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On Tuesday, Democrat Danica Roem became America's first transgender law maker and beat a person in her district who had written an anti-transgender bathroom bill.

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History was made in Virginia's state election Tuesday as Democrat Danica Roem became America's first openly transgender state lawmaker and beat a long-serving incumbent in her district who had written an anti-transgender bathroom bill.

Early this year incumbent Republican Bob Marshall sponsored a bill to limit the bathrooms transgender people can use based on their sex at birth.

States across the country have introduced or passed similar bills, and early this year President Donald Trump rolled back Obama era federal rules that let transgender school students use the bathroom of their choice. Civil rights and LGBT rights groups have called bathroom bills regressive and anti-transgender.

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Roem, a Democrat, took 54.14 percent of the vote to Marshall's 45.46 percent, according to the Virginia Department of Elections. Marshall was one of the most conservative and longest serving members of the Virginia House of Delegates, having been in office 12 years.

"To every person who's ever been singled out, who's ever been stigmatized, who's ever been the misfit... This one's for you," Roem said during her victory speech at the Prince William County Democratic Committee victory party as her supporters cheered.

"I believe in building up our infrastructure instead of tearing down each other," Roem said, who was the subject of negative ads run during the campaign targeting transgender issues. "This election has to prove, nation wide that discrimination is a disqualifier," she said. "We can't get lost in discrimination."

Roem ran a campaign pushing for higher teacher pay in Prince William County district's schools, improving the job market, and fixing long-standing traffic problems on the local Route 28 highway.
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Roem's win was part of a big night for Democrats as they took all three statewide races. Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, who was promoted by President Trump, lost out to Democrat Ralph Northam by nearly nine points.

Gillespie ran a campaign that had echoes of Trump's message, focussing on immigration and gang violence by the street gang MS-13. A senior aide to Gillespie on the campaign told CNN that the Virginia election was "a referendum on Donald Trump."

Trump distanced himself from Gillespie in a tweet late Tuesday that said he "did not embrace me or what I stand for."

Democrats secured 13 of the 17 seats they need to get a majority in Virginia's legislature. If they get the other four, it will be the first time in two decades.

"It really is an unprecedented result we're seeing," House Democratic Caucus Leader David Toscano told the Associated Press.

"Obviously, tonight was a difficult night and the outcome is not what anyone expected," said Matt Moran, spokesman for the House Republican Caucus, in a statement after the results began to be posted.

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"This is for the misfits:' How Danica Roem became America's first transgender lawmaker

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History was made in Virginia's state election Tuesday as Democrat Danica Roem became America's first openly transgender state lawmaker and beat a long-serving incumbent in her district who had written an anti-transgender bathroom bill. Early this year incumbent Republican Bob Marshall sponsored a bill to limit the bathrooms transgender people can use based on their sex at birth.

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Democratic LGBT, minority candidates see historic wins but long-term impact on diversity unclear

Durkan became the first-ever openly gay U.S. attorney when she was appointed by President Obama in 2009 to be the U.S. attorney.

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A racist message posted outside an Air Force Academy dorm in September was written by one of the alleged victims, the school confirmed Tuesday, casting blaring initial coverage of the incident -- which lauded the school superintendent's forceful reaction in an apparent bid to ding President Trump -- in a new light. The student who wrote the slurs, which were discovered in September outside the rooms of five black students at an Air Force Academy dormitory in Colorado Springs, Colo., was no longer at the school, the Academy confirmed. A spokesman declined to say whether the student withdrew or was expelled, citing privacy laws. The student’s name was not released.

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A racist message posted outside an Air Force Academy dorm in September was written by one of the alleged victims, the school confirmed Tuesday, casting blaring initial coverage of the incident -- which lauded the school superintendent's forceful reaction in an apparent bid to ding President Trump -- in a new light.

The student who wrote the slurs, which were discovered in September outside the rooms of five black students at an Air Force Academy dormitory in Colorado Springs, Colo., was no longer at the school, the Academy confirmed. A spokesman declined to say whether the student withdrew or was expelled, citing privacy laws. The student's name was not released.

In a written statement Tuesday, the academy said: "We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actually responsible for the act. The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation."
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The surprising announcement was a jarring turn in an episode that prompted the superintendent of the Colorado Springs academy to deliver a stern message warning students that racists were not welcome at the school.

The speech, delivered by Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, attracted nationwide attention and was viewed more than 1 million times on YouTube.

In his remarks, Silveria forced all 4,000 cadets to stand at attention shortly after the slurs were reported.

"Reach for your phones. I'm serious: Reach for your phones...Grab your phones. I want you to videotape this - so that you have it, so that you can use it, so that we all have the moral courage together," Silveria said.

"We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what is going on in our country," Silveria told cadets, referencing the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., Ferguson, Mo., and controversial protests in the NFL in which dozens of players have knelt during the national anthem.

He added: "If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, get out."

A diverse array of political figures, such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, praised the speech, which was reflected in The Washington Post's coverage of the incident.

Media outlets such as The Washington Post, Axios and The New York Times played up coverage of Silveria's five-minute speech, praising the academy's superintendent.

The Washington Post ran an opinion piece, titled "Too bad Trump can't emulate the military when it comes to matters of race." The piece compared Silveria's response to the slur to Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, when a woman protesting white supremacism was killed.

"Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria did naturally what Trump is incapable of doing. The Air Force Academy superintendent answered the hate in his ranks immediately, head-on and with a moral clarity nonexistent in the Oval Office," the piece stated.
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Trump was heavily criticized for his Charlottesville remarks, in which he condemned violence "on many sides" following the incident.

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence - on many sides, on many sides. This has been going on for a long time in our country," Trump said during a press conference.

Following calls from lawmakers to disavow racists and white supremacists, the White House issued a statement.

On Wednesday, the Post covered the academy's investigation but noted "hate crime hoaxes" were rare, according to experts studying the subject.

"These hoaxes have become symbols for some who want to promote the idea that most hate crimes are hoaxes," Brian Levin, the director for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino told Talking Points Memo as reported by the Post. "That's important to rectify."

The Post also noted another incident in Kansas last week where police discovered the owner of a vehicle was responsible for defacing his car with racist graffiti.

The incident outraged students at the nearby Kansas State University, the Kansas City Star reported.

"As a black student who has witnessed racist incidents first-hand around Manhattan this hurts the credibility of students who actually want to step out and say something about it," Andrew Hammond, a student at the university, told the Kansas City Star. "I'm not sure what type of human being does this kind of thing as a prank."

In its morning newsletter the day after Silveria's speech, Axios made the remarks its top item.

"If you're starting to forget what a leader sounds like, we have a refreshing reminder to start your Friday," the report began before highlighting the speech's talking points.

In its newsletter, Axios had not yet covered the school's discovery that one of the alleged victims wrote the racial slurs.

The New York Times covered Silveria's speech as well, calling it a "resounding message." The Times noted Silveria's achievements in the Air Force and the Academy's difficulties with addressing discrimination in past incidents.

As of Wednesday, the Times pulled in a wire story from The Associated Press regarding the investigation.

Despite the hoax, Silveria said Tuesday he stood by his speech.

"Regardless of the circumstances under which those words were written, they were written, and that deserved to be addressed," he said in an email to The Colorado Springs Gazette. "You can never over-emphasize the need for a culture of dignity and respect - and those who don't understand those concepts, aren't welcome here."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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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 11th hour appeal is successful.

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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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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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A 33- year old woman from Pennsylvania shot her "sugar daddy"in his face for ending things with her and then faked a robbery to cover up her crime.

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A Pennsylvania woman shot her "sugar daddy" in the face soon after he broke up with her and then faked a robbery to cover up the crime, prosecutors said Monday.

The relationship between Jennifer Lynn Morrissey, a 33-year-old motorcycle mechanic with a checkered criminal past who has been charged with murder, and Michael McNew, a 64-year-old father and grandfather, was unconventional, but one that seemed to work for them - until it didn't.

According to prosecutors, Morrissey moved into McNew's home outside Trenton, N.J. in 2015. For nearly two years, he bought her presents, paid her bills and even covered any court fees from previous legal woes.

She referred to him as her "sugar daddy," NBC 10 reported.
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But eventually the relationship soured. When McNew tried to end it, Morrissey killed him, prosecutors said.

In August 2017, McNew was found dead at his home with a bullet in his head. Morrissey was charged with criminal homicide.

Police said Morrisey staged the death to look like a burglary gone awry and even buried McNew's cellphone and laptop computer in her current boyfriend's backyard. She also messaged McNew on Facebook after he died to make it look like she didn't know what happened.

To allegedly remove any gun residue from her hands, her boyfriend urinated on her hands, prosecutors said.

Morrissey maintains the shooting death was accidental - a result of what her lawyer called a "kill or be killed" moment, NBC 10 reported.

"She came to her home to retrieve some belongings and struggled over a firearm and Mr. McNew unfortunately was shot and killed," Morrissey's lawyer, Phillip Steinberg, said at a two-hour preliminary hearing on Monday.

Her texting records, however, show a different story, officials said.
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According to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Morrissey sent threatening messages to McNews on Aug. 6 when he told her he was boxing up belonging she'd left at his house and that she was not welcome back in his home.

"Get the gun ready cause I'm coming. I already told you that I'll be there tonight ... guess your [sic] just gonna have to shoot me," one of the texts read, the DA office said. "I'm gonna stab ya."

McNew's body was found Aug. 8 in his Washington Crossing home. An autopsy determined that he died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

"I don't believe she's a victim," the prosecutor said in court on Monday.

Morrissey is back in court on Dec. 8.

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Woman, 33, killed 'sugar daddy' after he ended relationship, prosecutors says

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Missing elderly woman found by drone in North Carolina.

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An elderly woman was found by a drone in a corn field in Randolph County, North Carolina, after the county's sheriff's office investigated a missing person's report.

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Trump is a lock for the 2020 GOP nomination? Of course it's uncertain if this question has a positive answer but a lot of Americans say yes.

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The trouble keeps stacking up for President Donald Trump: No major legislative success on Capitol Hill, pointed criticism from fellow GOP lawmakers and previous Republican presidents blasting his approach to government and a special counsel probe that recently ensnared three campaign advisers and a Democratic sweep of the Nov. 7 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.

For any other president, this would seem like key ingredients for a primary challenge in the next election. But, as America has learned in the year since he was elected, Trump isn't like any other president.

In interviews with nearly three-dozen GOP strategists and fundraisers over the past several tumultuous weeks, virtually everyone told me that - barring some major personal embarrassment in the Russia investigation - they expect Trump to coast to the GOP nomination in 2020.

Yes, there's plenty of handwringing within the GOP about Trump's presidency. Earlier this fall, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse were frequently discussed as potential challengers for Trump. Flake went so far as to say Trump's actions were " inviting a challenge." But lately, the most vocal Trump critics within the GOP, such as Flake and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, are exiting the political stage entirely - and in the process, potentially clearing the way for more Trump loyalists to move to Washington.

"The primary process is going to be dominated, just as it was in 2016, by the most vocal, the most ardent Trump supporters," said Republican strategist Kevin Madden, who advised Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and is a CNN political commentator. If Trump were to draw an opponent, those voters "would be focused on guarding against a primary challenger who could be destructive in the general election."

Trump's political future is, of course, deeply uncertain and could well depend on the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and whether Democrats can retake the House in next year's midterm elections. And modern political history has plenty of examples of incumbent presidents such as Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush staring down primary fights.

But the hurdles to a 2020 primary challenge are vivid when considering a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll that found 91% of Trump voters said they'd vote for him again. That means the idea of another Republican dislodging Trump in the 2020 primary remains, for now, a liberal fantasy -one that vastly underestimates the institutional power of the presidency, the desires of GOP donors, and the fact that the Republican National Committee is essentially built to support the incumbent running for re-election.

"The email lists, the voter files, as well as donor lists - from major donors to low dollar donors - all of that is sitting there (at the RNC) to help the President get re-elected when that time comes," said Henry Barbour, a GOP strategist and longtime RNC member. "There would be plenty of discussion about voter lists and what the RNC controls, but it would be challenging for any (Trump opponent) to get their hands on the best lists that the RNC controls - and that matters."

Spencer Zwick, Romney's former fundraising chairman, said from the money standpoint alone, the hurdles of successfully executing a primary challenge against a sitting president would be daunting.

"Incumbency has a huge advantage as it relates to the money," Zwick said. "All of the money that is being raised today for the party, that's all ultimately going to flow up to the incumbent," he said, pointing to the investments the party is making in its field operation and voter data collection. "They can take advantage of that now, and also in the general election."

Several bundlers who raised money for other GOP candidates in the 2016 cycle also said there is little appetite among donors right now for supporting a Trump challenger. As one donor put it: "It doesn't even rise to the level of discussion." A Republican strategist who opposed Trump in 2016, noted that most donors view a Trump primary challenge as "kamikaze mission"- one that would "just allow a Democrat to win."

The four primary challenges that have occurred since 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took on Lyndon B. Johnson, are a testament to that thinking. Weakened by the Vietnam War, Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. Ford was weak when Ronald Reagan challenged him in 1976; Carter's vulnerability drew Ted Kennedy into the 1980 race. Pat Buchanan's challenge of Bush in 1992 sowed division within the GOP, weakening him in his three-way race with Ross Perot and Bill Clinton in the general election.

"Most primary challenges to an incumbent president have not been successful, but they have been determinative in shaping the outcome of the general election where the incumbent who was challenged lost," said Steve Schmidt, a top strategist for 2008 Republican nominee John McCain and someone who has criticized the President.

Trump has faced a remarkable backlash within his own party during the first year of his presidency. Corker, who is retiring, has questioned the President's stability and competence and referred to the White House as an "adult daycare center."

In an extraordinary speech from the Senate floor as he announced that he would not seek re-election, Flake warned that if the politics of Trump and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon were to triumph, Americans would become a "fearful, backward looking people." But Flake, who has been frequently mentioned as a potential Trump opponent in 2020, acknowledged that he was stepping down, in part, because he was unlikely to win the primary in his own state and was unwilling to do what it would take to win.

Others who have taken on Trump, like McCain and the former Bush presidents are at the stage of their careers that are far beyond presidential politics.

At this moment, Schmidt said, most of the top players in the Republican Party seem paralyzed in their embrace of Trump, shrinking away from the battles he invites with his mocking tweets and criticism of his own party.

To take on Trump in 2020, "You'd need toughness, principle and the communication ability to reunite the conservative movement around the idea of the Republican Party being the party of ideals and solutions-a party that's not run by crazy people," Schmidt said.

"You need someone who's not intimidated by the Breitbart convention, somebody who has the capacity to understand that the power of Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter is illusory," Schmidt said. He described a culture of timidity and fear, where some Republican leaders are acting like "prey animals" who are "constantly skittish, looking nervously over their shoulders for the predator who is about to get them."

Any Trump opponent would also need to match the President's talent for drawing free media and defining the daily narrative. Terry Sullivan, who ran Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign, described the ability to get earned media attention as the top criteria for any Trump foe.

"It's one of these situations where money almost doesn't matter, because you need more than money," Sullivan said. "An ability to get media attention is going to be critical."

"We're in a brave new world of politics these days, so anything is possible," he went on.

Someone like Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner, "who would force Trump into responding-could be a deadly candidate against him," Sullivan said.

Cuban recently said that if he were to run, he would run as a Republican. In an email, he underscored that he was not "committing to anything," and believes "the only smart strategy right now is to not focus on where things are today."

"To me the biggest underlying issue is that it needs to be someone who can stand up to Trump," Cuban said in an email when asked about whether he would entertain a 2020 challenge to Trump. Someone who can "throw punches back harder than him, and spend 100% of their time with his base talking with them one on one, city by city, and letting them see what real respect for their situation is, and what real solutions sounds like."

If Trump does draw a primary challenger, the Reagan-Ford matchup of 1976 serves as a useful historical lesson about the power of incumbency to sway party leaders and delegates.

Reagan's challenge to Ford was so serious that the two men fought it out all the way through the Republican convention, with advisers to both men contemplating a "co-presidency" until that idea was quashed by both sides.

Ford campaign adviser Stu Spencer and Reagan campaign adviser Charlie Black still laugh about their daily battles over delegates during that 1976 campaign cycle. Spencer noted that in Reagan they were facing a far more talented candidate, who was the ideological heir apparent within the party, while Ford was an accidental candidate dealing with all of Richard Nixon's Watergate baggage.

"He had the heart of the party... There were delegates who voted for us in Kansas City (at the convention) who had tears in their eyes, because we used the institution to break through to the party base at the delegate level," Spencer said. "That could mean a hundred different things. You had Air Force One that you could give them a ride on. You've got the Oval Office you could invite them to. If it was a farm vote that you needed, you could get the Secretary of the Agriculture to deliver it."

Black recalled traveling the country during 1976, and visiting an uncommitted delegate at his home in Pennsylvania. "I'd get him leaning toward Reagan, and that person would have dinner at the White House the next night."

"You can use the White House for all kinds of perks," Black said.

In 1976, Ford's aides became experts on the wishes and desires of each delegate that they needed to sway. They arranged interviews for the young relatives of delegates who were seeking jobs in Washington, and engaged in discussions with delegates about who they wanted nominated to serve as judges on the federal bench.

In one case, Spencer told Ford that to win the vote of delegate, he needed to pardon two of the delegate's friends. (Ford said no.)

"The West Wing of the White House when I was doing the Ford campaign thought I was awful - I was making commitments galore," Spencer said. "Trump has no qualms about doing things like that - it's part of his deal-making."

"No matter how unpopular he becomes," Spencer said, "he still has all of those tools."

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The sports network, citing a source with firsthand knowledge, said LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were released on bail after being questioned about stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store near the team hotel. ESPN's LA-based reporter Arash Markazi is covering the team from China.

UCLA is in China for a week-long visit and is scheduled to open its season in Shanghai on Saturday against Georgia Tech. When asked about the arrests at a news conference, UCLA Coach Steve Alford said the players in question would not play in Saturday's game.

Chinese officials wouldn't confirm the ESPN report that Ball, Riley and Hill were arrested. Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry, said the case had been reported to US authorities.

"China is handling this case in accordance with the law, and will guarantee the rights in accordance with the law, for those involved in this case," she said.

Ball's father LaVar, who is in China, released a statement on social media naming the players.

"Ball, Riley and Hill are being required by Hangzhou police to remain at their hotel until the legal process is over, which could take days, weeks or even months," he said. "The hope is obviously sooner rather than later."

LiAngelo Ball is a younger brother of former UCLA star Lonzo Ball, now a rookie with the Los Angeles Lakers.

In a statement on Weibo earlier Wednesday, LaVar Ball called the incident "unfortunate to both the Ball family and UCLA."

Cooperation and consternation

UCLA, one of the United States' premier college basketball programs, says the university is cooperating fully with local authorities.

"We are aware of the matter involving UCLA student-athletes in Hangzhou, China and we are gathering more information," UCLA Associate Director of Athletic Communications Alex Timiraos said in a statement.

Larry Scott, commissioner of the Pacific 12 Conference, of which UCLA is a member, said in a statement that the student-athletes "were involved in a situation" and were cooperating with local authorities.

"We are very disappointed by any situation that detracts from the positive student-athlete educational and cultural experience that this week is about," the statement said. "Whether in the United States or abroad, we expect our student-athletes to uphold the highest standards."

News of the incident broke as US President Donald Trump landed in China, part of a trip to five Asian nations.

A spokesperson from the US State Department told CNN it is "aware of reports of three US citizens arrested in China. We stand ready to provide appropriate consular assistance for US citizens."

Due to privacy considerations, the State Department declined to comment further.

The UCLA team was in Hangzhou to visit the headquarters of Alibaba, the e-commerce giant which is sponsoring Friday's game.

The Ball family

LiAngelo Ball, a freshman, is the middle child of LaVar and Tina Ball. Their youngest son, LaMelo Ball, is in high school.

The outspoken LaVar Ball has made regular headlines with his provocative comments since eldest son Lonzo began starring at UCLA last year. A former college basketball player who has been training his sons since they were kids, LaVar Ball said he could beat Michael Jordan one-on-one and that Lonzo, while still in college, was better than two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry.

Lavar also predicted all his sons will eventually play for the Lakers.

He is already a third of the way there. Lonzo Ball was selected second overall by the Lakers in the 2017 NBA draft and is seen as a building block for the team's future.

The family stars in its own reality show on Facebook, " Ball in the Family," and boasts an athletic apparel line, Big Baller Brand. Its first sneaker, the ZO2, raised eyebrows when it was priced at $495.

LaVar, Tina and LaMelo Ball went to China to watch LiAngelo play his first game as a Bruin and promote the opening of a Big Baller Brand pop-up shop in Shanghai.

CNN's Michelle Kosinski, Keith Allen, Steven Jiang and Serenitie Wang contributed to this report

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Gruesome pictures given to Fox News show the mass slaughter of whales and dolphins in a series of hunts in the waters around the Faroe Islands this summer.

The pictures were taken by volunteers from ocean conservation group Sea Shepherd Global posing as tourists on the Faroe Islands. The group told Fox News that its volunteers participated in "covert land-based patrols" to document the hunts over a 10-week period from July to early September this year.

The project's goal was to expose "the continued barbaric killing of dolphins and pilot whales by the Faroese," according to Shepherd UK Director Rob Read, in a statement emailed to Fox News. Some 18 volunteers from the U.K. and France took part, he added.
GRUESOME PIC SHOWS MASS SLAUGHTER OF WHALES IN FAROE ISLANDS HUNT
The hunts, or "drives" date back to the late 16 th century. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a 'spinal lance' that is inserted through the animal's neck to break its spinal cord.

Sea Shepherd Global said that its volunteers documented 9 separate hunts, which are known as grindadrap in the local Faroese language. The 9 hunts accounted for the deaths of 198 Atlantic white-sided dolphins and 436 pilot whales, according to the conservation group.

The Faroe Islands government slammed Sea Shepherd's activities in a statement emailed to Fox News. "Sea Shepherd representatives will go to any lengths to paint a negative picture of the Faroese whale hunt as 'barbaric', 'unnecessary', 'evil' and 'lunacy' describing Faroese as 'sadistic psychopaths', with the aim of inciting anger and outrage against the people of the Faroe Islands," it said. "They have chosen an easy target, as whale drives in the Faroe Islands take place in the open for anyone to watch and document."
'UNPRECEDENTED' ORCA HUNTING FRENZY CAPTURED ON FILM
The government noted that whale meat and blubber of pilot whales have long been a valued part of the Faroes' national diet. "Catches are shared largely without the exchange of money among the participants in a whale drive and residents of the local district where they are landed," it said. "Each whale provides the communities with several hundred kilos of meat and blubber - meat that otherwise had to be imported from abroad."

One Sea Shepherd volunteer, whose identity has been withheld by Sea Shepherd Global, described the Aug. 29 hunt at the Faroese village of Hvannasund.

"Witnessing a grind first hand was truly an eye-opening experience," explained the volunteer, in a statement provided to Fox News. "As the pilot whales were driven to the shoreline by the small boats the intensity of the thrashing bodies grew. Hooks were sunk into the blowholes and the whales were dragged onto the shore in a sadistic game of 'Tug of War.' We witnessed whales seemingly bashing their heads against the stones in a frenzy."
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Sea Shepherd Global says that 46 long-finned pilot whales were killed in the Aug. 29 Hvannasund hunt.

An unnamed eyewitness also described a hunt at the village of Bour on Aug. 31, where 29 long-finned pilot whales were reportedly killed. "We recorded children attempting to remove the teeth of several whales with nothing more than a pocket knife as well as removing slices of what appeared to be a tumour on one whale," said the Sea Shepherd volunteer, in a statement.

Around 1,700 pilot whales and white-sided dolphins (including the aforementioned hunts) have been caught in the Faroe Islands so far this year, according to the Faroe Islands government. "The annual long-term average catch of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is around 800 whales, with large fluctuations in total catches and the number of individual whale drives from year to year," it added.
MYSTERIOUS OCTOPUS INVASION ROCKS BEACH IN WALES
Official s tatistics show that 295 pilot whales were killed last year and 501 were killed in 2015.

Faroese authorities say that whaling on the islands is sustainable. "The long-term annual average catch of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands represents less that 1% of the total estimated stock," said the islands government, in its statement emailed to Fox News. "It has long since been internationally recognised that pilot whale catches in the Faroe Islands are fully sustainable."

The hunts can happen at any time of the year and the long-finned pilot whales are not an endangered species.
FISHERMAN CATCHES FISH THAT GREW AROUND A DRINK WRAPPER
The 'spinal lance' used to kill the whales was designed by a Faroese veterinarian and ensures that the mammals lose consciousness and die within a few seconds, a spokesman for the Faroe Islands government told Fox News earlier this year. An entire pod of whales is typically killed in less than fifteen minutes, he said.

The islands' government says that the pilot whale population in the eastern North Atlantic is approximately 778,000, of which around 100,000 are around the Faroes.

"Sheep farming, whaling and fowling have enabled the Faroe Islands as an island nation to maintain a relatively high degree of self-sufficiency in food production," said the government, in its statement to Fox News. "In the Faroe Islands it is considered both economic and environmental good sense to make the most of locally available natural resources, and to maintain the knowledge required to use what nature can provide in a harsh oceanic environment."
TEEN GIRL SURVIVES 'JAWS'-LIKE SHARK ATTACK IN AUSTRALIA
The Faroes are a self-governing group of islands that is part of Denmark, but are not part of the European Union, where whaling is banned.

Activists have been urging the European Union to take action against Denmark over the Faroe Islands' whale hunts.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Gruesome pictures given to Fox News show the mass slaughter of whales and dolphins in a series of hunts in the waters around the Faroe Islands this summer. The pictures were taken by volunteers from ocean conservation group Sea Shepherd Global posing as tourists on the Faroe Islands.

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Woman in New York kayak murder case sentenced to 4 years in prison for fiance's death

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A woman who pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of her fiancé during a 2015 kayaking trip on the Hudson River in New York was sentenced to four years in prison today.

Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill said four years was the maximum sentence allowed for the charge, and acknowledged that Graswald had already been in custody for the past two years. In addition to her sentence, Graswald was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

Graswald and her fiancé, 46-year-old Vince Viafore, were kayaking on the Hudson River on April 19, 2015, when his kayak capsized and he disappeared, authorities said. Graswald was arrested and charged a few weeks later. Viafore's body was recovered on May 23, 2015.

Graswald, a 37-year-old native of Latvia, was originally charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2015, and had pleaded not guilty to both charges. Weeks before the case was set to go to trial, Graswald reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to the lesser felony charge of negligent homicide in July, in which she admitted she should have perceived the risks of the dangers out on the water that day. She has always maintained she never intended to kill Viafore.

Graswald appeared calm when her attorneys brought her into the courtroom today and she stayed silent when Viafore's sister, Laura Rice, shared a statement in court. Rice described her younger brother as a "caring person" who "touched many lives," adding that he was someone who loved to cook and had mastered smoked ribs.

"As for my mother ...this is truly one of the most devastating experiences a mother could go to," Rice said.

Shortly after the judge announced her sentence, Graswald was led out of the courtroom.

Prosecutors claimed Graswald removed a plug from Viafore's kayak, causing the kayak to take on water and sink.

In a nearly 12-hour taped interrogation by police 10 days after Viafore disappeared, Graswald repeatedly denied killing her fiancé and said her desperate calls to 911 were real. She also said during that interrogation, in which she practiced various yoga poses, that she was "OK" with Viafore's death and "wanted him dead."

Graswald told ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas in a November 2015 jailhouse interview that she was at her "breaking point" during the taped police interrogation.

"They kept me asking me the same questions like a hundred times. I knew that I was innocent," Graswald told Vargas at the time. "I was at my breaking point ... I just gave them what they wanted."

She also denied to ABC News' "20/20" that she had removed the plug from Viafore's kayak with the intent to kill him, saying, "No, I did not."

"I didn't kill him. ... I loved him," Graswald said at the time. "I'm not a killer. I'm a good person."

ABC News' Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.

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A woman who pleaded guilty to charges related to the death of her fiancé during a 2015 kayaking trip on the Hudson River in New York was sentenced to four years in prison today. Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill said four years was the maximum sentence allowed for the charge, and acknowledged that Graswald had already been in custody for the past two years.

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racist graffiti on an air force academy was done by a black cadet.

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Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria told cadets to line up and pull out their phones to remember his message, and he forcefully denounced racism and intolerance.

"If you're outraged by those words, then you're in the right place. That kind of behavior has no place at the Prep School," Silveria said.

The speech was posted on Air Force Academy's Facebook page and quickly went viral. The Air Force launched an internal investigation to find the culprit.

But on Tuesday, Air Force Academy officials said that one of the black cadet candidates actually wrote the racist messages.

"We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside their dorm room was actually responsible for the act," the Academy said in a written statement. "The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation."

The vandalism was written in black marker and said "Go home" with the N-word, according to CNN affiliate KRDO.

Lt. Col. Allen Herritage, director of public affairs with the Academy, said that the cadet responsible admitted his guilt when confronted. The individual has "received administrative punishment" and is no longer at the preparatory school, Herritage said.

The four other students that were the target of the vandalism are still at the Prep School, which is on the same campus in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the Air Force Academy. The Prep School helps ready about 240 cadets each year to enter the academy.

'This is our institution'

Silveria, the Academy's superintendent, made clear in his speech in September that there would be no tolerance for racist rhetoric at the Academy.

"If you can't treat someone from another gender, whether that's a man or a woman, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out," he said. "If you demean someone in any way, then you need to get out. And if you can't treat someone from another race or different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out."

"This is our institution, and no one can take away our values," Silveria added. "No one can write on a board and question our values. No one can take that away from us."

Although the hateful graffiti was revealed to be a hoax, the Air Force Academy affirmed that same message of dignity respect in a statement on Tuesday.

"Racism has no place at the Academy, in any shape or form. We will continue to create a climate of dignity and respect for all, encourage ideas that do so, and hold those who fail to uphold these standards accountable."

Silveria said in a statement on Tuesday that his speech remained relevant despite the investigation's outcome.

"Regardless of the circumstances under which those words were written, they were written, and that deserved to be addressed," he said. "You can never overemphasize the need for a culture of dignity and respect and those who don't understand those concepts aren't welcome here."

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Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria told cadets to line up and pull out their phones to remember his message, and he forcefully denounced racism and intolerance. "If you're outraged by those words, then you're in the right place. That kind of behavior has no place at the Prep School," Silveria said.

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A former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash .

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Roy Halladay reached the pinnacle of his profession on an 85-degree night in Miami in May 2010, when he dominated the Florida Marlins over two hours, 13 minutes for the 20th perfect game in MLB history. Three months later, he commemorated the occasion by giving 60 Philadelphia Phillies teammates, coaches, the training staff and other support personnel engraved Baume & Mercier watches in boxes with the inscription, "We did it together. Thanks, Roy Halladay."

Many of the 60 recipients committed to wearing the watches in subsequent years, because Halladay was such an authentic sort and he wouldn't have made such a heartfelt gesture for strictly ceremonial purposes. The perfect game was a team achievement, in his eyes, so it would have been disrespectful to just bring the keepsakes home and leave them in a box.

"I still wear my watch all the time," said former Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. "My brother David got me a Rolex one year and he said, 'How come you don't wear my watch?' And I said, 'I don't wear your watch because Roy Halladay gave me this watch.'"

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Baseball received a gut punch of indescribable magnitude Tuesday afternoon with the news that Halladay, 40, had died in a plane crash off the Florida coast. Circumstances are different in each case and the vigil is more excruciating while playing out on social media, but the announcement from the Pasco County Sheriff's office left the same sad, helpless void that accompanied the passing of Thurman Munson, Darryl Kile, Steve Olin and Tim Crews, Jose Fernandez and so many other young ballplayers who have died before their time. Hauntingly, Halladay shared the same fate as his former Toronto and Philadelphia teammate, pitcher Cory Lidle, who died in a single-engine plane crash in New York City in 2006.

As the Halladay career retrospectives play out, baseball fans in Toronto can feel justified to call dibs on his legacy. Halladay was selected by Toronto as the 17th pick in the 1995 draft, won his first Cy Young Award as a Blue Jay, made six of his eight All-Star appearances in the city, and logged 148 of his 203 career wins as a member of the organization.

So why did so many of the initial reactions make reference to "former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay''? That's a byproduct of the impact he had as a role model and centerpiece for a franchise that was baseball's crown jewel from 2007 through 2011.

Halladay was 32 years old, with more than 2,000 innings worth of mileage on his right arm, when Amaro acquired him from Toronto in December 2009 for prospects Kyle Drabek, Travis d'Arnaud and Michael Taylor. Cole Hamels was a budding ace at the time, but Halladay arrived in spring training with a new-sheriff-in-town demeanor and set a tone that resonated through the Philadelphia clubhouse.

"As a teammate, you hear that he's a hard worker. But holy smokes," said former Phillies closer Brad Lidge. "I would get to the clubhouse early on certain days and feel like I was going to be the first guy there. And sure enough, I would pop into the training room and he would already be icing from his two-hour workout.

"I think people really feel good when somebody who works that hard gets rewarded. To see the success he had, it makes you feel like everything was right with the baseball world. A guy works that hard, cares that much, puts that much effort out there and does well. That feels right, to me, and I think it resonates with a lot of people."

Lidge, a product of Cherry Creek, Colorado, grew up playing youth ball against Halladay, from nearby Arvada, and he could empathize with the expectations Halladay lugged around as a baseball prodigy. It wasn't always easy being Roy Halladay, the hot-shot talent with the electric arm and that classic, rangy, pitcher's build. Halladay endured his share of arm injuries and demotions and ultimately had to learn his craft and reinvent himself to put up a resume worthy of Hall of Fame consideration.

The early lessons stuck with him. There were times, even when Halladay was entrenched as one of the elite pitchers in the game, that he seemed burdened by self-imposed expectations.

"He was the single most accountable, conscientious, hardworking, dedicated player I've ever been around," Amaro said. "He was the most competitive on the mound, and yet the kindest and gentlest person off the mound that you could imagine. That kind of person is so rare.

"I remember him sending me text messages at times. He would come out of a game with a no-decision, and he would text me and say, 'I'm sorry I let you down.' He was pitching with a blown-out groin in San Francisco [in the 2010 NLCS] and he gave up a couple of home runs, and he texted me and said, 'I'm so sorry I let you down, Ruben.' I thought to myself, 'Don't you realize who you are and what you've done and how grateful I am? I should be apologizing to you for us not rallying around you.'"

From one day to the next, in the quiet of the Philadelphia clubhouse, Halladay always seemed to be in motion. If he wasn't immersed in video, he was sweating from a workout or ironing out the kinks in a bullpen side session. He was the pitching equivalent to second baseman Chase Utley, whose preparation was so obsessive, he never seemed to have time to stop and enjoy the perks of the surroundings.

"He had Kevin Brown stuff and Greg Maddux focus," former Phillies reliever Chad Durbin said of Halladay. "When he would walk by you -- after a 6 a.m. workout in spring training when stretching wasn't until 10 -- you'd think, 'That's what you would draw up a pitcher to look like: 6-foot-6, wide shouldered, with tree trunks for legs.' Then you'd see him on the team plane with two laptops and a tablet open in front of him, watching all the at-bats of the guys he was going to face and taking extensive notes."

Halladay's devotion to routine made Philadelphia's pitching coach, Rich Dubee, wonder about the best way for opposing lineups to attack him.

"I always felt the best way to beat Roy Halladay was to send up nine hitters he had never seen," Dubee said. "That might have thrown him off a little bit. That was about the only time you saw him a little bit uncomfortable on the mound."

Halladay was quiet, on the introverted side, and he had some geek in him. He liked to play with remote control planes in the clubhouse and tinker with classic cars. His teammates recall how he learned to fly airplanes with the same passion and eye for detail that he invested in his pitching.

In his final season with the Phillies, Halladay pitched through injuries that might have prompted other multimillionaire ballplayers to put away their spikes and go home. He retired in 2013 as a Blue Jay after signing a one-day contract with Toronto. But Amaro would invite him back to talk to the young pitchers at Phillies spring training, and Halladay liked to pass out copies of Harvey Dorfman's book "The Mental ABC's of Pitching" -- his professional bible -- and share the accrued wisdom from all his successes and failures in the game. As the kids sat and watched, wide-eyed, his reputation preceded him.

The sadness that Halladay's playing peers feel today reflects a wistful familiarity. They were brothers who played and lived alongside him from February through September, saw him on his worst days and his best, and found his commitment to the game and his authenticity uplifting.

"He was the ultimate professional and the ultimate teammate," Dubee said. "And he was just becoming the ultimate dad, I think. Now he's gone -- way, way too soon."

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11:20 PM ET Jerry CrasnickESPN Senior Writer Close ESPN.com senior writer Author of "License to Deal" Former Denver Post national baseball writer Roy Halladay reached the pinnacle of his profession on an 85-degree night in Miami in May 2010, when he dominated the Florida Marlins over two hours, 13 minutes for the 20th perfect game in MLB history.

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Obama celebrated with democrats celebrating their party elector Ralph Northam and Phil Murphy

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"This is what happens when the people vote. Congrats @RalphNortham and @PhilMurphyNJ . And congratulations to all the victors in state legislative, county and mayors' races. Every office in a democracy counts!" Obama tweeted.

Northam won the Virginia governor's race and Murphy took a New Jersey governor's office that had been in Republican Chris Christie's hands for eight years.

Former Vice President Joe Biden also tweeted congratulations, writing, "A resounding defeat tonight for President Trump. Voters around the country rejected the ugly politics we have seen this past year. Instead, they chose candidates who unite and inspire us."

He continued by individually congratulating Democratic candidates who won across the country so far, including those in mayoral and statehouse contests.

Virginia's gubernatorial contest was the first major test of Democrats' ability to rebound after Trump's victory. Both Obama and Biden, who are showing an appetite to play surrogate roles in 2018, campaigned for Northam in the race leading up to the election.

Hillary Clinton retweeted herself on Tuesday night, reminding her followers of her tweet she sent a day after she lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump.

She retweeted herself saying, "Yes!" to a tweet where she wrote, "Scripture tells us: Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."

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Obama: 'This is what happens when the people vote'

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"This is what happens when the people vote. Congrats @RalphNortham and @PhilMurphyNJ . And congratulations to all the victors in state legislative, county and mayors' races. Every office in a democracy counts!" Obama tweeted. Northam won the Virginia governor's race and Murphy took a New Jersey governor's office that had been in Republican Chris Christie's hands for eight 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 11th hour appeal is successful.

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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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the first cold front moved thought the mid west and mid east Tuesday night it snowed in Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley of New York and into Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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The first cold front of the season moved through the Northeast on Tuesday night bringing the first snow of the season to Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley of New York and into Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Temperatures in the Northeast on Wednesday will barely reach above 50 degrees in many areas. The highs for New York City and Philadelphia are forecast to be 52, with Boston reaching just 45.

But expect even colder weather as we get into the weekend.

A second cold front of arctic origin is forecast to bring record-cold morning temperatures to the Northeast this Saturday morning.

With the arctic air, snow will be flying from the Midwest into the Northeast, especially near the relatively mild Great Lakes.

The arctic front will move into the Midwest first Wednesday night into Thursday, bringing the coldest air since last winter.

The temperatures Friday morning in some areas of Minnesota could be below zero, with teens as far south as the northern Chicago suburbs.

Arctic air reaches the Northeast Friday afternoon and evening.

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Snow is expected from Minnesota to Michigan and into the Northeast as the arctic from moves through. Winter Storm Warnings have been issued for Wisconsin and Michigan for as much as a foot of lake effect snow.

New western storm

A new storm system is moving into the West today, bringing heavy rain to northern California and parts of southern Oregon.

Gusty winds up to 60 mph are possible along the West Coast with this new storm.

San Francisco will begin to see rain Wednesday evening and into the night. Some flash flooding and debris flow is possible in the recently burned areas.

Some areas in northern California could see up to 6 inches of rain, with 30 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Cascades.

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The first cold front of the season moved through the Northeast on Tuesday night bringing the first snow of the season to Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley of New York and into Massachusetts and Connecticut. Temperatures in the Northeast on Wednesday will barely reach above 50 degrees in many areas....

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A black race car driving is getting raciest social media threats that he's not good enough for NASCAR.

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He was just a teenager, only 14 years old, when it first happened.

Darrell "Bubba" Wallace had won a race at Franklin County Speedway in Callaway, Virginia, on a tiny ⅜-mile asphalt track. On the cool-down lap after taking the checkered flag, Wallace, whose father is white and mother is black, gazed into the grandstand. An older man stared back at him, his eyes afire with anger, and held up his middle finger. Wallace flashed him a thumbs-up sign.

Even now, it still happens. On social media, faceless racists will tell Wallace that there are "no blacks allowed in NASCAR" and that he should "go back to where you belong." Wallace reads every hateful word, devouring them like nourishment. Why? Because it gives him that extra gear of motivation to become the fastest and most fearless stock car driver of his generation.

Wallace is sharing these stories as he's cruising through the North Carolina countryside on a blue-sky afternoon in his white Ford F-150 truck. It's mid-October, and he's a few days away from being named the driver of No. 43 Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2018 season, days away from becoming the first full-time African-American driver at NASCAR's top level in 46 years. He is, he understands, days away from history.

"I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR," Wallace says from behind the wheel. "All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out. I'll confront them and tell them that they messed with the wrong person."

Indeed, never underestimate this 24-year-old driver. And even if you're not a fan of NASCAR, it's time for you to know Bubba Wallace. Because in 2018, in a sport watched by many fans who proudly fly the Confederate flag from the back of their pickup trucks, Wallace will represent something much larger than being the driver of the iconic No. 43 car Richard Petty made famous in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, a car which Petty piloted to Victory Lane a record 200 times.

Bubba will be the face of change in NASCAR.

Even before he was born, they called him Bubba. His older sister, Brittany, asked her pregnant mother if she was going to have a boy and to give her a baby "Bubba." The name stuck.

Bubba was nine when his father, Darrell Sr., took him to a go-kart race at a local track near their home in Concord, North Carolina. Sitting in the grandstand, little Bubba was mesmerized by it all: the thump of horsepower on his chest, the smell of burnt rubber and the raw speed of the machines.

"Would you like to do that?" Darrell Sr. asked his son as they watched the race. Little Bubba nodded his head. So it began.

His father, who owns an industrial cleaning company, bought him a go-kart, and Bubba would tear around the family's circular driveway in Concord, which sat in the heart of NASCAR country, only 15 miles from the house of Dale Earnhardt Sr. Bubba also roared across the family's four acres of property, imagining he was charging to a checkered flag.

At his first race in Jasper, Florida, Bubba was running in last place and was so out of control that he drove off the track, went over a dirt barrier and took flight.

"I thought I was going to die when I went off the track," Bubba says. "It looked to me like I was going to hit a Tahoe that was on the other side of the fence. But I had a soft landing. I did mangle my kart pretty good. So I took a hammer to it and fixed it."

Even though he wrecked, Bubba became hooked on racing. He quit playing AAU basketball to focus on his new love.

"My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing," he says. "It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different."

Desiree Wallace first saw her son race a few months later at a track in Virginia. Before Bubba's heat, she spotted a young driver tumble out of his go-kart and roll across the track. He was unhurt, but it unnerved her. (Bubba went on to win his heat.)

"After that race, I asked Bubba if he was afraid to go fast," Desiree says. "And he just looked at me and said, 'Mom, you can't be afraid to go fast. You have to have no fear.' And that's when I knew that Bubba had a chance to go far in racing. He was just fearless out there and really aggressive."

But Desiree also heard the N-word tossed around at the track by fans.

"Bubba had never heard that word until he got into racing," Desiree says. "I told him what it meant, and that there will be people who will be against him just because of his skin color. But I emphasized that he needed to prove he belonged by getting out there and kicking some butt. I've told him repeatedly that he's going to have to outwork everyone else because this is a white man's sport. I never sugarcoated anything to Bubba."

Darrell Sr. spent as much as $250,000 a year to finance his son's burgeoning racing career. At 16, Bubba won his first race in NASCAR's K&N Pro Series. At 18, he competed in four races in the Xfinity Series-the Triple-A of NASCAR-and notched three top-10 finishes. By then, it was clear he possessed the racing smarts, the hand-eye-foot coordination, the sense of anticipation and the aggressiveness to race at NASCAR's top level.

"What makes Darrell so good is that he always gets the most out of his car and makes really good decisions on the track," says Ryan Blaney, a Cup driver who has been racing against Wallace since they were both 10. "He overachieves with his equipment, and that's really the best thing a driver can do."

Wallace's big opportunity arrived this season when Cup driver Aric Almirola fractured a vertebra in his back in a harrowing accident on May 13 at Kansas Speedway. Car owner Richard Petty tapped Wallace to replace Almirola for four starts.

"My first start was at Pocono [Raceway], and that's always been my worst track," Wallace says. "I got speeding penalties on pit road and really struggled." He finished 26th and a lap down. He was so exhausted after the race that he passed out on pit road, requiring medical attention.

But over the next three weeks, Wallace steadily improved. In his final race with Petty Motorsports in 2017, he finished 11th at Kentucky Speedway and showed his future boss that he was ready for a full-time ride.

"Darrell was patient when he needed to be at that Kentucky race, and he knew when he needed to charge," Petty says. "The color of his skin is immaterial to me. That didn't influence my decision to hire him at all. I looked at one thing, and that was his talent and the fact that he got better each time he was out on the track. We've been a team that has finished anywhere from 15th to 20th. With Bubba driving this car, I think we can move to the 10th to 15th area and hopefully compete for a few wins.

"And I'm telling you, Bubba can be the next star in our sport. He has as much talent off the track in dealing with the media and sponsors as he does on it. He's going to be a special one."

Bubba Wallace knows the story of Wendell Scott, the details burned into his memory. Once a week, he talks or texts with Wendell Scott Jr., the son of one of NASCAR's first black drivers.

"I've become like a big brother to Darrell," says Scott Jr., whose father made 495 starts in NASCAR's top series between 1961 and '73. "Darrell understands that he's now tied to my father. Every day when Darrell gets up, Wendell Scott will be in his life."

Back in the 1950s and '60s, racing with borrowed equipment and having his two sons act as his pit crew, Scott endured multiple acts of discrimination. At one event, NASCAR officials told Scott-an Army veteran of World War II-that black drivers weren't allowed to compete. At other races, drivers deliberately tried and often were able to wreck him.

Still, Scott won multiple regional races throughout the South, his skill as a driver and mechanic undeniable. He was finally allowed to race in all-white NASCAR in 1954. Then-NASCAR Chairman Bill France promised him that he would always be treated with respect and fairness. France even handed Wallace money out of his pocket to help him.

And Scott was treated like a regular driver-most of the time. At a race at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1963, Scott passed Richard Petty with 25 laps remaining to seize the lead. Scott then charged to the checkered flag, becoming the first black driver to win a NASCAR race. But the track announcer declared to the crowd that Buck Baker, who had come in second, had actually crossed the finish line first. It took NASCAR two years to officially award the victory to Scott. His family didn't receive the trophy for the victory until 2010-two decades after Scott's death.

"I definitely feel like I'm carrying on the legacy of the Scott family," Wallace says. "What Wendell had to go through was extremely difficult, but he kept racing, kept fighting. Part of him will be with me when I'm out on the track."

They walked through the infield of Daytona International Speedway, just two best friends looking to mingle with fans.

This was three years ago in July, and Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney approached a group that had a Confederate flag flying above their motorhome. As flames from a nearby fire sparkled in the summer air, the well-lubricated fans played a game called "Redneck Jenga," where oversized pieces of wood are stacked and then pulled apart one at a time.

So what did Wallace do? Avert his eyes and move on? Pretend like he didn't notice the flag?

"We started playing 'Redneck Jenga' with them and the fans were great," he says. "The whole thing fell down when I pulled a piece out. They thought it was the funniest thing ever."

For 30 minutes, Wallace then spoke with the fans, signing autographs and sharing stories under the flag.

Richard Petty recently said he would fire anyone on his team who wouldn't stand for the national anthem. Would Wallace ever consider taking a knee like dozens of NFL players to protest police brutality?

"I would never do that," Wallace says. "I've stood for the national anthem ever since grade school. It's a patriotic thing for me. I understand what Colin Kaepernick and others are doing, but it's not for me. The most important thing to me is just doing my job as a race car driver. That's it."

The race car driver is on the first-hole tee box at Birkdale Golf Club in Huntersville, North Carolina. He closes his eyes to envision his first shot-but his thoughts quickly drift to the matter of history.

"I know I've got a special role to play because of the color of my skin," Wallace continues. "Black kids can relate to the NFL and NBA because those leagues have players in them that look like them. NASCAR doesn't. The No. 1 greatest obstacle to minorities making it in NASCAR is the cost. But I hope to be a face that inspires young black kids."

Wallace steps to his ball, rears back his driver and smacks a thing of beauty down the middle of the fairway. It carries 270 yards.

He smiles, then hops into his golf cart. He challenges a friend in another cart to a race to their golf balls.

It isn't even close: Bubba leaves him in a swirl of dust.

Lars Anderson is a senior writer at B/R Mag. A 20-year veteran of Sports Illustrated, Anderson is the New York Times best-selling author of eight books, most recently The Quarterback Whisperer. Follow him on Twitter: @LarsAnderson71.
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He was just a teenager, only 14 years old, when it first happened. Darrell "Bubba" Wallace had won a race at Franklin County Speedway in Callaway, Virginia, on a tiny ⅜-mile asphalt track. On the cool-down lap after taking the checkered flag, Wallace, whose father is white and mother is black, gazed into the grandstand.

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Two North Carolina police officers are being hailed for helping a mother in need who was caught shoplifting food for her child.

The Hillsborough Police Department said Senior Corporal Keith Bradshaw and Officer First Class Candace Spragins responded to a report of a woman stealing groceries from Food Lion on Saturday.

The responding officers located the woman at her home, and she returned the $36 worth of food she had stolen for herself and her child, police said.

"This was not a crime out of greed but one seen as necessary by a mother trying to feed a child," the Hillsborough Police Department wrote in a Facebook post. "Although the officers had to criminally charge her with the theft, they took it upon themselves to go back to the store and buy $140 in groceries, bringing the groceries to the hungry family."

Bradshaw and Spragins delivered the items to her home and were later hailed by the community when their story was shared on Facebook.

"Sometimes police work is not cut and dry. We are people first and cops second," the post read.

The Hillsborough Police Department has asked people who want to help the family to donate food or funds to local food banks and social services "to ensure that maximum gain be achieved from this random act of kindness."

"We had an overwhelming outpouring of offers to help her and we are referring all offers to local food banks, shelters, and social services for foster children," Hillsborough Police Patrol Commander Lieutenant Davis Trimmer told ABC News. "[She] has gotten help and will be directed to programs that are local that can assist her in the future."

The woman has been charged with misdemeanor larceny, Trimmer said, and a court date has not yet been set.

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A 34Pennsylvania woman and motorcycle mechanic shot her "sugar daddy", Michael McNew, 64, after he broke up with her. She attempted to cover it up as a robbery. She was charged with criminal homicide.

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A Pennsylvania woman shot her "sugar daddy" in the face soon after he broke up with her and then faked a robbery to cover up the crime, prosecutors said Monday.

The relationship between Jennifer Lynn Morrissey, a 33-year-old motorcycle mechanic with a checkered criminal past who has been charged with murder, and Michael McNew, a 64-year-old father and grandfather, was unconventional, but one that seemed to work for them - until it didn't.

According to prosecutors, Morrissey moved into McNew's home outside Trenton, N.J. in 2015. For nearly two years, he bought her presents, paid her bills and even covered any court fees from previous legal woes.

She referred to him as her "sugar daddy," NBC 10 reported.
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But eventually the relationship soured. When McNew tried to end it, Morrissey killed him, prosecutors said.

In August 2017, McNew was found dead at his home with a bullet in his head. Morrissey was charged with criminal homicide.

Police said Morrisey staged the death to look like a burglary gone awry and even buried McNew's cellphone and laptop computer in her current boyfriend's backyard. She also messaged McNew on Facebook after he died to make it look like she didn't know what happened.

To allegedly remove any gun residue from her hands, her boyfriend urinated on her hands, prosecutors said.

Morrissey maintains the shooting death was accidental - a result of what her lawyer called a "kill or be killed" moment, NBC 10 reported.

"She came to her home to retrieve some belongings and struggled over a firearm and Mr. McNew unfortunately was shot and killed," Morrissey's lawyer, Phillip Steinberg, said at a two-hour preliminary hearing on Monday.

Her texting records, however, show a different story, officials said.
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According to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Morrissey sent threatening messages to McNews on Aug. 6 when he told her he was boxing up belonging she'd left at his house and that she was not welcome back in his home.

"Get the gun ready cause I'm coming. I already told you that I'll be there tonight ... guess your [sic] just gonna have to shoot me," one of the texts read, the DA office said. "I'm gonna stab ya."

McNew's body was found Aug. 8 in his Washington Crossing home. An autopsy determined that he died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

"I don't believe she's a victim," the prosecutor said in court on Monday.

Morrissey is back in court on Dec. 8.

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Nutella underwent a secret recipe change, and now fans are going nuts.

The change was first noticed by German consumer group, Hamburg Consumer Protection Centre, who revealed that Nutella now contains 8.7 percent powdered skimmed milk - up from 7.5 percent before - and has increased its sugar content from 55.9 percent to 56.3 percent.

Ferrero, the Italian company that makes Nutella, confirmed the watchdog organizations suspicions. However, they said the consumer would notice no difference to the taste and quality of the product - despite the fact that the product is lighter due to more powdered milk and less cacao.
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"The quality, the sourcing and all other aspects of Nutella ingredients remain the same," Ferrero said, the Telegraph reported, "The ingredients list is, as usual, displayed on the jar and on the Nutella webpage. All relevant aspects, from a diet perspective, are the same."

The company defended its decision saying that other companies frequently make modifications to their products.

That did little to assuage Nutella lovers across the world, who took to social media to express their outrage over the recipe alteration.

"Are we gonna talk about how Nutella has changed its recipe and now looks and tastes different or ??? #notokay" one woman wrote on Twitter.
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Another wrote, "OMG!! They are changing the recipe of #Nutella !!! NOOOOOOOO HOW DARE THEY!! Leave the sugar & coco alone!!!"

One particularly angered person tweeted, "If the rumours of Nutella changing their recipe are true, I'm boycotting them."

The company has not yet said why they decided to alter the beloved recipe.

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Nutella underwent a secret recipe change, and now fans are going nuts. The change was first noticed by German consumer group, Hamburg Consumer Protection Centre, who revealed that Nutella now contains 8.7 percent powdered skimmed milk - up from 7.5 percent before - and has increased its sugar content from 55.9 percent to 56.3 percent.

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A Pennsylvania woman shot her "sugar daddy" in the face soon after he broke up with her and then faked a robbery to cover up the crime, prosecutors said Monday.

The relationship between Jennifer Lynn Morrissey, a 33-year-old motorcycle mechanic with a checkered criminal past who has been charged with murder, and Michael McNew, a 64-year-old father and grandfather, was unconventional, but one that seemed to work for them - until it didn't.

According to prosecutors, Morrissey moved into McNew's home outside Trenton, N.J. in 2015. For nearly two years, he bought her presents, paid her bills and even covered any court fees from previous legal woes.

She referred to him as her "sugar daddy," NBC 10 reported.
WOUNDED VIRGINIA OFFICER 'AWAKE AND TALKING' AFTER SHOOTING
But eventually the relationship soured. When McNew tried to end it, Morrissey killed him, prosecutors said.

In August 2017, McNew was found dead at his home with a bullet in his head. Morrissey was charged with criminal homicide.

Police said Morrisey staged the death to look like a burglary gone awry and even buried McNew's cellphone and laptop computer in her current boyfriend's backyard. She also messaged McNew on Facebook after he died to make it look like she didn't know what happened.

To allegedly remove any gun residue from her hands, her boyfriend urinated on her hands, prosecutors said.

Morrissey maintains the shooting death was accidental - a result of what her lawyer called a "kill or be killed" moment, NBC 10 reported.

"She came to her home to retrieve some belongings and struggled over a firearm and Mr. McNew unfortunately was shot and killed," Morrissey's lawyer, Phillip Steinberg, said at a two-hour preliminary hearing on Monday.

Her texting records, however, show a different story, officials said.
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According to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Morrissey sent threatening messages to McNews on Aug. 6 when he told her he was boxing up belonging she'd left at his house and that she was not welcome back in his home.

"Get the gun ready cause I'm coming. I already told you that I'll be there tonight ... guess your [sic] just gonna have to shoot me," one of the texts read, the DA office said. "I'm gonna stab ya."

McNew's body was found Aug. 8 in his Washington Crossing home. An autopsy determined that he died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

"I don't believe she's a victim," the prosecutor said in court on Monday.

Morrissey is back in court on Dec. 8.

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Welsh politician found dead Former Welsh government minister Carl Sargeant, who was removed from office last week following undisclosed allegations about his personal conduct, has died.

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Former Welsh government minister Carl Sargeant, who was removed from office last week following undisclosed allegations about his personal conduct, has died. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.