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A gold mine in Sibanye-Stillwater’s Beatrix had a power outage that caused the elevator to stop working. Workers were then trapped underground for at least one day.

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The Democratic Alliance (DA) says its concerned about safety procedures at the Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in the Free State. This follows this week's incident where more than 900 mineworkers were trapped underground for over twelve hours.

A power outage following a severe storm shut down their elevator to the surface.

The DA says the incident exposed glaring shortcomings of the emergency and rescue contingency plans at the mine.

All 955 miners who had been trapped underground since Wednesday night were brought to surface on Friday.

The party's spokesperson on mineral resource says the mine must provide answers on why Shaft 4 did not have alternative escape routes and why the emergency evacuation system malfunctioned, forcing the company to borrow a generator from nearby Harmony Gold mine.

Following the incident, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says its members will not report for duty until the union is satisfied that the Sibanye Gold mine is in compliance with regulations. AMCU President Joseph Mathunjwa says there should be a full scale audit on the mine to prevent unsafety of miners in future.

Mathunjwa says the union still demands R3 000 for compensation of the miners that were trapped underground.

"Indeed we put forward that we put 3000 for each family of the member who that was trapped under ground to take their kids, wife for trauma counselling. Indeed, we did put that demand. They will consider it, they will engage with the labour to deal with that demand that we put forward."

Sibanye mine spokesperson James Wellsted says they will adhere to the demands made by the Minister and unions.

"The intention of today (Friday) was not to reach an agreement as the Minister said; we've got to follow the process which takes more than one meeting in a room, so we already closed the mine until Monday. We made that decision yesterday (Thursday) already. Firstly, to let the employees to recover a little bit from the experience and secondly, this is a meth gas mine we need to clear the gas."

Sibanye-Stillwater mine management has refuted claims that it was ill-prepared for unforeseen eventualities at its operations.

Sibanye-Stillwater's stakeholder relations head Thabisile Phumo says they remained in control throughout the crisis.

"We have back-up generators on site. In fact, all the shafts have got generators. During the crisis both Beatrix four and Beatrix One generators were started up for back-up power and we could hoist people from underground, but because of the power surge the Beatrix shaft generator and the winder control systems were damaged by the power surge."

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane says operations at the Sibanye Gold mine will remain suspended until proper investigations are conducted.

Speaking at a media briefing, Zwane pointed out that the investigation is vital for safety of the miners and will end speculations.

Zwane says proper investigation will be conducted.

"We have agreed in the meeting that we are going to follow due processes to ensure the safety of everybody and allow the mine to operate once we have followed those processes and the management is happy, we are happy about that."

Management says the rescued miners are receiving medical attention and counselling.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) says its concerned about safety procedures at the Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in the Free State. This follows this week's incident where more than 900 mineworkers were trapped underground for over twelve hours. A power outage following a severe storm shut down their elevator to the surface.

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a father of three daughters lunged at Nasser in court. he was escorted out in handcuffs. you can see one of his daughters warning him to stop multiple times before he lunges

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The father of three girls who have been abused by Larry Nassar rushes him in court.

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Teacher singled out black students, stepped on them during slavery lesson

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Father who killed his two kids while on the phone with his wife was sentenced to an execution. When asked if he had any last words, he decided to mock his wife and decided to make a joke of his own execution.

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Texas dad who killed daughters while on phone with estranged wife taunts her at execution

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A Dallas man on death row for nearly two decades after being convicted of killing his two young daughters was executed in Texas on Thursday night after his last-minute appeals failed.

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Blake Griffin made his first appearance for the Pistons last night.

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The drowning of actress Natalie Wood has long been one of Hollywood's great mysteries but authorities say they are now investigating her death as "suspicious" after new witnesses came forward.

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Wood, a top-tier actress who starred in "West Side Story" and "Splendor in the Grass," died in 1981 after falling into the ocean off Catalina Island in California while boating with husband Robert Wagner and friend Christopher Walken. She was 43.

Police had initially ruled Wood's death as accidental but years later, bruises on Wood's body led the Los Angeles County coroner's office to change the cause of death from "accidental drowning" to "drowning and other undetermined factors."

In 2011, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department reopened its investigation into Wood's death, saying they had been contacted by people claiming to have "additional information" about the drowning.

On Thursday, authorities said that after reviewing more than 100 tips, they obtained new witnesses statements that "portray a new sequence of events on the boat that night."

"The statements from these new witnesses differ from the original version of events as related by previous witnesses, including the individuals on the boat," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

A witness told investigators there were yelling and crashing sounds coming from the couple's stateroom that night and another witness said a woman and a man were arguing on the back of the boat, officials said.

"Do we have enough to make an arrest at this moment? No," the sheriff's office said. "This remains a suspicious death investigation."

Who was Natalie Wood?

Wood had been a top star for decades, both a box office draw and Oscar-nominated actress.

She was also touted as one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood.

Her first starring role was as a child in "Miracle on 34th Street" in 1947, and she played alongside some of Hollywood's top leading men -- James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" and Warren Beatty in "Splendor in the Grass."

She was nominated for Oscars in both of those films, as well as for "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963), according to IMDb.

One of her more memorable roles was as Maria in "West Side Story." Though her singing voice was dubbed, her performance earned her good reviews in what became one of the most lauded movies of all time.

CNN's Keith Allen and Todd Leopold contributed to this report.

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Young Kansas boy whose dad got tattoo matching his scar from brain surgery dies battling cancer for the second time

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. - A young Kansas boy who was battling a rare form of cancer died, KWCH reports.

Gabe Marshall, of Hutchinson, Kan., battled anaplastic astrocytoma of the brain and spine.

His father, Josh, posted the tragic news to Facebook around midnight Friday.

Gabe's fight captured national attention after he went through brain surgery in the summer of 2016. He was self-conscious about the horseshoe-shaped scar that was left behind.

His dad, realizing the impact it was having on Gabe, got a tattoo on his head to match his son's incision.

Gabe's cancer returned six months after his surgery. The little boy and his family traveled to Kansas City frequently for treatment.

"Pretty much we were told that the tumor is becoming more active," Gabe's dad Josh Marshall told KWCH in December 2016. "Because of the location that it's at, it's inoperable."

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. - A young Kansas boy who was battling a rare form of cancer died, KWCH reports. Gabe Marshall, of Hutchinson, Kan., battled anaplastic astrocytoma of the brain and spine. His father, Josh, posted the tragic news to Facebook around midnight Friday.

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Two of Margraves' daughters gave statements to the court and said their other sister had also been molested by Nassar. Crying could be heard in the courtroom as Nassar was escorted out.

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The father of three Larry Nassar sex assault victims lunged at the disgraced doctor in a Michigan courtroom Friday, just moments after yelling he wanted "one minute with that b------!"

After two of his daughters spoke, the father, Randall Margraves, asked the judge to grant him "five minutes in a locked room with this demon." The judge denied the request, so the man asked for one minute and then lunged at Nassar.

Court officers almost immediately subdued the man and he was not able to reach Nassar, who is accused of abusing hundreds of young girls.

"I want that son of a b----! Give me one minute with that b------!" Margraves yelled as he was handcuffed.

Two of Margraves' daughters gave statements to the court and said their other sister had also been molested by Nassar. Crying could be heard in the courtroom as Nassar was escorted out. Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis told families in the courtroom to "use your words" and that violence "is not helping your children."

Nassar was in court awaiting another sentence for sexual assaults under the guise of medical treatment. Last week, the disgraced doctor was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting young female athletes. The former USA Gymnastics doctor and Michigan State University trainer pleaded guilty to the sexual assaults.

Nassar was expected to hear from more victims who said he molested them. The proceedings were expected to extend into next week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Larry Nassar almost attacked by victim's father in dramatic courtroom scene

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The father of three Larry Nassar sex assault victims lunged at the disgraced doctor in a Michigan courtroom Friday, just moments after yelling he wanted "one minute with that b------!" After two of his daughters spoke, the father, Randall Margraves, asked the judge to grant him "five minutes in a locked room with this demon."

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The oldest son of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro committed suicide at the age of 68, Cuban state media announced on Thursday.

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The oldest son of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro committed suicide at the age of 68, Cuban state media reported Thursday.

Fidel "Fidelito" Castro Diaz-Balart, according to the Miami Herald, is the oldest son of Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz Balart.

Among his own offspring, Fidel only publicly recognized Fidelito, the angel-faced, blond boy from revolution-era photographs who today causes double-takes because he so resembles his father. As an adult he rose to the top post at Cuba's Atomic Energy Commission before his father removed him for unpublicized reasons in the early 1990s.

Diaz-Balart was born in 1949 and brought to the United States in the 1950's after his mother divorced Castro. While in Mexico preparing for the guerrilla war, Castro persuaded Mirta to send Fidelito for a two-week visit, then refused to send him back.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The oldest son of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro committed suicide at the age of 68, Cuban state media reported Thursday. Fidel "Fidelito" Castro Diaz-Balart, according to the Miami Herald, is the oldest son of Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz Balart.

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Father of three attacked Nassar, USA Gymnastics doctor, because three of his daughters were molested by Nassar.

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The father of three daughters who were abused by Larry Nassar tried to attack the former doctor in an Eaton County, Michigan, court Friday before he was tackled and detained by security.

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The U.S. economy added 200,000 jobs in January, and wages grew at the fastest pace in eight years.

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Can America's job market stay hot throughout 2018?

That's the question after 87 consecutive months of job gains, the longest streak on record.

The Labor Department will publish the January jobs report at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here are five things to know before it comes out.

1. Economists expect another healthy month: They predict the United States gained 175,000 jobs in January, which would be more than the 148,000 jobs added in December. Unemployment is expected to stay at 4.1%, the lowest level since December 2000. And wage growth could tick up to 2.6% from 2.5%, economists forecast.

2. The real first year of job gains in the Trump era: The economy added 2 million jobs in 2017, but President Barack Obama was still in office in January. So Friday's report will cover Trump's first 12 full months -- February 2017 through January 2018. So far, the economy has added 1.8 million jobs during his tenure.

Related: Americans aren't worried about losing their jobs

3. Wage growth is poised to pick up: Several states raised their minimum wage at the beginning of the year, and several large corporations have given raises or bonuses to their employees as a result of the Republican tax law. Those factors, in addition to an already strong job market that has employers scrambling to retain workers, could mean wage growth got an extra boost to start the year.

4. Manufacturing jobs helped by a weak U.S. dollar: The United States gained nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs in 2017 as the U.S. dollar lost about 10% of its value compared withthe world's most prominent currencies. Manufacturing should continue to gain jobs as the global economy growsand the dollar weakens further. A weak dollar means U.S. exports, such as Ford cars or Boeing planes, are more affordable, and attractive, to buyers abroad. American manufacturers depend heavily on exporting their products around the world.

5. How low can unemployment go? Its swift decline over the years has surprised economists, central bankers and politicians. Goldman Sachs predicts that unemployment will drop to 3.7% by the end of 2018. That would be the lowest since 1969. The Federal Reserve in December forecast that it would drop to 3.9% this year.

CNNMoney (New York) First published February 2, 2018: 12:03 AM ET

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Former TCU WR Kolby Listenbee sues Head Coach Gary Patterson, the school and the big 12 for abuse and harassment for making him play through an injury. He is seeking 1 million in damages.

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Former TCU wide receiver Kolby Listenbee is suing his alma mater, former coach Gary Patterson and the Big 12 conference.

Stefan Stevenson of the Star-Telegram reported the news Thursday, noting Listenbee filed the lawsuit in the Dallas County Civil Division and pointed to a pattern of abuse and harassment after he was injured as a senior in 2015.

According to Stevenson, the lawsuit "alleges that TCU head coach Gary Patterson, then-offensive coordinator Doug Meacham and other coaches 'continuously pressured, humiliated and harassed Listenbee shortly after his injury diagnosis in an effort to force Listenbee to return to play quickly in their quest for a national football championship.'"

Adam Rittenberg of ESPN shared the court filing, noting it also includes trainers, assistants and former athletic director Chris Del Conte. Listenbee is seeking more than $1 million in damages.

Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports provided part of TCU's statement in response to Listenbee's lawsuit: "TCU takes tremendous pride in its long-standing tradition of excellence in providing a positive experience for its student-athletes, especially in the areas of care, prevention and rehabilitation of athletic injuries."

Stevenson described the nature of the lawsuit, noting Listenbee points to an injury he suffered against SMU as a senior. He damaged the cartilage holding his pelvic bones together, and the lawsuit said the pelvic instability "requires a minimum of six months of rest and rehabilitation."

However, Listenbee alleged the training staff used pain and steroidal medication injections to keep him on the field in lieu of the necessary recovery time, causing so much damage he needed a metal plate inserted to fuse the bones. The lawsuit alleges the metal plate damaged his chances at success in the NFL.

Listenbee was a sixth-round pick of the Buffalo Bills in 2016 but never played a regular-season game at the NFL level. He tallied 597 receiving yards and five touchdown receptions in that senior season after finishing with 753 receiving yards and four touchdowns as a junior.

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Former TCU WR Kolby Listenbee Sues School, Gary Patterson for Abuse, Harassment

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TCU Football Scott Polacek Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press @@ScottPolacek Twitter Logo Featured Columnist Former TCU wide receiver Kolby Listenbee is suing his alma mater, former coach Gary Patterson and the Big 12 conference.

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The father of three girls assaulted by Larry Nassar lunged at him in court, yelling profanities, and was later arrested.

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The father of three daughters who were abused by Larry Nassar tried to attack the former doctor in an Eaton County, Michigan, court Friday before he was tackled and detained by security.

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Fights are breaking out in the streets over water in Cape Town. The earliest Cape Town is expecting rain would be late April.

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A few minutes later, I watched as workers wheeled out pallets stacked high with five-liter bottles of water. Suddenly, pandemonium broke out as people pushed, shoved and argued in their rush to pack shopping trolleys with as many bottles as possible.

Sadly, this is nothing new. On Wednesday, a fight broke out on a quiet suburban road where one of several natural springs bubbles to the surface.

Those in the know have collected free water from these springs for years, but now these once-quiet spots are overrun with people converging from all over the city throughout the day and night. Tempers are frayed and arguments regularly ensue, forcing the city to post metro police at the various springs to keep the peace.

Welcome to Cape Town 2018, where the dams that feed the city are at an all-time low after three successive years of far below-average rainfall. Cape Town is a winter rainfall area, and the earliest we can expect heavy rain is late April -- assuming, and this is a big assumption, that normal rainfall returns after several years without.

Not surprisingly, everywhere you go in the city, there is just one topic of conversation: water. With authorities estimating that Cape Town could be just 75 days away from becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water, websites and Facebook pages like this one have mushroomed. A common theme is tips and hints on saving water and posts by MacGyver-types with innovative ideas and inventions.

And the ante has just been upped: Beginning February 1, the local authority introduced the most severe water restrictions yet in Cape Town's long history. Households are now restricted to 13.2 gallons (50 liters) per person, down from the previous limit of just under 23 gallons (87 liters) a day. With a total ban on watering of gardens and washing of cars, the daily ration must cover bathing or showering, clothes washing, flushing toilets, brushing teeth, washing hair, cooking, as well as drinking water for people and their pets.

To put this in context, Americans use an average of 80 to 100 gallons per person each day. And that's not a ridiculous number when you consider that a 90-second shower uses almost 4 gallons of water and every toilet flush is over 2 gallons.

Large fines are being introduced to punish water hogs who will be charged at a punitive rate that escalates dramatically as their usage increases. For example, households that use up to 5,283 gallons (20,000 liters) per month will see their bill rise from just over $30 to $85 (or, in local currency, R361 to R1,536), while the bill for major consumers who use 12,308 gallons (50,000 liters) will jump from $243 to $1,738 (or, in local currency, a jump from R2,889 to R20,619).

The frenzy around water reminds me of the fear among some people in the run-up to South Africa's first democratic election in the 1994, which brought Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) to power. With violence and bombs going off in the weeks leading up to the elections, many feared that civil war was imminent and began hoarding essentials like canned food and non-perishable foods, candles and fuel -- but not, strangely, water. Everyone took it for granted that the taps would keep running.

So how did we get here? And what's it like learning to treat water as the precious resource that it is?

The how is littered with missed chances and a failure to address warnings of a future crisis going back many years. As far back as 1990, South Africa's Water Research Commission cautioned Cape Town could run out of water within 17 years. And yet, no concrete steps were taken to prepare for this eventuality.

The crisis has been complicated by politicians playing the blame game about who's at fault. And as the true extent of the drought became clear, a war of words has broken out between the ANC-run national government and Cape Town's provincial and municipal opposition Democratic Alliance-run governments over who was responsible and who will lead on action steps moving forward.

But while the politicians bicker, we are attempting to adjust to a new reality. Almost overnight, new industries have sprung up around water -- like these water-from-air machines, grey water systems and composting and other non-flush toilets.

" Waterpreneurs" are bringing in truckloads of bottled water and tankers filled with potable water. And those who can afford it are digging wells deep below the surface to find safe drinking water.

In our home, which is not dissimilar to many middle-class homes in Cape Town, we now run less than an inch of water into a bath, for shaving and washing our bodies and hair. The grey water is then collected and stored in buckets to flush the toilets and to water plants. We now wear outer clothes for longer periods of time, limiting the number of times we have to wash clothes per month. Grey water from the washing machine is also harvested and used on the garden and to flush toilets.

This is the new normal for Cape Town. It is also a timely warning for people living elsewhere in the word to preserve and use the water they have sparingly before they, too, face their own Day Zero.

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In my city of Cape Town, there is only one topic of conversation: water

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Cousin of murdered Canadian billionaire says he fantasized about decapitating him

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A cousin of the Canadian billionaire who was found murdered with his wife in their home has bizarrely claimed to have had fantasies about decapitating Barry Sherman and rolling his bloody head around a parking lot.

The startling admission, made during a TV program set to air on CBC Friday, came after Kerry Winter reportedly failed a lie detector test about his past claim that Sherman approached him and asked him to kill his wife, Honey. The Shermans were found dead in their mansion near Toronto on Dec. 15, and police last week ruled the deaths a double homicide, ending weeks of speculation.

"I would talk about killing Barry, and it was very graphic," Winter told CBC, recalling conversations he said he had with a psychiatrist. "He would come out of the parking lot of Apotex, and I'd be hiding behind a car, and I'd just decapitate him. I wanted to roll his head down the parking lot, and I'd sit there and wait for the police."

Winter, who told the Toronto Sun that he is a recovering addict, said on the day the Shermans were last seen alive, Dec. 13, he had left a Cocaine Anonymous meeting and went home to fall asleep.

"Very easy for me to have left work at any time because I'm not on the clock... I could easily have driven over to [the Sherman home] and did the deed," he told CBC. "I admit to that, but I didn't, I didn't, and that's why I'm not nervous."

Winter also said he was told by police he was not a suspect and is planning to meet them for an interview.

Authorities - who said the Shermans were found hanging by belts from a railing that surrounded an indoor pool at their home - have declined to discuss possible suspects.

Sherman founded Apotex in 1974 with two other employees and it has grown to become the largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company.

The family said last week that they continue "to support the Toronto Police Service in their efforts to seek justice for their parents and pursue those responsible for these unspeakable crimes."

Winter and other Sherman family siblings in September lost a lawsuit seeking a piece of Barry's Apotex fortune. As a part of an Ontario court decision - which they have since appealed - Winter was ordered to pay Sherman back $8 million and he and his cousins were also told to pay Sherman $300,000 in legal fees, CBC reported.

Winter then surfaced this week and said Sherman asked him twice in the past to kill Honey.

"He said, 'I want you to whack my wife,'" Winter told CBC. "I called him and said: 'You know, there's no turning back, Barry, if I push the button.'"

But Winter and his lawyer agreed to take a lie detector test over the claim as part of the CBC program, and failed it, the station said, citing a former Quebec police officer and polygraph expert who commissioned the test.

Winter then, according to the CBC, told the officer he "embellished" and fabricated parts of his story. He also said he is going public now with such claims because he wanted to "hurt" Barry's legacy.

"This was a tragedy no matter how you slice and dice it," Winter said. "This was a terrible thing that happened, even though my cousin and I had an extreme falling out."

In a separate interview with the Toronto Sun, Winter insisted that the Shermans' deaths were a murder-suicide - despite statements from police and a family lawyer saying otherwise.

"You will see I am not a kook, I am not a nut," he said. "But when Brian Greenspan starts spinning this yarn, I am not going to keep my mouth shut anymore."

Greenspan did not respond to a request for comment from the newspaper.

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A cousin of the Canadian billionaire who was found murdered with his wife in their home has bizarrely claimed to have had fantasies about decapitating Barry Sherman and rolling his bloody head around a parking lot.

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An energetic made of honor was sent to the emergency room and diagnosed with the flu and was sent home. A couple of days later she returned to the hospital and died three days later.

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Tandy Harmon, 36, went to the ER with the flu. They sent her away, and she died a few days later.

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Hollywood's oldest working actress passes away at 105 years old.

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Connie Sawyer, oldest working actress, dies at 105

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House memo states disputed dossier was key to FBI’s FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump.

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A memo that is purported to show government surveillance abuse and was at the center of an intense power struggle between congressional Republicans and the FBI has been declassified ahead of its expected release later Friday, Fox News has learned.

According to sources, the memo includes testimony from a high-ranking government official that without the infamous Trump dossier, the FBI and DOJ would not have secured surveillance warrants to spy on at least one member of the Trump team.

It also claims the FBI and DOJ used media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, while the firm behind the dossier, Fusion GPS, briefed major American news outlets to include New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, New Yorker, Yahoo and Mother Jones.

The memo shoes that after former British spy Christopher Steele was cut off from the FBI, he continued to pass information, as did Fusion GPS, through Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr. Ohr's wife Nellie began working for Fusion GPS as early as May 2016.

It also claims evidence that Steele has a personal animus for the President Trump.

The impending release of the four-page memo comes after the House Intelligence Committee voted earlier this week, over Democratic objections, to make the document public. This led to a rare and stunning rebuke from the bureau, which said Wednesday they had "grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."

The memo includes alleged abuses involving FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

In a last-ditch objection, the top Democrat on the House committee claimed overnight that Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had made "material changes" to the memo that was sent to the White House for review.

But Nunes' office described the changes as minor and blasted the complaint as a "bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo."

The White House has backed the memo's release, calling for "transparency."
TRUMP BLASTS 'POLITICIZED' FBI, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Earlier Friday, President Trump unleashed an early-morning tweet at a Justice Department he said has been "politicized" by Democrats.

GOP-led House investigators believe the FBI used a dubious dossier, initially prepared as campaign opposition research for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, to get permission from a secret federal court to eavesdrop on Trump campaign and transition team communications.

"The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago," Trump wrote. "Rank & File are great people!"

Just more than two weeks, Republican lawmakers first drew attention to the memo, with some calling it "shocking," "troubling" and "alarming" and one likening the details to KGB activity in Russia. They argued the memo should be immediately made public, leading to a social media #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
Fox News' Judson Berger and Brooke Singman contributed to this report
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.

Alex Pappas is a politics reporter at FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexPappas.

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Police, State, and Federal officers have increased patrols, and fans can expect to see a large amount of security, and over 10,000 volunteers have been trained to spot suspicious behavior.

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Super Bowl spectators can expect massive security measures at the site of the big game in downtown Minneapolis, officials said.

The NFL's head of security, Cathy Lanier, said it was a challenge to carve a secure perimeter around the U.S. Bank Stadium, which sits in the heart of Minneapolis near businesses and a major hospital. Chain-link fencing and concrete barriers will surround the venue on game day.

"Building out a secure perimeter took a little creativity," Lanier said at a press conference with law enforcement partners in Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon.

Security screening at U.S. Bank Stadium, which the NFL said will be "significantly heightened," begins Sunday at 1 p.m. CT, an hour and a half before the title game kicks off. Lanier urged fans with tickets to arrive early and dressed appropriately for the chilly weather.

"There's a lot of fantastic things you can do and see once you're in the stadium," Lanier said.

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A contingent of local, state and federal authorities have spent nearly two years preparing for this event. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, whose department is overseeing security, said they have been closely monitoring incidents across the country and around the world in order to make necessary adjustments to the security plans.

"The Super Bowl has changed a lot since we last hosted this in 1992. Since then our world has changed," Arradondo said at Wednesday's press conference. "When incidents such as Las Vegas happen, we certainly look at our practices and protocols."

This year's Super Bowl will have the greatest deployment of federal resources yet, due to the city's relatively small police department. Some 1,700 federal officials are supporting state and local law enforcement partners in Minneapolis. Additionally, the Minnesota National Guard has been activated and over 60 law enforcement agencies from around the state are sending officers too. A 10,000-strong volunteer force has been trained to spot suspicious activity at this year's championship game.

"We're ready for anything that may come our way," Minneapolis Police Commander Scott Gerlicher said at the press conference. "It's about not just feeling safe, but making sure people are in fact safe."

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Leading up to and during game day, Minneapolis residents and visitors can anticipate increased police patrols, bomb-sniffing dogs, officers clad in tactical gear and helicopters overhead.

There will also be motion detectors, metal detectors, mobile command centers, the deployment of human trafficking and counterfeit merchandise teams as well as high-resolution security cameras around the city, according to Alex Khu, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Minnesota and the federal coordinator for this year's Super Bowl.

"Our efforts are to make sure that it's a warm and inviting atmosphere. But make no mistake about it -- there are tons of watchful eyes from the law enforcement and public safety sectors," Khu said at the press conference.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who was in Minneapolis on Wednesday touring the security operations in and around U.S. Bank Stadium, acknowledged that the Super Bowl venue, "due to its size and its scope," can be a soft target.

"As of today, there is no specific credible threat," Nielsen told reporters at the press conference. "We'll continue to monitor."

Rick Thornton, special agent in charge of the FBI's Minneapolis Division, said the FBI's intelligence operations center will be the "nerve center" for Super Bowl security.

"The Super Bowl is about planning, preparation and partnerships," Thornton said at the press conference. "We've planned, we've trained. It's game time for us. We are ready."

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Minneapolis gets 'significantly heightened' security measures for Super Bowl

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Super Bowl spectators can expect massive security measures at the site of the big game in downtown Minneapolis, officials said. The NFL's head of security, Cathy Lanier, said it was a challenge to carve a secure perimeter around the U.S. Bank Stadium, which sits in the heart of Minneapolis near businesses and a major hospital.