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The gap between wealthy and poor seniors is one of the widest in any nation. The only countries with wider gaps among seniors are Mexico and Chile, according to a study by the OECD.

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Income inequality is rising and the wage gap is widening for American workers-and the problem is even worse for U.S. senior citizens, a new report shows.

It's so bad, in fact, that the income inequality numbers among the elderly in the U.S. resemble more a report out of a developing country than what would be expected of America.

The gap between wealthy and poor seniors is one of the widest in any nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The only countries with wider gaps among seniors are Mexico and Chile, according to a study by the OECD and a CNN article.

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Past generations of retired Americans tended to see increased economic security, but with wages lower in comparison to inflation and fewer middle-class workers retiring with pensions, seniors now are not nearly as financially stable as in the past, according to CNN. Just 29 percent of Americans over 55 years old have a retirement savings account or a pension plan to lean on, a 2015 report from the Government Accountability Office showed.

And it only gets worse as younger generations age, another OECD report shows.

In 1980, there were 20 people age 65 or older for every 100 people who worked in OECD countries. By 2015, that number had risen to 28, and by 2050 the OECD predicts it will reach 53, meaning seniors will outnumber those who are of working age.

"Many OECD and emerging economies are ageing much faster," the report read. "At the same time, inequalities have been increasing from one generation to the next. Among people starting their working life it is now already much higher than among today's elderly."

Part of that is due to younger people not saving their money. In July 2016, working Americans were saving just 5.7 percent of their income. Fifty years ago, that percentage was double what it is today-and, according to a USA Today report, most developed countries have a higher personal savings rate than the U.S.

"There hasn't been a significant increase in wages, people have student loans and other debt, and many are continuing to struggle financially," Charles Jeszeck, who worked on the GAO report, told CNBC. "We aren't surprised that people have not saved a lot for retirement."

One big reason for that is Americans who are starting their working lives today are doing so during a time of rampant economic instability and an ever-growing wage gap. The top fifth of wage earners are prospering, while the majority are being left behind.

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U.S. wage gap may be the reason your grandparents won't pay for dinner anymore

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Income inequality is rising and the wage gap is widening for American workers-and the problem is even worse for U.S. senior citizens, a new report shows. It's so bad, in fact, that the income inequality numbers among the elderly in the U.S. resemble more a report out of a developing country than what would be expected of America.

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Cancer drugs grown in chicken eggs may lower their cost.

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Researchers in Japan may have found a way to produce cheaper drugs that could be used to treat a range of diseases from chicken eggs.

They have successfully genetically modified hens to produce eggs containing large amounts of interferon beta protein, a protein used to treat various illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and cancer.

The protein is very expensive, costing between $300-$1000 for just one microgram, according to pharmaceutical company, Cosmo Bio who co-led the research.

For treating MS, for example, the interferon dosage can start at 30 micrograms and increase from there.

The research was jointly conducted by scientists from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization and Cosmo Bio.

According to Mika Kitahara, a spokesperson for Cosmo Bio, this technology will reduce the price of cancer drugs at least by 90% if proven successful in further trials.

The conventional production of interferon needs large aseptic (sterile) facilities, but eggs work as a protein-producing aseptic system, said Kitahara.

Isao Oishi, chief researcher from the cell and molecule mechanism research group at AIST said the research was conducted to test whether the eggs from genetically modified chickens can be used for cheap production of these proteins.

A range of biological systems can be used to try and create drugs, such as bacteria, yeast and some mammalian cells, but "some proteins just don't suit these systems," said Professor Helen Sang from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. For those that don't quite work, "making protein from egg-white is relatively easy," she told CNN.

"Interferon was discovered as a cell-signaling protein molecule in the body which acts against viruses," said Dr. Robert Bermel, director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute. Later it was used to treat auto-immune diseases - where a person's immune system attacks their body - like multiple sclerosis, he adds.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects the brain, spinal cord and eyes, resulting in a range of symptoms, such as vision problems, numbness and difficulties walking.

Bermel explained that interferon protein molecule is expensive because manufacturing it is a tedious process requiring strict quality control.

"Interferon for MS can be manufactured from bacteria like insulin or from Chinese hamster ovary cells." The quantity of interferon produced this way, however, is very little. "(The new research) sounds like a relatively inexpensive way to mass produce it," he says.

Previously, the Japanese scientists tried to produce the modified protein by inserting the required genes into chicken chromosomes using a virus as a vector, but said this produced an "irregular result." The new method aims to more accurately and stably produce the protein by knocking in edited genes, using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR. The researchers are currently writing up their findings for academic publication.

More research is neededand the interferon beta protein will need safety clearance through trials before it can be used to treat patients.

However, Sang explained it's not as simple as modifying these chickens to get endless supplies of the drug at a lower cost.

"You'll have to show (the drug) is exactly the same as the drugs that have gone through all the clinical trials," said Sang, whose own team has been working on transgenic chickens for over a decade. As well as simply making the drugs in the eggs, they will also need to be purified and validated through additional research, she said.

If this new source of interferon is shown to be the same, structurally, "then there is a lot of advantage in terms of scale," said Sang. You can start with a few hens then scale up quickly, she said.

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One drug, Kanuma, produced using modified chickens has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, a rare inherited condition where the body does not produce enough of a protein that helps the body break down fatty material.

The immediate hope is for the cancer-battling medicine to result in affordable medical products. The team is looking forward as well, with research underway to produce human antibodies using the same method.

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Researchers in Japan may have found a way to produce cheaper drugs that could be used to treat a range of diseases from chicken eggs. They have successfully genetically modified hens to produce eggs containing large amounts of interferon beta protein, a protein used to treat various illnesses, including multiple sclerosis and cancer.

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Lots of celebrities are asking for gun laws so something like Vegan doesn't happen again

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Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Sheryl Crow, Elizabeth Banks and dozens of other celebrities and influencers appeared in a YouTube video published Wednesday that calls on Americans to weigh in on two pieces of gun legislation making their way through Congress.

"How To Call Congress" shows celebrities instructing viewers on how to contact Congress to reject a bill that would roll back laws on gun silencer safety and one that would allow qualified individuals to carry guns into states that allow carry concealed firearms.

The video comes on the heels of modern American history's deadliest mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this month that took the lives of 59 individuals.

Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America are behind the video, which was directed by Julianne Moore's husband, Bart Freundlich.

"Everyone wants to know how they can help after Las Vegas," Freundlich said in a statement. "I was really moved and heartened by the response of so many friends and colleagues who jumped at the opportunity to be a part of making this video."

The celebrities in the video tell viewers to text "REJECT" to 644-33, which then connects them with their local lawmakers. It then provides a script of exactly what one should say when reach their representatives or their voicemails.

Their goal is send one million calls to "reject the NRA's dangerous agenda," according to a press release.

Moore, who is the chair of the Everytown Creative Council, said in a press release, "No matter what our day jobs are, we all have a role to play in the fight for gun safety and I'm thrilled that my friends and colleagues have stepped up to encourage more people to take action."

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Emma Stone, Julianne Moore call on Americans to 'reject the NRA's dangerous agenda'

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Maryland shooting: 3 dead, 2 in critical condition in 'targeted attack'
a gunman at a business north of Baltimore early Wednesday

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In Puerto Rico a woman was found soak and wet from all of the rain with no roof by soldiershttp://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/us/puerto-rico-relief-to-aguas-buenas-weir/index.html.

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A Florida woman was busted for allegedly lobbing hot nacho cheese and a sandwich at a 7-Eleven clerk while protesting “the customer is always right!” during the hangry altercation.

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A Florida woman was busted for allegedly lobbing hot nacho cheese and a sandwich at a 7-Eleven clerk while protesting "the customer is always right!" during the hangry altercation.

Stephanie L. Hicks got a chip on her shoulder during the early-morning snack run at the Melbourne store around 1:50 last Thursday, according to the Palm Bay Daily.

The store clerk told her not to open the hot-cheese dispenser - but a cheesed-off Hicks did so anyway and lost her cool when the employee denied her service when she tried to pay.

Hicks reminded the clerk "the customer is always right!" as she flung the food items across the counter. She later told cops she didn't like the clerk's attitude.

The 31-year-old hung around the store for cops to arrive and was arrested on battery charges.

Police pulled in-store video of the salty confrontation and found remnants of the yellow condiment all over the clerk's hands, feet and behind the counter.
This story originally appeared on the New York Post.

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This is nacho average customer. A Florida woman was busted for allegedly lobbing hot nacho cheese and a sandwich at a 7-Eleven clerk while protesting "the customer is always right!" during the hangry altercation. Stephanie L. Hicks got a chip on her shoulder during the early-morning snack run at the Melbourne store around 1:50 last Thursday, according to the Palm Bay Daily.

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North Korea states that nuclear war could happen at any moment

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Brian Todd reports on a North Korean ambassador’s warning, that nuclear war could break out “at any moment.”

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Donald Trump is once again caught up in a twitter fight with another person this time a congresswoman and a newly widowed women over how he gave his condolences.

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President Donald Trump's phone call Tuesday to the widow of a soldier killed in action in Niger has, somehow, turned into a she said/he said situation.

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3 killed and 2 wounded at a shooting in maryland office.

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A suspect in shootings in Maryland and Delaware on Wednesday that left three people dead and three others injured was caught in Delaware after a manhunt, authorities said.

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A North Carolna women was stabbed 123 times by her husband, Matthew James Phelps, an aspiring paster. Phelps claims cough syrup made him do it.

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A North Carolina woman had 123 stab and cut wounds in her body after her husband, an aspiring preacher, killed his wife during a cough syrup-induced stupor, police said.

Matthew James Phelps, 28, told police he woke up on Sept. 1 to find his wife's blood-stained body next to him.

"I think I killed my ... there's blood all over me," Phelps said during a 911 call, "and there's a bloody knife on the bed. I think I did it."

The autopsy report, released Tuesday, showed Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, 29, had 44 stab wounds and cuts on her head and neck. The other stabs and cuts were found on her torso, arms and much of her body, The News & Observer reported.

Phelps was believed to have been cut and stabbed with a kitchen knife, the autopsy report said. Toxicologists did not detect any alcohol in the slain woman's body.

Phelps, who worked at a landscaping company and studied missions and evangelism at Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in Pineville, Ky., told 911 operators he believed he might have stabbed his wife because he consumed too much cough syrup.
MAN WHO CLAIMS HE KILLED WIFE IN COUGH MEDICINE-INDUCED STUPOR WAS ASPIRING PREACHER
"I took more medicine than I should have. I took Coricidin Cough and Cold because I know it can make you feel good and sometimes I can't sleep at night," Phelps told a 911 operator.

"I can't believe I did this," Phelps was heard sobbing. "Oh God. She didn't deserve this. Why?"

When officers arrived to Phelps' home in North Raleigh, they discovered his wife in a "fetal position, covered in blood on the bedroom floor," the autopsy report said. She was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

In September, a grand jury discovered there was enough probable cause to decide Phelps "willfully, unlawfully and feloniously did of malice aforethought kill and murder his wife." The couple was married for less than a year.

It was not immediately clear how much Coricidin Phelps had in his body at the time of the killing. Bayer, the company which supplies Coricidin, told People "there is no evidence to suggest the drug associated with violent behavior."

The News and Observer reported some potential side effects of the cough medicine were hallucinations and "out of-body experiences."

Earlier this month, police were granted a search warrant for Phelps' home where they obtained a "white bedspread, a white sheet, a gray white comforter and several pillowcases that were all marred with an unknown red substance," the Wake County Clerk of Courts Office, stated.
BLOODY SHEETS, BOXES OF COLD MEDICINE DISCOVERED AT HOME OF ASPIRING PREACHER WHO CLAIMS HE KILLED WIFE
Investigators also took a Coricidin Cold & Cough medicine box that was empty, four computers, receipts, a mortgage statement, a knife set, credit cards and an iPhone that reportedly belonged to the deceased wife.

Phelps, who does not have a criminal record, has been charged with first-degree murder in his wife's death. He is being held at Wake County Jail without bail. He was slated to be arraigned on Monday.
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Aspiring pastor stabs wife 123 times, says cough syrup made him do it, police say

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A North Carolina woman had 123 stab and cut wounds in her body after her husband, an aspiring preacher, killed his wife during a cough syrup-induced stupor, police said. Matthew James Phelps, 28, told police he woke up on Sept. 1 to find his wife's blood-stained body next to him.

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2 sailors in a naval submarine suspected to have died through drug overdose.

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Petty Officer First Class Brian Jerrell, a sailor assigned to the Trident Training Facility, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his off base residence on October 12, Navy Cmdr. Sarah Self-Kyler said.

Four days later, Jerrell's roommate, Petty Officer Second Class Ty Bell, a sailor assigned to the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming was found dead of an apparent overdose as well, according to Self-Kyler.

A Navy official said the overdoses were a result of cocaine, but cautioned there is a toxicology report pending.

Kingsland Police Department is investigating the incident, with support by the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

"Tragically, we have lost two sailors in less than a week to apparent drug overdose," Self-Kyler said. "The submarine force and Kings Bay leadership are taking these events seriously" and have ordered a urinalysis sweep of all Kings Bay commands "for opportunities to increase various spot checks (i.e. increasing frequency of urinalysis testing, command-wide unit sweeps, shipboard health and comfort inspections)."

Commanders have been given clear guidance on drug program execution and added that all local commanders will hold "all hands" calls with their crews on the issue following the deaths.

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Petty Officer First Class Brian Jerrell, a sailor assigned to the Trident Training Facility, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his off base residence on October 12, Navy Cmdr. Sarah Self-Kyler said.

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2 Navy sailors are found dead due to drug overdose the same day as they part their homes.

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Two active-duty U.S. sailors from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay were found dead of apparent drug overdoses in the same home four days apart, U.S. Submarine Forces confirmed to ABC News.

Last Thursday, Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Jerrell was found dead in a home in Kingsland, Georgia, 20 minutes west of the Navy base.

Then, on Monday, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ty Bell was found dead inside the same home, which he apparently owned.

Sarah Self-Kyler, a spokesperson for U.S. Submarine Forces, told ABC News that the sailors were friends and former shipmates, but not from the same command.

The Kingsland Police Department, supported by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), is investigating the deaths. It is unknown at this time what drug caused the sailors to overdose.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, all commands conducted a urinalysis of every sailor on base, Self-Kyler said.

The U.S. Navy has a zero-tolerance drug policy.

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Two active-duty U.S. sailors from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay were found dead of apparent drug overdoses in the same home four days apart, U.S. Submarine Forces confirmed to ABC News. Last Thursday, Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Jerrell was found dead in a home in Kingsland, Georgia, 20 minutes west of the Navy base.

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Two active-duty U.S. sailors from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay were found dead of apparent drug overdoses in the same home four days apart, U.S. Submarine Forces confirmed to ABC News.

Last Thursday, Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Jerrell was found dead in a home in Kingsland, Georgia, 20 minutes west of the Navy base.

Then, on Monday, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ty Bell was found dead inside the same home, which he apparently owned.

Sarah Self-Kyler, a spokesperson for U.S. Submarine Forces, told ABC News that the sailors were friends and former shipmates, but not from the same command.

The Kingsland Police Department, supported by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), is investigating the deaths. It is unknown at this time what drug caused the sailors to overdose.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, all commands conducted a urinalysis of every sailor on base, Self-Kyler said.

The U.S. Navy has a zero-tolerance drug policy.

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Two active-duty U.S. sailors from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay were found dead of apparent drug overdoses in the same home four days apart, U.S. Submarine Forces confirmed to ABC News. Last Thursday, Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Jerrell was found dead in a home in Kingsland, Georgia, 20 minutes west of the Navy base.

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NFL players and owners had a meeting on Tuesday to talk about the issues that are going on. They said it was positive and productive.

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A pair of protests preceded the opening of the NFL's annual fall meetings, where owners and players are seeking a way to highlight social issues while taking the focus away from demonstrations during the national anthem.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was confronted by two people in the lobby of the Manhattan hotel where the owners are meeting. The protesters shouted at him about white supremacy while Jones was surrounded by bodyguards. Jones stopped to listen but said nothing, and the protesters were peacefully led away.

Outside of the hotel, two dozen supporters of Black Lives Matter New York held a rally backing the players for speaking out - particularly former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem last year in protest of racial injustice in America.

A group of owners and players met at the league's headquarters Tuesday morning. Among the topics discussed were enhancing the players' platforms for speaking out on social issues, and the league's policy that suggests but does not mandate players standing for the national anthem.

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'Tourniquet Killer' Anthony Shore, who terrorized Texas woman, finally set to die

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action.

Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year. When he was arrested in 2003, he confessed to killing a 21-year-old woman by twisting a cord from a window blind around her neck and dumping her in the drive-thru lane of a Dairy Queen in 1991.

"He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"
- Barbara Robertson, KPRC assignment manager

Maria del Carmen Estrada's slaying went unsolved for more than a decade until a tiny particle collected from beneath her fingernail matched the DNA of Shore.

When police arrested Shore, who was on probation for his 1998 conviction for sexually assaulting two relatives, he also confessed to killing three others, including a 9-year-old girl and two teenage girls. All were Hispanic, and three had been sexually assaulted.

"There were voices in my head that I was going to have her, regardless, to possess her in some way," Shore, a former tow truck driver, phone company repairman and part-time musician, told detectives about Estrada. The then-21-year-old Estrada was walking to work about 6:30 a.m. on April 16, 1992, when he offered her a ride she accepted.

It wasn't until five years after Shore's DNA went into a state database following his 1998 sexual assault conviction that the match to Estrada's murderer was made.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has described Shore as a "true serial killer" who terrorized young Hispanic females in the Houston area for years.

Besides Estrada, Shore confessed to the slayings of Laurie Tremblay, 15, found beside a trash bin outside a Houston restaurant in 1986; Diana Rebollar, 9, abducted while walking to a neighborhood grocery store in 1994; and Dana Sanchez, 16, who disappeared in 1995 while hitchhiking to her boyfriend's home in Houston.

At the time of the Sanchez murder, Shore called Houston television station KPRC to report the location of a body.

"I pick up the phone and I say, 'Tipline,'" former KPRC assignment manager Barbara Magana Robertson said. "He said, 'I have a tip for you. There's a serial killer on the loose.'"

Robertson said the nearly 40-minute call became serious when the man started giving her directions to the location of a body, including details on how it was positioned.

"He gave me clues to like four or five different murders and I had no idea. I'm thinking I'm getting one murder details and he knew I was getting several different murders," said Robertson.

At his trial in 2004, with the confession and DNA results in evidence, a jury convicted Shore of capital murder. The next day, Shore's lawyers told jurors that, against their judgment and advice, their client wanted the death penalty. Jurors then heard four days of prosecution evidence about the three other slayings and heard from three women who testified he raped them.

The trial judge ultimately asked Shore directly if his lawyers' statements about him wanting the death penalty were accurate.

"This is very accurate," he replied.

In appeals, lawyers appointed for Shore argued he suffered from brain damage early in life that his trial attorneys didn't discover, and the brain injury affected his decision about wanting the death penalty. A federal appeals court earlier this year turned down his appeal and two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

The six-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a clemency petition Monday.

"I would describe Anthony's demeanor as that of any condemned man, that even though his life is severely altered by being in prison, especially on death row, he would rather have that than death," Knox Nunnally, one of Shore's attorneys, said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A convicted sex offender whose signature killing method prompted him to be dubbed Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, barring any late legal action. Anthony Allen Shore, 55, will be the seventh Texas inmate to be executed this year.

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Trump denies telling widow of a fallen soldiers the he know what he was getting into.

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time.

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Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed to Miami International Airport Tuesday afternoon to meet the body of Johnson's late husband, Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who died in Africa this month, when the president called.

In an interview with CNN Tuesday night, the Democratic congresswoman said of Trump's comment about Sgt. Johnson: "Basically, he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said."

Wilson said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone.

But Trump tweeted this morning, "Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof)."

Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2017

Wilson responded to Trump's tweet, calling him a "sick man" and saying she has her own proof.

"I'm not trying to prove anything with the president," Wilson said in an interview with CNN this morning. "So the president evidently is lying.

"Because what I said is true. I have no reason to lie on the president of the United States. With a dead soldier in my community. I have no time. I have no motive."

When asked by ABC Miami affiliate WPLG-TV whether she was sure about what she heard Trump say, Wilson responded, "Yeah, he said that. To me that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn't say that to a grieving widow. And everyone knows when you go to war, you could possibly not come back alive. But you don't remind a grieving widow of that. That's so insensitive."

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La David Johnson died earlier this month in Niger when he was ambushed by militants believed to be linked to ISIS. His pregnant widow broke down in tears hugging his casket Tuesday as it was unloaded from the airplane.

Wilson told WPLG, "Now I didn't hear the entire conversation, but when I tried to find out what the entire conversation was, she said I just can't remember everything that he said. But that stood out in everyone's, uh heart, on the call. You don't say that. He is the president of the United States."

"This is a soldier who gave his life for his country. He is a hero in our minds, in our communities' minds, that is an insult to the entire Miami Gardens community, to our entire District 24, to Miami-Dade County, and to this nation. And I hope he did not say that to the other 3 families that he called," she added.

The full context of the president's comment as described by Wilson is not known.

And the White House has declined to comment on the remarks that are being attributed to Trump.

"The president's conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private," a White House official told ABC News Tuesday night.

The controversy comes just a day after Trump criticized former President Obama for not always reaching out to the family of fallen soldiers. Trump was asked why he hadn't reached out to the families of victims of the Niger attack, and he responded by criticizing former presidents.

"If you look at President [Barack] Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. A lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I am able to do it," Trump said on Monday. "They have made the ultimate sacrifice. So generally I would say that I like to call. I'm going to be calling them. I want a little time to pass. I'm going to be calling them."

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Trump made calls to family members of all four killed servicemen on Tuesday.

In her interview with CNN Tuesday, Wilson elaborated on her reaction, saying she wanted to confront the president.

"I asked them to give me the phone because I wanted to speak with him," she said. "And I was going to curse him out. That was my reaction at that time. I was livid. But they would not give me the phone."

As for Johnson's reaction, Rep. Wilson told MSNBC told, "She was crying the whole time and when she hung up the phone she looked at me and said, 'He didn't even remember his name.'"

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Wilson said she was not politicizing anything by sharing what she heard from the phone call.

"He died as a sergeant. He died as a hero," Wilson said.

She added, "And Mr. Trump was extremely insensitive to that family and I will stick by that. I'm not trying to politicize it, but I think it was a disgrace."

Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in Niger when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed Oct. 4 by militants believed linked to ISIS. Johnson enlisted in the Army in January 2014 as a wheeled-vehicle mechanic and was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group, a Green Beret unit based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The military says his body was found Friday after an extensive search; his body was initially listed as missing.

The bodies of the three other U.S. troops were recovered shortly after the attack, which also killed four Niger military members. The U.S. and Niger forces were leaving a meeting with tribal leaders when they were ambushed.

Johnson, mother to the couple's 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, is expecting their third child in January.

A GoFundMe account set up to pay for education costs for the couple's three children skyrocketed on Tuesday evening. The campaign, which was set up on Tuesday, met its goal of $100,000 and kept climbing to over $146,000 by 3 a.m. on Wednesday. Over 3,100 people had donated to the fund early Wednesday. TV producer Bill Prady donated $5,000 to the campaign and offered to match donors for another $5,000.

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Trump denies telling widow of fallen soldier 'he knew what he signed up for'

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed...

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President Donald Trump denied Wednesday the account of a Democratic congresswoman that he told the widow of a US serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that "he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt."

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Trump, Dem congresswoman feud over his remarks to widow of fallen soldier | CNN Politics

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President Donald Trump engaged in a public feud Wednesday with a Democratic congresswoman over her claim that he told the widow of a US serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that “he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.”

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A jewel thief recently arrested in a Georgia Walmart store got no jail time during her latest court appearance

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A notorious jewel thief arrested at a Walmart in Georgia got no jail time during her latest court appearance.

Now 87, Doris Payne has stolen about $2 million in jewels over six decades. She was arrested July 17 for a misdemeanor shoplifting charge after a Walmart employee said she tried to leave the suburban Atlanta store with items she hadn't paid for.

Payne had been on probation after pleading guilty in March to a felony shoplifting charge for trying to steal a $2,000 necklace from a department store in December. She was jailed for violating that probation.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Payne appeared Monday before Chamblee Municipal court Judge Angela Duncan, who told her "Don't come back."

Payne pleaded guilty in a deal that gave her credit for 58 days served from July through September.

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Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com

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Guilty plea but no jail for jewel thief Doris Payne, 87

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A notorious jewel thief arrested at a Walmart in Georgia got no jail time during her latest court appearance. Now 87, Doris Payne has stolen about $2 million in jewels over six decades. She was arrested July 17 for a misdemeanor shoplifting charge after a Walmart employee said she tried to...

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Five people have been shot at an office park in the Maryland community of Edgewood, and the shooter is believed to be on the loose, a deputy with the Harford County sheriff's office said Wednesday morning.
The shooter left the scene -- the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore -- and no one has been arrested, the deputy said.

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Police: Suspect in 6 shootings in Maryland, Delaware, caught | CNN

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A suspect in shootings in Maryland and Delaware on Wednesday that left three people dead and three others injured was caught in Delaware after a manhunt, authorities said.