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Veterans do not agree with the deployment of more troops on the mexican border then the ones that are fighting ISIS. they don't agree with Trump saying they are gang members and very bad people but they've seen women, children and the elderly fighting for there lives and fleeing horrors. they're saying it is a political stunt and he is trying to use the military for things this country has never permitted. it also a stunt on top of racism and nativism.

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With his decision to deploy more than 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border, President Donald Trump has ordered more military personnel to the US southwest than he has serving in some of the world's most contentious combat zones.

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Indecent videos and pictures of faculty and even students were taken without consent in a Christian school... And they were all found on a USB belonging to a teacher.

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A pastor and educator in Washington state faced prosecutors Tuesday for allegedly taking indecent videos of female students and faculty without their knowledge, court records showed.

The suspect, Stephen Brown, 61, was identified as a faculty member of Arlington Christian School in Snohomish County, Wash.

A school faculty member allegedly found a thumb drive in the parking lot of the school containing zoomed-in video images of breasts, buttocks and genitals of female students and staff, KIRO-TV reported, citing a probable cause statement.

One of the videos reportedly featured the suspect's partial or full face, leading to the investigation and arrest of the suspect, the station reported. Snohomish County prosecutor Travis said investigators found evidence of more videos.

"I'm concerned that there are a number of victims (who) may have been violated in this school or church setting," Travis said in court Tuesday.

Arlington Christian School told Q13 Fox it was "cooperating with law enforcement officials to facilitate a just and fair investigation."

The suspect, who is also a pastor at 7 Lakes Baptist Church, has official been terminated from the school. The church did not respond to Q13's request for comment.

Brown was booked on suspicion of voyeurism, with bond set at $100,000, KIRO reported.

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A Washington state pastor and educator faced prosecutors Tuesday for allegedly taking indecent videos of female students and faculty without their knowledge, according to court records.

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Cesar Sayoc, started planning package bomb campain back in July, prosecuters say.

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Cesar Sayoc, the man suspected of sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and other critics of President Trump, had been planning his spree since July, a letter filed to federal court read.

A letter sent from prosecutors to U.S. Judge Edwin Torres in Miami on Tuesday detailed Sayoc's "terror campaign" and urged the judge to keep Sayoc behind bars until his trial, according to USA Today.

"The evidence of the defendant's terror campaign is still being collected but is already overwhelming," the letter read. "The defendant conducted a domestic terrorist attack targeting at least 15 victims with improvised explosive devices that he sent to locations throughout the country in padded mailing envelopes."

The letter reportedly included details describing the FBI's efforts to recover additional packages addressed to CNN headquarters in Atlanta and to billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer.

Authorities searched Sayoc's computer and a phone found in his van, according to USA Today. A document saved July 26 contained former Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's address. Schultz, who was listed as the return address on many of the packages, had her name misspelled on each parcel.

Sayoc's planning allegedly intensified in September, when he created a list of targets, prosecutors said. Sayoc's list had "hundreds" of names on it and he was mailing out the suspicious packages as late as Thursday -- the day before he was caught, the New York Post reported, citing law enforcement sources. Sayoc's search history reportedly revealed he was searching for addresses as early as July 15.

"Put simply, only the defendant's arrest and incapacitation resulting from his detention were sufficient to stop his attack," prosecutors said.

Sayoc made an initial appearance Monday in Miami federal court, where prosecutors said Sayoc was a flight risk and a danger to the community. A judge set another hearing for Friday regarding whether to grant bail to Sayoc and to discuss when he will be sent from Miami to New York, where five federal charges were filed.

The onetime stripper, pizza driver and nightclub DJ faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted of all charges.

"The evidence of the defendant's terror campaign is still being collected but is already overwhelming."
- Letter filed to federal court

Sayoc is accused of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to well-known liberal figures and Trump critics, including: former President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden, billionaire donor George Soros, actor Robert De Niro, former Attorney General Eric Holder, California Rep. Maxine Waters, former CIA Director John Brennan, ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.

None of the bombs exploded and no one was hurt.
Fox News' Samuel Chamberlain and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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It sure wouldn't have hurt. Sears' ability to stay in business is in doubt after the company filed for bankruptcy protection this month.

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The redsox won the world series after losing to the dogers in game 3 but bounced back to get a 9 to 6 boston win.

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It was fitting that when Fox's cameras scanned the Boston bullpen Sunday to see which relievers were warming up for the ninth inning of Game 5, the two men on the mounds were Nathan Eovaldi and Chris Sale, a pair of starters.

The 2018 baseball season might well go down as the year that relievers became starters and bullpenning took hold, but the 2018 postseason should be remembered as one in which Boston's starting pitchers played a starring role by coming out of the bullpen. Sale's Game 5 World Series appearance is certainly not the first time an ace has trudged in from the outfield: Randy Johnson and Madison Bumgarner were, of course, pretty big deals when they closed out 2001 and 2014 in relief. But the systematic approach Boston took to getting its best pitchers into unfamiliar high-leverage roles was a huge part of how that bullpen -- considered a weakness heading into the postseason -- got through three grueling rounds. Paired with last year's postseason, this approach now appears to be the new normal.

The weird thing the A's did Wednesday with wild-card game "opener" Liam Hendriks -- and what the Brewers plan to do Thursday -- actually isn't all that weird.

Boston used its entire roster to put away the Dodgers. Then the Red Sox partied on L.A.'s turf, celebrating what they achieved together.

From the wild-card round through the World Series, we'll have the 2018 postseason covered.

Before Sale in the ninth inning of Game 5, it was David Price pitching the ninth in Game 3, and before that it was Eovaldi taking over the eighth inning in Games 1 and 2, and before that it was Rick Porcello in the eighth inning of games in the division series and ALCS. The Dodgers used Clayton Kershaw in relief for Game 7 of the NLCS and Rich Hill for an eighth inning in that series.

Those six pitchers threw a total of 15⅔ innings of relief. They allowed seven hits and one earned run, that earned run coming at the end of Eovaldi's six-inning relief stint in Game 3. They struck out 16 and walked three. Their combined win probability added (including Eovaldi's loss) was about a half a win, roughly what Milwaukee's ace fireman Josh Hader's was. They were collectively the elite closer every team wants in October, and they were cooked up entirely out of ingredients lying around the pantry.

Again, these sorts of appearances have happened before, throughout postseason history. But rarely this systematically. In the past, starters pitching in relief were often pitching very late in the postseason -- i.e., after they'd made their last scheduled start, or with the ultimatum of a series clincher -- or very early in the postseason, before their first turn had come up in the rotation. Boston, by contrast, had at least one starter between starts who was readily available in the bullpen seemingly every day this October. And rarely have so many different starting pitchers been used in this way in a single postseason.

We looked back since 1969 -- when division play began -- for pitchers who made at least two starts in a postseason (to avoid including pitchers, like Eduardo Rodriguez this year, who were primarily relievers but were pushed into an emergency start) and at least one relief appearance in the same postseason. From 1969 through 2016, there were about two per year on average, with only two postseasons (2003 and 2011) in which there were more than five in a year. But there were seven last year -- those seven allowed just 11 hits and five runs in 23⅔ innings, incidentally -- and six this year, the most there have ever been in consecutive postseasons.

Eovaldi and Porcello might not seem like the sort of show-stopping pitchers you try to force into a game -- each was basically a league-average starter this year -- but an almost universal truth in baseball, right there with "almost every batter hits better against opposite-handed pitchers" and "almost everybody is better at home," is that almost every starting pitcher would be better in relief. Sale's average fastball in his two relief appearances was about 95.5 mph; as a starter in this postseason, he averaged 93.4. Kershaw's fastball jumped from 91 to 92.3, Porcello's from 91.9 to 92.8, Price's from 92.8 to 94.5, and Eovaldi's -- excluding his marathon performance in the 18-inning Game 3 -- from 98.9 to 100.1. Hill's fastball velocity didn't increase, but that's in part because he hardly threw his fastball; rather, pitching in a short burst allowed him to ride his best pitch without having to worry about hitters adjusting. He threw more than 71 percent curveballs in relief, about double his usual rate.

Before the NLCS, we wrote about the Brewers' incredible bullpen, and how unlikely it was -- almost every pitcher in it (besides Hader) had been either very bad or a minor league starter at some point in the previous 12 months. That was a story about how quickly, and unexpectedly, a great core of relievers can come together, and how a team can ride that great core of relievers to postseason success. But embedded in it was the scary alternative: A bunch of great relievers can suddenly be very, very bad. That's what most relievers are: guys with unreliable command, or hard-to-repeat mechanics, or inconsistent stuff, who weren't reliable enough to start. They can ride waves of short-burst brilliance. They can have summers with ERAs in the 1s. They can come out of nowhere and look unhittable for 30, 100 or 300 innings. And then just as suddenly, they can -- and all but a very small handful ultimately do -- go boom. Relievers as a group tend to be pretty good. But it's never entirely easy to trust them as individuals.

It's comparatively easy to trust Sale -- with 1,500 career innings of excellence -- especially for one inning. It's even easy to trust Porcello, for one inning, throwing harder in that inning than he has in years.

But the key thing is that it's not automatic. It takes a manager, a pitching coach, a training staff and a lot of communication. Among Alex Cora's many brilliant moments this postseason were those times he boldly walked to the mound and called in a starting pitcher you hadn't even been thinking was available that day. Also among Cora's many brilliant moments were all the unseen moments beforehand, the ones he spent making sure Porcello, Eovaldi, Price and Sale would be available. Along with a few dozen other Boston successes, that's where this title was won.

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The 2018 baseball season might well go down as the year relievers became starters. But Boston flipped the script in the Fall Classic to take home the hardware.

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A mother and son were reunited after the son was kidnapped more than 30 years ago

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More than 30 years ago, Lyneth Mann-Lewis' 21-month-old son vanished after visiting his father. And just a few days ago, authorities told her they'd found him.

"The words 'Your son is alive, we've found him' -- that is breathtaking," Mann-Lewis told reporters on Monday. "I said, 'Oh my God, my baby.' He said, 'Mommy, you have my eyes.' He hugged me and he kissed me and we held for a long time."

Jermaine Mann had been living under a phony name in the United States with his father, Allan Mann, who allegedly kidnapped him in 1987, federal officials said. Investigators said Jermaine, not even 2 years old, had been taken by his father after a court-ordered visit in Toronto. The father had told the son his mother was dead.

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Allan Mann, 66, was arrested on Friday in Vernon, Connecticut, a suburb of Hartford, where he had been living as Hailee Randolph DeSouza, federal officials said.

Authorities tracked him down after receiving more than 200 tips from residents in the U.S. and Toronto. The elder Mann allegedly used fake birth certificates to build a new life for the two.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said they arrested him after reviewing his rental application for subsidized housing and discovering his birth certificate was counterfeit.

"This is one of those rare cases that tugs at your heart strings," Christina Scaringi, of the HUD Office of the Inspector General, said in a statement. "Not only did we, working collectively, get this alleged bad actor off the street, but we played a role in reuniting an unjustly separated family."

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Mann-Lewis said "endured many hard days" over the last three decades. She thanked the Missing Children Society of Canada and officials in the U.S. for bringing her son, now 33, back to her.

"I want to encourage other families with missing children and loved ones not to ever, ever give up hope on finding them," she said. "I am the proof that after 31 long years of suffering, 31 long years, one should never give up.

"But be patient. Be strong and believe that all things are possible and that anything can transpire."

Allan Mann was charged with making false statements and making false statements to get HUD housing. It's unclear if he has obtained an attorney, and he's expected to be extradited to Canada, where he may face additional charges.

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More than 30 years ago, Lyneth Mann-Lewis' 21-month-old son vanished after visiting his father. And just a few days ago, authorities told her they'd found him. "The words 'Your son is alive, we've found him' -- that is breathtaking," Mann-Lewis told reporters on Monday. "I said, 'Oh my God, my baby.'

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It sure wouldn't have hurt. Sears' ability to stay in business is in doubt after the company filed for bankruptcy protection this month.

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How Sears wasted $6 billion that could have kept it out of bankruptcy

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Florida middle school girls plotted to kill up to 15 students, drink their blood, police say

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Two middle school students in Florida were arrested Tuesday after they concocted an alleged "plot to kill students" via a variety of weapons, including a pizza cutter, police said.

The girls - aged 11 and 12 years old - "wanted to kill at least 15 people," Bartown Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference Wednesday. The two "were waiting in the bathroom for (an) opportunity to find smaller kids that they could overpower to be their victims."

Both girls were searched in a Bartow Middle School office, where a butcher knife was located on one of the students. Knives, scissors and a pizza cutter were also found, according to Fox 13.

The girls admitted to investigators that they were "Satan-worshippers." The girls, Hall claimed, said "they were willing to drink blood, and possibly eat flesh."

"As I sat there last night [and] watched these interviews, I do not believe this was a joke," Hall said.
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After the girls were taken into custody, authorities reportedly searched their houses and discovered more additional attack plans. A hand-drawn map of the school was allegedly discovered with the words, "Go to kill in bathroom," written on top of it.

One of the text messages exchanged in a conversation found by authorities reportedly read: "We will leave body parts at the entrance and then we will kill ourselves."
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In a statement posted to Facebook, Hall said no one was harmed in the incident, and thanked school staff for "thwarting this plot from becoming a tragedy."

The police chief said that all safety protocols put in place worked on Tuesday, and reiterated the key law enforcement phrase: "If you see something, say something."

"It worked in this incident," he said.

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Two middle school students in Florida were arrested Tuesday after they concocted an alleged "plot to kill students" via a variety of weapons, including a pizza cutter, police said. The girls - aged 11 and 12 years old - "wanted to kill at least 15 people," Bartown Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference Wednesday.

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After getting the popularity he wanted, Kanye finally drops politics. "My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!" lol

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Just weeks after visiting the White House, Kanye West appears to be a little tired of politics.

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Ford and Chinese based company, Baidu, are teaming up to research self driving cars in Beijing. They plan to have these vehicles on the roads by the end of next year.

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Ford and Baidu will develop self-driving cars together in China

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Ford and Baidu plan to start testing driverless cars on Beijing roads by the end of the year.

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A Russian aircraft carrier was damaged while under construction.

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A hole was gouged in the deck of Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, Tuesday when a crane fell on it while the vessel was undergoing repairs in the northern city of Murmansk, according to Russian state media.

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Asia Bibi, a Christian Pakistani woman who was on death row for blasphemy has been aquitted

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A Christian woman in Pakistan on death row for nearly a decade after she allegedly contaminated a water jug -- an offense viewed as blasphemy in the Muslim country -- was acquitted by the country's top court on Wednesday.

Asia Bibi was ordered released eight years after she was sentenced to death in 2010 on blasphemy charges - a landmark ruling that sparked widespread protests around Pakistan by hard-line Islamists and even led to the murder of a local governor.

Bibi was not in court to hear the ruling, and AFP news agency quoted her as saying by phone: "I can't believe what I am hearing, will I go out now? Will they let me out, really?"

The charges against the 47-year-old mother of three dates back to a hot day in 2009 when she went to get some water for her and her fellow farmworkers.

Later, two women refused to drink from the container she had touched because she was not Muslim. A few days later, a mob accused her of blasphemy after the women went to a local cleric in Sheikhupura - a city in Punjab - to report her.

She was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.

Bibi is being held at an undisclosed location for security reasons and is expected to leave the country.

In Pakistan, the mere rumor of blasphemy against Muhammad can ignite mob violence and lynchings. Combatting alleged blasphemy has become a central rally cry for hard-line Islamists.

Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province, was shot and killed by one of his guards in 2011 for defending Bibi and criticizing the misuse of the blasphemy law. The assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, has been celebrated as a martyr by hard-liners since he was hanged for the killing, with millions visiting a shrine set up for him near Islamabad.

Bibi appealed her conviction to the Lahore High Court, which upheld the decision in October 2014, sending the case to Pakistan's Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Main Saqib Nisar announced the verdict to a packed courtroom Wednesday, saying Bibi's "conviction is set aside and she is to be relieved forthwith if not required in other charges."

The three-judge panel upheld the blasphemy law itself, saying it was consistent with verses from Islam's holy book, the Quran. But they said prosecutors had failed to prove that Bibi violated the law. In addition to citing the Quran, the judges also referenced William Shakespeare's King Lear, saying Bibi was "more sinned against than sinning."

The ruling sent shockwaves across the country with hundreds of Islamists blocking a key road link the city of Rawalpindi with the capital, Islamabad. Islamists gathered in the country's largest city, Karachi, in the northwestern city of Peshawar and elsewhere. Police urged demonstrators to disperse peacefully.

Ahead of the verdict, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a hard-line cleric who has brought tens of thousands of people into the streets for past rallies, called on his supporters to gather in all major cities to express their love for the prophet and to protest if Bibi is released.

The decision is a victory for human rights activists, who said the country's blasphemy law has been used to settle personal scores or to attack minority communities. The law carries a mandatory death penalty.

According to Sky News, more than 1,300 have been charged in the last 30 years and many of them were murdered before their trial was even complete.

Bibi's husband hailed Wednesday's verdict.

"I am very happy. My children are very happy. We are grateful to God," said Ashig Masih, who met with Pope Francis earlier this year. "We are grateful to the judges for giving us justice. We knew that she is innocent."

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A Christian woman in Pakistan on death row for nearly a decade after she allegedly contaminated a water jug -- an offense viewed as blasphemy in the Muslim country -- was acquitted by the country's top court on Wednesday.

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In countries where women face more unequal treatment in society, young girls have a lower chance of survival. Gender inequality is linked to more deaths than expected among girls under the age of 5

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The more unequal a society is, the more deaths there are among girls under the age of 5 compared with boys the same age, especially in lower- and middle-income countries, a new analysis finds.

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A young girl nicknamed "Mother Hen" by her brothers were killed at their bus stop.

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In a tragedy that brought even first responders to tears, a 9-year-old girl and her twin 6-year-old brothers were killed Tuesday morning while crossing the street to their stopped school bus. Just before sunrise, a pickup truck hit the siblings and another boy who was seriously hurt. The driver, a 24-year-old woman, is charged with three counts of reckless homicide.

Elgin Ingle, the uncle of Alivia Stahl and Xzavier and Mason Ingle, described Alivia as a "mother hen" who was always watching out for her little brothers.

"It's horrible that this happened," Ingle said. "They were holding hands every day on the way to the bus stop including today...it looks like Alivia stepped in front of the car for the boys. It looks like Alivia seen what was happening, and she stepped up like a hero. I wish she could've saved her brothers, but she's still a hero."

Investigators are looking into whether school bus safety played a part in this horrific crash.

"Troopers and first responders don't do a lot of crying at scenes like this but today there were some tears shed," said Indiana State Police Sgt. Tony Slocum. "All evidence so far indicates the bus had its lights activated and had the stop arm extended."

It is illegal in all 50 states to pass a school bus when it is stopped with its lights flashing and stop arm extended. But by one estimate, more than 15 million Americans illegally passed by stopped school buses during the last school year - that's nearly 85,000 times each school day. Cameras have caught just how dangerous that can be. In Austin, Texas, a car slammed into a child who had just gotten off the bus. He was able to walk away. One of the solutions explored is adding extended stop sign arms to the side of buses. It does not appear the bus in Indiana had that.

The driver is also charged with a misdemeanor for passing a stopped school bus and is free on $15,000 bond. The mother of the 11-year-old who was seriously hurt in the incident says he successfully made it through his first three surgeries, but he has a long recovery ahead.

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In Northern New York a helicopter hit power lines. 2 people were killed. 2 people survived.

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Two people were killed when their helicopter hit a set of power lines and exploded in flames in far northern New York on Tuesday afternoon. Miraculously, two other men in the helicopter who jumped to the ground managed to survive.

The accident took place at about 4:16 p.m. in Beekmantown, New York, which is about 30 minutes south of the Canadian border.

Video showed the helicopter engulfed in flames and falling from power lines.

According to the Plattsburgh Press Republican, all four men in the helicopter jumped to the ground. Two of the men were taken to the hospital, treated and released.

It is not clear what caused the accident, but Catalyst Aviation, which owned the aircraft, provides equipment and personnel for power-line inspections.

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"The helicopter at the time of the incident was working on the power lines or the structure that supports them, and at some point something catastrophic happened that caused the aircraft to crash; that's not been determined yet what really the cause was," Clinton County Emergency Manager Eric Day told Burlington, Vermont, ABC affiliate WVNY.

The accident took place near a large field and no one was injured on the ground.

"I saw something off in the distance kind of smoking, [and] thought maybe it was a transformer that had blown up or something, but as I kept coming up on it I saw bigger flames and as I got closer I could tell it was something else but you could see people down in the field doing CPR and the victims and everything," eyewitness Heather Porter told WVNY.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the accident.

ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway and Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.

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The world's largest statue finally unveiled in India.

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The prime minister of India today unveiled the world's largest statue, dedicated to Sardar Patel, a nationalist who helped unite modern India after its independence from Britain.

"We are doing everything possible to turn Sardar Patel's vision into a reality and ensure a good-quality life for our fellow Indians," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.

The monument, called the Statue of Unity, stands at nearly 600 feet and cost a staggering $460 million to build.

That makes the mega statue almost 200 feet higher than the world's next largest, the Spring Temple Buddha in China, which stands at about 420 feet. The new statue in India is also nearly twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, which is 305 feet tall.

The Statue of Unity, located in the western state of Gujarat, is expected to attract tens of thousands of tourists per day. The project has proved controversial, however.

Farmers in the state of Gujarat were reportedly bemused that millions of dollars were spent on the flagship project. The BBC reported that locals have expressed deep concern that they still lack basic irrigation facilities vital to the region's economy while mass investment has been diverted to a largely-ceremonial project.

But completion of the towering monument ends a critical debate over which political party has the best claim to the legacy of one of Indian history's most revered figures.

Though little known outside of India, Patel - the nation's first deputy prime minister -- is a favorite of Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to Elizabeth Chatterjee, a professor of political science at Queen Mary University of London.

Although Patel was a major figure in the a rival party, the Indian National Congress, Modi "celebrate[s] Patel as the great uniter of India and a defender of the country's Hindu majority," Chatterjee told ABC News.

Chaterjee said Modi's "own image is modeled on Patel's: A man of action, a forceful administrator, and a close friend of big business."

Daniel Haines, a historian of colonial India at the University of Bristol, told ABC News the choice to commemorate Patel was unsurprising.

"The freedom movement leaders who are best known in the West, Mahatma' Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, have lost popularity among many Indians since at least the 1990s, partly due to the mainstreaming of Hindu nationalist philosophy and politics," he said.

The giant statue overlooks the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, a centerpiece of the Rajasthan government's economic policy. The unveiling on Oct. 31 coincides with Patel's birthday.

The Statue of Unity will not hold the title of world's tallest statue for long. Construction is underway for an even bigger statue near the Indian city Mumbai, which will depict the Marathan warrior King Shivaji on horseback in the Arabian Sea. Officials believe that the statue will stand at 695 feet when construction is complete,, according to the newspaper Indian Express.

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In Seoul South Korea, A leader of a cult within a church is being accused of abusing her congregants. Her son is defending her even though her past crimes are still being investigated. Shin-Ok-Ju is still in custody.

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President Trump has announced he is working on a plan to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal/undocumented immigrants. Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, has shown his dissatisfaction and disagreement.

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Bulger was second on the FBI most wanted list under Osama Bin Laden. Once an FBI informant and a Boston mob boss was found dead in west Virginia prison. it is announced as a homicide. He was 89. Families of his victims can't believe he is dead.

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James "Whitey" Bulger, the notorious Boston mob boss, died Tuesday after being found unresponsive at a West Virginia federal prison, authorities said.

Life-saving measures were initiated on Bulger, 89, after he was found at 8:20 a.m. at the Hazelton federal prison in Bruceton Mills.

Bulger was convicted in 2013 of murdering 11 people, as well as extortion, money laundering and weapons charges.

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The trial came nearly 20 years after he went on the run after being tipped off to a pending federal indictment by a corrupt FBI agent.

He spent 16 years on the lam and was arrested in 2011 in Santa Monica, California.

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Bulger was second only to Osama Bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

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Whitey Bulger, notorious Boston mob boss, dies in prison

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Bulger, 89, the notorious Boston mob boss, was imprisoned on a slew of murders.

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The bodies of a college professor and her husband have been recovered from a river in central Illinois and their 21-year-old son, who said he was "sick of his parents" and had stabbed them to death, has been charged with first-degree murder.

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The bodies of a college professor and her husband have been recovered from a river in central Illinois and their 21-year-old son, who said he was "sick of his parents" and had stabbed them to death, has been charged with first-degree murder.

The bodies of Susan Brill de Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez Barron, both 63, were found Tuesday in the Spoon River near Annawan, resting against the riverbank, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said.

Jose Ramirez was arrested and charged on Monday after confessing to killing his parents, Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell said. Ramirez has been appointed a public defender and is being held on a $3 million bond.

Judge Sean Donahue scheduled his arraignment for Nov. 29.

Peoria County Assistant State's Attorney Dave Kenny said during a bond hearing Tuesday that Ramirez told friends he was "sick of his parents" and that he had killed them on Friday.

Ramirez waited until his parents were sleeping then went into their bedroom at their home near Peoria, Kenny said. He used pepper spray as a distraction and stabbed his father in the stomach and neck, then stabbed his mother when she woke up, Kenny said.

Ramirez then wrapped the bodies in a tarp and a tent, put them in his father's SUV and drove them about 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the Henry County community of Annawan, where he dumped them off a bridge into a waterway.

Peoria County sheriff's deputies found blood and signs of a struggle in the family home Sunday after a call from a concerned relative, Asbell said.

The couple last reported to work Thursday at Bradley University in Peoria, where Brill de Ramirez was an English professor and Ramirez Barron worked in the school's information technology department.

Another suspect, Matthew Roberts, 21, is also charged in the case. Asbell said investigators don't have evidence that Roberts was involved in the killings or dumping of the bodies, but that they believe Roberts knew his friend, Ramirez, had done so. Roberts is charged with obstruction of justice and concealment of a homicidal death.

Court records don't list an attorney to speak on Roberts' behalf.

Peoria is about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.

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A study published Wednesday in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology paper revealed that excessively high or low Body Mass Indexes (BMIs) are linked to an increased risk of death from a range of major diseases. Overweight BMIs are linked to death by cardiovascular diseases and cancer, while underweight BMIs are linked to death by dementia, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease and suicide.

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Obesity, low BMI linked to increased risk of death, study reveals

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Excessively high or low body mass index measurements have been linked to an increased risk of dying from nearly every major cause except transport accidents, new research says.

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A black hole was found in the middle of the Milky Way for the first time. Scientists say that it is 'Mind-Blowing'

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Astronomers have observed a stunning, supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that's pulling gas blobs into its vortex at 30 percent of the speed of light.

This is the first time that material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting so close to a black hole, according to scientists at the European Southern Observatory.

The movement of the gas blobs triggered powerful bursts of radiation that were then detected by researchers using the GRAVITY instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) array in Chile.

"It's mind-boggling to actually witness material orbiting a massive black hole at 30% of the speed of light," said Oliver Pfuhl, a scientist at the MPE, in a statement. "GRAVITY's tremendous sensitivity has allowed us to observe the accretion processes in real time in unprecedented detail."
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According to researchers, the monster black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"), is a physical point of no return that pulls any matter that's too close into a death spiral.

The group published a study of its work in the Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics on Wednesday.

Sagittarius A* is thought to be a black hole with a mass that's more than 4 million times the mass of our sun, residing about 25,000 light years from Earth.

Reinhard Genzel, of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, who led the study, said in a statement: "This always was one of our dream projects but we did not dare to hope that it would become possible so soon."

Referring to the long-standing assumption that Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole, Genzel concluded that "the result is a resounding confirmation of the massive black hole paradigm."

ESO also created an animation of the gas cloud and flares, seen below.
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The incident observed by astronomers is depicted in the image at the top of this story, however, the image is not a photograph. It's a visual simulation based on data collected by GRAVITY and other telescopes.

"If you were close enough to observe these flares, you'd be in a lot of trouble," Tana Joseph, an astrophysicist and fellow at the University of Manchester who wasn't involved in the study, told Business Insider. "We would see extremely bright flashes of optical light, and there would be lots of high energy radiation, like gamma rays and X-rays, that would be very damaging to our bodies."

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Driver charged with reckless homicide in crash at school bus stop that killed identical twin brothers and sister

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Three children were killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday morning when they were struck by a vehicle as they were about to board a school bus, police said.

The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. in Rochester, a city near Fort Wayne, according to the Indiana State Police.

The injured child was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital by helicopter.

ISP is investigating a fatal crash in Fulton County. Preliminary info is three children were struck & killed at a school bus stop near 4600 N State Road 25. @ISPPeru PIO Sgt. Tony Slocum is at the scene. Updated and confirmed info will be sent via news release later today.
- Indiana State Police (@IndStatePolice) October 30, 2018

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Three children were struck and killed by a car Indiana Tuesday as they were about to board a bus, police said.

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Brazil elects anti-establishment candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president.

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Brazil's Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared Sunday that far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a champion of traditional Brazilian values, has won the country's election for the presidency of Latin America's biggest country and the world's fourth-largest democracy.

Bolsonaro, who cast himself as a political outsider despite a 27-year career in Congress, is the latest of several leaders around the globe to gain prominence by mixing tough, often violent talk with right-wing positions. But he also is very much a product of a political tempest in Brazil that made his messages less marginalized: widespread anger at the political class amid years of corruption, an economy that has struggled to recover after a punishing recession and a surge in violence. The name of his party, PSL, translates to "Social Liberal Party," although it largely abandoned its socially liberal platforms after he joined.

Bolstering his rebel image is his reputation for offensive statements and sometimes extreme views, including insulting women, black people and the LGBT community.

"I'm afraid to go out at night when it gets dark," said Raquel Nunes, 27, a secretary from Sao Paulo and an avid Bolsonaro supporter, as The Wall Street Journal reported. "But he's going to solve this, he's going to be firm, talking didn't get us anywhere so we need to respond with force."

In a highly unusual moment, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Jose Dias Toffoli, read out part of the Constitution to reporters after he voted.

"The future president must respect institutions, must respect democracy, the rule of law, the judiciary branch, the national Congress and the legislative branch," Toffoli said in remarks many took to be a rebuke of Bolsonaro and his more extreme positions.

With 96 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 55.5 percent of the votes. Leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party had 44.5 percent.

"We have everything we need to become a great nation," Bolsonaro said Sunday night in a video broadcast on his Facebook account shortly after he won, as The New York Times noted. "Together we will change the destiny of Brazil."

Voters in Sunday's runoff election apparently looked past warnings that the brash former army captain could erode democracy, and embraced a chance for radical change after years of turmoil.

"I feel in my heart that things will change," said Sandra Coccato, a 68-year-old small business owner, after she voted for Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo. "Lots of bad people are leaving, and lots of new, good people are entering. There's a light at the end of the tunnel."

Bolsonaro's campaign first gained traction with his promises to go after violent crime in a country that leads the world in homicides and where many Brazilians live in daily fear of muggings or burglaries. However, his vows to loosen gun laws and give police a freer hand to use force against suspects also have raised concerns that a Bolsonaro presidency could lead to a bloody crackdown and an erosion of civil rights.

The campaign gained momentum by winning over much of the business community with promises of enacting market-friendly reforms that would reduce the size of the Brazilian state, including cutting ministries and privatizing state companies.

His divisive politics have heightened disharmony between Brazilians.

In Rio de Janeiro, his supporters set off fireworks on iconic Copacabana Beach. In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, cars horns could be heard honking and crowds celebrated as the results came in. In that same city, crowds gathered on a central avenue with banners and flags and people cheered and set off firecrackers in other neighborhoods as results came in.

Riot police separated supporters of Bolsonaro and those of his leftist rival Haddad when they briefly scuffled in Sao Paulo.

Bolsonaro went into the election the clear front-runner after getting 46 percent of the votes to Haddad's 29 percent in the first round of the election Oct. 7.

After opinion polls in recent weeks had Bolsonaro leading by as much as 18 percentage points, the race had tightened in recent days. But Haddad was unable to make up the difference.

"I'm not crazy about Bolsonaro. But he is our way to keep the Workers' Party out of office," said Rafaela Rosa, a 32-year-old teacher, after voting Sunday in Sao Paulo. "We have had enough corruption and now we need to clean up."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Brazil's Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared Sunday that far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a champion of traditional Brazilian values, has won the country's election for the presidency of Latin America's biggest country and the world's fourth-largest democracy.