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CNN's Erin Burnett speaks to Raymond Page, who risked his life to help direct and drive injured victims to safety after a gunman opened fire during a Las Vegas country concert.

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four people chargers for shooting a 1 year old in Compton on Wensday

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Four charged in slaying of 1-year-old Autumn Johnson, who was shot in her crib in Compton

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After more than a year and a half, authorities have charged four men in connection with the 2016 killing of a 1-year-old girl who was shot in her crib in Compton, officials said Wednesday. The four suspects in the Feb. 9 killing of Autumn Johnson in the 300 block of North Holly Avenue have all been taken into...

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A Texas Teacher was arrested again after being accused of slapping a 5 year old

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A Texas kindergarten teacher previously charged with allegedly harming children was arrested again Monday, accused of slapping a 5-year-old student.

The El Paso Police Department said Olga S. Najera, 52, was taken into custody and booked into the county jail under a $15,000 bond.

The latest incident allegedly took place at Helen Ball Elementary School between July 31 and Aug. 28, police said in a news release.

Najera was previously arrested in August for a separate investigation of an incident that allegedly happened in August 2016, KFOX14 reported.

In the August 2016 incident, Najera allegedly pinched a child younger than 14 on the arm, and scratched the child around the hands, according to court documents obtained by the television station.

The 52-year-old also allegedly slapped another child in the face, stepped on the child's foot and kicked the child, the documents said.

Najera was originally placed on administrative leave in March due to reports of inappropriate behavior, but there were no findings to prove the allegations and the teacher was transferred to another school, the school district said.

The teacher was cleared through a school district probe and returned to work, but the case was turned over for a police investigation, the El Paso Times reported.

Najera's attorney, Mary Stillinger, called the accusations "absolutely false" in a statement to KFOX 14.

"Olga Najera has worked as a bilingual educator of very young children for over ten years in the Socorro Independent School District. She has an excellent reputation with students, parents and fellow teachers. The accusations made against her are absolutely false," Stillinger said. "The allegations have been investigated and were found to be without any merit."

She added: "Unfortunately, it is very easy to manipulate or misunderstand what very young children say. Our children's safety and education are of utmost importance, but it is also law enforcement's responsibility to do thorough investigation, before bringing charges. That was not done here. These false accusations have been devastating to Ms. Najera and her reputation. We are looking for forward to clearing Ms. Najera's name and getting her back in the classroom."

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Texas elementary school teacher arrested again, accused of slapping 5-year-old student

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A Texas kindergarten teacher previously charged with allegedly harming children was arrested again Monday, accused of slapping a 5-year-old student. The El Paso Police Department said Olga S. Najera, 52, was taken into custody and booked into the county jail under a $15,000 bond.

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Tom Petty dies at 66

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"He suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu in the early hours of this morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived. He died peacefully at 8:40pm PT surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends," Dimitriades said in a statement.

With his nasally voice and chiming guitar, Petty and his longtime band, the Heartbreakers, churned out an instantly recognizable brand of sturdy, heartland rock that made them a classic-radio staple for decades. Petty, along with the band, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

The group finished a summer tour with three performances at the Hollywood Bowl last week.

Petty and the Heartbreakers first came to fame in the 1970s. It was both with that group and as a solo artist that Petty had a string of hits across the decades, including "Free Fallin'," "American Girl" and "I Won't Back Down."

Their 1976 debut contained a minor hit, "Breakdown," but it wasn't until Petty's third album, "Damn the Torpedoes," that he and the band broke through to the mainstream.

That 1980 album won critical raves, went platinum and spawned the hits "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Refugee."

Petty sang with Stevie Nicks that same year on her smash hit, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." The duet kicked off a long and fruitful period of collaboration between Petty and other artists.

He recorded "Don't Come Around Here No More" -- memorable for its trippy, Mad Hatter-themed music video -- with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart in 1985. Petty joined Bob Dylan on tour the next year, which also included dates with the Grateful Dead.

He joined fellow music legends Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison in 1988 to form The Traveling Wilburys. They released two studio albums.

It was a rich career for Petty, who was born in Gainesville, Florida and became hooked on rock and roll when -- at the age of 11 -- he met superstar Elvis Presley on a movie set.

Petty joined his first band, The Sundowners, in high school at the age of 14.

After getting into an argument with the band's drummer, Petty quit and moved on to join a group called The Epics, which included Tom Leadon, a brother of Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon.

"We realized Tom was the real musician of the band," their fellow band member Rick Rucker told the Orlando Sentinel in 2006.

The Epics later changed their name to Mudcrutch, and Petty traveled to Los Angeles in search of a record deal for the rock quintet.

Despite landing a deal, the group soon disbanded.

A new group that included Petty and two former Mudcrutch members formed in 1975, eventually becoming known as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

After pioneering the heartland rock sound, Petty went solo in 1989 before regrouping with the Heartbreakers three years later.

He also found fame as an actor. His flair for drama was on display in his music videos for songs like "Mary Jane's Last Dance."

Petty starred with Kevin Costner in the 1997 film, "The Postman." He also had a recurring role as the voice of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series, "King of the Hill."

A 2015 biography on Petty documented a dark turn for the singer and his struggle with heroin addiction in 1997, following the collapse of his 20-year marriage and a failed album.

"Tried to go cold turkey, and that wouldn't work," Petty said in the book. "It's an ugly f***ing thing."

Petty told CNN in a 2007 interview that he loved music as much as it loved him.

"Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know," he said. "There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart."

CNN's Sonya Hamasaki, Topher Gauk-Roger and Stella Chan contributed to this report

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"He suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu in the early hours of this morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived. He died peacefully at 8:40pm PT surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends," Dimitriades said in a statement.

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Security in hotels is going to get more strict by having guards, vehicle barricades, and x-ray machines

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Across the globe, risks of terrorism and other violence have made tight security at hotels and resorts routine, even in countries where strict gun control laws may help prevent the kind of shooting attack that occurred Sunday night in Las Vegas.

Security varies widely from place to place: in many cities luxury hotels have entrances that open straight into shopping malls. Hotel lobbies often serve as a refuge from noisy, chaotic city streets, and are generally easily accessible.

But increasingly, hotel operators are deploying armed guards, vehicle barricades, x-ray machines and other security devices to reduce risks.

The most recent major incident in Asia, at the Resorts World Manila casino in the Philippines, shared similarities with the Las Vegas attack.

The attacker in that case was a man with a gambling addiction who got past hotel security with an ammunition vest and assault rifle, carrying out an arson attack and robbery that left 37 dead, mostly from smoke inhalation. The attacker later killed himself.

Afterward, Resorts World said it had hired a security contractor, Blackpanda, and established new emergency, safety and security protocols.

A nearby casino resort, City of Dreams, also said it had tightened security.

Even before the attack, visitors to Resorts World, like many other hotels, office complexes and shopping malls in Manila, were required to pass through metal detectors and have their bags checked in x-ray scanners to enter.

Such precautions are not the rule across Asia, but luxury hotels in the region generally are on the alert for terrorist attacks and other violence.

In 2009, attackers in Indonesia smuggled explosives past security guards and metal detectors, setting off a blast at the Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta that killed eight. Six years earlier, terrorists set off a car bomb at the Jakarta Marriott, killing 12.

In India in 2008, terrorists targeted two luxury hotels, a train station and restaurant in a 60-hour siege in Mumbai that left more than 160 dead.

Hotel chains operating in India including Accor, Hyatt and Marriott now use handheld trace detectors and x-ray scanners to check for explosives and contraband. The upscale Lemon Tree Hotel at New Delhi's airport brought in a facial recognition system to keep track of visitors.

"Both Indonesia and India have strengthened hotel security since these events and others in the region too," said Mario Hardy, CEO of the Pacific Asia Travel Association. "Vehicles are checked and many hotels have added X-ray scanners at the entrances of the hotels and CCTV monitoring."

He added that, "as consumers we may sometime see those as nuisance; but I think events such as these remind us all the importance of security measures."

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in a meeting in Seattle, amazon announces the new amazon echo plus and the echo spot.

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Amazon has unveiled smarter, more attractive Echo devices.

At a secretive press event held on Wednesday in downtown Seattle, the company showed off new versions of its popular Amazon Echo device.

There is an updated original Echo, an Echo Plus that includes a smart home hub, and the odd little Echo Spot, which is like an alarm clock with a screen.

The event was held at Amazon's "Day One" building, a 37-floor tower that opened late last year. The building is part of Amazon's new campus in downtown Seattle, a $4 billion multi-building project that includes a 5-story glass dome structure for plants.

Updated Echo

The original Echo is getting a new look. The new Echo is shorter and fatter than the original -- and available in finishes including wood veneers, brushed metal and a heather grey fabric.

It has some improvements inside as well. There's a new speaker that Amazon says will improve vocal and bass quality. The new far-field microphone will do a better job of blocking out background noise and hearing the "Alexa" wake word, according to the company.

It will cost $100 and start shipping in October.

The Echo Plus

Amazon also revealed the even Echo Plus, which doubles as a smart home hub. A tall and skinny cylinder like the original, the Plus is available in a new grey finish.

Smart home devices are usually controlled through a dedicated hub. The Plus builds that in, so you can add new gadgets by saying "Alexa, discover devices." It can control lightbulbs and smart plugs and locks. It has the same updated speakers and microphones as the classic Echo.

Each Echo Plus will ship with a starter bulb from Philips to get people hooked on smart home devices. It will cost $149 and be available in October.

The Echo Spot

Amazon also wants Alexa to be your new alarm clock. The Echo Spot is a round Alexa-powered gadget with a touchscreen and a small camera. It's like a mini Echo Show. You can watch videos on it, get your morning briefing, or use it as a baby monitor. There's a front-facing camera if you like to make video calls from bed. The device will cost $130 and ship in December in the U.S.

Alexa updates for everyone

Existing Echo devices are also getting a features boost. You'll be able to play music on multiple Echos at once by saying requests like "Alexa, play Cardi B. everywhere." The updates are available via the cloud, so users don't have to download new software.

You can group commands together as "routines" so that a single command ("Alexa, good morning") can turn up the lights, start playing NPR and turn on your connected tea kettle. Or "Alexa, date time" to lower the lights and turn on Barry White.

Amazon's Echo line does more than play music and spit out trivia. In fact, Amazon sees it inching toward replacing the home landline. Starting today, you'll be able to make phone calls to any numbers in the US, Mexico and Canada for free.

If you want to connect your Echo to your landline, Amazon is selling a $35 black box called Amazon Connect that links the two. You can get calls at your home number and, if necessary, call 911 from an Echo.

Alexa in the car

The company is also bringing the Echo's built-in voice assistant Alexa to the car so drivers can order pizza or change tunes while on the highway. It will be included in select BMW cars starting in 2018.

The Echo Button

Amazon noticed people were frequently using the Echo to play games and have fun, so it decided to make a dedicated device just for that. The new Echo Button is about two inches high with a blinking light on top. It's designed to work with social games, most likely as a buzzer. The company is working with developers such as Hasbro on games like Trivial Pursuit. Price: $20 for two Buttons.

A new Fire TV dongle

The latest version of the Fire TV is a square dongle that plugs into the back of your TV. It has HDR and 4K support, and comes with a remote that works with Alexa commands. You can also control it with any other Echo device to do things like select shows, fast forward or rewind. The Fire TV costs $70 and will be available in late October.

Amazon has been busy building its new Seattle campus. The centerpiece of the headquarters is a building made of three converging domes. Called the Amazon Spheres, the 90-foot high glass and steel structures will be home to a lush botanical garden and a 60-foot "living wall" made of plants.

The event came two weeks after Apple's iPhone 8 and iPhone X event held at its new Cupertino headquarters.

Related: First look at Apple Park, Steve Jobs' dream campus

Amazon launched its Echo smart speaker in 2014. That device started a race among major tech companies to create their own versions of the surprise hit. Google created the Google Home, Apple is releasing the Home Pod later this year, and Microsoft is working with third-parties on speakers that use Cortana.

Meanwhile, Amazon is working to get its Alexa voice interface in a variety of products. The tech world is betting that voice will be the next big computer interface, and Amazon wants to keep its head start.

CNNMoney (Seattle) First published September 27, 2017: 11:02 AM ET

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Drone strike kills at least 8 Hezbollah fighters in Syria

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Two suicide bombers stormed a police station in the Syrian capital on Monday, killing at least 17 civilians and police, state TV reported, while a drone strike in eastern Syria killed 10 Hezbollah fighters who were helping Syrian troops battle the Islamic State group.

The Syrian government is at war with the IS group as well as a local al-Qaida affiliate and an array of rebel groups, none of which immediately claimed the attack. It was also unclear who struck the Hezbollah fighters.

Lt. Gen. Mohammad al-Shaar, Syria's interior minister, told reporters that two "terrorists" attacked the police station in the al-Midan neighborhood of Damascus with a number of bombs on Monday, before one of them blew himself up. He said the other bomber made it inside the compound, where police killed him, causing his bomb to explode.

The blasts damaged the lower floors of the building, and shattered the windows along one side. Blood stained the floors.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, said the Hezbollah fighters were killed Monday morning when their position came under attack from the sky. The Lebanese militant group is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces.

A Hezbollah official confirmed the strike but not the toll. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.

It was not immediately clear who was operating the drone. Unmanned aerial vehicles are now widely used in Iraq and Syria by armies and militant groups alike.

Israel has been targeting Hezbollah's convoys in Syria with growing regularity, saying it cannot allow advanced weapons provided by Iran to be sent to Lebanon. Iran has sponsored and supplied Hezbollah since establishing the group in the 1980s to fight Israel's occupation of south Lebanon.

But Israel's strikes are generally confined to western and southern Syria, near Lebanon and Israel. It has also been accused of striking Syrian government positions.

The U.S. has also attacked Syrian pro-government forces by air, but only once in any connection to the war on the Islamic State group, in September 2016, when an air raid killed at least 60 Syrian soldiers. The White House called the raid a mistake, and said it was committed to the war against the jihadist group.

Syrian pro-government forces have faced a series of fierce counterattacks after months of advances against the IS group in central and eastern Syria.

The jihadists briefly cut off a major highway last week, isolating pro-government forces in the east and sparking a battle to win back the artery, activists said. The Observatory said two days of fighting in the desert area left 120 Syrian troops, Hezbollah fighters and other pro-government gunmen dead.

Syria's military has heavily relied on Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and other Iranian-sponsored militias throughout the civil war.

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The former accountant would've had a clear view of the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a 3-day country music event taking place in an open-air, ground-level venue across the Strip, some 400 yards away from his hotel.

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The gunman was holed up in a suite on the 32nd floor

He had checked in several days before the incident took place, police say

When retiree Stephen Paddock checked into his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino last Thursday, nothing appeared unusual.

Paddock had booked room 32135, described by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as one large suite with uninterrupted views of the Las Vegas Strip.

The former accountant would've had a clear view of the Route 91 Harvest festival, a three-day country music event taking place in an open-air, ground-level venue across the Strip, some 400 yards away from his hotel.

On Sunday night, as the crowd of about 22,000 people listened to headliner Jason Aldean below, Paddock smashed two windows of his suite - one in the front and one on the corner - and fired into the crowd, ultimately killing 58 and injuring hundreds of others.

The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.

The latest revelation came Tuesday afternoon when police said Paddock set up cameras inside his hotel suite and in the hallway. Police are not aware whether the devices were transmitting - the FBI is investigating their use - but Lombardo told reporters he thinks the shooter might have used them to watch for people approaching his room.

The hotel suite

Housekeepers said they "saw no signs of anything" suspicious in the two-room suite, Nevada Rep. Dina Titus told CNN.

Paddock had 23 guns inside the suite, as well as hammers, Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said. The arsenal "was pretty well hidden," Titus said.

The gunman had brought "in excess of 10" suitcases to his room over several days, Lombardo told reporters Monday. Authorities believe Paddock brought the weapons into the hotel by himself, but they did not provide specifics.

Room 32135, the suite from which Paddock fired, has striking, unobstructed views of the Las Vegas Strip, according to videos from two guests who stayed in the room last year. Windows that nearly stretch to the ceiling wrap around the room. There is a separate bedroom and a living room, which has a bar.

Photos published by the UK's Daily Mail showed a body purportedly inside Paddock's hotel room, along with semiautomatic rifles, including one with a scope and a barrel support mount. A stack of magazines and shell casings were seen near the guns. So was a hammer.

Police tape covers the room's double doors, one of which appears to have been broken down, video of inside the room showed.

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What happened inside the shooter's suite at the Mandalay Bay hotel

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The gunman was holed up in a suite on the 32nd floor He had checked in several days before the incident took place, police say When retiree Stephen Paddock checked into his 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino last Thursday, nothing appeared unusual.

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42 guns found in alleged shooter's Vegas room and home.

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hotel security will change

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The attack on concertgoers in Las Vegas could lead to a shift in security practices at open-air events and hotels, experts said Monday, as law enforcement continues to determine the details of the deadly incident.

At least 58 people died and more than 500 were sent to hospitals after a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, police said. The suspect, identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, allegedly shot at festival attendees from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel.

The attack will spur some immediate changes to security protocols, said Bruce McIndoe, president of iJet International, which performs as many as 400 hotel security audits globally each year.

McIndoe in an interview that it is likely that hotels will train their security surveillance staff to scrutinize customers with items such as fishing gear, skis and other long, thin items that could be rifles.

Manuel Gomez, a former FBI agent, told CNBC that security professionals would likely reconsider future events taking place at outside venues near high-rise buildings.

"The answer is to not put hundreds of people in an area where you have hotels or you have other venues that have not been screened or are not secure," said Gomez, who's now president of MG Security Services. "We learned a very hard way that these open-area events are not safe."

Audrey Cronin, former director of the Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University, said in an email that the details of the Las Vegas shooting were "horrifying," but not unprecedented, in terms of a mass shooter killing a large number of people from a tall structure nearby.

She pointed to the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas, in which Charles Whitman killed 15 people by firing from the observation tower in the center of the campus.

"It took police more than an hour to end the incident, and they learned a great deal from that," said Cronin, now a professor in the School of International Service at American University. That shooting is sometimes credited with leading to the creation of university police departments.

Cronin said that while it is typical for law enforcement to control access to nearby high places before major political events, the shooting could lead to expanded security measures for other types of gatherings.

"The question is whether that practice will have to be expanded to non-political situations. Yes, it may include changes to hotel security practices," she wrote. "Unfortunately, our law enforcement practices often must adapt in the wake of major tragedies."

In the bigger scope of security, McIndoe said that even some low-risk hotels may now consider baggage screening and metal detectors as the industry conducts a "rethink."

Still, McIndoe says those kinds of major security changes are unlikely because of the costs it would inflict on the hotel business model, particularly for Las Vegas properties that are connected to casinos.

He does not expect the type of sweeping changes that came to the transportation sector after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"Now, it's not going to be like TSA," he said, referring to the Transportation Security Administration. "That's just not going to happen. It would very much disrupt the whole commerce model for a hotel property."

Even metal detectors are unthinkable for some venues.

"No, it's not going to work. It's never been done; it never will be done," Fred Del Marva, a casino and hotel security consultant, said in an interview.

According to McIndoe, the rapid response from local law enforcement actually suggested that the security measures taken by police were successful.

"The security measures that are in place especially in Vegas worked," he said. McIndoe noted that Las Vegas has a 24-hour standing SWAT team and that it was able to neutralize the alleged shooter quickly. Had that not been the case, he said, there would have been a far higher death toll.

"That doesn't minimize the fact that a lot of people died," he said.

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Tom petty is dead after cardiac arrest. He was 66 as they were celebrating their 40th anniversary of the heartbreakers.

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Rocker Tom Petty has died after suffering full cardiac arrest. He was 66-years-old. Petty just recently wrapped up a long leg of his tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of his band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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5 arrests after explosives found in chic Paris district.

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Five people are in custody after an apparent failed bombing attempt in a chic Paris neighborhood.

Paris police say a neighbor alerted authorities to suspicious activity early Saturday in the building in the 16th arrondissement, or district. A judicial official said an explosive device was found and deactivated.

The five suspects remain in custody Tuesday and counterterrorism prosecutors opened an investigation, according to the judicial official. He was not authorized to be publicly named discussing an ongoing case.

The incident came the same weekend as a deadly stabbing in Marseille by a man who used multiple aliases. His motives are unclear, though it was claimed by the Islamic State group.

France's parliament is expected to approve a new counterterrorism law Tuesday.

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old tattoo to blame for womans cancer.

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They recounted the strange case in a report released Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

The 30-year-old woman had come in with small lumps under her arms, which had been there for two weeks. A body scan showed even more enlarged lymph nodes in her chest, including near the roots of her lungs.

"Ninety-nine times out of 100, (this) will be lymphoma," said Dr. Christian Bryant, a hematologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. Bryant is one of the woman's doctors.

Many cancers -- including lymphomas, which come from immune cells -- can cause lymph nodes to swell. Lymph nodes may also enlarge due to infection and inflammation.

In the case of the Australian woman, whose name was not released, her lymph nodes were inflamed because of a reaction to the old tattoo ink, not due to cancer cells. Doctors removed a lymph node from her armpit and found a cluster of immune cells that were loaded with black pigment. The woman had a 15-year-old tattoo covering her back, and there was a smaller, more recent one on her shoulder.

"The skin has its own immune cells that are always surveilling the skin," said Dr. Bill Stebbins, director of cosmetic dermatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the report.

Once these immune cells found the tattoo pigment, a foreign substance, they ingested it and traveled from the skin to the lymph nodes over a period of years.

"The pigment is too large for these cells to eat and digest," Stebbins said. "That's why they're still there many years later."

But why the woman had a reaction 15 years after her tattoo is a mystery. Something set off the immune cells, but her doctors couldn't pin down what that trigger might be, Bryant said. The patient noted that her tattoos would occasionally itch, but only for a few days each month. The type of inflammatory response found in her lymph nodes, called a granuloma, was not found in her skin.

Bryant and his colleagues had never seen anything quite like it. Other reports have described swollen, pigmented lymph nodes that were mistaken for melanoma, but this is the first time they had heard of a case with lymph nodes deep enough to fit the picture of lymphoma.

"I think there's absolutely no way to know how common it is," Bryant said. "Most people who have tattoos have absolutely no problems."

"We do a lot of tattoo removal with lasers in our practice, and sometimes we see people developing allergic reactions to the ink," said Dr. Bruce Katz, a fellow with the American Academy of Dermatology and director of the Juva Skin and Laser Center in Manhattan. Katz was not involved with the new report.

But these reactions are usually to red pigments, not black.

In the US, nearly four in 10 millennials have tattoos, according to a Pew Research Center report. Among Generation X, slightly fewer have tattoos: about 32%. For baby boomers, that number drops to 15%.

For those looking to get inked, Katz said, it's crucial to do your research: Make sure the artist is reputable, get references from clients, and ensure that they are using disposable needles and unopened ink to prevent infections.

Stebbins said it's important for people to be aware of these rare complications, because people might not realize that a tattoo can cause inflammation years later. "It's important for physicians to be aware of a tattoo history," he said.

Tattoos are often hidden from view, meaning a doctor may not notice them right away. Almost three-quarters of Americans with tattoos usually hide them under clothing, according to the Pew report.

There are other potential complications of tattoos, including infections and other inflammatory reactions. One Texas man even died after swimming with a new tattoo, which became infected with a bacterium found in coastal waters.

But the Australian woman's case is far less serious. The last time Bryant saw her, the swollen lymph nodes had subsided.

"It's not going to cause this lady any major problems," Bryant said, "which means we're allowed to be interested without feeling sad."

The hematologist added, "My job's often not like that."

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There were 23 firearms found in the hotel room of the shooter from Las Vegas. There were 19 more at his home in Mesquite, Nevada.

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Authorities said Tuesday that they located 23 firearms inside the Mandalay Bay hotel room occupied by the gunman who opened fire on a country music festival.

Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo said officers found the firearms inside the hotel room of Stephen Craig Paddock and an additional 19 firearms at his home in Mesquite, Nevada.

Paddock killed 59 and wounding more than 500.

Authorities said earlier that the rifles found included scopes on them. Two of the guns were modified to make them fully automatic, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

The shooting reignited the country's gun debate.

"The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get," Hillary Clinton tweeted, adding: "Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders also pushed back when asked about Clinton's statements at Monday's briefing.

"I think before we start trying to talk about the preventions of what took place last night, we need to know more facts, and right now we're simply not at that point," Sanders said. "It is very easy for Mrs. Clinton to criticize and to come out, but I think we need to remember the only person with blood on their hands is that of the shooter, and this isn't a time for us to go after individuals or organizations. I think we can have those policy conversations but today is not that day."

On Sunday night, Paddock shot down at the packed Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32nd floor of the hotel, where he had been staying since Sept. 28. Officials said he booked one suite, with two rooms that had windows facing different directions.

Neighbors in Reno - where he had a home, in addition to a property in Mesquite - described Paddock as "extremely standoffish," The Washington Post reported. One neighbor told the paper that Paddock occasionally revealed a refrigerator-sized safe when he opened his garage door, but otherwise kept the blinds drawn.

In addition to the firearms, investigators said they found explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition at the gunman's Mesquite home.

Fasulo stressed that investigators believe Paddock was the sole shooter.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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23 firearms found in Mandalay Bay hotel room occupied by Las Vegas gunman

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Authorities said Tuesday that they located 23 firearms inside the Mandalay Bay hotel room occupied by the gunman who opened fire on a country music festival. Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo said officers found the firearms inside the hotel room of Stephen Craig Paddock and an additional 19 firearms at his home in Mesquite, Nevada.

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What the Las Vagas Killing spree chould mean for the gun industry.

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Gun sales slumped after Donald Trump was elected president, but that could change after Sunday's massacre in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern U.S. history.

It wouldn't be the first time that gun sales have jumped in the wake of a mass shooting.

Handgun sales spiked by 62% in December 2015, following the San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 and the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, according to Rommel Dionisio, managing director at Aegis Capital and an expert on the gun industry.

And sales were up for several months after the June 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that claimed 49 lives, climbing about 20% in June, July and August 2016.

The killing spree in Las Vegas left 59 dead and more than 500 injured, and it could prompt Americans to start buying more guns.

"This event in Las Vegas could result in increased demand near-term for firearms as people are concerned about personal safety," Dionisio said.

Related: Gun stocks up after Las Vegas shooting

Guns are already big business. Americans buy 15 million to 16 million firearms per year, Dionisio estimates. According to research from IBISWorld, gun and ammunition stores brought in $8.6 billion in revenue in 2016.

A sales bump is by no means guaranteed. But investors appeared to be betting on one Monday, sending shares of gun maker Sturm Ruger up 6%. American Outdoor Brands , the company formerly known as Smith & Wesson, gained nearly 7%.

Gun stocks also spiked after both the Pulse and San Bernardino shootings, due in part to President Obama's promises to tighten gun laws. Fears of more strict regulations tend to drive shoppers to buy more guns while they still can, but those stricter law never materialized.

Retailers stocked up on firearms during the 2016 presidential campaign, anticipating a stampede of gun buyers after Hillary Clinton won the race and moved to restrict gun sales.

Instead, Trump won, and gun sales slumped, since it seems unlikely that his administration will strengthen gun control laws. As a result, gun stocks have mostly been lower since the election.

Shares did spike, however, when news broke that the president is considering easing export laws -- a move that would make it easier to sell American guns abroad.

-- CNNMoney's Paul La Monica and Aaron Smith contributed to this story.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 3, 2017: 6:19 AM ET

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It wouldn't be the first time that gun sales have jumped in the wake of a mass shooting. Handgun sales spiked by 62% in December 2015, following the San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 and the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, according to Rommel Dionisio, managing director at Aegis Capital and an expert on the gun industry.

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Gerrymandering case hits Supreme Court

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At issue is extreme partisan gerrymandering, and the case has brought together odd bedfellows including everyone from former President Barack Obama, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wisconsin Democrats and Maryland Republicans.

"It's the most important case involving the structure of American politics in a generation," said Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center, at a recent event hosted by George Washington University Law School. The question: Are extreme partisan gerrymanders violations of either the equal protection clause or possibly the First Amendment?

While the Supreme Court has a standard limiting the overreliance on race in map drawing except under the most limited circumstances, it has never been successful in developing a test concerning the overreliance on politics.

Now, the court is being asked to do just that, and as usual, all eyes will be on Justice Anthony Kennedy.

In a 2004 partisan gerrymander case, conservatives on the court said they thought the issue should be handled by the political branches. But Kennedy was unwilling to bar all such future claims because he thought a workable standard to measure when there is an overreliance on politics might arise down the road.

Tuesday's case, Gill v. Whitford, was originally brought by Wisconsin Democrats who argued the maps in their state were drawn unconstitutionally to benefit Republicans.

"Partisan gerrymanders have become more common, more severe and more durable in their effects," Paul Smith, a lawyer for the Campaign Legal Center argued in briefs. He said that partisan gerrymanders result in a violation of the "Equal Protection Clause by discriminating against the targeted party's voters" and preventing them from "fair and effective representation."

Part of the problem, he argued, is the fact that modern day technology has allowed better map-drawing that has "wrested power from voters." Using mapping software, census data and voting algorithms, he alleged the Republican map drawers diluted democratic votes by packing them into districts.

Danielle Lang, a lawyer for the Campaign Legal Center also representing the challengers, noted that in 2012 Republicans received 49% of the statewide vote and 60 seats.

In 2014 they received 55% of the vote and received 63 seats.

"Taking to the streets doesn't work when the politicians have picked their voters," she said during a conference in September.

The state responds that the petitioners don't have the legal right to challenge on a statewide basis because they can "only suffer concrete, particularized harm in their specific districts," wrote Wisconsin's Solicitor General Misha Tseytlin. The state also argues that the maps are legitimate because the legislators considered political implications as only one of several factors and that, again, it's not the job of the courts to write district lines.

"The last three decades of fruitless litigation demonstrate that there are no judicially discernible standards in this area of law," Tseytlin added.

Erin Murphy, a lawyer at Bancroft who has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin Assembly in support of the state, said that if the courts step into the battle it will transfer to judges a power that belongs with the political branches.

"Allowing claims like plaintiffs' to proceed would therefore wrest control over the districting process away from the state legislators to whom state constitutions assign the task, and hand it to federal judges, opportunistic plaintiffs and social scientists seeking to convert academic theories into constraints on the democratic process," she said.

A lower court ruled in favor of the challengers after conducting a trial in 2016. The court relied upon a three-part legal standard based on discriminatory intent, discriminatory effect and the justification for the law. The court concluded that the evidence established that one of the purposes of the redistricting plan -- Act 43 -- "was to secure Republican control of the Assembly under any likely future electoral scenario for the remainder of the decade, in other words to entrench the Republican Party in power."

Former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder have both taken up the cause. In a speech last July in Raleigh, North Carolina, Holder vowed to "ensure that after the next census in 2020 lines are drawn in a fair way -- not a partisan way -- to ensure that people's wishes are reflected in the candidates who are elected."

But the issue is not just one for Democrats. Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California, called gerrymandering an "incumbent protection program" in a recent conference call.

A similar case is brewing in Maryland, but it was brought by Republicans.

And in a brief signed by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, lawyer Mark W. Moser asked the court to step in an adopt a standard that would block extreme partisan gerrymandering and stop special interest groups from infecting the map drawing process.

"Special interest groups, fueled by hidden funders with deep pockets and skin in the political game, are now focused on influencing redistricting," Moser wrote. "The payoff for these groups is obvious: By shaping the decennial redistricting process, special interest groups can affect the outcome of every congressional race in a state for the next decade."

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At issue is extreme partisan gerrymandering, and the case has brought together odd bedfellows including everyone from former President Barack Obama, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wisconsin Democrats and Maryland Republicans. "It's the most important case involving the structure of American politics in a generation," said Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center, at a recent event hosted by George Washington University Law School.

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Somebody pooped outside of the Chelsea Building, then slashed a 72 year old who confronted him about it.

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A 72-year-old man was slashed in the stomach when he confronted a man defecating in front of a Manhattan building, police sources said.

The bizarre incident happened 7 a.m. Friday on W. 21st St., near 7th Ave. in Chelsea.

The victim saw someone going through the building's garbage and stepped outside to see what was going on.

He then realized the suspect had stepped down the stairs leading to a basement apartment and was defecating.

"What the f--- are you doing?" the witness asked, at which point the suspect pulled up his pants and tried to get away.

The victim stepped in front of the suspect, who then cut him on his stomach before running off.

The victim was treated by a doctor he went to on his own.

He later reported the incident to police and described the suspect as black, 50 to 60 years old, about 5-feet-8 and 150 pounds and wearing a black hoodie and black baseball cap.
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A 72-year-old man was slashed in the stomach when he confronted a man defecating in front of a Manhattan building, police sources said. The bizarre incident happened 7 a.m. Friday on W. 21st St., near 7th Ave. in Chelsea. The victim saw someone going through the building's garbage and stepped outside to see what was going on.

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Trump said "we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by" but did not elaborate on whether or not they will be abolished after the Vegas shooting. The shooter's brother claimed he was a part of ISIS, but the FBI found this claim to be false.

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Ondine Francis is a fashion designer turning trash into gorgeous garments

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5 people arrested in Paris after wired explosives found in posh neighborhood

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Five people were arrested Monday after authorities found an apparent ready-to-detonate bomb in a chic Paris neighborhood the same weekend as a deadly stabbing at a train station in southern France.

A neighbor alerted authorities to suspicious activity early Saturday in the apartment building in the affluent 16th district of western Paris, Paris police said.

The man was woken up by a noise and a very strong smell of gasoline and discovered a device made of gas cylinder in his hallway, Le Point newspaper reported.

A firing device, made with a mobile phone and connected to several wires, had been attached to these cylinders, law enforcement sources told Le Point.

"This device was perfectly made," a source close to the case told the newspaper.

A separate judicial official told the Associated Press an explosive device was found and deactivated, adding counterterrorism prosecutors opened an investigation.

One of the suspects being held for questioning was already under government surveillance for radicalism, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Tuesday on France Inter radio.

When asked to explain how someone under surveillance could carry out an attempted attack undetected, Collomb said radicals usually have "friends, networks that can carry out the act," people who don't show outward signs of radicalization "but are ready to help."

He said the failed bombing shows that the threat against France remains "extremely big."

"Blowing up a building in a chic neighborhood of Paris - is this not a sign that no one is safe? This doesn't happen just in suburbs in working class neighborhoods," he said.

Early last month, an explosives-making workshop was discovered in the southern Paris suburb of Villejuif, according to Le Monde.

The failed bombing came the same weekend a man slit the throat of one woman at a train station in Marseilles before killing her cousin. He was later shot dead by soldiers. Officials have opened a probe as to why the man was briefly detained by police the day before the attack in the city of Lyon, and then released.

Politicians in France are set to vote later Tuesday on a new counter-terror law designed to end the country's two-year state of emergency.

Authorities would be able to place people under house arrest, order house searches and ban public gatherings without needing the prior approval of a judge.

The country has been under a state of emergency since the Islamist attacks in Paris in November 2015, which killed 130 people and left more than 400 injured.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Five people were arrested Monday after authorities found an apparent ready-to-detonate bomb in a chic Paris neighborhood the same weekend as a deadly stabbing at a train station in southern France. A neighbor alerted authorities to suspicious activity early Saturday in the apartment building in the affluent 16th district of western Paris, Paris police said.