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The suspect accused of killing James and Denise Closs and kidnapping their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme, first spotted her when he was on his way to work, as she was getting into a school bus, according to a criminal complaint released by the Barron County District Attorney.

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The first nudist restaurant in (CNN) - Paris is set to close after just over year of serving classic French dishes to diners in the buff.

O'Naturel, in the French capital's 12th district, will close on February 16, according to a Facebook post from the owners.

Twins Mike and Stéphane Saada told the AFP news agency that they were having to close for financial reasons.

In another Facebook post, they called on customers to take advantage of the remaining time.

"Don't hesitate to book now to enjoy a last naked dinner in Paris," it read. "It's now or never."

After opening in November 2017 to great fanfare, the restaurant received rave reviews from customers on Facebook, with an average score of 4.8 out of 5.

Many customers praised both the food and the unique experience after enjoying a naked meal, shielded from passersby by a thick white curtain.

"Great restaurant, futuristic in the audacity of its naturism," wrote Florian Dupuis last August, "promoting the beautiful values of naturism, tolerance and non judgment, living together, all together, as we are, and in osmosis with nature, all natural."

Diners at O'Naturel remove their clothes in a cloakroom, where they also leave their mobile phones for privacy reasons, according to AFP.

And while those eating may be naked, the owners are fully clothed as they serve the food.

"Our role is to put people at ease," said Stéphane in an interview with AFP when the restaurant opened.

"As soon as customers enter the dining room, we accompany them to their table and we reassure them that it's not like the whole room is looking at them."

While local custom wasn't enough to keep O'Naturel afloat, there appears to be growing interest in naturism in France.

A designated nudist zone was launched in the Bois de Vincennes park in August 2017, running for three months before reopening in spring 2018, with the aim of attracting some of the estimated 2.6 million nudists in France.

The event marked the inaugural Parisian Day of Naturism, which the association said it hopes will become an annual event celebrated on the last Sunday in June.

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The first nudist restaurant in (CNN) - Paris is set to close after just over year of serving classic French dishes to diners in the buff. O'Naturel, in the French capital's 12th district, will close on February 16, according to a Facebook post from the owners.

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"President" Nicolas Maduro sworn into office after being reelected on Jan. 10, 2019

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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro began his second term in office on Thursday despite heightened international calls for him to step down, a worsening economic crisis fueling a humanitarian emergency and the mass exodus of millions of citizens seeking to escape hardship.

The former bus driver turned socialist leader was sworn in during a ceremony filled with cheering supporters waving miniature Venezuela flags - a sharp contrast to the harsh realities that face the country's citizens.

"I swear on the legacy of Hugo Chavez ... that I will meet all of my duties under the constitution," Maduro said, during the ceremony presided over by Supreme Court Chief Justice Maikel Moreno.

Maduro's second term extends Venezuela's socialist revolution amid widespread complaints that he has stripped Venezuela of its last vestiges of democracy.

Maduro denies that he's a dictator and often blames President Donald Trump for leading an economic war against Venezuela that's destroying the country.

"Not before, not now, nor will there ever be a dictatorship in Venezuela," Maduro said in a Wednesday news conference.

He shrugged off an international outcry that his reelection at the widely boycotted 2018 election was illegitimate and a farce. Maduro won re-election last year despite hyperinflation, chronic food shortages, and a severe economic crisis.

A coalition of a dozen Latin American governments and Canada have rejected the legitimacy of Maduro's next term, and the U.S. has sanctioned top officials in his government.

"The U.S. will not recognize the Maduro dictatorship's illegitimate inauguration," John Bolton, U.S. National Security Advisor, said in a tweet Thursday. "We will continue to increase pressure on the corrupt regime, support the democratic National Assembly, and call for democracy and freedom in Venezuela."

The U.S. has been mulling designating Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism alongside Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan, Fox News reported earlier this month.
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However, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Bolivian President Evo Morales and President Anatoli Bibilov of a breakaway province of Georgia were among the foreign leaders who attended Maduro's swearing-in ceremony at the country's Supreme Court.

Maduro said 94 countries had sent representatives to the inauguration.

Venezuela's splintered opposition movement has failed to counter the socialist party's dominance. Maduro's government has jailed or driven into exile its most popular leaders.

"To the few representatives of governments that are in the country: look at the regime's economic, social and political indicators," wrote opposition leader Henrique Capriles via Twitter. "Maduro is illegitimate because there have not been free elections, and he's also illegitimate in his performance."

The number of Venezuelans fleeing is expected to reach 5.3 million by the end of 2019, according to the United Nations, "in what has become the largest exodus in modern Latin American history."

The U.N High Commissioner for Refugees stated that humanitarian organizations will require $738 million to provide vital services such as food and shelters to help ease the burden on receiving nations.
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And while Maduro's popularity has plunged amid scarcities, hyperinflation and rising authoritarianism that have sparked the mass emigration, supporters who receive government subsidies in shantytowns continue to back the man who took over for the late Hugo Chavez.

"It's not the president's fault," said Frances Velazquez, a 43-year-old mother of two who survives on government-subsidized boxes of rice, flour and cooking oil. Velazquez blamed opportunists who drive up the prices on scarce items making life difficult for families like hers.

Maduro's first agenda item for his second term is a ceremony at Venezuela's military academy, a telling symbol of the importance of the armed forces, Reuters reported.
Fox News' Hollie McKay and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled to Thailand to escape her allegedly abusive family, has been granted asylum in Australia, a Thai immigration official said Friday.

"Yes, Australian has granted her asylum, but we are waiting to hear where exactly she is going," immigration police chief Surachate Hakparn confirmed to CNN.

Hakparn said Canada had also offered Qunun asylum and they were waiting for her decision.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR had referred Qunun's protection request to Australia on Wednesday, though it had not been confirmed before now that Canada was also considering her case.

Hakparn said Qunun, who is staying in an undisclosed location in Bangkok, would be leaving Thailand "almost as soon as the final decision is made."

"We are providing necessary security for her," he said.

The Australian Department of Home Affairs declined to comment to CNN, which has also reached out to the Canadian government for confirmation.

Qunun had flown to Thailand from Kuwait to escape her family, saying she feared they would kill her because she renounced Islam. She intended to fly on to Australia, but barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok's main airport on Sunday after Thai immigration officials attempted to deport her back to the Middle East.

Qunun and her supporters drew global attention to her case through a social media campaign launched mostly on Twitter. She documented her arrival and subsequent detention in Bangkok on her smartphone, creating new Twitter and Periscope accounts where she received a deluge of supportive messages.

Her story has also put Saudi Arabia's guardianship laws, which restrict many aspects of women's lives, back under international scrutiny.

In response to the media campaign Thai authorities allowed her access to the UNHCR and did not deport her to Kuwait. Her online campaign was so successful that Saudi charge d'affaires Abdalelah Mohammed A. al-Shuaibi told Thai officials through a translator: "We wish they had confiscated her phone instead of her passport."

Qunun later tweeted the video of that meeting and wrote that her "Twitter account has changed the game against what he wished for me."

On Friday, Qunun's twitter account appeared to have been deleted.

Resettlement not an option for many refugees

Qunun's case is unusual because of the speedy offer of resettlement. It is not an automatic right for refugees and less than 1% of registered refugees globally are resettled each year, according to the UNHCR.

Refugees can wait their whole lives for a third country to accept them. The process is often assessed on the urgency of a refugee's individual needs, with the most vulnerable prioritized. Refugees can wait from nine months to several years to hear an answer -- longer if they appeal a refusal.

On Wednesday, Australia's Department of Home Affairs had told CNN it would consider Qunun's "referral in the usual way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals." Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton also said there would be no "special treatment" in the case, according to CNN affiliate Nine News.

"Nobody wants to see a young girl in distress and she has obviously now found a safe haven in Thailand," Dutton told reporters in Brisbane.

Shortly after hearing about Qunun's plight, Australia said that it would "carefully consider" granting Qunun a humanitarian protection visa, if she applied for one.

Such a visa wouldallow Qunun to stay permanently in Australia and have the right to work and study. She would also be able to propose or sponsor family members for permanent residence.

On Wednesday, Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Stefano Maron told CNN that Canada is very concerned by, and is closely watching, Qunun's case.

"We are in close contact with partners about her situation," Maron said. "Canada will always stand up for human rights, very much including women's rights."

CNN's Angus Watson reported from Hong Kong.

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A fifth child from the Hart family, killed when their intoxicated adoptive mother drove the family off a California cliff last year, has been identified with the help of the girl's biological mother, police say.

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A Northern California church sparked outrage over a sign that read: "Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not."

Caitlyn Jenner is formerly known as Bruce and revealed in 2015 that she is transgender and has become a woman.

The church, Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church, is located in Lake Shastina, Calif., which is about an hours' drive from the Oregon border.

Protesters gathered in front of the church on Sunday to denounce what they called "hate and slander" and to "show our love and support for the LGBT community," according to a Facebook page that organized the event.
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Justin Hoke, the church's pastor, wrote on Facebook Wednesday that the sign's Plexiglass had been destroyed and the letters had been stolen.

The protesters denied having destroyed the sign, The Sacramento Bee reported. Hoke posted a picture on his Facebook Thursday of the sign back up with plaster covering the letters, writing: "It's not pretty, but it's back up."

Hoke later wrote on Facebook: "If a conservative mountain farming community is no longer a safe place to call sin, sin, then is anywhere in this country still safe for real Christians?" according to The Siskiyou Daily News.

Another protest against the church's sign is planned for this Sunday, according to the organizer's Facebook page.

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The campaign of rookie U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been fined by the state for not providing workers' compensation coverage for a month last year.

The failure to provide the coverage to campaign staff is particularly awkward for Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist who rose to stardom after unseating top Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley with a campaign theme of improving conditions for the working class.
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"The employer did not have the required workers' compensation coverage from March 31, 2018, to April 30, 2018, and was issued a final penalty of $1,500, which was paid," state Workers Compensation Board spokeswoman Melissa Stewart told the New York Daily News.

"This coverage is vital to ensuring workers are protected for on-the-job injuries," she added.

Republicans jumped on the revelations, telling the newspaper that the episode reveals "hypocrisy at its finest" by Ocasio-Cortez.

"The so-called champion of workers, when given her own responsibility, is not following the law. It's unbelievable," said state GOP spokeswoman Jessica Proud.

"The so-called champion of workers, when given her own responsibility, is not following the law. It's unbelievable."
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This isn't the first time the congresswoman's pro-working class credentials have been called into question.

She remains under scrutiny after avoiding answering questions on whether she will follow through with her own advice to fellow lawmakers to "have some integrity" and forgo their paychecks during the partial government shutdown.
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Last year, Ocasio-Cortez was also mocked after lamenting the shuttering of a coffee shop in New York, even though it closed its doors thanks to the wage hike in the state - a policy that she supports.

"The restaurant I used to work at is closing its doors," she wrote in a tweet. "I'm a normal, working person who chose to run for office, because I believe we can have a better future."
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The owners blamed the minimum wage hike for the closure. "The rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees," Charles Milite told the New York Post last month.

Around 150 people lost their jobs as a result of the closure of the coffee shop.

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The campaign of rookie U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been fined by the state for not providing workers' compensation coverage for a month last year. The failure to provide the coverage to campaign staff is particularly awkward for Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist who rose to stardom after unseating top Democratic Rep.

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HE WAS IN PAWTUCKET, or maybe it was Toledo, or it might've been Syracuse. Days and nights in the International League, baseball's final weigh station bridging the minor leagues and major leagues, blend together like that. All Drew Henson remembers is that he was in some minor league town, in the midst of a dire slump -- like, 2-for-25 bad -- when he saw some old friends on the TV at the sports bar where he was eating dinner.

They were playing on Monday Night Football. And he was in Scranton or Richmond or Durham or wherever it was, playing baseball after having foregone a chance to play quarterback in the NFL. Drew Henson was Kyler Murray before Kyler Murray. And as Murray's impending early entry into the NFL draft following his Heisman Trophy-winning season at Oklahoma further complicates his football-vs.-baseball decision, the stakeholders in his career are trying to better understand the true strength of each sport's allure.

The Oakland Athletics chose Murray with the ninth pick in the 2018 Major League Baseball draft and lavished him with a $4.66 million bonus. They still believe he will play baseball. NFL teams are frothing over his college tape and giving themselves every reason to look past his 5-foot-9 frame. They're convinced he will play football.

"A lot of it comes down to what's in your heart, what's your passion, what you can be excited to do for this next chapter of your life," Henson told ESPN in a phone conversation Thursday. "Do you like watching film more than you like hitting in the cage? Are you willing to give two seasons to staying in small towns and hotels and grinding it out and struggling and playing in front of 500 people when guys you dominated in college are playing on Monday Night Football?"

Jan. 14: Deadline for college players who are underclassmen to apply for special eligibility. A list of underclassmen who have been approved for entry into the 2019 NFL Draft will be sent to clubs on Jan. 18.

Feb. 15: Oakland A's open spring training. Mesa, Arizona

Feb. 26-March 4: NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Likely mid-March: Oklahoma has its pro day, a chance for Murray to perform in front of scouts.

March 20-21: Oakland A's open Major League season in Tokyo, Japan.

April 4: Opening Day for minor league full-season affiliates.

April 25-27: NFL Draft, Nashville, Tennessee

May 3-6: Teams may elect to hold their one three-day post-Draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.

May 10-13: Teams may elect to hold their one three-day post-Draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.

May 13: Rookie Football Development Programs begin.

May 16-19: NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Invited rookies (typically, first and/or second-round selections) must be permitted by their respective clubs to attend. Such players are unavailable for offseason workouts, OTA days, and minicamps during this period.

Henson's hypothetical is Murray's reality. And when the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday night first reported that the A's expect Murray to declare for the draft, the months of questions about his fitness to play quarterback in the NFL at 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds almost vanished. In their stead came assessments of more and more evaluators who were grading him a first-round NFL talent -- "magic," as executives told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Plus the video of Kliff Kingsbury, the new coach of the on-the-clock Arizona Cardinals, saying months ago he'd take Murray with the No. 1 pick in the draft. As the football set celebrated Murray's symbolic step toward leaning in its direction, one A's fan and baseball blogger was so dismayed she sent a vicious tweet about Murray and wound up getting fired.

This is the power of Kyler Murray, an athlete whose dynamism convinced the A's to spend the ninth pick in the draft on him with fewer than 250 college at-bats to his name, a dynamo whose athleticism didn't just allow him to function standing behind an offensive line at Oklahoma that averaged 6-foot-4½, but turn in an all-time-great season with more than 4,000 yards and a 42-to-7 touchdown-to-interception ratio. It is good to be loved, and Murray has dual -- and dueling -- paramours with boundless ardor.

The only question is to whom Murray will reciprocate. Whichever path Murray chooses between now and the Feb. 15 report date to A's spring training is potentially rich with fulfillment, success and money. They are also wildly disparate.

FROM THE BEGINNING, the Oakland A's understood the risk. No matter how much money they guaranteed Kyler Murray, no matter how much his father, Kevin, wanted him to play baseball, no matter how enticing they made the prospect of his secondary sport becoming his primary, football would always be the temptress on his shoulder, whispering sweet nothings in his ear, trying to coax him back into the huddle. The public revelation about Murray entering the NFL draft, then, did not faze them. Just because Oakland expected it did not send the organization into a panic.

The A's have spent well more than half a year now trying to answer Drew Henson's hypothetical. The solution, or at least their best crack at a solution, is multipronged, illustrates the care they've put into Murray's success and offers a sense of what the next few years of his baseball career might look like.

It starts at Hohokam Stadium, in Mesa, Arizona, in mid-February, when every major league player, and those like Murray with invitations to big league camp, arrive for spring training. A football-to-baseball transition necessitates far more than adjusting from oblong ball to tapered, cylindrical bat. Murray hasn't swung a bat since June, so the A's training staff needs to write a specific protocol for him to progress at a languid-enough pace that he doesn't pop an oblique muscle and sideline himself for a month.

Special treatment would define the Kyler Murray Baseball Experience should he choose it. Non-roster players in major league camp are typically shipped back to the minor league side in early March. The A's plan for Murray to stay with the big leaguers until they leave for their season-opening series in Japan. Every little lagniappe helps when asking Murray to leave behind 86,112 raucous fans at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium for California League crowds that max out around 3,000.

Certainly when he signed his deal Murray understood the grind of baseball -- not just its day-in, day-out nature but the transition from stardom to relative anonymity. Part of it plays to Murray's personality -- the harder he works, the sooner he could leave Class A Stockton. Murray also is used to playing superhuman on the football field, and with his lack of baseball experience and the older players with plenty of it in the Cal League, even his wonderful raw tools can't promise anything close to the same success.

Extracting someone from the warm embrace of QB1 is a daunting proposition, and football is betting on Murray's addiction to what he knows. And what he knows is that in the modern game, the quarterback is all-important, and in the draft, talented quarterbacks do not slide. It takes only one team to look past Murray's height, focus instead on everything else he does and offer the perhaps-instantaneous gratification that baseball simply cannot match.

Consider the past few drafts. In the early stages of 2016 draft analysis, Jared Goff and Carson Wentz were not thought worthy of the top 10. They went first and second overall. In 2017, the thinking on the top quarterbacks was late first round. Mitchell Trubisky went second, Patrick Mahomes 10th and Deshaun Watson 12th. In the most recent draft, Baker Mayfield was a surprise first overall pick, with Sam Darnold third, Josh Allen seventh and Josh Rosen 10th. Worries about Mayfield's size and Allen's accuracy and Rosen's dedication dogged them -- and did nothing to tank their draft stock. Teams move mountains for quarterbacks, and Murray's talent happens to be mountainous.

It's not enough to convince some front-office officials. "The height is a major concern, obviously," said one executive who projected Murray as a second- or third-round pick. His slight frame, which allows him spectacular speed but leaves him prey for leviathan defensive linemen ready to feast, worries others. Still, NFL assessments on Murray are incomplete. Some teams have yet to study him, in part because he hadn't declared for the draft and in part because of his stated commitment to baseball.

Enough buzz exists to warrant Murray exploring the draft. ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay both think Murray is likely to go in the first round. As more elements of the college game permeate NFL offenses, not only does the transition become less onerous -- as Murray's former teammate Mayfield showed -- but the possibility of designing an offense to mitigate Murray's shortcomings is entirely feasible.

"He is as small as we have ever seen," one NFL evaluator told ESPN's Mike Sando. "He is smaller than Russell Wilson, but like Russell, he is smart. You see the baseball player in him -- he gets down, does not take big hits. As the NFL game goes more toward the college game and as the rules limit how defenses can hit, there may be a place for him because he is talented.

"He is the wild card who could go early, but we just don't know."

It's easy to suggest Murray follow Mayfield's road map. Both, after all, are undersized, Heisman-winning quarterbacks from Oklahoma who showed exceptional accuracy and skills in college. The path to stardom, let alone starting, can be circuitous, and college performance does not necessarily correlate with professional success.

The opportunity, on the other hand, is clear for those pegged as potential future quarterbacks. The Browns planned for Mayfield to sit his rookie season; he wound up leading them to five wins in their last seven games. Darnold started from the jump. Rosen, Allen and the last pick of the first round, Lamar Jackson, all finished the season as their team's first-string quarterback. That followed Trubisky, Watson and Wentz playing as rookies. Sitting for a season, as Mahomes and Goff did, is more the exception than the rule now for first-round quarterbacks.

The strength of Murray's first-round grade by some evaluators could be put to the test. While the expectation is that he will declare for the draft, would he go to the NFL combine? And if so, what drills would he do? And how would his performance there persuade or dissuade teams from considering him in a spot that would guarantee him as much money as Oakland did.

As much as Murray's draft-declaration plan screamed football, the A's are far from conceding defeat. They still see Murray as their center fielder of the future until he says otherwise. They know that because he missed instructional league while playing football, he's behind on simple aspects of the team's development process, like learning the A's hitting program. This year would be a crash course in baseball. If they didn't think he could handle it, they would not have sacrificed the ninth pick in the draft to a player with off-the-charts risk.

If all goes well -- i.e., Murray chooses baseball -- the A's hope he can handle the transition to the Cal League and maybe, just maybe, move up to Double-A Midland by the end of his first season. Because he is Kyler Murray -- because he is faster and stronger and better athletically than everyone at almost everything -- the A's believe he's capable of making up whatever deficiencies may exist in a shorter window of time.

With a successful first season, the notion of Murray ascending to the major leagues by 2020 is not far-fetched. It would probably be too quick, maybe even something that could stunt Murray's development, and yet the A's are not naïve enough to think that even if Murray is in the big leagues, football is always there, whispering, coaxing and tempting without so much as trying.

"IT'S THE TOUGHEST decision I've ever had to make. Easily," Drew Henson said, and nearly two decades after he chose the New York Yankees over the University of Michigan football program and, eventually, the NFL, he still sounded conflicted.

"You work so hard as long as you can remember for opportunities in what you love," he said. "Mine happened to be sports. And then you find yourself in a situation where one is just going to abruptly end. You've had nothing but extreme success, and the thought of walking away, when you're 20, 22 years old. That's a big thing to try to swallow. People say, 'Which one do you like better?' I think people who like one sport better than another choose sooner. When it's truly 50-50, you don't look at either that way. You love both so much. It's a daunting idea to process all that and take every option into account and try to make an educated, intelligent decision when you're barely legal drinking age."

The A's, who took Kyler Murray with the No. 9 pick in the 2018 MLB draft, expect him to enter the 2019 NFL draft before Monday's deadline, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

He has nearly $5 million and a deal to play for the Oakland A's, but what if the Oklahoma QB chooses football long term? Mel and Todd break down his NFL prospects.

The Heisman Trophy winner might choose baseball over football, but he could be a star in the NFL. Here's where his skill set fits best.

Henson was 21 when he left Michigan -- and, as Buster Olney then wrote in The New York Times, "a chance at winning the Heisman Trophy" -- to sign a six-year, $17 million guaranteed deal to play third base in the Yankees organization. He was the archetypal quarterback at 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds, good enough to split time at Michigan with a quarterback named Tom Brady. When he analyzed the choice, Henson took into account injury risk factor, career longevity, money guaranteed and that he could make, lifestyle, travel and so much more.

"I tried to look inside," he said. "What are you most comfortable with? Where do you see yourself happiest 10 years down the road? What do you wake up most excited to do?"

Henson landed on baseball, and baseball did what it has done to so many athletes with otherworldly talent: It chewed him up. He spent the 2002 season at Triple-A before debuting for the Yankees in September. He stagnated at Triple-A the next season and logged his only big league hit, a single to center field, in what would be his last baseball game, Sept. 28, 2003, against the Baltimore Orioles. By 2004, he was a quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys.

Perhaps that's still a path for Kyler Murray. He's 21 years old. He could try baseball, see if he loves it, if he's good at it. It's safer. It would fulfill his pledge to the A's. It's the sort of challenge Kyler Murray has faced before. Someone suggests he can't do something -- too short this, too slight that -- he shows them, and everyone else, otherwise.

Or he could simply follow his heart, as Henson suggested, and which Henson thinks leads clearly in one direction. "I do think at the end of the day he's going to play football," he said. A certified baseball agent now, Henson said he has spoken with football agents who more and more believe Murray is leaning football.

"The big thing about football is his height," Henson said. "It's the only detriment you could possibly asterisk. And it's a legitimate something to discuss. But coaching staffs are doing a better job these days fitting what they do to the skill set of their best players, especially the quarterback. It's an issue, but not a major issue. You see these amazing athletes who transition from college to the NFL. The speed translates, but it's not the same. You're not ripping off 70-yard runs twice a game off a draw. A little of that style of his game would be taken back, but it's everything else that makes it work. He goes through his reads. He's extremely accurate. He's got every tool that you want. He's won. He's always won."

By the time Kyler Murray makes his decision, he'll have won again. Because this is his choice, his destiny, his free will. There may be pressure, but that's fine. As spring training approaches and the next decision looms, he'll do exactly what he did all fall as he took snaps from the shotguns: survey the landscape, narrow down his options and hope he picks the right one.

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The magical gaze of 'Mona Lisa' is a myth

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It's common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci 's most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room.

But this common knowledge, it turns out, is wrong. The eyes of the woman in the "Mona Lisa" don't follow viewers.

A new study finds that the woman in the famed painting is actually looking out at an angle that's 15.4 degrees off to the observer's right - well outside of the range that people normally perceive when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said study author Gernot Horstmann, a perceptual psychologist at Bielefeld University in Germany, "She's not looking at you." [ In Photos: Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa']

The misnamed "Mona Lisa effect"

This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person's gaze in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the "Mona Lisa effect." That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person's gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.

This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, Horstmann said, you don't cut the gaze of the character to that side - surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn't looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.

Horstmann and his co-author, computer scientist Sebastian Loth, also of Bielefeld University, were studying this effect for its applications in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars when Horstmann took a long look at the "Mona Lisa" and realized something.

"I thought, 'Wait, she's not looking at me,'" he said.

To make sure it wasn't just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the "Mona Lisa" on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected the Mona Lisa's gaze. [ Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas]

To test whether the painting's other features made any difference in the way her gaze was perceived by the observer, the researchers altered the zoom on the image, changing whether the woman's eyes and nose or entire head were visible. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa's gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen partway through the study. This provided them with two points to work with, making it possible to calculate the angle.

Rightward gaze

Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the "Mona Lisa " portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.

"Mona Lisa's degree angle is clearly outside that range where you normally feel like you are being looked at," Horstmann said.

So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn't sure. It's possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them, even when she's not. Or maybe, he said, the people who first coined the term "Mona Lisa effect" just thought it was a cool name.

The researchers reported their findings Jan. 7 in the open-access journal i-Perception.

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It's common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci 's most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge, it turns out, is wrong. The eyes of the woman in the "Mona Lisa" don't follow viewers.

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Jayme Closs fled captor and flagged down dog walker; suspect arrested

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jayme Closs fled captor and flagged down dog walker; suspect arrested: report

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

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Weather man was fired for saying a racial slur he didn't even know he said

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

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Celebrity athlete,

Cristiano Ronaldo, is being investigated over rape and sexual assault allegations. His DNA is being requested as a comparison with the DNA found.

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Cristiano Ronaldo's DNA sought by Las Vegas police investigating rape case

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Las Vegas police investigating a rape allegation against Cristiano Ronaldo have sent a warrant to authorities in Italy requesting a sample of the Portuguese football superstar's DNA, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.

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Ashley Judd's sexual harassment case against Harvey Weinstein has been dismissed

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A federal judge in California has dismissed Ashley Judd's claim of sexual harassment in her lawsuit against disgraced former mega-producer Harvey Weinstein. But the judge also said Judd can pursue her accusation that Weinstein tried to ruin her career after she rejected his advances.

Weinstein is facing charges of five counts of rape and sexual assault at a trial in New York later this year. Dozens of women have accused Weinstein of rape and sexual misconduct that allegedly took place over decades. Weinstein has said his encounters were consensual and that he never sexually assaulted anyone.

U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted a motion from Weinstein's defense team to dismiss the harassment portion of Judd's lawsuit, agreeing that at the time of the alleged offense, the law cited in the suit did not cover producers such as Weinstein.

Instead, Gutierrez said Judd can continue with the part of her lawsuit that accuses Weinstein of sabotaging her job chances for blockbuster projects such as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films.

It's the second time Gutierrez has dismissed the harassment portion of the suit, having initially done so in September. Judd filed to restore the claim in October, after California's Legislature amended the state's harassment law to specifically include directors and producers.

Judd argued that the amendment should apply retroactively to her case. But the judge ruled that lawmakers had "modified, rather than clarified" the 1999 law, making it inappropriate to apply its new standards retroactively.

Gutierrez took pains to say he "is not determining whether Plaintiff was sexually harassed in the colloquial sense of the term," but only whether the incident fell under the scope of the statute her lawsuit cited.

According to Judd's lawsuit, she met with the Weinstein in late 1996 or early 1997, when he invited her to a breakfast meeting at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The actress was hoping the "evaluative" meeting would cement her chances of landing big film roles - but when she arrived at the hotel, her lawsuit states, Weinstein was waiting for her in a bathrobe. He allegedly then asked to give her a massage and asked her to watch him take a shower.

In an attempt to leave the room, Judd says, she made a "mock bargain" with Weinstein, "suggesting that she would consider letting him touch her only if she won an Academy Award in one of his films."

Judd says the producer repeatedly reminded her of that "little deal" - and that he also badmouthed her to Jackson.

Despite "serious discussions to play a major role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy," court documents state, Judd wasn't cast in the film. Judd says she didn't learn of a possible reason until 2017, when Jackson said in an interview that Weinstein had told him Judd was "a nightmare to work with" who should be avoided "at all costs."

The judge said Judd had "adequately stated a claim for defamation, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and violation of the [Unfair Competition Law]," based on her allegation that Weinstein retaliated against her.

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Judge Dismisses Ashley Judd's Sexual Harassment Claim Against Harvey Weinstein

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A federal judge in California has dismissed Ashley Judd's claim of sexual harassment in her lawsuit against disgraced former mega-producer Harvey Weinstein. But the judge also said Judd can pursue her accusation that Weinstein tried to ruin her career after she rejected his advances.

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Sorority hazing led to Northwestern student's suicide, lawsuit claims

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A Northwestern University sophomore killed herself because of severe hazing she endured while pledging to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in the fall of 2016, according to a federal lawsuit filed by her mother this week.

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It's Alexander Hamilton's birthday. That's cool, I guess.

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Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary of the United States, was born on January 11 in either 1755 or 1757, on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the British West Indies. Hamilton claimed 1757 as his birth year, but probate papers recorded shortly after his mother's death indicate that 1755 is the correct year. Hamilton was born out of wedlock and his father abandoned the family in 1765. His mother died in 1768, leaving him an orphan at a young age.

Despite his impoverished childhood, Hamilton was hard-working and dreamed of military glory. In 1769, while employed as a clerk at a trading company on St. Croix, Hamilton wrote a letter to his friend Edward Stevens that captures his restless drive and ambition:

...my Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station.... I wish there was a War.
Alexander Hamilton to Edward Stevens, November 11, 1769. General Correspondence, 1734-1804; 1734-1772. Alexander Hamilton Papers. Manuscript Division

Hamilton's life changed forever when his account of a destructive hurricane was published in St. Croix's Royal Danish American Gazette in 1772. Impressed by Hamilton's writing talents, the local business community raised money to send him to America to be educated.

In 1773, Hamilton studied at the Elizabethtown Academy, a college preparatory school in New Jersey, and then enrolled at King's College (now Columbia University). As a student he became involved in the revolutionary cause and spoke out against British rule at rallies. He also published two influential pamphlets: A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress and The Farmer Refuted.

A. Hamilton, drawn from life, Jan. 11, 1773. Photograph of miniature watercolor and ink portrait, [between 1900 and 1920]. Prints & Photographs Division

Hamilton left school before graduating and was appointed captain in a New York artillery company in 1776. The following year he was appointed aide-de-camp to George Washington with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became one of Washington's most trusted aides throughout the Revolutionary War. Still, Hamilton dreamed of glory on the battlefield and resigned his staff position in 1781. Later that year he was finally rewarded by Washington with a field command at the Battle of Yorktown, where he led a heroic assault on a British redoubt.

In December 1780, Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler, the daughter of Philip Schuyler. Hamilton was then associated with one of New York's wealthiest and most distinguished families, giving him social status and political connections that would further advance his career. After serving for a year as a delegate in the Continental Congress, he resigned in 1783 and, having trained himself in the law, opened a successful law practice in New York City.

Frustrated by the weak central government under the Articles of Confederation, Hamilton attended the Annapolis Convention in 1786, which led to the Constitutional Convention the following year in Philadelphia. Hamilton went on to serve as a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, where he delivered a six-hour speech in favor of a strong national government. After the convention, he joined forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays urging ratification of the Constitution. Known as the Federalist Papers or The Federalist, these eighty-five essays are considered one of the most important sources for understanding and interpreting the original intent of the Constitution.

The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
, vol. 1. New York: J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. Rare Book Selections. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

After the formation of the new government in 1789, President George Washington selected Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. Confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 1789, Hamilton made his first order of business the creation of a financial plan for the nation. He proposed that the federal government assume state debts incurred during the American Revolution. This proposal led to a contentious debate in Congress, until a compromise was worked out with Congressman James Madison and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. In exchange for locating the new capital on the Potomac River, Madison agreed not to block Hamilton's debt plan.

Hamilton's proposal for a national bank also caused sharp disagreements within President Washington's Cabinet. Hamilton argued that the implied powers granted by the Constitution allowed for the bank's creation. In opposition, Jefferson believed that creating a national bank exceeded the powers of the federal government as expressed in the Constitution. Washington eventually sided with Hamilton's position and the First Bank of the United States was chartered on February 25, 1791.

Alexander Hamilton, full-length portrait... Reproduction of painting by John Trumbull; Mentor Association Inc., c1915. Prints & Photographs Division

Hamilton resigned as treasury secretary in 1795 and returned to his law practice in New York City. Although retired from government, Hamilton served as the de facto head of the Federalist Party throughout the John Adams administration. In 1798, Hamilton was appointed inspector general of the army with rank of major general during the Quasi-War with France.

In 1800, Hamilton attempted to thwart the reelection of President John Adams by supporting Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as the Federalist alternative. When the presidential election of 1800 ended in a tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the contest was thrown to the House of Representatives. Hamilton, believing that Burr lacked fixed principles and was too ambitious to be president, worked behind the scenes to end the deadlock in Jefferson's favor, despite their longstanding political rivalry.

After Hamilton actively opposed Burr's candidacy in the New York gubernatorial election of 1804, Burr challenged him to a duel. Blaming Hamilton for his defeat, Burr accused Hamilton of publicly insulting him during the campaign. On July 11, 1804, on the heights of Weehawken, New Jersey, Hamilton was mortally wounded by Burr. In his final letter to his wife, Elizabeth, written a week before he died, Hamilton wrote:

I need not tell you of the pangs I feel, from the idea of quitting you and exposing you to the anguish which I know you would feel.... Adieu best of wives and best of Women.
Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, July 4, 1804. General Correspondence, 1734-1804; 1804. Alexander Hamilton Papers. Manuscript Division

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The Alexander Hamilton Papers consist of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings (although not his Federalist essays), and correspondence among members of the Hamilton and Schuyler families. The collection, consisting of approximately 12,000 items dating from 1708 to 1917, documents Hamilton's impoverished Caribbean boyhood (scantily); events in the lives of his family and that of his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton; his experience as a Revolutionary War officer and aide-de-camp to General George Washington; his terms as a New York delegate to the Continental Congress (1782-1783) and the Constitutional Convention (1787); and his careers as a New York state legislator, United States treasury secretary (1789-1795), political writer, and lawyer in private practice. Most of the papers date from 1777 until Hamilton's death in 1804.

Alexander Hamilton: A Resource Guide compiles links to digital materials related to Hamilton such as manuscripts, letters, broadsides, government documents, and images, that are available throughout the Library of Congress website. In addition, it provides links to external websites focusing on Hamilton and a selected bibliography.

Search A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875 to find a wide variety of material related to the proceedings of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress. The American State Papers contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838, including Hamilton's First Report on Public Credit, January 14, 1790; Report on a National Bank, December 13, 1790; and Report on Manufactures, December 5, 1791.

Search the George Washington Papers to find hundreds of items to, from, or referring to Alexander Hamilton. Many of these materials document Hamilton's work as Washington's aide-de-camp during the American Revolution, as well as Hamilton's service as secretary of the treasury in the Washington Administration.

See the entries for the U.S. Constitution and The Federalist Papers in the Library's Primary Documents in American History web guide series to learn more about these documents.

Watch a video of biographer Ron Chernow discussing his book Alexander Hamilton at the 2004 National Book Festival.

Equality of Rights Under the Law Shall Not Be Denied or Abridged By the United States Or Any State On Account of Sex.
-Alice Paul, Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, Introduced by the National Woman's Party, 1923.

Alice Paul, chief strategist for the militant wing of the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey. The product of an upper middle-class Quaker family, Paul attended Swarthmore College and earned a doctorate in social work from the University of PennsylvaniaExternal .

Alice Paul joined the woman suffrage movement while pursuing graduate studies in England. There, she was schooled in the militant tactics of Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union. Upon her return to the United States in 1910, Paul found the suffrage movement in need of new ways to capture public and press interest. In November 1912 Paul attended the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and offered her services. NAWSA accepted her offer and made her chairman of their Congressional Committee.

Charged with maintaining NAWSA's presence in Washington, D.C., her first task was organizing a parade and pageant designed to draw attention to the suffrage movement. Timed to coincide with festivities surrounding the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, the event resulted in a near riot as crowds surrounded and at times engulfed parade participants. Nonetheless, the parade on March 3, 1913 highlighted the suffrage cause at a time when the issue was falling from public consciousness.

In 1913, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Crystal Eastman, and others organized the Congressional Union (CU), later known as the National Woman's Party (NWP). The group's goal was ratification of a suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. Until the late 1910s, NAWSA mainly worked on the state level, urging each state to pass legislation permitting women to vote.

The party in power has told us that we must get suffrage state by state or not at all. It is hard to realize that we do not have to accept that, that we can take a shorter, better route. It is difficult to believe that we can demand and make ourselves heard...do you want justice for American women? We hope that you do; because swiftly and simply and directly, you can get what you want.
-Miss Beulah Amidon, The Suffragist, October 7, 1916.

Sensing the Congressional Union was moving in a more radical direction, NAWSA ousted the CU almost immediately following its formation. Over the next seven years, Paul and her followers relentlessly pursued a Constitutional Amendment. Their policy of holding the party in power responsible for the Amendment's success contrasted sharply with NAWSA's commitment to political neutrality. In the 1916 election, for example, the National Woman's Party campaigned against Wilson's Democrats in states where women could vote.

Even World War failed to divert the National Woman's Party from the suffrage campaign. Instead of calling a truce with President Wilson, suffragists picketed his White House with signs demanding "Kaiser Wilson" extend democracy to women. These peaceful, if abrasive, demonstrations ended with arrest and imprisonment. Behind bars, Paul and other suffragists continued their protest with a prison hunger strike and eventually were force fed.

During a time when print media was one of the primary means of influencing public opinion, a number of women's organizations created their own publications. One of the more well known of these titles includes The Suffragist, the official journal of The National Woman's Party. Not only did these periodicals improve organizing and spread awareness, they also illuminated the differences in strategy between various groups campaigning for suffrage. It is important to note that not all the press attention was positive. There were a number of anti-suffrage publications, as well as a number of critiques of the suffrage movement and it's leaders in the mainstream press. For example, in an article in The NationExternal (1921), Freda Kirchwey writes about the failure of the suffrage movement, and specifically Alice Paul, to consider the perspectives and concerns of black women.

Following adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Alice Paul continued to fight for women's equality. After earning a law degree in 1922, she wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), also known as the Lucretia Mott amendment. The National Woman's Party proposed the amendment in 1923 as a means of ending discrimination on the basis of gender. The ERA passed both houses of Congress fifty years later when a new generation of feminists took up the cause. However, three-fourths of the states failed to ratify the amendment by the 1982 deadline. Active in the movement until her death in 1977, Alice Paul lived to see enormous change in the rights and status of American women.

The National Woman's Party remains active to this day, working from their headquarters at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, one of the oldest residential properties on Capitol Hill.

Learn More

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection contains material from the NAWSA Collection, donated to the Library of Congress by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1938. Browse the Subjects or Contributors index to find material documenting the suffrage movement in the United States. Access the following materials through this online collection:

By 1917, both the NWP and NAWSA were pushing hard for a federal suffrage amendment. Read Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment to gain insight into the arguments for and against the federal amendment.

Some women's rights organizations opposed the ERA on grounds it would undermine labor legislation that improved working conditions for women and children. Ethel M. Smith outlines this argument in Toward Equal Rights for Men and Women, published in 1929 by the Committee on the Legal Status of Women, National League of Women Voters.

Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party: This collection includes photographs that document the National Woman's Party push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as its later campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Included are a timeline of key events in the history of the NWP as well as essays on major figures of the Party and tactics and techniques used during their suffrage campaign.

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States: Simultaneously a guide, an online magnet for digitized women's history materials drawn from a plethora of Library sources, and a gateway, this is an innovative addition to the Library's online resources. One section of the guide describes the "Women's Suffrage collections held by the Manuscript Division".

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911: These scrapbooks document the activities of the Geneva (NY) Political Equality Club, founded in 1897 by Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter Anne Fitzhugh Miller, as well as efforts at the state, national and international levels to win the vote for women. Alice Paul describes the treatment she endured while imprisoned in London for participating in a suffragette demonstration in the article "Alice Paul Talks".

Today in History features on woman's suffrage include: the 1854 Ohio Woman's Rights Convention; the 1869 decision by the Wyoming Territory to grant women the right to vote; the 1884 address by Susan B. Anthony to the House Judiciary Committee; and, the 1917 arrest of suffragists in front of the White House.

For insight into women's roles as family purchasing agents and workers in an expanding consumer society examine the collection Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era, 1921-1929. Read Selling Mrs. Consumer, The Consumer Viewpoint, and The Saleslady.

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Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary of the United States, was born on January 11 in either 1755 or 1757, on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the British West Indies. Hamilton claimed 1757 as his birth year, but probate papers recorded shortly after his mother's death indicate that 1755 is the correct year.

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Missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs found alive after she was kidnapped, parents murdered

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A missing 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after her parents were found murdered in their home last October, has been found alive, police say.

Jayme Closs will be reunited with family members Thursday night, police said. She was located in Gordon, Wisconsin, officials said.

"We are just happy everyone kept praying and didn't give up home like we didn't," Jayme's aunt, Jennifer Smith, told ABC News. "A lot of happy tears in this house tonight."

A suspect has been taken into custody, the Barron County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. Police did not release any other details about the arrest.

A citizen phoned in the information that led to Jayme's recovery, according to police.

"We thank everyone all around for their help," Smith said.

Authorities have scheduled a press conference for 10 a.m. on Friday to discuss the case.

"We want to thank the Douglas Co Sheriff's Department and agencies assisting them tonight. We also want to thank all the Law Enforcement agencies across the state and county that have assisted us in this case. We also could not have endured this case without the support of the public and I want to thank them for all the support and help," police said in a statement

Investigators believe Jayme was abducted Oct. 15, 2018, before dawn after her parents, James and Denise Closs, aged 56 and 46, were gunned down in their home in Barron.

Police responded to the house after a strange 911 call just before 1 a.m. local time when someone called from Denise Closs' cellphone, and the 911 dispatcher heard "a lot of yelling," according to records from the Barron County Sheriff's Department obtained by ABC News. The dispatcher called the number back but was unable to leave a voicemail.

More attempts were made, but the phone went unanswered. Authorities also tried calling the home's landline but it was disconnected, records show.

When authorities responded to the home minutes later, they found the front door kicked in and the couple had been shot to death.

Jayme was believed to be home when they were killed but had been abducted by the time authorities arrived.

A $50,000 reward had been offered for any information leading to the discovery of Jayme. Half the reward was put up by Jennie-O Turkey Store, a turkey hatchery and processing plant in Barron where Jayme's parents worked.

ABC News' Emily Shapiro, Morgan Winsor and Katie Conway contributed to this report.

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Missing teen Jayme Closs, whose parents were murdered, found alive after 3 months

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A missing 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after her parents were found murdered in their home last October, has been found alive, police say. Jayme Closs will be reunited with family members Thursday night, police said. She was located in Gordon, Wisconsin, officials said.

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Dirty John victim recalls daughter screaming she had killied the con man.

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When Debra Newell first spotted John Meehan on a dating website in 2014, she was instantly smitten - but the mother of four couldn't have predicted that her whirlwind romance would quickly unravel into a horrifying nightmare.

Newell's case of love gone wrong is the subject of an upcoming Oxygen documentary titled "Dirty John: The Dirty Truth." It features interviews with detectives who worked on the case, some of Meehan's former girlfriends and even his first wife, Tonia Bales.

The shocking tale was the subject of a smashing podcast in 2017 - from Wondery and the Los Angeles Times - and, more recently, in late 2018, Bravo premiered "Dirty John," a scripted series with Connie Britton in the starring role.

"I felt that the reason I participated in all of it, not just the Oxygen special, was to get awareness out there for other women," Newell told Fox News.

Newell, who was four times divorced, met Meehan on an over-50 dating website. Meehan posed as an anesthesiologist who'd just returned to Southern California after a year in war-torn Iraq while volunteering with Doctors Without Borders.

Newell, a wealthy and successful interior designer ready for romance, was impressed by what she read and saw.

"What drew me into John was number one his love for animals," explained Newell. "That he loved children. He ... was good looking in my eyes. He was a doctor. Basically, he checked all the boxes for me."

After two months of dating, the couple got married.

"John was extremely persistent," said Newell. "Every day, he was saying, 'Please, please, please marry me. You are my soulmate. You are the person that I want to live the rest of my life with. We're getting older. Let's just do it.' I was nervous, apprehensive about doing it, but I did."

While Newell said she felt herself quickly falling in love with the charismatic doctor, her four children weren't impressed. In fact, one of her daughters hired a private investigator to confirm her fears. It turned out Meehan never worked for Doctors Without Borders and never even attended medical school.

What Meehan did had was a felony rap sheet which unveiled he served time for stealing narcotics in hospitals. The Los Angeles Times reported that from 2005 to 2014, he had "seduced, swindled and terrorized multiple women, many of whom he had met on dating sites while posing as a doctor." Newell said the report made by the private investigator was about 324 pages.

The newspaper added that by the time Meehan married Newell in December 2014, three women had standing restraining orders against him. At least three others had requested them. Meehan had also told Newell one of his sisters had died of cancer. However, both of his siblings were alive and well.

"I think that I jumped with my heart instead of my head, and I ignored the flags," Newell admitted. "They were in front of me, but I refused to really look at them. I was just falling in love. ... I wasn't happy with how he was treating my kids. But I wasn't seeing a lot of it because how he would treat them when I wasn't around was very different when I was around ... he didn't make an effort to get to know my family, get to know my friends. He just wanted to be with me, and I thought that was one of the biggest signs."

Newell said she thought then of her sister, Cindi Vickers. Oxygen shared that in 1984, Vickers' husband Billy came up behind her, placed a pistol to the back of her neck and shot her to death. After pulling the trigger, Billy then shot himself in the stomach. He would survive the gunshot and later remarried.

Newell immediately wanted to end the marriage, even though Meehan kept insisting he was innocent of the allegations. They reconciled briefly, but eventually, she realized she couldn't spend the rest of her life with a manipulative con artist. Newell filed to annul the marriage to Meehan in April 2016. She also went into hiding.

"I gave John a chance. I also had one foot in, and one foot out. I really needed to analyze and figure this all out on my own," she recalled.

"When I left I had an exit plan because you don't walk away from these men without something violent happening," said Newell. "I had another phone. I had changed all my passwords. I changed emails. I had transferred money. I had talked to my office that I was going to be gone so they could get a hold of me remotely. There were many, many things I did to prepare myself to leave so that I could go into hiding."

People magazine reported Meehan filed for divorce himself, demanding half of Newell's income and ownership in her business. He also reportedly lit her Tesla on fire, emailed nude images of her to her family and began to stalk her.

"I thought he was after me for my money, so I didn't feel that my kids should be in fear," said Newell. "We thought it was me, and so I'd been hiding for seven months at this point."

Then on Aug. 20, 2016, Meehan waited outside of her youngest daughter Terra's apartment and attacked her. An injured Terra, who was inspired by moves she saw on "The Walking Dead," managed to fight Meehan off her. She kicked the knife from his hand, grabbed the weapon and stabbed him multiple times.

"She was right-handed. She didn't think," reported the Los Angeles Times. "She began flailing, looking for targets. She connected, again and again. His shoulder. His shoulder blade. His triceps. His shoulder blade. His upper back. His shoulder blade. His upper back. Between his shoulder blades. His forearm. His triceps. His shoulder. His chest. His left eye - and through it - into his brain."

Newell would receive a phone call from a distraught Terra.

"I get this call from my daughter, and she's screaming that she killed my husband," said Newell. "It was so surreal. The guilt and just everything overwhelmed me. ... I don't know how I got there, but I got to the site ... She was sitting on the curb. I just wanted to be with her."

Meehan died in the hospital four days later. Newell said she and Meehan were separated at the time. She claimed their annulment was going to be final on September 13.

The then-25-year-old was never charged for Meehan's death because it was determined she fought back in self-defense. Newell also shared Terra was sent away for about six months to Austin, Texas where she received extensive therapy for PTSD. But before then, Newell reached out to Meehan's sisters to notify them of their brother's fate.

"When everything happened we actually called John's sisters," said Newell. "They talked about the fact that they had been in fear, and that they were OK with what Terra had done. ... The girls had relief. They were many, many other victims out there that were all of a sudden no longer in fear because John was gone."

Newell said she hasn't dated since. These days, she's hoping her story will educate others on how easily one can be tangled in a terrifying situation if those glaring red flags are ignored.

"I hope people understand that it can happen to anyone," said Newell. "There are many, many people out there that are going through what I went through, maybe in a different way. But they are not alone."
"Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" airs Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. on Oxygen.

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

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For 87 days after her parents were shot dead, Jayme Closs was missing. She has since escaped her captor and returned to her home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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