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A lady went to her son's grave, and found out that her sons name was misspelled on his plaque. There was no remains or bones left in the coffin. She questioned if her son was still alive. Her son was sick 6 days after birth. He had no machines hooked up to him.

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Lydia Reid sat graveside on the day that her infant's body was being exhumed. Since his funeral in 1975, she'd come to the grave almost every week and almost always with flowers. But last month, she came only with hope for an answer.

Was her baby, Gary Paton, in that grave in Saughton Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland? She had to know. And she had to watch.

Call it a gut instinct, but something about the baby's burial 42 years earlier, along with events before and after, nagged at her over the years. She'd long sought permission for the exhumation. With the help of a member of Parliament, she finally reached this moment.
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Reid watched the dirt fly and the grave unearthed with a heavy heart. Six feet down came the sight of a disintegrating coffin and a promising sign - a plaque bearing her baby's name. It was misspelled: "Garry."

Soon after, a noted forensic anthropologist studied the coffin's contents: baby garments, fragments of the coffin and a little cross. But there were no human remains. No bones. Nothing.

"There was never any child's remains in that coffin," a distraught Reid, 68, told The Washington Post a few days later. "I can't even be sure he's dead now - that's the truth of it."

Her initial doubts about Gary's burial proved justified, but with the deepening mystery came a fresh volcano of anguish and anger.

"Is my son alive?" she said, her voice trailing off. "I have to look at all possibilities. My son could be anywhere."

She's determined to find out the truth.

At the time of Gary's birth, Reid was a 26-year-old mother of two. Her water broke late one night and she went into labor just 34 weeks into the pregnancy. "I'd never gone into labor early," she said. "I was fearful of what would happen to my child."

The next day, doctors performed a Caesarean section and Gary was taken to a special care unit. "They did not feel it was wise for me to see him," Reid said. "They didn't let me hold him. That's the way it was is those days."

The hospital insisted she stay in her bed to recover from the C-section. But she repeatedly went to Gary's room, clasped his little fingers and spoke lovingly to him. "He actually used to open his eyes and look at me," she said. "His eyes were not unlike mine, but more brown."

Gary was not hooked up to machines, she said, but the hospital was "taking pus off his stomach with a needle day after day." She learned why he was so sick six days after his birth, when she was told Gary was being transferred to the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children for an operation.

"He had surgery on his gut to remove the catheter that a doctor had left in him," Reid said. "They said his heart stopped three times on the table. They told me he had traumatic brain damage. They said he couldn't recover."

Gary was put on life support. When they asked to turn it off, she agreed. "I just went along. We were all very ignorant in those days. I was just a young mom."

But later, the hospital did a curious thing: Gary was put on life support again. Soon after, police officers knocked on the door of Reid's home in the middle of the night to tell her that her that Gary was dead. The hospital asked permission to do an autopsy, but Reid flatly refused.

Because she wasn't at the hospital when Gary died, she insisted upon a private showing at the funeral home, known then as St. Cuthbert's. She arrived with burial clothes for Gary that included a shawl her mother had crocheted and a rosary to go inside his coffin.

"I went to the undertaker's and was met with resistance," Reid said. "They told me I couldn't see Gary. But I wanted to put my son in his own baby clothes. I insisted."

Eventually, they showed her a baby, "a huge child with blond hair," she said. But Gary, born prematurely, was small and had dark hair. When she told them it wasn't Gary, they told her she was mistaken and had "postnatal depression."

"Everybody told me that," Reid said. "I started doubting myself."

On the day of Gary's burial, she carried his little coffin to the grave herself. Almost immediately, she felt something was wrong. The coffin felt too light to have a baby inside. "I know what it feels like to hold a baby," Reid said.

Before the funeral, she worried they were burying the wrong baby. Now she worried, they weren't burying a baby at all. But everyone dismissed her. Things like that just didn't happen, they told her. She went along, but said, "It haunted me for years."

Her world turned upside-down again in 1999, when a scandal erupted in Britain involving hospitals secretly removing the organs of deceased patients, usually infants, purportedly for medical research. In many instances, this was done without the knowledge or permission of the parents.

In other instances, parents consented to allowing a "tissue sample" thinking pathologists were taking a cell sample or, say, a slice of the liver. When they learned their babies had been gutted and buried without the organs, the public outcry was enormous.

British tabloids called it the "organ snatching scandal." It had been going on since at least the 1950s, reports from numerous inquiries said.

The revelations first emerged at Bristol Royal Infirmary in England. In 1999, it was announced that nearly 170 "were buried incomplete" due to unwanted organ removals. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. The numbers grew many times over as it became apparent that the practice was routine at many British hospitals.

At Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, "the bodies of all children going under post-mortem were systematically stripped of all their organs" under the Dutch pathologist Dick van Velzen, as the BBC reported. An inquiry found that he lied to parents, falsified records, statistics, research application, post-mortem reports and even failed to catalog the organs removed. Its findings, known as the Redfern Report, said that over 104,000 organs, body parts and entire bodies of fetuses and stillborn babies were stored at 210 sites.

Margaret Brazier, a professor at the University of Manchester, served as chairwoman of her country's Retained Organs Commission, which met from 2001 to 2004 and was charged with overseeing the return of tissue and organs of the deceased involved to their families. She told The Post that the scandal revealed a huge divide between the medical community and patients.

Scientists, particularly pathologists, insisted they had acted in good faith, usually for research purposes. But some just couldn't understand the outcry or why people "got so bothered by a corpse."

"The remains were important to some people because of faith or they simply wanted their child buried whole," Brazier said. "Cold rationality only takes you so far," she said of the medical community. "You have to take into account how these individuals feel."

When scandal rocked Scotland in 2000, Reid was in denial at first. Surely, this didn't happen to Gary. She called the hospital and was assured his organs hadn't been taken. But later, when she asked for his medical records, she learned that wasn't true.

She immediately thought about his burial. Had the pathologists lost her baby's body? Was that the reason for the mix-up at the funeral home? Where was Gary?

She reached out to other parents. They wanted their children's medical reports, too, but many times they came back with critical information blacked out. They wanted the organs back to bury with their babies. And they wanted stricter consent laws put in place at hospitals so this could never happen to other infants.

Reid said hospitals told parents the practice was kept secret "for our own good." Many Scottish parents sued, and roughly 70 of them received 5,000 pounds apiece, or roughly $6,700. But others, such as Reid, received nothing because the procurator fiscal, a kind of investigative coroner, ordered the post-mortem.

"Most of the parents weren't in the least bit interested in compensation," Brazier said. They sued because it seemed the only way to get the organs being withheld and forcing legislation to be passed so that it didn't happen again.

Reid organized "Justice for Innocents" and became an advocate for parents as well as an unrelenting activist for change, even leading demonstrations. Once, she and another mother chained themselves to railing outside the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh for several hours. "I was arrested," she said, adding, the police "had a heart."

Scottish authorities asked a review group, led by an ethics professor, to investigate the scandal. The group's 2001 " McLean Report " estimated that 6,000 organs were still being retained and recommended tougher regulations. While some parents accepted the findings, many did not, including Reid, who called it a "whitewash" and said the figures were grossly underestimated. The exact number of infants involved still isn't known.

Eventually, some organs were returned to parents, but seldom at once. One family had four different burial ceremonies for their child because the organs and tissue samples came back "in bits and pieces" at different points in time, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported in 2002.

In Reid's case, none of Gary's organs had been found, despite the report saying they had been harvested. And now there isn't even a body.

"Even if he is lying in a jar in a hospital somewhere I want to know," Reid told BBC News after the exhumation. "If it is possible to get my son back, I want my son back."

Following the exhumation, police launched an investigation. Scotmid Co-operative Funerals, which now owns the funeral home that handled Gary's burial, said in a statement that the company offered Reid and her family "full support in what has been an extremely distressing situation for them."

Reid says someone who worked at the funeral home and hospital surely knows what happened to Gary. She has made a public plea for them to come forward.

Gordon Lindhurst, a member of the Scottish Parliament who wrote a letter on Reid's behalf to help her secure permission for the exhumation, said in an email to The Post that she deserves to "have closure." He recently pressed the matter publicly with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, noting Reid's role in "leading the campaign which exposed how hospitals had unlawfully kept deceased children's body parts for research purposes."

Sturgeon, in turn, extended sympathies to Reid and offered "an assurance" that a "relevant minister" would contact her to "try to ensure that she gets the answers that she certainly deserves." Last week, Reid met with Aileen Campbell, the Government Minister for Health, for a 30-minute session. "She listened to my story," Reid said.

Reid initially didn't go back to the cemetery after the empty coffin was found. But she returned last week for the first time.

"The grave is empty, but it's all I've got," she said. "I've got those flowers boxes there for Gary. He's got to get his flowers. But it's just a horrible, desolate place now. It just doesn't feel the same any longer. It just feels awful."

#JUSTICEFORGARYPATON Someone from #ScotmidCooperativefunerals knows what happened 2 Gary Was your child in Scotmid Funerals then 8/9/07/75

- LydiaReidYes2Indy2 (@LydiaReidYES2) September 2, 2017

All true It has been a long fight to prove it but he is not there Scotmid Co operative Funerals gave me an empty coffin to bury

- LydiaReidYes2Indy2 (@LydiaReidYES2) September 1, 2017

To #YES family who have been such an amazing help in sharing about my son #JUSTICEFORGARYPATON I have also much help from @GLindhurstMSP

- LydiaReidYes2Indy2 (@LydiaReidYES2) September 8, 2017

Really glad to have been able to help, Lydia https://t.co/o2XVD8XwO3

- Gordon Lindhurst MSP (@GLindhurstMSP) September 8, 2017

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Packers keep getting hurt, keep winning -- but for how much longer?

Green Bay lost one of its best receivers and almost ran out of running backs but still was able to handle the Bears at Lambeau

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GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Packers keep losing players, and they keep winning.

Yet after Thursday's 35-14 win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field, where the Packers almost ran out of running backs and lost one of their best receivers, who knows how much longer that will last?

At some point, coach Mike McCarthy might run out of players who can play Super Bowl-caliber football.

Yes, they survived against a punchless team with an ineffective quarterback who lacks a legitimate No. 1 receiver. But with a team like the Dallas Cowboys up next on the road in Week 5, Aaron Rodgers and what looks like an improved defense that caused four turnovers might be in trouble.

Even the mini-bye that comes after a Thursday game might not be enough to cure all the Packers' ills.

They came into the game shorthanded on the offensive line, and they left without two of their most important offensive players: running back Ty Montgomery and receiver Davante Adams. Montgomery's backup, Jamaal Williams, also dropped out with a knee injury, leaving the Packers with only one available halfback, Aaron Jones, who had never played from scrimmage before this game.

The scariest injury was to Adams, who took a helmet-to-helmet hit from Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan that sent him immediately to the hospital to be evaluated for head and neck injuries and a possible concussion.

But at least the Packers were still close to fully stocked at receiver. Jordy Nelson caught two touchdown passes -- including one on the play right after Adams was injured -- and Randall Cobb returned from a chest injury to catch one touchdown pass.

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Rodgers threw for four touchdowns in all (the other one went to Adams on the game's opening drive), marking the fourth time in Rodgers' career he has thrown four scoring passes against the Bears.

Montgomery's injury might hurt the Packers more in the short term.

In the first three games, Montgomery had 39.6 percent of the Packers' touches, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The next-highest player was Cobb with 10.7 percent. Montgomery carried five times on the first six plays on Thursday, gaining 28 yards, before he bowed out. His broken ribs occurred on his first carry, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

As if the injuries on Thursday night weren't bad enough, the Packers already were without starting offensive tackles David Bakhtiari (hamstring) and Bryan Bulaga (ankle), which forced them to play with essentially four guards and a center. On the other side of the ball, they played without defensive tackle Mike Daniels (hip) and cornerback Davon House (quad).

So here are the Packers at 3-1, a position that ordinarily would have a team feeling good about its start, yet McCarthy and general manager Ted Thompson now face one of the biggest challenges since they lost Rodgers to a collarbone injury four years ago.

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12:35 AM ET Rob DemovskyESPN Staff Writer Close Covered Packers for Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1997-2013 Two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Packers keep losing players, and they keep winning.

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Russia is warning the United States: Back off our media.

The country's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued a warning Thursday that Russia would retaliate if U.S. authorities took action against their government-funded media outlets in the U.S. RT and Sputnik. Every act, she said, will be met with a response.

"Russia is dedicated to all international statues and norms regarding the freedom of speech and proved that on many occasions," Zakharova said at her weekly briefing. "When it comes down to a fight with no rules, when the law is twisted and turned into an instrument for the destruction of a TV company, every step against a Russian media outlet will be met with a corresponding response. And whom this response will be aimed at, that is what Washington needs to figure out well. The clock is ticking."

Earlier this month, RT, the Russian-government funded television network that airs around the world in six languages and has a global web presence, said that the Russian company that supplies services for RT America, such as television production, had received a letter from the Department of Justice notifying it that the company is obligated to register under Foreign Agents Registration Act due to the work it does for RT. The FARA is meant to thwart foreign propaganda from swaying the American public, but it is traditionally not applied to media companies.

The Department of Justice declined to comment in response to a question about RT's claim that such a letter was sent.

The official Russia news wire TASS reported that Zakharova described the request that RT register as a foreign agent as "a selective and clearly politically motivated enforcement of legislation as applied to Russian media will mean restrictions on the freedom of speech, which is guaranteed by the US Constitution."

Though Zakharova did not detail what the retaliation would look like, Russia has already ordered the United States to cut hundreds of staff from its diplomatic posts in Russia. Many American media outlets have bureaus and journalists stationed in Russia. The American-government backed news network Voice of America also has a Russian-language service there.

RT America had also been previously singled out in a January intelligence community report for the impact it may have had on the 2016 election. The report said RT "conducts strategic messaging for [the] Russian government" and "seeks to influence politics, fuel discontent in the U.S." The report also cited Sputnik as "another government-funded outlet producing pro-Kremlin radio and online content."

Federal investigators are also reportedly looking into whether sites such as RT and Sputnik were part of Russia's influence campaign on the U.S. 2016 election. Yahoo News has separately reported that the FBI interviewed a former Sputnik correspondent about his work at the website.

-- CNN's Mary Ilyushina and Tim Lister contributed reporting.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 28, 2017: 4:02 PM ET

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The country's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued a warning Thursday that Russia would retaliate if U.S. authorities took action against their government-funded media outlets in the U.S. RT and Sputnik. Every act, she said, will be met with a response.

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During the U.S. Presidential election it is believed that the Russian government made fake Facebook and Twitter pages to stir up racial tension between the candidates. The pages were called "Blacktivist" , they would post on the account having people protest and rethink how racist the police and government was

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CNN 17 mins ago Donie O'Sullivan and Dylan Byers

A social media campaign calling itself "Blacktivist" and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during the U.S. presidential election, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The Twitter account has been handed over to Congress; the Facebook account is expected to be handed over in the coming days.

Both Blacktivist accounts, each of which used the handle Blacktivists, regularly shared content intended to stoke outrage. "Black people should wake up as soon as possible," one post on the Twitter account read. "Black families are divided and destroyed by mass incarceration and death of black men," another read. The accounts also posted videos of police violence against African Americans.

The Blacktivist accounts provide further evidence that Russian-linked social media accounts saw racial tensions as something to be exploited in order to achieve the broader Russian goal of dividing Americans and creating chaos in U.S. politics during a campaign in which race repeatedly became an issue.
Related: Russian-bought Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeted Baltimore and Ferguson
The Facebook account had 360,000 likes, more than the verified Black Lives Matter account on Facebook, which currently has just over 301,000.

The page also publicized at least seven rallies and demonstrations around the country in 2016. The events ranged from the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party to a march in Baltimore commemorating the death of Freddie Gray. In several cases, it appears that the events were real, and were organized by other groups, but that the Blacktivist account was working to increase turnout.

"We are fed up with police violence, racism, intolerance and injustice that passed down from generation to generation. We are fed up with government ignorance and the system failing black people," the page's description of the march for Freddie Gray read.

That same Freddie Gray event was covered by RT, a television network funded by the Russian government.

CNN reported Wednesday that at least one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign referenced Black Lives Matter and was specifically targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, two cities that had gained widespread attention for the large and violent protests over police shootings of black men.

The Twitter account, @Blacktivists, provided several clues that in hindsight indicate it was not what it purported to be. In several tweets, it employed awkward phrasing that a native English speaker would be unlikely to use. It also consistently posted using an apostrophe facing the wrong way, i.e. "it`s" instead of "it's."

The Blacktivist Facebook account was among the 470 Russian-linked accounts identified by the social media network and disclosed to Congress earlier this month, the sources said. The matching Twitter account was among the roughly 200 accounts Twitter identified with links to those found by Facebook.

Facebook shared its findings about the accounts with Twitter, enabling Twitter to identify 22 matching accounts and an additional 179 accounts that linked back to those accounts, the sources said. This matching process went beyond public-facing similarities and included private information that could link the accounts.

All of the ads handed over by Facebook were linked to the Internet Research Agency, a shadowy company that U.S. military intelligence has described as "a state-funded organization that blogs and tweets on behalf of the Kremlin." A senior Kremlin spokesman said last week that Russia did not buy ads on Facebook to influence the election.

Related: Twitter tells Congress it took action on 200 Russia-linked accounts
As with the Russian-backed Facebook accounts, the Russian-backed Twitter accounts sought to amplify political discord by highlighting hot-button political issues like race and immigration.

Some of the Twitter accounts also promoted anti-Hillary Clinton stories, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The U.S. intelligence community believes one reason Russia meddled in the election was to damage Clinton's chances of winning.

Blacktivist posted a video on Facebook in August of this year with the caption, "Watch another savage video of police brutality. We live under a system of racism and police are directly letting us know how they feel and where we stand."

The video was from a July incident in San Diego in which a police dog was seen biting an African-American man in handcuffs.

CNN has not confirmed when the Blacktivist Facebook account was established. The corresponding Twitter account was set up in April 2016, according to cached page records.

"Black community welcomes you! We want to bring peace in life of our brothers and sisters!" the "About" section of the Facebook page read.

One of the Russian-bought Facebook ads that the social media network is handing over to Congress backed Green Party candidate Jill Stein. "Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein," the ad read. "The only way to take our country back is to stop voting for the corporations and banks that own us. #GrowaSpineVoteJillStein." The Stein ad was first reported by Politico.

A segment of that wording appeared verbatim on the @Blacktivists Twitter account on November 2, 2016. "Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it's not a wasted vote," the account tweeted.

Both accounts appear to have been active as recently as last month.
-- CNN's Marshall Cohen contributed reporting.

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Exclusive: Fake black activist social media accounts linked to Russian government

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CNN 17 mins ago Donie O'Sullivan and Dylan Byers A social media campaign calling itself "Blacktivist" and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during the U.S. presidential election, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

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The proverbial game of chicken between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has only escalated in recent months, but amid the public name-calling and threats of annihilation.They are trying to set up a meeting to understand trumps threats.

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The proverbial game of chicken between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has only escalated in recent months, but amid the public name-calling and threats of annihilation, regime officials have been quietly attempting to set up meetings with Republican analysts in an apparent attempt to better understand the mixed messages coming from the Trump administration.

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A mother in Iowa is now in jail because she left her 4kids unsupervised at home while she traveled to Europe. She faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under 21.

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe.

Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

While conducting a welfare check, police found Macke's four children - two 12-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 7-year-old -- alone.

Police discovered that Macke left the U.S. a day earlier and wasn't set to return until Oct. 1, the Register reported. She did not arrange any supervision for the children, authorities said.

Macke was contacted by police while she was in Germany and ordered to return. The Iowa Department of Human Services took custody of the abandoned children before handing them over to relatives.

Macke was being held at Polk County Jail with no bond. She faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under age 21, the Register reported.

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe. Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

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Russia is warning the United States to back of the media. The spokesmen of Russia issued a warning Thursday that said they would retaliate if they don't lay off the media.

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Russia is warning the United States: Back off our media.

The country's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued a warning Thursday that Russia would retaliate if U.S. authorities took action against their government-funded media outlets in the U.S. RT and Sputnik. Every act, she said, will be met with a response.

"Russia is dedicated to all international statues and norms regarding the freedom of speech and proved that on many occasions," Zakharova said at her weekly briefing. "When it comes down to a fight with no rules, when the law is twisted and turned into an instrument for the destruction of a TV company, every step against a Russian media outlet will be met with a corresponding response. And whom this response will be aimed at, that is what Washington needs to figure out well. The clock is ticking."

Earlier this month, RT, the Russian-government funded television network that airs around the world in six languages and has a global web presence, said that the Russian company that supplies services for RT America, such as television production, had received a letter from the Department of Justice notifying it that the company is obligated to register under Foreign Agents Registration Act due to the work it does for RT. The FARA is meant to thwart foreign propaganda from swaying the American public, but it is traditionally not applied to media companies.

The Department of Justice declined to comment in response to a question about RT's claim that such a letter was sent.

The official Russia news wire TASS reported that Zakharova described the request that RT register as a foreign agent as "a selective and clearly politically motivated enforcement of legislation as applied to Russian media will mean restrictions on the freedom of speech, which is guaranteed by the US Constitution."

Though Zakharova did not detail what the retaliation would look like, Russia has already ordered the United States to cut hundreds of staff from its diplomatic posts in Russia. Many American media outlets have bureaus and journalists stationed in Russia. The American-government backed news network Voice of America also has a Russian-language service there.

RT America had also been previously singled out in a January intelligence community report for the impact it may have had on the 2016 election. The report said RT "conducts strategic messaging for [the] Russian government" and "seeks to influence politics, fuel discontent in the U.S." The report also cited Sputnik as "another government-funded outlet producing pro-Kremlin radio and online content."

Federal investigators are also reportedly looking into whether sites such as RT and Sputnik were part of Russia's influence campaign on the U.S. 2016 election. Yahoo News has separately reported that the FBI interviewed a former Sputnik correspondent about his work at the website.

-- CNN's Mary Ilyushina and Tim Lister contributed reporting.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 28, 2017: 4:02 PM ET

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March 26, 1990 a woman was shot in the face by a clown after finishing breakfast with her son and friends. Two days later the woman died in the hospital.  27 years later the  Palm Beach police department had found a suspect. A women named Sheila Keen has been charged this Tuesday. Keen, 54, has been charged with first-degree murder in Warren's killing 27 years ago. No plea has been entered yet.

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Someone dressed as a clown emerged from the car carrying two balloons and a flower arrangement, authorities said.

When Warren answered the door, the clown handed her the gifts, according to detective Paige McCann of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. "Warren said something like, 'How nice,'" McCann said.

The clown then pulled out a gun, shot Warren in the face, walked back to the car and calmly drove away.

Warren died two days later in a hospital.

Arrest decades later

At the time, investigators said they had identified a suspect but didn't have enough evidence for a conviction. No arrests had been made in the brazen killing -- until Tuesday.

Sheila Keen, who married the slain woman's husband 12 years after the killing, was taken into custody in Abingdon, Virginia, a mountain town more than 800 miles from the site of the slaying.

Keen, 54, has been charged with first-degree murder in Warren's killing 27 years ago. No plea has been entered yet.

She waived extradition back to Florida, and prosecutors will announce whether they will seek the death penalty once she returns to the state, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg .

CNN has reached out to the suspect's lawyer for comment.

Married victim's husband

For years, there were no breaks in the case until 2014, when the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office cold case unit reopened the investigation.

Authorities tracked down witnesses, re-interviewed them and examined evidence using DNA technology not available in 1990, according to McCann.

Detectives also discovered the suspect married Michael Warren, the widower of the victim, in 2002. When detectives first looked into the killing, they heard rumors the suspect was having an affair with Michael Warren, McCann said.

At the time, Michael Warren and Keen denied having an affair.

They were together in a car when she was arrested Tuesday, said Fred Newman, the sheriff in Washington County, Virginia.

Michael Warren has not been charged, but the investigation is not over, Florida investigators said.

The Miami Herald reported that the suspect used to run a car repossession business in South Florida. Michael Warren was one of her customers, and operated his own used-car and rental-car businesses, the newspaper said.

Before her arrest, the couple lived around Abingdon and nearby Kingsport, Tennessee, for several years, authorities said.

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Palm Beach County investigators declined to share additional details about the case, saying the investigation is ongoing.

But they said they determined the balloons and flowers were purchased the day of the killing at a grocery store near the suspect's residence.

Investigators also discovered that the suspect and Michael Warren had possession of the car before the killing, McCann said. That car was a rental from another company that customers mistakenly returned to Michael Warren's car lot, she said.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said advancements in DNA evidence helped seal the case. In 1990, the evidence was just not strong enough to secure a conviction, he said.

Investigators would not go into specifics about what DNA evidence strengthened the case. But in 2000, investigators said they hoped orange fibers and brown hair found in the car would help them find the killer, according to the Miami Herald.

"Remember the days when we had the cell phones ... that looked like a brick, and now we got smartphones that you can do everything on," he said. "That's the difference between the technology back when this happened and today. It's exponentially so much better to assist us in making sure we have the right person."

The victim's mother, Shirley Twing, said she always believed an arrest would be made in her daughter's killing.

"Kind of choked me up a bit. ... Sometimes I feel like crying when I'm talking about it," Twing told CNN affiliate WPTV.

"I had faith ... never gave up, you know?" she said, thanking investigators for their work.

Joseph Ahrens, the victim's son, told CNN he was grateful of the progress in the cold case.

"I think they took so long to make an arrest because they just wanted to be sure they had the right person," he said.

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Someone dressed as a clown emerged from the car carrying two balloons and a flower arrangement, authorities said. When Warren answered the door, the clown handed her the gifts, according to detective Paige McCann of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. "Warren said something like, 'How nice,'" McCann said.

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Russia warns U.S. over treatment of its media outlets.  Zakharova said "When it comes down to a fight with no rules, when the law is twisted and turned into an instrument for the destruction of a TV company, every step against a Russian media outlet will be met with a corresponding response. And whom this response will be aimed at, that is what Washington needs to figure out well. The clock is ticking."

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Musk and his company called SpaceX has finished his presentation in Australia with a plan to develop rocket fast travel on Earth from city to city. The rockets nickname is BFR or Big F****** Rocket. The video Musk shows advertised flight times between NYC and Shanghai of 37 minutes and the max speed of nearly of 17,000 mph. Musk also says that he eventually plans to pivot from his current plans on multiple types of rockets to working solely on the BFR but it wont come around until SpaceX has sent manned missions to mars but that isnt till 2024.

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Elon Musk took to the stage at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia on Thursday night to further his push for travel to -- and colonization of -- Mars. But it was a rocket that won't leave Earth's orbit which grabbed much of the attention.

Musk, and his company SpaceX, finished his presentation with a plan to develop rocket travel between any city on Earth. The rocket, nicknamed BFR for Big F----- Rocket, will be capable of taking passengers between any two cities in less than an hour. It touts that most travel will be less than a half hour.

The video Musk showed advertised flight times between New York City and Shanghai of 37 minutes and a maximum speed of nearly 17,000 mph.

And it won't be expensive. Musk says the cost for a passenger should only be about the same as economy class on an aircraft.

Don't plan your summer vacation next year around the BFR, though. The concept is still completely theoretical.

Musk said he eventually plans to pivot from his current work on multiple types of rockets to working solely on the BFR. But that won't come until SpaceX has sent manned missions to Mars -- and the timetable for sending people to Mars isn't until 2024.

The presentation also focused on other uses for the BFR, including for use going to the moon and building a permanent base.

Moon Base Alpha

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Elon Musk took to the stage at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia on Thursday night to further his push for travel to -- and colonization of -- Mars. But it was a rocket that won't leave Earth's orbit which grabbed much of the attention. Musk, and his company SpaceX, finished his...

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Mumbai railway station stampede kills 22 because people were running to find shelter from heavy monsoon like rain and they were running on the overbridge. People at the front slipped and the large crowd  kept going, killing 22. 14 men and 8 women.

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A stampede on a footbridge at a Mumbai railway station has left 22 people dead and injured more than 30, Indian officials report.

The tragedy occurred during the morning rush hour at Elphinstone station, which connects two major local lines.

It was triggered by overcrowding and people seeking shelter from monsoon rains, the officials said.

The injured have been taken to a nearby hospital and senior railway officials are at the scene.

What happened?

"The incident occurred as heavy rains lashed Mumbai and passengers took refuge on the foot overbridge. People at the front slipped and the huge crowd toppled over, leading to the stampede," Indian Railways spokesman Ravindra Bhakar told AFP news agency.

"Twenty-two dead have been confirmed, 14 men and eight women... Some 32 passengers are injured."

Akash Koteja, one of the injured, said: "Trains were rolling in and some people wanted to get out of the station, but others were not making way. When a few tried, it led to a stampede."

TV footage from the scene showed commuters trying to rescue fellow passengers from the crush and revive people by pumping their chests.

"We put everybody who was injured in cars, police vans and ambulances and tried to take them to the hospital as quickly as possible," said one witness quoted by AFP.

Why did it happen?

An investigation has been launched into the causes of the disaster, but overcrowding on India's vast, crumbling railway network is a perennial problem.

The BBC's Yogita Limaye in Mumbai says the incident has once again put the spotlight on Mumbai's transport infrastructure, which is often criticised for being old and insufficient given the millions of people who use it every day.

How have Indian leaders reacted?

Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi tweeted: "My deepest condolences to all those who have lost their lives due to the stampede in Mumbai. Prayers with those who are injured."

He added that Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was in Mumbai "taking stock of the situation and ensuring all assistance".

The chief minister of Maharashtra state, whose capital is Mumbai, announced compensation for the families of the dead and said the medical bills of the injured would be paid.

Devendra Fadnavis also promised to take "strict action" action against those responsible for the stampede.

"My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones," he said during a visit to Singapore.
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A stampede on a footbridge at a Mumbai railway station has left 22 people dead and injured more than 30, Indian officials report. The tragedy occurred during the morning rush hour at Elphinstone station, which connects two major local lines. It was triggered by overcrowding and people seeking shelter from monsoon rains, the officials said.

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white house offecals are using there personal phone and email to do there job despite being advertised not to. This causis problems with making sure that the officels are not saving the records and sering them.

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The White House has launched an internal probe on the use of personal email accounts, Fox News has confirmed.

The review appears to have emerged from recent reports of current and former White House officials using private email accounts and personal phones for administrative business, despite being advised not to do so.

"The White House instructs staff to fully comply with the Presidential Records Act, and briefed staff on the need to preserve records," a senior official told Fox News.

Son-in-law and adviser to the president Jared Kushner used personal email in his first few months of the administration, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, confirmed Sunday. He said the emails usually involved news articles and political commentary. Lowell also said any non-personal emails were forwarded to Kushner's official account and "all have been preserved in any event."

Former Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, chief White House economic advisor Gary Cohn, Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller and adviser Ivanka Trump were also reported to have used private accounts at one point during the administration, The New York Times reported.

According to the Presidential Records Act, senior White House staff members are required to preserve their professional communications, with the records eventually transferred to the National Archives. Electronic communications outside of official channels, such as private email or text messages on a staffer's personal phone, are supposed to be copied to a government account within 20 days.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Monday that the use of private email accounts by staff is "to my knowledge, very limited."

"White House counsel has instructed all White House staff to use their government email for official business, and only use that email," Sanders said. "We get instructed on this one pretty regularly."

House lawmakers have requested more information about the use of private email addresses and texting or the use of messaging apps on personal phones. They've also asked about the oversight and record-keeping policies of the Trump White House. They decided to act after word of Kushner's private email account first came to light.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the top Democrat on that panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings, sent letters Monday to the White House general counsel and the State Department, looking for more details on whether staffers are using personal emails, texting or encrypted messaging applications, and if they are preserving the records.

The probe into White House email practices has the potential to be embarrassing for President Trump, considering how he criticized Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
Fox News' Ed Henry and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The White House has launched an internal probe on the use of personal email accounts, Fox News has confirmed. The review appears to have emerged from recent reports of current and former White House officials using private email accounts and personal phones for administrative business, despite being advised not to do so.

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Police: Girlfriend's dad among 2 charged in fatal beating

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One of two men who have been charged in the beating death of a hogtied Oklahoma man is the father of the victim's girlfriend, who told detectives she asked them to beat up her boyfriend because he had been abusing her, police said Thursday. The body of Anthony Pietrzak, 18, was found at around 2 a.m.

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It has been a trying week for Erika Rodriguez, who continues to reach out for her family who are struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

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It has been a trying week for Erika Rodriguez, who continues to reach out to family members in Puerto Rico struggling in the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

With much of the island without power, and short of fuel and clean water, Rodriguez wants her family to relocate to the U.S. mainland while authorities in Puerto Rico try to rebuild an already fragile infrastructure struck by one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. But she's having a lot of trouble trying to get to the island to retrieve them.

"We're trying to find something but there are no flights," said Rodriguez of Satellite Beach, Fla. "We're calling around. One of my friends was trying to leave from Orlando and at the last minute the flight was canceled. They're also saying that they might be able to get you in but there are no guarantees that (they) can get you back," Rodriguez said.

In the established Puerto Rican enclaves of cities around the country, people like Rodriguez are making room for relatives whose lives on the island have been washed away. So, too, are city officials bracing for the influx of evacuees desperate to flee Puerto Rico for shelter with friends and family.

It's too early to know how many of the island's 3.4 million residents will try to leave or just how ready communities in the mainland U.S. are to absorb them. If migration patterns hold, much of the influx will be to the South.

A Pew Research Center study shows that as the island was in the early throes of its current economic crisis and bankruptcy, about 48% people leaving Puerto Rico moved to the South, including 31% who relocated to Florida.

More than a million people of Puerto Rican descent live and work in Orlando, home of Walt Disney World. Monse Vargas, the president of the non-profit La Casa de Puerto Rico, said preparations must be made for temporary housing, job training and other social services should families there take in evacuees.

"There are people who are trying to come. They have family in Central Florida or they're coming here to buy supplies to take back. But there is a lot of desperation. Some people lost their houses and want to get out, even though right now it is extremely difficult," Vargas said.

Jackie Cruz of Port St. Lucie, Fla., said she is more than willing to bring all of her family - including her mother, aunt, sister, her husband's children, grandchildren and others - to the mainland.

"We're all trying to get together with my sister in Jersey to figure out how we can bring them here. They won't leave anyone behind," Cruz said. "We're trying to convince them being here is better than being where they are. They don't know anything outside of Puerto Rico."

Officials in Florida and other states were readying resources. Florida will assist with "whatever is needed, both in Puerto Rico and in Florida," said Kerri Wyland, a spokeswoman for Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Scott has asked the state's public colleges and universities to allow students displaced by the storm in Puerto Rico to pay tuition at an in-state rate.

New Jersey, which sent a task force and resources to Florida, South Carolina and Texas in response to hurricanes earlier this month, is preparing to send aid to Puerto Rico as soon as the Federal Emergency Management Agency tells them what's needed.

Meanwhile, the situation in Puerto Rico, where nearly half of the population lives below the poverty rate, grows more dire by the day. While there is no shortage of people who want to fly in with supplies, the logistics are daunting. There are roads that remain impassible because of the damage. Some communities on the island are so remote they are only accessible by helicopter. Loved ones living stateside worry, and feel helpless.

Janice Rivera of Rockaway, New Jersey, said her brother and sister live in Cedra, located in the middle of the island. She said one of her nephews lost the zinc roof of his home. She is worried about the scarcity of food; her family sometimes relies on the avocados, bananas and plantains that fall from the trees. Rivera can't even send cash through the bank because her siblings can't access the money.

"They say it will take two months for power to come back, and we worry about what they are going to eat,'' she said. "What are they going to do, and if they are flooded where are they going to live?"

At the Orlando International Airport, there were two passenger flights - one arriving and one departing for Puerto Rico - scheduled Wednesday. Normally, there are about 26 flights a day between Orlando International and Puerto Rico, said airport spokesman Rod Johnson.

"We do have eight relief flights going out, but that's it," he said.

Still, some families have been successful in taking transportation matters into their own hands.

Denisse Quinones, 45 and a Cape Coral, Fla., hairdresser for 15 years, drove to Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday to pick up her mother and grandmother. They will join her in a two-bedroom house along with her three children for the next three to six months.

"I booked them an airplane while the hurricane was going on," Quinones said.

"I just kept calling and calling until finally it happened. But not everyone has that discipline or luxury of being able to do that. I do know others who are coming. They are not retired. They live paycheck to paycheck. They already are struggling. They are trying to get out. They probably will be here. That's going to be an impact for the community. They're going to need jobs and assistance and housing. How are we going to accommodate all of that?" Quinones said. "This is a humanitarian crisis."
Contributing: George Andreassi II, David Dorsey and Monsy Alvarado.

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It has been a trying week for Erika Rodriguez, who continues to reach out to family members in Puerto Rico struggling in the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Maria. With much of the island without power, and short of fuel and clean water, Rodriguez wants her family to relocate to the U.S.

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In western New Hampshire , only two blocked away from his home  almost died from a racist threat. Quincy is biracial meaning he has two different racial groups. He almost died from being hung from a tree. His mother calls this an attack but local police are calling it an accident. The lynching is being investigated but the police were very slow to respond.

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In this industrial hamlet of western New Hampshire, the unthinkable may have been unfolding. While playing just two blocks down from his home, Quincy, who is biracial, was nearly hanged from a tree, by a rope. His mother calls it an attack.

"I never would have -- in a million years would have thought that it would have come to my son, you know, nearly being lynched," his mother, Cassandra Merlin told ABC News.

She took pictures of the wounds around the 8-year-old's neck. Family members shared them on Facebook. They went viral, outraging the public and bringing national attention to Quincy's case. Those details of his case -- a rope, a brown boy, a tree -- evocative of another time in American history where it was commonplace for African-Americans to be hung.

Courtesy Cassandra Merlin

Merlin alleges that police were slow to respond and says they initially declared what happened an "accident", criticism the Claremont Police dispute.

"I wasn't at the initial scene of it," Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase said in an interview with ABC News. "I know that I was alerted to it within a short period of time where we made contact with the people in this investigation [and] started assigning the resources to further investigate it."

It was just weeks before school started, on August 28, that the incident occurred. Merlin says that Quincy and his older sister, Ayanna were playing at a park with a group of older boys when an argument broke out. Merlin says her account of what happened came from what her children told her.

"They had thrown out some things that they're-- some racial slurs, and that obviously upset him and his sister, and so Quincy had decided, you know, just to move on with it, just to let it go," Merlin said.

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They all met back up, heading to a house right down the road from Quincy's, she says, and the boys continued to horse around, spotting a tire swing attached to the tree. One of the boys broke the swing off, she says, before all taking turns putting the rope around their necks. And then it was Quincy's turn.

"They told him to tie the rope around his neck. And he got up on the table, and he tied it around his neck, and one of the older boys came from behind him and pushed him off of the picnic table," she said. "My daughter started screaming and Quincy was, like, kicking his feet, and grabbing at his neck."

Quincy clawed at the rope, eventually dropping to the ground, while the boys walked away, she alleged. Ayanna ran to get Merlin who saw the marks and called police. The boy was eventually airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he was treated for his injuries.

"It's always been an attempted murder in my eyes," Merlin said. "Ayanna said that they had called him the n-word at one point in time and made more remarks about how they should be white." As she saw how police were handling the case, Merlin became frustrated. At one point, Chase said of the juvenile suspects, "These people need to be protected. Mistakes they made as young children should not have to follow them for the rest of their life."

"Success in the juvenile system is those people that are involved in the juvenile system never being involved in the adult system," Chase later told ABC News. "So that's -- that lone statement is in context with that general statement about the juvenile justice system. At no point was I ever talking specifically about the other juveniles that are involved in this."

Merlin went where so many other flash-points begin: Facebook. In a nearly 20-minute Facebook-live post, filmed three weeks after the incident, Merlin detailed her son's story, admonishing her town to remember that " Racism is still so alive." From there, Quincy's story took on a life of its own, #Claremont started trending, as people called for police and town officials to take action.

Chase maintains that the victim is always his primary concern, and the New Hampshire Department of Justice has joined the investigation into whether a hate crime occurred.

Now, the parents of one of the boys allegedly involved is speaking out. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Rhianna Larkin and Eric Sullivan say that what happened to Quincy was child's play gone horribly wrong. They say their son never pushed Quincy, but that he jumped up behind Quincy and scared him, and Quincy jumped off the table on his own in surprise.

According to Larkin, her son actually tried to help Quincy. "He said, 'I grabbed around his legs and at that time, the rope had come lose and I noticed he opened his eyes,' and then he was able to talk and stand. And [my son] said he couldn't apologize enough." They're also adamant that racism had nothing to do with it, noting that they have black people in their immediate family.

But, despite conflicting tales, some say that the imagery of a rope around a brown boy's neck, especially in a town that is over 95 percent white shouldn't be shrugged off.

"When you see something like this when you see a young person of color with a rope around their neck you can't help but be reminded of all the tactics that were used to try to control the African American community," said LZ Granderson, ABC News contributor and senior writer for "The Undefeated."

Many on social media pointed out that, in a different time and a different place, Quincy's headline perhaps wouldn't have been all that uncommon. Back in the 1960s, as African-Americans fought for Civil Rights, groups like the Ku Klux Klan went on fiery rampages, burning crosses and hangings were their choice methods of terror.

Today, advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League say there's been a surge in hate crimes around New England and across the country, especially since the election. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were nearly 1,900 bias incidents from November to March -- nearly 16 percent of which are anti-black motivated and often involving a noose.

Merlin, who's white, now fears for Quincy's safety, recalling a conversation she had with him. "He always says to me, "You know, mom, what's-- what's different about me?" You know, and I always try to explain to him that it's not-- it's not you, it's just that some people are clearly rather ignorant." She's considered moving out of Claremont, but she says she knows that's not the solution. "No matter where we go, this is something that's gonna follow, because it happens, and it's so real." For families here in Claremont, it's been a watershed moment.

"I believe this event happened in New England because racism exists across our country," said Dr. Middleton McGoodwin, superintendent, of Claremont and Unity School Districts.

He's had to grapple with how to address his students and their community. While he says that the boy who allegedly pushed Quincy isn't in the same district, this issue is still his responsibility. He sent out a message to parents throughout the district, meant to reassure them that the District condemned the incident, reminding them that, "Racism and hate are not a thing of the past."

He says the school is looking at curriculum changes down the line and intends to foster conversation about inclusion.

"We as a society have some choices to make. Do we turn our back on it because it doesn't happen a lot?" he asks. "Or do we acknowledge that perhaps this is the tip of the iceberg?"

On Thursday, Sept. 21, members of the town gathered at a local church, for a conversation meant to allow for frank discussion on race, personal experiences, and privilege. In attendance was Merlin's mother, Lorrie Slattery, who was coming to grips with the fact that her privilege has shielded her from having to confront prejudice.

"There was a surprise and that was how much racism there was around that I was not familiar with. I had no idea. That was heartbreaking to hear. But I'm glad I heard it because that can help me help my children, help my grandchildren. And go from there," Slattery said.

Margaret Hawthorn traveled from Rindge, NH. "I grew up in Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of the Mason Dixon Line and history to me was taught that the good guys, the North won, and anything south of the Mason Dixon Line were the bad guys and it's just not that cut and dry."

Amy Cousins drove an hour from Marlow, NH with her own biracial children. She says that what happened to Quincy only confirms her own unfortunate reality. "This is nothing new to us as shocking as it is. You know, this is for some folks, this is something some people fear and live with every day," Cousins said. "As well- liked as my children are, incidents have come where they've been called the n-word maybe in a joking way, that we don't take as a joke."

Her daughter, Adia, 10, a bright girl with big, bouncy curls, says she saw herself in Quincy.

"I got really scared and I wanna feel safe but sometimes I just can't and it doesn't make me feel free even though America's a free place."

Merlin, a white mom with brown kids, is now grappling with what she says is her own new normal. "Most days I just want to just break down and just kind of just let it all go. But I can't because I have to keep fighting the fight for them, you know? I can't show them that it's having an effect on me because I don't want them to ever think that I'm not strong enough, you know what I mean?"

But with the support of a big community, they are starting to heal. A GoFundMe for the family has raised more than $50,000 and have been invited to visit Quincy's favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys, in October.

"It does also show Quincy that not everything is bad, that there's a lot of good in the world, and in this community as well," Merlin said.

A small salve for a child whose scars may linger forever.

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In this industrial hamlet of western New Hampshire, the unthinkable may have been unfolding. While playing just two blocks down from his home, Quincy, who is biracial, was nearly hanged from a tree, by a rope. His mother calls it an attack.

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North Korea said nearly 5 million citizens have offered to join or re-enlist in the Korean People’s Army following President Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” the country.

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North Korea said nearly 5 million citizens have offered to join or re-enlist in the Korean People's Army following President Trump's threats to "totally destroy" the country.

About 4.7 million devout "students and workers" - including over a million women - have "volunteered" to join the military amid looming conflict with its neighbors and the U.S., state-run Korean Central News Agency said Thursday.

The report claims North Korean citizens sought to join the army to defend "the leader and socialism" and crush "U.S. imperialists who are running amuck to 'totally destroy' the DPRK."
'Empire of evils'
Younger citizens wrote threatening slogans in their petitions, including "Let us blow up the U.S. empire of evils with five million nuclear bombs!" KCNA reported.

The new recruits reportedly pledged to "take the lead in the final battle against the U.S.," and will become part of the army within six days.

Tensions have been escalating between the U.S. and North Korea since it began showcasing its progress in developing nuclear weapons -- including missile tests and the explosion of what North Korea said was a hydrogen bomb.

Trump has been attacking "Rocket Man" Kim Jong Un for weeks now, urging him to stop the threats. Trump tweeted Sept. 22 that the North Korean leader was "obviously a madman" who would be "tested like never before."

At the United Nations last week, Trump also said the regime was on a "suicide mission" and the U.S. was ready to "totally destroy" the rogue state if forced to defend itself or an ally.
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Reports out of North Korea claiming massive increases in the size of the military are nothing new, however, and often coincide with increasing tensions with other countries, the Washington Post reported.

North Korean media said earlier this year that 3.5 million people suddenly joined the army - just when the United Nations strengthened the sanctions on the country.

Experts are also skeptical of any reports of swelling military size as North Korea, a country of 25 million people, already has a disproportionately large army. The nation forces most of its citizens, including women, to undergo compulsory military service, Task and Purpose reported.

The State Department said the Hermit Kingdom's army has 1.2 million military personnel - making it the fourth largest military in the world, just after the U.S., India, and China.

Lukas Mikelionis is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @LukasMikelionis.

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North Korea said nearly 5 million citizens have offered to join or re-enlist in the Korean People's Army following President Trump's threats to "totally destroy" the country. About 4.7 million devout "students and workers" - including over a million women - have "volunteered" to join the military amid looming conflict with its neighbors and the U.S., state-run Korean Central News Agency said Thursday.

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An Iowa mother was arrest for leaving her 4 young children at home while she traveled to Europe. She was going to leave her two 12 year old, a 7 year old and a 6 year old unsupervised for 11 days while she was out of the country.

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe.

Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

While conducting a welfare check, police found Macke's four children - two 12-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 7-year-old -- alone.

Police discovered that Macke left the U.S. a day earlier and wasn't set to return until Oct. 1, the Register reported. She did not arrange any supervision for the children, authorities said.

Macke was contacted by police while she was in Germany and ordered to return. The Iowa Department of Human Services took custody of the abandoned children before handing them over to relatives.

Macke was being held at Polk County Jail with no bond. She faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under age 21, the Register reported.

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe. Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

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A stampede broke out on a pedestrian bridge in Mumbai India, leaving 22 dead and injuring 32. Some had been pushed off the bridge and others had been crushed to death by the impact of the stampede. The cause is from the many seeking to find shelter from the heavy rains. Brijesh Upadhyay, one caught in the crowd claimed that nobody was helping and it was almost suffocating.

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A stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing at least 22 people and injuring 32 others, Indian officials said.

Police were investigating what caused the stampede on the bridge, which led some commuters to leap over the railing. Others were crushed or fell underfoot and were trampled.

"There were too many people on the bridge, and the people were in hurry and wanted to move out," said Brijesh Upadhyay, one of the many caught in the crowd. "There was nobody helping, it was very suffocating, and we just wanted to get out of there - and fell on each other."

One rescuer told Indian broadcaster NDTV that the stampede trapped dozens in the narrow passage, forcing rescuers to break the railing to pull people out.

Mumbai police official Gansham Patel said some falling concrete had hit part of the bridge railing, leading people to surge forward out of panic at the thought that the bridge was collapsing.

Commuters also often complain about hawkers selling their wares on the narrow overpass, which connects two commuter railway stations, Elphinstone and Parel.

Heavy rains meant the bridge was even more crowded than usual, as some sought shelter from the downpour under the canopy covering the bridge, said lawmaker Shaina Nana Chudasama of the governing Bhartiya Janata Party.

Hospitals were treating 32 injured people, including 19 women and 13 men.

As Mumbai police appealed to citizens to donate blood to help the injured, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to the families of those killed.

"Prayers with those who are injured," Modi tweeted.

Kishore Thakkar, another witness, said the bridge became overcrowded as people stopped, waiting for the rain to ease. "But then came a heavy push by people, causing some people to fall down and get crushed by the surge of passengers."

He complained that government rescuers did not respond quickly to alerts sent by phone. "Local people had pulled out most of the victims by the time the police and government rescuers arrived," Thakkar told TV news channel ABP.

Separately in the southern city of Banglaore, two people were killed in another stampede by hundreds of people jostling to obtain coupons for free food offered by a local philanthropist, police said. The philanthropist has been detained for questioning.

Deadly stampedes are fairly common in densely populated India, where many cities are unequipped to deal with large crowds gathering in small areas, with few safety or crowd control measures.

In October 2013, a stampede in Madhya Pradesh state in central India killed more than 110 people, mostly women and children.

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Mumbai rush hour stampede leaves 22 dead

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A stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing at least 22 people and injuring 32 others, Indian officials said. Police were investigating what caused the stampede on the bridge, which led some commuters to leap over the railing.

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While Prince Harry was watching a volleyball game, a little girl sitting next to him started to eat his popcorn. He didn't notice until he went to grab popcorn. He was playing around with her for the rest of the game.

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Prince Harry catches child 'swiping' his popcorn - CNN Video

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As Prince Harry watched a volleyball match at the 2017 Toronto Invictus Games, a little girl sneakily "stole" his popcorn.

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An Iowa mother left her 4 kids at home alone while she traveled to Europe. She was arrested Thursday. She left her two 12 year old, a 6 year old and a 7 year old alone. She faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under age 21.

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe.

Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

While conducting a welfare check, police found Macke's four children - two 12-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 7-year-old -- alone.

Police discovered that Macke left the U.S. a day earlier and wasn't set to return until Oct. 1, the Register reported. She did not arrange any supervision for the children, authorities said.

Macke was contacted by police while she was in Germany and ordered to return. The Iowa Department of Human Services took custody of the abandoned children before handing them over to relatives.

Macke was being held at Polk County Jail with no bond. She faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under age 21, the Register reported.

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Iowa mother left 4 kids home alone while she went to Europe, police say

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An Iowa mother was arrested Thursday, charged with leaving her four young children at home while she traveled to Europe. Police were called to the Johnston home of 30-year-old Erin Lee Macke on Sept. 21 after receiving a report that children had been left unsupervised, the Des Moines Register reported.

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A man who is a CEO of a business is taking his  private jet to Puerto Rico to help out a nursing home. He came to Puerto Rico with over $15,000 worth of supplies.

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After witnessing a desperate call for help on ABC News from a caretaker at a Puerto Rico nursing home devastated by Hurricane Maria, a Florida man chartered his company's private jet to bring critical supplies to the home's residents.

"I want the world to know, there's a lot of old people here in Puerto Rico. They need help. We can't let them die. We can't let them die. And we need all the help we can get. Please. We need it," Maria Ortiz, a caregiver, told ABC News' Rob Marciano last week, after the deadly hurricane pummeled the U.S. territory.

Shortly after Ortiz's call for help, Eyal Lalo, the CEO of Invicta Watch Group, reached out to Marciano on Twitter, offering to help Ortiz and the 11 elderly patients she cares for. Lalo immediately jumped into action, loading his company's plane with $15,000 worth of supplies, and headed toward hurricane-battered Puerto Rico.

Rob Invicta wants to help. What can we offer. We can offer our corporate jet to fly in supplies Let me know @EyalAtInvicta
- Eyal Lalo (@EyalAtInvicta) September 22, 2017

"When I saw the piece on the news, and how dedicated you are ... our whole family wanted to do something," Lalo told Ortiz when he met her for the first time on Thursday to surprise her with the supplies, which included scores of Advil bottles, nutrition bars, diapers and more.

"I reached out to Rob, telling him that we want to help out," Lalo said. "We kind of figured out what you needed for the nursing home, and we bought everything you need. ... We're going to make sure you're OK."

Ortiz said she did not know how to thank him. She told ABC News that since the storm hit they had been surviving by using water from the creek behind the nursing home, and getting drinking water from her father's well.

"I always had faith in God, and I said I know these people are going to help me," she added.

The caregiver invited Lalo to come back to visit again in the future, so she and the residents can thank him once more.

"Please don't forget us, when everything comes back, and under control again, please visit us because we're going to give more and more thanks to all of you," she said.

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Man brings desperately needed supplies to Puerto Rico nursing home

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After witnessing a desperate call for help on ABC News from a caretaker at a Puerto Rico nursing home devastated by Hurricane Maria, a Florida man chartered his company's private jet to bring critical supplies to the home's residents. "I want the world to know, there's a lot of old people here in...

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Houston Texan's quarterback gave back this week giving his game check to the stadium staff at the Texan's stadium. He felt that they have been through a lot taking care of the stadium and other things.

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Deshaun Watson gives game check to workers hit hard by Hurricane Harvey

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The Texans rookie QB is already making a difference on and off the field

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On Thursday a court ruling happen in Washington D.C . The court is happening because they are trying to get rid of Concealed carry. Out of 543 people only 126 people got their concealed and carry permits. Supreme court might take the case.

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In a win for gun rights activists, a federal appeals court on Thursday let stand another court's ruling that it was unconstitutional for Washington, D.C.'s local government to require licensed gun owners to provide a "good reason" for legally carrying a concealed weapon in the nation's capital city.

The ruling potentially sets the matter on a path to the U.S. Supreme Court, because other federal courts have reached varying decisions in similar cases, the Washington Times reported.

"Sometimes the most important thing a court does is not do anything," Adam Winkler, a University of California, Los Angeles, law professor who has written extensively on the Second Amendment, told the Times. "Because of what the D.C. Circuit didn't do today, the Supreme Court is now far more likely to take a concealed carry case."

Second Amendment advocates said the law was too restrictive, and would make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain concealed carry permits. As of June, D.C. police had granted 126 such permits and denied 417 since the law took effect in 2014, the Washington Post reported.

Attorney Alan Gura, who represented some of the gun owners involved in the lawsuit, said Thursday's ruling exposed flaws in the city's law.

"The ruling is the latest blow to the District's efforts to curtail gun possession and use," he said, noting that the Supreme Court ruled against the city's near-total ban on firearms in 2008, and a federal court blocked a bid to ban the carrying of firearms in 2014.

Local leaders in Washington sought for the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case against the city's gun laws, but judges voted 2-1 against revisiting a ruling issued earlier this year. The vote meant that the D.C. Circuit's prior decision about the "good reason" requirement would remain in effect, the Times reported.

The city's current law says that resident who want to legally carry a concealed firearm must first demonstrate that they have "good reason to fear injury," the Post reported, adding that living or working "in a high crime area" was not necessarily a good enough reason.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement that police can continue to enforce the "good reason" requirement until the appeals court issues what's called a mandate in about a week. Racine said he's reviewing options for how to proceed. The city could decide to ask the Supreme Court to hear the case.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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'Concealed carry' ruling could help put gun issue on Supreme Court agenda

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In a win for gun rights activists, a federal appeals court on Thursday let stand another court's ruling that it was unconstitutional for Washington, D.C.'s local government to require licensed gun owners to provide a "good reason" for legally carrying a concealed weapon in the nation's capital city.