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Ronda Rousey announces engagement to Travis Browne.

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Russia's FSB intelligence agency says three people were killed - including the attacker - and one wounded in an armed attack at its office in the Far East.

The FSB, the main successor to the KGB, said in a statement on Friday that an unidentified man passed by metal detectors, entered the reception area of the FSB's office in Khabarovsk and opened fire at the people who were there. One FSB officer and one visitor were killed on spot and one was wounded. Security shot dead the attacker.

The FSB would not immediately release any details about the shooter.

Social media users posted pictures of police cordons around the FSB building in Khabarovsk with special forces standing by.

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LeBron James brings Cleveland back from a 26 points and win over the pacers LeBron ended with 42 points

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Alex and Clara Cazeau and Ricky and Emilee Player are a blended family raising Maelyn Player, 4, the daughter of Clara Cazeau and Ricky Player.

The four parents unintentionally showed off their co-parenting skills at Maelyn's soccer game by wearing customized jerseys identifying them each as mommy, daddy, stepdad and stepmom.

"When I was younger my brother played baseball and my mom would get us shirts made so I wanted to do the same thing when Maelyn started playing her first sport," Clara Cazeau, 26, told ABC News. "I didn't think it was going to be anything different."

A photo of the foursome posing with Maelyn on the soccer field is earning praise after Emilee Player posted it on Facebook. The photo has now been shared more than 85,000 times.

"I wanted to send a message that, because of us, I know that co-parenting can work," said Emilee Player, 23. "I wanted other people to see it because we've been doing this for three years now so it's our normal life."

She added, "I think it's pretty cool that we're there for our daughter."

Maelyn's parents, Ricky Player and Clara Cazeau, split in 2013 when she was just 8 months old. The pair, who both live in Columbus, Georgia, made a commitment immediately to still raise Maelyn in a family unit.

"We just want Maelyn to see that she has two loving parents," said Ricky Player, 27, who also has an infant daughter with his new wife. "We do a week on and a week off and Clara still comes over on my weeks and sees Maelyn and I do the same for her."

Ricky Player and Clara Cazeau both met their new spouses while working at the same restaurant in Columbus.

Clara Cazeau

"I came when [Maelyn] was just turning 2," said Clara's husband, Alex Cazeau, 21, who is stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. "I love her and treat her as if she's my own."

The key to successful co-parenting, according to all four parents, is to act as a team and put the child first.

"Try to stay strong and to put your differences aside, with your ex or the new spouse," advised Clara Cazeau. "Everyone has to be 100 percent in or it's not going to work."

Ricky Player said his daughter can "sense the love" she gets from all four family members, while his wife offered more advice from the perspective of a stepparent.

"We have an understanding in terms of major life events and decisions, that Alex and I kind of step down and Clara and Ricky make those decisions," Emilee Player said. "Her parents are going to know what's best for her at all times and we all want what's best for Maelyn."

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Alex and Clara Cazeau and Ricky and Emilee Player are a blended family raising Maelyn Player, 4, the daughter of Clara Cazeau and Ricky Player. The four parents unintentionally showed off their co-parenting skills at Maelyn's soccer game by wearing customized jerseys identifying them each as mommy,...

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The Cleveland Cavaliers overcame one of the biggest deficits ever to win the series vs the Indiana Pacers

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A northern California man said his property caretaker and a quick-thinking neighbor hatched a plan to keep Tad Cummins and Elizabeth Thomas in their sights after the duo showed up on his property Wednesday night.

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Donald Trump's administration has secured the freedom of an Egyptian-US charity worker who was detained for nearly three years in Cairo.

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Donald Trump's administration has secured the freedom of an Egyptian-US charity worker who was detained for nearly three years in Cairo.

Aya Hijazi, 30, was flown back to the US on Thursday night with her family on a US government jet.

Ms Hijazi, whose charity cared for street children, faced child abuse charges branded false by rights groups.

Her release was reportedly agreed before Mr Trump met Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi this month.

Ms Hijazi, a US citizen with dual nationality, and her Egyptian husband, Mohamed Hassanein, set up the Belady Foundation in 2013 to aid street children.

The couple were arrested a year later along with four other humanitarian workers, whose released has also been secured.

They were acquitted last Sunday of child abuse and trafficking charges that were dismissed as bogus by US officials.

Ms Hijazi, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, is due to visit the White House on Friday to meet President Trump.

She will also be greeted by his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reports the Washington Post, which broke the story.

Chaperoned by top American officials, Ms Hijazi and Mr Hassanein were reportedly flown back on a military aircraft to Joint Base Andrews, near Washington DC, at 22:00 on Thursday.

Dina Powell, the president's Egyptian-American deputy national security adviser, is said to have accompanied the couple on the flight home.

The administration of former President Barack Obama had lobbied without success for Ms Hijazi's release, frustrating her family.

The case was seen by human rights groups as typical of authoritarian rule in Egypt under President Sisi, who assumed power in 2013.

Mr Trump was accused by critics of embracing a dictator when he rolled out the red carpet for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi at the White House earlier this month.

But US media report the cosy bilateral capped a flurry of behind-the-scenes diplomacy by Trump administration officials to secure Ms Hijazi's release.

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Donald Trump's administration has secured the freedom of an Egyptian-US charity worker who was detained for nearly three years in Cairo. Aya Hijazi, 30, was flown back to the US on Thursday night with her family on a US government jet. Ms Hijazi, whose charity cared for street children, faced child abuse charges branded false by rights groups.

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Russia says it has developed a bomb even more powerful than the "Mother of all bombs," the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal. Meet the "Father of all bombs."

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Retired Army Master Sgt. Eugene Ruf sat in an old overstuffed chair and thought back to one of the closest calls he had as a GI in World War II. Never mind where or when - that part of his mind isn't working so well anymore, and it probably doesn't matter.

What matters is that the enemy bullet missed and that after all these years - 108 of them - he enjoyed a party thrown Wednesday by his family and his assisted living facility. A big cake and well-wishers greeted Ruf as he walked into a festively decorated room at Brookdale Senior Living Solutions. And, he said, he was looking forward to a party this weekend that will feature a little vodka or scotch.

"I was sitting in a weapons carrier and a bullet went right through the door. It went through and I could have been killed in that one," he said in an interview, remembering the round zipping a foot or so in front of him. "I thought I was lucky, that's all, lucky.

"Lucky, lucky me."

Eugene Peter Ruf, who was orphaned in New York at 12 in 1921 after his parents and a younger brother died of the Spanish flu in a matter of days, talked of his good fortune. He began singing and humming old tunes, eyes closed and head leaning against the back of the familiar old recliner.

He's been doing that for 30 years now.

"As difficult as his life was, all he ever said was how wonderful and fortunate he's been in life: 'The Army was good to me,'" said his daughter, Eileen Friedeck, 61, of Buda. "You'll hardly ever hear him say anything negative. It's always positive."

While not the nation's oldest known veteran, an honor that goes to Richard Overton, 110, of Austin, Ruf is among a precious few. He fought as a combat engineer in the Allied approach to the Siegfried Line in the Europe in World War II and went back to war in Korea after 1950.

He can muster few memories of combat, but music and old poems are another matter.

A granddaughter, Shelly Biehle, recalled Ruf singing whenever she drove him down the highway. He also likes old advertising jingles like one for Lucky Strike cigarettes, "Be Happy - Go Lucky!", and Camel's famous slogan, "I'd Walk A Mile for a Camel."

A smile formed on his well-lined, unshaven face as he hummed the theme for the Lucky Strike commercials on the radio when he was around 42. Lucky Strikes came with his Army rations in Europe, but he never smoked them. Cigars are something else. He doesn't smoke them any more, but will tell you that they're part of the secret to living a long life, along with women and Heaven Hill vodka.

"Good, clean living," he said, chuckling.

The chasing women part is likely his brand of humor. Ruf said he chases them away and then explains, "I didn't want to get tangled up. I had a happy married life. I had two kids, one of each, my boy is up there in Waco."

"I call it Whacko."

How Ruf got to San Antonio is an Army story. He grew up in Harlem and entered Public School 39 speaking German and Norwegian, the language of his parents, but no English. His mom, Petrina, was a missionary and his dad, Eugen, was a draft dodger from the German army.

They married in Cape Town, South Africa and came to New York.

Ruf was a bit of a scoundrel as well as an adventurer growing up. He recalled skipping school with his twin brother, Walter, and going to Yankee Stadium, where they met Babe Ruth.

"'Why aren't you in school?'" Ruf recalled Ruth asking them. "'You're not playing hooky, are you?'"

Ruth let them sit with the players' wives after extracting a vow from the boys to never skip school again.

Ruf quit school in the seventh or eighth grade after his parents and brother died. He bounced around, landing in an orphanage, briefly working on a farm for $2 a month and living in a YMCA in New York.

At 12 or 13, he sold newspapers for a nickel a copy, positioning himself close to the subway train. People buying the paper would hand him a quarter, but he took his time returning the change.

If things went well, the door would close before they got their 20 cents back.

"I don't remember getting caught doing it," Ruf said.

Joining the Army in 1942 was a turning point. He rose to become a senior NCO and remembers living in a cabin of a troop ship while lower-ranking soldiers slept in a cargo hold.

"I had it made," he said. "I was just lucky. Lucky."

There are vague memories of serving in Alsace-Lorraine, and more vivid recollections of the broken leg he suffered in a skiing accident. He felt at home in the hospital, enjoying the food and visits from the American Red Cross's "donut dollies."

"That was paradise," Ruf said. "That's one thing about the hospital. You had a nice bed to sleep in, no problem with the groceries and -"

"What about the nurses?" asked Friedeck, his daughter.

"Oh, yes, the nurses," he said. "Those nurses were pretty good gals."

Ruf's now-deceased wife, Mollie, had her own war story. An Army nurse, she escaped Corregidor on a submarine that slipped out of Manila Bay before the island fell to the Japanese in 1942. It's thought - but not known for certain - that they married after World War II. It might have been after he served on the DMZ during the Korean War.

He can't remember.

Ruf came home, went to San Antonio College and Trinity University, earned bachelor's and master's degrees and remained in uniform until retiring in 1965. He worked as a guidance counselor with the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City school district for a decade or so before retiring again.

Surrounded earlier Wednesday afternoon by Eileen, her husband, Stanley, a grandson, granddaughter, and four great-grandchildren, Ruf smiled and laughed and sang in between kisses from the kids.

"Barefoot boys with shoes on, sitting in the grass," he said, reciting a poem more to himself than to anyone else.

He rapped his knuckles on a wooden table while recalling a prayer he said in Norwegian.

"He can't translate the prayer, but he knew the whole prayer in Norwegian," said Friedeck, a fifth-grade teacher.

The day before, during an interview, he enjoyed another song.

"I have a barrel of dreams," Ruf sang softly, tapping a Styrofoam cup full of black coffee on the armrest of his chair.

He does that quite a bit, sometimes closing his eyes and letting the music in his head take him away.

"I like to stay happy," Ruf explained after ending the song. "I can't stand an old grouch, so I sing to myself."
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'Lucky, lucky me.' A San Antonio veteran marks his 108th birthday

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Retired Army Master Sgt. Eugene Ruf sat in an old overstuffed chair and thought back to one of the closest calls he had as a GI in World War II. Never mind where or when - that part of his mind isn't working so well anymore, and it probably doesn't matter.

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Ronda Rousey announces engagement to Travis Browne!

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Former UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey confirmed Thursday she's engaged to marry fellow UFC fighter Travis Browne.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available. For more news, rumors and related stories about Ronda Rousey, Travis Browne and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, check out the UFC stream on Bleacher Report's app.
TMZ Sports passed along the news. Browne proposed in New Zealand "about a week ago," and Rousey accepted. She said the couple is hoping for a wedding "soon" but didn't provide an official date.

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'I'm truly heartbroken,' says mother after second daughter murdered

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Cherri West spoke with KMBC after her second daughter was murdered this week. West's daughter, Pamela Butler, was kidnapped and killed in 1999.

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A South African hunter is thought to have been eaten by crocodiles after he mysteriously disappeared from his safari hunt last week.

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When John Haygood, a 10-year-old boy with autism, was arrested last week at a school in Florida, he kept repeating that he didn't know what was happening,

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'I'm truly heartbroken,' says mother after second daughter murdered

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Cherri West spoke with KMBC after her second daughter was murdered this week. West's daughter, Pamela Butler, was kidnapped and killed in 1999.

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The children died after the vehicle burst into flames following a collision with a truck just north of the capital.

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Twenty children have been killed in a minibus crash near the South African capital Pretoria, emergency services have said.

The children died after the vehicle burst into flames following a collision with a truck just north of the capital.

There were understood to be both primary and secondary school-aged children on board.

Panyaza Lesufi, the official responsible for education in Gauteng province, has said it is a "dark day".

The minibus collided with a truck on the single carriageway R25 in between Verena, Gauteng, and Bronkhorstpruit, which lies on the border of neighbouring Mpumalanga province.

It is not yet known what the cause of the accident was, but pictures show the minibus entirely burnt out.

In a statement, emergency medical service ER24 described arriving at the scene, where fire-fighters were tackling the flames. A number of children had already been pulled out by "members of the community", the statement said.

"Once the flames had been extinguished, paramedics found that approximately 13 children lying trapped inside the vehicle. Unfortunately, nothing could be done for the children and they were declared dead on the scene," the statement said.

ER24 and the Gauteng Education Department have since confirmed the number has risen to 20.

"This is a huge loss and we're deeply pained by the tragic news," the education department tweeted.

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Arkansas has executed Ledell Lee in the US state's first use of the death penalty in 12 years.

Arkansas plans to carry out two more executions on Monday, and one next Thursday.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City mother still dealing with the tragedy of losing a daughter almost 18 years ago was hit with more tragic news Wednesday night when officers told her that her oldest daughter had also been murdered.

Cherri West, who spoke FOX 4 first on Friday, is the mother of Pamela Butler, kidnapped and killed in 1999, and Casey Eaton, shot and killed Wednesday night.

"I can't believe this has happened to me again," West said. "You kind of sit back and you wonder what have you done in life for something like this to be done to you."

West told FOX 4 that Eaton was her rock to rely on.

"Casey was the oldest sister," West said. "She was my biggest helper. Anything that I needed done, like taking the kids to the dentist, do whatever, she did for me because I work."

West said when officers called Wednesday night, she never expected to hear that another one of her daughters had been murdered.

"I'm still going through Pammy's court hearings and things like that," West said. "It hasn't ended yet. I'm still dealing with that. And now to have to go through another daughter's murder trial, and do this all over again, and have two of them to deal with, it's going to be hard. It's really going to be hard."

According to West, Eaton was the one who ran after Keith Nelson when he took Butler from the front of their Kansas City, Kan., home.

"She was screaming down the street, and that's where the neighbor on the next block come down and started chasing the truck and lost it, but he got the tag number for us," West said.

Casey leaves behind four children and a grandchild. Her oldest daughter is set to graduate high school in May. Her youngest son, according to West, will likely take his mom's death the hardest.

"I'm lost, really," said West, who is still making court appearances in her other daughter's murder case. "Two daughters to murder. I didn't think I'd ever have to go through this again. I really didn't."

"I just want to think it's a nightmare, but I know it's not. I know it's true," West added.

When asked how she's handling the horrific situation she said, "one day at a time, and a lot of prayer into the sky."

West said she would be setting up service arrangements for Eaton on Friday but hopes to get justice for Eaton.

"I just want them to get the person who done this to my daughter, and I want justice for her," West said.

West said her third daughter, who is still alive, was in shock and doesn't want to believe it's true.

"I just talked to Casey the day before yesterday. I just talked to her," West said. "When they came and told me I was like, 'no it can't be, I just talked to her.'"

A GoFundMe Page has been set up to help pay for Eaton's funeral. Click here if you'd like to donate.

You can watch FOX 4's full interview with West in the video player above.

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Russian military aircraft were spotted flying off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time in as many days, a US defense official told CNN on Friday. The two most recent sightings occurred late Wednesday and on Thursday, with the first involving two IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft and the second involving two Tu-95 nuclear-capable Bear bombers.

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On Monday, US F-22 fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace 100 miles from Kodiak Island, Alaska. A US military official called the interaction "safe and professional."

Less than 24 hours later, a US surveillance aircraft responded to two Russian bombers that were spotted in the same area, this time flying 41 miles off Alaska.

The Russian aircraft did not enter US airspace in either instance and US defense officials say there was nothing unusual or confrontational about the Russians' conduct. The US itself has carried out similar flights along both the Chinese and Russian coasts.

Moscow, for its part, said it "regularly carries out patrol missions above the neutral waters of the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean."

"All such missions are carried out in strict compliance with international regulations and with respect to national borders," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a written statement.

But this week's encounter plays into a larger effort by Russian President Vladimir Putin "to prove Russia is back in the game," according to Howard Stoffer, a former State Department staffer.

"This kind of cat-and-mouse stuff has been going on for a while now," Stoffer told CNN, adding that Putin "is trying to put the US on notice that the Russians are everywhere and are back to expanding the limits of expanding their military power."

"It is one thing when you fly to be noticed," he said. "When the Russians buzz US ships, that is an unprofessional action because upsets the operation and is dangerous for all parties involved ... that is where the line that is drawn."

US officials have echoed Stoffer's stance as recently as February, after the USS Porter had three encounters with Russian aircraft while sailing in the Black Sea.

Those encounters were deemed unsafe and unprofessional because of how close the Russian planes flew to the American destroyer, a senior defense official said at the time.

Moscow denied that its aircraft had made any unsafe moves.

Russian aircraft have also been spotted recently flying near the coastline of US allies, including Japan, which has scrambled fighter jets four times this month in response, according to a statement from the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

The Viktor Leonov, a Russian spy ship, has also been spotted near the US coastline twice in recent months.

Rising tensions between US and Russia are a far cry from President Donald Trump's optimistic campaign rhetoric of hopes for a collaborative relationship. As Trump himself said earlier this month, relations between the former Cold War foes "may be at an all-time low."

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged April 4 chemical weapons attack on his own civilians triggered Trump's outrage, leading him to strike a Syrian airfield with Tomahawk missiles, and witnessed a change in Trump's stance on Russia, which has supported Assad throughout Syria's bloody civil war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the US missile strikes on an airfield in Syria were a failed attempt to try to undermine the peace process in the country and to change the regime.

And Russia has stood with Iran, a long-time US foe, in condemning the strikes.

"Attempts of this kind will never be a success. It will never happen," Lavrov said during a joint news conference with the Iranian and Syrian foreign ministers in Moscow. "We demand that the United States should respect the sovereignty of a state and avoid such actions that threaten the current world order."

Opposing views on the conflict in Ukraine have also become a hot-button issue between the Kremlin and the new US administration.

In February, Russia's Foreign Ministry also indicated that it intends to keep Crimea and not return it to Ukraine because it considers it to be part of Russia -- a stance that the Trump administration has said it directly opposes.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said earlier this year that Trump had been taking a tough line with Russia and that he expected Moscow to withdraw from the region, which it has occupied since 2014.

The US, meanwhile, has positioned military assets across Europe in an effort to reassure its European and NATO allies in the wake of Russia's movements in Ukraine.

Over the weekend, the US Air Force sent its newest stealth fighters to the United Kingdom in a demonstration of its military reach.

This week's encounters might be routine military chest-thumping, but the countries' entwinement in complex military situations around the world raises the risk of escalation.

American forces have so far refrained from engaging Russian aircraft after they've performed maneuvers like buzzing Navy ships. But Stoffer indicated retaliation could be possible in the future.

According to Stoffer, it is unlikely that the US would go to the extreme of firing a shot across the bow of a Russian ship or shooting down a Russian jet carrying out an unsafe move.

But he could see a scenario in which a US commander greenlights alternative responses like jamming the aircraft's radar and avionics systems -- which could cause the aircraft to crash.

If a minor provocation were to escalate and turn into a larger-scale war situation, Moscow would be at a disadvantage, according to retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden.

"No one wants to go to war with the Russians, but let me double down on another concept: The Russians really don't want to go to war with us," said Hayden, the CIA and National Security Agency director under President George W. Bush, during an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

"They are by far the weaker power," he said.

CNN's Ryan Browne, Barbara Starr, Brad Lendon and Junko Ogura contributed to this report.

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Mr. Kohl - Fox News star Bill O’Reilly is reportedly leaving his job with some pretty heavy pockets...filled with up to $25 million.

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Mr. Kohl - Fox News star Bill O’Reilly is reportedly leaving his job with some pretty heavy pockets...filled with up to $25 million.