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Flu season on track to break records, the CDC said Friday. The agency reported that an additional 10 children have died from the flu this season while flu-related hospitalizations for the fifth week of 2018 rose to about 60 people per every 100,000.

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Japanese princess Mako got engaged last year to a commoner named Kei Komuro in exchange for her royal status. They were going to get married this year, but they felt that would be too soon and that they are not ready yet, so they are postponing it until at least 2020

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Japan's Princess Mako and her commoner fiancé Kei Komuro have postponed their highly anticipated engagement and wedding until at least 2020, saying they were not yet ready for marriage.

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A long-lost ‘national icon’ painting of a Nigerian princess is up for auction in the U.K. after its surprise discovery in a North London apartment.

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A long-lost 'national icon' painting of a Nigerian princess is up for auction in the U.K. after its surprise discovery in a North London apartment.

"Tutu," a portrait of Princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, was painted in 1974 by the Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu and media reports have compared to the "Mona Lisa."

The portrait, which will be auctioned by Bonhams in London on Feb. 28, has a pre-sale estimate of 200,000 to 300,000 U.K. pounds ($280,702 to $421,053).
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Three versions of "Tutu" were painted by Enwonwu between 1973 and 1974, all of which were considered lost until the discovery of the current painting. The image, which is widely known in Nigeria, became a symbol of national reconciliation following the bloody Nigerian-Biafran conflict of the 1960s.

Bonham's Director of Modern African Art Giles Peppiatt discovered the masterpiece after he was called to a "modest" apartment in North London late last year, according to the auction house.

"It was extraordinary to see this painting on the wall, as soon as I saw it, I was pretty sure that I knew what it was," Peppiatt told Fox News. "It was way beyond my wildest expectations."
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Peppiatt described the painting's owners, who have requested anonymity, as a "perfectly ordinary," family. "They inherited it from their father who had business interests in Nigeria," he said.

Bonhams gets regular calls about purported "Tutu" portraits, which turn out to be prints of the 1973 version of the painting. The original painting found in North London, however, is a major find. "I think it's probably the most important painting that Ben Enwonwu ever produced," said Peppiatt.

The portrait of Ademiluyi, a princess from Nigeria's Ife region, disappeared in the 1970s.
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"It's an amazingly audacious and brave painting - that three-quarter-length pose, gazing directly at you," Peppiatt said. "It's a beautiful painting."

The auction for "Tutu" will also be broadcast live to a Bonhams auction event in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, where bidders will also be able to participate. "Negritude," another work by Enwonwu, will also be auctioned during the event.

"The market for modern and contemporary African art is extremely strong," said Peppiatt. "There has been a huge revival of interest in Nigerian art and modern African art across the board."
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A long-lost 'national icon' painting of a Nigerian princess is up for auction in the U.K. after its surprise discovery in a North London apartment. "Tutu," a portrait of Princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, was painted in 1974 by the Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu and media reports have compared to the "Mona Lisa."

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Four-star wide receiver Jacob Copeland committed to the University of Florida on National Signing Day. His mother walked out of the signing ceremony when he made the announcement

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Four-star wide receiver Jacob Copeland committed to the University of Florida on National Signing Day. His mother walked out of the signing ceremony when he made the announcement.

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Worldwide, each person 15 years and older consumes 13.5 grams of pure alcohol per day, according to the World wide health organization.

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This feature is part of CNN Parallels, an interactive series exploring ways you can improve your health by making small changes to your daily habits.

A lot of us drink. Too many of us drink a lot.

Worldwide, each person 15 years and older consumes 13.5 grams of pure alcohol per day, according to the World Health Organization. Considering that nearly half of the world doesn't drink at all, that leaves the other half drinking up their share.

While the majority of the world drinks liquor, Americans prefer beer. The Beverage Marketing Corp. tracks these things: In 2017,Americans guzzled about 27 gallons of beer (or 216 pints), 2.6 gallons of wine and 2.2 gallons of spirits per drinking-age adult.

But Americans are lightweights in any worldwide drinking game, based on numbers from the World Health Organization. The Eastern European countries of Lithuania, Belarus, Czechia (the Czech Republic), Croatia and Bulgaria drink us under the table.

In fact, measuring liters drunk by anyone over 15, the US ranks 36th in the category of most sloshed nation; Austria comes in sixth; France is ninth (more wine) and Ireland 15th (yes, they drink more beer), while the UK ranks 18th.

Who drinks the least in the world? The Arab nations of the Middle East.

With all this boozing going on, just what damage does alcohol do to your health? Let's explore what science says are the downsides of having a tipple or two.

Counting calories

Even if you aren't watching your waistline, you might be shocked at the number of empty calories you can easily consume during happy hour.

Calories are typically defined by a " standard " drink. In the US, that's about 0.6 fluid ounces or 14 grams of pure alcohol, which differs depending on the type of adult beverage you consume.

For example, a standard drink of beer is one 12-ounce can (355 milliliters). For malt liquor, it's 8 to 9 fluid ounces (251 milliliters). A standard drink of red or white wine is about 5 fluid ounces (148 milliliters).

What's considereda standard drink continues to go down as the alcohol content goes up. But what if that changes? Let's use beer as an example.

It used to be that light beer came in around 100 calories while regular beer averaged 153 calories per 12-fluid ounce can or bottle - that's the same as two or three Oreo cookies.

But beer calories depend on both alcohol content and carbohydrate level. So if you're a fan of today's popular craft beers, which often have extra carbs and higher alcohol content, you could easily face a calorie land mine in every can. Let's say you chose a highly ranked IPA, such as Sierra Nevada Bigfoot (9.6% alcohol) or Narwhal (10.2% alcohol), and you've downed a whopping 318 to 344 calories, about as much as a McDonald's cheeseburger. Did you drink just one?

If you pour correctly, white wine is about 120 calories per 5 fluid ounces, and red is 125. If you fill your glass to the brim, that might easily double.

Liquor? Gin, rum, vodka, tequila and whiskey cost you 97 calories per 1.5 fluid ounces, but that's without mixers. An average margarita will cost you 168 calories while a pina colada weighs in at a whopping 490 calories, about the same as a McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

A 2013 study in the US found that calorie intake went up on drinking days compared with non-drinking days, mostly due to alcohol: Men took in 433 extra calories, while women added 299 calories.

But alcohol can also affect our self-control, which can lead to overeating. A 1999 study found that people ate more when they had an aperitif before dinner than if they abstained.

Take heart. If you're a light to moderate drinker, meaning you stick to US guidelines of one "standard" drink a day for women and two for men, studies have shown that you aren't guaranteed to gain weight over time - especially if you live an overall healthy lifestyle.

For example, a 2002 study of almost 25,000 Finnish men and women over five-year intervals found that moderate alcohol consumption, combined with a physically active lifestyle, no smoking and healthy food choices, "maximizes the chances of having a normal weight."

However, it appears that heavy drinking and binge drinking could be linked to obesity. And that's a problem. The numbers of binge drinkers - defined as five or more drinks for men and four or more drinks for women within a couple of hours at least once a month - has been rising in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in six adults binge about four times a month, downing about eight drinks in each binge.

In the UK, where binge drinking is defined as "drinking lots of alcohol in a short space of time or drinking to get drunk," a 2016 national survey found 2.5 million people admitted to binge drinking in the last week.

Alcohol, of course, has no nutritional value and contains 7 calories per gram - more than protein and even carbs, which both have 4 calories. Fat has 9 calories per gram.

All those empty alcohol calories have to end up somewhere.

Heart disease and cancer

The prevailing wisdom for years has been that drinking in moderation - again, that's one "standard" drink a day for women and two for men - is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. But recent studies are casting some doubt on that long-held lore. Science now says it depends on your age and drinking habits.

A 2017 study of nearly 2 million Brits with no cardiovascular risk found that there was still a modest benefit in moderate drinking, especially for women over 55 who drank five drinks a week. Why that age? Alcohol can alter cholesterol and clotting in the blood in positive ways, experts say, and that's about the age when heart problems begin to occur.

For everyone else, the small protective effect on the heart was evident only if the drinks were spaced out during the week. Consuming heavily in one session, or binge drinking, has been linked to heart attacks - or what the English call "holiday heart."

Also, a 2018 study found that drinking more than 100 grams of alcohol per week - equal to roughly seven standard drinks in the United States or five to six glasses of wine in the UK - increases your risk of death from all causes and in turn lowers your life expectancy. Links were found with different forms of cardiovascular disease, with people who drank more than 100 grams per week having a higher risk of stroke, heart failure, fatal hypertensive disease and fatal aortic aneurysm, where an artery or vein swells up and could burst.

In contrast, the 2018 study found that higher levels of alcohol were also linked to a lower risk of heart attack, or myocardial infarction.

Another 2018 study found that consistently drinking a moderate amount of alcohol, within recommended guidelines, had a protective effect on the heart over time. Unstable drinking habits were associated with a higher risk of heart disease, which the authors reflected might indicate broader lifestyle changes, such as poor health or stress. Former drinkers were also at greater risk.

Overall, however, the latest thinking is that any heart benefit may be outweighed by other health risks, such as high blood pressure, pancreatitis, certain cancers and liver damage.

Women who drink are at a higher risk for breast cancer; alcohol contributes about 6% of the overall risk, possibly because it raises certain dangerous hormones in the blood. Drinking can also increase the chance you might develop bowel, liver, mouth and oral cancers.

One potential reason: Alcohol weakens our immune systems, making us more susceptible to inflammation, a driving force behind cancer, as well as infections and the integrity of the microbiome in our digestive tract. That's true not only for chronic drinkers but for those who binge, as well.

Diabetes

The connection between alcohol and diabetes is complicated. Studies show that drinking moderately over three or four days a week may actually lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, drinking heavily increases the risk. Too much alcohol inflames the pancreas, which is responsible for secreting insulin to regulate your body's blood sugars.

If you have diabetes, alcohol may interact with various medications. If you take insulin or any pills that stimulate the release of insulin, alcohol can lead to hypoglycemia, a dangerously low blood sugar level, because alcohol stimulates the release of insulin as well. That's why experts recommend never drinking on an empty stomach. Instead, drink with a meal or at least some carbs.

And, of course, because alcohol is made by fermenting sugar and starch, it's full of empty calories, which contributes to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Mood and memory

Because alcohol is a depressant, drinking can drown your mood. It may not seem that way while you "party" your inhibitions away, but that's just the drink depressing the part of the brain we use to control our actions. The more you drink, say experts, the more your negative emotions, such as anxiety, anger and depression, can take over.

That's why binge drinking or drinking a lot in one sitting is associated with higher levels of depression, self-harm, suicide and violent offending.

Binge drinking is also associated with severe "blackouts": the inability to remember what happened while drunk. Blackouts can range from small memory blips, such as forgetting a name, to more serious incidents, such as forgetting an entire evening.

Alcohol does this by decreasing the electrical activity of the neurons in your hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for the formation of short-term memories. Keep up that binge drinking, and you can permanently damage the hippocampus and develop sustained memory or cognitive problems.

Adolescents are most susceptible to alcohol's memory disruption but less sensitive to the intoxicating effects. That means they can easily drink more to feel as "drunk" as an adult would, causing even more damage to their brains.

How you look

Last but certainly not least, alcohol can have a significant effect on your good looks. First, it dehydrates you. That can leave your skin looking parched and wrinkled. It's also linked to rosacea, a skin condition causing redness, pimples and swelling on your face.

Do you know you can stink while you're drinking? During the time your liver is processing a single drink, which is on average an hour but varies for everyone, some of it leaves your body via your breath, urine and sweat.

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Another reason drinking can affect your looks has to do with sleep. Although even a little bit of alcohol can help you fall asleep quickly, as the alcohol is metabolized and leaves the body you may suffer the "rebound effect." Instead of staying asleep, the body enters lighter sleep and wakefulness, which appears to get worse the more one drinks.

A lack of sleep leads to dark circles, puffy eyes and stress. Keep it up, studies say, and you're likely to see more signs of aging and a much lower satisfaction with your appearance.

So the next time you head to the pub for tipple or two, remember: You could be paying a price for all that fun.

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This feature is part of CNN Parallels , an interactive series exploring ways you can improve your health by making small changes to your daily habits. A lot of us drink. Too many of us drink a lot. Worldwide, each person 15 years and older consumes 13.5 grams of pure alcohol per day, according to the World Health Organization.

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A young boy who was really set on getting a stuffed toy from a claw-style vending machine at a Florida restaurant ended up getting stuck inside it on Wednesday, according to officials.

Titusville Fire and Emergency Services said in a Facebook post the incident happened at a Beef O'Brady's restaurant on the state's Atlantic coast.

"This evening little Mason was enjoying some food and decided he wanted a stuffed animal," the rescue agency said. "He wanted it so bad, he climbed into the game to get that toy!!"

Fire officials said the boy was "never in any distress," and an off-duty firefighter who happened to be there eating dinner contacted his colleagues.
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Mason was in the machine for about 5 minutes, and sat on top of the toys while firefighters worked to get him out, Battalion Chief Gregory Sutton told The Associated Press.

"He went in, but obviously he couldn't come back out the same way," Sutton said.

The machine sustained minimal damage from the rescue, and Mason was able to rejoin his family for dinner, although he was a bit embarrassed. But the ordeal wasn't entirely fruitless - he was given a toy afterward.

"We love a happy ending," the fire agency said, "and are glad everything worked out."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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A young boy who was really set on getting a stuffed toy from a claw-style vending machine at a Florida restaurant ended up getting stuck inside it on Wednesday, according to officials. Titusville Fire and Emergency Services said in a Facebook post the incident happened at a Beef O'Brady's restaurant on the state's Atlantic coast.

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The White House pushed ahead Wednesday with plans to throw a grand military parade through the streets of Washington, brushing aside criticism that such a display could be an unnecessary show of raw military power.

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The White House pushed ahead Wednesday with plans to throw a grand military parade through the streets of Washington, brushing aside criticism that such a display could be an unnecessary show of raw military power.

In a briefing to reporters, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the parade plan reflects Trump's respect for the armed forces.

"We all know the president of the United States' affection for the military," Mattis said. He said the Pentagon has been "putting together some options" for the parade to send to the White House.

The Washington Post, which was first to report the plan Tuesday, said Trump wants an elaborate parade this year with soldiers marching and tanks rolling, but no date has been selected.

Massive military parades of the kind that are common in authoritarian countries like China and North Korea are not quintessentially American. The U.S. traditionally has not embraced such showy displays of military might, such as North Korea's parading of ballistic missiles as a claim of international prestige and influence.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN that such a parade risks being "kind of cheesy and a sign of weakness" if it's all about showing off military hardware.

"My hope is this parade will not focus on military hardware, but on military service, sacrifice, and saying 'Thank You" to those who protect our nation," Graham said on Twitter.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said a parade would be a "fantastic waste of money." But White House legislative director Marc Short shot back on MSNBC: "I'm not sure honoring the military is a waste of money."

Short said it was too early to know how much the parade would cost.

It has long been conventional wisdom that the U.S. does not need to boast of its military strength because it already is recognized as the leader of the NATO alliance and a model of military professionalism that countries across the globe seek to emulate.

Last September, at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump announced his idea of staging a grand parade of the armed forces in Washington on July 4.

Trump reminisced about watching France's Bastille Day military parade when he visited Paris in July. He said the two-hour parade was a "tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France," and said he wanted one on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington that would be grander than the one he saw in Paris.

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The White House pushed ahead Wednesday with plans to throw a grand military parade through the streets of Washington, brushing aside criticism that such a display could be an unnecessary show of raw military power. In a briefing to reporters, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the parade plan reflects Trump's respect for the armed forces.

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An Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Seattle was forced to make a U-turn Wednesday due to a disruptive naked passenger, officials said.

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An Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Seattle was forced to make a U-turn Wednesday due to a disruptive naked passenger, officials said.

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At least one person died after a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage during a church service at a private home in Texas Wednesday night, police said. Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper said 12 to 20 people were in the home when an apparent member of the congregation pulled a knife and stabbed four men.

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At least four people were stabbed at an in-home church service in Texas on Wednesday night, police said.

Corpus Christi police Lt. Jay Clement said a pastor, a band member along with two others were stabbed, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

Clement said the pastor was found with a stab wound to the chest and the band member had a stab wound to the neck. Clement said both were taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Clement said two others received were stabbed while trying to get away from the attacker. One was stabbed in the hand and another person was stabbed in the arm, he said.

Police said a man was in custody and was facing four counts of aggravated assault, according to the Caller-Times. Clement said the man's motive was unknown and witnesses told him that he had been a parishioner for a long time and it was unclear why he would attack other parishioners.

Police said about a dozen people may have been on the property for the non-denominational church service. Police did not identify the church, but KRIS-TV reported that the address of the home matched up with Kingdom Acts Ministries International.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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900 workers were rescued from a gold mine in South Africa.  They were trapped for 24 hours after loosing power.

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South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources announced Friday morning that all remaining miners had been freed from the shaft at the Beatrix gold mine, which is located in the city of Theunissen in the Free State.

A violent storm had knocked out the electricity supply on Wednesday, trapping the miners.

Angry family members had gathered near the mine waiting to hear news of their relatives, who had spent more than a full day underground, the state broadcaster SABC reported.

According to James Wellsted, a spokesman for managing company Sibanye-Stillwater, the miners had stayedclose to the shaft to ensure they were in a well-ventilated area with ready access to food and water being delivered.

"Everyone is accounted, they are safe and in a safe place and we are providing food and water," he told state broadcaster Thursday.

"(We kept them there), rather than trying to use a secondary escape way, which would have entailed a four hour walk," Wellsted said, adding there were medical officers on the scene.

South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) had said Thursday it was "extremely concerned" about the situation.

"The Union ... questions the lack of contingency plans in place to deal with this type of incidents," the organization said in a statement.

CNN's Radina Gigova, Alla Eshchenko and Robyn Curnow contributed to this report.

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South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources announced Friday morning that all remaining miners had been freed from the shaft at the Beatrix gold mine, which is located in the city of Theunissen in the Free State. A violent storm had knocked out the electricity supply on Wednesday, trapping the miners.

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An FBI informant from the Uranium One deal has told congressional committees that Moscow paid millions to a U.S lobbying firm to influence Hillary Clinton.

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An FBI informant involved in the controversial Uranium One deal has told congressional committees that Moscow paid millions to a U.S. lobbying firm in a bid to influence then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by helping former President Bill Clinton's charities during the Obama administration.

The Hill first reported late Wednesday that informant Douglas Campbell gave a 10-page statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and was interviewed for several hours behind closed doors by committee staff.

In the statement, obtained by Fox News, Campbell said Russian executives told him that Moscow was hiring APCO Worldwide in an effort to influence the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.

Campbell said Russian nuclear officials "told me at various times that they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to provide in-kind support for the Clinton's Global Initiative."

"The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months," Campbell said in the statement. "APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement."

In a statement to Fox News, though, APCO called Campbell's assertion "false and unfounded."

"APCO Worldwide undertook client work on behalf of Tenex in 2010 and 2011. It undertook work for the Clinton Global Initiative from 2008-2016," APCO told Fox News. "These projects were totally separate and unconnected in any way. All APCO's actions on these two unconnected activities were publicly documented from the outset, legally proper and entirely ethical. Any assertion otherwise is false and unfounded."

Uranium One is a Canadian mining company whose sale to a Russian firm was approved in 2010. The U.S. government was involved because the sale gave the Russians control of part of the U.S. uranium supply. The transaction has faced renewed scrutiny after The Hill reported last year that the FBI had evidence as early as 2009 that Russian operatives used bribes, kickbacks and other dirty tactics to expand Moscow's atomic energy footprint in the U.S., related to a subsidiary of the same Russian firm.

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know how the deal was approved the following year by an inter-agency committee.

The Campbell statement also described an earlier meeting with Russian officials outside Washington where they "boasted about how weak the U.S. government was in giving away uranium business," and referred to then-President Barack Obama "with racial epithets."

Campbell's attorney Victoria Toensing said her client has reported a "strategic plan" by Russian President Vladimir Putin to "take over the uranium industry."

"[The Russians] were so confident that they told Mr. Campbell with the Clinton's help, it was a shoo-in to get CFIUS [The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] approval," Toensing said on "Hannity." "They were so confident in that that they even had him open up the new office because they were planning on the kind of business they were going to do as soon as CFIUS approved it."

Toensing told Fox News that Campbell was told by the FBI that Obama was aware of the information.

"He was told that President Obama had it in his daily briefing twice," Toensing said.

Congressional Republicans have called for further investigation into Uranium One. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate "certain issues" requested by Republicans, including Uranium One and alleged dealings related to the Clinton Foundation, leaving the door open for the appointment of another special counsel.

But this week, Democrats have charged that Campbell's statements and the Republican interest in them is a tactic to distract from the larger Russia probe clouding the Trump administration.

Democrats have accused Republicans of making "wild claims" against Clinton.

"Republicans have been talking directly to this individual while refusing to grant Democratic members access, despite multiple requests," Ranking Members of the House oversight and intelligence committees, Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in a statement. "During this same time period, Republicans have been making wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Secretary Clinton on national television based on this individual's information."

Cummings and Schiff said that the Justice Department provided them with a "detailed briefing" that "directly contradicts these Republican allegations."

Cummings and Schiff said Campbell never provided any evidence or made allegations regarding Clinton or the Clinton Foundation in any of their interactions with him.

The ranking members claimed that the Justice Department stated that "at no point did [the individual] provide any allegation of corruption, illegality, or impropriety on Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, President Clinton, the Uranium One deal, or CFIUS," and said there were "no allegations of impropriety or illegality" regarding Clinton in the documents they reviewed.

The Justice Department told Fox News they would not confirm whether the Schiff-Cummings characterization was accurate.

Toensing disputed the Democrats' claims, calling Schiff "disingenuous."

The Clinton Global Initiative did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill panned the informant claims, likening them to the controversial "Nunes memo" on alleged surveillance abuse released last week and newly released text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials.

" Just this week the committee made clear that this secret informant charade was just that, a charade. Along with the widely debunked text-message-gate and Nunes' embarrassing memo episode, we have a trifecta of GOP-manufactured scandals designed to distract from their own President's problems and the threat to democracy he poses," he said in a statement.
Fox News' Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

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A man who has been in the US for over 40 years has been deported after new immigration laws take place.

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His 94-year-old mother sat in a wheelchair at the arrivals gate, overcome with emotion as she waited for Adi. She hadn't seen him in 20 years.

As he walked out, his siblings, nephews and nieces broke out in cheers. But they were soon in tears.

Adi fell to his knees, a broken man in his mother's arms.

"I have mixed feelings, very mixed feelings. I'm so happy, so glad to be here, my home, to see my mother, my brother, my family, my friends, that makes me proud and happy," Adi told CNN at the airport.

"At the same time, I feel so sad of what happened to me. I'm so sorry to tell you what happened is unjust, not right, and everyone back there knows that. What the Trump administration is doing is -- you can't even explain it," said Adi.

Adi lived in America for nearly 40 years. He has a wife who is a US citizen, and four daughters who are also US citizens. He owns several businesses in his adopted hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. A week ago, he was deported.

For more than 20 years, his life has been a legal battle. But with the help of an Ohio congressman, he was able to remain in the US. That all changed when US President Donald Trump took office last year and doubled down on immigration.

Since he entered office, Trump has called for a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system, and has empowered federal authorities to ramp up arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants

Immigration arrests have increased by 42% since Trump took office, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The legal battle

In the 1980s, Adi held a green card. But he lost his permanent resident status in the early 1990s, after moving to Brazil for three years with his wife. When he returned, Adi tried to apply for a new card, but was rejected.

Immigration officials accused him of having a sham marriage with his American ex-wife.

His ex-wife had signed a statement alleging marriage fraud. According to Adi, his lawyer and multiple media interviews with Adi's ex-wife, she was coerced into making the statement after immigration officials showed up at her door.

In 2007, she signed an affidavit retracting her statement and denying the marriage was fraudulent.

Despite the affidavit, he was unable to gain legal status. In 2009, he was issued with a deportation order.

A 'pillar' of the community

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan describes Adi as a "pillar" of their community, who creates jobs with his multiple businesses and distributes hundreds of turkeys to the poor on Thanksgiving.

For years, the House Democrat has been fighting for Adi to remain in America and it was his efforts that secured consecutive stays of the deportation order.

"If you would see the breadth of support that this gentleman has, from whether it's his Italian-Irish Catholic congressman or an African-American Pentecostal Republican woman who is supporting him or the working-class people I saw in his shop the day they thought he was going to get deported ... to show support for him," Ryan told CNN in an interview.

Among Adi's businesses are a hooka bar, a convenience store and a deli.

"He has a Jewish attorney whose father survived the Holocaust ... this person has brought this community together in Youngstown, Ohio," Ryan added.

While Adi's deportation order was issued in 2009, ICE did not proceed with the deportation. He was, instead, required to routinely check in with the agency, which he was diligent about, according to his lawyer David Leopold. In 2013, Ryan presented a private bill -- legislation specific to a person and not affecting overall policy -- to Congress, which would get him a more thorough review of his case. He has presented the bill several times since then.

Having the private bill in motion meant Adi was granted a two-year stay. Under Trump, though, ICE reduced the deportation stay to six months, according to Ryan.

Last September, an ICE field office put an ankle bracelet with a GPS monitor on Adi. He was then told to make arrangements to leave the US, according to his lawyer.

In a statement to CNN, ICE said that he would be allowed to return only if the bill is finally passed.

"While ICE acknowledges Congress's authority to pass legislation providing immigration benefits to non-citizens, alien beneficiaries need not be present in the United States for a private immigration relief bill to be introduced, considered and/or enacted. An alien who is granted relief through the enactment of a private immigration bill can lawfully travel back to the United States," the statement read.

After conducting a comprehensive review of Adi's case, ICE said in the statement that it has chosen not to grant a stay of removal.

Over the past decade, Adi's immigration case has "undergone exhaustive judicial review at multiple levels of the nation's courts, including before the immigration courts, federal appeals courts and U.S. district court. In each review, the courts have held that Adi does not have a legal basis to remain in the US," ICE said the statement.

Adi's last few months were a rollercoaster of emotions, expecting deportation amid the ramped-up crackdown on illegal immigration across the US as part of the Trump administration's stance on the issue.

Adi and his second wife Fidaa, a US citizen, arranged to leave the United States at their own expense in early January. They sold the family home and prepared to say goodbye to everyone.

"ICE agents were to meet them at the airport and remove his ankle bracelet before he boarded the flight," Adi's attorney told CNN. "On January 4th, ICE called to say that they canceled the departure date -- that he should not depart as scheduled and that no new date was set."

But according to Leopold, Adi was asked instead to report to ICE local headquarters on January 15 for a routine check-in to discuss the case. Adi was escorted by several supporters including Ryan, but he was taken into custody without being given a reason.

Adi was not able to see his family before being put on a plane to Amman on January 30.

A 40% rise in arrests

Over the past year tens of thousands have been arrested by ICE, according to Human Rights Watch. Many, like Adi, are deeply rooted in their communities and have no criminal convictions.

More undocumented immigrants have been arrested under the Trump administration, while deportations have lagged behind the rates of the Obama administration.

Last year, ICE's deputy Director Thomas D. Homan said that under Trump's administration, undocumented immigrants "should be afraid," explaining that anyone who has violated the law should be looking over their shoulder. ICE has made clear that while they still prioritize criminals, they also prioritize undocumented immigrants with final deportation orders and do not consider anyone exempt from being arrested or put into deportation proceedings.

"I don't think there is any question that this is the new normal ... To watch these families get ripped apart is the most heart-breaking thing any American citizen could ever see ... Because you are for these families, it doesn't mean you are not for a secure border," said Ryan.

"I am for a humane pathway for good people who want to participate in the American dream and who have contributed to this country for 40 years and are an American in every sense of the word," he said.

A day after arriving in Amman, a city he barely recognizes now, Adi was still in shock and disbelief.

"The American dream started 40 years ago for me ... I built this whole thing scratch from nothing. Even if anybody wants to stop that American dream, I won't let them. I'm going to keep the fight going," an emotional Adi told CNN.

The hardest thing, he said, is being away from his family.

"I miss my wife, the kids," he said, choking back tears. "I miss Youngstown. I miss everybody."

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His 94-year-old mother sat in a wheelchair at the arrivals gate, overcome with emotion as she waited for Adi. She hadn't seen him in 20 years. As he walked out, his siblings, nephews and nieces broke out in cheers. But they were soon in tears.

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Eagles fans flooded the streets early for the Superbowl parade. The parade was set too start at 11 but some fans arrived before the sun came up. The parade was set to be 4.8 miles , It started at Broad Street and Pattison Ave. and ended at the "Rocky" stairs.

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Eagles fans, still basking in the euphoria of the team's first-ever Super Bowl win, flooded Philadelphia on Thursday morning ahead of the championship parade in what's expected to be a day for the ages in the City of Brotherly Love.

The 4.8-mile parade is set to start at 11 a.m. ET, but fans in full Eagles regalia began gathering hours earlier as the sun came up.

Tim Norton, 29, said he arrived at about 6:45 a.m. Given the crowds, CNN asked him how long it took to get there.

"It took me almost 11,000 days to get this parade, and I enjoyed every second of it. GO EAGLES!!!" he said.

The parade begins at Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, travels up Broad to City Hall, and then wiggles its way to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, home of the famous "Rocky" staircase. There, fans and coaches will give speeches and soak in the glory of their 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday.

The excitement brought out colorful characters and outfits, including from Eagles defensive end Chris Long.

Offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski also joined in what he called the "parade mood."

Philadelphians riotously celebrated the championship in an impromptu gathering on Sunday night shortly after the game, but this day parade is expected to be less hilariously destructive.

Fans will be treated to a beautiful, chilly winter day, with a high of 33 degrees and a light breeze.

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Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that there is "pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled" in the 2016 presidential election. Trump has denied any collusion with Russia and so did Russian President Vladimir Putin...

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"It's problematic that a foreign nation is involved in our election system because democracy is only as good as the people trust in results," Bush said at a Milken Institute summit in Abu Dhabi, according to The Independent. He added, "There's pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled."

"Whether they affected the outcome (of the election) is another question, but they meddled, and that's dangerous for democracy," Bush continued.

The American intelligence community concluded that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic groups and other activity in the 2016 election in an effort to help elect Donald Trump.

Bush's comments come amid several investigations to determine whether Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia during the election. Trump has denied any collusion with Russia and said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial of any election meddling.

Bush told the audience in the United Arab Emirates that "Putin is a brilliant tactician who has the capacity to detect weakness and exploit it," but said he has "a chip on his shoulder."

"The reason he does is because the demise of the Soviet Union troubles him. Therefore, much of his moves (are) to regain Soviet hegemony. ... (Putin) is pushing, constantly pushing, probing weaknesses. That's why NATO is very important," Bush added.

Bush 43 has become increasingly outspoken about the current political climate in the US over the past year. Last October, he delivered a speech addressing nationalism and Russian aggression, countering points presented by Trump though never addressing the current president by name.

"The Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other," he said at the time, adding that while Russian interference will not be successful, "foreign aggressions, including cyberattacks, disinformation and financial influence, should never be downplayed or tolerated."

CNN's Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.

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Apple apologized to customers in December for using a software update to slow the performance of older iPhone models. It also dropped the price of replacement batteries for the iPhone 6 and later models from $79 to $29.

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Apple may take another step to address the backlash over its decision to slow down older iPhones.

Apple told a U.S. senator it is "exploring" whether to offer a rebate to customers who paid full-price for a battery replacement, according to a letter released Tuesday.

The tech company apologized to customers in December for using a software update to slow the performance of older iPhone models. It also dropped the price of replacement batteries for the iPhone 6 and later models from $79 to $29.

Senator John Thune, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, previously sent a letter to Apple with several followup questions, including whether customers who purchased batteries at full-price might be compensated.

"Apple has acknowledged that its initial disclosures came up short," Thune said in a statement Tuesday. "Apple has also promised the committee some follow-up information, including an answer about additional steps it may take to address customers who purchased a new battery at full price."

Apple has said the goal of the slowdown was to "smooth out" peak power demands and prevent older iPhones from sudden shutdowns as their lithium-ion batteries degrade. But it resulted in disappointing performance for users.

Related: Apple apologizes for slowing iPhone, drops battery prices

The original disclosure set off a backlash among consumer groups and government authorities around the world. U.S. regulators have also begun probing Apple for information on the slowdown.

"While our intention has been to give our customers the best products and the best experiences, we have apologized to our customers and, as described here, have taken a number of steps to address the complaints," Cynthia Hogan, Apple's VP of public policy, wrote in the letter released Tuesday.

Hogan said Apple is "seeing strong demand" for the discounted battery replacements so far.

A decision to offer a rebate to customers could help offset some customer outrage, but it might also add to investor jitters about the cost of Apple's strategy for defusing the bad PR.

On a conference call with analysts last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked whether investors should worry about discounted battery replacements cutting into the number of customers who feel the need to upgrade their iPhones.

"We did not consider in any way, shape, or form, what it would do to upgrade rates. We did it because we thought it was the right thing to do for our customers," Cook said on the call. "Sitting here today, I don't know what effect it will have."

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Musk send Tesla to space with ¨Easter Eggs ¨ such as text printed on the circuits say ¨Made On Earth By Humans¨.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Starman is traveling through the solar system, riding in the driver's seat of a midnight cherry Tesla Roadster with the top down.

The improbable, if also surreal scene, captured in a video broadcast back to Earth, unfolded live on Tuesday evening (Feb. 6) as a finale to SpaceX's maiden launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket. The car served as a mass simulator, taking the place of a real payload given the risks that the test flight might have failed.

But it did not fail.

"I am really excited about today and proud of the SpaceX team," said Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO and lead designer, in a post-flight press conference. "The mission seems to have gone really as well as one could have hoped." [ Related: See Epic Views of the Tesla Roadster in Space]

"I am still trying to absorb all that happened because it still seems pretty surreal to me," he said.

The 230-foot-tall (70 meter) rocket lifted off on the thrust generated by 27 engines from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) Tuesday. As it climbed toward space, the Falcon Heavy survived Max Q, the point of maximum dynamic air pressure, and its two side boosters separated from the center core successfully, something SpaceX had never tried in flight before.

The boosters, each a modified Falcon 9 first stage that had flown before, touched down within seconds of each other at SpaceX's landing zones at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The center core, which was intended to land on an ocean-based droneship, instead hit the water hard and exploded, the only blemish on an almost perfect first flight.

The Falcon Heavy, now the most powerful operational rocket in the world, not only reached space, but also demonstrated - with a second firing of its second stage engine - the booster's ability to put a satellite directly into geosynchronous orbit.

And then the second stage engine lit again, putting the Roadster and its Starman passengeron what was expected to be a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit, but, according to an update from Musk on Twitter, "exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt." For the next few million, if not billion years or so, the Starman - named in tribute to the late David Bowie - will travel through the inner solar system.

'Made on Earth by humans'

The video sent back from the Roadster showed the car and its Starman passenger set against an almost full-disc Earth as it climbed to as high as 4,400 miles (7,000 kilometers) above the planet.

"You can tell it is real because it looks so fake," Musk said. "We'd have way better CGI if it was fake. The colors look kind of weird in space. There is no atmospheric occlusion. Everything is too crisp." [ In Photos: SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Success!]

The Roadster was not modified, nor apparently tested, to guarantee its survival on its trip into deep space.

"We did not really test any of those materials for space. It just has the same seats that a normal car has. It is just literally a normal car - in space. And I just kind of like the absurdity of that," Musk said.

And as if a car in space was not enough of a spectacle, the Roadster carried with it a few subtle and not-so-subtle "Easter eggs."

Beginning with the Starman itself, the spacesuit worn by the mannequin was not a costume, but rather marked the first in-space use of a garment designed for NASA astronauts to wear on SpaceX's upcoming Dragon spacecraft crewed flights to the International Space Station.

"That is actually the production design. The real one looks just like that," described Musk. "In fact, that is one of the qualification articles. That is the real deal."

"I figure it is a dangerous trip, you want to look good," he said with a smile.

As the camera views changed from showing the Roadster from its side and front to a view looking over the Starman's shoulder, another detail was revealed - on the dash screen was a sign with a science fiction-inspired message.

"Yes," replied Musk, "plus a towel and a sign saying 'Don't Panic.'"

A more subtle, hidden message was shared by Musk on Instagram soon after the Roadster had entered space.

"Printed on the circuit board of a car in deep space," wrote Musk, captioning a photo of the inscription reading, "Made on Earth by humans."

The names of more than 6,000 of those humans - SpaceX employees - were engraved onto a plaque mounted on the payload attach fitting, the structure that held the Roaster onto the Falcon Heavy's second stage.

"The work that goes into defining, building and launching a vehicle of this sort is no small feat. We're super excited to be part of the Roadster's billion-year journey through the solar system," said Lauren Lyons, a SpaceX flight reliability engineer, during the company's webcast of the launch.

Silly and fun, yet important

Secured inside the Roadster is an Arch (pronounced "Ark"), a laser optical quartz storage device designed to survive the harsh environment of space. The disc was provided by the Arch Mission Foundation, whose stated goal is to "preserve and disseminate humanity's most important information across time and space, for the benefit of future generations."

"On the Arch that is being launched [on Falcon Heavy], the Foundation has stored Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi series 'The Foundation Trilogy,' which was the original inspiration for the Arch Mission," said Lyons.

And then there is Hot Wheels Roadster on the dash of the real Roadster.

"On the dashboard, there's a tiny Roadster with a tiny spaceman," Musk said. "Hot Wheels made a Hot Wheels Roadster and a friend of mine suggested why don't you put that Hot Wheels Roadster with a tiny spaceman on it in the car, too."

" It's kind of silly and fun, but silly and fun things are important," he said. "I think the imagery of it is something that is going to get people excited around the world."

It might also attract the attention of whoever encounters the car in millions, if not billions of years from now, postulated Musk.

"Maybe it'll be discovered by some future alien race thinking, 'What the heck were these guys doing? Did they worship this car?'" quipped Musk. "'Why do they have a little car in the car?' That will really confuse them."
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Customers say they found rodent poop baked into pizza from Indiana Little Caesars

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INDIANAPOLIS - A Little Caesars restaurant near downtown Indianapolis is back open, after health inspectors shut it down Tuesday after receiving a couple's complaint of rat or mice droppings baked into their pizza, according to WXIN.

Johnathan McNeil said he and his girlfriend bought a pizza at the establishment near the intersection of 22 nd St. and Meridian St., but on the way home she noticed something was amiss.

"She looked at the pizza and realized there was, like, doo-doo looking stuff on the pizza," said McNeil.

McNeil said he returned to the restaurant to demand an explanation.

"All of them were looking at my pizza dumbfounded as if they didn't know what's going on," said McNeil. "I said 'That's mouse doo-doo on the bottom of my pizza.'"

McNeil said he called police who arrived on the scene and suggested he contact the Marion County Health Department. An inspector initiated an emergency inspection, which resulted in the business license being suspended.

"We did find that there were rodent droppings and violations that warranted us doing a license suspension," said Janelle Kaufman with the Marion County Health Department.

Upon a follow-up inspection the next morning, Kaufman said the problems had been corrected.

"They cooperated with us, they worked with us ... they cleaned everything they needed to do," said Kaufman.

Inspection reports show the restaurant has been doing battle with mice since at least last August. The store was cited four times since then, before being given the all-clear on October 3, 2017. However, the store was never closed.

Health officials said with only seventeen inspectors to cover about 4600 county restaurants, they rely on diners to be their eyes and ears.

"When they call and let us know what they see, it's so helpful to us," said Kaufman, "any restaurant can benefit from another inspection."

McNeil hopes other diners will learn from his experience.

"I just want people to check their food and be very cautious about what they're eating," said McNeil.

Managers at the store declined to comment. WXIN reached out for comment from the restaurant's corporate franchise owner, but did not immediately heard back.

Restaurant inspection reports are not posted until 10 days after they are conducted, however a restaurant's cumulative inspection history can be found online.

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MLBPA is preparing to hold a separate spring training just for Free agents there could be as many as 100 unsigned players there.

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The Major League Baseball Players Association is "scouting sites and making preliminary arrangements to conduct its own spring training for as many as 100 unsigned free agents," according to Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports.

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic added:

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Given the unusually slow nature of free agency this winter, a number of players remained unsigned, with spring training opening for at least two teams by Feb. 12 and most MLB teams the day after.

"This year a significant number of teams are engaged in a race to the bottom," MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said in a statement on Tuesday, per MLBPlayers.com. "This conduct is a fundamental breach of the trust between a team and its fans and threatens the very integrity of our game."

Clark wasn't alone.

"This tanking mechanism has dramatically interrupted the timing of the (free-agent) process," agent Scott Boras told Bob Nightengaleof USA Today while suggesting that free agency is around six weeks behind its usual schedule. "You have clubs creating non-competitive behavior. Four All-Star players bursting into the market completely affected the normal ebb and flow of free agency."

"You could argue you're going to compete with more clubs to get the first pick in the draft than you would to win the World Series," Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto added, per Nightengale.

MLB offered its own stinging rebuke of the MLBPA, its players and the agents in a statement:

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As for the MLBPA's plans for its various free agents come spring training, Brown reported it is "investigating sites in Florida and Arizona in case it determines a 31st camp is necessary. The IMG baseball academy in Bradenton, Florida, was believed to be among at least three options. The union also is identifying coaches and other personnel to staff the facility."

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A Russian ship, with 27 passengers aboard, has been trapped in ice for days off the coast of Japan. There is no immediate danger for the passengers but the ship has been stuck since Monday.

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A Russian ship carrying 127 passengers in the northern Pacific Ocean has been trapped in ice for days off the coast of Japan.

The ship, the Igor Farkhutdinov, was sailing from the Kuril Islands to the Sakhalin peninsula on Russia's Pacific coast when it became stuck in ice up to 3 feet thick, Sakhalin's regional administration said in a statement published today.

There is no immediate danger to the passengers, the director of the shipping company that runs the ferry said, noting there is sufficient food and water aboard, and enough fuel for a week.

"The passengers are provided with everything they need. The decision has been taken to feed them for free," company director Sergey Kondrashin said, according to the regional administration's statement.

It's unclear exactly how many days the ship has been trapped, but it left port Monday for a journey that normally takes a day and it was still trapped in the ice today.

The ship left port Monday, the administration said, with Kondrashin adding that he hoped the ship would be free in the next few hours and that it would arrive in Sakhalin by Friday morning.

The captain is experienced, he said, and similar incidents have happened in previous years.

"Now the boat is breaking through it, trying to get out into clear water," Kondrashin said. "As the satellite maps are showing, there isn't much to go."

Sakhalin's regional transport ministry said it was in contact with the crew and that if the ice conditions worsened, an ice-breaker from the Russian port of Vladivostok was ready to assist.

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Uranium One informant says Moscow paid millions in bid to influence Clinton

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An FBI informant involved in the controversial Uranium One deal has told congressional committees that Moscow paid millions to a U.S. lobbying firm in a bid to influence then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by helping former President Bill Clinton's charities during the Obama administration.

The Hill first reported late Wednesday that informant Douglas Campbell gave a 10-page statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and was interviewed for several hours behind closed doors by committee staff.

In the statement, obtained by Fox News, Campbell said Russian executives told him that Moscow was hiring APCO Worldwide in an effort to influence the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.

Campbell said Russian nuclear officials "told me at various times that they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to provide in-kind support for the Clinton's Global Initiative."

"The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months," Campbell said in the statement. "APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the US-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement."

In a statement to Fox News, though, APCO called Campbell's assertion "false and unfounded."

"APCO Worldwide undertook client work on behalf of Tenex in 2010 and 2011. It undertook work for the Clinton Global Initiative from 2008-2016," APCO told Fox News. "These projects were totally separate and unconnected in any way. All APCO's actions on these two unconnected activities were publicly documented from the outset, legally proper and entirely ethical. Any assertion otherwise is false and unfounded."

Uranium One is a Canadian mining company whose sale to a Russian firm was approved in 2010. The U.S. government was involved because the sale gave the Russians control of part of the U.S. uranium supply. The transaction has faced renewed scrutiny after The Hill reported last year that the FBI had evidence as early as 2009 that Russian operatives used bribes, kickbacks and other dirty tactics to expand Moscow's atomic energy footprint in the U.S., related to a subsidiary of the same Russian firm.

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know how the deal was approved the following year by an inter-agency committee.

The Campbell statement also described an earlier meeting with Russian officials outside Washington where they "boasted about how weak the U.S. government was in giving away uranium business," and referred to then-President Barack Obama "with racial epithets."

Campbell's attorney Victoria Toensing said her client has reported a "strategic plan" by Russian President Vladimir Putin to "take over the uranium industry."

"[The Russians] were so confident that they told Mr. Campbell with the Clinton's help, it was a shoo-in to get CFIUS [The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] approval," Toensing said on "Hannity." "They were so confident in that that they even had him open up the new office because they were planning on the kind of business they were going to do as soon as CFIUS approved it."

Toensing told Fox News that Campbell was told by the FBI that Obama was aware of the information.

"He was told that President Obama had it in his daily briefing twice," Toensing said.

Congressional Republicans have called for further investigation into Uranium One. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate "certain issues" requested by Republicans, including Uranium One and alleged dealings related to the Clinton Foundation, leaving the door open for the appointment of another special counsel.

But this week, Democrats have charged that Campbell's statements and the Republican interest in them is a tactic to distract from the larger Russia probe clouding the Trump administration.

Democrats have accused Republicans of making "wild claims" against Clinton.

"Republicans have been talking directly to this individual while refusing to grant Democratic members access, despite multiple requests," Ranking Members of the House oversight and intelligence committees, Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in a statement. "During this same time period, Republicans have been making wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Secretary Clinton on national television based on this individual's information."

Cummings and Schiff said that the Justice Department provided them with a "detailed briefing" that "directly contradicts these Republican allegations."

Cummings and Schiff said Campbell never provided any evidence or made allegations regarding Clinton or the Clinton Foundation in any of their interactions with him.

The ranking members claimed that the Justice Department stated that "at no point did [the individual] provide any allegation of corruption, illegality, or impropriety on Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, President Clinton, the Uranium One deal, or CFIUS," and said there were "no allegations of impropriety or illegality" regarding Clinton in the documents they reviewed.

The Justice Department told Fox News they would not confirm whether the Schiff-Cummings characterization was accurate.

Toensing disputed the Democrats' claims, calling Schiff "disingenuous."

The Clinton Global Initiative did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill panned the informant claims, likening them to the controversial "Nunes memo" on alleged surveillance abuse released last week and newly released text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials.

" Just this week the committee made clear that this secret informant charade was just that, a charade. Along with the widely debunked text-message-gate and Nunes' embarrassing memo episode, we have a trifecta of GOP-manufactured scandals designed to distract from their own President's problems and the threat to democracy he poses," he said in a statement.
Fox News' Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

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The Winter Olympics games haven't even officially started yet and we already have our first controversy -- and it's over who'll carry the US flag in the opening ceremony.

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On one side is Erin Hamlin, a world-renowned luger, two-time world champion and four-time Olympian.

On the other is Shani Davis -- a decorated speed skater and five-time Olympic game qualifier.

The flag bearer is typically chosen in a vote by the eight US winter sport federations, each representing the individual sports: biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, figure skating, hockey, luge, ski and snowboarding, and speed skating.

But this year, Hamlin and Davis tied 4-4.

Enter the coin toss, Davis said.

And Davis was definitely not happy about it, venting in a tweet that the coin toss was "dishonorably" done.

"I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event," Davis tweeted. "@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018."

CNN has reached out to the US Olympic Committee for comment.

For her part, Hamlin said she was excited about being to able to carry the flag.

"Working hard and earning success is one thing, being acknowledged as a great representative and member of Team USA by fellow athletes -- many who I have been inspired by -- is above and beyond anything I've experienced," Hamlin said in a statement.

"It is definitely a privilege and honor to be the one to lead the team and will be a very special moment. I can't wait to share it with them all!"

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On one side is Erin Hamlin, a world-renowned luger, two-time world champion and four-time Olympian. On the other is Shani Davis -- a decorated speed skater and five-time Olympic game qualifier. The flag bearer is typically chosen in a vote by the eight US winter sport federations, each representing the individual sports: biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, figure skating, hockey, luge, ski and snowboarding, and speed skating.

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Rescuers brave aftershocks to pull bodies from tilting Taiwan tower

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At least 10 people have now been confirmed killed by the 6.4-magnitude quake that struck the popular eastern tourist city of Hualien on Tuesday -- five locals, four Chinese mainland nationals and a woman from the Philippines.

But authorities dramatically slashed the number of missing from more than 60 people to seven by Thursday evening -- five Chinese mainland nationals and a Canadian-Chinese couple.

The powerful tremor left a handful of buildings badly damaged -- some of them leaning at precarious angles -- as well as roads torn up and hundreds forced to shelter in local schools and a stadium.

The major focus for emergency responders remained the Yun Tsui apartment block which also housed the Beauty Stay Hotel on its lower floors. Seven of the dead perished in that building and the remaining missing are believed to be hotel guests there.

The lower floors of the 12-storey tower pancaked, leaving the structure leaning at a fifty-degree angle and sparking fears of an imminent collapse.

Despite those risks rescuers kept going into the building in a desperate search for survivors. But Thursday's search only recovered three bodies -- a Chinese mainland tourist, a local hotel worker and the Filipina.

Strong aftershocks continued to strike, sending the teams scurrying from the building, only for them to return a little later and resume their grim task.
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An emergency responder surnamed Lin said it took 14 hours to free the body of the hotel worker, who was partially trapped between the hotel's ceiling and floor.

"We saw his hair and were digging for some time," he told AFP.

All the while they could hear the victim's mobile phone ringing, he added. The man was later brought out in a white body bag.

A Red Cross worker at the scene estimated that the building had tilted another five percent overnight, adding he had little hope of survivors being found on its lowest floors.

"Floors one to three are all compressed so it's hard to tell whether there are people," he told AFP, requesting anonymity.

He said that there was no risk of a gas explosion in the building but the aftershocks and further slippage remained a persistent danger.

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Hualien is one of Taiwan's most popular tourist destinations as it lies on the picturesque east coast rail line and near the popular Taroko Gorge.

But the mountains that rise up behind the city -- and bestow Taiwan's east coast with such majestic beauty -- are a testament to the deadly tectonic faultlines that run through the island.

The government said 16 foreigners sought medical treatment for minor injuries.

Local broadcaster SET TV ran an interview with a man who said he was the husband of one of the mainland Chinese victims.

The woman, named as 39-year-old Yu Fei, was travelling with the couple's young son on the island. The son survived the quake with light injuries. She was pulled from the wrecked building and later died in hospital.

"They were travelling on their own as I was busy and couldn't accompany them," the man, who had rushed from the Chinese city of Xiamen, said. "I got in touch with my son, he cried."

President Tsai Ing-wen visited survivors on Thursday, many in tears.

In a Facebook post she praised emergency responders.

"Rescuers on the scene and hospital staffers continue to dedicate themselves fully to the rescue works," she wrote. "Stay hopeful and never give up."

The Hualien quake came exactly two years to the day after a similar sized tremor struck the western city of Tainan, killing 117 people.

Most of those who perished died in a single apartment block which collapsed.

Five people were later found guilty over the disaster, including the developer and two architects, for building an inadequate structure.

The island's worst tremor in recent decades was a 7.6-magnitude quake in September 1999 that killed around 2,400 people.

That quake ushered in stricter building codes but many of Taiwan's older buildings remain perilously vulnerable to even moderate quakes.

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At least 10 people have now been confirmed killed by the 6.4-magnitude quake that struck the popular eastern tourist city of Hualien on Tuesday -- five locals, four Chinese mainland nationals and a woman from the Philippines.