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Americans got a boost to their paychecks in November. But the increase in wages remains frustratingly low given the health of the overall job market.

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Americans got a boost to their paychecks in November. But the increase in wages remains frustratingly low given the health of the overall job market.

Average hourly earnings rose 2.5% over the past 12 months. That's a slight improvement from the 2.4% increase the government reported for October. Still, it remains below the 3% increase that most economists (not to mention workers) would like to see.

People are finding jobs. That's not the problem. The economy added 228,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1% -- its lowest level since December 2000.

But for whatever reason, employers aren't showering workers with big pay raises.

Even President Trump's National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn seems puzzled by this trend. He noted in an interview with CNBC Friday morning that "we're still not growing wages in this country."

However, it seems that many Americans are still just happy to have a job and are not demanding bigger paychecks.

"Slow wage growth is the biggest conundrum here," said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist with TD Ameritrade "Small wage increases are still able to attract talent. Most of us thought this would have changed by now."

Kinahan noted that one potential factor at play is that the jobs report does not take into account other perks that workers want, things like the ability to work from home more often, free meals at the office and better insurance options.

"People are increasingly looking for other benefits, and not just wage growth," Kinahan said.

Another reason why paychecks may not be growing? Inflation is still not much of a problem.

The government said in November that consumer prices rose just 2 percent over the past 12 months. So even a meager 2.5% pay raise is more than enough to offset the relatively small cost of living increases that many Americans have faced.

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Still, Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist with job search site Glassdoor, wrote in a report Friday morning that based on inflation trends and productivity growth, wages should be rising between 3% and 4%.

There may be some hope on the horizon though.

Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com, said that if employers keep adding jobs and the unemployment rate inches lower, companies will have no choice but to finally start paying more since workers will demand higher salaries.

Hamrick wrote in a report that wage increases "are likely headed closer to 3 percent in the coming year as long as the economy continues to expand and no dramatic black swans emerge."

There are hopes that tax reform might push companies to start paying workers more too.

But there's a debate as to whether big businesses will really start to give employees raises and hire more or just use any potential savings from a lower corporate tax rate to reward investors instead with dividend increases and more stock buybacks.

Nonetheless, there should come a point where employees will demand better pay and even feel comfortable enough to leave and find another place to work in order to get a salary boost instead of sticking at a low-paying, dead-end job.

Companies may have the bargaining edge now but it may not stay that way for much longer.

"It's not going to be an overnight change but there eventually will be pressure to increase wages," said Bodhi Ganguli, lead economist at Dun & Bradstreet. "You will have to offer people more money to fill jobs if the overall economy keeps improving."

CNNMoney (New York) First published December 8, 2017: 10:32 AM ET

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The economy is adding jobs at a healthy clip and unemployment remains low. But workers are still not seeing a big bump in their take home pay. Wages continue to rise at a stubbornly low rate. When will that change?

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A millionaire couple pooled together their money and bought 2 million acres of volcanoes, fjords, pumas and killer whales, and pledged to give it all away to national parks

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Couple fosters 13 children left by addicted parents

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Foster care systems in many states are struggling to manage children whose parents are addicted to opioids. In Ohio, 50% of children taken into custody in 2015 faced parental drug use when they were removed, and 28% of children removed that year had parents using opioids.

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One of the hostages rescued from the Taliban earlier this month has been rushed to the hospital.Her husband will not say why.

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Former hostage Joshua Boyle says his wife Caitlan had to be rushed to the hospital and remains there.

Boyle told The Associated Press in an email that his wife was admitted Monday. He says his first concern is the health of his wife and children. His email Tuesday did not specify why she was taken to the hospital.

Boyle, his American wife and their three children were rescued Wednesday, five years after the couple was abducted in Afghanistan on a backpacking trip. The children were born in captivity.

The family returned to Canada late Friday.

Joshua Boyle said after landing at Toronto's airport that the Taliban-linked Haqqani network raped his wife during the years they were held.

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Pope deplores Somalia bombing that killed over 300

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Pope Francis has deplored the Somalia bombing that killed more than 300 people.

At the end of his Wednesday public audience in St. Peter's Square, Francis said "this terrorist act merits the strongest laments" especially since it struck an already suffering population.

He prayed for the dead and wounded in the recent Mogadishu attack. Francis also appealed for the "conversion of the violent ones" and encouraged work for peace.

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CLEVELAND - The entire tone of the Celtics' season changed with 6:45 remaining in the first quarter against the Cavaliers on Tuesday night when Gordon Hayward landed awkwardly under the basket at Quicken Loans Arena.

The crowd's silence said everything. Security guards rushed to surround Hayward, who suffered a fractured ankle that's on the short list of most gruesome basketball injuries of all time. The images won't be easy to shake for those closest to it.

"I have never seen anything like that happen to anybody," Boston rookie Jayson Tatum said.
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Cleveland's Jae Crowder hung his head. Tatum sank into an impromptu team huddle. LeBron James split the security guards to clutch Hayward's hands. Arm-linking, head-shaking, blank-staring disbelief all around. It's easy to forget about the score - Cleveland won 102-99 - when you can't forget about that scene. Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving saw this once with Paul George on Team USA. Irving wouldn't respond to the shock value.

"Everybody saw it, c'mon now," Irving said.

You can't unsee that. Hayward left on a stretcher to a round of applause, and with that any value to a rematch of last year's Eastern Conference finals. Boston players prayed together. At that point, Celtics coach Brad Stevens didn't have much to say.

"I don't have any magic words for that," Stevens said. "We're all hurting for him. I'm not going to try to take the human element out of it."

It's hard to recalibrate to basketball when an injury like that happens, and the Celtics didn't do that until midway through the third quarter against the Cavaliers. Boston clawed and made a game of it, but the Hayward injury became the first season-shifting storyline.

With that you wonder what the landscape in the Eastern Conference looks like without Hayward.

Signing Hayward, drafting Tatum and trading for Irving was supposed to be the combination that helped Boston close the gap on Cleveland, which is seeking a fourth straight NBA Finals appearance with LeBron James, who scored 29 points with 16 rebounds and nine assists. The Cavs needed just five games to dispatch the Celtics last season.

This was supposed to look different. For six minutes, it looked pretty damn good. Irving opened the game with a runner, and then Hayward scored. Jae Crowder hit a 3-pointer, Dwyane Wade a turnaround and Derrick Rose a layup in transition. James hadn't even taken a shot yet, and this looked like a future Eastern Conference finals worth watching.

That's when Hayward hit the ground. Like that, the tone changed.
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The Cavs threatened to run away with it before the shell-shock wore off Boston. It looked like another run-of-the-mill, James-orchestrated blowout, but the Celtics fought back and made it a one-point game heading into the fourth quarter.

"At the end of the day there is still a game to be played," Irving said. "As s-ty as that sounds, there's a game to be played. We understand that as professionals. We just picked the rest of our guys up."

That's when we got a look at what this will be in 2017-18. It's still pretty damn good.

James swatting shots from behind. Irving drilling 3-pointers. Tatum and Jaylen Brown making plays. Fierce back-and-forth play everybody came to see in the first place.

The Cavs, however, made the plays in the end. James muscled in for a layup, knocked a ball off Marcus Smart's leg and set up Kevin Love's game-clinching 3-pointer. Boston had a chance to tie, but Jaylen Brown and Irving each missed 3-pointers in the final seconds.

"I didn't have my legs under me," Irving said.

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That's the challenge for the Celtics now - to get past this. Irving's immediate focus shifted toward where it should be - on Hayward's recovery. It's Stevens' job to help navigate this team around that, and it's clear with Irving and Brown - who combined for 47 points - Boston has the talent to get back to the Eastern Conference finals. Cleveland, however, remains the standard. The Cavs showed that again with a new supporting cast around James.

Without Hayward, the Celtics face an uphill battle to close that gap. There are no magic words, and we'll get the first clue as to how that will look against Milwaukee on Wednesday. Once the shock value wore off in the first quarter, Boston showed fight.

They're going to need a lot more where that came from. Perhaps the home opener will set a different tone. What happens now with Hayward gone?

"The injury was tough," Irving said. "We had to pick ourselves up and continue with the season as best we can until he's back with us. We know G is going to be fighting to get back on the court. We just need to keep fighting."

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Last night the Houston Rockets defeated the Golden State Warriors by a score of 122-121. This was a Warriors home opener and they were expected to have a massive victory. However, All stars Chris Paul and James Harden lead the Rockets to a W.

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Police report that they have the Arsenic in custody no names at the moment bail is at 150,000 he is homeless and was cold so he started a fire.

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A second federal judge from Maryland has blocked the travel ban because it is tainted by religious discrimination.

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US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang -- who also blocked travel ban 2.0 -- did not go as far as the judge in Hawaii on Tuesday and has only extended his order to "individuals with a bona fide relationship with an individual or entity in the United States."

Chuang was not persuaded by the Trump administration's claim that the new travel ban was "cured" of "religious animus," concluding that his various positive statements about Islam did not in "any way repudiate the President's prior intention to impose a Muslim ban. Particularly where, in August 2017, President Trump tweeted a statement that a method hostile to Islam - shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pig's blood - should be used to deter future terrorism, there is no record of public statements showing any change in the President's intentions relating to a Muslim ban."

Chuang also found that the new travel ban "imposed a permanent, rather than temporary, ban on immigrants from the Designated Countries, and has effectively stopped the issuance of immigrant visas indefinitely," and says "the bar on entry is the equivalent of a ban on issuing immigrant visas based on nationality."

Chuang issued a preliminary injunction, which is also procedurally distinct from Judge Derrick Watson's order in Hawaii and has no expiration date.

"Like the two versions before it, President Trump's latest travel ban is still a Muslim ban at its core. And like the two before it, this one is going down to defeat in the courts. Religious discrimination with window dressing is still unconstitutional," said ACLU attorney Omar Jadwat, among those that argued the case in court Monday.

The Justice Department vowed to appeal the Hawaii ruling Tuesday but did not immediately react to the Maryland case.

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Maryland shooting leaving multiple injured

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5 were shot at the Emmorton park office in Maryland. The shooter is still on the loose, and is believed to be 30 miles but no one has been arrested. 5 schools in the area were on lock down as a precaution.

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Two US sailors based at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia have died of apparent drug overdoses in the last week, according to a US Navy public affairs officer

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Petty Officer First Class Brian Jerrell, a sailor assigned to the Trident Training Facility, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his off base residence on October 12, Navy Cmdr. Sarah Self-Kyler said.

Four days later, Jerrell's roommate, Petty Officer Second Class Ty Bell, a sailor assigned to the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming was found dead of an apparent overdose as well, according to Self-Kyler.

A Navy official said the overdoses were a result of cocaine, but cautioned there is a toxicology report pending.

Kingsland Police Department is investigating the incident, with support by the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

"Tragically, we have lost two sailors in less than a week to apparent drug overdose," Self-Kyler said. "The submarine force and Kings Bay leadership are taking these events seriously" and have ordered a urinalysis sweep of all Kings Bay commands "for opportunities to increase various spot checks (i.e. increasing frequency of urinalysis testing, command-wide unit sweeps, shipboard health and comfort inspections)."

Commanders have been given clear guidance on drug program execution and added that all local commanders will hold "all hands" calls with their crews on the issue following the deaths.

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Petty Officer First Class Brian Jerrell, a sailor assigned to the Trident Training Facility, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his off base residence on October 12, Navy Cmdr. Sarah Self-Kyler said.

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Nikola Mirotic, NBA player for Chicago Bulls, was hospitalized after getting in a "serious altercation" with Bobby Portis. Apparently, the two players were fighting over a position.

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Chicago Bulls forwards Bobby Portis and Nikola Mirotic were involved in a "serious altercation" at practice Tuesday that sent Mirotic to the hospital.

According to The Vertical's Shams Charania, Mirotic, who recently returned to the Bulls on a two-year, $27 million deal, will be out indefinitely after a "shoving altercation during practice ended with an alleged cheap shot from Portis to Mirotic's face."

In a statement released Tuesday night, the Bulls confirmed Charania's report and announced Mirotic was diagnosed with maxillary fractures and a concussion.

The Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson followed up and said Portis is likely to miss "a few weeks."

CSN Chicago's Vincent Goodwill, USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt and ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski relayed additional details:

In 70 appearances a season ago, Mirotic averaged 10.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game on 41.3 percent shooting from the field and 34.2 percent from three.

On a rebuilding Bulls team, Mirotic was the favorite to open the season as the team's starting power forward.

Without his stretch-4 stylings, the Bulls will be left with Portis-who is now facing possible internal discipline, according to the Bulls-and rookie Lauri Markkanen as their primary options alongside center Robin Lopez.

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Nikola Mirotic Hospitalized After Fight with Bobby Portis at Bulls Practice

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Chicago Bulls forwards Bobby Portis and Nikola Mirotic were involved in a "serious altercation" at practice Tuesday that sent Mirotic to the hospital.

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Five people have been shot at an office park in the Maryland community of Edgewood, and the shooter is believed to be on the loose.

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A suspect in shootings in Maryland and Delaware on Wednesday that left three people dead and three others injured was caught in Delaware after a manhunt, authorities said.

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Gordon Hayward exits first game with Celtics fracturing his tibia and dislocating his left ankle 6 minutes into the game.

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Boston Celtics star Gordon Hayward was forced to leave Tuesday's season opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena with a fractured left ankle less than six minutes into the game.

Hayward's "foot looked to be at a 90 degree angle from his leg," as the Washington Post's Tim Bontemps described it, and he was stretchered off the floor.

After the game, head coach Brad Stevens told reporters Hayward had suffered a fractured tibia and a dislocated ankle.

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ESPN's Brian Windhorst reported LeBron James went back to the locker room to check on Hayward at the end of the first quarter. Isaiah Thomas, who recruited Hayward to come to the Celtics during the summer, also joined him in the locker room, according to Windhorst.

Losing Hayward for an extended stretch would be devastating after the team signed him to a four-year, $128 million deal this offseason.

The 27-year-old joined the Celtics after the best year of his career with the Utah Jazz, where he earned his first All-Star berth while setting new personal bests with 21.9 points and 5.4 assists per game. He also showcased impressive efficiency with a 53.6 effective shooting percentage.

With Hayward sidelined, the Celtics figure to turn to their young pair of No. 3 overall picks, Jaylen Brown and rookie Jayson Tatum, to fill the void.

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Yesterday, famous actor John Dunsworth passed away. He is most known for his role as Jim Lahey in the Netflix series Trailer Park Boys.

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - A Canadian actor best known for his role as an alcoholic trailer park supervisor in the Netflix comedy series Trailer Park Boys has died. John Dunsworth was 71.

His daughter, Sarah Dunsworth, announced his death on Twitter Monday, saying i n a statement that her father died "peacefully after a short and unexpected illness." She didn't say where or when Dunsworth died.

Ryan Cameron, a spokesman for the actor, tells The Associated Press that he's "heartbroken and will miss him dearly."

Dunsworth played Mr. Lahey on Trailer Park Boys, which developed a cult following during its initial run on Canada's Showcase from 2001 to 2007 before being revived by Netflix in 2014.

Dunsworth also had a recurring role as Dave Teagues for several seasons on the SyFy and Showcase series Haven.
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CLOSE HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - A Canadian actor best known for his role as an alcoholic trailer park supervisor in the Netflix comedy series Trailer Park Boys has died. John Dunsworth was 71. His daughter, Sarah Dunsworth, announced his death on Twitter Monday, saying i n a statement that her father died "peacefully after a short and unexpected illness."

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North Korean ambassador's warning, that nuclear war could break out "at any moment.

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Brian Todd reports on a North Korean ambassador’s warning, that nuclear war could break out “at any moment.”

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone. Willson said, "Basically, he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said."

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President Donald Trump today denied telling the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier "he knew what he signed up for" in a phone call he made Tuesday, contradicting a Florida congresswoman who said she was with the woman at the time.

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Rep. Frederica Wilson said she was with Myeshia Johnson in a car headed to Miami International Airport Tuesday afternoon to meet the body of Johnson's late husband, Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who died in Africa this month, when the president called.

In an interview with CNN Tuesday night, the Democratic congresswoman said of Trump's comment about Sgt. Johnson: "Basically, he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for. But I guess it still hurt.' That's what he said."

Wilson said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone.

But Trump tweeted this morning, "Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof)."

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Wilson responded to Trump's tweet, calling him a "sick man" and saying she has her own proof.

"I'm not trying to prove anything with the president," Wilson said in an interview with CNN this morning. "So the president evidently is lying.

"Because what I said is true. I have no reason to lie on the president of the United States. With a dead soldier in my community. I have no time. I have no motive."

When asked by ABC Miami affiliate WPLG-TV whether she was sure about what she heard Trump say, Wilson responded, "Yeah, he said that. To me that is something that you can say in a conversation, but you shouldn't say that to a grieving widow. And everyone knows when you go to war, you could possibly not come back alive. But you don't remind a grieving widow of that. That's so insensitive."

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La David Johnson died earlier this month in Niger when he was ambushed by militants believed to be linked to ISIS. His pregnant widow broke down in tears hugging his casket Tuesday as it was unloaded from the airplane.

Wilson told WPLG, "Now I didn't hear the entire conversation, but when I tried to find out what the entire conversation was, she said I just can't remember everything that he said. But that stood out in everyone's, uh heart, on the call. You don't say that. He is the president of the United States."

"This is a soldier who gave his life for his country. He is a hero in our minds, in our communities' minds, that is an insult to the entire Miami Gardens community, to our entire District 24, to Miami-Dade County, and to this nation. And I hope he did not say that to the other 3 families that he called," she added.

The full context of the president's comment as described by Wilson is not known.

And the White House has declined to comment on the remarks that are being attributed to Trump.

"The president's conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private," a White House official told ABC News Tuesday night.

The controversy comes just a day after Trump criticized former President Obama for not always reaching out to the family of fallen soldiers. Trump was asked why he hadn't reached out to the families of victims of the Niger attack, and he responded by criticizing former presidents.

"If you look at President [Barack] Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. A lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I am able to do it," Trump said on Monday. "They have made the ultimate sacrifice. So generally I would say that I like to call. I'm going to be calling them. I want a little time to pass. I'm going to be calling them."

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Trump made calls to family members of all four killed servicemen on Tuesday.

In her interview with CNN Tuesday, Wilson elaborated on her reaction, saying she wanted to confront the president.

"I asked them to give me the phone because I wanted to speak with him," she said. "And I was going to curse him out. That was my reaction at that time. I was livid. But they would not give me the phone."

As for Johnson's reaction, Rep. Wilson told MSNBC told, "She was crying the whole time and when she hung up the phone she looked at me and said, 'He didn't even remember his name.'"

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Wilson said she was not politicizing anything by sharing what she heard from the phone call.

"He died as a sergeant. He died as a hero," Wilson said.

She added, "And Mr. Trump was extremely insensitive to that family and I will stick by that. I'm not trying to politicize it, but I think it was a disgrace."

Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in Niger when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed Oct. 4 by militants believed linked to ISIS. Johnson enlisted in the Army in January 2014 as a wheeled-vehicle mechanic and was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group, a Green Beret unit based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The military says his body was found Friday after an extensive search; his body was initially listed as missing.

The bodies of the three other U.S. troops were recovered shortly after the attack, which also killed four Niger military members. The U.S. and Niger forces were leaving a meeting with tribal leaders when they were ambushed.

Johnson, mother to the couple's 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, is expecting their third child in January.

A GoFundMe account set up to pay for education costs for the couple's three children skyrocketed on Tuesday evening. The campaign, which was set up on Tuesday, met its goal of $100,000 and kept climbing to over $146,000 by 3 a.m. on Wednesday. Over 3,100 people had donated to the fund early Wednesday. TV producer Bill Prady donated $5,000 to the campaign and offered to match donors for another $5,000.

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Two men were arrested and sentenced to 100+ years in prison.  Thirty-seven year old Matthew Nix of Rochester was sentenced for 155 years, and Earl McCoy of Brooklyn was sentenced for 135 years.  They were arrested for a string of violent robberies, attempted robberies, and possession of firearms during these. They stole $200,000 worth in watches, diamonds, and cash.

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2 men get 100-plus year sentences for violent home robberies

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Authorities say two men have each been sentenced to more than a century in prison for a string of violent robberies in Rochester, New York, three years ago.

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New fires in California force evacuations. The deadly fires have scorched more than 210,100 acres and killed at least 41 people. New fires have popped up in Sausalito,  Santa Cruz, and Dublin. Also, officials are still looking for dozens of missing people.

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Officials were contending with new fires in Northern California on Tuesday as progress continued on the blazes that have ravaged wine country.