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Jacqueline Kent Cooke, the daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, was arrested Wednesday after a New Year’s Eve outing that allegedly included saying “hurry up, Jew” and then clocking a lawyer in the head with a pricey glass purse

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NFL heiress accused of hitting lawyer with her ‘glass purse’ during anti-Semitic coat check rant

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Jacqueline Kent Cooke, the daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, was arrested Wednesday after a New Year’s Eve outing that allegedly included telling a restaurant patron to “hurry up, Jew” and then clocking her son in the head with a pricey glass purse, the New York Daily News reported.

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

Terry Allen Miles, 44, had been sought in connection with the abduction of Lilianasi "Lily" Victoria Cake Griffith, 14, and Luluvioletta "Lulu" Mariposo Bandera-Magret, 7, as well as the death of their mother Tonya Bates, 44, police said. Bates was found Sunday at the home she shared with Miles in Round Rock.

"CAUGHT!!!," Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks tweeted. "Terry Allen Miles was caught in Colorado without incident. The girls are SAFE!!! Thank God!!"

Miles was thought to have been traveling to Louisiana, the Dallas Morning-News reported. However, police said Miles was seen on surveillance footage on Dec. 30 at a business in Trinidad, Colo.

Las Animas County Sheriff's officials received a tip at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday that Miles and the girls were in the area and authorities went to search for him, the Morning-News reported. Police found Miles' vehicle and pulled up behind him, according to the paper.

Banks said Miles' vehicle started to drive erratically and a law enforcement official waited for backup before engaging the car.

Miles was taken into custody and the girls were taken to a hospital. Child Protective Services in Texas and Colorado will work together to get the girls connected with family, Banks said.

"Our whole goal and hope was that we got those girls safe," Banks said. "We have a lot of questions to ask him. A lot of questions to ask them. And that will be done here in the next couple of days. "
Fox News' Madeline Farber and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Texas Amber Alert girls found safe in Colorado; suspected kidnapper caught

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

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The White House announced Thursday that it is banning employees and guests from using personal cell phones in the West Wing.

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The White House announced Thursday that it is banning employees and guests from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, citing security and technology concerns.

"The security and integrity of the technology systems at the White House is a top priority for the Trump administration and therefore starting next week the use of all personal devices for both guests and staff will no longer be allowed in the West Wing," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

"Staff will be able to conduct business on their government-issued devices and continue working hard on behalf of the American people," she added.

The move comes amid growing concerns about leaks from the White House, though this was not cited as a reason for the new ban.

Although the ban will include official visitors, it is not expected to apply to members of the press.

The New York Times' Maggie Haberman first reported on the ban Wednesday night, tweeting that staffers were told "early in the term" but only now is it being enforced.

Bloomberg News reported that the ban was imposed by Chief of Staff John Kelly, who has taken steps to impose order and discipline at the White House since he took the role in July.

A White House official told Bloomberg there are too many devices connected to the White House wireless networks, and personal cell phones are not as secure as government-issued devices.

The ban comes less than 24 hours after President Trump launched a blistering attack on forner White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, accusing him of spreading "false information" to the media. His statement was in response to excerpts that surfaced from Michael Wolff's forthcoming book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," in which Bannon slams members of Trump's family and inner circle.
Fox News' Kristin Brown and Jon Decker contributed to this report. Adam Shaw is a Politics Reporter and occasional Opinion writer for FoxNews.com. He can be reached here or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.

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The White House announced Thursday that it is banning employees and guests from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, citing security and technology concerns.

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16 year old allegedly killled his family on New Year eve

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A 16-year-old boy was accused Monday of using a semi-automatic rifle to gun down his parents, sister and a family friend at their Jersey Shore home on New Year's Eve, according to reports.

The teen, identified by local media as Scott Kologi, killed his father, Steven Kologi, 44; mother, Linda Kologi, 42; sister, Brittany Kologi, 18; and family friend Mary Schultz, 70, who lived in their Long Branch home, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.

His brother and grandfather also were at the house at the time of the attack but escaped unharmed, he said.

Police received a 911 call about the shooting at 11:43 p.m. Sunday from inside the 635 Wall St. house, where the four victims were found dead, the prosecutor said.

"It's a terribly tragic incident," Gramiccioni said.

Scott Kologi was arrested without incident and the Century Arms semi-automatic rifle - which was legally registered to a resident in the home - was seized, authorities said.

Authorities have not yet determined a motive for the shooting spree, which was described as a domestic violence incident that posed no danger to the public, he said.

Scott was charged with four counts of murder and a weapons offense Monday, according to the Asbury Park Press.

Authorities said police had not previously been to the house for domestic violence calls.

An Ocean Township resident who played softball with the father described the 16-year-old as "the nicest kid in the world."

"He came to watch the softball games with Linda and he was always smiling. This is totally out of the blue," Joe Rios, 52, told The Post.

"This is not something I ever thought this young boy would do. I don't know what happened. He was not a violent kid. He was always smiling," said Rios, adding that he hung out with Steve every other weekend.

The Kologis owned the three-family home, where a friend of Rios lives in the basement and called him at 2 a.m. Monday.

"She called me and said she heard gunshots. She said, 'Something had happened!'" he said.

"Steve is a great person. He did everything for his family and his four kids," Rios said about the slain dad, who was a truck driver.

One of Steven's children is from another marriage and didn't live at the Wall Street home, he said.

Long Branch schools chief Michael Salvatore told the Asbury Park Press that the suspect does not attend the high school.

He did not confirm if Brittany attended the school last year, saying he would make a statement Tuesday.

According to her social media profile, Brittany was a freshman at Stockton University in Galloway Township, NJ.

A woman who lives a couple blocks from the family said she heard what she thought were fireworks.

"On any other day we would have thought, 'What the heck was that?' But because it was New Year's Eve, we didn't pay any attention. It's so sad," Yvonne Moss, 62, told The Post.

Another neighbor said he heard the gunfire and fireworks go off simultaneously.

"I walked outside at midnight. We heard the commotion and lights flashing and saw (the police) storm the house," said James Roskowinski, referring to himself and a roommate, the Asbury Park Press reported.

"It's a shame the new year has to start off like this," he said.

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16-year-old boy allegedly killed family in New Year's Eve attack

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A 16-year-old boy was accused Monday of using a semi-automatic rifle to gun down his parents, sister and a family friend at their Jersey Shore home on New Year's Eve, according to reports.

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'Non-white' student linked to racist graffiti inside school

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School officials in a Missouri community were making plans Tuesday to discipline a "nonwhite" student whom they said had confessed to writing a racial slur and the phrase "White Lives Matter" on a mirror inside a girls' restroom at a high school.

Parkway schools Superintendent Keith Marty said in a statement Tuesday that the revelation that a nonwhite student was involved was surprising, but it did not "diminish the hurt" caused by the incident at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield.

"The behavior was wrong and the student will be held accountable for this serious act according to our student discipline policy," said Marty, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

"The behavior was wrong and the student will be held accountable for this serious act according to our student discipline policy."
- Keith Marty, Parkway schools superintendent

"It is important to understand why this happened and why we are often quick to assume who is responsible," he added.

The racial slur was found in a girls' restroom on campus last week, prompting the local community to organize and stand against racism.

"I was horrified," West County anti-racism activist Joy Weese Moll told KTVI last week. "A lot of us in West County have a really hard time saying racism exists here. It makes me sad for the person who wrote it because they have not been taught and not learned how beautiful our society can be."

Parents who have children going to the school also reacted.

"This is very much a white person issue that we need to tackle as white people and speak up against," parent Alexandria Lane-Detwiler said.

Principal Timothy McCarthy reiterated that the student responsible will be punished and such behavior is not welcome at his school.

"The actions of this student are a violation of our discipline code and the student will be held accountable within the parameters of the district's discipline policy," he wrote in a statement, KTVI reported.

"The use of the N-word, in the context of the message on the bathroom mirror, provoked feelings of hate, not love. As I stated last week, actions and speech which degrade an individual's human dignity have no place in school; they have no place at Central High."

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

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School officials in a Missouri community were making plans Tuesday to discipline a "nonwhite" student whom they said had confessed to writing a racial slur and the phrase "White Lives Matter" on a mirror inside a girls' restroom at a high school.

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41 year old women figures out she does not have a diesease and it really was jus bits of ketch up packages in her intenese

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Woman's Gastrointestinal Disease Turned Out to Be Ketchup Packets

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According to report in a U.K. medical journal, it's the first instance of ingested plastic mimicking the symptoms of Crohn's disease, such as acute abdominal pain and bloating.

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Smoking marijuana is on the rise among pregnant women in California, a new study has found.

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Smoking marijuana is on the rise among pregnant women in California, a new study has found.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used the medical records of 279,000 women residing in California who were on Kaiser Permanente, a health care service, Reuters reported.

Participating women were asked to answer a questionnaire and go through a drug test to see if they tested positive for marijuana use. Researchers found that marijuana consumption among pregnant women in the state has risen from 2009 to 2016 from 4.2 percent to 7.1 percent.

Kelly Young-Wolff, the study's lead researcher and Dr. Nancy Goler said their study shows how marijuana might potentially harm an unborn child.
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"Our study is important because it addressed key limitations of prior studies by investigating trends in prenatal marijuana use using data from a large California health care system with gold standard universal screening for prenatal marijuana use," Goler and Young told Reuters.

Young-Wolff said marijuana usage increased the most in young females.

"We were concerned to find that the prevalence of marijuana use in pregnancy is increasing more quickly among younger females, aged 24 and younger, and to see the high prevalence of use in this age group," Young-Wolff said.

The researchers noted marijuana was the "most commonly used illegal drug during pregnancy," and could "impair fetal growth and neuro-development," Reuters reported.

Barbara Yankey, a researcher at Georgia State University, told Reuters marijuana use may be on the rise because of the recent legalization of its recreational use "has made people think of the drug as less dangerous, even during pregnancy."
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"Because of the possibility of concurrent use of marijuana and other substances of abuse, the evidence of its direct association with preterm labor, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, low birthweight and stillbirth is still debatable, though these adverse effects lean more towards an increased likelihood of occurrence," Yankey continued.

The researcher said the amount of marijuana consumed and how often a person uses it is a factor.

Young and Goler did not condone the consumption of marijuana during pregnancy.

Officials in Colorado, where recreational pot was legalized, have warned women not to smoke it during pregnancy, Gizmodo reported. California will make recreational marijuana legal in 2018.

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Smoking marijuana is on the rise among pregnant women in California, a new study has found. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used the medical records of 279,000 women residing in California who were on Kaiser Permanente, a health care service, Reuters reported.

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Cheerleaders from a disbanded cheer squad started a game of Mortal Kombat at a school.

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Several teens in a disbanded cheer squad took their fighting spirit to a new level when they flipped out and attacked rival cheerleaders inside a Brooklyn high school.

The wild brawl, captured on cell phone video and posted on social media, exploded into a fist-flying, hair-pulling melee that quickly overwhelmed school security and continued for several minutes before staff members were able to shut it down.

An overmatched security officer at the Canarsie school can be seen flailing about in the video shot Dec. 18, trying in vain to contain the spiraling madness as several teenage girls punched, kicked and yanked the hair of two unsuspecting former squad members.

As a security guard busted up one fight, another one broke out behind her. It happened again and again until other staff arrived and the students dispersed.

Brawling bozos knock down 91-year-old woman at Brooklyn market

A lawyer for the teenage victims notified the city Wednesday of their intent to sue. The Daily News is withholding their names at the request of the victims.

"This is a school that's known to have a lot of violence, and there was only one security person who was there and she couldn't handle it," the attorney, Marcel Florestal, said. "No one is secure in a situation like that. The school is not supervised."

The mother of one of the victims told The News her daughter had been part of a squad that drew members from several schools in the same building, including Victory Collegiate High School and Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School.

(Obtained by NY Daily News)

The group recently shut down because the coach who ran it decided to pull the plug.

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The exact reason for the attack remains unclear. But the two victims, who attend Brooklyn Theatre Arts, believe they were targeted by fellow cheerleaders from Victory Collegiate due to their perceived favored status with the coach, according to Latoya Miller, the mother of one of the victims.

"I send my daughter to school to learn, not to fight," Miller said. "My concern is sending my child to school and not having to wonder if she is safe. Where was the school safety? They were not around when they attacked her."

That girl's aunt, Precious Thomas, says the girls were specifically targeted in an area of school that's known among students as being lightly supervised by security.

"Since she's a freshman, she didn't know that" about the hallway, Thomas said of her niece.

Man nabbed after fatally stabbing teen in brutal Brooklyn brawl

"This is a location where people meet up to fight," Thomas said. "It was a full brawl. How it was that it could occur at a school during school hours baffled me."

(Obtained by NY Daily News)

In the video, a group of girls can be seen surrounding Miller's daughter and her friend, swinging fists at them, grabbing their hair and kicking them when they fall to the floor.

Miller said her daughter received medical treatment at Interfaith Medical Center for a black eye and a fractured facial bone.

Thomas said her niece was so badly traumatized by the incident that she refused to return to school for a week, and has been having trouble sleeping since. She was also required to attend a mediation session before she returned to school.

Teen fatally stabbed, his cousin's face slashed in Brooklyn brawl

The parents of both of the victims say school officials did not properly investigate the incident and did not contact police or adequately discipline the students who were involved.

On Wednesday, Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot wouldn't say if officials are investigating the incident or whether staffers called the police.

She also would not comment on the nature of any discipline taken against students, citing federal student privacy laws.

"Safety always comes first," Barbot said. "This incident was swiftly addressed and appropriate disciplinary action was taken."

Police would not say how many school safety agents are assigned to South Shore but said the incident was handled without police help.

"School safety agents assigned to the building responded and it was appropriate for the incident to be handled administratively by school," said Lt. John Grimpel, a police spokesman.

The building where the beatdown took place once housed the notorious South Shore High School, a problem-plagued facility where one student was fatally stabbed just off campus in 1990 and another was knifed to death in a stairwell in 1992.

The school was broken up into smaller schools by the Bloomberg administration in 2010, but the six schools now located there continue to experience violence.

Students must pass through metal detectors. In 2016, a stray bullet blasted into a room where a class was underway at Brooklyn Theater Arts High School.

No one was hurt in that incident, but in a 2017 survey, just 71% of students at Theatre Arts said they felt safe in the hallways, locker rooms and bathrooms. That compares to 85% citywide.

Fifty-four percent of students said bullying happened at the school most of the time or all of the time - above the citywide average of 37%.
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SEE IT: Cheerleaders spark wild brawl in Brooklyn high school

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Several teens in a disbanded cheer squad took their fighting spirit to a new level when they flipped out and attacked rival cheerleaders inside a Brooklyn high school. The wild brawl, captured on cell phone video and posted on social media, exploded into a fist-flying, hair-pulling melee that quickly overwhelmed school security and continued for several minutes before staff members were able to shut it down.

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Winter storm brings snow, fierce winds to the Northeast as bitter cold to follow and they are saying it is a "Bomb Cyclone

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‘Bomb cyclone’ winter storm brings snow, fierce winds to Northeast as bitter cold to follow

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A rapidly-intensifying winter storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” targeted the Northeast on Thursday after leaving its deadly mark across the Southeast, snarling travel across the region with snow, ice, bone-chilling winds and a central air pressure similar to that of the devastating Superstorm Sandy.

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Train crashes in South Africa, 12 die.

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12 dead in South Africa passenger train crash.

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The UK is trying to rid of the homeless before the Royal Wedding. Many people are getting upset because they "choose to be homeless and want to live there." They also want to attend the wedding.

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The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should not have been cited as a reason to crack down on begging in Windsor, a homelessness charity says.

Council leader Simon Dudley had asked police to urgently address "aggressive begging" in the town ahead of the St George's Chapel ceremony on 19 May.

Murphy James, of the Windsor Homeless Project, said the views expressed were "misinformed".

"It was totally unwarranted to bring the royal wedding into this," he added.

"This shouldn't be a situation that's hit the headlines because of a royal wedding. This is a situation that should have hit the headlines because there's people sleeping in bus shelters."

Mr Dudley described street begging in the town as creating a " hostile atmosphere" for both residents and tourists in a letter to Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfeld.

Mr Stansfeld said many of the people on the streets of Windsor were "very vulnerable and have mental health issues"

"It's not as easy as putting them in a police van and dumping them in Southall or somewhere. It's much more complicated than that," he said.

James, 35, who lives on the streets of Windsor, said: "[Mr Dudley] should come out and talk to the homeless and find out what their stories are before he makes those kind of accusations."

He said he did not believe there were aggressive beggars in the town, and that ultimately deciding to give money or not was up to the individual.

"It is not our choice to be homeless," he said. "Everyone has their own reasons, everyone has their own story."

The Rev Louise Brown, a vicar in nearby Dedworth, said no beggars had ever been aggressive to her in Windsor when she had spoken to them.

She said: "Yes some of them have got drink problems, but without support from the council to find real solutions I think the problem is going to be there.

"You can't just sweep it away because it's a royal town."

Eight people were sleeping rough in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead at the last official count in 2016, according to government statistics. This was down from 35 in 2015.

Resident Robert Colwell, 70, said he thought Mr Dudley's comments were "disproportionate".

"Their wedding is going to be headline news and you don't want that underlined by something insensitive," he said.

Jesse Grey, Mr Dudley's Conservative colleague on the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, said there were concerns about "persistent beggars".

"People do get attracted to Windsor - we get seven million visitors a year and it's quite lucrative for some people," he said.

"If the beggars are persistent it's not very nice for our residents and visitors to Windsor."

Mr Dudley has been approached for further comment.

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The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should not have been cited as a reason to crack down on begging in Windsor, a homelessness charity says. Council leader Simon Dudley had asked police to urgently address "aggressive begging" in the town ahead of the St George's Chapel ceremony on 19 May.

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the kneeing of the national anthem has not stopped in the new year of 2018. a protest that will last. many negative things have been said but that's not stopping some of these men from taking a knee for what they believe in.

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There were the cheerleaders, the novelty checks and the photo-ops, the boos for the visiting team and the pyrotechnically-enhanced entrance of the home team, strutting and preening for the cameras to the sounds of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead": "Middle America packed in / Came to see me in my black skin."

And then there was one.

For the final "Star-Spangled Banner" of the Miami Dolphins' forgettable season, wide receiver Kenny Stills took a knee alone-up to that point he had been joined by teammates Michael Thomas and Julius Thomas, both since lost to the injured-reserve list. A giant flag covered the field, and the planes from nearby Homestead Air Reserve Base flew over Hard Rock Stadium. Everyone cheered as retired Air Force Sgt. Mark J. Lindquist sang "the land of the free," and that was it-the gesture that turned the NFL into America's biggest forum on social justice was over.

"It's what I wholeheartedly believe in," Stills says after the game, "so I do what I have to do."

During the last week of the 2017 NFL regular season, seven players knelt down during the national anthem: Duane Brown, Marquise Goodwin, Eli Harold, Louis Murphy, Eric Reid, Stills and Olivier Vernon.

This action has become almost mundane: At least one player has knelt during the anthem every week since , immediately after President Donald Trump suggested that players who took a knee should be fired. At that point, only Reid was actively protesting by kneeling during the anthem. But following Trump's comments, more than 100 players knelt in Week 3, and dozens more offered gestures of solidarity-some, like the Colin Kaepernick started what are often mischaracterized as the "anthem protests." The demonstrations reached peak participation in September Cowboys ' Jerry Jones-led pre-anthem kneel, with debatable levels of sincerity.

But these seven players, and their injured colleagues who also knelt as long as they were on the field, have continued to advocate for the original intent of the movement Kaepernick began in August 2016: to raise awareness about police brutality and other systemic injustices, and the fact that those problems disproportionately affect black Americans.

To hear the last men kneeling tell it, their simple act of sustained protest-of continuing the public action that's left their former colleague out of a job-has not been without consequence... or progress.

All five players who spoke with B/R Mag about the past, present and future of taking a knee described another season's worth of taunting that lasts from the moment they step on the field until well after they read the comments on social media after the game. (Fans who spoke with B/R Mag about protests at four NFL games across the country this season characterized the anthem demonstrations as everything from "a disgrace" to "fine" to "amazing.")

And multiple players felt it was "obvious" that the league, after buying some silence through a near-$100 million donation negotiated without them, would restructure the pregame routine over the coming offseason to prevent their protest. (Since none of their teams made the postseason, this past Sunday might actually have marked the end of an era.)

But these seven men, like so many other activists before and certainly after them, are not settling for the forcible conclusion of a movement that, at least for two football seasons, made people who'd rather talk about literally anything else talk about racism. After it became clear that efforts to work with the NFL were more about getting players to stand up than acknowledging their fight for equality, they decided to look outside the league for leaders. Increasingly frustrated with ownership, the group is planning to meet with Kaepernick this month in New Orleans to plan the next steps for a movement that's grown beyond what any of them ever expected.

As Stills puts it over the phone, just before his own historic season finished: "I don't know if they thought that enough of us were gonna get involved, and that we were going to ruffle this many feathers. I'm just proud of the guys who were able to stick to it, and I'm really interested to see where things go."

For these players, who have already risked their livelihoods for such a simple, powerful act, there is no sense in stopping-no matter what the NFL decides to do.

The first person to join Kaepernick's protest during the 2016 preseason was Reid, the 49ers ' star safety. He is also the only NFL player to never stand back up. It was during Reid's early conversations with Kaepernick that the teammates came to the idea of kneeling during the anthem-a way to draw attention to their cause without the perceived disrespect of remaining seated on the bench. After Kaepernick opted out of his contract, Reid, too, was left alone on one knee to begin this season.

"I really didn't have a plan," Reid tells B/R Mag. "The goal was just to elevate the issue of police brutality and systemic oppression in this country and to continue to put public pressure on our government to change the system."

Growing up 15 minutes from the LSU campus where he would develop into a first-round pick, Reid was a diligent student and intuitive leader on and off the field-Jim Harbaugh even tried to recruit him to Stanford. He was named a permanent team captain at LSU and elected team union rep in his second year with the Niners.

Activist is a relatively new job description for the 26-year-old, but Reid remains determined to use his stature as a reliable playmaker on the field to force change off it-even as he heads into free agency knowing Kaepernick remains unemployed. Reid is married with two daughters.

"When I hear heckling, I think we're accomplishing our goal-people noticing the protest forces them to talk about it," he says-of home games. "You gotta make people uncomfortable. You force them to talk about the issue. Myself-and I know some other players-will continue to protest so we can do that. I'm in it for the long haul."
Walk around any NFL stadium and it's clear that everyone has an opinion about the protests. Some fans just feel more free to share theirs. "It's a disgrace for anyone to take a knee during the national anthem in this country," says Keith, a 55-year-old Dolphins fan tailgating at MetLife Stadium two days after Trump's now notorious "son of a bitch" comments during a rally for Senate candidate Luther Strange. It's a perfect fall day, and Keith is comfortably ensconced in a camp chair, drinking beer with his friends-two other middle-aged white men. He speaks with the certainty of someone who knows he won't be challenged. He does not name any of the Dolphins who have knelt; indeed, he does not seem aware that they have. "These owners should cut their players," Keith says. "If they don't want to play for football, don't play. When you're representing my team and my uniform, you're standing for the national anthem or pay the consequences. I don't think it has anything to do with racism. It has to do with national pride. It has nothing to do with race."
"Carolina was awful," Stills says, recalling a particularly persistent heckler in Charlotte, North Carolina, last November. "This guy was pretty liquored up in the front row right behind the bench. Sometimes it's pretty sad, honestly-the fact that people really don't understand and they're not trying to understand. It kind of breaks your heart."

The 25-year-old Dolphins receiver never used to consider himself political. His parents (his father is former Packers safety Ken Stills) didn't talk much about current events, and like most NFL-bound athletes, his focus was football. Nonetheless, he developed a reputation for being a free spirit while playing for Oklahoma, with a Twitter following so active it was viewed as a liability on his scouting report.

Stills did not vote until 2016, but he had noticed a disturbing trend in the hashtags on his Twitter timeline: #FreddieGray, #SandraBland, #AkaiGurley, #AltonSterling, #PhilandoCastile. He wanted to take action offline, saw Kaepernick begin protesting and decided to kneel at the Dolphins' season opener alongside three of his teammates-an act that he credits with changing his life.

"That lit a fire under my ass to get involved in my community and really started my activism," Stills says from his home in Florida . "Ever since then, it's been something that I feel so strongly about-I can't help myself."

Stills plans to spend the offseason volunteering with grassroots organizations around the country in a classic Volkswagen bus-but it's still about reinforcing, rather than replacing, the statement he's making on the field. "For me to stop protesting," Stills tells B/R Mag ahead of Week 17, "I just don't really see that as an option."

"People always want to make it about Kap. It's not about Colin. It's what you're doing to him."
-KENNY STILLS, Dolphins wide receiver

Following Trump's comments, Stills and his teammates tried to work with the Dolphins to find a means of activism that might be perceived as less confrontational: For four games, the protesting players remained in the tunnel during the anthem. Stills regrets it, calling the compromise "one of the biggest mistakes I've made when it comes to the work we've been trying to do."

From now on, Stills insists, he and his fellow protesting players are "going to continue to bring awareness to these issues on the biggest platform that we have." That platform is the sideline, where players can provoke the conversations-and the controversy-they view as necessary to stop police brutality and end systemic injustice...even if that means cutting into team profits.

"That's what people really don't understand about us: We know that this protest is affecting their pockets, and that they're going to do whatever they can do to try and make it end," he says of NFL ownership. "I'm not purposefully trying to ensure that you don't make money, but when are you going to try to address some of the problems in this country even though they don't affect you? At what point?"

Stills continues: "People always want to make it about Kap. It's not about Colin. It's what you're doing to him."

That part of the solution, for Stills, has remained the same since the beginning of the season. "It's no secret that Kaepernick is better than a lot of guys in the NFL, and it's a shame that the league and its owners are choosing to look foolish. They could have easily done the right thing and profited from it."
We were promised boycotts. By Americans who were so offended by in-game protests that they no longer wanted to watch football. By those who were so offended by the league's treatment of Kaepernick that they no longer wanted to support it. But for all the blame placed on protesters for declining figures of football viewership and attendance, there are plenty of people on both sides still attending NFL games. "I'm a veteran, and I take offense to it," says Keith, a 53-year-old Bears fan who had come to Soldier Field from Michigan's Upper Peninsula in early December. "This is the first NFL game I've been to in about 10 years, and if I see somebody taking a knee, I'm not coming back." The players have noticed the lull in attendance, whatever its cause. "Either Trump has been really successful by telling people not to go to the games-or fans in general are just turned off by what's happening and the way the league has reacted," says Stills. "There's just definitely something different in all the stadiums-I think people are kind of fed up with everything that's going on." Back outside Soldier Field in Week 13, Willie and Rick are discussing how to reconcile their fervent love for the Bears with their support for Kaepernick. "I won't go into the stadium until after they do the national anthem," says Rick, a 17-year season ticket holder. "I would take a knee, but I just don't enter the game because I don't want to deal with the negativity." "I'm not gonna stand, and if somebody has something to say, I'm gonna respond to them," Willie concludes. He hasn't watched a football game yet this season. "Everyone wants to holler about veterans and patriotism-get back to what it's about: It's about police brutality and the injustice going on."
Michael Thomas doesn't usually cry after games. In fact, remembering how he teared up talking about his daughter in a postgame interview that went viral in September, the Dolphins safety can't help but laugh.

"It was the craziest thing-emotions were already running high because of the Trump comments, and we'd lost, so I was pissed," Thomas says now. "But once I got to talking about my daughter, I couldn't even control it. After that, people who didn't necessarily agree with the protest hit me up because they saw a father trying to be protective of his daughter and her future. People changed their tone, because it became real to them."

Since Thomas began protesting-like Stills, he first took a knee during the anthem in Week 1 of 2016 and continued through Week 16 of this season, when he went on IR-he's realized that he'll have no choice but to have conversations about social justice and inequality with his daughter, who is now just three. Conversations that will, given his status as an outspoken public figure, sound different than the ones his parents had with him when he was growing up in Houston.

"Just because my daughter is growing up differently than we grew up doesn't mean she's immune to racism," he says. "We've already had to deal with that with other parents, starting when she was one or two. It's crazy, but that's just still how things are."

"There will have to be another wave of players to carry the torch, because they're going to try to get rid of us."
-MICHAEL THOMAS, Dolphins safety

Thomas has been a reliable veteran, but the 27-year-old feels his future with the Dolphins is in jeopardy after his sustained protest. "What we're trying to get done is not going to happen overnight, and it's definitely not going to change with us-there will have to be another wave of players to carry the torch, because they're going to try to get rid of us," he tells B/R Mag, less than one week before his contract with the Dolphins ends. "My wife knows even if they do give me the Kaepernick treatment and keep me out of the league this next year, I'll be fine. I'll be able to find a job, I'll be able to support my family."

When it comes time to have that conversation about his activism with his daughter, Thomas knows what he'll say. "I'll be real with her-just like, 'Your father was fighting for change. He wanted a better America and a better society for you and all the kids that were coming up after you,'" he says. "Knowing my daughter, just who she is now and the way she's been brought up, I know she'll be proud of me."
As hundreds of football players began protesting during the national anthem in September, the backlash became almost impossible to ignore-at least for NFL owners. "Last year, we had the support of our owner," says Thomas. "Then, boom: the Trump comments happened. You got one week where, excuse me for saying it, but all the team owners are putting on a show and talking about how much they support the players-taking a knee or locking arms or whatever-then the very next week they're saying, 'Y'all gotta stop.' The same person who was supporting us last year is now saying, 'We can't let Trump win, because it's affecting the bottom line.'" (Dolphins owner Stephen Ross declined to comment through a team spokesperson.)
Malcolm Jenkins @MalcolmJenkins
In our own words. This is not about protest. This is about reform. #PlayersCoalition https://t.co/c8jLkqPD7T
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For a few weeks after Trump's comments, it seemed like the players had some leverage. A group of about 40 players led by Malcolm Jenkins and Anquan Boldin dedicated to promoting grassroots organizing and criminal justice reform had announced an initiative called the Players Coalition. The owners and the league were coming to them to ask, in Thomas's words, "What's it gonna take for y'all to stand up?" At least according to Stills and Thomas-both initially part of the coalition-their primary request was ignored. "The one thing that I always thought would really help the movement was if the owners publicly said that they're for equality and police accountability-that they are against racism," Stills tells B/R Mag. "I'm curious how many people at the ownership level are having those conversations-with each other, with their friends. When the people at the top decide to do that, then we're going to be able to create the change we're actually looking for." "Forget monetary contributions," Thomas adds. "We want a statement from y'all that is real, that y'all support the players and the causes they're fighting for: accountability for police brutality and social injustices. That would be just as impactful as us protesting, but they refuse to do it."
When you ask Eli Harold if he had ever imagined becoming an activist, the 49ers linebacker's answer is simple: "No way!"

"No one thinks about this kind of stuff growing up," he says, relishing a win over the Jaguars at his locker. "We only care about the glamorous things in life, not necessarily putting yourself in a very compromised position. I could never have seen myself doing this, but I don't regret it, not one bit. I love it."

Harold's parents, though, must have had an inkling that he'd find his political voice: The Virginia Beach native's full name is Medgar Elisha Harold, after civil-rights icon Medgar Evers. At 22, after two weeks raising his fist in solidarity with Kaepernick and Reid, he began kneeling alongside them.

"I just wanted, first and foremost, [to] be a voice for the voiceless-the people who no one listens to," Harold says now. "I wanted to help raise awareness about police brutality with Colin and Eric. I knew I'd get a lot of backlash for it, but I didn't care."

"I just wanted [to] be a voice for the voiceless. I knew I'd get a lot of backlash for it, but I didn't care."
-ELI HAROLD, 49ers linebacker

This summer, Harold and fellow Virginia native Kam Chancellor will once again host VA's UpNext Camp, where they've invited police out to talk to kids for the past two years. But right now, he's looking for the source of blood that's stained the shirt he just put on after a victory over the Jaguars. Turns out it was a gruesome-looking gash on his leg that had somehow gone unnoticed.

Of his kneeling, at 28 weeks and counting, Harold says: "It's made me believe more that everyone in the world should have an equal opportunity to openly protest, say whatever they want to say when they say it."
There is snow on the ground outside MetLife Stadium. But Brian, 38, has layered himself in such a way that his T-shirt-I STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, it reads-remains visible. "I'm a veteran and I believe in standing for the flag, so I thought this would be a good thing to sport," he says. Brian doesn't plan on boycotting the NFL-"I gotta watch football"-but this shirt, in Giants colors and fonts, is Brian's way of preventing a tacit endorsement of the protest. Inside the stadium, before the Giants take on the Cowboys in early December, there are various pregame entertainments: t-shirt cannons, a drum line, and what sounds like a machine gun on the loud speakers dissolving into Kendrick Lamar's "DNA" ("I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA") as the players jog to the sideline. The string trio Time for Three performs "The Star Spangled Banner." Barely visible beyond the giant flag is one man, kneeling silently, marked only by the photographers clustered to capture his dissent.
Olivier Vernon is the lone NFL player to spend the season protesting during the national anthem without any teammates alongside him. The Giants defensive end began kneeling with teammates Landon Collins and Damon Harrison following Trump's comments in September, but only he continued to do so-despite being tweeted at by the president for kneeling on Thanksgiving Day. Giants owner John Mara has spoken publicly about how he's tried to persuade Vernon to stand.

As the 27-year-old son of a Miami police officer spent his first season outside of South Florida, he's mostly chosen to remain quiet about his protest. (Vernon did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Even on social media, he sticks to fundraising for charity and posting pictures of his dog .

"People talk about not respecting police, you don't respect the military," Vernon 's Bob Glauber in November. "My father agrees with me. I have friends that are in the military that agree with me. The people that get the biggest voice are the people that disagree with [the protests]. The people that do agree with it have no voice at all, which I don't understand."

The line that got the most attention, of course, was a succinct summary of the situation Vernon gave to the New York Post's Paul Schwartz: "If they don't like it, don't come to the game.''
Shortly after Thanksgiving, the NFL season's biggest controversy seemed to reach a tipping point: After negotiating with the Players Coalition that had gained so much leverage around Trump's comments, the league had agreed to donate $89 million dollars over seven years to various league-endorsed social justice causes. But the millions exposed a growing divide among the many players trying to work with the league for meaningful change: those who saw an end to the protest, and those who didn't. "When I started protesting, it was never to get money from the NFL," says Reid. "I applaud the NFL for wanting to be involved in our communities, but honestly it's not enough. It's not a transaction for me-that doesn't come at the end of my protest."
"When I started protesting, it was never to get money from the NFL."
-ERIC REID, 49ers safety
Then came word that many of the protesting players had not been part of the negotiations, that Kaepernick had been effectively kicked out of the coalition and that the agreement had been made with a tacit understanding that protests would stop. Since the donations were announced, Jenkins-who helped start the coalition and has worked independently for criminal justice reform-has stopped raising his fist during the anthem. "It didn't make a difference to me how people were protesting, but the guys that were kneeling generally felt like they were sacrificing a little bit more than the guys that were putting a fist up," Stills says now. "The guys that were sitting...I think that's even a little more bold in some ways." He adds, explaining his frustration with the coalition's negotiations: "If the league's trying to get us to stop kneeling, why would they be working with the guy who's putting his fist up?" Boldin, who recently quit football to focus on social-justice reform, pushed back in call with reporters in December: "For people to say that guys sold out because the NFL has given us a larger platform to amplify our voice is insane." Nonetheless, the last men kneeling feel they've lost whatever leverage they had with the NFL's donation. Now they say they're convinced that over the offseason, the NFL will make continuing their protest impossible. Owners have reportedly discussed options, including a rule requiring players to stand-or else moving them back to the locker room during "The Star-Spangled Banner" entirely. "We missed a huge opportunity," says Thomas. "All isn't lost, but I'm not surprised. And to me, it's obvious what's going to happen."
At 32, Seahawks tackle Duane Brown is staring down the twilight of his NFL career rather than trying to make the most of his prime. He has spent most of his 10-year career advocating for diabetes research-both his mother and grandmother have the disease-but in the summer of 2016 he decided to publish an op-ed in tandem with Reid for Sports Illustrated, explaining why the Black Lives Matter movement was important to him. "All of our lives should matter," he wrote, "but right now that is not the case for the black ones, and we should all feel compelled to change that."

Brown also spent the first nine-and-a-half years of his career working for Houston Texans owner Bob McNair.

When a by ESPN The Magazine's Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. from an NFL owners meeting quoted McNair as saying "we can't have the inmates running the prison," almost the entire Texans team-including Brown-took a knee during the anthem. ("I can't say I'm surprised," of the owner's comments at the time.)

When he was traded to Seattle days later, Brown continued taking a knee during the anthem, as much of the Seahawks defense-led by Michael Bennett-sat on the bench, as they had been almost all season.
Koran has had season tickets to the Jets since they moved into MetLife Stadium eight seasons ago. On this September Sunday, he has just watched Stills, Thomas, Julius Thomas, Laremy Tunsil and Maurice Smith kneel during the anthem in response to Trump's saying protesting players should be fired. The 37-year-old, at the game with his wife and kids, is wearing a T-shirt with one of the most popular names in NFL merch on it: ALI & BROWN & ROBINSON & SMITH & CARLOS & KAEPERNICK. "It's this battle, but it has to be in the faces of those that are going to games-seeing the Dolphins players take a knee was amazing," he says. "Any black and brown person can tell you when it comes to the police, it's 50/50. I've been stopped three times in the past two years: twice in a car and once on a bike. I've been let off with nothing, but that fear that I had, when those lights come on...it's different. For Kap to stand up for us like that is a beautiful thing." The players who are kneeling down, meanwhile, are forced to reckon with the obvious as they try to move forward: Kap is still unemployed. "Some of the guys were willing to move on with this agreement with the league without Colin's situation being addressed," says Stills. "The reason why I ended up breaking away from it was because I couldn't understand how we could accept money from the NFL when they weren't allowing Colin to play." The methods might need to evolve, but the movement remains: The players who refused to stand up-and likely a few others such as the Chargers' Russell Okung, who has also separated himself from the Players Coalition-plan to discuss next steps now that their offseason has arrived. The last men kneeling are busy coordinating schedules to meet together this month in New Orleans, where Kaepernick will hold his latest Know Your Rights camp, a free social-justice event for young people. "That will probably be the first time we meet up, which is huge," Michael Thomas tells B/R Mag. "Right now, we're doing it through group texts and stuff, but there's nothing like everybody sitting down face to face-we haven't been around each other like that outside of football." The kneelers are all planning to continue their individual charitable efforts, but they're looking for matching donations from businesses, for more on-the-ground organizations, for advice from activists who have been down this road before. "When people say the protest has lost its meaning because of Trump or because we couldn't all work together with the league, I don't buy it," Thomas continues. "We just gotta find another way."
"I tried to avoid kneeling, just because a lot of people who didn't understand felt like it was disrespecting the country," says 49ers wide receiver Marquise Goodwin, who began protesting alongside his teammates after Trump's comments in September. "But that wasn't the case, and it's still not the case."

Goodwin, a Texas native, went to UT as a " football player on a track scholarship " (as he explained to the Austin American-Statesman at the time) and came out a third-round draft pick. His awakening as an activist, though, came in the midst of a season that can only be described as tragic: His wife, Morgan, had pregnancy complications that led to a premature birth and the death of their infant son just hours before he was due on the field, and his biological father died weeks later. (Goodwin alludes to an event over the offseason, which he is not publicly disclosing, that also changed his perspective on the protests.)

"What we went though gave me a different view on how I should feel," he tells B/R Mag. "Eventually, I always knew I would take a knee, but when my wife was pregnant I had to start making decisions not only for me, but for her and our future kid. Obviously, we lost our kid, but moving forward I have to fight for my legacy and my future family. I gotta do what's right."
On Christmas Eve at the 49ers game, one potential franchise quarterback's name was on everyone's lips: Jimmy Garoppolo, who would throw for two touchdowns against the best defense in the league, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Santa hat-clad fans lined up to buy Garoppolo jerseys, and there was a palpable sense of relief at not having to talk about the franchise quarterback whom San Francisco not-so-quietly let walk away. Even in the Bay, wearing a Kaepernick jersey isn't a sure thing. James, a 16-year-old Niners fan in line for french fries with his parents, was one of a small number of fans wearing No. 7 to Levi's Stadium. "People just don't like it-they'll give negative looks," he says of his jersey, which he bought after Kaepernick started taking a knee. "I think that he was showing respect to the flag. They're protesting for something that's right."
A week earlier, Niners wide receiver Louis Murphy had become the latest player to take a knee for the first time-and refuse to stand back up. When asked in the locker room at Levi's Stadium why he'd decided to start protesting the national anthem so late in the season, the 30-year-old's response was justifiable incredulity, his answer having become, over the course of two seasons before it, so increasingly obvious: "You really don't know? Really?!"
Natalie Weiner is a staff writer for Bleacher Report and B/R Mag. Follow her on Twitter: @natalieweiner

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There were the cheerleaders, the novelty checks and the photo-ops, the boos for the visiting team and the pyrotechnically-enhanced entrance of the home team, strutting and preening for the cameras to the sounds of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead": "Middle America packed in / Came to see me in my black skin."

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2 sisters that were abducted in Texas, found safe in colorado.-suspect kidnapper caught.

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

Terry Allen Miles, 44, had been sought in connection with the abduction of Lilianasi "Lily" Victoria Cake Griffith, 14, and Luluvioletta "Lulu" Mariposo Bandera-Magret, 7, as well as the death of their mother Tonya Bates, 44, police said. Bates was found Sunday at the home she shared with Miles in Round Rock.

"CAUGHT!!!," Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks tweeted. "Terry Allen Miles was caught in Colorado without incident. The girls are SAFE!!! Thank God!!"

Miles was thought to have been traveling to Louisiana, the Dallas Morning-News reported. However, police said Miles was seen on surveillance footage on Dec. 30 at a business in Trinidad, Colo.

Las Animas County Sheriff's officials received a tip at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday that Miles and the girls were in the area and authorities went to search for him, the Morning-News reported. Police found Miles' vehicle and pulled up behind him, according to the paper.

Banks said Miles' vehicle started to drive erratically and a law enforcement official waited for backup before engaging the car.

Miles was taken into custody and the girls were taken to a hospital. Child Protective Services in Texas and Colorado will work together to get the girls connected with family, Banks said.

"Our whole goal and hope was that we got those girls safe," Banks said. "We have a lot of questions to ask him. A lot of questions to ask them. And that will be done here in the next couple of days. "
Fox News' Madeline Farber and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Texas Amber Alert girls found safe in Colorado; suspected kidnapper caught

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

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Apple is backing up AirPods with American jobs

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Apple is pouring $390 million into an American company that helps power AirPods and FaceID -- an investment that will create 500 jobs in Texas.

The money will come from a $1 billion fund that Apple established earlier this year to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Apple says the cash will help Finisar, a chip maker, restart a 700,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, by the second half of next year. The new plant will create 500 "high-skill" jobs.

Finisar produces "vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers" (VCSELs), which power some Apple's newest features, including Face ID, Animoji, Portrait mode selfies and AirPods.

The investment will go toward rebooting a previously closed 700,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas. The new plant, which will create 500 jobs, is expected to open in the second half of next year.

"VCSELs power some of the most sophisticated technology we've ever developed and we're thrilled to partner with Finisar over the next several years to push the boundaries of VCSEL technology and the applications they enable," Apple COO Jeff Williams said in a statement.

AirPods are wireless earbuds introduced in 2016 as an untethered way to listen to music, take phone calls and use the Siri voice assistant. Its arrival caused backlash for being easy to lose, but experts said it could be the future of headphones.

Meanwhile, Face ID -- which debuted on the iPhone X this year -- is touted as a more secure way of unlocking your phone. Considered difficult to hack than other systems, other smartphone companies could take Apple's lead and launch similar features in the future.

Related: Tim Cook: Apple creating $1B fund to bring manufacturing jobs to the U.S.

Finisar is the second company to receive an investment from Apple's U.S. manufacturing fund. In May, Apple pledged $200 million to glass manufacturer Corning. The companymakes Gorilla Glass displays for smartphones and tablets, including for Apple products.

At the time, CEO Tim Cook teased Apple could add more money to the fund, calling the $1 billion an "initial" donation.

President Trump has been pushing Apple to move its manufacturing efforts from China to the U.S. On the campaign trial, Trump said: "We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries."

In July, Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook has "promised" to build "three big plants, beautiful plants" in the U.S.

It's unclear where those facilities would be located or how many workers would be employed.

"If we can create many manufacturing jobs, those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a service industry that builds up around them," Cook said of the fund on CNBC earlier this year.

The tech giant already relies on some domestic manufacturing. For example, the Mac Pro is assembled in Austin, Texas, and so are its Samsung processors. Other iPhone parts, such as cell and Wi-Fi radios, as well as its Corning displays, are made in the U.S.

Apple isn't the only tech company adding more jobs to the U.S.

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has pledged to invest $10 billion to build a factory that makes LCD screens in Wisconsin. The facility is expected to create between 3,000 and 13,000 new jobs and should be open by 2020.

CNNMoney (New York) First published December 13, 2017: 11:27 AM ET

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The money will come from a $1 billion fund that Apple established earlier this year to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs. Apple says the cash will help Finisar, a chip maker, restart a 700,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, by the second half of next year. The new plant will create 500 "high-skill" jobs.

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2 Texas girls found safe after being kidnapped but their mother was found dead at their home

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

Terry Allen Miles, 44, had been sought in connection with the abduction of Lilianasi "Lily" Victoria Cake Griffith, 14, and Luluvioletta "Lulu" Mariposo Bandera-Magret, 7, as well as the death of their mother Tonya Bates, 44, police said. Bates was found Sunday at the home she shared with Miles in Round Rock.

"CAUGHT!!!," Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks tweeted. "Terry Allen Miles was caught in Colorado without incident. The girls are SAFE!!! Thank God!!"

Miles was thought to have been traveling to Louisiana, the Dallas Morning-News reported. However, police said Miles was seen on surveillance footage on Dec. 30 at a business in Trinidad, Colo.

Las Animas County Sheriff's officials received a tip at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday that Miles and the girls were in the area and authorities went to search for him, the Morning-News reported. Police found Miles' vehicle and pulled up behind him, according to the paper.

Banks said Miles' vehicle started to drive erratically and a law enforcement official waited for backup before engaging the car.

Miles was taken into custody and the girls were taken to a hospital. Child Protective Services in Texas and Colorado will work together to get the girls connected with family, Banks said.

"Our whole goal and hope was that we got those girls safe," Banks said. "We have a lot of questions to ask him. A lot of questions to ask them. And that will be done here in the next couple of days. "
Fox News' Madeline Farber and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Texas Amber Alert girls found safe in Colorado; suspected kidnapper caught

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A man accused of abducting two young Texas sisters after their mother was found dead in their home was taken into custody in Colorado on Wednesday and the children are safe, authorities said.

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Trump threatens to sue Bannon over Wolff book

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Charles Harder, representing both the President and the Trump campaign, said in a statement released Wednesday night that Bannon's contributions to a new book by Michael Wolff "give rise to numerous legal claims including defamation by libel and slander, and breach of his written confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with our clients."

In the book, of which details were published Wednesday, Bannon called a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., top Trump campaign associates and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."

"Legal action is imminent," the statement from Harder says.

Bannon did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment Thursday morning.

Trump harshly responded to Bannon's comments Wednesday, saying his former top adviser has "lost his mind."

"Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country," Trump said.

Bannon hasn't pushed back against Trump's statement. Speaking on Breitbart radio Thursday morning, he said he still supports Trump's agenda, and on Wednesday, he called the President "a great man."

Throughout his life as a public figure, Trump has often threatened legal action over media coverage he sees as unfavorable. He threatened to sue The New York Times in 2016 after it published the accounts of two women who claimed Trump touched them inappropriately, but his lawyers never filed a lawsuit.

CNN's Oliver Darcy, Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter contributed to this report.

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Charles Harder, representing both the President and the Trump campaign, said in a statement released Wednesday night that Bannon's contributions to a new book by Michael Wolff "give rise to numerous legal claims including defamation by libel and slander, and breach of his written confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with our clients."