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Florida woman tried to set off explosive during traffic stop, police say

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There was a woman who tried to blow up an explosive device. She got pulled over by the police and they told her to get out. She reached for an explosive device but there was another officer on the passenger side who snatched it. After arresting her, they found things used for disguises and other explosives.

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Authorities in Jacksonville say a woman was arrested Tuesday night after she tried to ignite an explosive device during a traffic stop.

Charlaya Moore, 23, was being held in the Duval County jail on charges of possession of a destructive device, aggravated assault on police and resisting police with violence.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Moore was pulled over at around 11:15 p.m. in the Grove Park area of the city. They said Moore refused multiple requests to get out of the car and began reaching under her seat. As one of the officers tried to pull Moore out of the car, she produced out the explosive device and attempted to ignite it. Another police officer got in the passenger's side of the vehicle and took the device away from Moore.

A search of Moore's vehicle revealed more explosive devices, as well as wigs and glasses for use in disguises. When asked what she was doing in the neighborhood, Moore said she was on her way to her boss' house.

Authorities did not detail the type of explosives recovered from the vehicle, but said the bomb squad collected them.

The Florida Times-Union, citing court records, reported that Moore was arrested in September 2015 when she became combative with officers executing an eviction. She was charged with resisting and battery on a law enforcement officer and received a six-month jail sentence.

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Florida woman tried to set off explosive during traffic stop, police say

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Authorities in Jacksonville say a woman was arrested Tuesday night after she tried to ignite an explosive device during a traffic stop. Charlaya Moore, 23, was being held in the Duval County jail on charges of possession of a destructive device, aggravated assault on police and resisting police with violence.

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Mom of teen killed by half-brother: I hope you leave prison 'in a body bag'

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Mom of teen killed by half-brother: I hope you leave prison 'in a body bag'

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A teenager got killed by her half-brother. The mother is really emotional about the case. The 16 year old murderer is to be in prison for 40 years. She hope that the boy comes out of prison in a body bag.

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The mom of a Grand Rapids-area teenager killed by her 17-year-old brother had some stinging words of her daughter's killer.

"To Savon, I hate you, I will never forgive you," Stacey Hilton said Monday during the sentencing hearing for Savon Schmus, who was convicted of killing McKenna Hilton in 2016. "McKenna did nothing to you to deserve what you did to her. McKenna considered you to be [her] brother."

She added: "I hope when you go to prison, you get exactly what you deserve. I hope that when you come out of prison, I hope it's not on your two feet. I hope it's in a body bag."

Schmus was sentenced to at least 40 years in prison for strangling his 18-year-old half-sister, McKenna. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing her, FOX17 reported.

"I hope that when you come out of prison, I hope it's not on your two feet. I hope it's in a body bag."
- Stacey Hilton

Investigators said Schmus, who was 16 at the time, strangled Hilton in their father's apartment. Her body was found in the woods near Emerald Lake in August 2016.

Schmus did not speak at Monday's hearing but his attorney told the judge he was remorseful.

According to WOOD-TV, David Schmus, the father of both Savon and McKenna, read a Bible verse from the book of Corinthians about the endurance of love.

"As much as they say that he's remorseful, he's not. I've dealt with him enough to know he's not," Stacey Hilton said. "So there's nothing more to say to him, that's over and I just hope people remember McKenna and do good for her, because she would have done wonderful things and we want to honor her. And we want to continue to honor her and make sure her memory stays alive."

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Mom of teen killed by half-brother: I hope you leave prison 'in a body bag'

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The mom of a Grand Rapids-area teenager killed by her 17-year-old brother had some stinging words of her daughter's killer. "To Savon, I hate you, I will never forgive you," Stacey Hilton said Monday during the sentencing hearing for Savon Schmus, who was convicted of killing McKenna Hilton in 2016.

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AP PHOTOS: Bolivians pay homage to skulls in annual festival

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There is a festival where you walk around with skulls and ask people for donations. Esperanza Mozon walks around with two skulls asking people for money and things to donate. She named the two skull Amanda and Ron. Apparently this helps you out when you are ill. Heals the person.

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Esperanza Mozon asks a marching band to play "Happy Birthday" to the two human skulls she is carrying outside a cemetery chapel in Bolivia's capital.

Every year, hundreds of Bolivians like Mozon bring human skulls adorned with flowers to a cemetery in La Paz, asking for money, health and other favors as part of a festival.

Devotees showed up with the skulls, known as "natitas," for a short Mass on Wednesday. The ritual is celebrated a week after the Day of the Dead and includes music, dance and the lighting of candles.

The Roman Catholic Church considers the skull festival to be pagan, but it doesn't forbid people from taking part.

The festival is a mix of Andean ancestral worship and Catholic beliefs. Experts say it was common in pre-Columbian times to keep skulls as trophies and display them to symbolize death and rebirth.

Mozon named her skulls Amanda and Ron.

She got Amanda as a gift from her daughter when she was a medicine student 35 years ago. She says she found Ron in this same cemetery two decades ago.

"I think Ron was waiting for my little Amanda," Mozon said. "Every year, I do this because my 'natitas' take care of me and heal me when I'm ill."

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Esperanza Mozon asks a marching band to play "Happy Birthday" to the two human skulls she is carrying outside a cemetery chapel in Bolivia's capital. Every year, hundreds of Bolivians like Mozon bring human skulls adorned with flowers to a cemetery in La Paz, asking for money, health and other favors as part of a festival.

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Terror Airlines? Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps runs country's largest airline, report says

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Terror Airlines? Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps runs country's largest airline, report says

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There is a private airline being run by  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) The force is being lead by Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. There are rumors saying that this group could be working with terrorists.

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A new report released by an Iranian opposition group claims that Iran's biggest airline - Mahan Air - is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force. This force is commanded by notorious Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

The new report published by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) states that the so-called private airline, Iran's largest commercial airliner, is anything but commercial, and in fact works as a tool for Iran's expansionist policies. President Donald Trump sanctioned the IRGC last month for supporting terrorism.

The report titled, "An IRGC Qods Force entity operating under the guise of a private company," stated that one of the most significant findings "was that Mahan Air Corporation does not merely cooperate with the IRGC and the Qods Force, but is wholly owned and controlled by them." This is the same Qods Force which was sanctioned by the U.S. for providing material support to the Taliban and other terrorist organizations in 2007.

The report describes the critical role that Mahan Air plays, along with other Iranian carriers, in "Iran's interference in the countries of the region, including the transfer of personnel and logistics for the IRGC and proxy militias."

According to the report, as of 2017, Mahan Air includes 62 airliners and flies commercially to 41 destinations in 24 countries on three continents. Major destinations include Paris, Milan and Munich in Europe, and others in Asia and Africa, where front companies have been created to bypass sanctions.

The report also describes the complex relationship between Soleimani, the Qods Force commander, and some senior commanders of IRGC who fought under him during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. These parties operated in the same region in Iran - Kerman, the place where Mahan Air was first registered. Curiously, all those mentioned in the report now hold senior positions at Mahan Air while still being members of the IRGC.

Soona Samsami, the NCRI representative in Washington D.C., told Fox News that Mahan has transported forces, logistics and weaponry for the IRGC and Hezbollah between Iran, Syria and Lebanon. She said, "It is primarily used by the IRGC in general and the Qods Force in specific in transferring forces and equipment and regional mercenaries such as Hezbollah to Syria and Lebanon. This airline has played the most active role in the past six years during the war in Syria for such transportations."

Emanuele Ottolenghi, who does not have anything to do with the publication of the NCRI report, is an expert on Iran sanctions and its aviation sector. He told Fox News, "Mahan CEO Hamid Arabnejad Khanooki and QF (Qods Force) Commander Qassem Soleimani are both Kermanis. And Arabnejad is a former IRGC commander. It is not a formal relationship, but is based on informal bonds or origin, militancy and ideology."

Ottolenghi is senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington D.C. He has written widely on nonnuclear sanctions against Iran and has testified to Congress on the subject. He pointed to Executive Order 13224 signed by President George W. Bush shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that gives the administration powerful tools to confront terrorist funding.

(It) "allows them to target enablers and providers of material support to Mahan. Any company selling parts, offering maintenance services, can be hit by fines or sanctions. Same for those operating as cargo sales, general sales and ticket sales agents. Ditto for ground services suppliers at airports. These include fueling, baggage handling, crew services, catering, etc."

Ottolenghi continued, "Similarly the administration can sanction the Iranian airports whence Mahan troop flights to Syria leave. It can sanction the company that provides fuel to Mahan in Iran. If it knows banks involved in managing payments in Europe for Mahan Air's transactions on these services, it can similarly sanction them or at least impose fines," he said. "In short a lot more can be done."

Mahan Air was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2011 for providing material support to the IRGC's Qods Force in 2011, and again in 2016 to four entities that had helped Mahan skirt the sanctions regime placed against it. Several airlines that had been on the list were removed following the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - Mahan Air remained on it.

"In short, Mahan Air is the pseudo name for 'IRGC Air.' This front carrier is a primary asset in the IRGC's fueling of Iran's belligerence across the region," Heshmat Alavi, an Iranian political analyst and activist, said.

Alavi told Fox News about the airlines goals: "This includes transferring recruited Afghans and Pakistanis to provide foot-soldiers and cannon fodders in Iran's campaign of propping the Assad regime in Syria."

He added that following President Trump's sanctioning of the IRGC for its support of terrorism the administration needs to hit back at Iranian intransigence. "The Trump administration's IRGC blacklisting needs full-throttle implementation and patching all loopholes left behind from the Obama-era. One major step is to clip the IRGC's wings and bring an urgent end to Iran's footprints throughout the Middle East and beyond," he said.
Ben Evansky reports for Fox News on the United Nations and international affairs.

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Terror Airlines? Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps runs country's largest airline, report says

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A new report released by an Iranian opposition group claims that Iran's biggest airline - Mahan Air - is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force. This force is commanded by notorious Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

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Egypt's el-Sissi warns Iran to stop 'meddling' in region

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Egypt's president states that Iran needs to stop interfering in the Middle-East. Last weekend Saudi Arabia accused Iran of launching a missile towards rebels in Yemen. Officials keep thinking this is their way of declaring war.

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Egypt's president said Wednesday that Iran must stop "meddling" in the Middle East and the security of Arab Gulf countries must not be threatened, but he underscored that he does not want war and believes dialogue can resolve the region's crises.

With his comments, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi threw his support behind Egypt's Gulf ally Saudi Arabia amid the kingdom's mounting tensions with Iran. But he avoided the increasingly aggressive rhetoric that has come from Riyadh in recent days.

Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for a missile fired toward its capital by rebels in Yemen and warned that could be considered an act of war. At the same time, Saudi officials accused Iran's Lebanese ally Hezbollah of "declaring war." The kingdom appears to have orchestrated the collapse of Lebanon's government, which included Hezbollah, by pushing its prime minister to resign.

The Egyptian leader told reporters that he did not want more tensions in the region, but that doesn't mean threats to Arab countries can be tolerated.

"The region has enough instability and challenges as it is. We don't need any new complications involving Iran or Hezbollah so we don't add new challenges to the region," el-Sissi said at a news conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

"I am against war, we can resolve crises with dialogue," el-Sissi said when asked about the possibility of war with Iran or Hezbollah.

But, he added, "Gulf security is a red line and others must stop meddling in our affairs and not work to escalate tensions. We in Egypt believe that Arab and Gulf security and any threat to Gulf (Arab) nations is a threat to our own national security."

He also said Saudi Arabia remained stable in the wake of the surprise arrest over the weekend of dozens of ministers, members of the royal family, businessmen and senior army officers.

"Conditions in Saudi Arabia are totally stable and I have confidence in the government's handling of the situation," el-Sissi said during the two-hour news conference held on the sidelines of an international gathering of youths convened under the Egyptian leader's patronage.

His comments reflected the recent hardening of Egypt's public rhetoric on Shiite and non-Arab Iran, a shift that matches Cairo's close ties with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain -- Sunni-led countries that see Iran as an existential threat. However, el-Sissi would not say whether Iran has become an outright enemy of his country.

He said arms purchases worth billions of dollars concluded by Egypt since he took office in 2014 were needed in response to what he called a "strategic imbalance" in the region since the area was jolted by Arab Spring revolts that have since 2010 engulfed Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria.

"We had to have the hardware to redress the balance and fight terrorism ... we need to be able to deal with any threat when it directly confronts us," he said.

Egypt has since 2014 purchased Rafale fighter jets and helicopter carriers from France, MiG-29 fighter jets and assault helicopters from Russia and submarines from Germany. Moreover, Egypt receives $1.3 billion in annual U.S. aid.

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Egypt's el-Sissi warns Iran to stop 'meddling' in region

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Egypt's president said Wednesday that Iran must stop "meddling" in the Middle East and the security of Arab Gulf countries must not be threatened, but he underscored that he does not want war and believes dialogue can resolve the region's crises.

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North Korea warns of 'abyss of doom' if 'lunatic' Trump remains president

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Kim Jong Un is stating that if President Trump continues the beef they have with each other, US will suffer gravely. Donald Trump just argues with him stating that they are unaware of what US can do. Trump also sates to Kim that North Korea is not the paradise his grandfather envisioned.

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The United States will continue to stare into the "abyss of doom" until "lunatic old" President Trump is removed from office, according to a North Korean missive Wednesday, released just hours after Trump warned the rogue regime not to "try" America.

The Hermit Kingdom demanded the U.S. "withdraw the hostile policy toward" Kim Jong Un's dictatorship and said a "decisive choice" needed to be made, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday.

"The U.S. must oust the lunatic old man from power and withdraw the hostile policy towards [North Korea] at once in order to get rid of the abyss of doom."
- KCNA statement

"The U.S. must oust the lunatic old man from power and withdraw the hostile policy towards [North Korea] at once in order to get rid of the abyss of doom," the statement read. "The U.S. had better make a decisive choice...if it does not want a horrible nuclear disaster and tragic doom."

Kim's warning about the impending "abyss of doom" heading toward the U.S. - and every country joining in America's aim to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear program - comes after Trump issued a stark warning to Kim Jong Un during a speech in South Korea during Trump's five-country Asia tour.

"Do not underestimate us. And do not try us," Trump said, directly addressing North Korea as Trump stood in a room full of South Korean lawmakers. "The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger."

He added: "The world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens with nuclear devastation."

Trump painted North Korea as a bleak country where citizens bribe government officials in order to leave the country, and poverty and desperation thrive instead of prosperity.

"North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves," Trump said.

The message came hours after Trump attempted to make a surprise visit to the Demilitarized Zone, the border separating North and South Korea, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. But heavy fog prevented Trump's helicopter from safely landing in the area.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the president was disappointed he couldn't make the trip. "I think he's pretty frustrated," she told reporters. "It was obviously something he wanted to do."

Trump headed to China on Wednesday for a two-day visit - most likely to be, again, dominated by talks about the growing nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula. A day before he arrived in Beijing, Chinese officials ordered tour operators to halt trips to North Korean capital Pyongyang, sources told Reuters.

"It was very unexpected, we had no idea this was going to happen until we received the notification [Tuesday]," a Chinese tour operator told Reuters. "This is devastating news for us."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

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North Korea warns of 'abyss of doom' if 'lunatic' Trump remains president

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The United States will continue to stare into the "abyss of doom" until "lunatic old" President Trump is removed from office, according to a North Korean missive Wednesday, released just hours after Trump warned the rogue regime not to try America.

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Leave No Man Behind: Expert team prepares to retrieve remains of fallen WWII servicemen from up to 350 feet below ice

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Leave No Man Behind: Expert team prepares to retrieve remains of fallen WWII servicemen from up to 350 feet below ice

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A 15 man group that searches for war veterans remains. Their first mission is 3 remains of WWII veterans rumored to be in Greenland's icey surface. They would find old parts from the war like plane parts or even whole planes, but their job is to find bodies.

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It's a whole new take on the American military's promise to "Leave No Man Behind."

A 15-person team from the nonprofit Fallen American Veterans Foundation ( FAVF) with the Defense Department, the Coast Guard, and Google Earth is preparing to embark on the search and recovery of U.S. service personnel missing in action during World War II in some of the most inhospitable parts of the planet.

Their first mission is to find and bring home the bodies of three men who are believed to be far beneath Greenland's icy surface.

"Our extensive analytics indicates a very specific area indicated in hand-drawn treasure maps, where we actually have an 'X marks the spot,'" Lou Sapienza, chairman of FAVF, who leads a team of scientists, engineers and explorers on both government and non-government missions to recover the remains, told Fox News.

But right now time - and money - are of the essence. Although they have the commitment of air transport and recovery funding, they are contingent upon the acquisition of funding for the full-field multi-technology scientific survey - of which around $1.5 million needs to be privately raised.

Co-founded by Sapienza with survivors of three U.S. Navy airmen from 1946's Operation High Jump, which sought to establish the U.S. Antarctic research base, FAVF's first mission is focused on a U.S. Coast Guard J2F-4 Grumman Duck amphibious biplane, which went down amid rescue operations during a whiteout in remote terrain near Køge Bugt, Greenland on Nov. 29, 1942. The plane was carrying the Coast Guard's pilot Lt. John Pritchard and Radioman 1st Class Benjamin Bottoms, as well as the U.S. Army Air Force's Corporal Loren Howarth.

For the U.S. Coast Guard - which has been working with the FAVF team on the expedition since 2010 - it is a far away expedition that hits especially close to home.

"The Coast Guard has offered to provide aircraft and helicopter support for a properly funded and expertly planned search," Sapienza said. "This is very significant for the U.S. Coast Guard - Pritchard and Bottoms are the last two coastguardsmen missing from WWII."

Just nine minutes before that crash, Howarth had been rescued from a downed B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber, which itself had been looking for a C-53 that skidded on the ice during a return from a cargo run from Reykjavik, Iceland. During the same mission, FAVF is also hoping to bring back the bodies of those who lost their lives on that C-53.

That plane went down on November 5, 1942 . It was an Air Force C-53 BuNo 42-15569 SkyTrooper transport plane containing five WWII U.S. Army Air Force aircrew and was returning from a cargo run to Reykjavik when an engine problem caused it to belly onto the Greenland ice sheet. Radio communications established that all the men initially survived the accident, but the ensuing harsh weather hindered a successful rescue.

The planes could now be anywhere from 60 to 350 feet below the ice surface, unprecedented recovery depths.
AS KIDNAPPED AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S HEALTH DANGEROUSLY DETERIORATES, PRESSURE ON PAKISTAN AGAIN MOUNTS
Sapienza noted that when they are working with bodies, the planes - no matter how old and historical - are "considered to be junk."

"We are only there for one purpose, to recover the human remains," he said.

Sapienza's current mission proposal runs up to thirty days on-location, but he is confident that they will find the planes and the men within five to seven days, once they have performed a full site survey using state-of-the-art customized technology.

"Once we make actual contact and have incontrovertible proof we contact the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and proceed to melt a 4-foot wide hole down to the aircraft," Sapienza continued. "If it is possible, we will extricate bodies at-depth with the utmost respect befitting these heroes who gave this country the fullest measure of their devotion. If we cannot properly respectfully extricate the bodies at depth, we will bring the fuselage to the surface to do it."
VETERANS AND THEIR SERVICE DOGS: KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF, PLEASE
"We have to be in the right place at the right time with the right technology and team on the 1st of April - the earliest that the Greenlandic government will allow an expedition onto the remote site 116 miles southwest of Kulusuk, Greenland," Sapienza added.

While these missions are next on the agenda, they are only the tip of the iceberg. As it stands, FAVF has solid data on the locations of about 100 men waiting to be brought home.

"We are working with another group that has very, very detailed information on an aircraft off the coast of Alaska that we know contains either the remains of about 28 service personnel enroute to the Korean Conflict during the 1950s or former U.S. House Majority Leader Hale Boggs," Sapienza said.

Boggs, while in office as Majority Leader, disappeared in 1972. The remains of the twin-engine aircraft he had been flying in over the Alaskan sea has never been found.

In another planned endeavor, a Vietcong colonel will lead their team to the site of five undocumented battlefield graves buried in artillery shell and bomb craters.

"FAVF missions typically lie outside the recoveries normally undertaken by the Department of Defense. I believe that it our responsibility to undertake even the more difficult recoveries and to Honor the Promise of 'Leave No Man Behind,'" Sapienza added. "The families are waiting."

Hollie McKay has been a FoxNews.com staff reporter since 2007. She has reported extensively from the Middle East on the rise and fall of terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq. Follow her on twitter at @holliesmckay

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Leave No Man Behind: Expert team prepares to retrieve remains of fallen WWII servicemen from up to 350 feet below ice

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A 15-person team from the nonprofit Fallen American Veterans Foundation (FAVF) with the Defense Department, the Coast Guard, and Google Earth is preparing to embark on the search and recovery of U.S. service personnel missing in action during WWII in some of the most inhospitable parts of the planet.

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Mexico fights to stop Texas from executing convicted murderer, citing treaty

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Mexico fights to stop Texas from executing convicted murderer, citing treaty

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Ruben Ramirez Cardenas a rapist and murderer has a death sentence since 1997. Mexican officials are protesting saying that he shouldn't have a death sentence. They are saying that a death sentence is too harsh. Apparently US are breaking treaties if they do end up killing him.

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After two decades on death row, a Mexican national at the center of an international dispute is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night in Texas unless an 11 th hour appeal is successful.

Ruben Ramirez Cardenas is set to die Wednesday for the February 1997 beating death of his 15-year-old cousin Mayra Laguna.

Cardenas told police he and his friend Jose Antonio Lopez Castillo were on drugs when they drove to Laguna's apartment and raped her. When he untied his cousin she "came at me," he said, scratching and kneeing him. He said he "lost it" and then started punching her in the face.

When he hit her in the neck, Laguna started to cough up blood. Cardenas tried to revive her. When that didn't work, he tied her back up and "rolled her down a canal bank."

It's what happened next that has Mexican officials and human rights groups arguing he shouldn't be put to death.

Cardenas' defense team, funded by the Mexican government, claims the United States violated an international treaty by denying Cardenas the opportunity to speak to his country's consulate after his arrest.

"It's a significant treaty violation," Gregory Kuykendall, an Arizona attorney authorized to speak on behalf of Mexico, told the Houston Chronicle.

If Texas officials execute Cardenas, they would be in apparent violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

In 2004, the U.N.'s international court in the Hague ruled that the U.S. must review cases similar to Cardenas'. Then-President George W. Bush told states to comply but the Supreme Court overruled him and said it was up to Congress - not the president - to order states to obey.

Since then, Congress has dragged its feet.

"The result: an illegal loophole states are exploiting to execute foreign nationals in violation of international law," the ACLU says.

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights issued a statement Tuesday calling for the death sentence "to be annulled and for Mr. Cardenas to be re-tried in compliance with international standards relating to due process and fair trial."

Arizona attorney Gregory Kuykendall adds that the legality of the treaty was never in question and therefore should be followed.

"It's not a question of whether there really is a binding legal obligation or not, every justice in the Supreme Court agrees that there is," Kuykendall, who heads up the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, said. "The only question is who is going to implement the legal mechanism to put it into place."

Mexico, unlike the U.S., does not have capital punishment. The country hasn't weighed in on whether Cardenas committed the crimes but instead has focused on the treaty.

Cardenas also reportedly was denied a lawyer for 11 days. His attorneys argue that the DNA evidence against him is faulty, his confession was coerced and their client is innocent.

But Rene Guerra, the former local district attorney who prosecuted Cardenas, dismissed the complaints.

"I never would have authorized a case that was not there or was a flimsy investigation," he told the Associated Press. "This guy deserves the death penalty."

If Cardenas is executed, he would be the 166 th inmate to be executed in Texas in the past decade. He'd be the 11 th Mexican national to be executed in the U.S. in 35 years.

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After two decades on death row, a Mexican national at the center of an international dispute is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night in Texas unless an 11 th hour appeal is successful. Ruben Ramirez Cardenas is set to die Wednesday for the February 1997 beating death of his 15-year-old cousin Mayra Laguna.

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Flu season is here, and experts are already concerned

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Flu season is here, and experts are already concerned

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People are saying that this year's flu shots aren't perfect. The vaccine is imperfect. It might be a bad flu season too. Last year's vaccine was 42% effective and the year before that it was 19%, this is a good sign because it shows slow progress.

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This limited effectiveness was due to a mutation that occurred in the influenza A (H3N2) vaccine strain, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This vaccine mutation resulted from an egg-based manufacturing process commonly used today.

This year's flu vaccine may also be imperfect, said Scott Hensley, author of the new study and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Add to that, he said, "this could end up being a pretty bad flu season."

Still, he said, "our best protection" against severe illness is getting vaccinated with the flu shot we have today.

Finding answers

Each year before flu season begins, a vaccine is made based on whichever virus strains are expected to circulate. The selected seed strains are distributed to vaccine manufacturers which then produce their formulations and make them available to health care professionals before the season begins.

During the 2015-16 season, vaccine effectiveness was 47%, while for the previous 2014-15 season, effectiveness was just 19%, according to the CDC. While the overall effectiveness of last season's vaccine was 42%, it was only 34% effective against the H3N2 viruses that dominated the season.

Vaccine effectiveness varies based on how well it matches the circulating virus strains. Sometimes, a vaccine corresponds to the predominant virus yet its effectiveness is still not what scientists would expect. Trying to understand which element of the vaccine failed is difficult.

Hensley and his team began their investigation of last year's vaccine by looking at the seed strains that had been distributed to vaccine manufacturers. These seed strains had been propagated in chicken eggs, the common method used today.

"The sequences of these viruses are available and when we did an alignment to see what the sequence of these vaccines were compared to the viruses that were circulating, it became very obvious that there was this mutation," said Hensley.

To see the effects of the mutation, the team next looked at how the immune systems of both animals and humans who'd been inoculated with an egg-based flu vaccine responded to the actual circulating viruses.

The antibodies -- immune system proteins that fight invading pathogens -- elicited in both animals and humans failed to bind to and neutralize the flu viruses, Hensley and his colleagues found.

While most vaccines in the United States are made in chicken eggs, a small fraction are produced in insects or mammalian cells, Hensley explained. (These are given to people with egg allergies.) He and his team compared immune responses in animals and humans who had received a cell-based vaccine -- in this case, Flublok made by Protein Sciences Corporation.

"And we found both animals and humans receiving that (cell-based) vaccine had superior antibody responses that could bind and neutralize these circulating H3N2 strains," said Hensley.

Making a better vaccine

"Most of the infrastructure to produce vaccines in the US is based on chicken eggs," said Hensley. There are good reasons for this, including the fact that egg-based propagation allows manufacturers to quickly produce large quantities of vaccine.

While egg adaptations have always been a problem, beginning last year it had become a "huge problem," said Hensley. "As soon as you try to grow this virus in eggs, within a few hours, the virus will acquire this kind of mutation."

This is not an easy problem to fix, he said. To produce vaccines in cells means "a very expensive process for companies to just change their overall manufacturing process," Hensley explained. "You can't really do that on the drop of a dime."

Meanwhile, the same seed strains used last year are being used this year to make the current vaccine, said Hensley.

"This year may be especially difficult because, in addition to this egg adaptive mutation which was present last year, there's indication that the H3N2 viruses are actually evolving," said Hensley.

Not only will the vaccine be a mismatch with the actual circulating viruses due to egg adaptation but the vaccine could also be a mismatch due to unexpected viral evolution.

What kind of flu season is ahead?

It's too early to speculate which viruses will become dominant in the United States over the course of the coming flu season, said Hensley, "but it's starting to look like it will be H3 viruses." H3 viruses are influenza A viruses.

"There are the A group of viruses and the B groups," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. "The A groups are the ones that usually are responsible for large epidemics ... whereas the B flu strains usually smolder along. They always cause illness -- it can be just as severe as the A strains -- but they don't produce large outbreaks."

Though last year's vaccine was mostly ineffective in thwarting the flu, it still prevented nearly 30% of hospitalizations that might have resulted, according to CDC calculations. For older adults, that rate was even higher, at 37%. Plus, the vaccine reduced outpatient visits by 42% last season.

The CDC advises everyone 6 months and older to get a flu shot, as only injectable flu vaccines are recommended. More than 130 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed so far this year and flu activity is still low across the nation.

It's still early days, but experts believe we may be facing a tough season, and not only because of vaccine concerns.

Australia had a tough flu season this year, with a total of 215,280 laboratory-confirmed cases and 504 flu-associated deaths reported to its National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System as of October 13, government data show. According to a surveillance system report, adults over the age of 80 and children between 5 and 9 years old have been most affected.

"In general, we get in our season what the Southern Hemisphere got in the season immediately preceding us," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the United States' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview last month.

An "intelligent guess," therefore, is that the Northern Hemisphere, like the Southern Hemisphere, will likely battle more cases of the viral infection, he said, though "with influenza, it is never 100%."

"If H3N2 viruses dominate the US flu season again this year, vaccine effectiveness will likely be moderate to low again," said Hensley.

Still, he said, everyone should get their annual flu shot.

"The other components of the vaccine, like H1N1 and influenza B, will likely provide excellent protection," said Hensley. "The vaccine will also likely prevent severe disease and death caused by H3N2 viruses, even though this component of the vaccine is mismatched."

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This limited effectiveness was due to a mutation that occurred in the influenza A (H3N2) vaccine strain, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This vaccine mutation resulted from an egg-based manufacturing process commonly used today.

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Dozens killed in Vietnam flooding days ahead of Trump's visit

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Dozens killed in Vietnam flooding days ahead of Trump's visit

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More than 80 people were killed by the flood in Vietnam. About 26 people are missing. A lot of homes and crops were destroyed. The flooding occurred days before Trump's visit.

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Some 26 people are also missing, the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority said.

The agency said nearly 120,000 homes have been ruined and early 10,000 hectares of rice and more than 15,000 hectares of vegetables were flooded.

President Trump is scheduled to visit the coastal city of Da Nang for a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum as part of a two-week trip across the Asia-Pacific region. He'll also travel to the capital, Hanoi, for an official state visit with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang.

Trump arrived in Beijing Wednesday and will head to Vietnam later this week.

CNN's Stella Ko contributed to this report

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Some 26 people are also missing, the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority said. The agency said nearly 120,000 homes have been ruined and early 10,000 hectares of rice and more than 15,000 hectares of vegetables were flooded.

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'Zombie' star won't die, even after exploding

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'Zombie' star won't die, even after exploding

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A star was being watched as it exploded. 100 days after stars explode, their light tends to fade out. This star however didn't. The star brightened and then dimmed about 5 times. This is the first we have seen something like this and so researchers are saying that we still need to study stars even more now. The star itself is still being monitored.

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The discovery of a “zombie” star that has survived multiple explosions is challenging what astronomers thought they knew about the deaths of stars.

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Barrack Obama had to report for jury duty on Wednesday in Chicago. He was dismissed though due to him being the huge attraction. Everyone wanted the ex-president to sign their books and take photos with them. It took a while for Barrack to get to the room due to this.

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The former President is expected to appear at Chicago's Daley Center alongside a Secret Service detail, CNN affiliate WLS reports.

Several black vans and SUVs were spotted outside his home in the Kenwood neighborhood early Wednesday morning.

Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told county commissioners Friday that Obama has been summoned for jury duty in Illinois in November, according to WLS.

The former president lives in Washington but maintains a home in Chicago. With a Harvard Law School degree, experience teaching law and eight years as commander in chief, he is a pretty decent candidate for jury duty.

Obama is not the first former president to receive a notice for jury duty. In 2015, former President George W. Bush reported for jury duty at a Dallas courthouse. While Bush was not selected, he sat through the process and posed for photos with other potential jurors.

CNN's Nicole Chavez contributed to this report.

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The former President is expected to appear at Chicago's Daley Center alongside a Secret Service detail, CNN affiliate WLS reports. Several black vans and SUVs were spotted outside his home in the Kenwood neighborhood early Wednesday morning. Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told county commissioners Friday that Obama has been summoned for jury duty in Illinois in November, according to WLS.

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Texas church gunman escaped mental health facility in 2012

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Texas church gunman escaped mental health facility in 2012

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The church gunman shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley escaped a mental health facility 5 years ago. He used to attend the church but eventually wasn't allowed there because the pastor didn't want him there. It is stated that it was bad to be around him. Evidence shows that before the shooting he texted his mother-in-law with threat messages. His mother-in-law also attended the church.

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As investigators start to piece together a picture of Devin Patrick Kelley, more clues have emerged over the deadliest shooting in Texas history, in which the gunman massacred parishioners ranging in age from 17 months to 77 years old.

The gunman, who had a record of violence, was obsessed with a domestic dispute, officials said. He sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law and texted her as recently as Sunday morning -- not long before he carried out the mass shooting, authorities said.

"There are many ways that he could have taken care of the mother-in-law without coming with 15 loaded magazines and an assault rifle to a church," Freeman Martin of the Texas Department of Public Safety said. "I think he came here with a purpose and a mission."

Latest developments

The US Air Force acknowledged it did not relay Kelley's court martial conviction for domestic assault to civilian law enforcement that could have prevented him from purchasing the firearms used in the shooting. The Air Force and Department of Defense said they are investigating how records of his domestic violence conviction were handled.

Kelley, 26, had three gunshot wounds. He was shot in the leg and torso by an armed citizen, and had a self-inflicted shot to the head, authorities said. It wasn't clear which gunshot Kelley died from, but there's evidence at the scene "that indicates the subject may have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Martin said. He was found dead in his vehicle.

Investigators have reviewed video footage from inside the church, Martin said.

Kelley was denied a license to carry a gun, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. But he passed a background check required for the purchase he made in April 2016 of the Ruger AR-556 rifle he allegedly used in the shooting.

Ten of the 20 people wounded remained in critical condition Monday, authorities said. And virtually no one at the church was left unscathed, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said. "I think nearly everyone had some type of injury," the sheriff told reporters Monday.

Learning more about the shooter

Officials had said there was a domestic situation involving Kelley, but didn't go into any details.

"This was not racially motivated. It wasn't over religious beliefs. There was a domestic situation going on with the family and in-laws," said Christopher Combs, the special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio division.

Kelley had also expressed anger toward his mother-in-law, who attended the church, Martin said. She was not inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs when Kelley sprayed the congregation with gunfire.

But his grandmother-in-law was killed during the attack, multiple friends of the woman told CNN. Lula White, was the grandmother of Kelley's wife and often volunteered at the church, according to friends and her Facebook profile.

Public records and those who knew Kelley describe a troubling history.

Christopher Leo Longoria who went to high school with him said Kelley would focus on women's reactions and that it would "creep out the ladies." Longoria said he had recently unfriended him on Facebook because Kelley was launching into online personal attacks against his friends.

"He was also posting a lot of non-God beliefs, atheism, a lot of gun violence and a lot of weapons that he was into," Longoria told CNN's Don Lemon.

Kelley had served at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010, but was discharged in 2014. He had been court-martialed in 2012 for assault on his spouse and child, according to Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek. He served a year in military prison and received a bad conduct discharge after several incidents involving his ex-wife and stepson.

Kelley was involved in "multiple occasions of domestic abuse" against his wife and stepson, said Don Christensen, the former Air Force chief prosecutor when Kelley was sentenced.

He said Kelley "violently" shook his son and the child "suffered fractures, had a subdural hematoma." A subdural hematoma is a severe head injury in which there's bleeding between the skull and the brain.

Kelley "admitted to, out of anger, pushing his son down and injuring him," Christensen said.

In August, 2014, Kelley was arrested on an animal cruelty charge in El Paso County, Colorado, after a witness said he had punched a dog, grabbed it by the neck and dragged the animal. Kelley denied the account and was issued a summons but didn't spend any time in jail.

'Most of our church family is gone'

The church's visiting pastor was among the dead, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said.A family member identified the visiting pastor as Bryan Holcombe.

In all, eight members of the Holcombe family spanning three generations, including a pregnant woman and three of her children, were killed, said Ron Scott, the visiting pastor's first cousin said.

Standing outside the family farm in Floresville, Texas, Scott Holcombe tearfully spoke about his deceased parents, Bryan and Karla Holcombe, and the rest of the family members lost in the shooting.

He said he had met the gunman and was confident Kelley would have known and spoken to every single person in that church community.

Kelley had emptied 15 magazines -- about 450 rounds -- inside First Baptist Church, leaving such extensive destruction that the pastor's wife, Sherri Pomeroy said: "Most of our church family is gone, our building is probably beyond repair."

As Kelley left the church, he was confronted by a local resident, Stephen Willeford who had run out of his house with his gun. He was shot twice by Willeford, law enforcement said. Then Kelley fled in a car, chased by Willeford and a witness, Johnnie Langendorff.

After Kelley was shot, he called his father, telling him he didn't think he was going to make it, Martin said. That's when Kelley shot himself.

The chase ended with his car in a ditch and the gunman found dead.

The pastor, Frank Pomeroy and his wife had been out of state when the shooting occurred, but their 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle Pomeroy, was killed in the attack.

In an emotional press conference on Monday, the pastor said: "I don't understand, but I know my God does."

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As investigators start to piece together a picture of Devin Patrick Kelley, more clues have emerged over the deadliest shooting in Texas history, in which the gunman massacred parishioners ranging in age from 17 months to 77 years old. The gunman, who had a record of violence, was obsessed with a domestic dispute, officials said.

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North Korea preparing for a missile test.

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North Korea preparing for a missile test.

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North Korea's missile test are active. They have been firing missiles again. It is said that about 200 people died in a tunnel collapse. It is also said that North Korea is working on a missile that could potentially reach US.

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A report based on South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) information which has been seen by CNN also said Pyongyang will continue to "push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads."

The report was co-written by Rep. Kim Byung-kee and other members of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Thursday.

"Tunnel 3 (at the Punggye-ri test site) is ready to carry out a nuclear test at any time," the report notes.

North Korea last claimed to have successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb in early September -- the country's sixth nuclear test. That explosion created a magnitude-6.3 tremor, making it the most powerful weapon Pyongyang has ever tested.

On Thursday, the regime dismissed regional press reports that one tunnel at the underground nuclear test site collapsed after Pyongyang's sixth missile test in September, killing hundreds of North Korean workers.

A report from state news agency KCNA accused Japan of circulating "fake news" after its TV Asahi carried a report, citing an unnamed North Korean official claiming up to 200 people were killed in a tunnel collapse.

In addition to a potential future nuclear test, North Korea is working on an advanced version of its existing KN-20 intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially reach the United States, less than six months after it launched its first ICBM,a US official told CNN.

Additional improvements are underway to North Korea's nuclear fuel, missile launchers, guidance and targeting systems as well, officials say. All of this comes as President Donald Trump is about to travel to Asia, where North Korea's weapons will be a major topic of discussion.

Last month, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Washington "does not accept a nuclear North Korea" and said "any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response, effective and overwhelming."

CNN's Barbara Starr, Joshua Berlinger, Brad Lendon and James Griffiths contributed to this report

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A report based on South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) information which has been seen by CNN also said Pyongyang will continue to "push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads." The report was co-written by Rep. Kim Byung-kee and other members of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Thursday.

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Saudi Arabia lets women into sport stadiums.

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Saudi Arabia lets women into sport stadiums.

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In early 2018, women will be able to spectate sport games in stadiums. They will only be able to watch in three arenas in major cities. Men and women will end up separated, which is pretty common. Things are slowly starting to change for the laws there.

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Saudi Arabia is starting to ease restrictions barring women spectators from sports stadiums.