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Robert Kraft and two dozen other people are being charged with sex trafficking.

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The owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, is being criminally charged with soliciting prostitution, authorities in Florida said.

"There was two incidences," an official in Jupiter, Fla., said.
This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft charged with soliciting prostitution

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Kevin Winter | Getty Images The owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, is being criminally charged with soliciting prostitution, authorities in Florida said. "There was two incidences," an official in Jupiter, Fla., said. This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

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Wood plank spears through car windshield

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Uber driver narrowly avoids tragedy as wood plank spears windshield after falling from subway platform

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ISIS bride's dad suing Trump, US to let her back into the country

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The father of the Alabama woman begging to be let back into the U.S. after leaving years ago to join ISIS is now launching a legal campaign against President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr.

Attorneys from the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ahmed Ali Muthana arguing his daughter Hoda and her 18-month-old son should be allowed to return to America, and her citizenship - which the U.S. government disputes - should be recognized.

The suit also seeks a judgment that Muthana's father is "entitled to send his daughter money to ensure the survival of his daughter and grandson, and enable them safe passage home, without subjecting himself to criminal liability" under U.S. law.

Muthana currently is living at a refugee camp in northeast Syria and she "is willing to pay whatever debts she has to society" - even if it means serving a lengthy prison sentence, her family's lawyer told Fox News on Thursday.
ISIS WIFE BEGGING FOR US RETURN IS 'GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD FOR HER DECISIONS', ATTORNEY SAYS
In 2015, Muthana allegedly operated a Twitter account that, on at least one occasion, tried to incite Americans to commit acts of violence on national holidays.

Pompeo though has said Muthana is not an American citizen and Trump has vowed not to let her back into the country.

"In Ms. Muthana's words, she recognizes that she has 'ruined' her own life, but she does not want to ruin the life of her young child," the attorneys who filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia told AL.com in a statement. "Citizenship is a core right under the Constitution, and once recognized should not be able to be unilaterally revoked by tweet-no matter how egregious the intervening conduct may be."

But Zuhdi Jasser, the Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy -- a group that describes itself as a "Muslim-led organization working on the front lines for reform at all levels of the Muslim community" -- told Fox News yesterday the government shouldn't even bother with Muthana.

"She became, not only a terrorist, she became an enemy of our country and if she did believe in the citizenship oath...she abandoned it and actually violated it and became an enemy combatant," he said on "America's Newsroom."

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ISIS bride's dad suing Trump, US to let her back into the country

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The father of the Alabama woman begging to be let back into the U.S. after leaving years ago to join ISIS is now launching a legal campaign against President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr.

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US Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being a domestic terrorist appears in court for first time

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US Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being a domestic terrorist appears in court for first time

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A man caught researching acts of domestic terrorism and amassing more than a dozen firearms will spend at least two weeks in federal custody.

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Rip Steve

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Steve Irwin's life was cut short when he was impaled through the chest by a stingray in 2006 near the Great Barrier Reef. But his legacy remains immense. He was a popular television personality, a zookeeper, science educator, and a conservationist. He would have been 57 years old today, and a Google Doodle not only honors him, but also the work he dedicated his life to.

You might be most familiar with Irwin from his Crocodile Hunter television series, which documented his very, very close and dangerous-seeming encounters with animals (including crocodiles), which he co-hosted with his wife Terri from 1996 to 2004.

His shows and television specials were broadcast in over 100 countries, and he became a global celebrity, loved (and sometimes lampooned) for his liberal use of the word " crikey!"

In the eyes of critics, his stunts sometimes went too far, like the time he fed a crocodile while carrying his infant son in his arms. There was also a time he was investigated for filming too close to humpback whales and penguins, possibly putting them at risk. (He was never charged with any crime.)

Antics aside, his devotion to animals and conservation began long before the show ever existed.

His father, Bob Irwin, is a herpetologist who founded a zoo in Queensland, Australia, where Steve grew up. Steve would come to run the park, now called Australia Zoo, and promote the educational and conversation efforts there. "My job, my mission, the reason I've been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife," he once said. He had reason to worry. The average vertebrate (birds, fish, mammals, amphibians) population has declined 60 percent since 1970, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The future for biodiversity on planet Earth, due to human activity, looks bleak.

And they weren't just words. His Wildlife Warriors charity bought up hundreds of square miles around the world for wildlife conservation. The charity, which is still operating today, is also involved in conservation efforts for animals like Sumatran tigers, koalas, Cambodian elephants, and more. The Australia Zoo even manages a 500-plus-square-mile reserve in the north of Queensland, named after Irwin.

Whether or not you approved of us his up-close and aggressive approach to videotaping animals, it's clear pop culture could use more science and wildlife celebrities like Irwin. For too many, the enormous diversity of life on Earth is a remote abstraction, something that belongs to another, more fantastical world.

People like Irwin, Jane Goodall, and David Attenborough help us appreciate the natural world by bringing it into our homes, and selling us on its importance and vulnerability with their care, wonder, thoughtfulness, and enthusiasm.

If you're feeling nostalgic for Irwin's programing, here's some footage from the very first episode of The Crocodile Hunter, which first aired in 1996.

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Steve Irwin said, "My mission ... is to save wildlife." He did.

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Steve Irwin's life was cut short when he was impaled through the chest by a stingray in 2006 near the Great Barrier Reef. But his legacy remains immense. He was a popular television personality, a zookeeper, science educator, and a conservationist.

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Russia is prepared for a "Cuban missile-style crisis" scenario if the United States wanted one and that they are the leading country for a swift first nuclear strike. This is caused by the unraveling of the Cold War Arms control theory is coming apart.

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MOSCOW, Feb 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one, and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.

The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a U.S. missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, as a landmark Cold War-era arms-control treaty unravels.

Putin's comments, made to Russian media late on Wednesday, follow his warning that Moscow will match any U.S. move to deploy new missiles closer to Russia by stationing its own missiles closer to the United States or by deploying faster missiles or both.

Putin fleshed out his warning in detail for the first time, saying Russia could deploy hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines which could lurk outside U.S. territorial waters if Washington now moved to deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

"(We're talking about) naval delivery vehicles: submarines or surface ships. And we can put them, given the speed and range (of our missiles)... in neutral waters. Plus they are not stationary, they move and they will have to find them," Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript.

"You work it out. Mach nine (the speed of the missiles) and over 1,000 km (their range)."
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The U.S. State Department dismissed Putin's earlier warning as propaganda, saying it was designed to divert attention from what Washington alleges are Moscow's violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

The pact, which banned Russia and the United States from stationing short- and intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe, is in its death throes, raising the prospect of a new arms race between Washington and Moscow.

Putin has said he does not want an arms race with the United States, but that he would have no choice but to act if Washington deployed new missiles in Europe, some of which he says would be able to strike Moscow within 10-12 minutes.

Putin said his naval response to such a move would mean Russia could strike the United States faster than U.S. missiles deployed in Europe could hit Moscow because the flight time would be shorter.

"It (the calculation) would not be in their favor, at least as things stand today. That's for sure." said Putin.

Relations between Moscow and Washington were strained, he added, but the tensions were not comparable to those of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"They (the tensions) are not a reason to ratchet up confrontation to the levels of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s. In any case that's not what we want," said Putin. "If someone wants that, well OK they are welcome. I have set out today what that would mean. Let them count (the missile flight times)."

Separately, Washington said on Thursday that it was carrying out an observation flight over Russia under the Open Skies Treaty, the first one since 2017.

In a statement, the Pentagon said an unarmed OC-135B aircraft was being used and Russia was aware of the flight.

(Editing by Gareth Jones and Bernadette Baum)

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Putin to U.S.: I'm ready for another Cuban Missile-style crisis if you want one

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MOSCOW, Feb 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one, and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike. The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a U.S.

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some of the states have been hit very hard with opioid epidemic the states are more the upper near New York. in 28 states have found that the time has doubled in % every 2 years about.

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While there's early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to slow, opioids killed more than 49,000 people in the United States in 2017, according to preliminary data. A new study reveals which part of the country has been affected the most by the ongoing epidemic.

In a study of opioid deaths from 1999 to 2016, "we found that, in general, opioid mortality is skyrocketing," said Mathew Kiang, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University's Center for Population Health Sciences.

More specifically, the study, published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open, found that the mortality rate from synthetic opioids in 28 states more than doubled every two years from 1999 to 2016. The District of Columbia saw the greatest increase in its opioid mortality rate, which more than tripled every year since 2013.

Synthetic opioids are manmade drugs such as fentanyl, as opposed to semi-synthetic opioids such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, or natural opioids such as codeine and morphine.

Fentanyl is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin, and just ¼ of a milligram can be deadly. For comparison, a standard low-dose aspirin is 81 mg. If you were to cut that tablet into 324 pieces, one of those pieces would equal ¼ milligram.

"One thing I do want to highlight is that, despite the large differences in deaths across states, there's no evidence to suggest that there's differences in use," Kiang said. "What we think is happening is that the heroin just continues to get more and more potent in the eastern United States, whereas heroin [in] the western United States has traditionally been this brown tar heroin. It's much harder to lace with fentanyl or other synthetic opioids."

At the national level, opioids were responsible for shaving 0.36 years off Americans' life expectancy in 2016, the study says. That's a greater loss of life than caused by guns or motor vehicle accidents.

New Hampshire and West Virginia saw the biggest drops in life expectancy, of more than a year, due to opioid deaths. Montana and Oregon were the only states to see a decline in opioid deaths from 1999 to 2016.

According to the report, "emerging research ... suggests the opioid epidemic has evolved as a series of 3 intertwined but distinct epidemics, or waves, based on the types of opioids associated with mortality":

1990s-2010: Prescription painkillers

2010-present: Heroin

2013-present: Synthetic opioids

Utilizing data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics and the US census, Kiang and his colleagues identified 351,630 opioid-related deaths from 1999 to 2016. Over that 18-year period, deaths from opioids increased by 455%. Men, on average, died at age 39.8, women at age 43.5.

Kiang said that, if anything, the number of opioid deaths is probably underreported because synthetic opioids require additional testing by a medical examiner. He hopes testing for synthetic opioids will become standard whenever the cause of someone's death is classified as an overdose.

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University, said, "to talk about solutions, you have to frame the problem the right way." To him, that means looking at the opioid crisis not as an overdose epidemic but as an addiction epidemic.

"Preventing opioid addiction is necessary for the long term, so that this crisis ultimately comes to an end. And preventing opioid addiction really means much more cautious prescribing."

Kiang agrees that there are multiple factors at work. "We need to make treatment at least as accessible, available and affordable as heroin," he said. "It shouldn't be harder to get help than it is to get heroin."

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These states have been hit the hardest by America's opioid epidemic | CNN

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While there's early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to slow, opioids killed more than 49,000 people in the United States in 2017, according to preliminary data. A new study reveals which part of the country has been affected the most by the ongoing epidemic.

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10-year-old cancer patient gets second chance with unique surgery that rotated her foot.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - After 81 days in the hospital, 10-year-old Harper Claar will finally get to leave Children's Mercy Hospital on Thursday and go home.

In May, Harper started to have knee pain. Doctors diagnosed her with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

"It pretty much encompassed her whole distal femur, so closest to her knee," Harper's mother, Genesa Stark, said.

Doctors immediately took action, treating her first with chemotherapy, followed by a unique surgery called rotationplasty.

As part of the procedure, surgeons removed part of her upper leg and then rotated her lower leg 180 degrees. Her foot, which is now backwards, will function as her knee, said Dr. Allyson Hays, a pediatric oncologist at Children's Mercy.

"Essentially her ankle becomes her knee joint, and she could use that for prosthesis in the future," Hays said.

Harper's parents hope this option gives their daughter her life back.

"Nobody wants to have to take part of their kid off. But, you get the cancer off," Stark said. "I mean no matter what, we were taking that cancer out of her."

The Johnson County 10-year-old has a long recovery ahead, but people who know her said she's the definition of a fighter.

"She's just determined to get through this. She's determined to make things work. She's determined to be better and be happy and be herself through all of this," Stark said.

Harper said she's just happy to go home and, most importantly, see her family dog again.

"Thanks for helping me and being really nice," she told the doctors on Wednesday as she got ready to leave.

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Unique surgery gives 10-year-old with cancer a second chance

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - After 81 days in the hospital, 10-year-old Harper Claar will finally get to leave Children's Mercy Hospital on Thursday and go home. In May, Harper started to have knee pain. Doctors diagnosed her with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

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People are now able to go through taco bell drive through with their skis on in Ontario Canada

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Taco Bell launching first ever 'slide-thru' takeout window

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today is Steve Irwin's 57th birthday

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Four women in Virginia who thought they all looked and acted the same found out that they were sisters.

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4 women who look alike discover they're sisters after DNA test: Report

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The women found out they all were born to the same mother.

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A bee that was thought to have been extinct has been rediscovered.

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World's largest bee rediscovered - CNN Video

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A bee with a 2.5 inch wingspan and body roughly the size of a human thumb has been rediscovered after being thought by some to be extinct.

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A woman died after eating in a Spanish restaurant

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Woman dies as food poisoning in Michelin-starred restaurant hits 30 diners | CNN

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A Michelin-starred restaurant in the Spanish city of Valencia is at the center of a food poisoning outbreak that has killed one woman and affected 29 further diners.

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Drunk driver speeds down sidewalk in New Jersey

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Video: Car speeds down sidewalk, plows into light pole

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An alleged drunk driver nearly hit a man as he sped down the sidewalk in Jersey City, New Jersey.