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house democrats to pass plan to reopen government thursday - cnnpolitics

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House Democrats to pass plan to reopen government Thursday

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House Democratic leaders have settled on a legislative strategy to reopen the government, with votes expected on proposals just hours after the party takes control on Thursday, a Democratic aide confirms to CNN.

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A Houston teen has been charged in the shooting death of his friend who was fatally struck as they pointed loaded weapons at each other as part of an internet challenge, according to reports. Estes-Johnson was killed in his bedroom while playing the “No Lackin’ Challenge,” a game where two people get into fake arguments and point loaded guns at each other, but without actually firing them, authorities said.

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A Houston teen has been charged in the shooting death of his friend who was fatally struck as they pointed loaded weapons at each other as part of an internet challenge, according to reports.

Mohamad Alajil, 18, is charged with manslaughter in the Dec. 11 death of 19-year-old Christian Estes-Johnson, a Houston police statement said.

Estes-Johnson was killed in his bedroom while playing the "No Lackin' Challenge," a game where two people get into fake arguments and point loaded guns at each other, but without actually firing them, authorities said.

Alajil allegedly pointed a semi-automatic pistol at Estes-Johnson, who in turn pointed an AR-15 at him. Alajil's pistol discharged and Estes-Johnson was struck by gunfire and died, police said.
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At the time of the shooting, Ajajil, a Syrian citizen, was out on bond for a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon on Sept. 17, the Houston Chronicle reported. He was arrested Wednesday and is expected back in court Friday.

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Houston teen shot dead during internet gun challenge: police

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A Houston teen has been charged in the shooting death of his friend who was fatally struck as they pointed loaded weapons at each other as part of an internet challenge, according to reports. Mohamad Alajil, 18, is charged with manslaughter in the Dec. 11 death of 19-year-old Christian Estes-Johnson, a Houston police statement said.

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A Texas man was arrested after murdering three young children and shooting a women in the head. The children were an infant, a two year old and a five year old.

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Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday.

Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and two children -- believed to be 2 years old and 5 years old -- at a Texas City apartment complex and left a woman there to die, according to police.

Police discovered the victims at the Pointe Ann Apartments in Texas City, Texas, about 40 miles southeast of Houston, while responding to a welfare concern at around 6:15 p.m., the Texas City Police Department said in a statement.

The children were pronounced dead on the scene and the woman was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the statement. The department didn't disclose the woman's identity, or her relationship to the children, but said she was in stable condition.

Mehmood was apprehended in Houston after a brief manhunt late Thursday night.

Texas City Police Department

The man called 911 and confessed to dispatchers, "I killed my family," according to Houston ABC station KTRK, before surrendering to authorities.

The children's causes of death has not been released.

Police records indicate that he'd been arrested multiple times, charged with fraud, robbery, assault and drug possession. He was charged with fraud in Galveston County in February 2010 and received five years probation. In 2014, he was charged with family assault and spent 20 days in confinement. After a robbery conviction in 2015 he was sentenced to three years in jail.

It's unclear if Mehmood has obtained an attorney.

ABC News' Gina Sunseri and Kevin Kraus contributed to this story.

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Man arrested after allegedly killing 3 young children, shooting woman in the head

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Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday. Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and two children -- believed to be 2 years old and 5 years old -- at a Texas City apartment complex and left a woman there to die, according...

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The stock market dropped over 660 points or 2.8% yesterday after Apple came out an said that they hadn't met their sales quota for the last quarter. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it was because of poor sales in the Chinese market

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Seven people are dead and others critically hurt after a fiery car crash on I-75 near Gainesville, Florida. Fifty gallons of diesel fuel spilled in the crash. The blaze has since been put out.

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Seven people killed in Florida interstate crash

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six people killed in florida interstate crash - cnn

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Six people killed in Florida interstate crash

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Six people are dead and eight people have been transported from the scene of a fiery multivehicle crash on Interstate 75 southbound near Gainesville, Florida, according to Alachua County Fire Rescue.

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Using their new majority, House Democrats passed legislation to reopen parts of the government, but Senate Republicans said the moves are a non-starter, and the White House issued a veto threat as well, signaling the partial shutdown will go on.

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Using their new majority, House Democrats passed legislation Thursday to reopen the shuttered parts of the government - but Senate Republicans said the moves are a non-starter, and the White House issued a veto threat as well, signaling the partial shutdown will go on.

President Trump has called a meeting at the White House for Friday morning to see whether progress can be made on a deal now that a new Congress is seated. But the meeting will include most of the same congressional leaders who have struggled to reach a deal after Mr. Trump insisted he needed billions of dollars in new wall money as part of any funding deal.

The president previewed his argument at the White House after meeting with Border Patrol agents who said walls work.

"Without a wall, you cannot have border security," Mr. Trump said.

But Democrats said they won't cave, and rejected the agents' expert advice.

"The fact is a wall is an immorality. It is not who we are as a nation," said new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

She led the House in approving legislation late Thursday that would extend full-year funding to eight departments, and passage of one month of money to Homeland Security - though without any new wall money.

The full-year funding bill for eight departments passed on a 239-192 vote, with five Republicans joining all Democrats in favor. The Homeland Security bill cleared by 241-190 with seven Republicans joining a unanimous Democratic caucus.

Mrs. Pelosi said her goal was to disconnect the border wall fight from the government shutdown, and said the bills Democrats offered were based on ones approved by senators on a bipartisan basis.

She said Senate Republicans, who still control the upper chamber, should pass the bills and force Mr. Trump to face a veto choice.

"Did they not hear about the coequal branch of government, and that the Congress sends the president legislation?" she said.

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he wasn't going to bite.

"The Senate will not take up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing this chamber and getting a presidential signature. So let's not waste the time. Let's not get off on the wrong foot," he said.

Democrats are now in the same position as the House GOP was two weeks ago, when they passed a Homeland Security bill with at least $5 billion for border walls, only to see it stall in the Senate.

Mr. McConnell said at the time that only a bill that can clear 60 votes in the Senate and win Mr. Trump 's signature will earn floor time.

The White House veto threat made clear Democrats' latest plans don't clear that threshold.

That means the shutdown, which began Dec. 22 and reaches the two-week mark Friday, will extend into next week.

Until now, the shutdown has been mostly painless for Americans, as some departments and agencies have stumbled along on leftover money, while others are operating with essential employees on duty.

Those employees, though, are about to miss their first paychecks.

Senate Appropriations Committee staffers have calculated that some 450,000 people are working without pay, including, ironically, most of the Homeland Security Department.

Another 380,000 federal workers have been forced on furlough, including most of NASA, the National Park Service and the IRS.

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House Democrats pass bill to end shutdown, reopen government

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Using their new majority, House Democrats passed legislation Thursday to reopen the shuttered parts of the government - but Senate Republicans said the moves are a non-starter, and the White House issued a veto threat as well, signaling the partial shutdown will go on.

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Texas family grieve over death of their six year old daughter, Jazmine Barnes, as a new police sketch develops. This police sketch could help track down the gunman who suddenly open fired at the Barnes' family vehicle, killing their daughter.

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jazmine barnes shooting: sketch may be released today - cnn

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Police hope to release sketch of Jazmine Barnes' killer

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For reasons still unknown, a gunman shot Jazmine Barnes in the head as she rode in her mother's car. Now police are asking for the public's help.

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An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother's New York City home after going there to wish her a happy New Year

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An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother's New York City home after going there to wish her a happy New Year, according to his mother.

"I just want whatever happened to my family not to happen to someone else," Jody Pottingr, the mother of Cameron Jean-Pierre, told ABC News on Thursday.

Pottingr said her son suffered from asthma and had a severe allergic reaction to fish. She now wants other parents of children with similar allergies to be aware that inhaling the aroma of fish can be deadly.

"Cameron was full of life. He was such a great kid," Pottingr said of her only child.

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New York City Police and paramedics were called to the home of Cameron's grandmother on 82nd Street in Canarsie, Brooklyn, around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday after Cameron inhaled a traditional Caribbean fish dish that his grandmother and aunt were cooking, according to police.

After suffering the asthma attack, the boy was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The city medical examiner has launched an investigation to determine the official cause of death, a spokeswoman for the agency told ABC News.

"No determination on the cause of death has been made," the spokeswoman said.

Pottingr said her son went with his father, Steven Jean-Pierre, to his grandmother's home on New Year's Day after first visiting her mother, also in Brooklyn.

"I guess they forgot something at the house and went back and he went in the house and then he inhaled the fish," Pottingr said. "When he inhaled the fish I guess that triggered off an asthma attack and he couldn't breathe."

Steven Jean-Pierre immediately administered a nebulizer machine on the boy, which the child always had with him.

"I'm just devastated by the situation right now, it just happened so suddenly," the father told ABC station WABC-TV. "I gave him the nebulizer, the machine, that he usually takes if something like this happens, so it was a normal situation. But for some reason, he said it wasn't giving him enough air at the time."

"My son's last words were 'Daddy I love you, daddy I love you,'" he added. "He gave me two kisses, two kisses on my face. He said, 'I feel like I'm dying.' I said, 'Don't say that. What are you talking about. Don't say that.'"

The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology warns people with allergies to fish to "stay out of areas where fish is being cooked, as proteins may be released into the air during cooking."

Pottingr said her son was first diagnosed with a fish allergy when he was in kindergarten and threw up after being served fish sticks for lunch.

"He went to the doctor and they did the allergy tests where they put the little dots all over your body," Pottingr said. "So we have like a list at the house of all the things that he's allergic to and fish is one of the things."

She said her son was a sixth-grader and an honor-roll student at Theodore Schore Middle School in Piscataway, New Jersey, where the family moved to from Brooklyn two years ago.

"He's very smart. He plays sports. He loved playing football," she said. "He loved reading. He taught himself to play video games just by watching YouTube videos. Anything he wants to learn he watches a YouTube video and he does it."

She said teachers at his school were heartbroken when they received word that Cameron had died.

"I called the school and told the counselor what happened and she called me back and said, 'I went to each teacher individually and told them what happened and they were all devastated because they all loved Cameron,'" Pottingr said. "[The teacher] said, 'Cameron is such a good kid here and we all has such high hopes for him.'"

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11-year-old boy dies from apparent asthma attack triggered by aroma of cooking fish

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An 11-year-old boy apparently suffered a severe asthma attack and died when he inhaled the aroma of salt fish cooking in his grandmother's New York City home after going there to wish her a happy New Year, according to his mother.

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Seinfield has been shown to be offensive to many young people. For example, the character known as the "Soup-Nazi' was labelled as controversial as it is now frowned upon. There are a number of other things the show did 20 years ago that are getting negative attention today.

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"Seinfeld" might offend young people, not there there's anything wrong with that.

Millennial-focused website Bustle is taking heat for publishing a listicle that examines all the reasons why "Seinfeld" would be a little too edgy in the modern climate of policing everything that isn't deemed politically correct.

Comedian and author Tim Young told Fox News that the article is "ridiculous," and that it blows his mind how desperate people are to be offended, with the attack on "Seinfeld" the latest example. "Seinfeld," which aired from 1989-1998 is widely considered one of the best programs in television history - but Bustle doesn't exactly feel that way.

Angelica Florio's piece headlined, " These 13 jokes from 'Seinfeld' are offensive now - Yes, that includes the 'Soup Nazi,'" was published on New Year's Eve and claims that watching the classic sitcom in 2019 will "hopefully" make viewers realize how much times have changed.

"Hopefully most people can agree that comedy, even 'edgy' comedy, doesn't need to alienate marginalized groups in order to make people laugh," Florio wrote. "Thanks to more modern understandings of what political correctness entails - and why being PC is important - it's less common these days to find jokes like the offensive ones that often played out on 'Seinfeld.'"

The Bustle reporter went on to condemn the "Soup Nazi" because, according to Florio, "using the term 'Nazi' to label someone as a joke doesn't sit so well anymore."

"It's not the fault of 'Seinfeld' that the media 20 years later gave constant attention to a small group of radicals and gave them outsized importance. It's also not 'Seinfeld's' fault the media has made the term "Nazi" meaningless because it uses the label on anyone to the right of Nancy Pelosi," Daily Wire reporter Ashe Schow wrote in a piece criticizing the Bustle article.

"The entire point of 'Seinfeld' was to show four terrible people interacting in a world full of kind, thoughtful people."
- Tim Young

"The entire point of Seinfeld was to show four terrible people interacting in a world full of kind, thoughtful people. The humor was in how terrible they were. After all, they ended up in jail at the end of the series for violating a good-Samaritan law when they chose to laugh at an obese man getting carjacked rather than help him," Young said.

Other "Seinfeld" jokes the Bustle article considers taboo include calling a Native American an "Indian Giver," Kramer accidently burning the Puerto Rican flag, Japanese businessmen sleeping in Kramer's dresser drawers, Jerry mistakenly getting someone deported and "a whole episode's worth of bad jokes" when a reporter thought Jerry and George were gay.

Young pointed out that the episode in which main characters are thought to be in a same-sex relationship was actually a groundbreaking episode for the gay community.

"It won a GLAAD award for its positive outlook on gay and lesbian relationships in the media as the script and interactions of the cast never mocked being gay," Young said. "Rather, they took extra precaution in creating the line 'not that there's anything wrong with that' to show that it's ok and normal to have a same-sex relationship, just that 'it wasn't them.'"

The Bustle reporter also has an issue with storylines such as George staring at a women's cleavage, Jerry not understanding why liking Chinese women could be considered racist, Kramer referring to someone as a "fat little mental patient," George seeking a woman who can't speak English and a storyline based on illegally parking in a handicapped spot.

While Young thinks the entire article is absurd, he also doesn't think it's particularly original.

"The first thing I thought when I saw this article was that it was a rip off of a Fine Brothers Entertainment video on YouTube entitled 'Do Teens & College Kids Think Seinfeld Is Funny? | Does It Hold Up?' Which has a million views and was given 130k dislikes and only 14k likes," Young said. "They knew this was clickbait to egg on Americans who disagree with them."

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'Seinfeld' is the latest TV classic to offend millennials over jokes about 'Soup Nazi,' same-sex relationships

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"Seinfeld" might offend young people, not there there's anything wrong with that. Millennial-focused website Bustle is taking heat for publishing a listicle that examines all the reasons why "Seinfeld" would be a little too edgy in the modern climate of policing everything that isn't deemed politically correct.

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A man in Texas was arrested yesterday after he killed 3 children and shot a woman in her head. The kids were 2, 5, and there was an infant. All three kids were dead at the scene. The man called the people and confessed saying he killed his family. The woman is in the hospital and is stable. The man has also been arrested many different times.

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Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday.

Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and two children -- believed to be 2 years old and 5 years old -- at a Texas City apartment complex and left a woman there to die, according to police.

Police discovered the victims at the Pointe Ann Apartments in Texas City, Texas, about 40 miles southeast of Houston, while responding to a welfare concern at around 6:15 p.m., the Texas City Police Department said in a statement.

The children were pronounced dead on the scene and the woman was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the statement. The department didn't disclose the woman's identity, or her relationship to the children, but said she was in stable condition.

Mehmood was apprehended in Houston after a brief manhunt late Thursday night.

Texas City Police Department

The man called 911 and confessed to dispatchers, "I killed my family," according to Houston ABC station KTRK, before surrendering to authorities.

The children's causes of death has not been released.

Police records indicate that he'd been arrested multiple times, charged with fraud, robbery, assault and drug possession. He was charged with fraud in Galveston County in February 2010 and received five years probation. In 2014, he was charged with family assault and spent 20 days in confinement. After a robbery conviction in 2015 he was sentenced to three years in jail.

It's unclear if Mehmood has obtained an attorney.

ABC News' Gina Sunseri and Kevin Kraus contributed to this story.

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Man arrested after allegedly killing 3 young children, shooting woman in the head

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Police arrested a Texas man who allegedly murdered three young children and shot a woman in the head Thursday. Junaid Mehmood, 27, allegedly killed an infant and two children -- believed to be 2 years old and 5 years old -- at a Texas City apartment complex and left a woman there to die, according...

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A motorcycle rider was hit in the side of the head by a bird while riding and he lost control of his bike and crashed leaving him unconscious. He broke his back and was left paralyzed from the chest down.

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A young motorcyclist suffered a horror smash when a bird flew into his helmet while he was riding - leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.

Sam Beecroft, 21, was traveling at around 40mph when a pigeon swooped down "from out of nowhere" and hit him on the right side of his head. Sam lost control of his Yamaha bike and swerved off the road into a fence, rendering him unconscious.

The youngster from Morpeth, Northumberland, suffered a broken back in the crash and underwent four months of intensive treatment in hospital. Despite doctors' best efforts, Sam has been left paralyzed and will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, although he counts himself lucky to be alive at all.

Recalling the crash he said, "I was on my way to work and all of a sudden a pigeon appeared and smacked the side of my helmet. I lost my balance, swerved straight into a fence and got

knocked out. When I woke up I knew it was serious because I couldn't feel my legs and I'd never felt that even though I'd crashed before."

He added, "that same day at the hospital the doctor told me 'you'll never walk again' My family were crying and I just said 'okay'.

"I think I'm lucky to be alive and it could have been so much worse - I should have died. I was about 8 mm from breaking my neck. It was a freak accident, I've never heard of another motorbike rider being paralyzed after hitting a bird."

The crash happened on the B6524 in Morpeth on 27 August 2017 while a then 20-year-old Sam was on his way to work as a baggage handler at Newcastle Airport. The first person to attend to Sam and dial 999 [emergency] was a female driver, who he had overtaken minutes earlier and who also worked at the airport.

Paramedics from the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) arrived by helicopter and treated Sam at the scene. He was then taken by land ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle, where it was revealed he had a T3 spinal cord injury.

After two weeks at the RVI Sam went through three months of rehabilitation and physiotherapy at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough. Sam is paralyzed from the chest down but does have the use of his arms and hands.

He has paid tribute to the emergency service personnel who treated him, especially the GNAAS paramedics.

Sam said, "there were some dark times and moments where I thought 'what if I had done this differently?'. But there's nothing I can about it now and I just have to get on with my life, I'm lucky to have what I have. The paramedics saved my life, especially the air ambulance guys, who were incredible."

Since December 2017 Sam has been back at home with his dad, Ian, and step mum, Gill. Their house has been modified for wheelchair access and Sam has bought a car that he can drive without the use of his legs.

Less than a year after the accident, Sam was riding motorcycles again and he has been pictured riding at Silverstone Circuit, the home of British motor racing. He also goes to the gym five times a week and plays wheelchair rugby.

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Motorcycle rider paralyzed after bird strike causes accident

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A young motorcyclist suffered a horror smash when a bird flew into his helmet while he was riding - leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Sam Beecroft, 21, was traveling at around 40mph when a pigeon swooped down "from out of nowhere" and hit him on the right side of his head.

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Due to a new regulation, hunters in Illinois are now allowed to wear blaze pink as opposed to blaze orange.

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Hunters in Illinois now have the option of wearing blaze pink thanks to a new regulation that took effect on Jan. 1.

Prior to 2019, Illinois hunters were required to wear caps and outer garments in blaze orange - also known as "safety orange" or "hunting orange" - as a precaution against being mistaken for wildlife.
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"Whether hunters select blaze orange or blaze pink, we want hunters to be able to see, and be seen by, other hunters in the field, and enjoy their time afield safely," said Wayne Rosenthal, the director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, in a message shared shortly after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed off on the law in August.

Gov. Rauner further stated that pink, as opposed to orange, might even be more useful for hunters during autumn hunting seasons.

"The reality is in the fall, when we're hunting in trees and in some fields, there are orange leaves," Rauner said in a statement obtained by the Illinois New Network. "There is orange in the background, so it's not always easy to see orange. So we're adding blaze pink to be one of the colors."
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At the time the law was first announced in August, the Illinois News Network noted that states such as Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota and Colorado allow hunters to don blaze pink as an alternative to blaze orange.

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Illinois hunters now allowed to wear blaze pink as alternative to orange

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Hunters in Illinois now have the option of wearing blaze pink thanks to a new regulation that took effect on Jan. 1. Prior to 2019, Illinois hunters were required to wear caps and outer garments in blaze orange - also known as "safety orange" or "hunting orange" - as a precaution against being mistaken for wildlife.