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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being sued by a 12-year-old Colorado girl suffering from epilepsy who aims to legalize medical marijuana nationwide.

Alexis Bortell, along with her father and other plaintiffs, including former NFL player Marvin Washington, filed suit in the Southern District of New York against the attorney general as well as the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Many states now allow use of marijuana for at least some medical reasons. The lawsuit filed in July seeks to make medical marijuana legal across the U.S.

"This lawsuit stands to benefit tens of millions of Americans who require, but are unable to safely obtain, Cannabis for the treatment of their illnesses, diseases and medical conditions," the suit states.

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Alexis, whose family moved to Colorado from Texas to take advantage of the state's legalization of recreational and medical marijuana, had been suffering since she was 7 from a form of epilepsy that cannot be safely controlled with FDA-approved treatments and procedures, the lawsuit says.

As a result, she often had multiple seizures a day. "Nothing she tried worked," the suit states. When her family finally tried a form of marijuana, the girl found "immediate relief from her seizures."

"Since being on whole-plant medical Cannabis, Alexis has gone more than two years seizure-free," the suit says.

The suit contends that Alexis won't be able to return to her native Texas where she hopes to attend college because she would be subject to arrest if she continued to use marijuana to control her seizures.

ABC News reached out to the Justice Department for comment on the lawsuit but did not get an immediate response.

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being sued by a 12-year-old Colorado girl suffering from epilepsy who aims to legalize medical marijuana nationwide. Alexis Bortell, along with her father and other plaintiffs, including former NFL player Marvin Washington, filed suit in the Southern District...

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They are releasing the names and lifestyles of the victims in the Tampa killings. Benjamin Mitchell, Anthony Naiboa, and Ronald Felton were all found dead in the shootings.

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CNN 34 mins ago By Nicole Chavez, CNN

A food pantry volunteer, a waitress, a worker with autism, and an aspiring musician were killed over the span of a month in Tampa while they were walking alone at night.

Residents and police in the historic Seminole Heights neighborhood fear that a serial killer may be responsible for the unsolved killings.

A mural with the names and faces of the victims was recently unveiled as some of their relatives grieve in private and others ask the community for help catching the killer.

Here's what we know so far about the victims:

Benjamin Mitchell

Benjamin Mitchell was a performer and an aspiring musician.

The 22-year-old was a full-time student at Hillsborough Community College, according to his obituary.

He was shot and killed at a bus stop in the Seminole Heights neighborhood October 9.

Monica Hoffa

Monica Hoffa, 32, had a great love for the deaf community, according to her obituary.

She grew up in Tampa and learned English, Spanish and sign language to communicate with her mom.

"She was a God send for her mother, her mother being deaf she would interpret for her mom," her father, Kenny Hoffa told CNN affiliate WFTS.

Most recently, she was working as a waitress. Hoffa loved poetry and was known for her drawings.

"She loved life and had a beautiful smile that would light up the room," her family wrote in her obituary.

For her, it was very important to forgive and forget.

"She would not remember any wrong doings and didn't hold a grudge," her obituary said.

Hoffa was shot and killed October 11. A city employee found her body two days afterward in a vacant parking lot half a mile from where Mitchell died.

Anthony Naiboa

Anthony Naiboa, an autistic 20-year-old, had just started a temporary job, packing hurricane relief supplies for victims in Puerto Rico when he was killed.

"He was going to cash his check and take us all out to dinner to celebrate his job," his younger brother, Taino Naiboa, told CNN affiliate Bay News 9.

Naiboa, the eldest of five siblings, recently graduated from high school. One of his goals was to someday get his driver's license, CNN affiliate WFLA reported.

He became the third victim on October 19 after he accidentally got on the wrong bus and ended up in the Seminole Heights neighborhood by mistake, police said.

His mother, Maria Rodriguez told CNN affiliate WFTS, that Naiboa had called home saying he was going to be late. His family didn't have a chance to see him alive once again.

"Do you know what that feels like?" Rodriguez said. "Waiting and waiting for your child to come home."

Ronald Felton

Ronald Felton, 60, worked in construction and had three grown children, his younger brother, James, told WFLA.

For the past 10 years, he regularly helped feed the homeless at a food pantry in Seminole Heights. On Tuesday, he was shot and killed across the street from the pantry.

Reginald Felton, his twin brother, said he urged Ronald not to go into the neighborhood at that time of day because of the other killings.

"I talked to him, but he got his own way, he still (goes) out at that time of the morning," he said.

Their sister said the whole family is shattered by the slaying.

"I've been watching the serial killer news and watching, listening, praying -- and for that to happen to my brother, to be shot four times at close range, that's hard," Linda Cunningham said.

CNN's Eric Levenson contributed to this report.

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CNN 34 mins ago By Nicole Chavez, CNN A food pantry volunteer, a waitress, a worker with autism, and an aspiring musician were killed over the span of a month in Tampa while they were walking alone at night. Residents and police in the historic Seminole Heights neighborhood fear that a serial killer may be responsible for the unsolved killings.

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Kansas law makers are making bad laws and they are regretting it  the bills do not work like what they are soposed to do.

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It happened so fast that few inside Room 519-S of the Kansas Statehouse even realized what was going on.

As members of the House Transportation Committee gathered to consider legislation, then-Rep. Artie Lucas made his move. The Highland Republican stripped the language in a bill about vehicle registration fees and replaced it - not with another transportation measure, but with an anti-abortion proposal.

Within seconds, committee members passed the measure on an unrecorded voice vote, sending it to the House floor without a hearing and prompting an outcry from incensed colleagues who were blindsided by the action.

"Those bastards!" then-Rep. Joan Wagnon said after learning what had happened.

That brazen move, known as a "gut-and-go," took place 27 years ago. Believed to be the first time the maneuver had been used, it changed the way lawmakers conduct business, paving the way for Kansas to become one of the most opaque state legislatures in the country.

Since then, the once-rare scheme has become standard practice in the Sunflower State - a way to resurrect bills left for dead and to circumvent public attention on often controversial measures. Kansas is among a handful of states that allow the procedure.

But it's not the only legislative tactic that stifles open and transparent government. In Kansas, unlike most other states, nearly all the laws passed stem from bills whose authors are anonymous.

All but six of the 104 bills that became law this year - a whopping 94 percent - were introduced by committees, with no sponsors identified. That means Kansans don't know who pushed the measures and why. Who stood to gain, who stood to lose.

Many states prohibit the practice and require that every bill contain the name of the lawmaker sponsoring it. And while Kansas legislators on both sides of the aisle acknowledge anonymous bills have been part of the legislative process for decades, they say it's now used way too often.

"It's not like we learned in seventh-grade civics. It really isn't," said House Majority Leader Don Hineman, a Republican from Dighton. Many of his constituents, he said, are shocked to learn about the rampant use of anonymous bills.

"I tried to explain that to the editor of the Dighton Herald," he said, "and she was like, 'What?'"

The result of all this secrecy? Proposals on such hot-button issues as gun rights and education sometimes become law with little or no debate. Indeed, half the abortion laws passed in Kansas in the past 10 years were the result of a "gut-and-go" procedure, The Star found.

So was the 2015 law that overhauled the way the state distributes money to school districts - money that accounts for more than half the state's general fund budget.

The Star talked to political experts, organizations that monitor government transparency and those who track legislative policies to gauge how Kansas compares to other states on issues of openness and accessibility. The responses indicate that Kansas' legislative process is among the least transparent in the country, often cutting the public out of debates and making it difficult for constituents to track bills, let alone determine who sponsored them.

"There are gut-and-gos that are kind of sleight-of-hand when something is stuck in (the bill) that hasn't really gone through the process and it's an issue that we really aren't up to speed on," Hineman said. "And that's kind of playing a little fast and loose with the technique."

Longtime legislators say the process wasn't always this secretive.

"I try to explain to new people that this is not the way this place used to operate," said Rep. Tom Sawyer, a Wichita Democrat who has served a quarter-century in the Kansas House. "They don't quite understand that we used to actually spend hours debating bills and amending bills.

"The problem is, there's a culture that's developed. With the turnover we have in the House, you now have a lot of people in the Legislature, that's all they know. They think that's how you do things."

"Gut-and-go" has become so common that legislative committee chairs now keep a few bills handy each session to use as "vehicles" in the event they decide to use the maneuver to try to advance a proposal.

"My first session, a freshman colleague said, 'Are we part of a government body, or are we used-car salesmen? Everybody keeps talking about vehicles,'" said Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Merriam Democrat who has served three years in the Kansas House. "So there's definitely some concern there. But that's how it's been since I've been there. I don't know any different."

'You're kidding'

Wagnon, a Topeka Democrat who served in the Kansas House from 1983 to 1994, teaches a class on advocacy at the YWCA.

"And when I try to explain to someone how you keep up with a bill, they go, 'You're kidding.'

"It's not like the Schoolhouse Rock lesson," she said, referring to the popular children's program that used animation and a catchy tune to show how a bill going through Congress became a law. "Throw your diagram away."

Here's how it works:

Let's say a bill that has been introduced in the Kansas House is languishing in a committee. The bill's supporters then get a committee member to take another bill that's already passed the Senate, gut it, replace it with their bill and then send it to the full House for debate. Once it passes the House, the bill goes back to the Senate, but because it's already passed that chamber - even though it's now a completely different proposal - all the Senate can do is vote it up or down. There's no debate or hearing on the new measure.

People who want to be involved in the political process can later discover that the bill they've been following has turned into something else. Something totally unrelated, said Mark Desetti, lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Association.

"I follow it all day, every day," Desetti said. "And I still find myself sometimes going, 'Where the hell did that come from?' That's problematic, and the citizens of Kansas lose."

Supporters say the procedure helps move the process along and is a way to get proposals passed when partisan politics or a headstrong House or Senate leader prevents some measures from being considered.

Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning said the practice is often used when both chambers have introduced similar pieces of legislation. The duplicate bill then becomes a useful shell for other pieces of legislation late in the session.

"You want that shell so you can get the hell out of town," the Overland Park Republican said.

Critics, however, call the process a sneaky way to squelch opposition and say it makes a mockery of the legislative process. It also makes it next to impossible for the general public to follow a bill through the Legislature - or to know what their representatives are doing.

Denise Sultz, president of the Kansas PTA, planned to testify against a bill in 2016 that would have repealed the state's Common Core educational standards. But the hearing that she waited for in the House Education Committee never happened.

Instead, committee members gutted a less-restrictive measure that had been held over from the previous year and inserted tougher new language, then passed it on a voice vote without holding a hearing.

When some on the committee complained, they were told that a hearing wasn't necessary because the measure had been heard the year before.

"Some members of this committee perpetrated a shell game," Sultz wrote to PTA members afterward. "These members took away your voice. If you were for the standards that Kansas is currently using, they chose not to listen to you. They not only chose not to listen to you, they chose not to allow you to speak."

The tactic "is an example of the worst of politics, and it has been used repeatedly by the extremists in the Kansas Legislature to have their way," the Mainstream Coalition said in a blog post highly critical of the process.

"The gut-and-go allows laws to be passed through a deceitful process of expediency, denying our representatives the opportunity to consider, discuss, and determine how legislation will affect their constituents. It is a subjugation of the democratic process... and it is something every Kansan needs to know."

Many Kansans, for example, would be surprised to discover that the bill that overhauled the state's school finance formula in 2015 started out as an innocuous three-page proposal requiring information technology audits of state agencies.

But after that bill passed the Senate, the House stripped the IT language and replaced it with the controversial school funding legislation, a Gov. Sam Brownback proposal to do away with the funding formula and instead give block grants to school districts. The revised bill narrowly passed the House, and because it had already passed the Senate - though in a totally different form - all senators could do was vote whether to concur with the House on the bill. They wasted no time doing that.

The 65-page bill had passed both legislative chambers a little more than a week after the proposal was first made public. Brownback signed it, and it went into effect a few weeks later.

The aftermath has been costly, not only to school districts that said the change forced them to make spending cuts but to taxpayers footing the bill for an ongoing court battle over how the state funds schools - a method the Kansas Supreme Court has since deemed unconstitutional.

A half-dozen districts shortened their school year by several days. The Olathe School District ended its elementary Spanish program, reduced custodial staff and eliminated its teacher mentoring program and middle school library aides.

In Pratt County, a school superintendent resigned, saying the district likely could not make the next month's payroll if he remained. That was after 18 employees had already been reassigned, had their hours cut or lost their jobs.

When it comes to finding vessels for a "gut-and-go," bills on most any topic appear to be fair game.

A proposal to deal with the retail sale of propane. Another dealing with retirement plans. And one addressing illegal profits from dog fighting, cockfighting and prostitution.

All ended up as laws restricting abortion.

In May, a Senate committee snagged a bill designed to remove the city of Valley Center from an area cemetery district and converted it into a proposal making it illegal to carry a firearm into a state or municipal-owned medical care facility or community mental health center.

That prompted the NRA, which was used to getting pro-gun legislation passed in Kansas, to cry foul.

"This move was undertaken to completely circumvent the House committee process as well as any official public input or chance to amend," the NRA Institute for Legislative Action said in a May statement. "This bill is a solution in search of a problem, and it places an arbitrary boundary on your right to self-defense."

The bill passed, and Brownback allowed it to become law without his signature. Political observers noted that, given the pro-gun climate in the Statehouse, the "gut-and-go" procedure was probably the only way that the legislation could have passed.

Hineman said that the Legislature should set parameters for when the gut-and-go technique is acceptable and that lawmakers should be restricted from using it if it's "a brand new issue out of thin air that nobody has seen before."

Ousley said some issues should be totally off-limits.

"Something as controversial as reproductive issues, that should go through committee hearings and the entire process," he said. "I think doctors and medical providers should have a chance to weigh in on that."

But even those who say the tactic is overused concede that they've benefited from it at times. Ousley said legislators used it this year to pass a law creating a task force to improve Kansas' child welfare system.

"I didn't feel like our committee abused a rule but took advantage of a rule to make hay," he said. "Had we not, there wouldn't have been time in the session to get the bill through the entire process."

He said none of the committee members was surprised at the action, and the measure wasn't controversial.

"It was discussed, and we explained the reason why," he said. "We talked to our colleagues in the Senate as well. So it was really maybe not public transparency, because there was no press release put out, but within the building it wasn't a surprise to most folks."

The procedure is used in a few other states, but not to the extent that it's employed in Kansas, where it's become so common that the term "gut-and-go" now appears in the glossary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture's handbook.

In Oregon, the process is called "gut and stuff." In Hawaii, "gut and replace."

Sometimes, the bills are called "Frankenstein" and "zombie" proposals because they've been brought back from the dead.

But it's become such a concern that some states have taken action to curtail it. Last fall, California voters passed a ballot initiative that required all bills to be printed and accessible online for at least 72 hours before the Legislature could pass them - putting a stop to last-minute "gut and amend" measures, as they're called in that state.

Whose bill is it?

In 2016, a Senate committee emptied the contents of a House bill dealing with abandoned oil wells and replaced it with legislation that made it easier for cellphone companies to build towers in the public right-of-way.

Local government officials from across the state were caught off guard by the proposal, which reduced the amount of control communities had over the towers' placement.

"It was crafted by the telecommunications industry... and they have lobbied hard to take power away from municipalities," said Mission Hills Mayor Rick Boeshaar. "The aesthetics of our city is pretty important, and we don't want them to just start putting boxes in our front yards willy-nilly just to have faster data rates."

Boeshaar said he thinks telecommunications lobbyists "pulled one over on the legislators."

The legislation was passed and sent to the governor's desk without the House ever holding a hearing on the revised bill. Not only that, the name of the person or group sponsoring the measure was never made available. That's because it was introduced as a committee bill.

For the past decade, more than 90 percent of bills passed in Kansas each year have been committee bills, with no sponsors identified.

"I'm disappointed in the lack of transparency that's allowed under that form of a legislative process," said Wichita City Council member Pete Meitzner. "We don't do it. I don't think county governments do it. And for some reason, it's allowed at the state level."

Missouri, like many states, requires that every piece of legislation have a named sponsor, a lawmaker who takes ownership of the bill.

Incoming Missouri House Speaker Elijah Haahr said that enables Missourians to probe the motivations behind bills.

"It's important to look at who sponsors bills and why they sponsor them," said the Springfield Republican. "The what is not always as important as the why."

Hineman, the Kansas House Majority leader, said of the move: "I don't think that's a good way to craft legislation."

Sawyer said when he arrived in Topeka in the 1980s, lots of bills bore the names of the sponsors.

"That's a thing that's slowly changed over time," he said. "Trying to explain to people that we used to actually work bills with names on them is hard, because now that's just so rare."

He said anonymous bills should be prohibited.

"Somebody has to request that bill being introduced, so there is some name attached to every bill," Sawyer said. "That definitely should be public and everybody should know that."

Supporters of anonymous bills contend that legislation sponsored by an entire committee carries more weight than measures proposed by a single lawmaker because it indicates wider approval.

Lawmakers also argue that because their bills sometimes get amended or even replaced through the gut-and-go process, they may not want their names associated with the final product. And occasionally, lawmakers introduce proposals at the request of fellow legislators even though they may not support the measure themselves.

The anonymity gives the legislation a better chance of passing, said Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican.

"If I want a bill passed, I always want it to be a committee bill," Wagle said. "I don't want a name attached to it because there are people here who see a name on the bill and they vote against it if they have a personal vendetta that they want to carry out."

Wagle dismissed the notion that the practice hampers transparency by preventing voters from knowing whether their representative crafted a piece of legislation.

"In the end, they know who votes for the bill and they know who votes against it," she said. "That's the most critical information that's available to the public. I don't think introduction of the bill is a big deal."

Among the few proposals that Kansas legislators are willing to put their names on are those that don't stir up controversy, such as resolutions congratulating a sports team, honoring a veteran or recognizing a student for scholastic achievements.

Or declaring the historic cage elevator in the State Capitol building the "official cage elevator" of Kansas.

Last year, all 40 senators put their names on a resolution to do just that.

Denning, the Senate Majority leader, said lawmakers can usually discover the source of a bill even if the public cannot.

"But I guess that's not full transparency to the public," he said.

Rep. Melissa Rooker, a Republican from Fairway, said the source of legislation should be clear before lawmakers advance it.

"If you don't know who's behind it and why it's being pushed," she said, "I don't think it's prudent to move ahead with action on the bill."

In January, House Minority Leader Jim Ward led an effort by Democrats to end the practice of introducing anonymous bills, saying it would lead to more openness.

"Anonymous bills are bad for the process and destructive to the whole concept of people trusting what we do," Ward said. "If you have anonymous bills, it's hard to find out where ideas come from. Why are we doing it if no one's willing to stand up and argue for it?"

That attempt failed, but Ward did manage to change the House rules to allow lawmakers whose bills were drastically altered by a gut-and-go to remove their names.

Bills that are not attached to a real person are "a real violation of trust," said Marge Ahrens, of the League of Women Voters of Kansas.

"If you can't find out from whence they came, you can't find out why they came up with that particular piece of legislation," Ahrens said. "The whole thing creates a loop, not just of distrust, but also ignorance.

"And when you have ignorance, you can't fix a real problem."

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How Kansas lawmakers keep you from finding out what they're doing - until it's too late

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It happened so fast that few inside Room 519-S of the Kansas Statehouse even realized what was going on. As members of the House Transportation Committee gathered to consider legislation, then-Rep. Artie Lucas made his move. The Highland Republican stripped the language in a bill about vehicle registration fees and replaced it - not with another transportation measure, but with an anti-abortion proposal.

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Melgar confronted the two Navy SEALs after discovering their alleged scheme, where they reportedly took money for themselves from a fund used to pay informants

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Two Navy SEALs being investigated in the strangulation death of Army Sgt. Logan Melgar in Mali in June allegedly offered the Green Beret a cut of the military money they pocketed, but he refused, according to a report.

Melgar confronted the two Navy SEALs after discovering their alleged scheme, where they reportedly took money for themselves from a fund used to pay informants, the Daily Beast reported.

The two men tried to get Melgar to join the racket, but he declined the offer, the report said. Melgar later ended up dead in what appeared to be a strangulation.

Whether the SEALs were involved in the death remained unclear as the investigation continued. The commandos were initially described as "witnesses," but authorities later changed that to "persons of interest." Officials said Melgar's cause of death was "homicide by asphyxiation."

Melgar, 34, was found dead June 4 at the U.S. Embassy housing he shared in Mali with several other special operations personnel working in West Africa on training and counterterrorism missions, the New York Times reported.

There have been no charges so far in connection with the homicide, but two member of SEAL Team 6 - the famous counterterror unit that killed Usama Bin Laden in 2011 - were placed on administrative leave, pending investigation, according to the Times.

The SEALs reportedly told their military leaders that they found Melgar and tried to save him, according to the Daily Beast. They also said Melgar was intoxicated that night as he was taking hand-to-hand fighting exercises.

The autopsy, however, showed no signs of drug or alcohol usage, according to the report.

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Green Beret killed in Mali discovered SEALs' illicit cash scheme, report says

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Two Navy SEALs being investigated in the strangulation death of Army Sgt. Logan Melgar in Mali in June allegedly offered the Green Beret a cut of the military money they pocketed, but he refused, according to a report.

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The FBI said the two sets of remains found at the end of last month belonged to Javier Castillo, 16, and Kerin Pineda, 19. They were discovered in wooded areas in Merrick and Cow Meadow Park in Freeport. Castilla was reported missing in October 2016 and Pineda disappeared in May 2016. Just days before discovering their remains, authorities located the body of 16-year-old Angel Soler after receiving a tip from Homeland Security officials. Soler’s remains were discovered less than five miles from the two other bodies — and all three teens' bodies were recovered within the span of nine days.

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Three teenage boys on Long Island were likely killed by members of the vicious MS-13 street gang, authorities said Tuesday after identifying remains discovered in October buried in separate wooded areas.

The FBI said the two sets of remains found at the end of last month belonged to Javier Castillo, 16, and Kerin Pineda, 19. They were discovered in wooded areas in Merrick and Cow Meadow Park in Freeport. Castilla was reported missing in October 2016 and Pineda disappeared in May 2016. Just days before discovering their remains, authorities located the body of 16-year-old Angel Soler after receiving a tip from Homeland Security officials. Soler's remains were discovered less than five miles from the two other bodies - and all three teens' bodies were recovered within the span of nine days.

The teenage boys are suspected to be victims of MS-13 gang violence, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official was not authorized to speak publicly because of an ongoing investigation. Sources told Newsday the teens appeared to have been killed on separate occasions and could only be connected by gang violence.
WHAT IS MS-13, THE VIOLENT GANG TRUMP VOWED TO TARGET?
Pineda's mother, Lilian Oliva, previously feared her son was dead after the discovery of Soler's body. She told Newsday on Tuesday that Nassau police confirmed Friday the remains discovered were identified as her son.

"He had so many dreams," Oliva told Newsday. "He always talked about becoming a police officer one day. He would say, 'One day, I'm going to work and I'm going to take care of you.' And that's why it hurts me so much. Because he had so many dreams."

Soler and Pineda were reportedly friends when they were classmates at Freeport High School. Though Nassau police did not confirm to Fox News in late October that Soler's death was gang-related, his mother openly said she suspected gang members may have killed him. She never revealed what led her to that conclusion or which gang may have been responsible.

The three deaths makes 25 suspected MS-13 victims found on Long Island during the past two years. The gang from El Salvador caught nationwide attention with its members' brutal and malicious tactics in killing their victims. There is believed to be thousands of members in the U.S., with more than 1,100 of them reportedly living on Long Island. The gang has been responsible for at least 22 murders on Long Island in the last year.

Police in Nassau and Suffolk counties have been making dozens of arrests of suspected MS-13 gang members in recent months. Many of the killings are being prosecuted by federal authorities, who say many of the suspects are in the country illegally.

President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Long Island in the last six months to promise federal action to stem the violence.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

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Three teenage boys on Long Island were likely killed by members of the vicious MS-13 street gang, authorities said Tuesday after identifying remains discovered in October buried in separate wooded areas. The FBI said the two sets of remains found at the end of last month belonged to Javier Castillo, 16, and Kerin Pineda, 19.

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Actress Bijou Phillips accused actor Daniel Franzese of assult bullying while on the set of there movie "bully"

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"Mean Girls" actor Daniel Franzese went public with accusations of assault and bullying against actress Bijou Phillips -- whose husband, Danny Masterson, faces rape accusations of his own.

Franzese took to a long Facebook post saying the mistreatment took place on the set of their movie "Bully."

"She body shamed me and ridiculed me about my sexuality and physically assaulted me," Franzese wrote about being on set for the movie released in 2001. "I was scared and closeted and feared for my job. It started with a lot of eye‪ rolling whenever we spoke but‪ escalated when we did a cast shoot for the poster‪. ‪As we were shooting she kept loudly saying 'Are you gay?!' and laughing‪ while the producers‪ and photographer did nothing‪ to stop her."

"[S]he continued to say 'Are You Gay?!' Like 10 times making sure to be loud enough for everyone to hear I reluctantly told her i was bi," Franzese wrote. "Which at the time was how I was choosing to‪ identify as 'Q' wasn't known to be an option yet and to be honest I don't know that I had many gay experiences at the time my life. I was an extremely late bloomer. She cackled and‪ said 'HA! He's bi!' And then when I showed up to work the next day in front of the crew she was screaming 'Oh look! The Bi guy is here!'"

Franzese also said that Bijou Phillips, whose father was musician John Phillips, bullied him when he had a shirtless scene: "an extremely vulnerable moment for me," he said, calling himself "the chubby kid who wore his shirt in the pool."

"Later she pulled me aside and said 'I'm sorry if I offended you. You actually remind me of someone.' She said Carnie Wilson who is in her sisters band Wilson Phillips at the time was well know for her weight issues in the media. It was meant to be a insult," Franzese added. "She then grabbed my nipple and twisted it hard through my shirt and laughed and walked away. I stopped talking to her for the rest of filming."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Franzese said during a later scene, while she was sitting behind him, she "kept rubbing her dirty feet on my neck. I kept swiveling the chair to move away from her and she kicked me as hard as she could in the back of the head. To this day I'm not even sure if she gave me a concussion because I was light headed and dizzy for a while."

A representative for Phillips did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Phillips is the wife of Danny Masterson, the actor most known for his role as Steven Hyde in the popular series "That '70s Show." Masterson was accused of rape by four women in the early 2000s, allegations which resurfaced last week, Fox News previously reported. Masterson has denied the accusations against him.

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"Mean Girls" actor Daniel Franzese went public with accusations of assault and bullying against actress Bijou Phillips -- whose husband, Danny Masterson, faces rape accusations of his own. Franzese took to a long Facebook post saying the mistreatment took place on the set of their movie "Bully."

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Iranian rescue dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors on Monday after a major earthquake, killing 300 people and injuring a thousand.

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Iranian rescue workers dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors on Monday after a major earthquake struck the Iran-Iraq border, killing more than 300 and injuring thousands.
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Iran's emergency services chief Pir Hossein Koolivand said it was "difficult to send rescue teams to the villages because the roads have been cut off... there have been landslides".

The official IRNA news agency said 30 Red Cross teams had been sent to the quake zone, parts of which had experienced power cuts.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the government and armed forces to mobilise "all their means" to help the population.
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Local media reported hundreds of ambulances and dozens of army helicopters mobilised for rescue operations including in rural areas.

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, an area of some 85,000 people close to the border, was the worst hit, with at least 236 dead, while the towns of Eslamabad and Qasr-e Shirin were also affected.

Some 259,000 people live in the areas around these towns, according to the latest population census.

State television footage showed tents, blankets, and food being distributed in areas hit by the quake.

At dawn on Monday in Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, buildings stood disfigured, their former facades lying in rubble on crumpled vehicles.

In an open space away from the wrecked housing blocks, men and women, some wrapped in blankets, huddled around a camp fire to keep warm.

In Iraq, the health ministry said the quake had killed seven people in the northern province of Sulaimaniyah and one in the province of Diyala to its south.

More than 500 people were injured in both provinces and the nearby province of Kirkuk.

Footage posted on Twitter showed panicked people fleeing a building in Sulaimaniyah, as windows shattered at the moment the quake struck, while images from the nearby town of Darbandikhan showed walls and concrete structures had collapsed.

In Darbandikhan, officials called on residents to sleep outside their homes as a precautionary measure.

In Sulaimaniyah, residents ran out onto the streets and some damage to property was reported, an AFP reporter there said.

Rekot Rachid, health minister for the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, said that, in Sulaimaniyah, four people were killed in the town of Darbandikhan, two in Karmiyan and another in the provincial capital.
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The quake, which struck at a relatively shallow depth of 23 kilometres, was felt for about 20 seconds in Baghdad, and for longer in other provinces of Iraq, AFP journalists said.

Iraqi health authorities said they treated dozens of people in its aftermath, most for shock.

On the Iranian side of the border, the tremor shook several cities in the west of the country including Tabriz.

It was also felt in southeastern Turkey, an AFP correspondent said. In the town of Diyarbakir, residents were reported to have fled their homes.

The quake struck along a 1,500-kilometre fault line between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a belt extending through western Iran and into northeastern Iraq.

The area sees frequent seismic activity.

In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran killed 40,000 people and left 300,000 more injured and half a million homeless. Within seconds the quake reduced dozens of towns and nearly 2,000 villages to rubble.

Thirteen years later, a catastrophic quake struck the ancient southeast Iranian city of Bam, famed for its mud brick buildings, killing at least 31,000 people and flattening swathes of the city.

Since then, Iran has experienced at least two major quake disasters, one in 2005 that killed more than 600 and another in 2012 that left some 300 dead.

More recently, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan in May killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage.

The 7.3-magnitude quake hit a border area 30 kilometres (20 miles) southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9:20 pm (1820 GMT) on Sunday, when many people would have been at home, the US Geological Survey said.

The worst affected areas were in Iran's western province of Kermanshah, where the coroner's office told state television that at least 328 people were dead and another 2,350 injured.

Across the border in Iraq, where the areas are more sparsely populated, the health ministry said eight people had died and several hundred been injured.

Some Iranians spent the night outdoors after fleeing their homes in the mountainous cross-border region, huddling around fires at dawn as the authorities deployed help to affected areas.

A woman and her baby were pulled out alive from the rubble in the Iranian town of Sar-e Pol-e Zaham, the worst hit in the quake, local media reported.

Officials said they were setting up relief camps but that access to the areas was not easy.

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At least 452 people were killed and thousands injured after a powerful earthquake struck near the border of Iran and Iraq late Sunday.

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Tom Brady's latest masterpiece is surviving the Patriot Way

Brady's rare win at Mile High on Sunday was only a footnote in a bigger battle he's already winning: outlasting the Bill Belichick machine.

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Ian O'ConnorESPN Senior Writer

DENVER -- History says Tom Brady wanted this one against the Denver Broncos badly, even if he's not wired to make such admissions publicly. But long before he applied two layers of makeup to his miserable Mile High record, Brady won something significant just by showing up on Sunday night.

The New England Patriots' 41-16 rout of the Broncos wasn't merely notable as Brady's record-setting 86th road victory, breaking a tie with Peyton Manning in Peyton's place. This was the team's first game since the Jimmy Garoppolo trade, which meant it was the first game of the rest of Brady's life. At 40 years old, he held off a talented 20-something with designs on his job and cleared a path toward the dream of retiring as a one-uniform icon.

The Patriots took control of the Broncos early and now have a firm hold on the division and conference race.

Tom Brady and the Patriots cashed in on virtually any and all charitable football contributions they were given by the Broncos in a 41-16 Patriots win.

"I tend to think Tommy's probably got another two years now as a starter, at least, even if the Patriots draft another quarterback," Brady's father, Tom Sr., said Sunday on by phone. "Tommy says he wants to play until he's 45, but Bill Belichick, he makes decisions he deems are best for the team. If he thinks it's best for the team to find a replacement when Tommy's 42 or 43 years old, he'll do that."

Yes Belichick most certainly will. Things change quickly in sports, especially in the injury-stricken NFL. Only after Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett were packaged up and shipped out of town did Brady Sr. grow more optimistic about his son's chances to author the final career chapter he covets and deserves.

"It's trending in the right direction," Brady Sr. said. "Tommy leads the league in passing, and he's holding up his end of the bargain. The stars are aligned for it to happen."

Nothing altered that alignment Sunday night, even if Mile High had served as Brady's last haunted house. He showed up with a 3-7 record in Denver, including 0-3 in the playoffs. He was 10-0 in postseason play when the Broncos hosted him and the Pats in a divisional-round game in January 2006, and left town with a 10-1 record. Over the years -- away and at home, regular season and in the playoffs -- Brady lost to Denver quarterbacks the likes of Brian Griese, Jake Plummer, Kyle Orton, Brock Osweiler and Manning.

Brady wasn't losing to Osweiler this time, certainly not when Patriots special teams contributed a 103-yard kickoff return, a blocked punt and a recovery of a fumbled punt. Brady completed 25-of-34 passes for 266 yards and three touchdowns in helping the Patriots to their fifth consecutive victory and in handing the sorry-looking Broncos to their fifth consecutive loss.

The Patriots are 7-2 in an AFC East that is starting to disintegrate on cue. New England will win its 15th division title in 17 years, and take its shot at a sixth Super Bowl title with an ageless quarterback who seems to be the sport's only superstar who has figured out how to stay on the field.

But win, lose or draw in the postseason tournament, Brady has already padded his legacy. He's already beaten a previously unbeaten opponent: Belichick's system of roster management. As upsets go, this might've been the Patriots' biggest since they shocked the world, and the St. Louis Rams, in the Super Bowl that started it all.

Brady was supposed to be out of New England by now, at least judging by the realities and perceptions defining the 2014 draft. All of Brady's vital numbers plunged in 2013 -- touchdowns, completion percentage, yards-per-attempt, quarterback rating, you name it, and the Patriots weren't sure this decline was merely a result of being without Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez or Rob Gronkowski. So despite the fact they had more conspicuous holes to fill, the Patriots drafted Garoppolo in the second round the next year, earlier than the previous six QBs they had drafted since Brady became a starter in 2001. Belichick picked Garoppolo at No. 62, or 137 spots earlier than he'd picked Brady in 2000.

"The situation we have at quarterback, we felt like as an organization that we needed to address that to some degree in the future," Belichick said at the time. "You're better off being early rather than late at that position."

Belichick also said this after drafting Garoppolo: "We know what Tom's age and contract situation is."

At 36 years old, Brady was signed through 2017. Garoppolo? He would be signed through 2017 as well.

It was a four-year race right from the start. Garoppolo was a couple inches shorter than Brady, but he had youth and athleticism on his side, not to mention a possible edge in Hollywood-level looks. Jimmy G grew up idolizing Brady. His coach at Eastern Illinois, Dino Babers, said the kid had the quickest release since Dan Marino.

At Michigan, Lloyd Carr brought in a high school hotshot named Drew Henson to take Brady's job. It wasn't a stretch to think Brady saw Garoppolo as Belichick's Henson. The incumbent responded with the predictable fury, winning two Super Bowls in three years and swatting away a Deflategate suspension as if it were an annoying horsefly. His touchdowns, completion percentage, yards-per-attempt and quarterback rating went up, and his interceptions went down. Brady kept Garoppolo on the bench until a couple of weeks ago, when Belichick moved a player his QB essentially forced him to move.

Last spring, when asked in a phone interview if he was annoyed Garoppolo was still on the roster, Brady said: "When you're a member of a team sport, the best guy plays. So I always want to make sure I'm the best guy. ... In high school, college, professionally, I think the greater the competition, the more that it really allows me to dig deep and bring the best out of me."

Truth was, Brady's family and friends weren't sure he'd win this competition. Not the competition with Garoppolo, but with the Belichick system that has long been unforgiving to prominent players who are in decline and/or earning a few dollars more than their value (by Belichick's estimation) against the salary cap. Even Brady's father thought his son might be the next member of an outbound conga line of made men that included Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law, Adam Vinatieri, Willie McGinest, Deion Branch, Richard Seymour, Wes Welker and Logan Mankins.

More than once, Brady Sr. had said publicly he expected his son to someday fall to the Patriot Way. Last summer, Brady Sr. was asked if he thought the record fifth Super Bowl ring might secure a happy ending after all.

"I don't think so," he said. "I would hope he would have a happy ending, but very few people go out the way they want to go out. In Tommy's particular case, I think he wants to play another four to five years. I think it's up to Bill to determine whether Tommy is the horse he wants to bet on.

"Everybody seems to believe that 40 years old is a cliff that once you reach it, you fall off it. I don't think Bill's ever had an athlete as dedicated to being a complete football player as he has had with Tommy because of Tommy's wholesale commitment, 365 days a year, to nutrition, to conditioning, to actively becoming a better performer. ... As such, I don't think that they're necessarily prepared for what Tommy is going to be capable of at age 43, 44 or 45."

Three months later, Belichick proved he was prepared for Brady's greatness to extend into his 40s. He dealt Garoppolo to Brady's hometown team of San Francisco, eliminating the possibility that Jimmy G would play Steve Young to Tommy B's Joe Montana.

Sunday afternoon, while he watched his wife Galynn hit golf balls, Brady Sr. was reminded of his grim forecasts of the past. He agreed that the chances of his son finishing his career as a Patriot "are much better now than they were two or three years ago." He said that he didn't see "a competition between Tommy and Bill and competing timetables," and that his son had learned at Michigan to put his head down and compete primarily against himself.

The quarterback knows he's got the best of both worlds in Foxborough, where his relationship with Belichick is transactional -- you do for me, I do for you -- and his relationship with owner Robert Kraft is transformational -- I'm fully invested in your well-being and growth. All three men have greatly benefitted from the wild twists of fate that brought them together.

It was fitting Sunday night that the man Brady replaced, Drew Bledsoe, was in the house to take in the game. There was a lot of this-is-your-life stuff going around the visitors' side, as Belichick tied Tom Landry for third all-time on the victories list (270), and as Brady set the road record and started perhaps the last stage of a career that was launched -- most unfortunately -- by a serious Bledsoe injury.

Brady reconnected with his former tight end, Martellus Bennett, and threw touchdown passes to three different receivers. Gronkowski swore he caught a fourth -- the officials decreed it incomplete -- and then swore his quarterback has maintained the same work ethic and attention to detail since the day the tight end arrived in 2010.

"Literally," Gronk said, "not one thing has changed since I've been here."

Most notably Brady's affection for his craft. In a nod to the Patriots' struggles at Mile High, Brady called this "a really good night for us." In the end, given the big-picture implications, it was an even better night for him.

"I do really love the game," he said, "and I love practicing and playing it and I love being with my teammates and working hard. It is fun for me, and I plan on doing it for a long time."

In the same uniform, too. Nobody -- not even a franchise quarterback -- was supposed to outmaneuver and outlast the Bill Belichick machine. Except that Tom Brady just did.

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2:40 AM ET Ian O'ConnorESPN Senior Writer DENVER -- History says Tom Brady wanted this one against the Denver Broncos badly, even if he's not wired to make such admissions publicly. But long before he applied two layers of makeup to his miserable Mile High record, Brady won something significant just by showing up on Sunday night.

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Lonzo Ball became the youngest player in NBA history to triple-double when he had 19 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds against the Bucks. Passing Lebron who previously hold the record.

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Lonzo Ball became the youngest player in NBA history to triple-double when he had 13 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds with 11:39 to go in the fourth quarter. At 20 years and 15 days old, Ball tops LeBron James' previous record set at 20 years and 20 days old back in 2004-05.

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Lonzo Ball became the youngest player in NBA history to triple-double when he had 13 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds with 11:39 to go in the fourth quarter. At 20 years and 15 days old, Ball tops LeBron James' previous record set at 20 years and 20 days old back in 2004-05.

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Two people were stabbed at the Mall of America in Minnesota on Sunday night. The suspect is in custody. The stabbing suspect went into someone else´s  dressing room in attempt to steal the persons property. The victim confronted the suspect, who then pulled out a knife and started stabbing him. The victim began to yell, and that's when his family rushed over. The second stabbing victim was believed to be a family member or close friend trying to help the first victim.

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Two men were stabbed during a thwarted theft at the Mall of America in Minnesota on Sunday night and the suspect is in custody, police said.

Bloomington Police were dispatched to the men's department of the mall's Macy's department store following reports of a stabbing, Chief Jeff Potts said during a news conference later Sunday night. It was soon realized the situation was an interrupted theft, according to the cop.

The stabbing suspect, identified as Mahad Abdirahaman, 20, went into someone else's dressing room in an attempt to steal that person's property, Potts said. The victim confronted Abdirahaman, who then pulled out a knife and stabbed him, according to investigators.

Police said the man began to yell, and his family rushed to his side. The second stabbing victim was believed to be a family member or close friend trying to help the first victim. Both men are expected to survive.

Kim Schwieters told the Star Tribune she and her children were visiting Santa Claus outside of the Macy's entrance when she saw two police officers run toward the department store, before more cops started running with their guns drawn.

"My daughter could see people lying on the ground who had been stabbed," Schwieters said, and added police told everyone to leave the area before they closed the store.

The two victims were transported to the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where Bloomington Police said they remain with non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect is in custody with what looked to be minor, superficial wounds, the police chief said.

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Two men were stabbed during a thwarted theft at the Mall of America in Minnesota on Sunday night and the suspect is in custody, police said. Bloomington Police were dispatched to the men's department of the mall's Macy's department store following reports of a stabbing, Chief Jeff Potts said during a news conference later Sunday night.

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Allegations were put on the co-producer of many Warner Bros productions saying that he was said to sexually harass cast members and / or staff members. These allegations were either seen or was subjected to the harassment.

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The company says it is investigating accusations against Andrew Kreisberg, who co-created several of The CW's hit comic book shows: "The Flash," "Supergirl," "Arrow" and "DC's Legends of Tomorrow."

"We take all allegations of misconduct extremely seriously, and are committed to creating a safe working environment for our employees and everyone involved in our productions," the television group said in a statement to CNN.

(Warner Bros., like CNN, is owned by Time Warner.)

The suspension was reported late Friday by Variety. The magazine also detailed several allegations made by 19 sources, none of whom were named in the story.

Variety said the sources, who said they either witnessed or were subjected to the alleged harassment, feared retaliation.

Kreisberg denies the allegations, according to Variety. CNN contacted his agent several times this weekend but did not receive a response.

According to the Variety report, the sources accused Kreisberg of "frequently touching people without their permission, asking for massages from uncomfortable female staff members, and kissing women without asking."

"Almost every source cites a constant stream of sexualized comments about women's appearances, their clothes, and their perceived desirability," Variety reported.

Kreisberg told the magazine that he has "made comments on women's appearances and clothes in my capacity as an executive producer, but they were not sexualized."

"Like many people, I have given someone a non-sexual hug or kiss on the cheek," he added, and denied to Variety that any inappropriate touching or massages had occurred.

The shows that Kreisberg worked on are among The CW's most popular. All of them center on superhero characters from the DC series of comics.

"Arrow" premiered in 2012 and was followed by "The Flash" and "DC's Legends of Tomorrow." "Supergirl" premiered on CBS in 2015, but later moved to The CW.

The shows often share characters and so-called crossover episodes.

Berlanti Productions, the outfit that developed the shows with Kreisberg, said in a statement that it has been "encouraging and fully cooperating" with the investigation.

"There is nothing more important to us than the safety and well-being of our cast, crew, writers, producers and any staff," the company said in a statement to CNNMoney. "We do not tolerate harassment and are committed to doing everything we can to make an environment that's safe to work in and safe to speak up about if it isn't."

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U.S. forces said that they have caused 3 drone attacks within 24 hours in Somalia. We are stepping up against  the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab and the Islamic State group. The drones killed several extremist fighters. The U.S. has now carried out 26 attacks in Somalia against extremist targets in 2017 a spokeswoman for the U.S. military command in Africa told The Associated Press Sunday. The latest U.S. strikes were carried out with Somalia's government, she said. This first drone attack happened around 4:30 p.m. local  Somalia time. One extremists group fighter. The second strike happened at 3 a.m on Sunday morning. The third and final strike happened around 9 a.m on Sunday.

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The U.S. military command in Africa says it carried out three drone strikes against Islamic extremists in Somalia within 24 hours, stepping up their campaign against al-Shabab and the Islamic State group.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Africa command told The Associated Press Sunday that the attacks by unmanned drones killed several extremist fighters. She said that with these three attacks, the U.S. has now carried out 26 strikes in Somalia against extremist targets in 2017.

Two of the strikes were against al-Shabab, which is allied to al-Qaida and has been waging a war for 10 years to establish rule by Shariah law in Somalia.

The third U.S. strike was in northern Somali against the Islamic State group, which has established itself in Somalia over the past two years.

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Wade Seago, a hunter and taxidermist tagged a trophy wild hog. Wade new something was up outside when he heard his family dog barking and wouldn't stop. His daughter began to scream as he got up to check his dog, when he he saw a hog in his front yard. The hog was 12 yards away from his porch. Fearing the worst, he went inside and grabbed his 38 caliber revolver. Cruiser the dog was out of the line of fire so he shot the hog three times before the hog dropped. The hog had tusk 6 inches long and weighed 820 pounds. The hog caused millions  of dollars in damage on his property. Hunters on privet land can kill as many hogs as they wont under Alabama laws.

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A hunter in southern Alabama bagged and tagged the trophy animal of his life when he discovered an 820-pound wild hog on his front lawn.

Wade Seago, a deer hunter and taxidermist in Samson, said he knew something was up outside his house July 11 when his family's dog started barking and wouldn't stop, AL.com reported.

His daughter began screaming as he got up to check on his dog, Cruiser.

"I jumped up to see what was going on," Seago explained to the news site. "I looked out the back window and saw nothing, so I ran to the front of the house where my daughter was looking out the window. I couldn't believe what I was seeing."

He discovered Cruiser barking at the massive wild hog, which was about five yards from his family's front porch.

"Cruiser had this huge hog confused with all of the barking and movement," Wade continued. "It was not a good situation."

Fearing the worst, Seago grabbed his .38-caliber revolver and went back onto the front porch.

Seago told AL.com that it took three shots to take the hog down before it hit the ground.

"By the time I got in a position to shoot, the hog was about 12 yards away," he said. "Cruiser was out of my line to the hog so I fired."

The next day, the sharpshooter took the hog to a nearby peanut company to use its scales to weigh the wild beast.

Seago told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he plans to display the hog's stuffed head and shoulders at his taxidermy shop. He said the rest of the remains were discarded on a friend's property.

"It's so humid down here, it had to hang all night. I wouldn't trust the meat," he said.

Seago didn't have any regrets about killing the hog, which had tusk-like teeth that were 6 inches (15 centimeters) long. Feral hogs cause millions of dollars in damage annually, and hunters on private land can kill as many of them as they want under Alabama law.

"I didn't think twice about taking down this hog," Seago said. "I'd do it again tomorrow."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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A hunter in southern Alabama bagged and tagged the trophy animal of his life when he discovered an 820-pound wild hog on his front lawn. Wade Seago, a deer hunter and taxidermist in Samson, said he knew something was up outside his house July 11 when his family's dog started barking and wouldn't stop, AL.com reported.

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The Washington Post 9 hrs ago By Michael E. Miller

To the hundreds of students who lined up outside the funeral home that April evening in 2010, Brian Betts had been a beloved Washington middle school principal. A second father. An inspiration.

"R.I.P. Mr. Betts," said their shirts and hoodies.

"Mr. Betts, We Love You," read their signs.

But to O'Neil McGean, who stood in the Pierce Funeral Home parking lot in Manassas, Va., gripping a friend's hand and fighting back tears, Brian had been so much more.

He had been the love of O'Neil's life.
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They had met at a stoplight, O'Neil's personality so boisterous it took him only a few seconds to make a lasting impression. Soon they bought a house together in Shaw, fixing it up in the evenings. They were inseparable for almost a decade. And even after their breakup, after O'Neil moved to Mexico and Brian moved to Maryland, they remained good friends.

Then came the gunshots late one night inside Brian's bedroom in Silver Spring, and the phone ringing 2,000 miles away in Mazatlan.
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A week later, O'Neil stood in front of his ex's casket wondering what had gone wrong.

"Why did this happen, Brian?" O'Neil asked aloud.

The answer came two weeks later when police arrested four men, one of whom had arranged to meet Brian via a telephone chat line only to rob him, shoot him and leave him to die.

The crime chastened O'Neil. He was already careful about living in Mexico. Now he grew wary of online dating.

But by Oct. 25, 2016, that caution had waned. After agreeing to meet someone through a dating app, O'Neil disappeared - as did $16,000 from his bank accounts.

The question this time was less why than how.

How could O'Neil fall prey to the same trap that had claimed Brian six years prior?

How could the 53-year-old not see it coming?

The first messages weren't alarming.

"Hola amigo, you there," Jorge Guillen Gonzalez wrote on Facebook messenger on Oct. 26, 2016.

"Si, yo estoy aqui," replied Donnie McGean, O'Neil's oldest brother. "All is good, and you?"

"Not as good [as] I want."

They had met six months earlier when Donnie and his wife visited O'Neil in Mazatlan, a city known as the Pearl of the Pacific.

O'Neil had moved there in 2006 after visiting a few times. The same charisma that had made him the center of attention as a kid in Chevy Chase - leading his little brother Chris and their friends through Rock Creek Park, refereeing fights after school at Blessed Sacrament, captaining dodgeball games - made him popular in the gay-friendly resort town.

It was in Mazatlan that O'Neil met Jorge, a handsome young Mexican with dark hair, green eyes and a tattoo across his tightly muscled chest reading "Warrior of God." They had dated for a short time before opening a cafe together in 2014.

Now Jorge said he was worried.

O'Neil had gone on a date the night before with someone he'd met on a gay dating app, Jorge said, and O'Neil wasn't home yet, nor was he answering his phone. His two cherished dogs - Brandy and Guinness, named after O'Neil's favorite drinks - hadn't been fed.

Drug violence in the surrounding state of Sinaloa had crept into Mazatlan. So when Jorge said he was receiving strange Spanglish texts from O'Neil's phone, Donnie told him to call the police.

"[I] really miss O'Neil. He is my life. He knows how much I love him. Hope he is ok, wherever he is," Jorge wrote in broken English.

"My heart is broken," he said later. "I just wanna die."

"Hang in there. I will be there tomorrow," Donnie wrote as he prepared to board a flight from his home in Maui to Mazatlan. "Our family is very grateful to have you as a friend of O'Neil. Without you we would be nowhere right now."
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Twenty hours later, Donnie, an energetic 62-year-old who founded a trio of natural food groceries, stepped off a plane and headed to meet Jorge at the Hotel Punta Pacifico, a remote resort north of the city. It was here, Jorge said, that O'Neil had gone to meet his date the night he disappeared.
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But hotel employees denied seeing O'Neil, and drone footage of the surrounding countryside showed no trace of him or his car.

The sun dipped over the ocean as Jorge drove them south to Mazatlan. They were eating seafood at a restaurant on the malecón when the Mexican's phone suddenly began to buzz.

The messages were from O'Neil's phone - but not from O'Neil.

"Pay great attention because I will not say it again," the kidnappers said in Spanish. "If it occurs to you to do something rash, you will not hear from me or your little sponsor again."

The kidnappers had already withdrawn about $16,000 from O'Neil's bank accounts. Now they demanded $26,000 more, but gave confusing directions, first instructing Jorge to pay in the morning, then ordering him to deposit a fifth of the money immediately - without providing a bank account.

"I won't do anything until I see a photo that O'Neil is ok," Jorge wrote back.

"First hand," came the cryptic, chilling answer. "Want the other? You don't give the orders here."

As the texts became more threatening, Jorge grew visibly distraught, sobbing and retching, recalled Donnie, who was busy dialing FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration officials - contacts of a relative who'd retired from the DEA - to ask them to try to trace his brother's phone.

The next morning, someone spotted O'Neil's car, parked downtown and filled with trash and beer bottles. As Donnie and Jorge watched state police dust the car for fingerprints, an officer pulled the American aside to say he had a bad feeling about Jorge.

Donnie shrugged it off, as he did the other things people said about Jorge: that O'Neil had recently fired him from the cafe; that he'd been banned from O'Neil's house for throwing wild parties while the American was away.

Jorge went everywhere with Donnie, translating for him by day and sleeping in the same house at night. He even suggested suspects to the police, organizing a stakeout at a property where he said O'Neil might be held, Donnie recalled.

O'Neil had been a popular figure in Mazatlan, donating money to local causes and hosting events at his cafe, so his disappearance was major local news. On Oct. 31, Donnie's fourth day in town, he and Jorge went to meet the mayor. Carlos Felton told Donnie he'd spoken that morning to the governor, who had made it clear he wanted the case solved quickly.

"A lot of these guys were very afraid that this would affect their tourism, would affect the cruise ships," Donnie later recalled.

The same day, Donnie met with the prosecutor handling O'Neil's disappearance.

"What took you so long to come in here?" Agripino Flores Sanchez asked. "We told Jorge a family member has to sign off on the investigation."

The next day, when Donnie returned to talk to Flores, the prosecutor barred Jorge from entering the room. He then showed Donnie a diagram of communications between the suspected kidnappers. Jorge's name appeared, Donnie recalled.

Donnie again dismissed the idea. Jorge must have been trying to reach the kidnappers to negotiate O'Neil's release, he thought.

The next day Mazatlan was packed with people celebrating the Day of the Dead. To take his mind off his brother's disappearance, Donnie walked among the thousands of partygoers with their faces painted like skulls before ducking into a restaurant to call a kidnapping expert.

"If you're continuing to be hopeful, don't," the expert said after Donnie told him the kidnappers had gone quiet. "I'll tell you right now that your brother is dead."
'You cannot trust anybody'
Donnie's phone rang just hours after he'd left Mazatlan.

Police had found O'Neil's body, his youngest brother, Chris, told him, and they had arrested Jorge.

Six years after Brian's murder, O'Neil had fallen prey to a similar trap - one allegedly orchestrated by his best friend.

O'Neil had been lured not to the Punta Pacifico but to another hotel, where he had been beaten so badly that his lungs were punctured, investigators told Donnie. His brother's body was then wrapped in a hotel curtain, stuffed inside a large bag, ferried across town in a taxi and buried in a yard under freshly poured concrete.

The FBI agent had warned him not to look at O'Neil's face, so Donnie identified his little brother by the Irish family crest tattooed on his shoulder.

Mexican law does not allow Mexican media to fully identify suspects until they have been convicted. But multiple people close to the situation, including investigators and an attorney for Jorge, confirmed his arrest and those of two others: Luis David Soto and Carlos Ramon Anguiano. A fourth suspect, Joel Carrillo Anguiano - a relative of Carlos - has also been charged but remains at large.

State and local authorities did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Jorge's attorney, Hector Soto, said his client had been made into a "scapegoat" by officials eager to close a high-profile and politically sensitive case.

Jorge had sounded the alarm over O'Neil's disappearance and pressured police to investigate, Soto argued. A confession by Carlos Anguiano implicating Jorge was unreliable, he said.

"Carlos says he was tortured into giving that statement," Soto said.

That accusation cuts deep in a country that has struggled to modernize its outdated, underfunded and, at times, corrupt criminal justice system. Despite a decade-long effort to bolster the rule of law by improving policing and introducing American-style oral court proceedings, more than 93 percent of homicides go unsolved, according to the Citizens Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, a Mexican think tank.

On the rare occasion that a homicide case is closed, it is often tainted by accusations of torture, as in the case of two Australian surfers killed in Sinaloa a year before O'Neil.

In a jailhouse letter sent to The Post by his brother, Jorge claimed he is innocent.

"I'm locked up because of the whims of prosecutors and the disabilities of judges," he wrote. "I'm locked up because the state government wants to get along with the American community."

Donnie McGean believes Jorge is guilty. Rather than as signs of innocence, he sees Jorge's retching and crying as evidence that he knew the robbery had gone too far and that O'Neil was dead. But even he isn't certain.

"In Mexico, you cannot trust anybody," Donnie said, "including the police."

A year after his brother's death, Donnie and his relatives worry that the case will fall apart. The governor who had prioritized O'Neil's case left office last year amid accusations of corruption.

Donnie never received a response. Later he learned Ordaz, who did not respond to requests for comment, owns the Pacific Palace hotel, where O'Neil was killed.

A month after O'Neil's body was found, expats drank tequila and sang "Danny Boy" at a memorial in Mazatlan. On the same day in Washington, mourners packed Blessed Sacrament for a memorial just as emotional as the one held for Brian.

Earlier this year, when Chris and Donnie went through their brother's belongings, they found dozens of children's books Brian had given O'Neil, each with a love note written inside.

And in his dressing room in Mazatlan, framed behind glass, they found a collage of photographs of O'Neil and Brian - both of them now gone.

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The Washington Post 9 hrs ago By Michael E. Miller To the hundreds of students who lined up outside the funeral home that April evening in 2010, Brian Betts had been a beloved Washington middle school principal. A second father. An inspiration. "R.I.P. Mr. Betts," said their shirts and hoodies.

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Carrie Underwood is recovering after suffering a broken wrist and other injuries. The accident happened Friday, two days after the country music singer hosted the 51st annual CMA awards in Nashville. "On Friday night, Carrie Underwood took a hard fall on some steps outside her home," her rep said in a statement. "While there were no life-threatening injuries, she was taken to the hospital to be treated. She sustained multiple injuries including a broken wrist and some cuts and abrasions from the fall... Her recovery will take some time and she appreciates all prayers and well wishes." Due to her injuries, Underwood was forced to cancel her performance at the Country Rising benefit concert tonight in Nashville.

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Carrie Underwood is recovering after suffering a broken wrist and other injuries, her rep told ABC News.

The accident happened Friday, two days after the country music singer hosted the 51st annual CMA Awards in Nashville.

"On Friday night, Carrie Underwood took a hard fall on some steps outside her home," her rep said in a statement. "While there were no life-threatening injuries, she was taken to the hospital to be treated. She sustained multiple injuries including a broken wrist and some cuts and abrasions from the fall."

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Underwood, 34, lives in Nashville with her husband, Mike Fisher.

The singer's rep added that Fisher, 37, "was able to make it back into town that night to be with her and she was released from the hospital."

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"Her recovery will take some time and she appreciates all prayers and well wishes," the statement concluded.

Due to her injuries, Underwood was forced to cancel her performance at the Country Rising benefit concert tonight in Nashville, according to the Tennessean.

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Carrie Underwood is recovering after suffering a broken wrist and other injuries, her rep told ABC News. The accident happened Friday, two days after the country music singer hosted the 51st annual CMA Awards in Nashville. "On Friday night, Carrie Underwood took a hard fall on some steps outside...

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A few hundred men, women, and children were armed with signs, catchy phrases, and motivation to take #MeToo beyond the internet and into real life. Aislinn Russell, a 15-year-old Los Angeles high school student came with two peers and signs railing against terms like "friend zone" and "slut."Schulman, who presides over the advocacy group Women in Film, told the crowd that the sexual harassment problem can't be fixed by just weeding out sex criminals. This organization has announced on Thurs. that they are making a sexual harassment hotline where victims can call for pro-bono legal counseling and any advice. It should be up on Dec 1.

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Harvey Weinstein accuser Lauren Sivan and Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman are among the hundreds of women, men and children who gathered in the heart of Hollywood on Sunday afternoon for a pair of dual marches protesting sexual harassment.

The Take Back the Workplace March and the #MeToo Survivors March joined forces on Sunset Boulevard chanting sing-songy phrases like "Harvey Weinstein is a joke, women workers just got work," to "Not in pots, not in plants, keep your junk inside your pants."

Schulman, who presides over the advocacy group Women in Film, told the crowd that the sexual harassment problem can't be fixed by just weeding out sex criminals. Women, she said, have to be protected from prejudice and abuse. She encouraged diversifying workplaces and reforming human resources.

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Alexis Bortell, a 12-year-old girl suffers from seizures after being diagnosed at the young age with epilepsy has joined a lawsuit to sue Jeff Sessions in order for him to legalize Medical Marijuana. Texas doctors recommended brain surgery for Bortell but a pediatrician recommended Medical Marijuana, after taking a strain of cannabis oil  twice day for three years she has been seizure-free. The only problem is that they had to move to Colorado and can no longer go back to their home in Texas or Alexis could be put in a foster home. Bortell hopes the lawsuit will normalize Medical Marijuana she states "We'll be able to be treated like what you you call 'normal' families.

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A Colorado girl who suffers from seizures joined a lawsuit to sue U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a bid to legalize medical marijuana nationwide.

Alexis Bortell, 12, told FOX31 Denver she was diagnosed with epilepsy and traditional medicine wasn't helping her seizures. Her doctors in Texas recommended an invasive brain surgery, but a pediatrician suggested medical marijuana.

"As the seizures got worse, we had to move to Colorado to get cannabis because it's illegal in Texas," Bortell told the news site. "I'd say [medical marijuana is] a lot better than brain surgery."

Bortell found that taking a drop of Haleigh's Hope, a strain of cannabis oil, twice a day prevented the seizures from coming back. She's been seizure-free for nearly three years, but she can't return to Texas because marijuana is illegal there. Colorado is one of several states that legalized marijuana for medicinal and recreational use.

"I would like to be able to visit my grandparents without risking being taken to a foster home," she said.

Bortell decided to join a lawsuit to legalize medical marijuana in all states. The case was first started by another child, a military veteran, a marijuana advocacy group and Marvin Washington, a former Broncos player. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana.

Sessions has been openly opposed to legalizing marijuana, saying in September: "I've never felt that we should legalize marijuana," according to Reuters.

"It doesn't strike me that the country would be better if it's being sold at every streetcorner," Sessions said during a news conference in San Diego.

Bortell said she hopes the lawsuit will normalize the substance for medical reasons.

She said, "We'll be able to be treated like what you call 'normal' families."

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Colorado girl sues Jeff Sessions to legalize medical marijuana nationwide

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A Colorado girl who suffers from seizures joined a lawsuit to sue U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a bid to legalize medical marijuana nationwide. Alexis Bortell, 12, told FOX31 Denver she was diagnosed with epilepsy and traditional medicine wasn't helping her seizures.

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At least 348 people were killed and over 6,000 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region Sunday, Iran's state-run news agency reports.

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At least 30 people were killed and more than 200 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region today, an Iranian official said.

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded that the 7.3-magnitude quake struck around 9 miles from the Iraqi city of Halabjah, at a depth of 14 miles.

The Associated Press

According to the USGS, there were two smaller quakes in the area after the 1:18 p.m. ET quake: a 5.3-magnitude quake at 1:29 p.m. ET at a depth of 6 miles, and a 4.5-magnitude quake at 4:33 p.m. ET, also at a depth of 6 miles.

In Iraq's Kurdistan region, the health department in the city of Darbandikhan said that three people had died and 40 people had been wounded.

At least 100 people have been injured across Iraqi Kurdistan.

ABC News' Dyar Mohammed Rafiq contributed to this report.

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At least 30 people were killed and more than 200 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region today, an Iranian official said. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded that the 7.3-magnitude quake struck around 9 miles from the Iraqi city of Halabjah, at a depth of 14...

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ISIS has hacked into 800 school websites.

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The latest target of pro-ISIS hackers is none other than 800 school websites across the United States.

The widespread hack occurred last Monday, and lasted two hours, in which visitors were redirected to a YouTube propaganda video featuring Arabic audio, the text, "I love Islamic State (ISIS)" and images of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Unless we have irrefutable evidence to suggest otherwise, we need to assume confidential data has been compromised," Hamid Karimi, vice president of business development and the security expert at Beyond Security. "That should be a cause for concern. To remedy the situation, all schools and institutions that serve minors must submit to (a) stricter set of cybersecurity rules."

The breached school websites, which spanned nationwide from New Jersey to Arizona and Virginia to Connecticut, are all powered by a company called SchoolDesk. The company since has handed over its server - which runs out of Georgia - to the FBI for investigation and also has hired external security firms to trace the hackers. The Atlanta-based company, which did not respond for further comment, said after the hack that technicians detected that a small file had been injected into the root of one of its websites.

They so far have insisted that no personal or student information was exposed, but some security experts say the matter should be closely monitored, especially as minors are involved.

"In most hacks, organizations do not have full visibility into what happened or what information was compromised," surmised Eric Cole, who served as commissioner on cyber security for President Barack Obama, and was formally a senior vice president at MacAfee and the chief scientist at Lockheed Martin. "In almost every breach, what is initially reported is usually extremely conservative and over the weeks following a breach, it is always worse than what was originally reported."

The proud culprits of the hack? A shadowy pro-ISIS hacktivist outfit known as "Team System DZ."

Lorraine Murphy of The Cryptosphere, a specialist hacking and malware news site, which long has been tracking Team System DZ, said that the group generally speaking is focused on "making public deface" rather than penetrating systems and getting information, and has been in-motion pre-dating ISIS, going back to at least 2013.

"They used to support freedom for Palestine, #OpFreeGaza, and freedom for Kashmir, and now they support ISIS," Murphy said. "Team System DZ basically has one trick: take advantage of outdated WordPress sites, and make bold, scary-looking defaces. It's a trick that has been working for them for three years, and there is no reason to believe that it will stop working anytime soon."

Over the course of more than three years, the group has hacked vast and a seemingly arbitrary range of thousands of websites across the world - from scores of U.S. government sites including the Washington State Department of Health, the Ohio Department of Administrative Services and the Howard County, Maryland government site, which were replaced with a black screen, Islamic calligraphy, the Call to Prayer and the words: "You will be held accountable, Trump, you and all your people every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries." Canada's Prince Albert police station also was targeted last week, and the city council in Aberdeen, Scotland, and even a local West Yorkshire, England rugby team have been apprehended in the past.

"The wide range of targets all had one common characteristic: they had weak network and web protection," Karimi pointed out. "It appears that Team DZ was acting opportunistically as opposed to surgically."
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Cyber forensic data has indicated that the attacks waged by the group initially came from Algeria, also indicated by the use of the "DZ," which is the country's internet domain code.

However, it is likely that they have franchised their defacing operations without a central command, Harimi explained, thus have become both global and difficult to track. For example, Alex Kassirer, director of counterterrorism at intel firm Flashpoint, told Fox News that the group is known to have at least one member from Jordan based on the actor's pseudonym "zilzal jordan," with zilzal being the Arabic word for earthquake.

"The threat they pose is largely limited to the propaganda and messaging war," he continued.

The FBI long have been reported to be investigating the notorious Team System DZ, but declined to comment on the matter. It is believed that no one directly part of the sympathizer hacking group, despite how long they have been operating, are believed to ever have been made.

"What they typically do is cyber-graffiti, they are attempting to spread propaganda on behalf of ISIS to garner support," noted Dan McNemar, director of threat intelligence at Binary Defense Systems. "A number of pro-ISIS groups have come and gone, Team DZ has certainly been around the longest."

But alliance ties between Team System DZ and ISIS itself remain murky. To date, ISIS has not formally acknowledged the group or indicated they have any authority over the cyber outfit. Yet as long as such hacking groups remain unscathed, so too does the propaganda and recruitment machine - along with their potential to go beyond the realm of website defacement.

"They have not been arrested primarily because they are a low-level operator that is more nuisance than genuine threat at this point. Why waste time on a web defacer, when we can spend time on high value targets instead? But we should be thinking about how these attacks could 'evolve' in the future," added Jeff Bardin, chief information officer of Treadstone 71, a security firm specializing in cyber-threat intelligence and analyzing online jihadists and extremist groups. "To go beyond mere propaganda into more serious territory like cyber extortion and threats."

Hollie McKay has been a FoxNews.com staff reporter since 2007. She has reported extensively from the Middle East on the rise and fall of terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq. Follow her on twitter at @holliesmckay

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Cause for concern? Pro-ISIS hacking group target 800 US schools websites

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The latest target of pro-ISIS hackers is none other than 800 school websites across the United States. The widespread hack occurred last Monday, and lasted two hours, in which visitors were redirected to a YouTube propaganda video featuring Arabic audio, the text, "I love Islamic State (ISIS)" and images of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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At least 348 people have died and over 6,000 people have been injured due to a earth quake on the Iraq and Iran border. it was a 7.3 magnitude earth quake even after the main earth quake was done, there was a 5.3 and a 4.5 earth quake

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At least 30 people were killed and more than 200 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region today, an Iranian official said.

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded that the 7.3-magnitude quake struck around 9 miles from the Iraqi city of Halabjah, at a depth of 14 miles.

The Associated Press

According to the USGS, there were two smaller quakes in the area after the 1:18 p.m. ET quake: a 5.3-magnitude quake at 1:29 p.m. ET at a depth of 6 miles, and a 4.5-magnitude quake at 4:33 p.m. ET, also at a depth of 6 miles.

In Iraq's Kurdistan region, the health department in the city of Darbandikhan said that three people had died and 40 people had been wounded.

At least 100 people have been injured across Iraqi Kurdistan.

ABC News' Dyar Mohammed Rafiq contributed to this report.

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At least 30 people were killed and more than 200 injured in Iran in a powerful earthquake that struck the Iran-Iraq border region today, an Iranian official said. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded that the 7.3-magnitude quake struck around 9 miles from the Iraqi city of Halabjah, at a depth of 14...