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Queen Elizabeth II has earned over $8 million in horse racing prize money

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Queen Elizabeth II has won over £6.7 million ($8.8m) from horse racing prize money in the past three decades, new figures from myracing.com show.

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An anonymous patient has recently been admitted into an Italian hospital. The 21 year old woman had spontaneous bleeding episode while sweating, has had this for a while, but just isolated herself from society. The doctors diagnosed her with

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A patient with no signs of wounds was admitted to an Italian hospital due to sweating blood from her face and the palms of her hands, a recent case study says.

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Chinese President Jinping get his name enshrined into the Chinese Communist Party constitution. It's the most important Chinese political event and the only other Chinese leader to have this done to them was Mao Zedong.

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Mother is enraged when she find out that group home care takers shave her daughter's head claiming it was due to hygiene reasons(lice).  Caretakers take to a barber shop with another child to get both their hair cuts. The boy was white but his head was already shaven. Then the caretakers explained to the girl that her would grow back straight. The mother, Denise Robinson, is now suing the program quoting "I feel like my child was assaulted and violated". The caretakers came out and had the audacity to say They will to do it again, to just Tru alone, if necessary.

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A mother was left outraged after caretakers shaved off her mixed race daughter's curly hair without permission.

Denise Robinson's seven-year-old daughter, Tru, lives part-time at Little Heroes Group Home in Dracut, Massachusetts.

The carers reportedly decided to shave Tru's hair for hygiene reasons.

Robinson was furious when her daughter came home with a shaved head, insisting that nobody at Little Heroes had consulted her first.

She was told that a clinician gave consent for the haircut, which has left her daughter nearly bald.

"There was no hygenical reason for them to shave my child's head," Robinson told NECN, adding that Tru's hair was very long before.

"I am very upset. And I'm not going to stop being upset because I feel like my child was assaulted and violated," she continued.

She didn't understand why staff at Little Heroes would need to shave Tru's head out of hygiene, given that her daughter had never shown any signs of head lice or bed bugs.

Robinson's Lawyer, Richard Kendell, told CBS Boston that the incident was "appalling" and revealed that Tru was told that her hair would grow back straight after it was shaved.

Little Heroes is a co-education intensive group home for children between the ages of five and 11; Tru lives there for part of the week as she suffers from complex emotional issues.

They issued the following statement in response to Robinson, who intends to sue:

"The program employs a diverse staff that is attentive to the needs of all children.

"Decisions regarding grooming are based on a variety of factors, including hygiene."

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Several types of intestinal parasites may be gaining some ground in some countries in the Western hemisphere. Some types that are on the rise are fund in fresh produce, sushi, contaminated water, and certain meats, such as beef and pork.

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Here in the U.S., where food is certified and regulated, you don't expect to come away from a restaurant with an intestinal parasite.

However, just because these infections don't run rampant does not mean that they don't happen. In fact, several types of intestinal parasites might just be gaining ground in Western countries.
A Sushi Problem
One type of intestinal parasite that may be increasing is often found in sushi. The fact that more cases are occurring in developed areas doesn't mean that more fish are infected. Instead, it reflects people's increased interest in eating raw fish as a meal.

In one case published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, a healthy man from Portugal made a trip to his doctor after more than a week of severe stomach pain. He was also experiencing vomiting and a low-grade fever.
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Upon careful evaluation, the doctors discovered that the man had recently eaten sushi. Suspecting a parasite, the doctor performed an endoscopy where he viewed the man's digestive tract through a tiny tube with a camera.

Sure enough, the parasite anisakiasis had attached itself to the lining of the man's stomach. His symptoms disappeared immediately once the parasite and its larvae were removed.

"Most of the cases were described in Japan due to food habits; however, it has been increasingly recognized in Western countries," the study's authors noted.

With this increased interest in raw food, especially sushi, people should stay aware of safety habits. Experts recommend eating sushi only at high grade restaurants where workers are sure to have taken important precautions.
A Summer of Cyclospora
Normally, health experts encourage you to eat plenty of fresh produce, but in the case of cyclosporiasis, fresh produce is likely the culprit.

This intestinal illness happens when a person gets infected by the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. Thankfully, you can't spread Cyclospora from person to person, but it does spread through contaminated food or water.

The most common symptom to watch for is watery diarrhea that lasts for several weeks. It may also be the cause of cases with prolonged, intermittent diarrhea.
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As for the source, not all fresh produce will have this parasite. Infection happens more often in tropical regions; so most U.S. outbreaks are actually related to imported produce such as basil and raspberries.

In addition, reported cases usually increase in the summer months, possibly due to the higher demand of tropical produce. According to the CDC, reported cases of cyclosporiasis more than doubled this year: 206 cases in 2017 versus 88 cases in 2016.

This increase shows that more food and water sources are being contaminated. The CDC recommends avoiding anything that was possibly contaminated by feces. Also, food growers and producers should follow the guides offered by the FDA to ensure proper growing, storage and processing procedures.
The Silent Offender
Last, another offending parasite that has caused problems in Western countries is the tapeworm. Different species of the tapeworm can be found in meats like beef or pork, and one species can cause a dangerous infection called cysticercosis.

In the case of cysticercosis, a person becomes infected by swallowing tapeworm eggs from the Taenia solium species. The larvae then infect various tissues, forming cysts in areas like the brain or muscle. This infection is dangerous because it can lead to harmful swelling and seizures.

Many cases of tapeworm infection go unnoticed and unreported due to mild or nonexistent symptoms. Although the CDC estimates about 1000 cases in the U.S. each year, the actual number may be much higher or lower.

How are most people infected? Although people can get a tapeworm infection through dogs, this route of infection is not very common. Rather, most people become infected by eating raw or undercooked beef or pork.
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Typically, Americans have a higher risk if they live in a concentrated or poor community, especially if the sanitation is poor. Areas with more animals have a greater risk as well.

In addition, people may get the parasite through contact with an infected person who has not practiced good hygiene or by travelling out of the country.
Protecting Yourself from Parasites
Although different types of intestinal parasites infect humans through different routes, you can protect yourself through a few general practices:

Cook all meat to the appropriate temperatures recommended by the FDA.

Eat only at restaurants with a grade A, especially sushi restaurants.

Practice good hygiene: regular hand-washing, bathing, proper cycling of worn clothing.

Wash and peel all raw fruits and vegetables.

When travelling abroad, only drink bottled or boiled water and stay aware of any food safety concerns at your destinations.

Generally, intestinal parasites aren't as common in developed countries as in poorer areas. However, people in the US do get these infections, and many may be unaware of this problem.

Through awareness of food safety practices and proper hygiene, you can protect yourself from many types of intestinal parasites and keep your tummy healthy and happy.
This article first appeared on AskDrManny.com.
Dr. Manny Alvarez serves as Fox News Channel's senior managing health editor. He also serves as chairman of the department of obstetrics/gynecology and reproductive science at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. For more information on Dr. Manny's work, visit AskDrManny.com.

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North Korean official: Take our hydrogen bomb threat "literally"
A Senior North Korean official tells CNN’s Will Ripley in an interview in Pyongyang that he should take "literally" a warning from North Korea’s foreign minister about a possible “strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean."
The threat was issued after he President called Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man" and threatened to "totally destroy" the country.

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Raina Nash- Update on Kenneka Jenkins. Last month Kenneka Jenkins was found in a hotel freezer. This case has went viral and social media is not happy about it. Police reccently closed the case claiming they saw Kenneka Jenkins walk into the hotel freezer alone. Police say that they gave the footage to her mother. Her mother made a statement saying she did not see any footage of her daughter walking into the freezer. Police released photos of Kenneka in the freezer. This has only raised more questions surrounding her mysterious death

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Raina Nash- Update on Kenneka Jenkins. Last month Kenneka Jenkins was found in a hotel freezer. This case has went viral and social media is not happy about it. Police reccently closed the case claiming they saw Kenneka Jenkins walk into the hotel freezer alone. Police say that they gave the footage to her mother. Her mother made a statement saying she did not see any footage of her daughter walking into the freezer. Police released photos of Kenneka in the freezer. This has only raised more questions surrounding her mysterious death

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A 55-year-old woman from South Carolina, Cassandra Goodwin, was killed when a tree limb fell on her house. The limb was about 2 feet in diameter and trapped Goodwin while she sat in her living room. Firefighters took approximately 15 minutes to free her and took her to the hospital where she later died.

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In the past three decades, Queen Elizabeth II has won 8.8 million from horse racing prize money

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Queen Elizabeth II has won over £6.7 million ($8.8m) from horse racing prize money in the past three decades, new figures from myracing.com show.

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Authorities are trying to find the person who fatally shot two young men at Grambling State University in northern Louisiana early Wednesday.

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Billionaire Tom Steyer is spending more than ten million dollars on a cam ad for Trumps impeachment.

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55-year-old, Choi Kwanghyuk, escaped from a work camp in North Korea. He was sent there after being targeted and persecuted by the government for his Christian faith. "We couldn't raise our voice during a service, we couldn't sing out loud during a worship...that was hard. Also, we had to hide so that other people could not see us," Kwanghyuk told Fox News with the help of a translator. In the camp that he was in, there were about 9 people. "i couldn't do mission work because we had to keep it secret that we had a church. If that information had leaked, we could have faced the death penalty." North Korea is an official atheist state, except for a "show church" in Pyongyang that tourists are shown. "Choi's statements describing oppression, as well as his report of imprisonment for owning a Bible or practicing faith, align with everything we know about North Korea," Open Doors President David Curry explained to Fox. "The life in North Korea is hell. The life in America is heaven," Choi Kwanghyuk said. In 2008, Choi was arrested and interrogated about his faith. "I was tortured there. I kept denying it." He feared being sent to the most notorious camp -- Camp 22. Prisoners in Camp 22 are forced to stand on their toes in tanks filled with water up to their noses for 24 hours, stripped and be hung upside-down whilst being beaten or given the infamous "pigeon torture". "Pigeon torture" is when both hands are chained to a wall and a height of 2 feet, which forces them to crouch for hours at a time. They get tiny rations of watery corn porridge that leave inmates on the brink of starvation.

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North Korean Choi Kwanghyuk is one of the lucky ones.

The 55-year-old was able to free himself from the clutches of his country's brutal Communist dictatorship after being targeted and persecuted by the government for his Christian faith.

"We couldn't raise our voice during a service, we couldn't sing out loud during a worship ... that was hard," Choi told Fox News through a translator. "Also, we had to hide so that other people could not see us."

Despite having to hide his faith in plain sight while living in North Hamgyong province, Choi was still compelled to bring religion to others when he started an underground church.

"There were about nine people," he said. "I couldn't do mission work because we had to keep it secret that we had a church."

"If that information had leaked, we could have faced the death penalty."

North Korea, now ruled by Kim Jong Un, is an officially atheist state where - except for a "show church" in Pyongyang that tourists are shown -- public worship is forbidden. The country is ranked the most oppressive place for Christians in the world and has had that ignominious status been for years, according to Open Doors USA.

"[Choi's] statements describing oppression, as well as his report of imprisonment for owning a Bible or practicing faith, align with everything we know about North Korea," Opens Doors President David Curry told Fox News. "Rated the worst place for the persecution of Christians, North Korea treats Christians horrendously and registers them as 'enemies of the state' for their faith."

The totalitarian state forces the estimated 300,000 Christians living there to hide their religious beliefs and fellowship among each other.

"In a nation where the ruling regime demands total control over the general public, anything that challenges the government's power is seen as a threat, including religion," Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, told Fox News. "As a result, the North Korean government does everything in its power to squash the spread of Christianity."

This leads much of the religious population in North Korea to go underground with their worship, much like Choi and his church were forced to do.

"We had only one Bible," he said. "North Hamgyong province is very cold. In the winter, we would dig a big hole and store kimchi there. We sometimes had services there. In the summer, we had services in the mountain or by the river."

"The life in North Korea is hell. The life in America is heaven."
- Choi Kwanghyuk

"I never heard the term 'underground church' until I got here [to the U.S.]."

In 2008, North Korean authorities caught up to Choi and arrested him. He was held in prison by the state security department where he says he was interrogated about his faith.

"I was tortured there," he said. "I kept denying it."

He said that he was about to be sent to one of North Korea's brutal labor camps when he was able to break free.

"I decided to escape because I thought that once they sent me to the other camp, they could eventually send me to the concentration camp or kill me," Choi recalled. "I was traveling back and forth between China and North Korea, but they kept searching for me, and I knew it could put my friends in danger too, so I left."

The North Korean gulag system is notorious for harsh conditions and brutal treatment of its prisoners.

Choi feared being sent to the most notorious camp within the system -- Camp 22.

Also known as Hoeryong concentration camp, and part of a large system of prison camps throughout the communist dictatorship, Camp 22 is an 87-square-mile penal colony located in North Hamgyong province where most of the prisoners are people accused of criticizing the government.

Inmates, most of whom are serving life sentences, face harsh and often lethal conditions. According to the testimony of a former guard from Camp 22, prisoners live in bunkhouses with 100 people per room and some 30 percent show the markings of torture and beatings -- torn ears, gouged eyes and faces covered with scars.

"Unfortunately, it is inexplicably easy to wind up in one of these camps. While someone can be sent to one of these camps for openly evangelizing, someone can just as easily be sent there for simply being in contact with a religious person," said King of the International Christian Concern.

Prisoners are forced to stand on their toes in tanks filled with water up to their noses for 24 hours, stripped and hanged upside-down while being beaten or given the infamous "pigeon torture" -- where both hands are chained to a wall at a height of 2 feet, forcing them to crouch for hours at a time.

Tiny rations of watery corn porridge leave inmates on the brink of starvation, and many hunt rats, snakes, and frogs for protein. Some even take the drastic measure of searching through animal dung for undigested seeds to eat. Beatings are handed out daily for offenses as simple as not bowing down in respect to the guards fast enough. Prisoners are used as practice targets during martial arts training. Guards routinely rape female inmates.

Choi said he finally escaped to neighboring China. While he was figuring out where to go next, he had heard how the general image of North Korean defectors was not positive among those in South Korea.

"So, I applied for asylum in the U.S.," he told Fox News.

Choi, who was single when he lived in North Korea, was granted asylum in the U.S. in 2013. He first lived in Dallas before eventually moving to Los Angeles where he now lives.

Choi said that as a result of injuries he received while being tortured, he is unable to work but has committed himself to telling the world about the human rights abuses in his native land.

"First of all, every human must have the right to freedom," he said. "There is no freedom in North Korea. By law, they have the freedom of religion and the freedom of the press, but the reality is very different."

And despite the hardships he may face, Choi said that life in U.S. is a vast improvement.

"There is an enormous difference between my life in North Korea and my life in the U.S," he said.

"The life in North Korea is hell ... life in America is heaven."
Fox News' Inwook Song contributed to this article.
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @perrych

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Over the past 3 decades the Queen of England has won over $8 million from horse racing. Her horses have a total of 451 wins since 1988

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Queen Elizabeth II was won over $8.8 million from horse racing prize money in the past 3 decades. She is the 11th most successful owner in flat racing.

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As a way to combat opioid overdoses in New York, the Corner Project is labeled as a safe injection site, basically meaning that people can go there to inject the drugs in a safe environment. The people who run the Corner Project use an intercom to check in on the user to make sure they are still conscious every three minutes. In the case of an overdose, well trained employees would rush in and inject a drug to counteract the opioids. They have saved about 25 lives this way

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Over the past several months, hardly anyone I spoke to about the abuse of opioids in the United States, including pain pills and heroin, had a neutral point of view about what is happening in a small but important corner of the larger epidemic.

The place is where a former security guard named Hector Mata became an expert at reversing overdoses and probably saved 25 lives in the process. It is not a hospital or a clinic.

Mata's infirmary is the Corner Project, a syringe exchange program that began operating in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights, which houses a bathroom where drug users can more safely inject heroin.

On first glance, there is not much that is special about this bathroom except that there is someone checking in on an intercom every three minutes to make sure the user is still conscious.

"A moral obligation"

If a user doesn't respond on the check-in, Mata, or someone similarly trained, will press a button to unlock the door and rush in, armed with a syringe full of naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, and hopefully reverse the effects of the opioid drugs. After seven years and at least 25 overdoses, he says he has never failed.

While to some people, this sounds like a "consumption room," or a safe injection site, the staff here say it is simply a bathroom. After all, injection sites aren't legal under US law.

I sat down with the Corner Project's director, Liz Evans, and asked her just how a place like this legally exists. She told me that public bathrooms are the frontline of the opioid epidemic. "People are dying in those bathrooms, and so there's an acknowledgment that as a syringe exchange provider, we have a moral obligation to make sure that people don't die in our building." And so, the Corner Project has implemented a safety net to make sure that people don't die from overdoses in the bathroom in their building. Everything in this story is a murky gray.

Perhaps the story of the Corner Project could have been predicted. A heroin addict goes to a needle exchange, obtains clean needles and immediately heads to the bathroom to inject drugs. After all, according to recent studies in New York City, nearly two-thirds of drug users visit places like abandoned buildings, cars, and public bathrooms to inject drugs.

The Corner Project started out as a street based community outreach group in 2005. In 2009, when the Corner Project moved to its current brick and mortar location, the bathroom was just a matter of convenience for clients. Within a short time, however, there was an overdose in the bathroom, followed by another and so on.

Without a system in place, the workers at Corner Project would hear a characteristic thud from someone passing out in the bathroom, make a mad scramble for the keys and then work to revive the person. Though they were mostly successful, it was always frightening.

The Corner Project could have simply closed the bathroom or searched people before they used the facility, but the workers chose to do neither.

Instead, they kept it open and put in safety measures, like an intercom system, timers, and naloxone to help prevent overdoses. They stayed open knowing that if they closed their doors addicts would simply find another public restroom to use their drugs, far from the people who might be able to save them.

And with that, the Corner Project pushed the limits of harm reduction in the United States.

Since last year, the New York State Department of Health has followed the Corner Project's lead and instituted regulations and recommended procedures on how to best prevent overdoses in the places where users are likely to use: syringe exchange bathrooms.

Criminalization vs. rehabilitation

In the great debate of criminalization versus rehabilitation, many commonly held assumptions have been torn to shreds. For example, some believed the legalization of drugs like marijuana would lead to increased use. Yet in Colorado, which legalized recreational pot, teen marijuana use has dropped. When it comes to opioids, the number of people who overdose and die from legal prescription painkillers is about equal to the number of people who die from illicit drugs like heroin.

Another commonly held belief is that a safe injection site would implicitly condone the use of drugs and lead to increased use. And yet we now know that theory starts to fray when we look at what has happened at the Corner Project and at a place called InSite in Vancouver, Canada, which Liz Evans also helped found.

Started as a pilot project in 2003, InSite is one of only two legal supervised drug injection sites in Canada. They are the only two in North America. Though the centers don't provide any illicit drugs, the medical staff are there to provide first aid, including naloxone for overdoses, addiction counseling and mental health assistance. InSite has seen more than 3 million people since it opened, treated over 6,000 overdoses and not had a single person die.

Furthermore, a 2011 Lancet study revealed that in the neighborhoods surrounding InSite, in the two years after it opened, there wasa 35% reduction in overdose deaths from the two and a half years before it opened, compared with a 9% drop in the rest of Vancouver. Although it is unclear the impact of InSite on decreasing the total number of drugs users, it has led to increased admissions for addiction treatment and detoxification.

And that also means cleaner communities. Streets and public restrooms aren't littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia. In fact, a recent survey of drug users from an undisclosed safe injection site in the United States found that if they hadn't used the site's facilities, over 90% of the users would be using in public bathrooms or out on the street.

These statistics are now the subject of dozens of studies in medical journals and were also recited to me as Mata showed me around the Corner Project's bathroom.

But he emphasized again, "It's not a safe injection site," he told me. He points out that unlike InSite, the Corner Project doesn't have actual medical professionals monitoring the bathroom. In fact, if a doctor or nurse were to actually supervise its bathrooms, he or she could lose their license. He also doesn't care for the term "consumption room," which has been around in Western Europe since the 1990s.

Instead, Mata insists I just call it a bathroom. Because unlike Canada or some countries in Europe, what I witnessed isn't actually legal in the United States.

At the front desk, a staff member monitored the clock and the intercom, checking to see whether any help was necessary. Considering the number of lives nearly lost in its bathroom, the mood in the Corner Project was calm and controlled.

The soft music, brightly colored walls and chalkboards, and chestnut-colored tables with staff members casually engaged in small talk gave it the feel of a neighborhood coffee shop, more than a place where overdoses are prevented.

A self-inflicted wound

Mata said my tour needed to be quick because the bathroom is in use almost all the time, and there is a waiting list that often lasts more than an hour.

One of the men in line was Taylor Prince, 35. Mata gave him a hug and then told me, "Taylor is a frequent flier." I found out later that Mata saved Prince's life on three occasions.

We find ourselves in the middle of an opioid epidemic that is the worst drug crisis in American history. It is a self-inflicted wound and one that is predominantly made in America, as we consume more than 80% of the world's supply of opioid pain pills, even though we are less than 5% of the world's population. Many of those prescriptions have led to heroin use; three out of four new heroin users started with prescription narcotics.

And there is no single strategy, as provocative or revolutionary as it may be, that is going to be the answer to turning those numbers completely around. Not even a controversial bathroom in the Washington Heights Corner Project could possibly do that, but in the meantime, Mata and others will work on saving as many lives as possible.

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SAN JUAN, P.R. - Girls raced up the school steps in their plaid pinafores and backpacks on Tuesday, ponytails tied tight with colorful ribbons. They hugged and squealed and swapped dramatic hurricane stories, eager to catch up after more than a month away.

"We are ready," Kenia Caraballo Rivera, the principal at the Dr. Francisco Hernández y Gaetan school in San Juan, said with a smile as students stopped to say hello or embrace her.

"And this," she added, pointing to a beige folding table and chair in the main hallway near the entrance, "is my office." With no electricity in the school and no windows in her office, Ms. Caraballo works in the hall, where daylight streams in through the front door.

The resumption of classes at the school on Tuesday was a joyous, achingly needed milestone on the plodding path back to normality in Puerto Rico's newest era: After Maria. But the island's education system is hardly picking up where it left off before the storm.

Only 98 of the island's public schools reopened on Tuesday, 9 percent of the total, and the ones that did were in San Juan and Mayagüez, two major cities. Another 112 schools in those areas will open as soon as their final paperwork is turned in.

Few, if any of the reopened schools have generators, or internet access, or air-conditioning. School days have been slashed in half, at least for now. And the students - the ones who have not moved to the mainland - must bring their own water bottles and douse themselves in repellent to fend off the island's mosquito invasion.

Since most of the students have no electricity at home, either, homework is now out of the question. Many of them lost clothes and furniture to the storm, so uniforms have been made optional. Old-school is an all too literal way to describe classroom work: white boards, markers, flash cards, board games, and the occasional textbook have reappeared.

With more than a month of lost instructional time to make up at the reopened schools, and still more at the ones that have yet to reopen, the curriculum will have to be truncated, focusing strictly on the most important core elements for each grade. And the school calendar will have to be extended, perhaps into next summer.

"In terms of education, we know that it will not be a perfect year, but we need to take the first step," Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico's secretary of education, said in a statement on Tuesday. "It's important to start wherever we can as soon as possible. But, I repeat again, only when it's safe for the school population."

Inside Hernández y Gaetan, a public elementary school that serves two poor neighborhoods in San Juan, students buzzed with stories about rising floodwaters, felled trees and soggy furniture. A teacher sat the school's fifth-grade students in a circle and asked them to share their experiences, if they felt comfortable talking about them. The discussion was part of a larger strategy to incorporate the hurricane into lesson plans, both to help students cope and to help teach subjects like climate change, geography, plant life and the ocean.

Most of the students seized the chance.

"Are you happy to be back?" asked the teacher, Lorimar Morales.

"Well, not so much, because there is no power and it's hot," Heidi L. Rojas de Jesus, a talkative 10-year-old, said with a smile as she fanned herself with a piece of paper.

The students rattled off their losses, which were relatively minor compared with harder hit parts of Puerto Rico. Toppled avocado trees. Clothes ruined by rain or floodwaters. A wrecked mattress. A nearly destroyed Sony PlayStation. One student spoke of a dramatic rescue of an older woman whose house filled with water. Many reeled off a litany of grievances about the heat, the darkness and the endless waits in line for money, for gasoline, for bottled water.

"But the funniest thing is that our garbage can floated away in the water," Heidi said.

Getting even the 98 least-damaged schools reopened was a difficult undertaking in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which roared across the island on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm, demolishing houses and buildings, trees and roads, and knocking out power and telecommunications. The power is still out in three-quarters of the island, and about one-third lacks cellphone service. Few homes have working generators.

Each school building had to be inspected by the Army Corps of Engineers and had to have working water before it could reopen. They had to be repaired, disinfected, and scrubbed of mud, mold and rat droppings; much of that work was done by determined teachers. The schools had to be able to feed the students, and there was paperwork to file. As a test run, the schools first opened as community centers to work out the kinks.

Ms. Keleher, the education secretary, said in an interview that so far, 150 of the island's 1,113 schools have been rated as too badly damaged to reopen; their students will have to be accommodated elsewhere. It was not clear yet how many students have moved to the mainland. The Hernández y Gaetan school counted five.

Teachers have left, too: Islandwide, about 116 have applied for a special sabbatical that ends in January.

Mari Lopez, who teaches English at the Hernández y Gaetan school, may soon join them. As she kept her eye on a downcast little girl who was ordinarily cheerful and lively, Ms. Lopez, 59, said the devastation on the island has been hard to bear, and she misses family members who have gone to the mainland.

"It's too much," she said. "I don't know how long it will take to get the power back on. It never comes."

About 30 miles away in Humacao, where Maria left lines of concrete poles snapped in half and wrecked big-box stores, teachers at the Lidia Fiol Scarano school are desperate to get back to work. They already know which songs will greet the children; they have chosen what to grow in the garden in the school's now-barren courtyard. Even the script for the Christmas show, with amusing skits about facets of post-Maria life like washing clothes by hand, is close to finished. All they need is a reopening date, which may still be far-off because of the extensive damage to other area schools.

The day after the hurricane, the principal, Migdalia Torres, and many of the teachers went to the school to take stock. All 19 of the big trees in the courtyard had been toppled, blocking access to the mud-caked classrooms and robbing the school of shade. Ms. Torres went to a local National Guard station and got 22 soldiers to follow her to the school, where everyone donned gloves and masks and got to work chopping, cleaning, wiping up and discarding debris.

Another school in Humacao had been flooded with five feet of water from the ocean and an adjacent lake. Soldiers pitched in there too, helping the school staff rescue a building that had looked like a lost cause. One wing is still in bad structural shape, but the staff is pushing hard to reopen the rest.

"The teachers have been the heroes here," said Sonia L. Rodriguez Gonzalez, the principal.

Ms. Keleher said she hoped to give Puerto Rico's long-ailing schools a boost after Hurricane Maria by decentralizing the school system, instituting greater local control and modernizing the curriculum.

The students in San Juan spoke of another transformation: People are being nicer to one another. One boy said that his neighbors had shared their brooms and machetes. A girl said an ambulance driver had said hello to her.

"And my neighbor used to be mean to me," said Alanis Santiago, 13. "Now that I have a generator, she's very nice."

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A bathroom in New York, part of the Corner Project, provides syringes for drug users. They claim this will reduce harm from Opium addiction. An intercom in the bathroom checks on the drug user every few minutes to determine if they are conscious. If they don't respond, someone rushes in to help and inject them with Narcan to reverse the effects of the Opium. Many people believe this bathroom is harmful as there have been several overdoses.

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Over the past several months, hardly anyone I spoke to about the abuse of opioids in the United States, including pain pills and heroin, had a neutral point of view about what is happening in a small but important corner of the larger epidemic.

The place is where a former security guard named Hector Mata became an expert at reversing overdoses and probably saved 25 lives in the process. It is not a hospital or a clinic.

Mata's infirmary is the Corner Project, a syringe exchange program that began operating in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights, which houses a bathroom where drug users can more safely inject heroin.

On first glance, there is not much that is special about this bathroom except that there is someone checking in on an intercom every three minutes to make sure the user is still conscious.

"A moral obligation"

If a user doesn't respond on the check-in, Mata, or someone similarly trained, will press a button to unlock the door and rush in, armed with a syringe full of naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, and hopefully reverse the effects of the opioid drugs. After seven years and at least 25 overdoses, he says he has never failed.

While to some people, this sounds like a "consumption room," or a safe injection site, the staff here say it is simply a bathroom. After all, injection sites aren't legal under US law.

I sat down with the Corner Project's director, Liz Evans, and asked her just how a place like this legally exists. She told me that public bathrooms are the frontline of the opioid epidemic. "People are dying in those bathrooms, and so there's an acknowledgment that as a syringe exchange provider, we have a moral obligation to make sure that people don't die in our building." And so, the Corner Project has implemented a safety net to make sure that people don't die from overdoses in the bathroom in their building. Everything in this story is a murky gray.

Perhaps the story of the Corner Project could have been predicted. A heroin addict goes to a needle exchange, obtains clean needles and immediately heads to the bathroom to inject drugs. After all, according to recent studies in New York City, nearly two-thirds of drug users visit places like abandoned buildings, cars, and public bathrooms to inject drugs.

The Corner Project started out as a street based community outreach group in 2005. In 2009, when the Corner Project moved to its current brick and mortar location, the bathroom was just a matter of convenience for clients. Within a short time, however, there was an overdose in the bathroom, followed by another and so on.

Without a system in place, the workers at Corner Project would hear a characteristic thud from someone passing out in the bathroom, make a mad scramble for the keys and then work to revive the person. Though they were mostly successful, it was always frightening.

The Corner Project could have simply closed the bathroom or searched people before they used the facility, but the workers chose to do neither.

Instead, they kept it open and put in safety measures, like an intercom system, timers, and naloxone to help prevent overdoses. They stayed open knowing that if they closed their doors addicts would simply find another public restroom to use their drugs, far from the people who might be able to save them.

And with that, the Corner Project pushed the limits of harm reduction in the United States.

Since last year, the New York State Department of Health has followed the Corner Project's lead and instituted regulations and recommended procedures on how to best prevent overdoses in the places where users are likely to use: syringe exchange bathrooms.

Criminalization vs. rehabilitation

In the great debate of criminalization versus rehabilitation, many commonly held assumptions have been torn to shreds. For example, some believed the legalization of drugs like marijuana would lead to increased use. Yet in Colorado, which legalized recreational pot, teen marijuana use has dropped. When it comes to opioids, the number of people who overdose and die from legal prescription painkillers is about equal to the number of people who die from illicit drugs like heroin.

Another commonly held belief is that a safe injection site would implicitly condone the use of drugs and lead to increased use. And yet we now know that theory starts to fray when we look at what has happened at the Corner Project and at a place called InSite in Vancouver, Canada, which Liz Evans also helped found.

Started as a pilot project in 2003, InSite is one of only two legal supervised drug injection sites in Canada. They are the only two in North America. Though the centers don't provide any illicit drugs, the medical staff are there to provide first aid, including naloxone for overdoses, addiction counseling and mental health assistance. InSite has seen more than 3 million people since it opened, treated over 6,000 overdoses and not had a single person die.

Furthermore, a 2011 Lancet study revealed that in the neighborhoods surrounding InSite, in the two years after it opened, there wasa 35% reduction in overdose deaths from the two and a half years before it opened, compared with a 9% drop in the rest of Vancouver. Although it is unclear the impact of InSite on decreasing the total number of drugs users, it has led to increased admissions for addiction treatment and detoxification.

And that also means cleaner communities. Streets and public restrooms aren't littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia. In fact, a recent survey of drug users from an undisclosed safe injection site in the United States found that if they hadn't used the site's facilities, over 90% of the users would be using in public bathrooms or out on the street.

These statistics are now the subject of dozens of studies in medical journals and were also recited to me as Mata showed me around the Corner Project's bathroom.

But he emphasized again, "It's not a safe injection site," he told me. He points out that unlike InSite, the Corner Project doesn't have actual medical professionals monitoring the bathroom. In fact, if a doctor or nurse were to actually supervise its bathrooms, he or she could lose their license. He also doesn't care for the term "consumption room," which has been around in Western Europe since the 1990s.

Instead, Mata insists I just call it a bathroom. Because unlike Canada or some countries in Europe, what I witnessed isn't actually legal in the United States.

At the front desk, a staff member monitored the clock and the intercom, checking to see whether any help was necessary. Considering the number of lives nearly lost in its bathroom, the mood in the Corner Project was calm and controlled.

The soft music, brightly colored walls and chalkboards, and chestnut-colored tables with staff members casually engaged in small talk gave it the feel of a neighborhood coffee shop, more than a place where overdoses are prevented.

A self-inflicted wound

Mata said my tour needed to be quick because the bathroom is in use almost all the time, and there is a waiting list that often lasts more than an hour.

One of the men in line was Taylor Prince, 35. Mata gave him a hug and then told me, "Taylor is a frequent flier." I found out later that Mata saved Prince's life on three occasions.

We find ourselves in the middle of an opioid epidemic that is the worst drug crisis in American history. It is a self-inflicted wound and one that is predominantly made in America, as we consume more than 80% of the world's supply of opioid pain pills, even though we are less than 5% of the world's population. Many of those prescriptions have led to heroin use; three out of four new heroin users started with prescription narcotics.

And there is no single strategy, as provocative or revolutionary as it may be, that is going to be the answer to turning those numbers completely around. Not even a controversial bathroom in the Washington Heights Corner Project could possibly do that, but in the meantime, Mata and others will work on saving as many lives as possible.

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Over 238 proposals have been made to host Amazon's second headquarters. The company will pay $5 billion and have over 50,000 "high-paying" jobs.

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Amazon has confirmed the obvious: It's received a lot of interest from cities vying to host its second headquarters.

The tech giant said on Monday that 238 cities and regions put in a bid for the opportunity. The proposals span across 54 states, provinces, districts and territories across North America.

Amazon announced plans for a second headquarters in September, sending cities into a frenzy. The company expects to invest more than $5 billion to build the facility and will create as many as 50,000 "high-paying" jobs.

Amazon says the new headquarters, dubbed HQ2, will be a "full equal" to its Seattle campus.

Related: 8 cities fit for Amazon's second headquarters

Cities have made elaborate and creative gestures in an effort to woo Amazon. Kansas City Mayor Sly James wrote five-star reviews for 1,000 random items on Amazon's website; Tucson sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a giant cactus; and New York City lit up landmarks like the Empire State Building in "Amazon orange."

Amazon estimates that its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city's economy.

Proposals for HQ2 were due last week.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 23, 2017: 11:30 AM ET

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LENEXA, Kan. - Police are conducting a death investigation after human remains were found inside a storage unit on Tuesday.

Lenexa patrol officers responded to a U-Haul at 9250 Marshall Drive to check on the welfare of individuals who had been sleeping in the storage unit, police said.

Upon arrival, human remains were discovered inside a storage unit. Police are calling it a "death investigation" but did not provide any details on the cause of death.

"Our patrol officers were dispatched here yesterday evening before 7 o'clock. The call was that some individuals had been sleeping in one of the storage units," Danny Chavez with Lenexa Police told FOX 4 News. "The remains were a bit decomposed to identify, so it may take some time to identify, but at this point we do not have any information if it is a male or female, or the age. We just don't know. We will continue to investigate that."

The investigation is ongoing. FOX 4 will update this story as information becomes available.

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Scientists are are working on an injection that will block your hunger for junk food. The injection is also said to reduce the risk of obesity related diseases. It will make you eat less and lose weight, and you'll be fuller longer.

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Are you constantly dieting but struggling with incessant cravings?

We've got good news for you - scientists are working on an injection that blocks your hunger for junk food.

And in doing so it can help you slim down by stopping you from eating as much.

The injection has also been shown to reduce the risk of obesity-related diseases like diabetes in fat monkeys - more good news!

A protein, called GDF15, has been found to naturally regulate body weight in humans and animals.

When it's injected into mice it made them eat less and lose weight, reports New Scientist.

Several teams have tried to use it as an obesity treatment before but were unsuccessful as the protein broke down too quickly in the body for it to have any effect.

But now a team from pharmaceutical company Amgen has found a way to make it last longer in the body.

They used an antibody and added it to the protein, which made it take longer to break down.

When it was used on obese monkeys it made them eat 40 percent less.

And when given weekly injections they lost an incredible 10 percent of their body fat over a six week period.

They were also more tolerate of glucose, or sugar, which meant their risk of developing type 2 diabetes was reduced.

There are currently five obesity medications that have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

These have been found to help patients lose an average of seven to 12 percent of their body weight over the course of a year.

But none have been as successful as the new drug looks like it could be.

Study author Murielle Véniant said the GDF15 hybrid injection did not appear to cause any adverse side effects in monkeys.

Clinical trials will be needed to see how the drug works on people before it is available.

Other studies have found that when injecting the protein into mice it binds to neurons in the stomach and intestines and sends signals to the part of the brain responsible for appetite.

That same part of the brain is responsible for your cravings.

The protein caused mice to keep food in their stomachs for twice as long, making them feel fuller for longer.
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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee claims he obtained a “smoking gun” email that proves the Obama Justice Department prevented settlement payouts from going to conservative-leaning organizations.

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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee claims he obtained a "smoking gun" email that proves the Obama Justice Department prevented settlement payouts from going to conservative-leaning organizations, even as liberal groups were awarded money and DOJ officials denied "picking and choosing" recipients.

"It is not every day in congressional investigations that we find a smoking gun," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Tuesday. "Here, we have it."

While Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general, the Justice Department allowed prosecutors to strike agreements compelling big companies to give money to outside groups not connected to their cases to meet settlement burdens. Republican lawmakers long have decried those payments as a "slush fund" that boosted liberal groups, and the Trump DOJ ended the practice earlier this year.

But internal Justice Department emails released Tuesday by Goodlatte indicated that not only were officials involved in determining what organizations would get the money, but also Justice Department officials may have intervened to make sure the settlements didn't go to conservative groups.

In one such email in July 2014, a senior Justice Department official expressed "concerns" about what groups would receive settlement money from Citigroup - saying they didn't want money going to a group that does "conservative property-rights legal services."
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"Concerns include: a) not allowing Citi to pick a statewide intermediary like the Pacific Legal Foundation (does conservative property-rights legal services)," the official, whose name is redacted in the email, wrote under the title of "Acting Senior Counselor for Access to Justice."

The official added that "we are more likely to get the right result from a state bar association affiliated entity."

The Pacific Legal Foundation responded to the email release Tuesday by telling Fox News it believes "permanent reforms to prevent such abuse are needed."

"We are flattered that the previous administration would be concerned enough about our success vindicating individual liberty and property rights to prevent settlement funds from making their way to Pacific Legal Foundation," PLF CEO Steven D. Anderson said in a statement.

Goodlatte, who is sponsoring the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017, disclosed the emails during a speech on the House floor, taking aim at then-Associate Attorney General Tony West.

"Aiding their political allies was only the half of it," Goodlatte said. "The evidence of the Obama DOJ's abuse of power shows that Tony West's team went out of its way to exclude conservative groups."

The documents indicate West played an active role in helping certain organizations obtain settlement information.

"Can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money to an organization of our choosing?" Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Elizabeth Taylor wrote in one November 2013 email.

Groups who received funding also expressed appreciation for West's efforts, according to the emails.

"Now that it has been more than 24 hours for us all to try and digest the Bank of America settlement, I would like to discuss ways we might want to recognize and show appreciation for the Department of Justice and specifically Associate Attorney General Tony West," wrote Charles R. Dunlap, executive director of the Indiana Bar, in an August 2014 email.

Dunlap wrote that West "by all accounts was the one person most responsible" for the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts group receiving money.

One person, Bob LeClair, responded to Dunlap's email by saying, "Frankly, I would be willing to have us build a statue [of West] and then we could bow down to this statue each day after we get our $200,000."

West, who now works as an executive vice president at PepsiCo, did not immediately return an email from Fox News seeking comment.

In 2015, however, Geoffrey Graber, who oversaw the Justice Department's big banks settlements, told Goodlatte during a congressional hearing that the department "did not want to be in the business of picking and choosing which organizations may or may not receive any funding under the agreement."

"But internal DOJ documents tell a different story," Goodlatte said Tuesday. "They show that contrary to Graber's sworn testimony, the donation provisions were structured to aid the Obama administration's political friends and exclude conservative groups."

Even before the release of Tuesday's emails, Republicans had blasted these settlements as a "slush fund" for favored groups.

Gibson Guitars was forced to pay $50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2012, though that organization has nothing to do with the case. In 2014, Bank of America gave money to the National Urban League, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America and the National Council of La Raza as part of a major mortgage fraud settlement stemming from the 2008 financial crisis.

'Aiding their political allies was only the half of it.'
- House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

Asked about the emails, the Justice Department on Tuesday referred Fox News to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' statement in June after he announced the end to the practice.

"When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people - not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power," Sessions said.

Goodlatte on Tuesday praised Sessions' move to end mandatory donations, but called his legislation a "good governance measure," and called it necessary to prevent a future Justice Department from reversing the action. The bill prohibits the Justice Department from requiring defendants to donate money to outside groups as part of a settlement with the federal government.

The Obama administration has been accused of unfairly targeting conservative organizations before - most famously after the revelation the IRS applied extra scrutiny to groups with "Tea Party" in their names.

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A third U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Nimitz, entered the western Pacific, the Navy announced Wednesday, just days ahead of President Trump’s first trip to Asia next month. The Nimitz is joining the Reagan and Roosevelt. Making three out of ten aircraft carriers to be in the Pacific

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A third U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group entered the western Pacific, the Navy announced Wednesday, just days ahead of President Trump's first trip to Asia next month.

The USS Nimitz joined the Roosevelt and Reagan in the region. The Nimitz announcement comes a day after the Roosevelt entered the western Pacific.

The deployments comes as the U.S., Japan and South Korean maritime forces are conducting a trilateral exercise aimed at improving ballistic missile defenses.

On Monday, Japan's defense minister asserted North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities have grown to an "unprecedented, critical and imminent" level, requiring "different responses" to the threat.

The minister, Itsunori Onodera, said the rising threat compels his country to endorse the U.S. view that "all options" must be considered, which President Trump says includes possible military action. Japan was alarmed by North Korea twice launching ballistic missiles over Japanese territory, in August and in September.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis slammed Pyongyang for defying U.N. Security Council resolutions against its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

"North Korea's provocations threaten regional and global security," he said.
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report

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No more getting packages stolen. No more worries about being there to receive them. Starting next month, people in 37 U.S. cities can have Amazon drop their package inside their front door, without ever giving anyone a key.

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SAN FRANCISCO - No more getting packages stolen. No more worries about being there to receive them. Starting next month, people in 37 U.S. cities can have Amazon drop their package inside their front door, without ever giving anyone a key.

On Nov. 8, Amazon will begin offering a secure-lock service, called Amazon Key, that will give Amazon Logistics delivery personnel a code to unlock a customer's door for 5 minutes. Using a new Amazon device, the Cloud Cam, the entire delivery will be live-streamed to the customer's devices and also sent as a video snippet.

The service is an effort to thwart one of the problems of Amazon's popular package delivery service - package theft - as well as give users "choice, peace of mind and convenience," in the words of Peter Larsen, Amazon's vice president for delivery technology.

The company has been testing Amazon Key for several months at various sites around the country and thinks it's going to be a game-changer.

"This is not a trial. This is the fundamental way we think customers are going to order and receive their goods," Larsen said.

The new service could represent a shift in how consumers think of Amazon. Not just as the source of packages left on their porch, but as an entity they're comfortable letting into their homes. Available only to Prime customers, it's also another way to knit them more tightly into the ever-growing Amazon ecosystem.

How it works

The company demonstrated the service to reporters at a rental house in San Francisco on Tuesday.

The customer first buys a smart lock and the Cloud Cam camera. The starting price is $249 for the camera and smart lock. The Cloud Cam is also available for purchase as a stand-alone security camera for $199. Both will be available for purchase beginning Wednesday and can be installed by the customer or for free by a professional Amazon technician.

The camera is set up to show the front door from inside the house, allowing the customer to watch on the Amazon Key app to see whoever opens it. The smart locks, from Yale and Kwikset, come in several colors, variations and price points.

Once signed up for the free program, when customers go to purchase something on Amazon, they will see all items available for Key delivery marked with the designation "In-home delivery."

The day the ordered item is set to arrive, a customer gets a note on her phone, saying an in-home delivery will come that day and a time window during which to expect it.

When the delivery person arrives, the app sends the customer another note saying the delivery person is at the door.

Using a list that appears on the app, the delivery person is first instructed to knock on the door or ring the doorbell.

If no one answers, the delivery person swipes a button in the app that sends a message up to the cloud, which sends a message down to the customer's Amazon-enabled smart lock. This allows the delivery person to swipe a button on the app that unlocks the door.

"Note that the delivery person never touches the lock and doesn't have a key or a code," said Larsen.

The delivery person opens the door "just a crack," puts the package inside the door and then closes the door, he said. The worker then swipes another button on the app that automatically locks the smart lock. He must confirm that the door is closed and locked before leaving.

The code the system sends to the lock is for one time only, and is only valid for five minutes after the delivery person first arrives at the door. Via the app and the lock, the system even knows how close he is to the door and may prompt him to step closer to the door before sending the signal to unlock the door.

After five minutes the door automatically locks itself even if the delivery person hasn't locked it. If there is any problem with the lock or the service, the app instructs him to stay at the doorway and call Amazon customer service to ensure that the door is closed and locked before leaving, said Larsen.

The customer can watch the entire delivery in real time on a phone, via the Cloud Cam that is aimed at the door. He or she is also sent a time-stamped video delivery snippet on the phone to watch it later, as well as a message when the package is delivered and the door re-locked.

The video can also be watched live or later on an Amazon Echo Show, Echo Spot or Fire TV.

Amazon Key deliveries will only come through Amazon Logistics, not via UPS, FedEx or the U.S. Postal System, all of which also deliver Amazon packages.

The Amazon Logistics drivers who will have access to the Amazon Key Service all work for local delivery services that have contracted with Amazon and have been "thoroughly vetted and background-checked," said Larsen. They will not come from Amazon Flex, which allows individuals to sign up to deliver packages in their free time.

Until the moment the door is unlocked, the customer always has the option of hitting a "Block Access" button on the app that immediately changes it to traditional delivery, with the driver ringing the bell and then leaving the package outside the door.

The system can also be set up to grant a one-time access code to friends or family, or give them ongoing access should the user choose to. Customers will also be able to set up access for workers from its Amazon Home Services program, as well as Rover.com, a dog-walking service, and Merry Maids, a house cleaning service.

"We will be adding more later," said Larsen.

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Russian troll sites have been kept online by American companies. Russians also used American internet services to keep their websites up and hide their true owners.

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The use of American companies to push Russian propaganda goes beyond social media sites like Facebook. Russians also used American internet services to keep their websites up and hide their true owners, according to internet records and two executives at internet routing companies interviewed by CNN.

The firms routing these websites' internet traffic include Cloudflare, a major Silicon Valley corporation, and a Ukrainian company's subsidiary in Florida.

The websites are part of a network run by the Internet Research Agency, a troll army based in St. Petersburg, Russia, with ties to the Kremlin. The groups, with names like "Don't Shoot Us" and "Black Matters," posed as black American activists. They posted videos showing police brutality against African Americans and attempted to organize protests across the United States. But they need internet infrastructure to keep sites online.

The use of the routing companies shows how Russian trolls tried to mask their efforts that also used Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, and other popular social media platforms.

CNN interviewed Sergey Kashyrin, an executive at the US subsidiary of the Ukrainian company, outside his home on Staten Island on Monday evening. He acknowledged that his internet service, Orlando-based Green Floid, played a role in keeping these Russian websites up and running.

"We cannot look at all our clients. It is just not possible," he said.

But Kashyrin said he's willing to turn over all evidence in his company's possession -- revealing the identities of customers and PayPal payment information -- to the FBI, congressional investigators and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's federal team looking into the Russian operation. He said government investigators have not yet reached out to him.

Internet records reviewed by CNN consistently point back to Kashyrin's small firm, its parent company ITL in Ukraine, and ITL executive Dmitry Deineka. The records identify the two companies as running internet infrastructure that kept at least three Russian websites online, possibly as a hosting service.

If Kashyrin's firm served as a host, it would have provided the computers that serve as a physical home to the digital site.

However, Kashyrin claimed instead that Russians quietly used his internet service as a proxy, and that the websites were hosted elsewhere. That would still mean his company provided computers that rerouted internet traffic to the true physical location hosting the site. Either way, Kashyrin's firm kept the website online -- even if it did so inadvertently.

Before and after the 2016 election, the Russian government maintained a classic Cold War-style "information war" on the United States, creating fake news and promoting protests in an attempt to meddle in American politics by stoking real tensions, according to public reports by American intelligence agencies and congressional investigators.

Russian agents used websites and social media campaigns, several of which have been identified by CNN and confirmed by entities with knowledge of these operations.

A mysterious group calling itself "Blacktivist" publicized black activist protests across the country and even sold Blacktivist T-shirts. DoNotShoot.us tracked police brutality against minorities. BlackMattersUs.com posed as a news site for African-Americans, but it peddled anti-Hillary Clinton content and called her "a candidate for the corporate elite."

The digital trails for all of these websites lead back to Kashryin's firm, Green Floid, and Deineka's firm, ITL. Internet records track what computers and services are involved in keeping a website up.

Deineka is plainly listed as the point-of-contact for Blacktivist.info, likely because his firm was used as a proxy service.

Deineka, ITL and Green Floid registered the site sergy.uaservers.net, which points to the IP address 107.181.161.172 - the same IP shared by both BlackMattersUs.com and BlackMattersUSA.com. Again, because these websites used their service.

Deineka runs another online service, Layer6.net, which plays a role in routing traffic to DntShoot.com -- which shares the IP address 107.181.174.34 with DoNotShoot.us. This too indicates that the Ukrainian firm was used.

CNN conducted this research using investigative software from DomainTools, a cybersecurity firm that maintains historical and current internet records.

The left-leaning news site ThinkProgress was the first to report on the connection between these websites, ITL and Green Floid. It was first discovered by Andrew Weisburd of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, an initiative by the public policy group German Marshall Fund.

On Tuesday morning, Deineka spoke to CNN from his office in Burgas, a Bulgarian port city on the coast of the Black Sea.

Deineka said he did not register Blacktivist.info in his name. As for the other websites, Deineka said ITL does not closely monitor all of its clients' online content. This is a standard industry practice, although some hosting and proxy services are willing to cut off clients who violate laws or company policy.

Deineka said his company had spotted anti-Ukrainian Russian propaganda activity on its platforms in 2014, and it stopped providing online services -- presumably forcing the Russians to find other internet infrastructure. His business partner in New York, Kashyrin, referenced that as well in his interview with CNN. Kashyrin said they stopped providing proxy services to keep the Russians out. However, CNN pointed out they actually continued service in 2015 and 2016, according to internet records. Kashyrin could not explain that.

Deineka and Kashyrin denied direct involvement with Russian online trolls. They both expressed moral disgust at the notion that Russia used their services to peddle propaganda meant to destabilize the West, citing what they said is their anti-Russian stance because of Russia's military capture of Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

"I'm from Ukraine. I have colleagues who lost their homes, who relocated from Crimea," Deineka told CNN. "How can I support the Russian government?"

All three of these Russian websites are still up. BlackMattersUs.com and DoNotShoot.us are still online, but "Blacktivist" is a blank page. Internet records do not show what online service is hosting them. All of them are now hiding behind proxies that shield the identities of the website's true operators.

These three Russian propaganda websites are tied to robust social media campaigns run by Russian trolls. Facebook and Twitter are starting to purge of this type of content, and they have taken down pages relating to these particular sites.

The names of those running the websites BlackMattersUS.com and DoNotShoot.us now remain hidden with the unwitting help of the San Francisco-based company Cloudflare.

Cloudflare provides protection from hackers, placing its computer servers between clients' websites and the outside internet. This allows Cloudflare to absorb cyberattacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service attacks that flood a website and take it down.

But Cloudflare's services can also be used as a mask, because the outside world can no longer identify who operates the website -- or the location of its physical home.

That's because Cloudflare serves as a guard that receives incoming internet traffic. It offers this service to legitimate companies, but in this case, it is also inadvertently assisting the Russian troll army's operations.

Cloudflare acknowledged to CNN its role as a proxy service when asked specifically about DoNotShoot.us earlier this month, but it said "terminating a customer wouldn't actually remove the content from the internet." Cutting off that customer would, however, stop the Russians from using that particular American firm as a shield.

Cloudflare also provided online services to the US-based neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, until it decided to drop the site earlier this year.

The company's CEO, Matthew Prince, made the decision to drop the site but later warned of the consequences of companies, like his, making such decisions.

"You win a lot of points for firing Nazis from using your service," Prince told CNN in August. "But it sets a dangerous precedent when a company that most of your viewers have never heard of is effectively deciding what can and cannot be on the internet."

However, Cloudflare said it would not consider dropping these Russia-linked websites unless compelled to by a court order.

"Cloudflare does not view its role to pass judgment of content that runs on our infrastructure and our network," the company's general counsel, Doug Kramer, told CNN on Tuesday night. "An open internet and an opportunity for all voices is a good principle. If we try to regulate in any way with our resources and capabilities, we would do more harm than good."

Cloudflare is, however, willing to pass along public complaints to the websites' operators, Kramer said.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 25, 2017: 8:12 AM ET

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From Silicon Valley to Staten Island, Russian troll sites kept online by American companies

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The firms routing these websites' internet traffic include Cloudflare, a major Silicon Valley corporation, and a Ukrainian company's subsidiary in Florida. The websites are part of a network run by the Internet Research Agency, a troll army based in St. Petersburg, Russia, with ties to the Kremlin.