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White House backtracks after Trump opens the door to delaying funding for border wall

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President Trump signaled to a gathering of conservative media reporters on Monday that he may be open to delaying the funding of his proposed border wall.

The president said -- according to tweets from conservative media at the gathering this evening -- that his administration could get the funding for the wall this week or they could come back to it in September.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quickly seized on the remarks in an off-camera response Monday evening saying it's good for the country that the president is taking the wall off the table in the funding negotiations.

"It's good for the country that President Trump is taking the wall off the table in these negotiations. Now the bipartisan and bicameral negotiators can continue working on the outstanding issues," Schumer said in a statement.

Democrats in Congress have vowed to block the passage of a last-minute appropriations bill if it includes funding for the wall.

This is a developing news story. Please check back for the latest updates.

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President Trump signaled to a gathering of conservative media reporters on Monday that he may be open to delaying the funding of his proposed border wall. The president said -- according to tweets from conservative media at the gathering this evening -- that his administration could get the...

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The naked mole rat has already surprised scientists with being cold blooded and resistant to cancer and feeling pain, and can live ten times longer than a mouse. Now they are surprising them with also being able to survive with without oxygen.

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The naked mole rat is already known to be cold-blooded, resistant to cancer and feeling pain, and can live ten times longer than a mouse. The animal is alsoone of the strangest-looking mammals on the planet.

But now scientists believe these odd creatures can also survive without oxygen, by using a different method of creating energy in their bodies.

"Naked mole-rats are very social animals and typically live in underground colonies of up to 200 in East Africa," Gary Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine told CNN. Lewin co-led the study published Friday in Science.

With so many animals crowded into such a small living space -- all of them taking in oxygen and producing carbon dioxide -- they are used to oxygen-deprived environments, Lewin explained.

"We wanted to test systematically just how much oxygen deprivation these animals can stand," he said.

The team first tested the animals in an environment with five percent oxygen. "Anything less than 10 percent kills a human," Lewin pointed out.

But the rodents were hardly affected at all, even after several hoursof reduced oxygen.

The next test was to put the rodents in an environment with no oxygen at all.

"The animals quickly went to sleep," explained Lewin. "They entered a state of suspended animation, a kind of coma, and survived like that for 18 minutes."

When oxygen was reintroduced, the animals quickly recovered and suffered no long-term damage at all.

Analyzing the data, the scientists realized the animals were switching from a glucose-based metabolic system, which requires oxygento release energy, to one based on fructose, which doesn't need oxygen.

To continue creating the energy needed for cells to survive in vital organs such as the brain and heart -- and keeping them functioning -- the mole-rats were using a different form of fuel, one where l ack of incoming oxygen is irrelevant.

"This is a fantastic piece of work," said Michael Berenbrink, a senior lecturer on animal sciences at the University of Liverpool, who was not involved in the study.

"This type of metabolism is really unheard of among mammals," he said. "There are some fish that have similar tricks... but they are also an exception. It really broadens our mind in terms of what evolution can do -- how metabolic pathways can adapt,"he told CNN.

Lewin is excited about the potential implications for human beings.

Despite all of their remarkable traits, naked mole-rats are genetically very similar to mice, he explained, and not all that different to humans.

"Humans already have the ability to create energy from fructose ... our livers do it all the time," he explained. "The question is whether we can nudge the human body towards switching to a fructose-based metabolism when our supply of oxygen is low."

Understanding just how these tiny, hairless creatures use fructose to stay alive could lead to new treatments for patients suffering oxygen deprivation due to strokes or heart attacks.

"Perhaps even feeding the brain fructose during this period of oxygen deprivation could help," Lewin said.

He also wonders whether extreme divers, who survive for relatively long periods of time without taking in any oxygen, may have unwittingly taught their bodies how to switch from using glucose to fructose in the metabolic process.

"We just don't know," said Lewin. He hopes future studies will shed more light on exactly how these strange creatures survive without oxygen and what humans can learn from them.

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The mammal that can survive without oxygen

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The naked mole rat is already known to be cold-blooded, resistant to cancer and feeling pain, and can live ten times longer than a mouse. The animal is alsoone of the strangest-looking mammals on the planet. But now scientists believe these odd creatures can also survive without oxygen, by using a different method of creating energy in their bodies.

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Is LeBron slowing down?

At 32 years old, LeBron James remains superhuman, able to carry the Cavs while playing an unprecedented number of minutes. But even superhumans have their limits.

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Russia investigations on the Hill: Where things stand.

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Multiple committee investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign will continue to push forward as Congress returns this week. Here's where things stand and what to watch for in the next few days:

House Intelligence Committee

Members of the House Intelligence Committee are hoping to get back to work after chairman Devin Nunes withdrew himself from the panel's Russia investigation amid ethics complaints. The panel, whose Russia work is now headed by Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), announced Friday that it invited FBI Director James Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers to appear for a closed door hearing on May 2. The committee also invited former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to testify in an open setting sometime after May 2. Nunes had previously cancelled an open hearing with those three former officials, a move his Democratic counterpart Adam Schiff (D-CA) quickly condemned as politically motivated.

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: Members and committee staff are in the process of reviewing NSA documents at Ft. Meade, Maryland, related to former national security adviser Susan Rice's requests to "unmask" particular Trump campaign officials caught up in surveillance of foreign targets.

Senate Intelligence Committee

The Senate Intelligence Committee is still interviewing analysts involved in the 2016 intelligence community report on Russia's interference that was ordered up by President Obama. Once they are done with those interviews, which could still take months given the amount of records they're sifting through, Ranking Member Mark Warner (D-VA) has said the committee will then receive testimony from top Trump officials who have had contact with Russian officials, including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

"We've gotta make sure we have all our information first so we know the appropriate questions to ask," he said. In terms of timing, Warner said he and Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) may not wrap up their investigation until after the August congressional recess. Warner has also not ruled out interviewing Rice as part of his panel's investigation but has said he has seen no evidence that Rice did anything wrong.

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: Committee staff are expected to continue their off-site interviews with intelligence analysts. The full committee also has its two weekly closed hearings in which it gets updates on all intelligence matters, and on Wednesday the committee will hold a hearing into the confirmation of the CIA chief counsel.

House Oversight Committee

Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has said he wants to investigate potential leaks of classified information to reporters about Russia-Trump contacts as well as investigating Mike Flynn's business dealings in Russia. The committee is investigating payments President Trump's former national security adviser received from foreign governments and also reviewing security protocol at Mar-a-Lago and various issues regarding the Trump Organization.

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: The committee has no hearings scheduled on Russia, focusing instead on unrelated issues like "the unintended consequences of the foreign account tax compliance act." They are also asking the Trump Organization how it plans to donate profits from foreign government payments to the U.S. Treasury, which might involve Russia but only tangentially.

Graham and the Senate Judiciary Committee

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Crime and Terrorism, are investigating Russian efforts to influence democratic elections in the U.S. and abroad. They met in early March with FBI director Comey and plan to announce a second hearing date and witness panel in the next few weeks.

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: We await the committee's announcement of its upcoming hearing.

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Trump gets heated up from reviews

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Trump is approaching the first symbolic milestone of his presidency on Saturday with a familiar mix of bluster and smokescreens, meant to disguise the reality that he has produced one of the least-prolific first 100 day debuts of any president in modern history.

"No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!" Trump wrote on Twitter Friday, despite playing up the significance of the first 100 days marker in the past.

The tweet was classic Trump -- getting ahead of bad news by using his press critics as a foil while fogging the line between truth and falsehood to evade serious political harm.

Top Trump aides, meanwhile, reject any idea that the President is struggling.

"He is fulfilling his promises and doing it at breakneck speed," White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, citing Trump's moves to increase military spending and to exit the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.

But Trump's critics argue that not only has the President failed to muster a record of significant political achievement in his first 100 days, he has tarnished his office.

They say that with his claims that former President Barack Obama tapped his phones and that millions of illegal voters threw the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, he has devalued the currency of truth on which successful presidencies depend. They accuse him of insulting US allies and presiding over a White House characterized by feuds, leaks and indiscipline.

"It's not me ... 65% of the American public, maybe 60%, are saying he is doing a bad job, he has got to figure out something for his second 100 days because it hasn't been very good so far," said CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, on "CNN Tonight" Friday.

Trump is not the only new president to take issue with being judged so early in their term. Many other presidents have bemoaned comparisons with Franklin Roosevelt's legislative frenzy in 1933 that set the 100-day bar.

And Trump is such a unique public figure that judging him by established political conventions has never been a reliable gauge of his future prospects.

So a more important question might be whether it actually matters that Trump had a rocky first 100 days. Does history suggest that a rough start leads to a poor presidency? Or can presidents learn and adjust and still build a successful administration?

Trump will start his second 100 days from a low point, though his base support has thus far stuck with him.

Unlike many new presidents, he lacks a large legislative triumph: His predecessor Barack Obama passed a huge stimulus plan and equal pay legislation in his first 100 days. The House backed George W. Bush's tax cut plan, which he eventually signed into law in June. Bill Clinton passed the Family and Medical Leave Act. Roosevelt used a banking crisis to pass the most consequential flurry of bills in decades. Lyndon Johnson picked a mourning nation off its knees after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Trump, by comparison, struggled to implement parts of his own agenda at a moment when a new president is seen as being at the apex of his political power.

Mexico is not paying for the wall. His travel ban has twice been blocked by the courts. He has failed to mobilize a Republican monopoly on power in Washington and his big legislative goal -- repealing Obamacare -- crashed.

An FBI investigation over alleged links between Trump campaign operatives and Russia is casting a shadow over the White House. He lost his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, over Russia questions less than a month into his term.

Unlike Ronald Reagan, for instance, who used his first 100 days to turn around the nation's mood and lay the foundation for a successful presidency, Trump has exacerbated questions about his inexperience and temperament.

And even Bush, who like Trump came into office hampered by deep political divisions after a polarizing general election, used his time to heal political wounds -- his approval rating 100 days in was 62%, according to Gallup.

Trump's rating averages in the low 40% range -- easily the lowest ever mark for a president this early in his administration in the modern era -- and one that poses real questions for Trump's capacity to enact his future agenda.

Base support holds

But on the upside for him, Trump's base is standing firm. An ABC/Washington Post poll published Sunday showed that his approval rating among people who voted for him was 94%, validating an administration strategy of placating those supporters with a flurry of executive orders cutting regulations and prioritizing US workers.

Supporters also cite Trump's moves to strengthen immigration enforcement, vows to hike military spending and missile strike against Syria to punish the use of chemical weapons as evidence of strong leadership. His White House also confirmed a new Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch, though Republicans had to blow up Senate rules to get around a Democratic filibuster.

But each of those wins has alienated as many voters as it cheered, raising questions about Trump's capacity to improve his prospects and unite the nation.

"This was not Abraham Lincoln. This was not John Kennedy. This wasn't Ronald Reagan. This was someone who has a different appreciation for America," said Rep. Joseph Crowley, a New York Democrat, in an interview midway through the first 100 days.

History lessons

History has mixed lessons when it comes to judging whether a rocky first 100 days sets the tone for the rest of the presidency.

Kennedy's Bay of Pigs foreign policy debacle over a botched invasion of Cuba by the CIA-backed exiles during his first 100 days led to changes in his approach to foreign policy, and historians now view his tragically truncated presidency as a success.

On the other hand, a turbulent first 100 days for Democratic President Jimmy Carter pointed to clumsy dealings with Congress that haunted him for the rest of a much-pilloried single term.

Clinton, meanwhile, had a chaotic first 100 days but went on to preside over an economic expansion and left office with high approval ratings.

But some critics believe Trump is flouting the lessons of history and approached the presidency in the first 100 days in a way that makes such a comeback more difficult.

"This White House is one of the most dysfunctional in modern history, and I think a lot of that is on Trump, but a good deal of it is also on the chief of staff and the senior staff," said Chris Whipple, an author and documentary maker who has just published a new book "The Gatekeepers" about how White House chiefs of staff define each presidency.

"One of the problems is that nobody's in charge in the White House in the senior staff," Whipple said. "(So-called) chaos management where you have senior advisers competing for the attention of the boss, that might work in some areas of the business world, but it cannot work in the White House, never has worked. We've seen this movie before. It's never a happy ending."

Change takes time?

Still, some Republicans who backed Trump early argue that his voters understand that fulfilling his promises will take time.

"They give him an 'A' for effort. They know he's trying very hard and they know it's going to be a long process," said Bryan Lanza, a deputy communications director for the Trump-Pence presidential campaign who is now a managing director of Mercury, a public relations firm. "DC is not going to be changed in a 100 days. What you're talking about is disrupting an institution that doesn't want to change."

Those Republicans who want Trump to change have noticed that in recent days, he has begun to reverse some campaign positions, including his criticism of NATO, and angered some supporters by ordering missile strikes in Syria.

"I've been glad that he's made some of the changes he has on foreign policy," said former Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who was once deeply critical of Trump. "I'm impressed with his team there. (national security adviser) H.R. McMaster, General (James) Mattis, (Admiral John) Kelly, Ambassador (Nikki) Haley -- I think they're very strong team, and that, to me, is very important that he has made some shifts there."

Other Republicans who opposed Trump also see signs that the President has become more comfortable in his job and are optimistic the Trump of the first 100 days is not necessarily the Trump of the rest of his presidency.

"We're still in the first 100 days, so it's early. I think he's starting to settle," said Ryan Williams, who worked for former GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

"It's such an unconventional presidency, and the first three-four weeks were such a shock to everybody, because he doesn't operate like a traditional politician," he said. "I see people becoming more comfortable with it and saying, 'All right. He's our President now.' "

There's another reason why it might be premature to judge Trump at the 100-day mark.

The trends, events and crises that will define his tenure in history are most likely yet to take place. For example, George W. Bush won good reviews for the first 100 days, but in hindsight, the period was far less consequential that the years after the 9/11 attacks that defined his presidential legacy.

And Roosevelt -- despite creating the 100-day measuring stick because of his efforts to recover from the Great Depression -- would be judged by posterity for his role in saving Western civilization from the threat of Nazism.

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A growing brush fire in South Florida is destroying buildings and forcing thousands of people from their homes as emergency crews from across the state scramble to beat back the blaze.

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USA TODAY 1 day ago Sean Rossman, Naples Daily News staff

A growing brush fire in South Florida is destroying buildings and forcing thousands of people from their homes as emergency crews from across the state scramble to beat back the blaze.

Officials said Saturday morning that the fire spread from 4,800 acres to 5,500 acres overnight in Collier County, which borders the Gulf of Mexico just south of Fort Myers. The blaze destroyed nine homes, as well as some cars, in the past day and is only 10% contained, officials claim.

Local government first ordered mandatory evacuations on Thursday as the then-400-acre fire threatened a large residential part of Naples. By the next day it had grown to more than 10 times the size. Officials confirmed that residents in 7,000 homes have been ordered to evacuate, although some people have chosen not to leave.

More than 100 Florida Forest Service crews are on the ground battling the blaze along with more than 300 contractors, plus law enforcement. On Friday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott deployed National Guard resources to assist, along with a stern warning to residents.

"These wildfires are dangerous and if you're within the evacuation area, do not stay in your home," he said Friday. "Be sure to follow the evacuation orders from local officials."

Scott, after meeting with emergency officials Saturday, promised to stand by those affected and urged people to follow evacuation orders.

"Let's be clear, these fires are dangerous. They're extremely dangerous so we need to be very cautious," he said. "The direction of the fire can change in a moment's notice and the fire can move very very very rapidly."

Scott lauded President Trump's administration, which he said was "very responsive" to the fire. The federal government will help reimburse Florida for the costs associated with fighting the fire. Scott clarified he hasn't talked to the president about the matter. The state couldn't provide an estimate as to how much the firefighting effort will cost.

Officials said Saturday they had hoped to contain the fire overnight, but to no avail. Kingman Shuldt, a fire chief with Greater Naples Fire agency, said the fire is pressing westward. There's worry if the fire jumps a popular thoroughfare, it could threaten more densely populated areas.

Schuldt said ground in the area is very dry, describing it as "double dead." He said crews are preparing for another firefight on Saturday.

"It's a very dangerous task out there," he said. "Very very dangerous."

A light rain started to fall Saturday afternoon and crews said they had made progress in containing the fire. Bulldozers had cleared debris said to be fueling the blaze.

Officials offered no time frame as to when residents evacuated from their homes will be able to return home. That, they said, depends on the progress made fighting the fire.

Dan Summers, Collier County's director of emergency services, said as many as 10 airplanes would be doing water drops in the area on Saturday.

On Friday, the National Guard was deploying Blackhawk helicopters to help tame the 100-foot flames. About 100 deputies went through neighborhoods and door to door to try to evacuate residents.

Officials on Saturday didn't offer a reason for how the fire started, saying the cause of the blaze is under investigation.

The Sunshine State has seen a steep increase in wildfires in 2017. Earlier this month, Scott issued a state of emergency, adding there are more than 100 active wildfires across the state threatening about 20,000 acres of land. In the first three months of 2017, wildfires burned 250% more land in Florida than they had in the same time frame the year before.

Scott said the state also continues to battle other fires outside of Naples, including a more than 600-acre fire in Polk County, which has prompted mandatory evacuations in the central part of the state. A more than 400-acre fire in Lee County, just north of Naples, has already damaged or destroyed 13 homes and caused the mandatory evacuations of more than 2,000 homes. Later on Saturday, the governor will visit the damage in Lee County.
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Four-year-old falls out of moving bus

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Video of the incident shows the back door of the bus springing open and the young girl plummeting to the road. "I couldn't believe it, it was so shocking," said Ryan Ciampoli, who was driving behind the bus in Harrison, Arkansas.

Ciampoli, who is a trained emergency medical technician, ran to the little girl's rescue after her terrifying tumble on Wednesday. His vehicle is fitted with a dash cam that recorded the incident because he sometimes uses it when on duty, Ciampoli said.

At first the girl was unconscious, but he cradled her and talked to her until she came round.

"For a very brief time she had got enough consciousness to say 'where is my mommy?,'" he said.

He picked her off the hot pavement and moved her off the busy road while waiting on emergency medical services. "Obviously you want to leave her laying there, if she's not in danger, but we're in the middle of a state highway," he told CNN affiliate KHBS-TV. "So I couldn't leave her just laying there."

The little girl is recovering at the hospital. She suffered a broken jaw and will undergo surgery.

It is unclear if she opened the door or if it wasn't locked. CNN has reached out to police for comment but they weren't immediately available Sunday.

CNN's Sheena Jones contributed to this report.

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Some automakers are synonyms with specific characteristics. Ferrari and Lamborghini are synonymous with Italian power and performance. Rolls-Royce and Bentley are quintessential marquees known for their opulence and luxury. Then there's Jeep, which is known for its ruggedness and off-road capabilities. It figures then that when news first broke in 2015 that Jeep was going hybrid with some of its models, it was, to say the least, jarring to the senses. Fast forward to the 2017 Shanghai Auto Show and we finally get to see what a Jeep hybrid looks like in the form of the Yuntu, a three-row, seven-seater, full-sized SUV concept that's laying the groundwork for a new era in the company's long and illustrious history.

To be clear, there's no official word yet from Jeep about the production prospects of the Yuntu Concept. There is, however, a strong possibility that we're headed in that direction anyway. Remember, Jeep CEO Mike Manley has been a strong advocate of dipping the company in the hybrid market, most recently confirming at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show the arrival of a hybrid version of the Wrangler. The Yuntu, of course, is far different from the Wrangler, both in aesthetics and purpose. But the mere sight of the concept in Shanghai is an indication that the brand has a more elaborate hybrid plan that will involve numerous models receiving this specific powertrain. Just goes to show how brand images are now giving way to addressing the future of the auto industry.
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Follow the crowd at chow time or risk losing out on the meatballs

The say that a consumer brand, no matter what it is, is only as good as the number of people who pay to buy them. If sales are good, the brand is strong and the people who own them are happy. If sales aren't good, the brand struggles and the people behind them get agitated.

In light of these wise words, it's easy to understand why Jeep, long regarded for its "get-down-and-dirty" image, is now eschewing that rough and rugged mentality in favor of adopting a technology that's more Matt Damon than Bear Grylls. The truth is that hybrid powertrains have become the way to go for a lot of automakers. That's partly because governments all over the world have become more proactive in championing the technology to help address the world's environmental issues. All the same, Jeep's decision to debut the Yuntu Concept in Shanghai, China is a calculated move in an attempt to gain some traction in a country that's fast embracing this system, thus turning itself into the world's biggest market for hybrid cars.

As far as the Yuntu Concept is concerned, it's unlikely that the production version of the SUV will retain most of the concept's styling features.

The whole concept of a hybrid Jeep may have sounded preposterous as recently as five years ago, but times have changed and a consumer brand has to adapt to the changing times and more importantly, evolving customer preferences if it has any shot of remaining relevant in the eyes of the buying public.

As far as the Yuntu Concept is concerned, it's unlikely that the production version of the SUV will retain most of the concept's styling features. As it is now, the concept comes with suicide doors on the rear and an interior that's a little too concept-heavy, even by today's standards. Overall though, it looks the part of a proper Jeep model with its aggressive design, massive arches, and rugged personality. Yes, the Yuntu is still rough around the edges, but make no mistake, underneath that body lies a plug-in hybrid powertrain of some kind. Jeep has been coy on divulging details, but let it be known that it's the first of its kind for the American brand.

At the moment, it appears that a production version of the Yuntu Concept will hit the Chinese market first, hence its debut in Shanghai. If it does get that far, look for the production model to be built through the local Fiat-GIAC joint venture and be sold in the country, either as a general release model or a limited edition exclusive. On the other hand, there's been no discussion about the possibility of the production model arriving in the U.S., although if it does, it might not be badged as a Jeep model. A Chrysler, perhaps? Image, after all, still matters, right?

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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Every week he set himself up for disappointment.

Every week, 13-year-old Jamarion Styles came to a community center in Boca Raton, Florida, hoping to play basketball with the other kids.

And every week, he was rejected.

"They would start picking teams and I would be the only one left out. And then they would just tell me 'just go home.' You can break someone's heart like that," Jamarion said.

The problem was obvious to everyone but Jamarion. He lost his hands -- and most of his arms -- as an infant due to a rare bacterial infection. But he insisted that was no reason to give up his hoop dreams.

What about soccer, where no hands are needed?

"Yeah, I hear it every day," he said. "You would think that I would be good at soccer. I'm really not. I'm horrible."

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Which is why, on the first day of class at Eagles Landing Middle School, Jamarion took his case to basketball coach Darian Williams. He said he wanted to be on the team this year.

"I said, 'Oh, great, just make sure you try out,'" Darian said.

He said he was really thinking "'This man has no arms. How is he going to play basketball?'"

"But man, he told me, 'Mr. Williams, I've never been on a team before. Even if I don't play, I just want to be on the team.' And how could I say no to that?" Darian said.

And that's how the Eagles got their first armless basketball player. Jamarion, wearing number 2, quickly earned a reputation as the hardest worker on the squad.

"He was usually the first one in the gym and usually the last one to leave," Darian said.

Still, he sat on the bench most of the season -- until last month.

Coach put him in the game with about six minutes left. And when he eventually got the ball on the far side of court, everyone yelled, "Shoot it." So he did, and sank a 3-pointer.

And shortly after, he got the ball again, this time on the near side, and made another 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Jamarion Styles, the kid no one would pick, was now everyone's hero.

Needless to say, today Jamarion can play all he wants at the community center. He just made the volleyball team and has every intention of playing football next year.

Really, the only thing he won't play is the victim.

"If I could wave a magic wand right now and give you your arms back, would you want them?" he was asked.

"I don't need them," Jamarion replied.

Who needs hands when you've got that kind of touch?
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Passenger on united flight plans to sue

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The world's first vaccine for malaria will be released in 2018. They will first go to Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.

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N.Korean media issue threat to 'wipe out' US.

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An official North Korean website warned Monday that Pyongyang will "wipe out" the United States if Washington starts a war on the peninsula, the latest tit-for-tat sabre-rattling that has sent tensions soaring in the region.

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Arkansas is preparing for first double execution in 17 years.

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Two condemned Arkansas killers who admit they're guilty but fear poor health could lead to extreme pain during lethal injections might become the first inmates put to death in a double execution in the U.S. in more than 16 years.

Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are set to die Monday night. If put to death, they would be the second and third Arkansas inmates executed this month. Arkansas originally wanted to execute eight inmates before one of its lethal injection drugs expires at the end of the month in the nation's most aggressive execution schedule since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976.

Arkansas put Ledell Lee to death last week in its first execution since 2005. Another inmate, Kenneth Williams, is set for execution Thursday.

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Two condemned Arkansas killers who admit they're guilty but fear poor health could lead to extreme pain during lethal injections might become the first inmates put to death in a double execution in the U.S. in more than 16 years.

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4 year old falls out of moving bus, getting a broken jaw and will need surgery

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Video of the incident shows the back door of the bus springing open and the young girl plummeting to the road. "I couldn't believe it, it was so shocking," said Ryan Ciampoli, who was driving behind the bus in Harrison, Arkansas.

Ciampoli, who is a trained emergency medical technician, ran to the little girl's rescue after her terrifying tumble on Wednesday. His vehicle is fitted with a dash cam that recorded the incident because he sometimes uses it when on duty, Ciampoli said.

At first the girl was unconscious, but he cradled her and talked to her until she came round.

"For a very brief time she had got enough consciousness to say 'where is my mommy?,'" he said.

He picked her off the hot pavement and moved her off the busy road while waiting on emergency medical services. "Obviously you want to leave her laying there, if she's not in danger, but we're in the middle of a state highway," he told CNN affiliate KHBS-TV. "So I couldn't leave her just laying there."

The little girl is recovering at the hospital. She suffered a broken jaw and will undergo surgery.

It is unclear if she opened the door or if it wasn't locked. CNN has reached out to police for comment but they weren't immediately available Sunday.

CNN's Sheena Jones contributed to this report.

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Marc Gasol's game-winning shot lifts Grizzlies to OT win against Spurs and ties the series at 2-2

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Grizzlies guard Mike Conley said he was an option to take the final shot and that the San Antonio Spurs thought so, too, on a night when he scored a franchise-record 35 points.

Marc Gasol laughed and insisted he didn't know his teammate was an alternative on the game-winning play. Zach Randolph backed up his All-Star center, too.

"He told me he was going to get it and go to his fadeaway, and that's what he did," Randolph said.

Gasol hit a 12-foot floater with 0.7 seconds left in overtime, and the Grizzlies beat the Spurs 110-108 on Saturday night to even up their Western Conference first-round series at 2-2.

The Grizzlies won despite blowing a 10-point lead with 7:38 left in regulation and 23 turnovers that San Antonio turned into 31 points.

Conley set a franchise postseason record with 35 points, and Gasol finished with 16 points after shooting 5 of 12 for the game. He also had 12 rebounds.

The Grizzlies overcame another postseason personal best from Kawhi Leonard, who had 43 points. He rallied the Spurs by scoring the last 16 points of regulation, but missed a 21-footer short of the rim with James Ennis defending him just before the buzzer ending regulation. Leonard also tied it at 108 with 17 seconds left in overtime with a 3 from the left corner.

"That was great game," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "Both teams played their hearts out. Just a fantastic basketball game. The fans got their money's worth tonight for sure. At the end, Marc made a great shot. L.A. (LaMarcus Aldridge) contested it very, very well, and it went down."

Game 5 is Tuesday night in San Antonio.

Conley also had eight assists and nine rebounds. Randolph added 12 points and 11 rebounds, but was 4 of 12 from the field.

Tony Parker scored 22 points after being shut out in Game 3, and Aldridge finished with 13 points on 6-of-11 shooting.

The Spurs made all 17 of their free throws, a tremendous improvement from Game 3 when they were 16 of 28 from the line. Unlike Game 2, Memphis also got to the line more than San Antonio and was 22 of 24.

Leonard finished with 24 points combined in the fourth quarter and overtime in a thrilling game that also featured six lead changes and seven ties in the fourth quarter and overtime. Conley said it was scary watching the two-time Defensive Player of the Year and MVP candidate this season shooting away.

"He's unbelievable," Conley said. "It got to a point where you just knew if he got a shot off it was going in."

Memphis coach David Fizdale was pretty impressed with his own guard who got a five-year, $153 million contract last summer in what was the richest deal in the NBA at that point.

"I don't think we will be having a discussion about how much money he is worth," Fizdale said. "I don't want to hear about it at least. The guy's a superstar."

In overtime, the Spurs led 102-100 when Parker intercepted a pass by Conley and pushed the ball up-court. But rookie Andrew Harrison raced down to block Mills' shot, and Gasol was fouled when he scored inside to tie it up. His free throw with 1:32 left put the Grizzlies up 103-102, then Conley hit a floater with 47.3 seconds left.

With Ennis defending Leonard, the MVP candidate committed a turnover when he lost the ball out of bounds with 43.7 seconds left. But Leonard's final 3 tied it up one last time before Gasol's big bucket.

"They were able to counter Kawhi going off and making incredible shots," Spurs forward Pau Gasol said. "So you've got to give them credit. You've got to regroup and get ready for Game 5."

TIP-INS

Spurs: Danny Green finished with five points on 2-of-9 shooting. Manu Ginobili was 0 of 5 himself and finished without a point. Ginobili is 0 of 15 from the floor in this series.

Grizzlies: Vince Carter became the first 40-year-old to make three or more 3-pointers in a playoff game. He hit three in the first half and finished 3 of 5 outside the arc. ... Randolph previously had the franchise record scoring 34 points in the postseason twice.

LEONARD'S STREAK

When Leonard hit a free throw with 1:20 left in the second quarter for 10 points, that marked his 24th straight playoff game in double figures. That ties him with Tim Duncan for the second-longest stretch in franchise history behind only Parker's streak of 25 straight such games between May 17, 2012 and June 9, 2013.

GAME 4

The Spurs now are 16-16 in Game 4s after being up 2-1 in a series, including losing seven of their last eight such games. The Grizzlies snapped a five-game skid themselves in Game 4s. This was their first win in a Game 4 since May 13, 2013, over Oklahoma City.

HE SAID IT

Fizdale: "I know we're a seventh seed, but we feel like we beat the best teams in the West and that we can at least compete with the best, so our guys have a lot of confidence that way."

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In Arkansas, the frightening moment a little girl tumbled out of a moving church van whose driver didn't realize what had happened was captured on camera. Ryan Ciampoli, a licensed EMT who happened to be nearby, quickly took the 4-year-old out of the road.

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Video of the incident shows the back door of the bus springing open and the young girl plummeting to the road. "I couldn't believe it, it was so shocking," said Ryan Ciampoli, who was driving behind the bus in Harrison, Arkansas.

Ciampoli, who is a trained emergency medical technician, ran to the little girl's rescue after her terrifying tumble on Wednesday. His vehicle is fitted with a dash cam that recorded the incident because he sometimes uses it when on duty, Ciampoli said.

At first the girl was unconscious, but he cradled her and talked to her until she came round.

"For a very brief time she had got enough consciousness to say 'where is my mommy?,'" he said.

He picked her off the hot pavement and moved her off the busy road while waiting on emergency medical services. "Obviously you want to leave her laying there, if she's not in danger, but we're in the middle of a state highway," he told CNN affiliate KHBS-TV. "So I couldn't leave her just laying there."

The little girl is recovering at the hospital. She suffered a broken jaw and will undergo surgery.

It is unclear if she opened the door or if it wasn't locked. CNN has reached out to police for comment but they weren't immediately available Sunday.

CNN's Sheena Jones contributed to this report.

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Isaiah Thomas after big night vs. Bulls: 'Not one man can guard me'

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CHICAGO -- When his mesmerizing Game 4 performance was complete, Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas ventured to his postgame news conference, during which a reporter relayed how Chicago Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg had made comments suggesting that part of Thomas' success stemmed from the fact that referees don't whistle him for routinely discontinuing his dribble.

Thomas smiled and started, "That's not the reason why I'm an impossible cover."

The confident rebuttal was enough to elicit hearty laughter from Thomas' two young sons, James and Jaiden, seated next to him on the riser. "It's not that funny," Thomas told his kids, bringing laughter from reporters.

The Bulls surely were not laughing at the way Thomas took over the final five minutes of the third quarter of Sunday's Game 4. Thomas either scored or assisted on all 16 points Boston scored over the final 5:12 of the third frame, helping the Celtics re-establish a lead after the Bulls had rallied from 20 points down to briefly pull ahead.

Thomas routinely probed his way to the basket, dribbling through a sea of white jerseys, to either finish a layup in traffic or draw a foul near the hoop. When the defense did build a wall in front of him, Thomas was able to feed teammates for open looks.

"Not one man can guard me," Thomas said after Boston's 104-95 triumph at the United Center. "And that's just the confidence I have, but also my coaching staff and my teammates put me in position to be successful. No matter what other teams are doing, [Coach] Brad [Stevens] figures it out and puts me in the position to be the best player I can be, and my teammates allow me to do that, as well."

After the Bulls pulled ahead 65-63 with under five minutes to go in the third, Thomas went to work. Dribbling off a screen from Al Horford, Thomas lost his defender while racing toward the sideline, then cut back hard toward the paint. Jimmy Butler and Robin Lopez tried to chase him as Thomas gained speed downhill. Both Nikola Mirotic and Lopez leaped to challenge Thomas near the rim, but he maneuvered the ball back across his body and finished on the right side of the rim as the two Bulls bigs flew the opposite way.

There was a similar drive a short time after in which Thomas muscled home a left-handed layup while drawing contact from Mirotic underneath the basket. Teammates flexed their muscles and pointed at Boston's 5-foot-9 guard from the sideline as play went back up the court.

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Thomas finished with 33 points overall on 10-of-21 shooting with seven assists. He was plus-17 over 35 minutes, 48 seconds of floor time. His efforts helped the Celtics even the best-of-seven, first-round series at 2-2.

Maybe the most remarkable part of Thomas' third-quarter outburst was that it came with four fouls. But as the Bulls made their charge, erasing an 11-point halftime deficit in little more than six minutes, Celtics coach Brad Stevens had no choice but to put Thomas back in the game while hoping to end one of Boston's familiar painful scoring lulls without Thomas (Boston was minus-8 in Game 4 when Thomas was on the bench).

Thomas looked completely unfazed and undeterred by his foul trouble. The Celtics closed the quarter on a 16-5 run, which was enough to keep the Bulls at arm's length in the final frame.

"We were just going to spread the floor out, give [Thomas] space and let him create," Jae Crowder said of Boston's third-quarter run. "At the time we felt like they didn't have an answer for that. ... [Thomas] gets in a zone like that, he scores at will."

Added Avery Bradley: "As a team, I know it helps us feel a lot more confident when he's on the floor."

Sunday's game was the first time Thomas addressed reporters following the death of his younger sister, Chyna, on April 15. Thomas requested only basketball-related questions but hinted occasionally at the emotional turmoil he's enduring.

Stevens said it's "unfathomable" what Thomas is going through and marvels at his ability to play to the level he has in this series given all the emotions he's enduring. Teammates have tried to help Thomas cope with his loss and have been excited to see him smiling more in recent days.

Basketball has been Thomas' sanctuary, a three-hour diversion from trying to come to grips with the death of his sister following a single-vehicle crash.

Thomas' face lit up when talking about his friend Gerald Green, the veteran who has given Boston an unexpected spark after elevating to a starting role in Boston's new small-ball starting five. Green scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half of Sunday's win, helping Boston push its lead as high as 20 before the intermission.

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But it was Thomas' efforts that might have saved the Celtics' season after the Bulls rallied ahead. If Boston doesn't fight back at that point, Chicago emerges with a 3-1 series lead and pushes the Celtics to the brink of elimination.

Instead, Boston packs all the momentum heading to Boston. The loss of Rajon Rondo has left the Bulls unsteady at the point guard position and changed the tenor of the series even before Boston's Game 3 triumph on Friday.

Boston will have home-court advantage for crucial Game 5, though the road team has won all four games in this series. ESPN's Basketball Power Index gives Boston a 69 percent chance to prevail in what's now a best-of-three.

Even BPI's super-computer can't quite calculate how valuable Thomas is to Boston's success. That Hoiberg needed to vent in the aftermath is only a reflection of how difficult it is for opposing teams to slow Thomas.

Yes, when Thomas gets going, it's no laughing matter for the opponent.

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Mr. Kohl- Congress will try to avoid this little thing called a government shutdown. The federal government’s bank account officially dries up this weekend. And getting lawmakers to agree on a budget won’t be easy. 

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Congress returns Tuesday from its spring recess, facing yet another down-to-the-wire spate of deal making - and a White House anxious to claim its first major legislative win.

On Friday night, the funding measure lawmakers approved last year to keep the federal government running will expire. The timing leaves members of the House and Senate just four days to reach a new agreement to fund the government, or risk a partial shutdown of federal agencies on Saturday - the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency.

Ever aware of the consequences, House Speaker Paul Ryan says passing a spending bill is his primary goal this week - even as the White House is urging the GOP to resuscitate last month's failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and the president is making a fresh push on a tax overhaul.

"Wherever we land will be a product the president can and will support," said Ryan of the spending bill during a Saturday afternoon conference call with Republican lawmakers, according to a GOP aide.
Border Wall Funding Fight
A viable spending deal will require both Democratic support and President Trump's ultimate approval, setting a potential political landmine. The White House is signaling that it wants the bill to include new funding to build President Trump's proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border - though it's becoming less clear how far they are willing to push the issue.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says Trump "will be insistent."

"I think it goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall, so I would suspect that he'll do the right thing for sure, but I would suspect that he'll be insistent for funding," Kelly said in an interview Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus echoed that sentiment, appearing Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Preibus said he believes the spending bill will include "something satisfactory" regarding the funding for the border wall. He left some wiggle room for funds to be provided for border security instead of specifically for a wall.

Priebus also declined to say that Trump would veto a bill that didn't include wall funding.

Democrats have for weeks warned against such "poison pill" additions to the spending bill and say they will not support allocating money for Trump's pet project. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer basically told the president to butt out on Sunday.

"We'd ask him to let us do our work, not throw in some last-minute poison pills that could undo it and we could get this done," Schumer told reporters.
GOP Revives Health Care Push
Meanwhile, Ryan says he's encouraged by the GOP's efforts toward writing a new healthcare bill - one aimed at bridging the gaps between centrist Republicans and hardline conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus.

The White House pushed for a vote this week to allow Republicans to move ahead with a tax overhaul and other priorities. But Ryan - having learned the lesson of last month's failed attempt - told Republican lawmakers on Saturday's conference call there will be a vote on a new health care bill only when enough support exists to pass it.

President Trump is driving a hard bargain in trying to force Democrats to the negotiating table. Posting on Twitter Sunday, he appeared to renew his threat to withhold payments owed to health insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act. Such a move would force it to collapse.

ObamaCare is in serious trouble. The Dems need big money to keep it going - otherwise it dies far sooner than anyone would have thought.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2017

But Trump also said in recent days that it didn't much matter whether another health care vote took place before or after his first 100 days were up. "No particular rush. But we'll see what happens," Trump told reporters last week.
Adding A Tax Overhaul To The Agenda
Add to the already packed and complicated congressional agenda this - overhauling the country's tax code.

Congress is taking steps to get the ball rolling on tax legislation. The chief tax-writing committee in the House is set to hold hearings this week on the Republicans' import tax proposal known as the "border adjustment tax."

President Trump says he'll make a "big" tax announcement on Wednesday.

Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced next Wednesday.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2017

Trump told The Associated Press his plan will cut taxes for both individuals and businesses, but it's expected to be more of a broad outline than a specific plan.

As for the timeline, the administration now says it aims to overhaul the country's tax code by late 2017. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin initially set a goal of getting tax reform passed by August. That deadline has slipped on account of the delay caused by the GOP's failed health care bill.

Democrats, on the other hand, say tax reform won't move forward without the president first making his tax returns public - to make clear how he might benefit from the proposed legislation.

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Congress returns Tuesday from its spring recess, facing yet another down-to-the-wire spate of deal making - and a White House anxious to claim its first major legislative win. On Friday night, the funding measure lawmakers approved last year to keep the federal government running will expire.