½ years of his career in Cleveland.

All of this has to be viewed through the spectrum of how it will affect LeBron James' free-agency decision this summer.

James has often called for the Cavaliers to add two-way players to compete with the likes of the Golden State Warriors. These deals addressed that. It also should fix some chemistry issues that existed ever since the start of training camp -- issues that included the role of James' good friend, Wade. Sending Wade back to Miami was a tricky move.

But the Cavs' decision-makers handled it as well as can be expected, keeping James in the loop during the process, a team source told ESPN.

From here, all there is left to do is play -- and do so with a roster that is theoretically better equipped to defend, better equipped to run the floor and better prepared to fall into a pecking order more readily.

This is James' team. He can help lead all of those new players to a level of success they have never experienced before -- if they buy in and follow his lead. And if James buys back in with them, the Cavs' chaotic season could actually end up with a blissful ending.

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Remix! Who's in and who's out in Cleveland after the deadline

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9:48 PM ET Dave McMenaminESPN Staff Writer Close Cavs and NBA writer for ESPN.com Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14 and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09 Syracuse University graduate CLEVELAND -- After a nightmarish stretch of basketball since Christmas Day -- a 20-game slump in which the Cleveland Cavaliers went just 7-13 while repeatedly getting blown out in embarrassing fashion on national television -- the Cleveland front office realized how broken its team was and went for broke at the trade deadline.

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Two ISIS  executioners "The Beatles" were captured in Syria and are being detained by U.S.-backed rebel forces. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were the two remaining members of the ISIS "Beatles". The groups leader was killed in 2015 by a CIA drone strike. Aine Davis is another member of the group and was reported that he was captured and is being held in Turkey. The men are believed to have acted as guards and interpreters involved in ISIS’ illegal captivity of Western hostages. The interrogations are being focused on finding when the rest of the western hostages are.

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Two notorious British ISIS members believed to be involved in the brutal torture and beheadings of Western hostages are being detained by U.S.-backed rebel forces in Syria, U.S. officials confirmed. The pair were part of a group of four ISIS members from the United Kingdom nicknamed " The Beatles" by their hostages because of their English accents and origins.

According to two U.S. officials, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were recently captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces and are being interrogated by U.S. interrogators.

Kotey and Elsheikh were the two remaining members of the ISIS "Beatles" quartet who remained on the battlefield.

The group's ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, who was nicknamed " Jihadi John", was killed in a 2015 CIA drone strike.

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Emwazi had the highest profile in the group and narrated the gruesome ISIS videos that showed the beheading deaths of American hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

Aine Davis, another member of the foursome, was reportedly captured and is being held in Turkey.

The pair's capture was first reported by the New York Times.

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Kotey and Elsheikh were captured in early January by the Syrian Democratic Forces during an operation in eastern Syria, according to a U.S. official.

They are believed to have acted as guards and interpreters involved in ISIS' illegal captivity of Western hostages, said the official.

Among those hostages was American Kayla Mueller of Prescott, Arizona, who according to U.S. officials, is believed to have been killed during her captivity.

ABC News' 20/20 has previously reported that Mueller was being held hostage by "The Beatles" and that she once boldly corrected Jihadi John when he wrongly told other hostages that she had converted to Islam.

A senior U.S. official confirmed that part of the interrogation of Kotey and Elsheikh is aimed at finding the remains of Western hostages, particularly Americans, who were killed during their ISIS captivity.

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Security videos, from Tucson International Airport, show a women holding  a a blanket which they believe was a baby. They believe that she gave birth to the child in the airport bathroom. She left the baby on a changing table wrapped up in a jacket with a note. The note said "Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me to the authorities so they can find a good home," The note added on, "I just want what is best for him and it's not me I'm sorry." Airport security received a 911 call from someone who discovered the baby at the changing table near baggage claim. Authorities said, The child was in good condition.

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Authorities are looking for a mother who they believe abandoned her newborn baby at Tucson International Airport with a handwritten note pleading, "I just want what is best for him and it is not me."

The woman, seen on security footage carrying something wrapped in a blanket and walking with an awkward gait, may have given birth in an airport bathroom in Tucson, Arizona, before leaving the child on a changing table at a family changing room with a handwritten note, Los Angeles ABC station KABC reported.

Tucson Airport Authority via Storyful

The Tucson Airport Authority released footage this week of the woman walking through the airport when the baby was abandoned on Jan. 14, and are looking to find out who she is.

The note left with the child read, "Please help me. My mom had no idea she was pregnant. She is unable and unfit to take care of me. Please get me to the authorities so they can find a good home.

"I just want what is best for him and it's not me," the note adds.

Tucson Airport Authority via Storyful

Airport security received a 911 call from someone who discovered the baby at the changing table near baggage claim, according to KABC, and they immediately began investigating.

The child was in good condition, authorities said.

The Washington Post reported airport officials found bloody clothes in an airport bathroom they believe belong to the woman.

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Mother gives birth, abandons baby in airport bathroom with handwritten note

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Authorities are looking for a mother who they believe abandoned her newborn baby at Tucson International Airport with a handwritten note pleading, "I just want what is best for him and it is not me." The woman, seen on security footage carrying something wrapped in a blanket and walking with an...

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Two hunters and two Main game wardens came to help a moose stuck in mud up to its neck. The two hunters were looking for sheds ( dropped deer antler ) when they saw the moose. “The moose had fallen into a spring hole, and had sunk right up to her shoulders, and she couldn’t get out,” said Maine Game Warden Bayley. Wardens Bayley Grant and Scott Osgood used large sticks to free the front leg out.“The moose would have died there without being discovered by the two shed hunters, and the help from the two game wardens to get her out,” said the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.

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Two Maine game wardens and two hunters have come to the aid of a moose trapped up to its neck in a muddy spring.

WGME-TV reports the hunters were searching for deer antlers in a cedar swamp in Columbia, ME, last week when they discovered the moose.

The Main Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife said the moose was stuck in a 10-foot deep spring hole and buried up to its neck in mud.
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"The moose had fallen into a spring hole, and had sunk right up to her shoulders, and she couldn't get out," said Maine Game Warden Bayley Grant told WGME.

Using a large stick, Wardens Bayley Grant and Scott Osgood were able to free the moose's front legs from the mud. From there, they were able to get a rope under and around the moose to help them extract her from the hole.

"We first tried to haul her out with the four wheeler, but it became clear she was too stuck for that," said Grant to WGME. "We then hung the come-along on a cedar tree, and started to winch her out."

The process was slow - the wardens think the moose's hind legs were stuck on some tree roots - but the moose was eventually pulled free.

The wardens cut the rope off her and she "stood right up and took off," Grant says. Grant thinks the moose had been stuck less than eight hours because of her ability to trot away.
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Officials conducted a follow-up search for the moose and did not find her, assuring the wardens that the moose was doing well, WGME reported.

"The moose would have died there without being discovered by the two shed hunters, and the help from the two game wardens to get her out," the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife said in a press release.

"It's a moose story with a happy ending," added Grant.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Hunters, game wardens rescue moose trapped up to its neck in mud

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Two Maine game wardens and two hunters have come to the aid of a moose trapped up to its neck in a muddy spring. WGME-TV reports the hunters were searching for deer antlers in a cedar swamp in Columbia, ME, last week when they discovered the moose.

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There is a connection between the masked killer and a couple who were stabbed to death who were ambushed at they arrived back home. Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and his wife, Hazel Brown, 59, were both stabbed multiple times around 6:40 p.m. at their home near Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The police say that they do not suspect that these killings were random but declined to elaborate. The couples 31 year old daughter lives in a unit above them with a 2 year old child, heard commotion coming from downstairs and founded her mother motionless on the floor with the masked intruder above her.

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A masked attacker was being sought by New York City police Thursday night in connection with the stabbing deaths of a couple who was apparently ambushed as they arrived home from work on Wednesday evening, officials said.

Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and his wife, Hazel Brown, 59, were both stabbed multiple times around 6:40 p.m. at their home near Brooklyn's Prospect Park, police said.

Police officials said they do not suspect the killings were random, but declined to elaborate.

WABC

The couple owned King Solomon religious supply shop about two miles from their Winthrop Street home in a normally quiet Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood.

The couple's 31-year-old daughter, who lives in a unit above her parents home, told police she heard a commotion and when she went downstairs she found her mother lying motionless inside the house and a masked intruder standing over her, officials said. Police officers who responded to the scene discovered Bonaparte dead outside the house.

Brown was stabbed in the neck and torso, police said.

WABC

Hillary Favigney, a neighbor, said the slain couple's daughter ran from the bloody scene holding her 2 -year-old child and banged on her door.

"Oh my God, I was horrified," Favigney told ABC station WABC. "She knocked on the door. She was with her baby and she wasn't wearing nothing but a robe."

Favigney and other neighbors said there were grocery bags strewn around Bonaparte's body as if the couple had gone shopping before coming come.

Homicide detectives combed through surveillance video taken from the couple's shop to see if the killer had followed them from there, but apparently found nothing suspicious, officials said.

WABC

There was also security video taken from the neighborhood, including footage that showed the victims' daughter running up to Favigney home to seek help.

Neighbors said they were stunned and frightened by the violence in their peaceful neighborhood.

"It's crazy," neighbor Edith Telford told WABC. "Things like this never happen in this neighborhood. It's really upsetting."

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Masked attacker sought in fatal stabbing of couple outside their NYC home

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A masked attacker was being sought by New York City police Thursday night in connection with the stabbing deaths of a couple who was apparently ambushed as they arrived home from work on Wednesday evening, officials said. Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and his wife, Hazel Brown, 59, were both stabbed multiple times around 6:40 p.m.

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The mayor of Hillsboro Missouri was arrested after trying to pick a fight outside a gas station with the deputy who once arrested his son. The mayor kept trying to resist arrest, grabbed the deputies hand and twisted it. The deputy then used pepper spray and arrested the mayor for fourth-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, stalking and harassing.

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Missouri mayor arrested after picking fight with deputy

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The mayor of this town was arrested Monday at a gas station parking lot after police say he picked a fight with a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy who once arrested his son.

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Congress approved a major budget deal early Friday morning, voting to end a brief government shutdown overnight and sending the measure to President Donald Trump for his signature.

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Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden calls Trump's military parade 'third-world bulls---''

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weather forecast has predicted to drop about a foot of snow is probably going to cancel school and hundreds of flight cancellations will take place

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Weather Service forecasts heavy snow from Chicago to Detroit

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A winter storm moving across the Great Lakes that's forecast to drop about a foot of snow in some areas closed schools Friday and forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

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silcan valley woker is trying to stop the addictivenis on digitle electronics.

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Think about the children.

That's the message a gathering of Silicon Valley alums and activists sent to the tech industry during a conference in Washington, D.C. focused on what they say is the addictive nature of social media.

Attendees were treated to panels and talks about the various potential links between heavy use of social media and other technology and negative consequences like anxiety, lack of sleep, isolation and depression.
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Conference organizer James Steyer, chief executive and founder of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit promoting safe technology and media for children, slammed huge companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. He said: "Talk is cheap. Show me the money. Period."

There were pleas for Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook co-founder and chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, to consider their own families when making changes to the social network or unveiling new features.

Steyer added: "Mark and Sheryl at Facebook are good people. They are parents too. They have to think about their own kids when making a big picture decision there."

According to statistics from Common Sense Media, 48 percent of teens who spend more than five hours a day on electronic devices report at least one suicide-related outcome - felt very lonely and considered, planned, or attempted suicide - and the brains of young people diagnosed with internet addiction show significantly less gray matter, which is associated with planning, decision-making, and impulse control.

The conference comes amid a wave of anti-tech sentiment that's especially focused on how the powerful mobile devices we carry are impacting young people. A growing chorus of current and former technology leaders and executives have spoken out.

Evan Spiegel, the co-founder of Snapchat, has said that "the combination of social and media has yielded incredible business results but has undermined our relationships."

"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works," according to ex-Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya.

Even Apple's Tim Cook said recently that he does not allow his nephew on social media.

Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, said: "What I'd like [Sheryl Sandberg] to do is to bring the same values she has at home into the office. Remember that you have to have empathy. If you view your users as fuel stock for your profits you're not going to make the world a better place."
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McNamee is one of the people behind the Center for Humane Technology, which is committed to "reversing the digital attention crisis and realigning technology with humanity's best interests." The group has reportedly received $7 million from Common Sense Media to lobby in the battle against tech addiction.

Aza Raskin, a veteran of Mozilla and Firefox who is now chief strategy officer at the Center for Humane Technology, said: "We end up replacing children's sense of identity and self-worth with how many likes they get," reports the Guardian.

He even likened the technology to tobacco.

"Tobacco only gets so addictive and tobacco doesn't know anything particularly about you or your habits. ... Imagine three years or five years from now when our new digital tobacco knows all of your habits. That's the world that we're thinking about, like if you think about when you point AI [artificial intelligence] at a chessboard. Once it wins, it wins; humans can never get better."

Christopher Carbone is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @christocarbone.

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Ex-Silicon Valley workers plea for help in battle against 'addictive' technology

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Think about the children. That's the message a gathering of Silicon Valley alums and activists sent to the tech industry during a conference in Washington, D.C. focused on what they say is the addictive nature of social media.