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Great white shark gorges on floating humpback whale carcass

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Raw video: Man says white shark who tore into well-known whale named Scarlett at so much she swam 'around aimlessly'

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2 more day Montana of 300 "No surrender No retreat"

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Dallas is about to fail this test. !!yayy

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Today is Klay Thompson's birthday

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Richard Hatch died

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'Battlestar Galactica' actor Richard Hatch dies

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Actor Richard Hatch, who was known for his role as Captain Apollo in the TV series "Battlestar Galactica," died Tuesday, his manager said.

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President Donald Trump today attacked those challenging his travel ban, saying even a "bad high school student" would understand the law that confers on the president the power to restrict immigration.

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President Donald Trump today attacked those challenging his travel ban, saying even a "bad high school student" would understand the law that confers on the president the power to restrict immigration.

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Trump spoke to members of the Major County Sheriffs' Association and the Major Cities Chiefs Association at their winter conference in Washington, D.C. As Trump defended his immigration executive order, he insisted the country is "at risk" because of the temporary halt on the order, and he called the ban a "weapon" necessary for the security of the nation.

"We have to give you the weapons that you need, and this is a weapon that you need, and they're trying to take it away from you," he said.

Trump hinted to the audience about what he has learned about terrorism from his briefings, claiming it is a "far greater threat" than Americans realize.

"Believe me, I've learned a lot in the last two weeks, and terrorism is a far greater threat than the people of our country understand," he said. "But we're going to take care of it. We're going to win. We're going to take care of it, folks."

He did not elaborate on any specific threats.

Trump, who told the crowd that he listened to Tuesday night's federal court arguments between the Department of Justice and Washington state over the order, read from U.S. code detailing the president's power to restrict immigration when it is "detrimental" to the interest of the country.

"You could be a lawyer, or you don't have to be a lawyer. If you were a good student in high school or a bad student in high school, you could understand this," he said.

"I don't ever want to call a court biased, so I won't call a court biased ... We haven't had a decision," he said. "But courts seem to be so political. It would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read the statement and do what's right, and that has to do with the security of our country, which is so important."

Trump said that he thought there should have been a one-month or one-week warning before the order but that he was advised not to issue such a warning.

"We do things well. We did things right, but the law enforcement people said to me, 'Oh, you can't give a notice because if you give a notice that you're going to be really tough in one month from now or in one week from now,'" he said. "I suggested a month, then I said, 'Well, what about a week?' They said, 'No, you can't do that because then people are going to pour in.'"

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Trump Attacks Travel Ban Challengers, Says 'Bad High School Student' Would Know Ban Is Legal

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President Donald Trump today attacked those challenging his travel ban, saying even a "bad high school student" would understand the law that confers on the president the power to restrict immigration. Add Donald Trump as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Donald Trump news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

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Klay Thompson birthday

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Richard Hatch died

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A North Carolina mother is looking to press charges against a daycare worker who she claims breast-fed her 3-month-old son without her consent. Kaycee Oxendine said the unidentified woman asked twice on Friday if she could breast-feed her son, who was constipated, and both times she told the woman no
“She said that she had a son and did I want her to put my child to her breast and breast-feed? “And I said 'No, that’s nasty. We don’t do things like that.'”

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A North Carolina mother is looking to press charges against a daycare worker who she claims breast-fed her 3-month-old son without her consent. Kaycee Oxendine said the unidentified woman asked twice on Friday if she could breast-feed her son, who was constipated, and both times she told the woman no, ABC 11 reported.

"She said that she had a son and did I want her to put my child to her breast and breast-feed?" Oxendine told ABC 11. "And I said 'No, that's nasty. We don't do things like that.'"

Oxedine works at the Carrboro Early School as a pre-kindergarten teacher, and said the alleged incident happened moments after she left the center's nursery. She recorded the alleged incident on the center's security footage.

Oxendine told the news outlet that her son, whose name was not disclosed, was born prematurely and is lactose intolerant, meaning he cannot consume any milk products. The alleged incident landed the family in the emergency room Friday evening after the infant began throwing up.

"To me, a criminal act was committed against him," Oxendine told ABC 11. "Not only did you put your breast to my son, you also made my son sick because he's lactose intolerant. So you've put something in his body that his body can't digest."

Daron Council, the daycare director, told the news outlet that an employee reported the alleged incident and the woman accused of breast-feeding Oxendine's son is no longer working at the center. Council said he reported the alleged incident to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and informed other parents whose children were under the employee's care, ABC 11 reported.

"He's done everything in his power that he can do so I'm not angry at the director," Oxendine told ABC 11. "I'm not angry at the childcare center. I'm very angry at the employee. I do hope that there's justice for my son."

Police told the news outlet that the incident is being investigated as a misdemeanor.

"As a mom, you've taken something from me, because I wasn't able to defend my child," Oxendine told ABC 11. "I wasn't there."

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Nowadays there are more deaths from heroin than deaths from gun homicides.

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CNN's Jake Tapper examines the worsening opioid epidemic in the United States.

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A student at Penn State died in a frat house.

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Mother of slain backpacker writes angry letter to Trump over terror list

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Mother of slain British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung has written a scathing letter to US President Donald Trump after her daughter's killing appeared on the White House's list of 78 underreported terror attacks.

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Trump met with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, who says the company will invest $7 Billion in an Arizona Semiconductor Factory about 40 minutes ago.

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Poorest white town in America is excited that Trump is president, with 81% of the town voting for him. They believe he will make good change.

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Donald Trump is already a hero to many in eastern Kentucky.

"I voted for Trump 100%," says Barbara Puckett, a 55-year-old mom, who lives in the small and friendly town of Beattyville. "It's the most hopeful I've been in a long time now that he's in there."

Trump won 81% of the vote in Beattyville. People here love that Trump doesn't "sugarcoat" anything. They feel he understands them, even though he's a billionaire.

"Donald Trump's got all the money he'll ever need," says Steve Mays, judge-executive for the countyand life-long Beattyville resident. The 49-year-old says he's never been more excited about a president than he is now. "Trump will be a president for the common man."

What Trump will do for the little guy is on everyone's minds in Beattyville. The town earned the unfortunate distinction of being the "poorest white town in America" from 2008 to 2012. Depending on which metric you look at, it still ranks among the most impoverished in the country.

"This whole area's been neglected," laments Mays, who hopes Trump will visit the region. He wouldn't be the first president to stop by. Beattyville isn't far from the dilapidated cabin where President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty in 1964. Locals feel the area has been in a "slow decay" ever since.

Beattyville residents want jobs, especially ones that pay more than the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. They think if anyone can bring jobs back, it's Trump.

Related: Trump supporters care about jobs, not voter fraud

Hope Trump will bring the jobs

"If you got a job here in Beattyville, you're lucky," says Amber Hayes, a bubbly 25-year-old mom of two, who also voted for Trump. She works at the county courthouse, but is paid by the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (K-TAP), a form of welfare.

Coal, oil and tobacco made Beattyville a boom town in the 1800s and much of the 1900s. Locals like to bring up the fact that Lee County -- where Beattyville is located -- was the No. 1 oil-producing county east of the Mississippi at one time.

"Growing up in the '70s? Yeah, this was the place to be," says Chuck Caudhill, the general manager of the local paper, The Beattyville Enterprise. He calls the town the "gem of eastern Kentucky."

Today, the town is a ghost of its former self. The vast majority of Beattyville residents get some form of government aid -- 57% of households receive food stamps and 58% get disability payments from Social Security.

"I hope [Trump] don't take the benefits away, but at the same time, I think that once more jobs come in a lot of people won't need the benefits," says Hayes, who currently receives about $500 a month from government assistance. She's also on Obamacare.

Related: Trump vows 25 million jobs, most of any president

Time for a coal revival?

The coal and oil jobs are almost all gone, but already there's buzz Trump is reviving the industry.

Donna Coomer is the manager of a busy Valero gas station in the heart of Beattyville. She knows the names of most people who come in and makes small-town chatter with folks. Mere days after Trump's inauguration, she heard coal trucks were rumbling again.

"Someone told me this morning that in eastern Kentucky the coal trucks are already out and about," Coomer told CNNMoney, beaming. She voted for Obama but feels he was just a good talker who did little for Kentucky. Trump got her vote this time. She's praying for the new president.

It will be hard for Trump to revive the coal jobs, even if he does scale back environmental regulations on the industry. Top coal executive Robert Murray recently told CNNMoney coal employment "can't be brought back to where it was before the election of Barack Obama."

After the energy jobs evaporated, Beattyville was kept alive by a private prison and a clothing factory, Lion Apparel, that made firefighter suits. Then those jobs went away during President Obama's tenure.

All that's left are a few grocery stores, gas stations and small businesses. And drugs.

Related: Most Americans not benefiting from Dow 20,000

A town struggling with drug addiction

Rugged explorer Daniel Boone made this part of Kentucky famous in the late 1700s around the time of the Revolutionary War. The rolling hills and forests are still as picturesque as when Boone found them. Rock climbers come from all over the world to tackle the area's peaks and natural bridges.

But today it's also easy to come by heroin and cocaine in Kentucky's hills. Almost every family CNNMoney met in Beattyville had been impacted by drugs.

Puckett and her husband are currently raising a great niece and nephew because their biological parents are drug addicts. The situation is so common in Beattyville that the local elementary school runs a support group for grandparents raising grandkids.

Caudhill estimates that 40% of kids in the area don't live with their birth parents because of drugs.

"We need help. Eastern Kentucky is beautiful, but it needs help," says Patricia "Trish" Cole. Her son died of an overdose when he was 27. Pictures of him are all around her living room. She's normally quick to smile, but she gets choked up when his named is mentioned. She has a tattoo on her chest that reads: "Can't keep your arms around a memory."

Cole saves lives as an EMT for the local ambulance company. She estimates 80% of the ambulance runs she makes now are for drug-related issues. The day after her son died, she had to go get a young man who overdosed out of a closet.

Cole is one of the few people in town who voted for Hillary Clinton. She's skeptical a billionaire will remember her people, but she's willing to "give him a chance."

Related: Fear robots, not China or Mexico

Is a 'Trump Turnaround' possible?

Harold Shouse thinks about the new president every morning around 4:30am. That's when he and dozens of others in Beattyville stop at the gas station for a coffee before driving an hour or more to work in Winchester or Lexington where there are more jobs.

Shouse has worked construction all of his life. He was a mason for the county government in Beattyville for about a decade but never got paid more than $11.25 an hour.

"Most people who live in this area are in same shape," Shouse, a Trump supporter, says.

Shouse drives far for a $32-an-hour wage, but he wished there were decent jobs closer to his beloved hills. He and his wife bought a cedar cabin on top of a hill. They raised three daughters there and seven dogs. He's a big fan of Trump's idea to improve roads and bridges. If Trump does that, he thinks more businesses will come.

"We're an hour from the closest interstate," says Cole, the EMT who is also out on the roads daily. "The roads here are bad. We have two lane roads."

The internet is another problem. Cell reception is hit or miss, and many homes and schools only got decent internet access in the past year or two. The local government is trying to find people jobs they can do at home on computers, but that requires reliable internet.

People in Beattyville hear about the low 4.8% unemployment rate in America, but they don't see jobs returning in their town.

Trump has promised to create 25 million jobs, the most of any president. Experts say that will be nearly impossible to do nationally. But there are even more challenges to bringing jobs back to places like eastern Kentucky, which struggle with drugs, a remote location and many families on government aid.

Related: Waiting for tax reform? It may take longer than you think

Beattyville's best hope

From the outside, it's easy to wonder why people in Beattyville don't just move somewhere else.

But out of all the people CNNMoney met in Beattyville, only one wanted to leave. The rest are drawn to the beauty of the place and the friendly community.

"I'm country to the core," laughs Puckett. He husband of 39 years nods beside her.

Judge executive Mays puts it this way: "We're perceived as a hillbilly, backwoods, all this and that. But we're a good people."

If there were simple solutions for eastern Kentucky's economy, they probably would have been done already. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn helped build Habitat for Humanity homes in Beattyville in the late 1980s. It was another small effort that has helped, but not fundamentally changed, the region.

President Trump talks about substantial change. That's what has people in America's poorest white town fired up.

"I believe he wants to take care of us, the little people," says Coomer, the gas station manager. "I think he's going to quit giving money to all these other countries and take care of America. I truly do."

--CNN's Poppy Harlow, Haley Draznin and Jeff Simon contributed to this report. Readers can contact the reporter at heather.long@cnn.com.

CNNMoney (Beattyville, Kentucky) First published February 6, 2017: 7:36 AM ET

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Found one lost continent, hiding underneath a tropical holiday destination.

It might sound implausible, but deep at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a research team, led by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, has found pieces of an ancient continent.

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(CNN) - Found -- one lost continent, hiding underneath a tropical holiday destination.

It might sound implausible, but deep at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a research team, led by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, has found pieces of an ancient continent.

The lava-covered piece of continent, dubbed 'Mauritia,' was found under the popular island of Mauritius.

According to the report published this week in the journal Nature Communications, the piece of crust is left over from the breakup of Gondwanaland, a super-continent that existed more than 200 million years ago.

Containing rocks up to 3.6 billion years old, Gondawanaland split into what now are Africa, South America, Antarctica, India and Australia.

Professor Lewis Ashwal, lead author of the paper, says there are a number of pieces of "undiscovered continent" of various sizes spread over the Indian Ocean, left over by the breakup.

"This breakup did not involve a simple splitting of the ancient super-continent of Gondwana," says Ashwal, but "a complex splintering took place with fragments of continental crust of variable sizes left adrift within the evolving Indian Ocean basin."

The team made the discovery by analyzing a mineral -- zircon -- found in rocks spewed up by lava during volcanic eruptions.

They said that remnants of the mineral were way too old to belong to Mauritius. "Mauritius is an island, and there is no rock older than 9 million years old on the island," says Ashwal. But by studying rocks on the island, they found zircons that were 3 billion years old.

The researchers say these findings corroborate a study done in 2013 that found traces of ancient zircons in beach sand. But critics said the mineral could have been blown in by the wind, or carried in by the scientists.

Ashwal says the fact the team found ancient zircons in rock "refutes any suggestion of wind-blown, wave-transported or pumice-rafted zircons."

The researchers say their results demonstrate, in no uncertain terms, "the existence of ancient continental crust beneath Mauritius."

That continent might be lost forever, but it's still leaving traces to remind us of its existence.

"The fact that we have found zircons of this age proves that there are much older crustal materials under Mauritius that could only have originated from a continent," said Ashwal.

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Mr. Kohl- President Trump’s immigration ban got its day in court. This has to do with the executive order that temporarily bans people from seven mostly-Muslim countries from entering the US.

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Trump attacks travel ban challengers,says a bad high school student would know ban is legal:Trump spoke to members of the major county sheriffs association and the major cities Chiefs association at their winter conference in Washington,D.C.As Trump defended his immigration executive order,he insisted the country is at risk because of the temporary halt of order,and he called the ban a weapon necessary for the security of the nation.

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President Donald Trump today attacked those challenging his travel ban, saying even a "bad high school student" would understand the law that confers on the president the power to restrict immigration.

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Trump spoke to members of the Major County Sheriffs' Association and the Major Cities Chiefs Association at their winter conference in Washington, D.C. As Trump defended his immigration executive order, he insisted the country is "at risk" because of the temporary halt on the order, and he called the ban a "weapon" necessary for the security of the nation.

"We have to give you the weapons that you need, and this is a weapon that you need, and they're trying to take it away from you," he said.

Trump hinted to the audience about what he has learned about terrorism from his briefings, claiming it is a "far greater threat" than Americans realize.

"Believe me, I've learned a lot in the last two weeks, and terrorism is a far greater threat than the people of our country understand," he said. "But we're going to take care of it. We're going to win. We're going to take care of it, folks."

He did not elaborate on any specific threats.

Trump, who told the crowd that he listened to Tuesday night's federal court arguments between the Department of Justice and Washington state over the order, read from U.S. code detailing the president's power to restrict immigration when it is "detrimental" to the interest of the country.

"You could be a lawyer, or you don't have to be a lawyer. If you were a good student in high school or a bad student in high school, you could understand this," he said.

"I don't ever want to call a court biased, so I won't call a court biased ... We haven't had a decision," he said. "But courts seem to be so political. It would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read the statement and do what's right, and that has to do with the security of our country, which is so important."

Trump said that he thought there should have been a one-month or one-week warning before the order but that he was advised not to issue such a warning.

"We do things well. We did things right, but the law enforcement people said to me, 'Oh, you can't give a notice because if you give a notice that you're going to be really tough in one month from now or in one week from now,'" he said. "I suggested a month, then I said, 'Well, what about a week?' They said, 'No, you can't do that because then people are going to pour in.'"

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But a new study in the journal Child Development shows how being too firm, to the point of being harsh -- which includes yelling, hitting and shoving and using other verbal and physical threats as punishment -- could negatively impact our children's ability to succeed in high school and college.

Previous research has showed how hitting children can lead to them to be more aggressive and to suffer from mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, which could ultimately result in learning difficulties.

But Rochelle Hentges, a postdoctoral psychology fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, believes her and her colleagues' study is the first to explore how harsh parenting can impact a child's educational achievement in the long term based on how it affects relationships with peers, sexual behavior and delinquency.

The study involved following more than 1,500 students in a large county in Maryland near Washington over a nine-year period, from seventh grade until three years after the students were expected to graduate high school.

Students were given a questionnaire and were asked whether their parents yelled at them, hit them and/or shoved them to get a sense of how much physical or verbal aggression they experienced. They were also asked about their own relationships with peers, sexual activity and delinquency such as shoplifting.

The children who said in the seventh grade that they experienced harsh parenting were more likely to say in the ninth grade that their peers were more important to them than following their parents' rules or doing homework. These kids were more likely to engage in risky behaviors by the 11th grade, which included more sexual activity for girls and hitting and stealing for boys.

These students were then more likely to drop out of high school or college.

Harsh parenting in the seventh grade was indirectly related to educational achievement three years after high school, the study found.

"If you're in this harsh or unstable environment, you're kind of set up to look for immediate rewards instead of focusing on the long-term outcomes," said Hentges, the lead author of the study. She believes there is an evolutionary response to verbally and physically aggressive parenting.

"The premise of that is like in our ancestral environment, if you had this unstable or high-danger environment, it wouldn't make sense for you to put a lot of time and resources toward something that might be in the future if you're not going to live to see that future."

Harsher parenting also leads children to have less attachment to their parents and come to overly rely on their peers, said Hentges.

"When you have this type of parenting, from a very early age you are basically kind of getting this message that you are not loved, and you're getting this rejection message, so it would make sense to try and find that acceptance elsewhere," she said. "So that's kind of why you go toward these peers and you're trying to get validation from them, and if that means that you're going to engage in behaviors that maybe you wouldn't do normally just to get that validation, then you're going to do that."

Hentges and her colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh factored out other issues such as race, income level, test scores and GPA, parental education levels and how much students valued education to try to home in on the impact of harsh parenting on the student's ultimate educational success or failure.

There are some limitations to the study. The research is based on reports only from students, not teachers or parents, and considered students from one geographic area. Because it's a longitudinal study that followed young people for many years, it was a challenge to track them, especially as they got older. Their data offered limited information in some areas, such as early sexual behavior and how peers interact.

The researchers were focused on middle childhood and adolescence but note that future research might consider at what point harsh parenting and dangerous neighborhoods began to impact educational outcomes.

"Research conducted with younger children will greatly aid in our understanding of this phenomenon," they wrote in the study.

Implications for parents

The study's findings certainly have implications for parents, said Hentges. Trying to eliminate or reduce any verbal or physical aggression would allow kids to grow up in a more supportive environment, which could then reduce their over-reliance on their peers and the chances or engaging in risky behaviors. Even if you can't target the parenting, you can try to take steps to interrupt kids' extreme dependence on peers and risky sexual behavior and delinquency, which can impact overall educational achievement, she said.

What's also key for parents and educators is recognizing why kids are doing what they are doing to try to stop it. If you understand that they might be reacting based on an evolutionary theory -- that when faced with a high-danger situation, they are going to focus on short-term gains as opposed to long-term outcomes -- strategies should follow suit.

For students with warm supportive parents, telling them that education is critical to their long-term success will likely motivate them, but that message might not work for students who are struggling in their day-to-day lives, she said. Making school more rewarding and fulfilling in the short-term for these students, such as through peer-to-peer learning and hands-on projects and experiences, might be more effective.

"If you can make education rewarding in the short term and in the immediate, that might actually promote higher engagement, which would relate to higher educational attainment in terms of getting a high school degree and going to college," she said.

Hentges' study didn't look at whether the parents who were more likely to yell, hit or shove their kids experienced that same kind of parenting when they were young. Other research does show that parents, even those who pledge to parent differently from the way they grew up, tend to repeat what they know.

What parents need to realize, no matter how they were raised, is that being too tough could have negative consequences, she said.

"For people who say that we're not strict enough, I think that it's very important to recognize there's a difference between being harsh and being firm," Hentges said. "Rules are great, but they need to followed up with in a warm and supportive environment. ... Permissive parenting where there are no rules is bad as well."

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