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The government shutdown is  taking paychecks from 800,000 government employees.  The irs is suing the government, many employees are refusing to come into work, and trickle down effects are expected to begin showing.

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the working class is losing under trump (opinion) - cnn

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With 800,000 federal workers expected to miss their paychecks on Friday due to the ongoing government shutdown that Trump has warned could last months or even years, it's clear that the President is not thinking about these working-class Americans in his decision-making process, writes C. Nicole Mason.

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Vice President Pence vowed on Thursday that President Trump would not back any deal to reopen the government without money for his border wall, a sign the government shutdown will likely head into its fourth week this weekend.

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Vice President Pence vowed Thursday that President Trump Donald John Trump Government workers protest outside White House on shutdown day 20 Fed chief Powell: Prolonged shutdown will harm US economy Senators say questions remain on Trump strategy in Syria after briefing MORE would not back any deal to reopen the government without money for his proposed border wall, a sign the government shutdown will likely be headed into its fourth week this weekend.

"Walls work. ... It's not a debatable point," Pence said during a 45-minute press briefing in the Capitol with two dozen reporters. "No wall, no deal. Because walls work."

The vice president, flanked by White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway The Hill's Morning Report - Groundhog Day: Negotiations implode as shutdown reaches 20 days Dem strategist says party's leaders struggle to relate to Americans Conway preemptively chides 'phony-baloney' polls showing Trump speech didn't boost support for wall MORE and acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought, also said that Trump believes he has an "absolute right" to declare a national emergency at the border - a move that would allow him to shift military construction money from the Pentagon to help pay for Trump's border wall without congressional approval.

But Pence clarified that the president has made "no decision" about whether he will pursue that route, and he called on Congress to approve the $5.7 billion in funding that Trump wants for his wall or steel barrier on the southern border.

"Our conviction is that Congress should do its job," Pence added.

Thursday's briefing with reporters was part of a full-court press by the Trump administration as it makes its case for the the wall. It came on the same day as Trump's visit to the border town of McAllen, Texas, where he will participate in a roundtable discussion on border security and immigration and later receive a security briefing.

Before he left for Texas, Trump said it would be "surprising" if he did not declare a national emergency on the border if negotiations with Democrats falter.

"If this doesn't work out, probably I will do it. I would almost say definitely," Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One.

Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin Graham Key Democrat says Graham's border-wall framework falls short The Hill's Morning Report - Groundhog Day: Negotiations implode as shutdown reaches 20 days Blumenthal: DOJ denying Dems meetings with AG nominee Barr, citing shutdown MORE (R-S.C.), a Trump ally, has been pushing for a bipartisan deal to end the shutdown that would secure funding for Trump's wall in exchange for protections for hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants who had enrolled in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Asked about a potential "DACA-for-wall" deal, Pence said Trump has made it clear he wants to see how the Supreme Court rules on DACA before taking any action.

"We feel confident the Supreme Court will find DACA to have been unconstitutional," Pence said. "At that time, he believes there will be an opportunity for us not only address the issue affecting the Dreamers, but also a range of immigration issues."

Pence's briefing with reporters in the Capitol was rare for a vice president. But he reminded the press that he regularly held weekly briefings, known as "pen and pads," when he served in Congress as House GOP Conference chairman.

On Thursday, the former Indiana congressman continued to cast blame on the Democratic leaders, whom he accused of intransigence as the shutdown entered its 20th day.
Mike Lillis contributed. Updated: 3:33 p.m.

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Pence on shutdown fight: 'No wall, no deal'

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Vice President Pence vowed Thursday that President Trump Donald John Trump Government workers protest outside White House on shutdown day 20 Fed chief Powell: Prolonged shutdown will harm US economy Senators say questions remain on Trump strategy in Syria after briefing MORE would not back any deal to reopen the government without money for his proposed border wall, a sign the government shutdown will likely be headed into its fourth week this weekend.

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Fired weatherman accused of using racial slur says he didn't even know what he said.

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Meteorologist Jeremy Kappell says he could tell he was fumbling his words on air last week, but like any TV journalist, he said he had to keep going.

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Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who had been missing since October, was found Thursday malnourished and dirty after she reportedly fled her captor and flagged down a dog walker in the small forested town of Gordon, Wis. Jayme's parents were fatally shot in their house they day she was taken.

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Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who had been missing since October, was found Thursday malnourished and dirty after she reportedly fled her captor and flagged down a dog walker in the small forested town of Gordon, Wis.

A suspect was arrested just minutes later. But authorities disclosed no further information about the person arrested.

There is little known about Closs' physical condition, but her grandfather told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that she was being treated at a hospital and was expected to soon be reunited with relatives.

Closs vanished Oct. 15 after her parents were fatally shot in their home in Barron County, which is about 80 miles northeast of Minneapolis and 65 miles from where she was found. Closs was inside the home where her parents were shot but vanished, prompting a statewide search that included the FBI.

On Thursday the girl, who appeared skinny and dirty, with matted-down hair, reportedly approached a woman who was out walking her dog. The woman knocked on the door of a nearby house and told the couple inside: "This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!"

Peter Kasinskas, who answered the door, told the Star Tribune that Closs showed little emotion and told him that she didn't know where she was. The woman who sought help told the paper that Closs walked up to her and said she "wanted help."

Closs was reportedly inside Kasinkas' home for 20 minutes and refused food and water. She also said that she believes that she was in the area the entire time she was missing.
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Fox News called the Gordon Police Department early Friday and did not get an immediate response. Authorities are planning a news conference for later Friday morning. The department announced that Closs had been found in a Facebook post around 8 p.m. Thursday.

A suspect has been taken into custody and the sheriff will give a press briefing at 10 a.m. Friday.

Kelly Engelhardt, Closs' aunt, said, "I mean I'm shocked. It's what we've prayed for every single day."
Fox News' Nicole Darrah and the Associated Press contributed to this story.

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Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who had been missing since October, was found Thursday malnourished and dirty after she reportedly fled her captor and flagged down a dog walker in the small forested town of Gordon, Wis. A suspect was arrested just minutes later. But authorities disclosed no further information about the person arrested.

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At the Oakland Airport there was an Aeromexico plane that had passenger on it that had been inside waiting on the ramp away from the gate for over 4 hours when 2 passengers got up and tried to open the cabin doors and just get off the plane. The cops came and arrested them. The passengers where later released.

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Two passengers aboard an Aeromexico plane that sat on the tarmac at Oakland International Airport for four hours were arrested Thursday after desperately trying to find a way off, authorities said.

The international flight from Guadalajara, Mexico, was originally destined for San Francisco, but was diverted to Oakland due to fog, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said. As upset passengers waited hours without food, water or air conditioning to deplane, an "unruly" man threatened to open the aircraft doors to escape, the East BaysiteTimes reported.
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"Babies were crying, people were passing out," passenger Arnie Zavala told the paper.
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A second "upset" male passenger was arrested after police boarded the plane, and both men were taken into federal custody, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The men were later released after speaking with authorities.

Police said at least one passenger on the plane had difficulty breathing and was treated after requesting medical assistance. Other passengers placed calls for help to 911, passenger rights activists and the local media, the East Bay Times reported.

The airline could have allowed the passengers off, but for some reason decided not to, police told the Chronicle.
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Aeromexico released a statement saying it didn't have operations set up at the Oakland airport and had to request special authorization from authorities to disembark passengers.

When passengers were finally allowed to leave the plane, they were given the options of either flying out of Oakland to San Francisco or taking alternative transportation provided by Aeromexico - but some still expressed dissatisfaction.

When the East Bay Times asked passenger Ivan Garcia if he'd fly Aeromexico again, his reply was simple: "Hell no!"

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Aeromexico flight stranded on tarmac 4 hours; two 'upset' passengers arrested, police say

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Two passengers aboard an Aeromexico plane that sat on the tarmac at Oakland International Airport for four hours were arrested Thursday after desperately trying to find a way off, authorities said. The international flight from Guadalajara, Mexico, was originally destined for San Francisco, but was diverted to Oakland due to fog, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said.

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China is detaining muslims and putting in concentration "Camps". They are showing on television to the country that the muslims are earning good pay but the truth is they are forcing labor out of them and putting them in enclosed camps where they cannot leave.

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Chinese state television showed Muslims attending classes on how to be law-abiding citizens. Evidence is emerging that detainees are also being forced to take jobs in new factories.

KASHGAR, China - Muslim inmates from internment camps in far western China hunched over sewing machines, in row after row. They were among hundreds of thousands who had been detained and spent month after month renouncing their religious convictions. Now the government was showing them on television as models of repentance, earning good pay - and political salvation - as factory workers.

China's ruling Communist Party has said in a surge of upbeat propaganda that a sprawling network of camps in the Xinjiang region is providing job training and putting detainees on production lines for their own good, offering an escape from poverty, backwardness and the temptations of radical Islam.

But mounting evidence suggests a system of forced labor is emerging from the camps, a development likely to intensify international condemnation of China's drastic efforts to control and indoctrinate a Muslim ethnic minority population of more than 12 million in Xinjiang.

Accounts from the region, satellite images and previously unreported official documents indicate that growing numbers of detainees are being sent to new factories, built inside or near the camps, where inmates have little choice but to accept jobs and follow orders.

"These people who are detained provide free or low-cost forced labor for these factories," said Mehmet Volkan Kasikci, a researcher in Turkey who has collected accounts of inmates in the factories by interviewing relatives who have left China. "Stories continue to come to me," he said.

China has defied an international outcry against the vast internment program in Xinjiang, which holds Muslims and forces them to renounce religious piety and pledge loyalty to the party. The emerging labor program underlines the government's determination to continue operating the camps despite calls from United Nations human rights officials, the United States and other governments to close them.

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A satellite image taken in September shows an internment camp in Xinjiang. The buildings in the upper left corner appear to be of a design commonly used by factories. Credit Terraserver/Digital Globe

The program aims to transform scattered Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities - many of them farmers, shopkeepers and tradespeople - into a disciplined, Chinese-speaking industrial work force, loyal to the Communist Party and factory bosses, according to official plans published online.

These documents describe the camps as vocational training centers and do not specify whether inmates are required to accept assignments to factories or other jobs. But pervasive restrictions on the movement and employment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, as well as a government effort to persuade businesses to open factories around the camps, suggest that they have little choice.

Independent accounts from inmates who have worked in the factories are rare. The police block attempts to get near the camps and closely monitor foreign journalists who travel to Xinjiang, making it all but impossible to conduct interviews in the region. And most Uighurs who have fled Xinjiang did so before the factory program grew in recent months.

But Serikzhan Bilash, a founder of Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, an organization in Kazakhstan that helps ethnic Kazakhs who have left neighboring Xinjiang, said he had interviewed relatives of 10 inmates who had told their families that they were made to work in factories after undergoing indoctrination in the camps.

They mostly made clothes, and they called their employers "black factories," because of the low wages and tough conditions, he said.

Mr. Kasikci also described several cases based on interviews with family members: Sofiya Tolybaiqyzy, who was sent from a camp to work in a carpet factory. Abil Amantai, 37, who was put in a camp a year ago and told relatives he was working in a textile factory for $95 a month. Nural Razila, 25, who had studied oil drilling but after a year in a camp was sent to a new textile factory nearby.

"It's not as though they have a choice of whether they get to work in a factory, or what factory they are assigned to," said Darren Byler, a lecturer at the University of Washington who studies Xinjiang and visited the region in April.

Uighur men at a tea house in Kashgar, an area in southern Xinjiang that is a focus of the expanding labor program. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

He said it was safe to conclude that hundreds of thousands of detainees could be compelled to work in factories if the program were put in place at all of the region's internment camps.

The Xinjiang government did not respond to faxed questions about the factories, nor did the State Council Information Office, the central government agency that answers reporters' questions.

The documents detail plans for inmates, even those formally released from the camps, to take jobs at factories that work closely with the camps to continue to monitor and control them. The socks, suits, skirts and other goods made by these laborers would be sold in Chinese stores and could trickle into overseas markets.

Kashgar, an ancient, predominantly Uighur area of southern Xinjiang that is a focus of the program, reported that in 2018 alone it aimed to send 100,000 inmates who had been through the "vocational training centers" to work in factories, according to a plan issued in August.

That figure may be an ambitious political goal rather than a realistic target. But it suggests how many Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities may be held in the camps and sent to factories. Scholars have estimated that as many as one million people have been detained. The Chinese government has not issued or confirmed any figures.

"I don't see China yielding an inch on Xinjiang," said John Kamm, the founder of the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that lobbies China on human rights issues. "Now it seems we have entrepreneurs coming in and taking advantage of the situation."

The evolution of the Xinjiang camps echoes China's " re-education through labor " system, where citizens once were sent without trial to toil for years. China abolished "re-education through labor" five years ago, but Xinjiang appears to be creating a new version.

Retailers in the United States and other countries should guard against buying goods made by workers from the Xinjiang camps, which could violate laws banning imports produced by prison or forced labor, Mr. Kamm said.

While the bulk of clothes and other textile goods manufactured in Xinjiang ends up in domestic and Central Asian markets, some makes its way to the United States and Europe.

Badger Sportswear, a company based in North Carolina, last month received a container of polyester knitted T-shirts from Hetian Taida, a company in Xinjiang that was shown on a prime-time state television broadcast promoting the camps.

The program showed workers at a Hetian Taida plant, including a woman who was described as a former camp inmate. But the small factory did not appear to be on a camp site, and it is unclear whether it made the T-shirts sent to North Carolina.

Ginny Gasswint, a Badger Sportswear executive, said the company had ordered a small amount of products from Xinjiang, and used Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production, a nonprofit certification organization, to ensure that its suppliers meet standards.

Seth Lennon, a spokesman for Worldwide, said that Hetian Taida had only recently enrolled in its program, and the organization had no information on possible coerced labor in Xinjiang. "We will certainly look into this," he said.

Repeated calls over several days to Wu Hongbo, the chairman of Hetian Taida, went unanswered.

Satellite imagery suggests that production lines are being built inside some internment camps.

A state television broadcast promoting the internment camps showed textile workers at a company named Hetian Taida. The company shipped T-shirts to North Carolina last month.

Images of one camp featured in the state television broadcast, for example, show 10 to 12 large buildings with a single-story, one-room design commonly used for factories, said Nathan Ruser, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The buildings are surrounded by fencing and security towers, indicating that they are heavily guarded like the rest of the camp.

"It seems unlikely that any detainee would be able to go to any building that they were not taken to," Mr. Ruser said.

Commercial registration records also show at least a few companies have been established this year at addresses inside internment camps. They include a printing factory, a noodle factory and at least two clothing and textile manufacturers at camps in rural areas around Kashgar. Another clothing and bedding manufacturer is registered in a camp in Aksu in northwestern Xinjiang.

The government's effort to connect the internment camps with factories emerged this year as the number of detainees climbed and Xinjiang faced rising costs to build and run the camps.

Many camps were once called "transformation through education centers" by the government, reflecting their mission: inducing inmates to cast aside Islamic devotion and accept Communist Party supremacy.

But since August, the Chinese government has defended the camps by arguing that they are job training centers that will help lift detainees and their families out of poverty by giving them the skills to join China's economic mainstream. Many rural Uighurs speak little Chinese, and language training has been advertised as one of the main purposes of the camps.

Yet the practical training in the camps often appears to be rudimentary, said Adrian Zenz, a social scientist at the European School of Culture and Theology who has studied the campaign.

The old city of Kashgar, where officials set a goal of sending 100,000 camp inmates to work in factories this year. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

An early hint of the factory labor program came in March when Sun Ruizhe, the president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, described it to senior industry representatives, according to a transcript of his speech that was posted on industry websites.

Mr. Sun said that Xinjiang planned to recruit from three main sources to increase the textile and garment sector's work force by more than 100,000 in 2018: impoverished households, struggling relatives of prisoners and detainees, and the camp inmates, whose training "could be combined with developing the textile and apparel section."

In April, the Xinjiang government began rolling out a plan to attract textile and garment companies. Local governments would receive funds to build production sites for them near the camps; companies would receive a subsidy of $260 to train each inmate they took on, as well other incentives.

In remarks in October defending the camps, a top official in Xinjiang, Shohrat Zakir, said the government was busy preparing "job assignments" for inmates formally finishing indoctrination and training. A budget document this year from Yarkant, a county in Kashgar, said the camps were responsible for "employment services."

The inmates assigned to factories may have to stay for years.

Mr. Byler said a relative of a Uighur friend was sent to an indoctrination camp in March and formally released this fall. But he was then told he had to work for up to three years in a clothing factory.

A government official, Mr. Byler said, suggested to his friend's family that if the relative worked hard, his time in the factory might be reduced.

The Chinese state media has praised the centers as leading wayward people toward modern civilization. It also reports that the workers are generously paid.

"The training will turn them from 'nomads' into skilled marvels," the official Xinjiang Daily said last month. "Education and training will make them into 'modern people,' useful to society."

Follow Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy on Twitter: @ChuBailiang and @austinramzy.
Chris Buckley reported from Kashgar, China, and Austin Ramzy from Hong Kong.

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China's Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor

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KASHGAR, China - Muslim inmates from internment camps in far western China hunched over sewing machines, in row after row. They were among hundreds of thousands who had been detained and spent month after month renouncing their religious convictions.

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Last month a bus driver from Milwaukee stopped to help her baby that was walking barefoot and alone on the side of a freeway overpass. The baby was wearing a onesie in below freezing weather.

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A Milwaukee bus driver on Thursday was acknowledged for her swift-thinking when she spotted a baby last month wondering barefoot and alone on the side of a freeway overpass.

Irena Ivic, the bus driver, saw that baby at around 8 a.m. on Dec. 22. The baby was wearing onsie and a diaper in below-freezing weather. The video was captured by as seen in a Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS).

Ivic stopped her bus and ran toward the child, according to the MCTS. She brought the baby into the bus and another passenger lent her a jacket.
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"Oh my God, I'm shaking," Ivic is seen in the video telling passengers, as she held the baby in her arms.

Authorities arrived on the bus and were later able to reunite the baby with her father, Hasan Ali Abdul Kasim, Fox 6 Milwaukee reported. Kasim told the station he believes his wife, who he said has a mental illness, took the baby to the church across the freeway and forgot about him.

No charges were filed in the case.

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Quick-thinking Milwaukee bus driver credited for saving wandering baby

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A Milwaukee bus driver on Thursday was acknowledged for her swift-thinking when she spotted a baby last month wondering barefoot and alone on the side of a freeway overpass. Irena Ivic, the bus driver, saw that baby at around 8 a.m. on Dec. 22. The baby was wearing onsie and a diaper in below-freezing weather.

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McDonald's has finally done it, they have launched Cheesy bacon fries Nationwide. One serving will have a whole 880 calories. Is McDonald's trying to end America? Or is this the beginning of something beautiful? oh and they are adding bacon to the big mac for the rest of January.

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McDonald's launches Cheesy Bacon Fries nationwide

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You have to wait until the end of the month to get them, though.

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The frantic search forJayme ended 87 days after she vanished on October 15, the same night police found her parents dead in their home near Barron, Wisconsin. She was located Thursday in the Wisconsin town of Gordon about 70 miles north of where she was last seen.

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Kristin Kasinskas was at home Thursday evening when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, her neighbor was standing with Jayme Closs.

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A bus driver in Milwaukee was acknowledged for stopping to help a baby that was walking barefoot alone on a freeway overpass. The baby had on only a onsie and diaper in below freezing temperatures. Its believed that the child's mother who is mentally ill left the baby at church.

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A Milwaukee bus driver on Thursday was acknowledged for her swift-thinking when she spotted a baby last month wondering barefoot and alone on the side of a freeway overpass.

Irena Ivic, the bus driver, saw that baby at around 8 a.m. on Dec. 22. The baby was wearing onsie and a diaper in below-freezing weather. The video was captured by as seen in a Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS).

Ivic stopped her bus and ran toward the child, according to the MCTS. She brought the baby into the bus and another passenger lent her a jacket.
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"Oh my God, I'm shaking," Ivic is seen in the video telling passengers, as she held the baby in her arms.

Authorities arrived on the bus and were later able to reunite the baby with her father, Hasan Ali Abdul Kasim, Fox 6 Milwaukee reported. Kasim told the station he believes his wife, who he said has a mental illness, took the baby to the church across the freeway and forgot about him.

No charges were filed in the case.

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A Milwaukee bus driver on Thursday was acknowledged for her swift-thinking when she spotted a baby last month wondering barefoot and alone on the side of a freeway overpass. Irena Ivic, the bus driver, saw that baby at around 8 a.m. on Dec. 22. The baby was wearing onsie and a diaper in below-freezing weather.

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Missing Wisconsin girl, Jayme Closs turns up months after her disappearance and her parents' murders. She approached a dog walker for help, and the dog walker took her straight to the nearest home and called the police. The suspect has been arrested.

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Kristin Kasinskas was at home Thursday evening when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, her neighbor was standing with Jayme Closs.

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While the fast food chain is known for its chicken, the top selling menu item isn't chicken at all. In fact, it's their waffle fries. It is quoted as the perfect side and the tastiest way to eat a tater. Though the fries took first place, rest assured, chicken did fall on Chick-fil-A’s bestselling items of 2018, accounting for five of the top ten items.

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Can you guess what it is?

America's favorite fast food chain has revealed its most popular item of the past year - and it's not the Chicken Biscuit, which clocked in at number nine of the top 10 bestselling items.

Actually, it's not chicken, at all.

Despite the chain's cow mascots asking people to "Eat mor chikin," it seems the restaurant's most popular menu item are the Waffle Fries.
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"Our most popular menu item, the waffle fry is arguably the tastiest way to eat a tater. There's no doubt that the Waffle Fries seem to be the perfect side for just about anything else on the lunch and dinner menu. Cooked with canola oil and sea salt, put simply, they are pure perfection!" Chick-fil-A wrote in a press release.

Though the fries took first place, rest assured, chicken did fall on Chick-fil-A's bestselling items of 2018 - accounting for five of the top ten items.
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In a list of the most popular items of the last year, according to the company's press release, the Spicy Deluxe Sandwich came in at 10, Chicken Biscuit was 9, Chick-n-Strips were 8, Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich was 4 and Chicken Nuggets made the list as the highest chicken product at 3.

The brand's other potato item, hash browns, made the list at 7, while lemonade came in at 6, iced tea was 5 and soft drinks were the second bestselling item of 2018.
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It may seem surprising that a fast food chain known for its chicken sold more french fries than poultry - but it isn't. The brand's unique waffle fries and dipping sauces have built such a following that several people have created Instagram profiles dedicated to only pictures of the hearty fried spuds.

Chick-fil-A is projected to be the third largest fast food chain in the United States in terms of sales, behind only McDonald's and Starbucks.

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Can you guess what it is? America's favorite fast food chain has revealed its most popular item of the past year - and it's not the Chicken Biscuit, which clocked in at number nine of the top 10 bestselling items. Actually, it's not chicken, at all.

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A missing 13 year old was found yesterday. She vanished after her parents were shot dead in their home. There was a suspect taken into custody 10 minutes after she was found. There have been many search parties looking for her, and she came up to a women walking her dog and went to the nearest house to call 911.

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Missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs found alive in Wisconsin

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Jayme Closs, a 13-year-old girl who vanished after her parents were found dead in their Northwestern Wisconsin home, has been found alive, the Barron County Sheriff's Department said.

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Martha has revealed her trick to making fluffy eggs and it involves an espresso machine. More importantly however is that Rachel Hamaker, age 16, has lost faith in me and my news reporting abilities. This is truly tragic as I feel I post only the most QUALITY news material.

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Martha, girlfriend, nobody is going to use this "egg hack."

Lifestyle legend Martha Stewart posted an innovative albeit out-of-touch trick she says makes the most perfectly fluffy scrambled eggs: it involves using, you know, that extra espresso machine you have laying around.
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The badass domestic doyenne and businesswoman extraordinaire suggests using the milk frother on the appliance, which costs hundreds of dollars even for a just OK version, to essentially steam your eggs.

"The process is simple," claims the post titled "What's all the fuss about Martha's scrambled eggs?" on her official website.

"Crack the desired number of eggs into a heatproof jug or mug, season with salt and pepper, and add butter. Mix the eggs with a fork. Insert the foamer wand from the espresso machine into the heatproof jug and let the steam 'froth' (aka cook) the eggs until they are light and fluffy. The whole process takes mere minutes, there's no pan to clean, and you have a quick breakfast to eat as is, or with sausage, smoked salmon (Martha's favorite), or toast."
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It's unclear whether this would then result in egg-tasting coffee next time you use it. But when you just so happen to be the namesake of a line of household products at Macy's, it probably doesn't matter anyway.

This "hack" is a strange flex on her part. But hey, she's the expert.

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Martha Stewart shares bizarre hack for making scrambled eggs: 'The whitest thing I've ever seen'

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Martha, girlfriend, nobody is going to use this "egg hack." Lifestyle legend Martha Stewart posted an innovative albeit out-of-touch trick she says makes the most perfectly fluffy scrambled eggs: it involves using, you know, that extra espresso machine you have laying around.