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Raging Inferno Destroys Structure North of San Angelo

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Raging Inferno Destroys Structure North of San Angelo

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husband got accused of murder and the wife had 5 children

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A wild fire by Belaire Elementry on New years eve at 4:00 pm

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felon was wanted and when the police came to get him he threatened to kill himself. He had a physical weapon. This all occurred at 3:30 on Wednesday. he was sentenced to 15  years in prison. He went to Shannon Medical before sent to Tom Green County Jail

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SAN ANGELO, TX - The City Marshal attempted to serve a warrant for the arrest of a convicted sex offender this afternoon and the suspect threatened to harm himself and possibly law enforcement. According to San Angelo Police Department Spokeswoman Tracy Piatt-Fox, Andres Rodriguez, 41, was wanted for not registering as a sex offender. The attempt to serve the arrest warrant happened at about 3:30 p.m. in the 100 block of W. 11th St. in San Angelo.

When officers arrived to back up the marshal, Rodriguez had already brandished a "physical weapon." Over the radio, police stated that he taped a knife to his hand and in a video we recorded from the scene, he was heard yelling, "I'll stab myself. I'll stab myself!"

Rodriguez was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for a 2000 incident where he was later convicted for raping a girl 14 years old or younger here in Tom Green County. He is still required to register as a sex offender.

According to Piatt-Fox, when word spread that Rodriguez was armed, the patrol supervisor requested a "less than lethal weapon." Over the radio, police were heard requesting "bean bag" rounds for a shotgun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_bag_round

While awaiting the beanbag rounds to arrive at the scene, detectives established rapport with Rodriguez, attempting to talk him into giving up. Negotiations broke down. Rodriguez taunted police. "Do it! Do it! I'm not scared of you to kill me!"

While officers faced him with drawn handguns pointed at him, the supervisor moved in from Rodriguez's left side, unseen, with the shotgun loaded with beanbag rounds. As Rodriguez was yelling, the supervisor fired three beanbag rounds and they seemed to have little effect. Rodriguez retreated back into the house.

WATCH: Police take down wanted felon:

At this point, detectives negotiated with the suspect for about 20 minutes longer and he soon gave up without a fight. He was handcuffed and taken to be treated by medical personnel at the scene before getting booked into the Tom Green County Jail.

Police from across the department responded to the incident, including the Patrol Division, Lake Division officers, Criminal Investigations Division and the City Marshals.

Piatt-Fox said there were no other subjects in the house. However, an adult female was at the scene when the incident began, but she quickly cleared the scene. Building construction contractors were working nearby and were asked to seek safety inside a nearby residence.

Piatt-Fox said police took the threats from Rodriguez seriously.

"Whenever there is a conversation between a suspect and officers in a highly charged situation, we take everything very seriously," she said.

Piatt-Fox said that when a situation like this is resolved without death or serious injury to the suspect, police or the general public, the department considers it a "win."

"We have done a great job," she said. "It's a great day."

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Crazy Wanted Felon Refusing to Give Up Blasted with Police Beanbag Gun

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SAN ANGELO, TX - The City Marshal attempted to serve a warrant for the arrest of a convicted sex offender this afternoon and the suspect threatened to harm himself and possibly law enforcement. According to San Angelo Police Department Spokeswoman Tracy Piatt-Fox, Andres Rodriguez, 41, was wanted for not registering as a sex offender.

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Camels and many other animals are endangering locals trying to find water and shelter from the fires and heat waves

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000 camels at risk of being shot in australia as they desperately search for water - cnn

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10,000 camels at risk of being shot in Australia as they desperately search for water

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About 10,000 camels are at risk of being shot and killed in a drought-ravaged region of Australia, after complaints that the thirsty animals are endangering locals as they desperately search for water.

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On january 5th 2020 an Austrailian man saved  a baby kangeroo from  a wild fire in the forest no it is recovering and they cant find the parent to the joey they belived that it could of got burnt or ecsaped from the fire and left the little joey behind.

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On january 5th 2020 an Austrailian man saved  a baby kangeroo from  a wild fire in the forest no it is recovering and they cant find the parent to the joey they belived that it could of got burnt or ecsaped from the fire and left the little joey behind.

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World's largest volunteer force fights Australia's wildfires

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TOMERONG, Australia (AP) - The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

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Donald trump sent a missile to Iran and accidentally killed forty people. Ukraine plane crashed because a missile exploded.COPS ran after a guy here because he didn't want a ticket.NO SURVIVES!!!!!

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a man got shot by my house and i heared the cops say get down and i start to hear gun shots

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A bunch of Kangaroos retreated to a golf field it was peaceful than turned into chaos than into a killing field! Over 2 Million Men were told they have PTSD Tragic...

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A newlywed couple dies on a plane crash among 176 others. They both died a week after their wedding. The plane crash was a disaster and they had a short marriage.

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Newlyweds died together in the plane crash in Iran a week after their wedding

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The celebration of a new life together turned to loss when newlyweds died in the Tehran plane crash as they traveled home to Canada.

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US cities are losing 36 million trees a year

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US cities are losing 36 million trees a year

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If your looking for a reason to care about tree loss,this summer record-breaking heat waves might be it.A study published last year by the us forest service found that we lost 36 million trees annually.Then we continued so cities can be warmer and every time we build a road or a building we cut down a tree so we can put it there. Birds rely on trees for shelter and for there nest and food.

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Rush-en solder accused of mas shooting. 

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HE said that he did it because of a nerves breakdown. He killed 8 of his colleagues.He apologized to the family of the colleagues.He told the family's to pleas forgive him if they could.The shooting ha pend at a Siberian base.

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russian soldier accused of mass shooting says he was victim of hazing - report - cnn

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A Russian soldier on trial for shooting and killing eight of his fellow service members has said he was the victim of "hazing," Russian state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

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Austrailian dog saves hundreds of animals from wildfire in Victoria 

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This Dog is know now for savirer after saving over 50 sheeps the dog was so scared and almost quit but wanted to save them.

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some time before 2:30 the cops where called to a shooting on volney  street across a school called Reagan elementary    cops found a fourteen year old boy  suffering from a gun shot wound they tried to give him first aid before taking him to the hospital the one who shot him was sixteen and was chared  for aggressive assault with a deadly weapon   https://ktxs.com/news/local/14-year-old-male-shot-by-reagan-elementary-school-was-targeted

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There The bush fire has destroyed 1.5 million acres. A lot of animals have dead to the fire. Million's from people have smoke in their town. There are blood skies, so people can not fly. There are an estimated of 500 million animals.

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Emergency airlifts, scorched koalas, hazardous air quality - wildfires raging across Australia have taken a devastating toll on the nation, and the blazes could be burning for months to come.

The bushfires, which have been burning since September, have killed at least 25 people, destroyed 2,000 homes and killed an estimated 500 million animals. In all, about 15 million acres have burned across the country - an area roughly the size of West Virginia.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday that the government was committing an extra $1.4 billion toward the recovery effort, but some organizations say that's just a drop in the bucket.

Here's how you can help.

What can I do to help victims of the Australia fires?

The best way to help? Take a minute to learn about what caused the Australia fires.

Australia typically has a fire season that runs from December to March, but human-caused climate change has made this year's season particularly catastrophic, experts say.

Human-caused climate change lengthens the fire season, decreases precipitation and increases temperature, fueling the blazes, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Last year was both the hottest and driest year ever measured in Australia, the bureau said. December was one of the top two hottest months on record for the nation.

"Climate change is super-charging our natural disaster risks," Greg Mullins, former Fire and Rescue commissioner of New South Wales, told the Sydney Morning Herald. "I wish we were wrong, but we're not."

What provided the spark that ignited this tinderbox? Two dozen people have been accused of deliberately lighting some of the fires, including a teenage volunteer firefighter.
More on climate change: Australian wildfires 'running out of control,' experts say
Where can I donate to help Australia?

Fire departments: In both Victoria and New South Wales, two of the states hardest hit by the blazes, you can donate directly to the state fire authority or to a local fire brigade, many of which are volunteer-based. "Experience tells us that donation of money is much more effective and provides more flexibility than the donation of material items or pre-loved goods," the Victorian Country Fire Authority says on its website. For fire departments in Victoria, donate at cfa.vic.gov.au. For departments in New South Wales, donate on the government's website.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service has also set up bank accounts to collect donations for the families of volunteer firefighters who have been killed while on duty. Donate at rfs.nsw.gov.au.

Victorian Government: The Victorian Government, in partnership with Bendigo Bank and The Salvation Army, has established a fund for affected families and communities. According to the government's website, an advisory panel will recommend where funds are distributed. More at vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal.

Australian Red Cross: Since July, the Australian Red Cross has assisted more than 18,600 people affected by the fires, according to its website. The organization says that it is currently supporting thousands of people in evacuation centers and recovery hubs. Learn more about where your money goes and donate at redcross.org.au.

(The American Red Cross is also accepting donations for bushfire relief efforts. More at redcross.org.)

First Nations Communities: Musician and community rights advocate Neil Morris, a Yorta Yorta man, has created a GoFundMe page to provide "culturally sensitive, specific direct support" to First Nations Communities displaced by the fires. Donations - which have reached nearly $600,000 - fund temporary relocation costs, basic amenities, resettling expenses and more. Learn more at au.gofundme.com.

Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal: This Australian nonprofit is raising funds to distribute as grants to rural and regional communities for disaster recovery projects. The grants could be used to repair community infrastructure, provide psychological support to those affected and more. Donate frrr.org.au.

GIVIT: Australian nonprofit GIVIT is collecting donation items requested by people affected by the fires. Items range from dog food to fencing materials. Read about what's needed and donate at givit.org.au/disasters.

Housing: If you live in Australia, you can offer up your home as emergency housing for people displaced by the bushfires. Learn more at cfa.vic.gov.au.

How can I help animals in Australia?

Nearly 500 million animals - including mammals, birds and reptiles - have died in bushfires in New South Wales, Sydney University ecologist Chris Dickman told The Sydney Morning Herald. Many organizations are working to rescue and rehabilitate animals caught in the blazes.

WIRES: The New South Wales-based Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service Inc., Australia's largest wildlife rescue organization, is accepting donations to fund the rescue and care of animals affected by the fires. In December, WIRES received more than 20,000 calls and volunteers attended more than 3,300 rescues, according to the organization's website. All animal rescuers are volunteers. Learn more at wires.org.au.

Koala Hospital Port Macquarie: This koala hospital in New South Wales is accepting donations to fund the rescue, treatment and release of koalas, as well as research and education about koalas. The hospital said Sunday that it is "inundated with supplies to treat burnt koalas" and is now sending boxes of veterinary supplies to the state's south coast, according to the hospital's Facebook page. Donate at koalahospital.org.au/shop/donation.

Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital: Bindi Irwin, the daughter of famed wildlife conservationist and "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, has been taking in many displaced animals at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which is owned by her mother, Terri. The Queensland hospital is "busier than ever," Irwin said in an Instagram post. The zoo's Wildlife Warriors program is raising money for new enclosures to house flying foxes and koalas injured or displaced by fires. Donate at wildlifewarriors.org.au.

Wildlife Victoria: A nonprofit that provides wildlife emergency response services, Wildlife Victoria is accepting donations to distribute to wildlife shelters to help rebuild enclosures and equipment, the organization says on its website. Donate at wildlifevictoria.org.au.
Bindi Irwin: Her family's animal hospital is 'busier than ever' amid wildfires
RSPCA Australia: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Australia, the nation's leading animal welfare charity, is accepting donations to fund the rescue and treatment of animals affected by the fires. RSPCA chapters in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia are accepting donations.

Zoos Victoria: A nonprofit conservation organization of three zoos in this Australian state, Zoos Victoria is collecting donations to fund emergency veterinary assistance and scientific intervention for affected animals. "What is required right now are funds to ensure we are best placed to deploy this assistance when the time comes," the organization's website says. Learn more at donate.zoo.org.au/donation.

Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park: This wildlife park in South Australia is raising money for koala veterinary costs, koala milk and supplements, and extra holding and rehabilitation enclosures. The park has also taken in kangaroos, wallabies, an eagle and a possum. A GoFundMe page organized by park owner Dana Mitchell has raised more than $800,000. Donate here.

World Wildlife Fund Australia: This chapter of the international wildlife conservation organization is accepting donations to care for injured wildlife and, when the fires clear, to plant 10,000 native trees in critical koala habitat, including in "koala triangle," the heartland of Australia's healthiest wild koala populations. Donate at donate.wwf.org.au.

Animal Rescue Craft Guild: This volunteer-run group with participants worldwide is knitting and crocheting protective pouches and blankets for animals displaced by the fires. One organizer told Reuters that the group has supplied thousands of rescue groups around the country. Check out the group's Facebook page.

Australian Koala Foundation: This foundation allows you to "adopt" a koala through a symbolic foster program; your monthly fee funds protection efforts for wild koalas. You can also pay to "plant a tree" to help restore koala habitat. The foundation is also asking that Koala lovers to write letters to politicians in support of the Koala Protection Act.

Who has donated to Australian bushfires?
More on donations: Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban pledge $500,000 to fight wildfires
Several celebrities have pledged donations to local fire departments and shared donation information on social media.

Actress Nicole Kidman and musician Keith Urban, who both hold Australian citizenship, announced their family would donate $500,000 to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, the volunteer fire department for the Australian state with some of the largest fire breakouts. Pink also pledged $500,000 to local fire departments.

Iggy Azalea, Naomi Watts, Leonardo DiCaprio and others have drawn attention to the issue on social media.

Russell Crowe, who won an award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, was not present to receive the award because he was home fighting the fires.

"Make no mistake," Crowe wrote in a message to the attendees. "The tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate change-based. We need to act based on science, move our global workforce to renewable energy and respect our planet for the unique and amazing place it is. That way we all have a future. Thank you."
Thinking of donating to another organization? First, check it out on the Australian Charities and Non-Profits Commission's website, or on Follow USA TODAY's Grace Hauck on Twitter @grace_hauck. CharityWatch, a U.S.-based charity watchdog.
Athletes are also doing their part to support the cause. Several tennis stars - including Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and more - are expected to participate in a "Rally for Relief" exhibition match in Australia next week, in advance of the 2020 Australian Open. Australia's No. 1-ranked tennis player, Ashleigh Barty, has pledged to donate $250,000 in prize money to the Australian Red Cross if she wins the Brisbane International this week.

Can I go to Australia to help with fires?

Most emergency response organizations require volunteers to have training before participating in relief efforts. While booking a ticket to Sydney might not be the most effective way to help, you can still sign up for a training session to help out in the future.

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Australia's devastating fires are still burning. Here's how you can help

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Emergency airlifts, scorched koalas, hazardous air quality - wildfires raging across Australia have taken a devastating toll on the nation, and the blazes could be burning for months to come. The bushfires, which have been burning since September, have killed at least 25 people, destroyed 2,000 homes and killed an estimated 500 million animals.

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teachers are asking how they like the new year so far. some students like the new year, some kinda like it, some don't like it.

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current events conversation

Teenage comments in response to our recent writing prompts, and an invitation to join the ongoing conversation.

Nicole Randone, 19, in her bedroom. She's one of many teenagers obsessed with Y2K. In our related writing prompt, we asked students what era they wish they'd grown up in. Related Article | Related Student Opinion Credit... Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times

Happy 2020 to all our students and teachers! To kick off the New Year, we invited students to tell us their predictions about the year and decade ahead. We also asked them what bygone era they would have liked to have grown up in and how they deal with frenzied thoughts.

Special thanks to Hoggard High School and Lubbock Cooper High School for getting the new year off to a strong start with many thoughtful comments across our writing prompts.

And a warm welcome to new classes from Beverly Middle School, Classical High School, Garrison Middle School and Bristol Central High School.
Please note: Student comments have been lightly edited for length, but otherwise appear exactly as they were originally submitted.

Credit... Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters

In her column about tech predictions for the next decade, Opinion columnist Kara Swisher anticipates that automation will be used for good, social media will be depolarized, and we might finally put down our phones.

We asked students what they think will happen globally, nationally, locally or in their own lives in the next year or ten. From climate change to politics to sports, here are their predictions:

In the coming decade, I believe that the fight against climate change will increase as more of the younger generations are able to vote and be a part of our government. The older generations who didn't do as much to save our planet and fight against emissions will be voted out of office. I think the signs of climate change like more intense wildfires and mass coral bleaching will be so obvious that the people who dismiss it as a hoax will see they are wrong. This decade will also bring about the use of cleaner energy. I believe that nuclear energy will have a resurgence as the younger generations who are more open to nuclear than the older generations see the need for it.
- Matthew Ewing, Lubbock
For the year of 2020 and the next decade I believe climate change will worsen due to inadequate action taken by world leaders, soon climate change will not be reversible. I also believe that there will be some huge technological advancements meant to deal with this crisis as the most innovative technology is made during the most desperate of times.

I think that we will start to attack climate change at a more aggressive approach than in years passed. There is already a little bit being done about it but I think in 2020 more people will realize how important climate change really is. I think Donald Trump will not get re-elected and we will get a more progressive president, that leans towards saving the world from climate change. I also think that a lot of discrimination problems will become better. With the older generations going to die off, the younger generations can help to solve problems with climate change and discrimination, as they were left with it when the older generation left. I really hope a lot of our worlds issues come to an end or at least slow down.

I hope and believe more influential people will encourage people to donate money involving things that will help with environmental help and awareness, as well as putting in their own money to help out. People will finally realize what we are doing to our planet and choose to do something about it before the effects of pollution and global warning before the effects have became to far gone to reverse.

I believe that over the next decade one of the main things that will continue to grow is the use of social media. I think that social media is a big part of today's society and that with teens and young adults getting paid based off of how many likes and subscribers they have, they aren't getting real jobs. I feel like social media will be a cause of the decline in employees for young adults because they are all getting paid via social media.
- McKenna Emert, Lubbock
Social media has teens and even adults brainwashed into believing it is what brings them joy. It is an addictive machine built to make you keep on scrolling. It is an epidemic in my opinion that won't be able to be solved in just one year, but I do hope we can make steps in the right direction. I would love to sit here and say that popular social media companies are seeing the damage their apps are having on kids and are finding ways to change that, but with how much money they are making off these time sucking apps, I don't believe that is what they care about. I think the only way to change it is for some sort of law to be made.

I think that in the year 2020 there will be a major war. I think because Trump doesn't put up with any threats from other countries we will be led into a war. I also think America will prosper in the year 2020 because we have a leader that is one of the most successful businessmen in the world. I predict that Trump will be elected into office again for his second term.

The political divide will become more and more pronounced and violence will be used increasingly frequently. The public will be further whipped into a frenzy of fear on more issues such as China, Global Warming, and Artificial Intelligence that can only be solved by putting more and more power into the hands of fewer and fewer. It is possible to prevent this future, but unlikely as it would require large amounts of people to respect both each other and their country. It would require people to become individuals again instead of just a conglomeration of ideas heard from the internet. It would require a rebirth of real intellectualism. It would require the country to acquire the patience to occasionally be still instead of rushing blindly into the darkness of progress.

While we are scrambling to find plausible solutions to things like climate change and racism, we are becoming more polarized and divided than ever. We are becoming more and more entrenched in our own views and instead of having insightful discussions where we are allowed to see other perspectives, we fight about our own opinions and solidify the fact that we will never see where other people are coming from. Because we are finally seeing how divided we are becoming, I think there will eventually be a turn for the better and after some trial and error, we will find a way to have helpful, intellectual discussions. Society is like a pendulum and it can only see that it has gone too far one way when it has gone as far as it possibly can. So, I think that we will eventually figure out how to have calm discussions about opposing views, but it will have to get worse before it gets better.
- Sam McNamara, John T. Hoggard High (Wilmington, NC)
One prediction I have for 2030 is that the rate at which our country is becoming polarized will slow down at the very least, and perhaps even regress. As human beings, we can only be in a divided state for so long before tensions are relieved naturally or a conflict relives tension. I do not believe any large domestic conflicts will be taking place this decade, so I predict that people will naturally become less divided. We only have so much time and energy to yell and scream about politics, take sides, and to complain, and I feel people will become bored of this after years of doing so. This will allow for more free-flowing political discussions in America and should help to alleviate the feeling walking on eggshells when anything remotely political arises in conversation.

With all the work in A.I. that various tech companies such as Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been doing, it's only a matter of time before this Artificial Intelligence moves out of its shell and into bigger, more human-like robots that can assist workers, and eventually replace them which may or may not be good depending on how you look at it. Regarding the way technology and the way it affects our lives and how it will change in the next ten years, I don't know. I personally don't want anything to change about my way of life and the tech around me, sure, faster internet, easier means of transportation, and robot helpers Sound nice, but if we get too used to those innovations and never do any work of our own we may as well end up like the people from Wall-E, mindlessly floating around on our hover chairs with our lazy bodies having their every need catered to by a computer.

I believe we should stop artificial intelligence from even becoming a thing. Not only will it take away many jobs from humans, it will take away human interaction. People won't be going to the doctor's office and speaking with a real human being who can understand a person's emotions and relate to them. They will be speaking to a robot who will just prescribe them some medicine and send them on their way. Not only should we become a more understanding society in the 2020s, we should also become a more interactive society, and push for the end of the development of artificial intelligence, not only to save jobs, but to save ourselves.

There is no telling where advancements in technology will bring us in this decade or even in this century. We could be rearranging the atoms in cars to make more food. We could be creating our own multiverse. We could be harnessing matter from other planets. In the late 2010s, we found a hint that the world will be more open-minded about change and about other people's mentality. We legalized gay marriage and we became more socially aware of the LGBT+ community among others. And all of this change happened in just a decade, with more to come in this one. Think about the 60s. Look at how much work it took just to desegregate America. That took decades. Now, look where we are. We are introducing new genders! We are allowing people to change their gender! This all happened in the span of 5 years and this is just picking up speed now.

Not to start this off as a gloomy pessimist, but I think it's all going downhill now. The problem? People. Sure, we don't start natural disasters and you can't blame an entire species for the mistakes of one person, but men and women all over the world are becoming exceedingly more and more aggressive. Instagram isn't even a place to post pictures of your newborn baby anymore. Instead, it's a place to bash our President, tell our next door neighbor Julie that her ideas on abortion are stupid and so on. Australia is already in flames and what are most celebrities with millions, even billions of dollars doing? Buying another Gucci bag and their fifth Lamborghini. Selfishness, aggression, and not having an open mind are going to continue plaguing the world. No matter how many disasters, political or natural, the world faces, humanity as a whole isn't going to get it together any time soon. Happy New Year everyone.

The future is no doubt here. 20 or 30 years ago if you asked someone what they thought 2020 had in store they would probably envision a futuristic metropolis. Flying cars, jet packs, hovercrafts, and robots, the full "Jetsons" package but that is the opposite of what I think or at least hope 2020 has in for us. With the climate CRISIS pouncing on civilization what we need is a way to merge our world with the natural world. I think in 2020 we will see technologies improve so that we can almost regress in the damage we created and possibly fall out of the digitalized empire we have created. I predict that with the climate crisis we will learn from our mistakes and take preventative measures to keep it at bay and become one with the world and realize that no matter how strong governments or military forces are the one ally we need is the planet and no other war matters other than the war on climate change and greenhouse gasses.

The Yankees will win two World Championships. The Ravens will also win two Super Bowls. I believe that iPhones will become more of an addiction, and kids will have more social problems than ever before. Gas will become way more expensive than it is now. The prices for everything will rise even at the grocery store. The world will be better cared for by hospitals due to technological advances. Those are my main predictions for the next decade.

Young people have grown up and witnessed terrorism, climate change, major political conflict, war, and an economic crash. We've seen a lot and know a lot. We are the most accepting generation so far, and may very well entirely change the workforce. This generation is also very well versed in technology, and may be able to use technology in a very different way. With the looming threat of climate change, I believe this new decade will bring a new fight against pollution and global warming. With new findings on Mars, I believe space exploration will continue. I even believe that scientists may be able to start properly experimenting in terraforming - changing a planet's climate through introducing plants into the environment, so that it resembles the Earth. A new generation may bring a lot to the table in this new decade.

As 2019 came to a close, The New York Times looked back at the last 20 years and how they shaped millennials. And in this piece, The Times profiled the teenagers who crave going back in time to experience that era.

We asked our young readers if they are happy to be coming-of-age in 2020 or if they wish they could have grown up in another era. An overwhelming number said they would have loved to have lived during the 1970s or 1980s, while a few others pined for the 19th century or the future. But whether they wanted to grow up in 1870 or 2050, almost every commenter mentioned how technology - or its absence - would make their lives better.

I'm glad that I'm growing up when I am. If I'm being completely honest, growing up in any other era wouldn't be great. If I was born 200 years ago I'd be a slave. If I was born 100 years ago, I would be oppressed. If I was born 25 years ago, I'd be living in the aftermath of crack. Growing up today isn't perfect. Society still has its issues, but I'm glad it's happening now rather than then.

20 years from now, I'd hope society has progressed even further. Past the gun violence, and climate destruction, and homophobia, and police brutality, and veiled bigotry. I hope that 20 years from now, my kids or their friends don't feel like they have to aspire towards the past. I hope that they can appreciate the advancements society has made, that they can see past all the cool trends and music and clothes, and see this time through a wider lens.

I hear some people talk about how they wish they were raised in a different generation. They say that they wish they lived in the 50s, where diners, drive-in movies, and poodle skirts were everywhere. Or maybe even the 80s, when disco, fluorescent workout gear, and scrunchies were all the rage. But in these cases, they only take into account the aesthetics of the time period and not the wide social and economical issues that faced hundreds of thousands of people in America at those times.

In my eyes it's almost as if they want to just completely disregard the things that have happened. Has the rampant racism, sexism, and classicism not turned you away from wanting to live back then? Then maybe mention of the AIDS epidemic in 1981 or the threat of nuclear war in 1983 might change your mind. As the children of Gen Z, we are extremely fortunate that we've grown up in such relatively inclusive times. So much is available to us and there are so many more opportunities for people who lacked them in the past. I think it's a little bit silly for people to wish to go back in time when they don't realize how good they have it now.

I am happy with the era that I've grown up in. I had a happy childhood, and I can't imagine it any other way. I've experienced the growth of technology first hand, and I've got to say, early 2000's was where it was at.

I've also grown up in an era where I'm accepted. I don't look like everyone else, but I don't get a whole lot of looks. I'm viewed as equal for the most part. A little while back, and I would've been discriminated against and oppressed. I am thankful to be a part of one of the most accepting generations.

Sometimes I do wish I was born in a different decade. My parents grew up in the 80s and 90s and the stories they tell me seem like they are out of a movie. I love to hear my dad's stories of when he was in high school, college, and even the military in the mid-90s. When I hear these stories I think about how much fun that would be. I wish I could have grown up in the 80s when technology didn't control our lives. To talk to someone you actually had to speak face to face instead of texting.

Although I love the generation I have been born into, I have always dreamed of growing up in the 80s. The same period my mom grew up in. I love looking at the pictures she took when she was in high school and in college. It feels as though I'm looking through a time machine. One of my favorite things about the 80s is the fashion and music. You can catch me wearing mom jeans listening to The Police or Led Zeppelin. Sometimes I feel as though I was born in the wrong generation. In a way, life seemed easier back then. Kids could run around with their neighborhood friends, as portrayed on TV shows, and there was less competition for getting into colleges and finding jobs.

If I could grow up in any era I would grow up in the 70s. The 70s marks a rebellious time of change and growth in American society, especially in terms of feminism. Being apart of the activists in the 70s would definitely be my scene. Additionally, the music was absolutely amazing and being able to see certain rock bands live would be a dream come true. For the most part, this is all inspired by how much I like That 70s Show. And while I enjoy fashion from mostly all decades, the 70s does have very retro and free spirited fashion that I love.

I envy a time of more simplicity, when less technology allowed us, as a society to connect on a more personal level. A time when being outside and being carefree with friends was the ideal way to spend a day. However I cannot deny how amazing it is to be able to connect with people who live on different continents. And it's for that reason I'm glad to be living in a time where we can focus on connecting on a global level, instead of a local one.

I love and hate the generation that I live in. Social media makes things complicated but the diversity makes it somewhat worth while. I sometimes wish to have lived in my parents' generation, when there were house phones so you could get ahold of other people if you really needed to, but you didn't carry around a small gadget with you like you couldn't survive without it; I am just as guilty as the rest of them. When riding your bike to a friends house was normal, when sending letters was a way of communication. I don't even think I've ever been to the post office before. I wish I didn't live in a world surrounded by people hidden behind a screen, where social platforms were based off of how people looked, and that compliments were just in the comment section under a picture of someone in front of a sunset.

Y2K may be a great time, but I would like to go back even further when the ideals I hold would give me an opportunity to thrive and make connections. Though adapting to the lower tolerance of the culture, as well as the disease and lack of air conditioning, would be difficult, I would love to go back to the late Enlightenment Era. I know- a long way away from Y2K! I think that it would be cool to be on the front end of advancement, to be able to join the thinkers and the inventors and the scientists. Even though my mind as a woman would widely be regarded as inferior, I could be a part of a few trailblazers to help pave the way to the future! (Plus, I would like to try on a few of those dresses, even if I do enjoy my jeans and t-shirts).

I'm not sure if this counts as an 'era', but I've always wanted to have been born in the future. See, I was in history class the other day, learning about ancient civilizations. The people in those civilizations (presumably) took pride in the developments of their society. Our class, on the other hand, marveled at how the people in the past got by with such abysmal living conditions. So then I thought, maybe one day in the faraway future, there will be technology so advanced that the future-people will gape at the barbarity of status quo. But having been born in the 21st century, I will never know what the future-tech looks like.

I wish I had been born just a few decades later in 2050, this is because we were born too early to explore our universe, and too late to explore our planet. We watch shows and play games about space and the planets in our solar system that we will not be able to explore and experience for ourselves.

I would have wanted to grow up in the 1870s because of how the world was transformed by industrialization and a new sense of international communication. I find this period interesting as the American western frontier finally reaches from sea to shining sea and the transcontinental railroad connected the country unlike ever before.
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We asked students to tell us what they believed the above GIF from our Picture Prompt " Head Spinning" was saying. They told us about feelings of distraction, overstimulation, and how everyday pressures can make the mind race.

At first glance the picture represented how my head is constantly spinning. Restless and never seems to settle on what's really at hand. That's exactly how I feel right now. I feel so overwhelmed with work and things I need to do, I feel I need scheduled time to even stop and think. Think about what I want to do with my life. Being on a committed club soccer team there's lots of pressure to decide what you want in a college and where you find yourself best fit. Even if you do find that dream school, do they even want you back? I feel like I would be happier and more successful if I went to college just for school, but I know I would feel incomplete without soccer. My parents tell me it's not something that I need to be decided on yet, but when is the time. It's fast approaching and I can't even begin to put my thoughts in order.

I can relate to this personally because it seems like every time I am trying to focus on my school assignments, or college work my brain is going elsewhere. Not sure if its out of boredom or restlessness, but it happens. I think that this is a good representation of something everyone may go through every once in a while. We all have many things processing and piling up in our heads and it's not always just calm and serenity up there.

The way that my brain is wired makes it so that I'm constantly overwhelmed with even the slightest bit of chores or school work, and when I get overwhelmed I just shut everything out and try to distract myself until my head is practically spinning and I am forced to deal with whatever I'm avoiding. This kind of mindset is extremely common in teenagers nowadays. We're given so many assignments and tasks to complete in such short amounts of time that it's nearly impossible to not be stressed, and when someone is stressed they turn to their personal coping mechanisms. Many people's coping skill of choice is to try and ignore the issue until it becomes unbearable and their head starts to spin like the girl in this GIF.

This gif manifests every individuals' tendency to wander when they are loaded with work, specifically work that undermines their skills. The gif shows how the person's head is flying all around the room and cannot seem to get back into place to finish the task. This demonstrates the lack of engagement individuals experience when encountered with work that does not employ the skills of that person, leading to distractions and delay of the work as it will be perceived as something that can be done in a short amount of time.

I think what the gif is trying to say, is that when a person wants to write something, your head wanders to so many ideas and thoughts, but it can never really settle upon one or any. I can relate to this gif since I think I'm a bad writer. Whenever I want to write something, whether it's for school or for myself, I always think of so many things to write, but just can't piece any ideas together.

When I first saw this image I immediately thought of myself. Ever since I was young, my parents have told me that I "wear my heart on my sleeve" and that they can always tell when I am thinking about something. My mind is in four different places when it should be in one. I am not the best when it comes to focusing and procrastination is a bad habit of mine. I pull out my homework. Do a problem, reward myself with a YouTube video. Do two more, reward again. Snack break. Work again. Reward. Bathroom break, it's a never ending cycle. I am a good listener but would forget my head if it wasn't attached. Overall, I am the epitome of "head spinning."

As someone who considers themselves a ball of anxious energy, I can relate closely to this gif. The simple cartoon perfectly captures how it feels to be a fidget. In fact, as I'm writing this my knee is shaking up and down and I keep getting distracted by the conversations around me. Myself, and people like me find the most difficulty during times that we need to be productive. It is at these moment that our minds wander uncontrollably. Although this can seem like a curse of sorts, to a creative optimist like me it's a blessing. I´ll admit it can be troublesome at times, however it can also be rather helpful. While my head's in the clouds spinning it's creating all sorts of ideas and concepts for my art. If I wasn't ¨cursed¨ with short a attention span I wouldn't be nearly as creative as I am now.

My back is hunched over my computer, my fingers a blur as I press different combinations of keys one after another. My eyes kept drifting to the corner of the small screen where the seconds were ticking by too quickly for my liking. The fact that I only had mere minutes left to complete and turn in the assignments for my online classes had massive amounts of adrenaline pumping through my veins. My thoughts raced around in my head, one after the other, with my hands picking up speed to try to keep up. Only seconds were left when I finally managed to complete the last of my assignments but there was no time to rest just yet. Quickly opening the web browser on my computer, I typed in the address to the platform where I turned in work and, in what I consider to be record-breaking time, managed to get all of my work submitted. I'd like to say that this has only happened to me once, but I'd be lying if I did. Procrastination is my character flaw, well one of them, and is something I've struggled with my whole life.

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What Students Are Saying About 2020, Growing Up in Another Era, and Distraction (Published 2020)

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current events conversation Teenage comments in response to our recent writing prompts, and an invitation to join the ongoing conversation. Happy 2020 to all our students and teachers! To kick off the New Year, we invited students to tell us their predictions about the year and decade ahead.

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Todd Godwin was startled when He found that his families dog ,Maya was gone from their front porch. Security footage found that 2 Peta Workers came to His house and stole Maya. (Here's the footage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9tWoFiFX4s) Todd was both furious and devastated from what he saw. He sued Peta for stealing and killing Maya. And what was their apology? A FRUIT BASKET! Yes, you heard me right Peta MURDERED a beloved family pet and apologized with FRUIT. You can't make this garbage up! I'm still angry with Peta, and I'm not even the victim!

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PETA reportedly stole a family's pet chihuahua from their porch, and killed it.

You heard that right. Yes, we're talking about that PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The theft was caught on video, and has been reported by WAVY.com, local media in Accomack County, Virginia.

County Sheriff Todd Godwin insists that he charged the two PETA workers with larceny. The prosecutor has apparently refused to pursue the case, however, citing insufficient evidence of "criminal intent."

Let's try to comprehend this: we have a home surveillance video clearly demonstrating that a van marked "PETA" pulled up to the house of Wilbur Cerate, and that someone took the family's chihuahua, Maya. PETA has reportedly admitted that Maya was killed: they arrived later with a basket of fruit as compensation, says Maya's owner. (For some bizarre reason, PETA thinks that a nice basket of food makes killing pets okay.)

Hence, we have what we are told is pretty strong evidence that a crime was committed. An admission of guilt has been alleged. What part of the notion "criminal intent" am I missing here?

We also seem to have powerful evidence that the girl who owned Maya is inconsolable. The New York Daily News reports:

The Mexican immigrant said the tiny dog had been the only thing that cheered his daughter, who was having difficulty adjusting to her new country.

PETA has refused to comment. Local reporter Anita Blanton has tried valiantly to elicit a statement from PETA headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and has thus far had no luck.

It's hard to believe, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has a long history of this kind of abuse. You'll find it documented in ugly detail here: "Shocking Photos: PETA's Secret Slaughter of Kittens, Puppies." Even more difficult to believe is that they tend to get away with it.

In 2005, PETA employees killed numerous healthy dogs and cats in the back of their van, and deposited the bodies in a dumpster behind a mall. They were charged with "21 felony counts each of animal cruelty," but were convicted only of "littering."

The littering conviction was later overturned. PETA has very good lawyers. "Essentially, the littering charges against Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook were overturned because the prosecution failed to prove that a dumpster is not the proper place for trash." ("Trash" here being dead pets.)

Since then PETA has been careful to dispose of bodies legally, using a professional crematorium. (They have killed over 29,000 animals.) But they are not being careful enough, it seems, when it comes to rounding up neighborhood animals. PETA are keen on eradicating strays -- in particular, they urge the mass killing of feral cats -- but they do not have permission to grab a family's pet dog from their home. Clearly they did not expect that the Cerate house would have a surveillance camera.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

PETA would prefer that people not keep animals for their amusement. If you personally find this unacceptable, however -- the alleged theft and destruction of a family dog -- then please let the local prosecutor know how you feel. Yes, PETA has a huge budget, and powerful lawyers, but public outrage can be effective.

The Commonwealth Attorney's name is Gary Agar. His office number is 757-787-2877; the office email is commatt@verizon.net.

You can also make your displeasure known to The Sam Simon Foundation. Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, has long done wonderful work for animals, and his foundation works towards -- among other things -- saving strays from so-called "euthanasia."

Mr. Simon is currently fighting cancer, and has announced that he is leaving a substantial portion of his 100-million-dollar fortune to PETA. It seems clear that this is a truly decent man, who hasn't the faintest idea what kind of organization he has decided to leave his money to. The situation is not unusual: most celebrities are kept in the dark regarding PETA's nature.

Mr. Simon is very ill, and it's perhaps best to tweet your outrage to his foundation (whose work PETA is busy undermining): @ssfoundation1

And please let PETA themselves know what you think: @PETA

The citizens unlucky enough to share their neighborhood with PETA headquarters have long been concerned that the group will target their pets. Not many of these people have the means to pursue a civil suit against PETA, but this is why we have criminal laws: it is absurd that a family's dogs and cats cannot be protected from the depredations of this organization.

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PETA Reportedly Steals and Kills a Family Dog

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PETA reportedly stole a family's pet chihuahua from their porch, and killed it. You heard that right. Yes, we're talking about that PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The theft was caught on video, and has been reported by WAVY.com, local media in Accomack County, Virginia.

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Australian wildfires

Australian fires were very bad

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The relentlessness of the blazes is increasingly pushing Australia beyond crisis mode into anger and fatigue.

Bushfire smoke on Kangaroo Island in Australia. Credit... Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

BATLOW, Australia - Surrounded by hills burned black as soot, with homes flattened and cattle decimated, Australians in the country's east on Friday confronted a new round ofsupercharged bush fires as high winds drove the fires back toward towns that had already burned at least once before.

Areas of Victoria State and South Australia were under evacuation orders. In Batlow, an apple-growing town in New South Wales that barely survived a day of 50-foot flames last Saturday, residents who had only just been allowed to return scrambled to figure out what was lost and how to protect what remained.

"It's like the fire is a sentient being," said Sulari Gentill, a novelist with a husband and a son who are volunteer firefighters in Batlow. "It feels like it's coming to get us."

The sheer relentlessness of the fires - which have burned more than 15 million acres, killed at least 24 people and destroyed about 2,000 homes - is increasingly pushing Australia beyond crisis mode into a jumble of contemplation, anger and traumatized fatigue.

This is especially true in the dozens of places enduring repeated threats, where firefighters and beleaguered residents are caught in a smoky, delirious in-between.

Neighbors hug and shake their heads, wondering why one house went up in flames and the one next door did not, then ask who has enough water to share for a spray-down of the roof. They smile at the chirp of a bird, a sign of normalcy not heard by some since the terrible fires of New Year's Eve, then struggle to determine the day of the week, saying they feel jet-lagged.

For many, the fires have become villains that stick around long enough to reveal their personalities. Firefighters swear at them for their cunning unpredictability, while those who have seen them firsthand marvel at their destructive power.

Linda Carney, a resident of Buchan, a small town about 200 miles east of Melbourne, described how she watched from her veranda as the "dirty great glow in the sky" approached her home. A firestorm from a few days ago combined several blazes right in front of her. It threw off a column "like an atom bomb," she said, "then dropped the ash back down."

"We didn't have time to get scared," said her husband, Robert Carney.

Ms. Carney added: "You don't even think about being scared."

On Friday morning, though, as dangerous conditions were forecast across Victoria, she admitted she was nervous. "It's really smoky; I can't see a thing," she said.

They had already lost their house to the fires. They are sleeping on their property in a horse trailer to protect their dogs, horses and cattle.

They are not alone in their hardy determination to stay. Many others report remaining in place or returning to towns that are scorched and still at risk out of concern for animals or fear of looters, or to see and deal with damage.

In addition to the houses burned to the ground are many others with lesser havoc - a shed or cars reduced to steel skeletons, cherished mementos gone up in flames, water pipes and wires melted into tangled knots.

"We've got no electricity, no water," Marjukka Niemi said as she picked up free food and water at a community center in Batlow on Friday morning. "We're trying to freeze water bottles in other people's freezers."

Another community center, in Sarsfield, Victoria, offered food, water and the opportunity to have a "chat" and a "cuppa," slang for a cup of tea. Residents of the town, where dozens of houses were flattened by fire last month, streamed into the center on Friday.

"People just want to talk; they are traumatized," said Rod Thomas, a local volunteer. He said he planned to stay in Sarsfield to defend his house. "I'm ready for it," he said, adding, "fire is fairly haphazard."

By early afternoon, the fires had nonetheless begun to surge. Winds pushed beyond 55 miles an hour in some areas as heat scratched into the back of the throat. On Kangaroo Island, where ecologists worry that the fires may kill off unique and endangered wildlife, officials reported that half of the island had burned, up from a third earlier this week.

Farther north and west on the mainland, temperatures climbed close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit across a wide swath of the Snowy Mountains, which stretch across hundreds of miles from New South Wales south to Victoria, creating conditions that were similar to what occurred over the New Year's Eve weekend.

Calls reporting spot fires in Batlow started to come in. New South Wales fire officials reported that a pair of blazes nearby were about to merge, and that lightning strikes had started new fires farther north. The authorities in Victoria also added several towns to emergency notices, with about a dozen deemed to be too dangerous for anyone to stay - including Buchan, where the Carneys had hunkered down.

On the road leading to the town, Mason Johnson had been trying to make his way home to deliver hay and materials to build a yard for stranded cattle when his engine gave out.

With Buchan having been burned already, Mr. Johnson said he doubted it would take another hit. But now, stuck on a stretch of road with unburned trees and a highly unpredictable fire, he was getting anxious. "It's not going anywhere," he said of his truck.

Officials nonetheless suggested the day's conditions might not prove quite as challenging as they did a week ago, with an expected wind shift and a drop in temperatures. Additional emergency resources have also been deployed.

Across rural New South Wales, the army has become more visible, with water deliveries to residents and bulldozers lined up to help to create containment zones. Planes and helicopters soared through the haze in advance of the fires' peak, dropping fire retardant on vulnerable areas.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison also announced Friday that there would be a thorough review of the fires and the government's response. But he stopped short of pledging to act more aggressively on cutting heat-trapping emissions or making plans to accelerate Australia's efforts to adapt to climate change.

With protests against him Friday evening in Sydney and several other Australian cities, Mr. Morrison appeared on a conservative radio show for an interview, where he was told by the host that he was already doing too much to address climate change. It was a sign of the political divisions that have made Australia a climate change laggard despite its extreme vulnerability to global warming.

But in towns where the smell of smoke is overpowering, where street signs are melted and orchards charred, politics mattered less than the moment: The fires were all that anyone could talk about.

"It feels evil," said Brigitte Mitterer, who lives in Clifton Creek, a town in Victoria that has already been hit by fire and was again, in the possiblefire line Friday afternoon and evening.

"We're all on edge," said Deb Wiltshire, 52, the owner of a cafe in Batlow that is now closed because of fire damage. "You think it's over and done, then you get told it's on its way back."

Damien Cave reported from Batlow, Australia, and Livia Albeck-Ripka from Buchan, Australia.

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Fires Threaten Australian Towns That Have Already Burned Once

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The relentlessness of the blazes is increasingly pushing Australia beyond crisis mode into anger and fatigue. BATLOW, Australia - Surrounded by hills burned black as soot, with homes flattened and cattle decimated, Australians in the country's east on Friday confronted a new round ofsupercharged bush fires as high winds drove the fires back toward towns that had already burned at least once before.

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teenager opens fire in mexico before killing himself

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15 year old student opened fire in northern Mexican city private school hitting two students and a teacher in the head before killing himself

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A 15-year-old student opened fire at a private school in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself. Another student suffered lesser injuries in the shootings, which were captured on a chilling video posted to social media.

Nuevo León state governor Jaime Rodríguez said the shooter died at a hospital and that the other three victims with head wounds were "fighting between life and death". The boy wounded in the arm was out of danger.

A video, apparently from the school's surveillance camera and later posted on social media, showed the teenager quickly and calmly firing what appeared to be seven shots at seated students and a female teacher, some at point-blank range, before shooting himself and collapsing.

Students who had been cowering beneath desks and chairs then fled the classroom, stepping over the shooter to reach the door.

State security spokesman Aldo Fasci said four of the injured, including the shooter himself, had bullet wounds to the head and were in extremely serious condition. He said the student shot the 24-year-old teacher, a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy in the head, and a 15-year-old classmate in the arm. He then pointed the gun at classmates before shooting himself in the head.

"The classes were going perfectly well, the student stands up from his desk and pulls out a gun," Fasci said.

He noted that photographs of the shooting had been posted to social media and said the person responsible would be punished. He also appealed to the news media to avoid using the images, which show minors.

Fasci said the shooter had been under treatment for depression, but that the motive was under investigation.

The spokesman attributed it to "the situation that is happening everywhere. The children have access to the internet. This has happened in other countries."

The website of the American School of the Northeast says it offers bilingual education for students from preschool through ninth grade.

Fasci said the boy had brought the gun from home. It was unclear how he got the .22 caliber pistol into the school. Mexico once had a program to checked book bags at school entrances, but in many places it has fallen into disuse.

"There was a reason why book bags were checked. I think we are going to have to start doing it again," Fasci said.

Mexico had previously been largely spared the phenomenon of school shootings that has hit the US. In one of the few previous incidents, a 13-year-old student shot a 12-year-old classmate in the head at a Mexico City middle school in 2004, seriously wounding her.

At the height of Mexico's drug war between 2008 and 2011, schools in northern Mexico were more concerned about the possibility that stray bullets from drug gang gun battles outside schools might enter classrooms. Some schools conducted "duck and cover" drills to combat that possibility.
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A 15-year-old student opened fire at a private school in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself. Another student suffered lesser injuries in the shootings, which were captured on a chilling video posted to social media.

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Police: 14-year-old boy shot near elementary school was targeted, teenage suspect arrested

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San Angelo police have arrested a 16-year-old male in connection to Monday morning's shooting that injured a 14-year-old boy. Just before 2:30 a. m. Monday, police were dispatched to a shooting in the 1600 block of Volney Street, across from Reagan Elementary School. Officers found a 14-year-old boy suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.

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Australia fires: Dog saves sheep from approaching flames.

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Heroic humans all over Australia have been rescuing wildlife from the devastating wildfires spreading across the country. Now, one brave pup has captured global attention for saving hundreds of sheep from the blaze.

On New Year's Eve, Patsy, a 6-year-old kelpie-border collie mix from Corryong, Victoria, faced the raging fires to herd 900 sheep into a safe enclosure, her owner told Australian broadcasting service SBS News. He said he never would have been able to save the sheep without her.

"She's earned front-seat privileges for the rest of her life," owner Stephen Hill said.

Patsy's owners set up an Instagram account for the pup, "Patsy the Corryong Wonderdog." Ever since, people from all over the world have praised her for her courageous efforts.

Hill said several sheds burned down, but only a handful of sheep died. Patsy managed to remain calm and save the majority of the animals, he said, even as smoke covered the entire property.

"Cool as a cucumber, Patsy waited with him until the fire got close enough to fight with a tractor and water pump," one Instagram post reads.

According to Patsy's Instagram, the sheep are now "safe and sound."

Millions of acres have burned across Australia since September, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 25 people. In addition, wildlife experts estimate more than 1 billion animals have been killed by the unprecedented fires spreading across the continent.

Researchers say koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, and other animals have perished either directly or indirectly as a result of the fires. Because of the fires, species unique to Australia are moving closer to extinction.

"So many others have lost quite literally everything they have," Patsy's owner wrote. "These fires are not over. Not even close to being over. They will burn for weeks, months even, and communities all over Australia are going to be hit just like Corryong has been."

"Our fire season here isn't even half way through, and it seems like nowhere is safe," the post continues. "It's easy to feel helpless. But, it's also easy to help. Make a donation to bushfire relief, no matter how small it is, trust me it will be appreciated."

How to help

As Australia attempts to battle this unprecedented national crisis, organizations need all the help they can get. See a full list of organizations supporting evacuees, firefighters and wildlife here.

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Heroic humans all over Australia have been rescuing wildlife from the devastating wildfires spreading across the country. Now, one brave pup has captured global attention for saving hundreds of sheep from the blaze. On New Year's Eve, Patsy, a 6-year-old kelpie-border collie mix from Corryong, Victoria, faced the raging fires to herd 900 sheep into a safe enclosure, her owner told Australian broadcasting service SBS News.

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With over 1 billion animals estimated to have been killed in the Australia fires, wildlife parks on the country's Kangaroo Island are dedicating their resources to saving as many as they can.

Sam Mitchell, owner of Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, has set up an emergency triage area to treat koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and other animals burned and injured in the record-breaking wildfires.

In a video by The Associated Press, Mitchell and his staff are seen tending to an animal that suffered burns on its fur and nose. Some animals sustained injuries so severe they had to be euthanized, Mitchell said in the video.

Another video by Reuters showed veterinarians treating koalas burned in the blazes. Veterinary officer Garnett Hall described one koala's injuries as being "like a very severe burn in a human who walked across hot coals."

"His coat's got a lot of smoke; it's slightly singed in places. His lungs have a bit of smoke damage to them as well," Hall said. "So, he's a very sick koala, but he's one that we do have hope for."

Hall said they have received about 60 wounded koalas and estimated that roughly 30,000 koalas have been killed or injured in the fires.

"There were infernos," he said. "It's amazing that some have survived but they have and we're going to do our best to get them back to full health and then ultimately back to the wild when they're ready."

A scientist at the University of Sydney estimated that more than 1 billion animals have been killed in the fires. Chris Dickman, who teaches ecology, said the animals either died directly due to the fires or from related causes such as starvation and habitat loss.

The wildfires have killed 27 people. Australian authorities on Thursday urged nearly a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes.

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With over 1 billion animals estimated to have been killed in the Australia fires, wildlife parks on the country's Kangaroo Island are dedicating their resources to saving as many as they can. Sam Mitchell, owner of Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, has set up an emergency triage area to treat koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats and other animals burned and injured in the record-breaking wildfires.

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Russian Warship 'aggressively' Approached the US Destroyer in the Arabian sea

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The Russian warship rapidly approaching the USS Farragut ,coming as close as 180 feet.It comes roughly  seven months after another incident.US and Russian warships came so close that they had to perform an emergency maneuver  to avoid a collision.

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A Russian warship "aggressively approached" a US Navy destroyer while it was operating in the North Arabian Sea Thursday, ignoring warnings from the US vessel and increasing the risk of a collision, the US Navy said Friday.

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A teacher was killed and 6 kids wounded. In Mexico an 11 year old open fired at a school. Right after the shooter shot at a teacher they shot themselves. Four of them were taken to a nearby hospital.

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2 dead, 6 wounded after northern Mexico school schooting, officials say

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Two people were killed and six injured when a child opened fire Friday at a school in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, officials said.

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A Russian warship "aggressively approached" a US Navy destroyer while it was operating in the North Arabian Sea Thursday, ignoring warnings from the US vessel and increasing the risk of a collision, the US Navy said Friday.

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Wild fire in Australia leave air unable to breathe.Also kills an estimated sum of 1 billion animal. Causing people to leave the area. 1.5 million acres of fire in total.Prime minister Scott Morrison has been getting criticized for how he has approached the problem by taking a vacation to Hawaii.

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Australia is struggling to cope with deadly infernos and faces losing nearly a billion animals in the terrible bushfires - but in the midst of those tragedies, authorities are also battling hoaxes and misinformation, including false reports of widespread arson. Many of the claims seek to suggest that arson, not climate change, was a key driver of the historic fires.

The hashtag #ArsonEmergency began trending shortly after the new year. Queensland University of Technology researcher Timothy Graham says he identified troll and bot social media accounts that tried to shift the narrative about the fires as being the work of dozens of criminals.

"We studied about 300 Twitter accounts driving the #ArsonEmergency hashtag to identify inauthentic behavior," Graham said Friday in an essay for The Conversation, which he co-wrote with fellow researcher Tobias Keller.

"We found many accounts using #ArsonEmergency were behaving 'suspiciously,' compared to those using #AustraliaFire and #BushfireAustralia," they said. "Accounts peddling #ArsonEmergency carried out activity similar to what we've witnessed in past disinformation campaigns, such as the coordinated behavior of Russian trolls during the 2016 US presidential election."

just finished a first map of tweets on the same theme in Gephi..as ever not comprehensive due to search and API constraints, but enough captured to give a sense of the shape of the discourse. pic.twitter.com/dFBdFY8GHI
- David Spencer (@Busabx) January 10, 2020

As for who mounted the social media campaign to push the arson narrative, Graham and Keller say that while software tools allowed them to identify bots and trolls, they weren't able to trace the bogus accounts to any specific people or entities.

While arson has historically been one of the causes of Australian wildfires, the country is facing an unprecedented bushfire disaster. Since September, fires have now consumed an area larger than the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire combined. And a new "megafire" was created Friday when two blazes joined - covering nearly 1.5 million acres, as NPR's Scott Neuman reports.

The #ArsonEmergency campaign seems to have peaked around Tuesday, when thousands of tweets used the hashtag, Graham and Keller say.

Around the same time the bot campaign hit its crescendo, news stories about the wildfires also touted a police report in hard-hit New South Wales, where authorities recently announced that they have taken legal action against more than 180 people for fire-related offenses. But only a small fraction of those people face charges that might be construed as arson, and the figure also spans a period that began in late 2019.

The NSW police said that while 24 people were charged with deliberately lighting bushfires, 53 faced legal actions - which include a warning - for not complying with a statewide ban on fires. And the overall number also includes 47 people who were accused of not properly disposing of lit cigarettes or matches.

Conservatives in the U.S. also picked up on the arson thread, with President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeting a post about the arrests in New South Wales.

Documenting a further convolution in the narrative, Australia's ABC reports, "Some of the misinformation includes the idea left-wing 'ecoterrorists' are behind some fires."

On Friday, an employee of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in Australia raised concerns about the company's coverage of the wildfires, accusing the publisher of newspapers such as The Australian and the Herald Sun of carrying out an irresponsible "misinformation campaign."

"I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate change denial and lies," Emily Townsend, a commercial finance manager at News Corp, wrote in an all-staff email. She added that the newspapers' angles of coverage were "not only irresponsible, but dangerous and damaging to our communities and beautiful planet."

Townsend told The Sydney Morning Herald she doesn't regret that her email was leaked to the wider press. And a News Corp executive told the newspaper that Townsend was already in the process of leaving the company, having resigned in December.

Beyond arguments over the impacts of climate change, Australia's wildfires do have a real political aspect: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has frequently been criticized for his approach to the disaster, from his interactions with affected states to his recent vacation getaway to Hawaii as the raging fires destroyed communities back home. On Friday, protesters vented their anger at Morrison and the government by holding a large demonstration in Sydney.

Experts say the intense and widespread effects of Australia's wildfires are related to a number of factors, from the destructive nature of wind-borne embers - which swirl high into the air and help fires spread rapidly and unpredictably - to building standards that allow houses to be constructed out of flammable materials and planning regulations that don't enforce enough of a buffer zone around houses built in vulnerable areas.

Australia's fires are spreading more quickly and ferociously because of prolonged drought and hot weather - both of which are exacerbated by climate change - are providing copious dry fuel.

According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, most of the bushfires that are started by arson burn only around five hectares - a little over 12 acres of land. The government crime agency says most arson fires are started by young people in disadvantaged areas. The AIC lists these patterns:

"Communities with a high propensity for arson often have a high proportion of children under 15 and lower education levels, employment rates and household income than the national average (Muller 2009). Unfortunately, communities with this demographic profile are common on the outskirts of cities where there are opportunities for bushfire arson near at hand and consequently, the bulk of bushfire arson ignitions occur in this context."

NPR's Rebecca Hersher contributed to this report.

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Researchers say bots and trolls blasted out hashtags such as #ArsonEmergency, in a campaign to steer the conversation about wildfires away from climate change and toward arson.

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US increasingly believes Iran shot down Ukrainian airliner by accident

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The US increasingly believes that Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner on Wednesday, according to multiple US officials. The working theory is based on continuing analysis of data from satellites, radar and electronic data collected routinely by US military and intelligence.

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Iran has strongly denied that a Ukraine international airline that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran earlier this week killing 167 people was downed by an Iranian missile launched by mistake.

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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state media say authorities have invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a U krainian jetliner that crashed, killing all 176 people on board.

The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a missile amid soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran.

The state-run IRNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman on Friday as saying Iran "has invited both Ukraine and the Boeing company to participate in the investigations."

The spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, says it will also welcome experts from other countries' whose citizens died in the crash.

U.S., Canadian and British officials said it is "highly likely" that Iran shot down the civilian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late Tuesday. They said the fiery missile strike could well have been a mistake amid rocket launches and high tension throughout the region.

The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a ballistic attack against Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops in its violent confrontation with Washington over the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general. The airliner could have been mistaken for a threat, U.S. officials said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country lost at least 63 citizens in the downing, said in Ottawa: "We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile."

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered similar statements. Morrison also said it appeared to be a mistake. "All of the intelligence as presented to us today does not suggest an intentional act," he said.

Mousavi said Iran asks Canada's prime minister and any other government to "provide any information they have to the investigation committee."

Iranian officials have ruled out a missile strike, saying the plane appears to have crashed because of technical difficulties.

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Mexico two reported killed after 11 year old opens fire at school

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At least two people to have been killed and 6 are injured. An 11 year old boy entered school  armed with 2 hand guns.  He opened fire with  the  hand guns. This happened on Friday mourning in Torre`on. One of the victims of this tragic event was a female teacher. she was supposedly one of the main targets. It is said that the 11 year old boy a few moments later took his own life. The fellow classmates of the boy heard him say toady is the day, moments before this tragic event happened.

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At least two people are reported to have been killed and six injured after an 11-year-old boy entered a school in northern Mexico with two handguns and opened fire.

The shooting took place on Friday morning in the city of Torreón, in Coahuila state.

Local reports suggested the attack at the Colegio Cervantes had claimed at least two lives. One of the fatal victims was reportedly a female teacher, with some reports suggesting she had been the shooter's target. The other was the shooter, who police said had killed himself.

A graphic photograph published by Mexican news outlets showed what appeared to be the body of a young boy splayed out in a pool of blood, with a handgun lying on the ground.

Police chief Maurilio Ochoa told reporters six people had been wounded - five schoolchildren and a teacher - with two in a "delicate" condition in hospital.

Ochoa said the shooter was believed to have entered his school with two weapons: a small-calibre handgun and a high-calibre weapon. The boy's parents and grandmother, with whom he lived, had said they had no idea how he acquired the guns.

"This is really regrettable," Ochoa said, as anxious parents gathered outside the school's entrance. He suggested backpack searches might be needed to prevent future tragedies.

Torreón's mayor, Jorge Zermeño, told reporters the causes of the attack were still unclear.

"They tell me he was a boy who had very good grades, who lives - lived - with his grandmother and who certainly suffered some kind of family problem." He added: "It is very serious, so, so sad, and lamentable to see a primary school student do something like this."
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In an interview with the Mexican news channel Milenio TV, Zermeño called the shooting an "atypical situation" that did not speak to the "peaceful society" that was Torreón. "This is a city that likes to work and likes to live in peace," he said.

Coahuila state governor Miguel Ángel Riquelme told reporters there were suspicions the shooter had been influenced by a video game called Natural Selection.

Before carrying out the shooting the boy - who has not been identified - reputely told classmates: "Today is the day".

Despite suffering some of the world's highest murder rates, school shootings of the kind that blight the US remain relatively rare in Latin America.

In March last year eight students were gunned down in the city of Suzano in Brazil's São Paulo state.

In 2011 a similar attack at a school in Rio de Janeiro claimed 12 lives.

One of the worst such attacks to take place in Mexico came in 2017 when a 15-year-old student killed himself after shooting four people at a school in the state of Nuevo León.

Mexico's leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is battling a major drug-fuelled security crisis which saw more than 31,000 people murdered last year alone.

This year looks like being no less bloody: 41 people were murdered in the city of Tijuana in the first eight days of 2020 and more than 100 have died in Guanajuato state, according to local media reports.

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At least two people are reported to have been killed and six injured after an 11-year-old boy entered a school in northern Mexico with two handguns and opened fire. The shooting took place on Friday morning in the city of Torreón, in Coahuila state.

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Australian wildfires were very bad and hurt a lot of animals home. Over one thousand tree were burnt down.

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SAN ANGELO, TX - Twenty suspects were arrested and booked into the Tom Green County Jail on Thursday.

The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office, the San Angelo Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety made various arrests including:

Brandon Bennett was arrested for GOB sexual assault of a child, expired tags, and failure to maintain financial responsibility at 5:08 p.m. His bond is set at $1,466.

Rsha Reisner was arrested for failure to drive in a single lane, no seat belt on a child under 8 years old, speeding, and three MISC VPTA at 1:55 p.m. Her bond was $3,492 and was released at 5:13 p.m.

Celestino Perez was arrested for displaying fictitious motor vehicle registration, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, and unlawful carrying of a weapon at 5:42 a.m. His bond is set at $37,000.

The Tom Green County jail has 446 beds. There were 441 inmates currently in jail as of Friday morning.

The following were booked into the TGCJ on Thursday:

Shauna Gilmore was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, three MISC FTA, MISC possession of drug paraphernalia, and a MISC theft at 12:04 a.m. Her bond was set at $11,175.

Sammy Gonzalez was arrested for his third or more driving while intoxicated at 1:14 a.m. His bond was set at $10,000 and was released at 10:13 a.m.

Celestino Perez was arrested for displaying fictitious motor vehicle registration, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, and unlawful carrying of a weapon at 5:42 a.m. His bond is set at $37,000.

Abraham Arce was arrested for FTA DWLI with a previous conviction and one MISC CPF at 11:36 a.m. His bond was is set at $10,000.

Harry Wilkinson was arrested for a MISC contempt of court, one MISC CPF, and one MISC FTA at 12:57 p.m. His bond is set at $782.

Belinda Mendoza was arrested for 13 MISC CPF at 1:24 p.m. Her bond has not been set at this time.

Chandon Ferguson was arrested for two MISC CPF at 1:42 p.m. Her bond has not been set at this time.

Rsha Reisner was arrested for failure to drive in a single lane, no seat belt on a child under 8 years old, speeding, and three MISC VPTA at 1:55 p.m. Her bond was $3,492 and was released at 5:13 p.m.

Antawan Patterson was arrested for possession of marijuana at 2:14 p.m. His bond was set at $1,000 and was released at 9:58 p.m.

Matthew Lisenbee was arrested for VOP possession of marijuana at 3:41 p.m. He was released without bond at 6:28 p.m.

Michael Medina was arrested for VOP possession of marijuana and MTR possession of a controlled substance at 4:35 p.m. His bond has not been set at this time.

Brandon Bennett was arrested for GOB sexual assault of a child, expired tags, and failure to maintain financial responsibility at 5:08 p.m. His bond is set at $1,466.

Jose Hernandez was arrested for FTA second driving while intoxicated at 6:17 p.m. His bond was set at $10,000 and was released at 11:43 p.m.

Rojelio Luna was arrested for assault that caused bodily injury at 7:56 p.m. His bond has not been set at this time.

Adrian Hernandez was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and a MISC FTA at 7:58 p.m. His bond was set at $1,224 and was released at 11:13 p.m.

Jacob Morales was arrested for failing to stop at a stop sign at 7:59 p.m. His bond was set at $420 and was released at 11:13 p.m.

John Rodriguez was arrested for possession of a controlled substance at 8:28 p.m. His bond has not been set at this time.

John Lewis was arrested for possession of marijuana and MO criminal trespassing at 9:30 p.m. His bond is set at $1,000.

Christopher Graves was arrested for public intoxication and MISC FTA at 9:33 p.m. His bond is set at $1,044.

April White was arrested for two MISC CPF at 10:02 p.m. Her bond has not been set at this time.

The following is a key for the top abbreviations:

MISC - Miscellaneous

VOP - Violation of Parole

GOB - Going Off Bond

VPTA - Violation Promise to Appear

GJI - Grand Jury Indictment

COMM - Commuted Sentence

RPR - Release on Personal Recognizance

CPF - Capias Pro Fine

J/N - Judgment NISI

ICE - Immigration Custom Enforcement

TDCJ - Texas Department of Criminal Justice

DWLI - Driving While License Invalid

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One student and one teacher were killed during the school shooting. five students and one gym teacher were wounded during the school shooting. The governor said the shooter was living with his grand parents because his mother died recently. The shooter never had behavior problems and investigators are looking into a game that might of influenced the school shooting. Now the school participates in a safe backpack program now (bullet proof backpacks).

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MEXICO CITY -- A student and teacher were killed at an elementary school in northern Mexico Friday, when the 11-year-old opened fire on his teacher and classmates with two guns, authorities said.

Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said the sixth-grade shooter and his teacher died.

The preliminary investigation showed that the student arrived at his classroom, told a classmate, "Today is the day," and asked permission to go to the bathroom, Riquelme said. After 15 minutes he had not returned and his teacher went to look for him. He emerged from the bathroom firing two guns. The shooting ended when he shot himself, he said.

Among the wounded were five students and a gym teacher, Riquelme said.

The governor said the shooter lived with his grandparents and that his mother had died some years ago. He said the boy had not presented behavioral problems before in the school. Investigators were looking into reports that the boy was influenced by a particular video game.

Images from the scene showed worried parents arriving at Colegio Cervantes to pick up their children Friday morning. It is a private school in downtown Torreon across the street from a large park.

Danya Mendizabal, whose daughter is in the 4th grade at Colegio Cervantes, said she was initially alerted by a chat of student mothers. She called the school, but no one answered, then she called a teacher who told her that her daughter was fine and she should come get her.

Mendizabal said her daughter was in her classroom in another part of the school and did not know what had happened. "They managed it well because the teachers were very calm," she said.

She said she never imagined anything like it could happen at the school. "Colegio Cervantes has always distinguished itself as a very safe school of middle class kids," she said. "Where the parents are working, but we're paying attention."

The school participates in a state program called "Safe Backpack" in which school personnel search each child's backpack when they arrive at school, she said, adding that she inspects her daughter's backpack daily.

Torreon is an industrial city with foreign assembly plants.

School shootings are rare in Mexico. Friday's incident was reminiscent of another in January 2017 in the northern city of Monterrey. In that case, a student opened fire in a private high school. He killed a teacher and wounded two students. The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Mexico school shooting: Student and teacher killed, 6 others wounded after 11-year-old opens fire

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MEXICO CITY -- A student and teacher were killed at an elementary school in northern Mexico Friday, when the 11-year-old opened fire on his teacher and classmates with two guns, authorities said. Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme said the sixth-grade shooter and his teacher died.

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Mexico: two reported killed after 11-year-old opens fire at school

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At least two people are reported to have been killed and six injured after an 11-year-old boy entered a school in northern Mexico with two handguns and opened fire.

The shooting took place on Friday morning in the city of Torreón, in Coahuila state.

Local reports suggested the attack at the Colegio Cervantes had claimed at least two lives. One of the dead was reportedly a female teacher, with some reports suggesting she had been the shooter's target. The other was the shooter, who police said had killed himself.

A graphic photograph published by Mexican news outlets showed what appeared to be the body of a young boy splayed out in a pool of blood, with a handgun lying on the ground.

Police chief Maurilio Ochoa told reporters six people had been wounded - five schoolchildren and a teacher - with two in a "delicate" condition in hospital.

Ochoa said the shooter was believed to have entered his school with two weapons: a small-calibre handgun and a high-calibre weapon. The boy's parents and grandmother, with whom he lived, had said they had no idea how he acquired the guns.

"This is really regrettable," Ochoa said, as anxious parents gathered outside the school's entrance. He suggested backpack searches might be needed to prevent future tragedies.

Torreón's mayor, Jorge Zermeño, told reporters the causes of the attack were still unclear.

"They tell me he was a boy who had very good grades, who lives - lived - with his grandmother and who certainly suffered some kind of family problem." He added: "It is very serious, so, so sad, and lamentable to see a primary school student do something like this."

In an interview with the Mexican news channel Milenio TV, Zermeño called the shooting an "atypical situation" that did not speak to the "peaceful society" that was Torreón. "This is a city that likes to work and likes to live in peace," he said.

Coahuila state's governor, Miguel Ángel Riquelme, told reporters there were suspicions the shooter had been influenced by a video game called Natural Selection.

Before carrying out the shooting the boy - who has not been identified - reputedly told classmates: "Today is the day."

Despite suffering some of the world's highest murder rates, school shootings of the kind that blight the US remain relatively rare in Latin America.

In March last year eight students were gunned down in the city of Suzano in Brazil's São Paulo state.

In 2011 a similar attack at a school in Rio de Janeiro claimed 12 lives.

One of the worst such attacks to take place in Mexico came in 2017 when a 15-year-old student killed himself after shooting four people at a school in the state of Nuevo León.

Mexico's leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is battling a major drug-fuelled security crisis which saw more than 31,000 people murdered last year alone.

This year looks like being no less bloody: 41 people were murdered in the city of Tijuana in the first eight days of 2020 and more than 100 have died in Guanajuato state, according to local media reports.
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Mexico: two reported killed after 11-year-old opens fire at school

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PUERTO RICO Crisis Restoring an earthquake-hit power plant in Puerto Rico could take a year

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PUERTO RICO Crisis Restoring an earthquake-hit power plant in Puerto Rico could take a year

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It could take more than a year to fix one of the largest and most damaged power plants. in Puerto Rico after the worst earthquake in a century. Officials say that the damage repair could take up to a year to fix all the damages.It was the strongest earthquake in almost a century.The earthquake reached up to a 6.4 magnitude earthquake and also the after shocks caused extra damage so it might even take more than a year to fix everything.

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GUÁNICA, Puerto Rico - It could take more than a year to fix one of the largest and most damaged power plants in Puerto Rico after the worst earthquake in more than a century killed one person and triggered an islandwide blackout Tuesday.

The Costa Sur plant in the southern town of Guayanilla, located near the epicenter of the 6.4-magnitude quake, could remain offline "perhaps up to one year," José Ortiz, the head of Puerto Rico's power authority, said on a local radio show Thursday morning.

With Costa Sur out of service, Puerto Rico would need to rely on its other power plants to operate almost at full capacity in order to meet demand. Ortiz requested temporary generators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make up for the need.

The damaged power plant provided about a quarter of the electricity used by homes and businesses in the island.

"Costa Sur is a disaster," Ortiz said.

"There is structural damage and damage to equipment. Repairs could take months, perhaps up to one year," he said. "It's really unsafe to be there right now. It's life-threatening. Yesterday, when we were inspecting it with the people from FEMA, we had to leave when an aftershock started."

So far, about half of the U.S. territory has power, according to Ortiz.

Puerto Rico has felt more than 120 aftershocks since the earthquake two days ago, according to the United States Geological Survey. It's difficult to make repairs as the aftershocks continue, he explained.

The water boilers used to generate electricity at Costa Sur came off their bases after the quake, according to El Nuevo Día, the island's largest newspaper. The structural damage at the plant includes cracks that prompted oil spills and pieces of metal and concrete that fell off the machines.

Meanwhile, residents in the southwestern part of Puerto Rico, which saw the worst damage, felt like they were reliving the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which resulted in the deaths of at least 2,975 people and caused the world's second-longest blackout, which lasted over a year.

"This feels like another blow that we didn't see coming, another Maria in less than three years," said Carlos Camacho, a resident of the hard-hit southern town of Guánica, also near the earthquake's epicenter. "I don't even have any more tears."

Camacho is one of the more than 700 displaced residents seeking shelter. Many had initially sought refuge in a makeshift tent city located in the battered town because they had either lost their homes or were afraid their houses could collapse if another earthquake hit.

The earthquake and its aftershocks ruptured roads and knocked buildings down, including one of only three schools in the area, Escuela Agripina Seda, which serves more than 250 middle school students.

"We lost houses, we lost a lot of work, we lost everything, literally," Ryan Irizarry, an employee at a hardware store, said. "We are cleaning, we are helping."

Tuesday's earthquake destroyed the home of Nancy Siso, 62. It was the place she shared for many years with her husband before his death and it was a regular gathering spot for her children, grandchildren and extended family.

Luckily, she hadn't been home when the quake struck. A smaller earthquake Monday had made Siso anxious, so she spent the night at her daughter's home, thinking she would be back the next morning.

More than 24 hours later, Siso slowly drove up to her home, which was in ruins. She thought she had lost her beloved dogs, especially Mia, a light brown Yorkie that was her husband's favorite.

She found out that her neighbor, Jose Luis Casuano, had risked his safety and gone into the collapsed structure twice - including in pitch darkness since there's no power - to rescue her little dogs.

"All my life, I will be grateful," she said of Casuano.

For now, Siso will go live with her daughter and figure out what's next. But her dogs are with her.

"I'm so tired, but I'm so happy," she said, looking around the deserted street.
Nicole Acevedo reported from New York, Sam Brock and Erika Angulo reported from Puerto Rico. Follow NBC Latino on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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GUÁNICA, Puerto Rico - It could take more than a year to fix one of the largest and most damaged power plants in Puerto Rico after the worst earthquake in more than a century killed one person and triggered an islandwide blackout Tuesday.

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2 dead, 6 wounded after northern Mexico school shooting, officials say

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A woman in Las Vegas took her dog, Minni, to PetSmart for a grooming. Thirteen minutes later, the bulldog was dead, crushed under the weight of the grooming table, its owner said.

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A sports reporter tried to text her husband before her plane crashed but he didn't answer. Carley McCord died Saturday after the plane she was riding on in Louisiana crashed. Her husband supposedly didn't have his phone on him. The plane took off about 900 feet into the air before lowering to 700 feet and reaching a left descending turn. Witnesses say the plane made a steep left bank before crashing into powerlines.

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A sports reporter tried to call and text her husband before a fatal plane crash. He never got the chance to answer

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The husband of a sports reporter killed in a Louisiana plane crash Saturday says his wife tried to reach him before the crash but he was never able to answer, Sports Illustrated reports.

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Iranian missiles accidentally brought down Ukrainian jet,that's what officials say.

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The brownish-orange skies, choking soot, mass evacuations and deaths of people and wildlife are all familiar to Californians who have endured their share of fire disasters in recent years - except that the bushfires raging across more than 15 million acres of Australia are orders of magnitude worse.
Nearly 140 separate blazes have burned since November - springtime in Australia - sending plumes of smoke all the way to South America. They have burned at least 2,000 structures, killed 25 people, including three firefighters, and incinerated hundreds of millions of animals, including kangaroos and native endangered koala bears.
And they may be a chilling foretaste of how much worse things can get in the fire-scarred Golden State, which has experienced a series of enormous and deadly fires over the past five years. Those fires, however, burned about 5.3 million acres, a third of what is burning Down Under all at once.

It is among the biggest fire disasters ever seen on Earth, generating an unprecedented response from 2,700 firefighters, 3,000 Australian army reservists and a contingent of 159 U.S. Forest Service firefighters, including 39 from California.

"What we're watching is how accelerating climate change is transforming the landscape around us and is, in turn, driving the death of millions of animals and shifting the ecosystems," said LeRoy Westerling, a climate and fire scientist at UC Merced. "And it is not a one-off. This is just one more exclamation point. We keep thinking, 'Well, it can't get worse than this,' but it just keeps getting worse."

The weather conditions and terrain in Australia are strikingly similar to California. The country is suffering from a prolonged drought similar to the five-year dry spell California endured until 2017, an event that is still impacting land and water use.

Not only are both places dry in the summer, but the dry periods are lasting longer than they used to, leaving huge expanses of parched brush, chaparral and woodlands vulnerable.

Michael Mann, a climate scientist and professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, said rainfall patterns in Australia are influenced by what is known as the Indian Ocean Dipole, much like El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean impact weather on the West Coast.

The dipole is defined by positive and negative sea surface temperature variations. The positive phase is when temperatures are higher than average in the western Indian Ocean, which have been linked to droughts in Indonesia and Australia.

"It is a contributor to the current drought," Mann said in an email from Australia, where he is studying the linkage between climate change and extreme weather, "and some scientists speculate that the positive dipole events are becoming more frequent and extreme due to climate change."

Comparisons to California are difficult because Australia is so much larger - it is nearly the size of the continental United States - and because the wildfires there cover such a huge area.

The fires have burned up to an estimated 15.6 million acres on the island continent. The two worst fire years in the United States over the past decade were 2015 and 2017, when about 10 million acres burned each year.

The most devastating year in California was 2018, when about 2 million acres burned, including the nearly 500,000-acre Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest in state history.

The Australian fires have devoured considerably more land than the 2019 fires in the Amazon rain forest, which covered 2.2 million acres and caused worldwide outrage because they appeared to be connected to slash-and-burn deforestation in Brazil to make way for agriculture and mining. Out-of-control wildfires in Siberia in 2019 covered 6.7 million acres.

But the fires in Australia are being driven by strong winds just like the catastrophic wildfires in California, including the Mendocino Complex and the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed the town of Paradise, in Butte County.

Michael Mohler, deputy director at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said high temperatures, low humidity, strong winds and dry fuels are the volatile ingredients that have made both places more susceptible to fire than ever before. The result has been dangerous fire behavior, including destructive fire tornadoes and pyrocumulus clouds, which send flames shooting 30,000 feet in the air.

"We are absolutely seeing similar fire behavior in Australia, with the same type of explosive fire growth," said Mohler, who declared Cal Fire ready to send personnel Down Under upon request. "They have extreme wind events across the country. We're seeing fires spot miles ahead similar to the Camp, Carr and Tubbs fires."

Explosive fire twisters and massive fire clouds plagued firefighters during the Carr Fire, which burned 359 square miles in Shasta and Trinity counties in 2018 and the 2017 Tubbs Fire, which incinerated more than 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa and killed 22 people.

The conditions in Australia have been at least as extreme.

A heat wave combined with the driest spring on record has helped the flames grow across six states. The average temperature across the country hit a record 107 degrees just before Christmas.

The hardest-hit regions, in New South Wales on the east coast, and Victoria in the southeast, endured high winds and temperatures above 100 degrees through the New Year. The western Sydney suburb of Penrith recorded a high of about 118 degrees last weekend, according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

It is, by all accounts, an ecological disaster. The blazes have killed people and wiped out towns, but most of what is burning is bushland, eucalyptus forests and national park land, where the country's unique wildlife resides.

Ecologists estimate that some 480 million animals have died in New South Wales, including almost a third of the beloved koalas. Dead kangaroos, birds, reptiles, cattle and other mammals have been found in the blackened bush.

The smoke cover has drifted across the water to New Zealand and, according to some reports, South America. The hazy orange air has been measured at 11 times the hazardous level in some places, including Sydney.

And Australia is only in the middle of its fire season.

It is, to California firefighters, a familiar set of circumstances, but on a much larger scale.

Kim Zagaris, the wildfire policy and technology adviser for the Western Fire Chiefs Association, said Cal Fire formed a partnership with fire officials in Australia after out-of-control bushfires in February 2009 killed 173 people and destroyed 2,000 homes in the state of Victoria.

The wind-driven fires, dubbed the Black Saturday bushfires, prompted an official government inquiry and report and a new category - purple - on the country's heat maps.

Since then, Australian fire commanders have regularly come to California to share information.

A large contingent happened to be visiting when the 2017 Wine Country blazes broke out. The Australians told Zagaris that the wind-driven infernos were eerily similar to Black Saturday.

"We have a very similar wildfire climate, with similar droughts and conditions," said Zagaris, a retired state fire and rescue chief for the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. "We are all fighting the climate issue. We both continue to experience more explosive fire conditions."

Zagaris, who gave a series of talks in Australia in 2018, said firefighting there is a largely volunteer effort in rural areas, which is similar to the way things are done here. He said a third of the 55,000 firefighters in California are volunteers.

The difference is that in California close to 40 million people are crammed together in a space only a fraction of the size of Australia, which is 18 times larger. Many Californians live next to forests and open space, known as the "wildland-urban interface," often forcing urban and rural firefighters to join forces.

The rangeland in Australia doesn't butt up against urban areas as much, he said, which is probably why Australians are generally expected to stay and defend their own property. Cal Fire's "Ready, Set, Go!" program teaches residents how to prepare their property for wildfires, but residents are expected to evacuate and leave the firefighting to the professionals.

Zagaris said Australians are still expected to protect their own property, but firefighters deploy air tankers - a relatively new practice there, military aircraft and Chinook helicopters to help douse flames. Naval ships have also been used to evacuate beach communities surrounded by fire.

The most populous cities, Melbourne and Sydney, recently looked into some of the strategies developed in the United States for fighting fire in the wildland-urban interface. It's not clear whether those techniques are being used in the unfolding disaster, but Zagaris said the collaboration will, by necessity, continue.

"California is like the Disneyland of disasters," he said, "and as much as we've learned from our disasters, there's a lot we can learn from others around the world."

Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: pfimrite@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @pfimrite

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The disastrous bush fires in Australia are being driven by high temperatures, low humidity, strong winds and a lingering drought, just like the catastrophic wildfires that plagued California, and climate scientists are saying it could be a taste of calamities to come.

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Donald Trump  says that Iran is standing down and there will not be a war.Iran shot 15 missiles but luckily all of them missed and no one got hurt.The only reason this started is because we killed one of there biggest leaders.Iran was threatening Donald trump to stand down but he didn't Iran did.There will be no war unless Iran shoots more missiles.

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US President Donald Trump says Iran "appears to be standing down" after it targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq.

Mr Trump said no US or Iraqi lives were lost in the attacks, and the bases suffered only minimal damage.

The attacks on the Irbil and Al Asad bases came early on Wednesday morning local time.

Iran said they were a retaliation for the assassination of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last week.
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US President Donald Trump says Iran "appears to be standing down" after it targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq. Mr Trump said no US or Iraqi lives were lost in the attacks, and the bases suffered only minimal damage. The attacks on the Irbil and Al Asad bases came early on Wednesday morning local time.

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ONSLOW COUNTY, N. C. (WLOS) - A local middle school teacher has been arrested for having inappropriate relationships with students. Officials say they received an anonymous tip through Hunters Creek Middle School's "HCMS-Say Something" site on Wednesday about potentially inappropriate communication between a staff member and students.

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Iranian state television has released video of what it says is a ballistic missile attack launched at US military forces in Iraq. The Pentagon has confirmed that missiles were launched from Iran and targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting US military and coalition personnel at al-Asad and Irbil. The attack comes days after the US confirmed it killed Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's elite al-Quds force. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards claim the attack was retaliation 'in the name of Suleimani' for his death

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Iranian state television has released video of what it says is a ballistic missile attack launched at US military forces in Iraq. The Pentagon has confirmed that missiles were launched from Iran and targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting US military and coalition personnel at al-Asad and Irbil.

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US President Donald Trump says Iran "appears to be standing down" after it targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq.

Mr Trump said no US or Iraqi lives were lost in the attacks, and the bases suffered only minimal damage.

The attacks on the Irbil and Al Asad bases came early on Wednesday morning local time.

Iran said they were a retaliation for the assassination of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last week.
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US President Donald Trump says Iran "appears to be standing down" after it targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq. Mr Trump said no US or Iraqi lives were lost in the attacks, and the bases suffered only minimal damage. The attacks on the Irbil and Al Asad bases came early on Wednesday morning local time.

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The process of determining the damage left behind after an earthquake shook Puerto Rico earlier this week is underway, even as parts of the island remain without power and it remains under threat of more tremors.

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U.S and Iran tensions ripple throughout the middle east.But Iran promises retaliation after Qassem soliemani death in Baghdad airport.But then Mr. Donald J. Trump tries to negotiate with Iran but Iran is not standing down.Now Iran is still not backing down and fires missiles to a U.S base in Iraq.

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Last week, our military and intelligence services brought justice to Qassim Suleimani, Iran's terror mastermind. President Trump ordered General Suleimani's killing after months of attacks on Americans by Iran's proxy forces in Iraq. These attacks culminated in a rocket strike that killed an American and wounded others, then the attempted storming of our embassy in Baghdad. The first attack crossed the red line drawn by the president last summer - that if Iran harmed an American, it would face severe consequences. The president meant what he said, as Mr. Suleimani learned the hard way.

Mr. Suleimani's killing was justified, legal and strategically sound. But the president's critics swarmed as usual. After the embassy attack, a Democratic senator declared that the president had "rendered America impotent." Some Democrats then pivoted after the Suleimani strike, calling him "reckless" and "dangerous." Those are the words of Senator Elizabeth Warren, who also described Mr. Suleimani - the leader of a State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization plotting to kill American troops - as a "senior foreign military official." Senator Bernie Sanders likened America's killing of a terrorist on the battlefield to Vladimir Putin's assassination of Russian political dissidents.

Some Democrats seem to feel a strange regret for the killing of a monster who specialized in killing Americans. The linguist his proxies killed on Dec. 27, Nawres Hamid, was merely his last victim out of more than 600 in Iraq since 2003. His forces have instigated attacks against our troops in Afghanistan. He plotted a (foiled) bombing in Washington, D.C., and attempted attacks on the soil of our European allies. He armed the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon with rockets to pummel the Jewish state of Israel. And he was greeted moments before his death by a terrorist responsible for the bombing of our embassy in Kuwait in 1983.

Some of the president's critics will concede that Mr. Suleimani was an evil man, but many complain his killing was unlawful. Wrong again. He was a United States-designated terrorist commander. As I have been briefed, he was plotting further attacks against Americans at the time of his death.The authority granted to the president under Article II of the Constitution provides ample legal basis for this strike. Furthermore, those who accept the constitutionality of the War Powers Act should recall that Congress's 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force very much remain in effect and clearly cover the Suleimani operation. This will be a relief to the Obama administration, which ordered hundreds of drone strikes using such a legal rationale.

American forces are in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, and they have every right and authority to defend themselves. This legal act of self-defense was not only proportionate - it was targeted and brilliantly executed, causing essentially no collateral damage.

So the killing was justified and legally sound. It was also strategically sensible. If Iran's anemic response on Tuesday is any indication, the Suleimani strike has already restored deterrence - and our troops in the region are safer for it. To put it simply, the ayatollahs are once again afraid of the United States because of this bold action, which is forcing them to recalculate their odds. In 2019 alone, Iran's violent provocations included mining ships in the Strait of Hormuz, downing an American drone and threatening the global economy by striking Saudi oil facilities. President Trump chose restraint at the time but promised ferocious retaliation in the event of American casualties. The mullahs must have thought that he was bluffing. Now they're compelled to face the reality of America's vast overmatch of their forces.

The weeks and months ahead will tell whether the Islamic Republic is successfully deterred - but it has been deterred in the past, for example, when Ronald Reagan sank much of the Iranian Navy in 1988. (It has never successfully been appeased, and President Barack Obama's attempts to buy off Iran with his nuclear deal only fueled the regime's imperialism and regional campaign of terror.) Iran is not 10-feet tall. In fact, it's a weak, third-rate power.

Because of this administration's maximum-pressure campaign, the regime manages an economy trapped in a deepening depression. To remain in power, it must mass murder its own people, which it did as recently as November. If maximum pressure is maintained, the ayatollahs will eventually face a choice between fundamentally changing their behavior or suffering economic and social collapse. They may also choose to lash out in a desperate bid to escape this logic, perhaps by making a break for a nuclear bomb. Such impulses must be deterred or, if recklessly pursued, halted with swift and firm action, as the president promised on Wednesday.

This tough-minded approach is not a distraction from America's competition with more serious adversaries like China and Russia, who watch our actions closely in the Gulf for signs of commitment and resolve. Our long-term challenge with China, in particular, directly involves the Middle East's energy resources, to which access remains critical for our allies in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed for China itself - regardless of important strides in America's domestic energy production.

The future of our Iran policy is a critical part of our success in the global competition that will determine the character of this century and the safety of the American republic within it. And recent events have shown we are up to the task.

Tom Cotton (@sentomcotton) is a Republican senator from Arkansas.
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As fires continue to rip through Australia, some devastating numbers are emerging: At least 24 people killed. More than 15.6 million acres torched. Over 1,400 homes destroyed. And, according to one biodiversity expert’s count, an estimated 1 billion animals killed.

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As fires continue to rip through Australia, some devastating numbers are emerging: At least 24 people killed. More than 15.6 million acres torched. Over 1,400 homes destroyed. And, according to one biodiversity expert's count, an estimated 1 billion animals killed.

That last number is staggeringly huge, and has begun to make the rounds on social media.You might be wondering: How are so many animals dying? And how do we know the number of animals killed?

The bushfires, exacerbated by climate change, have since September swept through vast swathes of Australia - we're talking about an area bigger than Vermont and New Hampshire combined - affecting a mix of rural and suburban areas.

Many wild animals and some farm animals have been killed directly by the flames. We can see the evidence with our own eyes: Distressing images of burned kangaroos and koalas, and videos of dead animals on the sides of the roads, have circulated online over the past week.

Other animals have not been burned alive but have faced death due to the destruction of their natural environment, which they rely on for food and shelter.

Initially, the number of animals killed was put at 480 million, an estimate that came from Chris Dickman, a biodiversity expert at the University of Sydney, last week. A statement from that institution explained how he arrived at the number.

In 2007, Dickman co-authored a report for the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) on how land-clearing affects Australian wildlife in the state of New South Wales (NSW). To calculate the impact, he and the other authors first mined previously published studies for estimates of mammal population density in NSW. Then they multiplied the density estimates by the areas of vegetation approved to be cleared.

Using this simple formula, Dickman was able to calculate that approximately 480 million animals had been killed since the bushfires in NSW started in September.

Some experts suggested that estimate was too high.Sadly, there are three reasons to believe the true loss of animal life is much greater - more like 1 billion.

First, the 480 million number applied to NSW alone, and the bushfires have since spread to the state of Victoria. Second, the number included mammals, birds, and reptiles, but did not include insects, bats, or frogs. Third, the 2007 report "deliberately employed highly conservative estimates in making their calculations," according to the statement.

That's why Dickman now estimates the real number of animals lost in the fires is at least 1 billion.

"The original figure ― the 480 million ― was based on mammals, birds, and reptiles for which we do have densities, and that figure now is a little bit out of date. It's over 800 million given the extent of the fires now ― in New South Wales alone," he told the Huffington Post.

If we also count bats, frogs, and invertebrates (and given their environmental impact, there's good reason to think we should), Dickman said it's "without any doubt at all" that the number of animals lost tops 1 billion. "Over a billion would be a very conservative figure."

Stuart Blanch, an environmental scientist at WWF Australia, also said 1 billion was a modest estimate given how far the fires have recently spread, according to HuffPost.

How the fires became so deadly for animals

At this point, you might be asking yourself: Can't animals just run away from a raging fire? Can't birds just fly away?

In many cases, particularly for birds, the answer is yes. "Certainly, large animals, like kangaroos or emus - many birds, of course - will be able to move away from the fire as it approaches," Dickman told the BBC. But he added that "it's the less mobile species and the smaller ones that depend on the forest itself that are really in the firing line."

Koalas are a good example. An estimated 8,000 of them have died from the fires, ecologists say. That's almost one-third of all koalas in NSW, which forms their main habitat.

"It may well be up to 30 percent of the population in that region [was killed], because up to 30 percent of their habitat has been destroyed," explained Sussan Ley, Australia's environment minister.

WWF is currently collecting donations to restore koala habitats.

Other animals may have fared better - reptiles, for example.

"Although it is hard to find estimates of how well reptiles survive fires, in similar areas of Australia the majority of these reptiles live in the soil," said Colin Beale, an ecologist from the University of York. "Soil is a very good thermal insulator and burrowing reptiles can certainly show very low mortality even during intense fires."

Some ecologists, including Beale, say Dickman's estimates may be inflated. Although it's plausible many animals have been affected by the fires, the proportion of them that actually died may be smaller.

Let's hope so. The truth is, it's hard for anyone to know the precise impact of the fires at this stage, not least because many animals that survive the flames will likely die later due to lack of food, water, and shelter.

Regardless of the exact numbers, this is a crisis for biodiversity in Australia, which is home to some of Earth's most distinctive animals, like marsupials. Around 244 species of mammals are found only in Australia. What's more, according to the University of Sydney's statement, "Some 34 species and subspecies of native mammals have become extinct in Australia over the last 200 years, the highest rate of loss for any region in the world."

The current loss of Australian animal life is a serious tragedy by anyone's count.It adds to the terrible human toll: two dozen people killed, and thousands more evacuated. Fires are expected to keep raging for another month.

To help with the evacuations and firefighting, the government announced this weekend that it's deploying the military. Experts say the deployment is on a scale not seen since World War II. As Defense Minister Linda Reynolds put it, "It is the first time that reserves have been called out in this way in living memory."
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Finding the best ways to do good. As fires continue to rip through Australia, some devastating numbers are emerging: At least 24 people killed. More than 15.6 million acres torched. Over 1,400 homes destroyed. And, according to one biodiversity expert's count, an estimated 1 billion animals killed.

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schelby fain Nearly 60 years after gray wolves were considered extinct in Wisconsin, the population has rebounded to more than 900 in the state. That is thanks to decades of protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, which makes it illegal to hunt or harm listed species.But the conservation success story has turned into a nuisance for hunters, farmers and others whose animals are increasingly encountering wolves — with deadly consequences. That is why some are calling for the federal government to delist wolves and resume legal hunting.

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This article was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio.

In November 2018, wolves killed Laurie Groskopf's 11-year-old hunting dog in Oneida County. That was nine years after wolves killed another of her dogs.

"They were attacked by wolves without any provocation and killed. And for us, it's been really, really traumatic," Groskopf said.

Wisconsinites subsidized Groskopf's loss. She received $5,000 through an obscure Department of Natural Resources program that compensates animal owners for wolf-inflicted damages. But Groskopf said the payments - $2,500 for each dog - could not make up for the loss of pets she treated as family.

Nearly 60 years after gray wolves were considered extinct in Wisconsin, the population has rebounded to more than 900 in the state. That is thanks to decades of protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, which makes it illegal to hunt or harm listed species.

But the conservation success story has turned into a nuisance for hunters, farmers and others whose animals are increasingly encountering wolves - with deadly consequences. That is why some are calling for the federal government to delist wolves and resume legal hunting.

"I would say to people who are against controlling the wolf numbers, 'What gives you the right to decide that my life is going to change substantially because you think wolves belong in my neighborhood?' " Groskopf said.

The wolf encounters are running up a tab on taxpayers. Over 34 years, the DNR has paid $2.5 million and counting in damage payments to hunters and livestock owners. Meanwhile, the compensation program appears to be falling short in one of its goals: making hunters and farmers more tolerant of wolves to reduce illegal killings.

The DNR has documented at least 260 illegal gray wolf killings since 1985, including 10 between April of 2018 and April of this year. People convicted of killing a federally protected wolf can face up to six months in jail and/or a $25,000 fine, according to the DNR. Penalties can include the loss of a hunting license.

Those wanting to legally hunt the animal could get their wish. President Donald Trump's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year proposed lifting endangered species protections for wolves, calling their rebound "one of the greatest comebacks for an animal in U.S. conservation history."

But Trump faces opposition from some conservation and animal rights groups that argue wolf populations have not recovered enough to survive hunting. And even if he succeeds in lifting protections, Wisconsin will continue to pay those who lose animals to wolves; a budget amendment enshrined the payments in perpetuity - regardless of wolves' protected status.

Even some of that program's beneficiaries question its usefulness.

"I'd rather see that money going toward management and control rather than buying a dead animal because we're paying for it with our taxes," said Jack Johnson, who raises beef cattle on a third-generation farm outside the city of Medford. Johnson said the state paid him about $400 in 2014 for a wolf-ravaged calf.

The debate is only the latest in the ever-changing history of wolf management in Wisconsin, and it comes as Wisconsinites are divided on wolf issues.

Mike Wiggins, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission board member and chairman of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, said his community sees the wolf as a brother whose fate is intertwined with the community's.

"And it's been pretty remarkable to see their return," he said. "I've probably had four or five occasions to see wolves in the wild, and it's just an amazing, thrilling kind of occurrence that lights up the land."

Wolves declared extinct

Gray wolves have roamed Wisconsin since the glaciers melted about 10,000 years ago - coexisting with Native American tribes that respected the hunting animal, according to the DNR. As many as 3,000 to 5,000 wolves were here when the state's European settlers arrived in the early 1800s, but that would not last. Wisconsin offered a bounty on wolves from 1865 to 1957, spurring widespread hunting that decimated populations.

By 1960, wolves were considered extinct in Wisconsin; similar trends played out in other parts of the country.

In 1974, the Fish and Wildlife Service added gray wolves to the list of federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. By 1980, the DNR counted 25 wolves in northern Wisconsin, as a few packs moved in from across the Minnesota border.

The animals' listing status has since changed repeatedly, often in response to legal challenges.

On Jan. 27, 2012, the Fish and Wildlife Service removed the gray wolf from the list of endangered species in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin and parts of adjoining states. That also allowed the killing of wolves attacking livestock. The same day, Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a bill to create a wolf hunting season.

While hunting advocates supported the bill, it drew opposition from animal rights groups and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, which represents tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Wisconsin held wolf hunting seasons in 2012, 2013 and 2014, until the federal government re-listed wolves in the western Great Lakes area as endangered following a federal court ruling. In those years, hunters killed 528 wolves, according to the DNR. Another 176 were killed through the renewed authority to use lethal force in response to attacks on livestock and other domestic animals.

If Trump succeeds in removing wolves from the protected list, Wisconsites could hunt them again, Scott Walter, a DNR large carnivore specialist, said in an email. But the DNR would first need to draw up rules such as creating quotas and a permit application process, he said.

Damage payments begin

In 1983, the state established an income-tax checkoff allowing residents to donate to support federally protected species. It earmarked 3%, or up to $100,000 a year, to pay for damage from wolves and other protected species.

Wisconsin doled out its first wolf damage payment in 1985. A Douglas County farmer received $200 for killed sheep. Two years later, the state paid $2,500 for a hunting dog named Ranger, the first payment for "personal property" under the program.

The goal of the payments was, in part, to build tolerance among farmers and hunters for the increased wolf population. But illegal killings continued. A 2018 DNR study found 9.4% of all radio-collared wolves were illegally killed between 1979 and 2013.

Although wolves rarely attack humans, an ancient fear of the predators persists among some people. Adrian Treves, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, said lifting federal protections and allowing lethal control would send a "policy signal" to would-be poachers that they could kill wolves without consequence.

Wolves rebound; new rules written

In anticipation of a federal push to remove wolves from the Endangered Species List, the DNR released a wolf management plan in 1999 that set rules for trapping, relocating and killing wolves that attacked livestock and pets once the state assumed management authority.

If wolves were to be delisted, it also meant farmers, pet owners and hunters would stop getting payments for animals killed by the formerly protected predators. But a 1999-2001 budget amendment, introduced by former state Sen. Kevin Shibilski, D-Stevens Point, ensured the reimbursements would continue.

Shibilski, a former bear hunting guide, said the wolf damage payments are about safeguarding wolves.

"If you don't behave responsibly and reimburse people for actual losses, you risk enabling bad actors out there, vigilante wildlife managers who are trying to kill predators wantonly and end up raising all kinds of havoc in our wolves, and that's been happening," he said.

Shibilski pointed to an incident this spring in which a wolf, three dogs, coyotes and other wild animals were killed by poisoned meat scattered throughout Florence, Marinette and Bayfield counties. Authorities investigated the poisonings, but no charges have been filed.

Livestock losses continue

Of the $2.5 million in damage payments, Wisconsin has paid more than $1.3 million for cattle, calves and missing calves - sums that have increased as wolves rebounded.

Farms that see the most wolf-livestock conflict tend to be located near large blocks of public land like the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, according to Dave Ruid, a supervisor with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which investigates such livestock killings.

But the majority of DNR's livestock payments did not require physical proof that wolves killed the animal. Farmers who have had livestock killed by wolves can also get paid for any additional missing calves beyond the expected annual 2.3% mortality rate.

In 2011, the DNR issued a record 257 missing calf payments, with 103 of those going to members of the Fornengo family, who raise beef cattle in Burnett County. The DNR later enacted a rule that limited livestock producers to no more than five missing calf claims for every confirmed kill - but it was only in effect for two years.

As of October, the DNR paid nearly $720,000 for missing calves throughout the program's existence, with $239,865 going to the Fornengo-owned cattle operations between 2011 and 2019. The family declined comment.

Farmer: Too many wolves

Johnson, the Medford farmer, has not lost an animal to wolves since 2014. The Fish and Wildlife Service put up flags- brightly colored and hung along a roped-off perimeter - on his land to scare them off. Still, Johnson believes farmers should be allowed to kill animals causing problems on farms. The wolves scare cattle, even affecting their eating and breeding cycles, he said.

A study co-authored by Erik Olson, Northland College assistant professor of natural resources, suggests the changing status has led to inconsistent management, declining public support for wolves - and possibly more illegal killings.

Walter, the DNR large carnivore specialist, agrees. But after two decades of consistent and rapid population growth, the state's wolf population has leveled off - even without hunting, he added.

"And I think it's becoming clear that wolves have essentially occupied all the suitable range where they can go about their daily lives unfettered by the heavy hand of humans."
The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, PBS Wisconsin, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.

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trump tries to take partial responsibility for the Ethiopians prime ministers Nobel peace prize.

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trump tries to take partial responsibility for the Ethiopians prime ministers Nobel peace prize.

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27 people died from this fire billion animals have been caught in this fire and are stating to go extinct

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The mouse-size dunnart is not as renowned as the koalas or platypuses that draw tourists, but it is arguably the most special mammal on Australia's Kangaroo Island.

Now the Kangaroo Island dunnart's days may be numbered. Before bush fires struck, it was already endangered, so rare that even researchers who studied them had never seen one. Now they fear they never will. One-third of the 1,700-square-mile island has burned, including the entire area where these dunnarts are known to live.

"One hundred percent - all of our records since 1990 are within the burned fire scar. The entire range of the species has been burned," said Rosemary Hohnen, an ecologist who spent more than two years surveying the Kangaroo Island dunnart. "They're in true peril, real peril of extinction."

More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide - some of them found nowhere else on Earth - may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate. The potential toll is far greater when other types of animals are included.

"We're not just talking about koalas - we're talking mammals, birds, plants, fungi, insects, other invertebrates, amphibians, and bacteria and microorganisms that are critical to these systems," said Manu Saunders, a research fellow and insect ecologist at the University of New England in Armidale.

Individual animals might survive, but when their habitat is gone, "it doesn't matter," Saunders said. "They'll die anyway."

Although dead and scorched koalas and kangaroos have become the symbols of wildlife suffering in the worst blazes ever to hit fire-prone Australia, conservationists note that those species are not at risk of extinction. Of greater ecological concern are the unusual animals that could disappear from a continent with the world's highest rate of mammal extinction.

"Extinction of endemic species means, of course, irrevocable loss," said Christopher Dickman, a University of Sydney ecology professor. Dickman initially estimated that half a billion animals were affected before doubling that number in an update. "While 1 billion is clearly a large number, the expectation is that the number contains examples of many species that are ecologically important."

Among the most vulnerable: the long-footed potoroo, a marsupial that lives in damp forest habitat that scientists say may not recover from the fires; and the Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo, which eats nothing but the seeds of she-oak trees that have gone up in flames.

And then there are all the insects, the foundation of a living forest. They make up half of all animal biomass and are the major food source for virtually anything that moves. Bugs also break down organic matter and help pollinate plants. Inside branches, under leaves, within hollowed logs and in pockets on the ground, tens of millions of bugs are being burned alive. Some may vanish without ever being discovered.

"Only about 20 to 30 percent of Australian insects are known to science," said Katja Hogendoorn, a researcher at the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide.

A single bee species shows how grim the outlook is for many. Fires and land clearing had already driven the green carpenter bee to extinction in Victoria and South Australia. Now, Hogendoorn said, fires are threatening them on Kangaroo Island.

Banksia plants, which the bees use for nests, have burned. It takes 30 years for it to grow to the right size and softness for the picky bees. "It is difficult to assess the situation," Hogendoorn said, "because there is no access to the burned sites, but the species is likely to be in dire straits."

Climate change, invasive species, overuse of farm chemicals and human development also threaten insects. "The fires could be the last straw that drives fragile populations over the brink," said Tanya Latty, an entomologist at the University of Sydney.

Wild animals aren't the only creatures suffering.

Federal agriculture officials say at least 100,000 cattle will die before the fires end. Farmers say their livestock are keeling over from burns. Cows have stopped feeding calves because their teats are scorched. An army of veterinarians has been assembled to assess those left standing. They're also weighing how to dispose of the dead.

Stephen Shipton lost 50 cows when fire struck his farm in Coolagolite, a town in New South Wales, on New Year's Day. He knows because he killed dozens of wounded animals himself. "We've lost a third of our herd," Shipton said. "They're still dying. They're just getting sick and other things at this point."

Starvation and disease are part of the damage fire leaves behind.

Animals that survive may struggle to find food in an ashen landscape devoid of plants that provide nutrients or shelter. Without trees to nest in, birds may fail to breed. Prey, including insects, may be scarce.

Studies have shown that two of Australia's deadly invasive predators, cats and red foxes, move into burned terrain and slaughter animals whose protection - vegetation - is gone. Most at risk are the Kangaroo Island dunnart and other small animals in "the cat and fox snack range," said Euan Ritchie, an associate professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at Deakin University in Melbourne.

This week, flames continued to whip across Kangaroo Island, where conservationists have worked for years to shore up fragile animal populations.

Efforts to protect the nests of the island's subspecies of glossy black cockatoos from deadly attacks by brush-tail possums helped the population reach about 400 by 2018, but they are still considered endangered, said Daniella Teixeira, a University of Queensland doctoral student who studies the birds.

The cockatoos - strikingly goth, with harsh calls and large black bodies marked by red or yellow feathers - are favorites of locals, she said. Now, fires appear to have burned as many as six of eight known flock regions, she said.

"Even if we lost a quarter of the birds ... that could potentially put us back a decade in terms of conservation work," Teixeira said.

The situation looks even more dire for Kangaroo Island dunnarts. They've been detected just 48 times since their discovery in 1969, and they have been seen only in a small western pocket of the island since 1990, Hohnen said.

Last week, Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife, which works with private landowners to protect the dunnarts, said many of the remote cameras it uses to monitor the marsupials were "melted" by fires. On Wednesday, though, the group said some photos of survivors were captured, offering a bit of hope for the species.

After the fires end, Hohnen and other experts said, the focus must turn to helping animals that remain. That will mean removing invasive predators and possibly captive breeding for some species. Replanting trees and other vegetation will be crucial, they said.

So will bolder government action on climate change, some said.

"There's a feeling among the scientific community here that the eyes of the world are on Australia. It's been called the climate canary in the coal mine. The predictions of climate change were expected to be manifest first and most obviously in Australia, because it's already a dry continent," Dickman said. "There's a sense of even greater responsibility, in some ways."

That responsibility should extend to the dunnart, Hohnen said - even if it's not a national icon.

"Biodiversity is part of what makes planet Earth planet Earth. It's our heritage; it's our richness," she said. "They might be just another number that we're adding to a list of species that are going extinct. But that number is important."

On land, Australia's rising heat is 'apocalyptic.' In the ocean, it's worse.

Zoo director takes monkeys and pandas home to save them from deadly wildfires

Australia's fragile koala colonies are being ravaged by bush fires: 'It's a national tragedy'

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The mouse-size dunnart is not as renowned as the koalas or platypuses that draw tourists, but it is arguably the most special mammal on Australia's Kangaroo Island. Now the Kangaroo Island dunnart's days may be numbered. Before bush fires struck, it was already endangered, so rare that even researchers who studied them had never seen one.

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There has been missile launches from Iraq but I hope WW|||. But good thing Trump canceled the war and no harm will be done.

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There has been a fire in Australia that is harming Koalas.The dry land of Australia stared a fire that killed billions of kolas,and harmed their homes.Their have been a lot of rescue teams saving the hurt animals.Some of theses innocent Koalas have died.Some people have saved the innocent kolas.As you can see help and take care of the wildlife.

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There has been so many forest fires in Australia

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in Australia there are some very bad wild fires.  800 billion animals died from the fire in Australia.

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Iran's leader says whit certainly that they did not shoot down the plane that  crashed after taking off from Tehran . Over 730 people died and  over 20 of them were Canadian .

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On january 3 2020 the USA launched a missile on the country of Iran and killed general Qasem Soleimani.How Iran responded was by launching 22 missiles on iraq

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More plants are growing around Everest... the change could be serious.

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More plants are growing around Everest... the change could be serious.

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Grasses, shrubs and mosses are growing and expanding around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region as the area continues to experience the consequences of global warming, researchers have found.plants that grow between the tree line and the snow line. There are now more areas that are covered in plants than there were in 1993

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Grasses, shrubs and mosses are growing and expanding around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region as the area continues to experience the consequences of global warming, researchers have found.

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On Wednesday 8 2020 it was at midnight. trump said that we are not going to war. But there was nobody hurt or (dead) they were all safe. Trump even said that we all need to be grateful that there is no war that Iran needs to fix their behavior. These wars might be bad because Russia has nuclear weapons that they deal with then the U.S does but we i hope we don't lose this war here is 2020 news............

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forest fires   their a lot of forest fires it is caused be people 

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forest fires   their a lot of forest fires it is caused be people 

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On Wednesday 8 2020 it was midnight Trump finally made up his mind about saying no to going to war with Iran when ever they bomb us there was nobody hurt and he also siad that we need to be

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Australia fires and animals getting hurt.   

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Australia fires and animals getting hurt.   

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With over 1 billion animals estimated  to have be killed in the Australia fires. roughly 30,000 koalas have be killed or injured in the fires. nearly 18 million acres of land have be burned. nearly half a million animals have be impacted by the fires in nws alone, with half a million dead. The fires have be going on for mouths and over 480 million animals have died and got injured.

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Millions of animals are dying from the Australian wildfires

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Up to a billion animals across Australia could be impacted by the raging wildfires -- spelling trouble for the country's ecosystem and environments for years to come.

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There have been several wildfires in Australia. They are mostly because of all the very dry grass and environment.There  have been several sightings of koalas by bikers and by passers. The koalas are said to be going up to people and begging them for water. Many people and animals have been killed due to wildfires. People are also a cause of the fires by not taking care of the environment also people just starting fires for no reason but to have fun is killing people and animals. I wish people would stop this fire starting so thy can stop all the wildfires. So please stop.

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World War 3 decision made  Aiden N.     

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Iran attacked the U.S. military base and didn't kill a lot of people they just kinda made a warning shot that they will fight.So the U.S. are standing down too.If we try anything they will fight the U.S. with all they got. If they were to fight us it would last a couple years cause the U.S. and Iran are strong.The worst thing about this war is thousands of life's will be lost or maybe millions of life's the point is we don't want to lose those people cause they have family's too and we don't want to take that away from them.

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Planes are crashing these days and killing couple and people. This lady was worried before she got on the plane so 20 minutes before take off she called her husband worried she died in iran. A young couple died on august 23rd 2019 minutes after they got on the plane.

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Twenty minutes before the plane she was on took off from the Iranian capital, Sheyda Shadkhoo called her husband from aboard the flight. She wanted him to reassure her that everything would be fine, he said.

She'd taken three weeks off from her job in Toronto to visit her mother and sisters in Tehran. Her vacation was over, and she was heading back to Canada to her husband, Hassan Shadkhoo. Her flight was leaving early Wednesday from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.

"I spoke to her ... 20 minutes before the plane took off," her husband said Wednesday night in Toronto. She was worried about the tensions between Tehran and the United States after President Donald Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian general last week.

"She wanted me to assure her that there wasn't going to be a war. I told her not to worry. Nothing's gonna happen," her husband told CNN's news partner, CBC. "She said, 'OK. They're telling me to turn off my phone. Goodbye.' That was it."

The Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines flight never made it to its destination. It crashed in Tehran minutes after takeoff, killing all 176 people aboard, including Sheyda Shadkhoo and 62 other Canadians.

Evidence indicates it is "highly likely" that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed the jetliner as it flew near Tehran, U.S. and Canadian officials said Thursday. The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a ballistic attack against Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops amid a confrontation with Washington over the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general.

Hassan Shadkhoo said his wife had a premonition the plane was going down and was worried about the people she was leaving behind. She posted a selfie on Instagram expressing her fears before she left Iran.

"She knew. Look at her face, look at the poem that she wrote," he said as he held up his phone to show the photo she posted. Then he read the words she wrote, his voice breaking.

"I'm leaving but ... what's behind me worries me," he read. "Behind me, behind me. I'm scared for the people behind me."

Hassan Shadkhoo said he's devastated and can't imagine life without his wife of 10 years. He was on his way to see his wife's relatives in Tehran on Wednesday night.

"She was an angel," he told CBC. " ... I wish I didn't exist right now."

There are conflicting reports on what caused the plane crash, and Iranian and Ukrainian officials have said they're not going to speculate.

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Twenty minutes before the plane she was on took off from the Iranian capital, Sheyda Shadkhoo called her husband from aboard the flight. She wanted him to reassure her that everything would be fine, he said. She'd taken three weeks off from her job in Toronto to visit her mother and sisters in Tehran.

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Wildfires are killing koalas.They are trying to put out the fire with water. People are killing intentness animals buy starting fires.There are over 3,000 animal getting save from the fire. The smoke is hurting the animal and the people.There are more than 100 firefighter trying to put out the fire and save the animals.

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American firefighters got a hero's welcome in Australia.

Dozens who arrived at Sydney International Airport this week to assist in battling a series of devastating wildfires were met with cheers from a crowd that had amassed at the terminal.

"Coming through, all gathered gave a spontaneous & lengthy round of applause, reflecting the gratitude & admiration we all have for their generosity," tweeted Shane Fitzsimmons, the commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

His agency warned Friday that forecasted wind gusts could "cause erratic fire behavior over many firegrounds." As of 6 p.m. local time, more than 3,300 firefighters were battling 137 blazes across Australia, 66 of which have not been contained, it added.

AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER MAKES ANOTHER GAFFE WHILE VISITING A COMMUNITY IMPACTED BY THE FIRES
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho said the more than 100 firefighters from the U.S. that arrived Thursday will join 159 already in Australia. It's the largest-ever deployment of American firefighters abroad.

The most recent contingent includes crews that fight fires on the ground, based in the U.S. Forest Service's Angeles National Forest in California.

Carrie Bilbao, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center, told The Associated Press the next group will also include more ground crews and that they are receiving training about venomous snakes and insects they might encounter.

"They've been enormously welcome and they've fitted in really well with our teams here," Rob Rogers, deputy commissioner for NSW Rural Fire Service, told "Fox & Friends." "They've been very popular."
AUSTRALIA'S KANGAROO ISLAND SHOWS BURN SCARS IN STUNNING NASA IMAGE
Most of the fire danger is centered on New South Wales and Victoria, Australia's most populous states, where temperatures and wind speeds were escalating Friday after a few days of relatively benign conditions.

The NSW Rural Fire Service said that coastal towns south of Sydney, including Eden, Batemans Bay, and Nowra, could again be under threat weeks after losing homes to the fires.

Fitzsimmons added there is "a long night still to go, for all our firefighters and those affected by the fires."

In the New South Wales town of Candelo, Nathan Barnden, a divisional commander with the Rural Fire Service, was preparing to head to the nearby township of Burragate with his team to protect the community from a fire that was marching north from the Victoria border. The fire had breached containment lines in one area, and officials were worried that predicted winds of 40 to 60 miles per hour could push it into populated areas.

"We're preparing for the inevitable risk that those towns may come under threat and if they do, we'll be there to help defend them through the night," Barnden said. "We've been warned that we could be up there 'til the morning. ... There is a risk that we'll be cut off and we'll have to stay there throughout the time."
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In neighboring Victoria, evacuation orders were issued in alpine areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews pleaded with residents to heed alerts and avoid complacency even though no fresh destruction was being reported.

The crisis so far has claimed at least 26 lives, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland since September.
Fox News' Travis Fedschun and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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US firefighters cheered at Australia airport as fires worsen, new evacuations ordered

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American firefighters got a hero's welcome in Australia. Dozens who arrived at Sydney International Airport this week to assist in battling a series of devastating wildfires were met with cheers from a crowd that had amassed at the terminal.

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australia fires are killing animals and harming there envierments. i dont think that that should be happening.i wish there was someone to tell theses people to stop. there is about 26 lives desrotyded. we are very grateful for every one who is saving the lives of animals

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American firefighters got a hero's welcome in Australia.

Dozens who arrived at Sydney International Airport this week to assist in battling a series of devastating wildfires were met with cheers from a crowd that had amassed at the terminal.

"Coming through, all gathered gave a spontaneous & lengthy round of applause, reflecting the gratitude & admiration we all have for their generosity," tweeted Shane Fitzsimmons, the commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

His agency warned Friday that forecasted wind gusts could "cause erratic fire behavior over many firegrounds." As of 6 p.m. local time, more than 3,300 firefighters were battling 137 blazes across Australia, 66 of which have not been contained, it added.

AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER MAKES ANOTHER GAFFE WHILE VISITING A COMMUNITY IMPACTED BY THE FIRES
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho said the more than 100 firefighters from the U.S. that arrived Thursday will join 159 already in Australia. It's the largest-ever deployment of American firefighters abroad.

The most recent contingent includes crews that fight fires on the ground, based in the U.S. Forest Service's Angeles National Forest in California.

Carrie Bilbao, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center, told The Associated Press the next group will also include more ground crews and that they are receiving training about venomous snakes and insects they might encounter.

"They've been enormously welcome and they've fitted in really well with our teams here," Rob Rogers, deputy commissioner for NSW Rural Fire Service, told "Fox & Friends." "They've been very popular."
AUSTRALIA'S KANGAROO ISLAND SHOWS BURN SCARS IN STUNNING NASA IMAGE
Most of the fire danger is centered on New South Wales and Victoria, Australia's most populous states, where temperatures and wind speeds were escalating Friday after a few days of relatively benign conditions.

The NSW Rural Fire Service said that coastal towns south of Sydney, including Eden, Batemans Bay, and Nowra, could again be under threat weeks after losing homes to the fires.

Fitzsimmons added there is "a long night still to go, for all our firefighters and those affected by the fires."

In the New South Wales town of Candelo, Nathan Barnden, a divisional commander with the Rural Fire Service, was preparing to head to the nearby township of Burragate with his team to protect the community from a fire that was marching north from the Victoria border. The fire had breached containment lines in one area, and officials were worried that predicted winds of 40 to 60 miles per hour could push it into populated areas.

"We're preparing for the inevitable risk that those towns may come under threat and if they do, we'll be there to help defend them through the night," Barnden said. "We've been warned that we could be up there 'til the morning. ... There is a risk that we'll be cut off and we'll have to stay there throughout the time."
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In neighboring Victoria, evacuation orders were issued in alpine areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews pleaded with residents to heed alerts and avoid complacency even though no fresh destruction was being reported.

The crisis so far has claimed at least 26 lives, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland since September.
Fox News' Travis Fedschun and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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US firefighters cheered at Australia airport as fires worsen, new evacuations ordered

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The fires there are destroying all of the land  for all of the animals. Also the people are doing it to the land on purpose to kill all the animals. Firefighters had to go out there and stop the fire from spreading more and saving the animals. Also over 3,300 had to save all the animals that were in trees or any where where there were fires to save them. Everyone was applausing for all of the fire fighters who helped the land.

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American firefighters got a hero's welcome in Australia.

Dozens who arrived at Sydney International Airport this week to assist in battling a series of devastating wildfires were met with cheers from a crowd that had amassed at the terminal.

"Coming through, all gathered gave a spontaneous & lengthy round of applause, reflecting the gratitude & admiration we all have for their generosity," tweeted Shane Fitzsimmons, the commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

His agency warned Friday that forecasted wind gusts could "cause erratic fire behavior over many firegrounds." As of 6 p.m. local time, more than 3,300 firefighters were battling 137 blazes across Australia, 66 of which have not been contained, it added.

AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER MAKES ANOTHER GAFFE WHILE VISITING A COMMUNITY IMPACTED BY THE FIRES
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho said the more than 100 firefighters from the U.S. that arrived Thursday will join 159 already in Australia. It's the largest-ever deployment of American firefighters abroad.

The most recent contingent includes crews that fight fires on the ground, based in the U.S. Forest Service's Angeles National Forest in California.

Carrie Bilbao, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center, told The Associated Press the next group will also include more ground crews and that they are receiving training about venomous snakes and insects they might encounter.

"They've been enormously welcome and they've fitted in really well with our teams here," Rob Rogers, deputy commissioner for NSW Rural Fire Service, told "Fox & Friends." "They've been very popular."
AUSTRALIA'S KANGAROO ISLAND SHOWS BURN SCARS IN STUNNING NASA IMAGE
Most of the fire danger is centered on New South Wales and Victoria, Australia's most populous states, where temperatures and wind speeds were escalating Friday after a few days of relatively benign conditions.

The NSW Rural Fire Service said that coastal towns south of Sydney, including Eden, Batemans Bay, and Nowra, could again be under threat weeks after losing homes to the fires.

Fitzsimmons added there is "a long night still to go, for all our firefighters and those affected by the fires."

In the New South Wales town of Candelo, Nathan Barnden, a divisional commander with the Rural Fire Service, was preparing to head to the nearby township of Burragate with his team to protect the community from a fire that was marching north from the Victoria border. The fire had breached containment lines in one area, and officials were worried that predicted winds of 40 to 60 miles per hour could push it into populated areas.

"We're preparing for the inevitable risk that those towns may come under threat and if they do, we'll be there to help defend them through the night," Barnden said. "We've been warned that we could be up there 'til the morning. ... There is a risk that we'll be cut off and we'll have to stay there throughout the time."
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In neighboring Victoria, evacuation orders were issued in alpine areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews pleaded with residents to heed alerts and avoid complacency even though no fresh destruction was being reported.

The crisis so far has claimed at least 26 lives, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland since September.
Fox News' Travis Fedschun and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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US firefighters cheered at Australia airport as fires worsen, new evacuations ordered

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I think the Baltimore Ravens V.S The San Francisco 49ers are going to the superbowl 2020.The reason why is because the ravens have the grate running quarterback Lamar Jackson.The reason the 49ers might make it tto the superbowl because they have Jimmy Garoppolo.

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Alongside their football team that's made their way into the playoffs, the @Vikings are utilizing their "Pass or Play" game on the team's mobile app to engage with their fanbase. frntofficesport.com/minne...

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The Effect of Koalas in the Australia Wildfire 

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The Effect of Koalas in the Australia Wildfire 

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There was a wildfire in Australia where many trees were burned down to pieces . Another thing is so many Koalas were hurt and killed in the tragic event . Luckily there was only about 4 people who´s lives were claimed . There may still be fire around the west side of Australia since most of East with about 2.5 acres were burned down . Now since that tragic event happened they are raising money to help save the Koalas and help build back what was lost . Which was a lot over 300 houses were burned down during the fire . It´s not proven who or how the fire started but scientists and Australians say that it was started because of the climate change and the the ample fuel included with it .

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Unprecedented bushfires raging in eastern Australia have killed at least four people and devastated wildlife in the region, killing hundreds of koalas and burning through their colonies so badly the animals may land on the endangered species list.

More than 100 fires racing through New South Wales and Queensland since last week have destroyed more than 300 homes and forced thousands to evacuate.

The fires also ripped through a major koala colony in the Lake Innes Nature Reserve, once home to about 600 of koalas, and continue to spread to other koala habitats.

"We are very, very concerned," Koala Conservation Australia president Sue Ashton said. "If the wind picks up, we could lose even more habitat and more koalas. It's just so unpredictable - we don't know what will happen."

At the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, more than a dozen of the furry creatures were being treated for burns, mostly singed hands and feet, said Clinical Director Cheyne Flanagan. Hundreds have died, he said.

"We crunched the numbers up to 350, but these fires have gotten worse and the numbers are probably higher," Flanagan told Australia's ABC News. "We are not finding bodies because they are incinerating to ash."

Flanagan said the fires will probably result in koalas needing the protections of the endangered species list.

"It's a national tragedy," he said.
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The hospital created a gofundme page to raise $25,000 for automatic drinking stations to help surviving wildlife stay hydrated. The page had drawn more than $500,000 in pledges Thursday.

Queensland and New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, both declared a state of emergency.

Firefighters in Queensland have been encouraged by cooler conditions, but the hot, dry conditions were persisting in southern New South Wales, and more than 1600 firefighters along with the Australian military are working to slow the spread of fires there.

"There's an increase risk with parts of NSW under Very High or Severe fire danger, eight areas under a Total Fire Ban," the Rural Fire Service warned.

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Australian fires are burning through koala colonies, killing hundreds: 'It's a national tragedy'

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Unprecedented bushfires raging in eastern Australia have killed at least four people and devastated wildlife in the region, killing hundreds of koalas and burning through their colonies so badly the animals may land on the endangered species list.

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Trump did not strike back after Iran

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A Ukraine international airline plane crashed and killed all passengers aboard. There are still investigating who is at fault because nobody knows what exactly happened.It might had been an Iran missile that brought the airplane down and killed all those people. People want answers now!!!

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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state media say authorities have invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a U krainian jetliner that crashed, killing all 176 people on board.

The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a missile amid soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran.

The state-run IRNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman on Friday as saying Iran "has invited both Ukraine and the Boeing company to participate in the investigations."

The spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, says it will also welcome experts from other countries' whose citizens died in the crash.

U.S., Canadian and British officials said it is "highly likely" that Iran shot down the civilian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late Tuesday. They said the fiery missile strike could well have been a mistake amid rocket launches and high tension throughout the region.

The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a ballistic attack against Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops in its violent confrontation with Washington over the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general. The airliner could have been mistaken for a threat, U.S. officials said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country lost at least 63 citizens in the downing, said in Ottawa: "We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile."

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered similar statements. Morrison also said it appeared to be a mistake. "All of the intelligence as presented to us today does not suggest an intentional act," he said.

Mousavi said Iran asks Canada's prime minister and any other government to "provide any information they have to the investigation committee."

Iranian officials have ruled out a missile strike, saying the plane appears to have crashed because of technical difficulties.

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Iran invites Boeing to investigate plane crash that killed 176

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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state media say authorities have invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a U krainian jetliner that crashed, killing all 176 people on board. The move came after Western leaders said the plane appeared to have been unintentionally hit by a missile amid soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran.

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27 people have died and some of the firefighters

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Animals dying due to Australia Bush fires

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Animals dying due to Australia Bush fires

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Many firefighters are happy of going to see there family but many animals such as kangaroos,koalas,and many more animals lost there homes family's and are really thirsty for water

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Kangaroos fleeing fires went to a golf course for sanctuary.It turned into a killing field.

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Kangaroos fleeing fires went to a golf course for sanctuary.It turned into a killing field.

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The pristine national park that rings the town

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japan makes a new  app that can detect national residents cards that are fake

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japan makes a new  app that can detect national residents cards that are fake

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NEWS, japan Has made an app so now they can detect  residents cards and see if they are fake. Basically, They scan the chip in the card see if the information matches what it says on the card and if it doesn't match the  card then its fake. The government hopes to introduce it b

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The government will develop a smartphone app to easily identify if residence cards, which are issued to foreign nationals, have been forged in an attempt to crack down on visa law violations, government officials have said.

The app, intended for potential employers of foreign workers, will read data stored in the IC chip embedded in the cards and confirm whether the data matches information listed on the cards such as name and residential status.

The government aims to introduce the app by the end of 2020, the officials said.

The number of foreign residents has been increasing every year, reaching some 2.83 million at the end of June last year, up from about 2.03 million at the end of 2012, according to the Immigration Services Agency.

The number of arrests resulting from holding or using forged residence cards has been rising too, reaching 620 in 2018, 1.6 times higher than the previous year, according to police.

A residence card lists the carrier's information including name, birthday, nationality, residence status and period of stay.

Forged residence cards are often used to get jobs other than those permitted by the type of visa held or to remain in the country beyond the permitted period. In some cases, they are used to sign housing loan contracts.

While the hologram on the surface of the cards has been counterfeited, so far there has been no case of the IC chips being faked, the agency said.

The envisaged app would allow a residence card's IC chip to be read just by holding a smartphone over the card. The government has earmarked some ¥130 million ($1.2 million) in its extra budget for the current fiscal year for development costs.

The agency has already made public the specifications for devices to read data on the cards' IC chips, but few companies have introduced scanning devices due to the difficulty of developing them on their own.

The agency hopes that small and midsize companies will utilize the new app when they hire foreign workers.

More foreign nationals are expected to live in Japan under a new visa system launched in April last year to cope with a labor shortage.

The government expects up to 345,150 foreign nationals to acquire a newly created residence status that grants the right to work in 14 sectors such as construction, farming and nursing care for up to a total of five years.

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The government will develop a smartphone app to easily identify if residence cards, which are issued to foreign nationals, have been forged in an attempt to crack down on visa law violations, government officials have said.

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trump fires missile and know his war powers are limited 

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trump fires missile and know his war powers are limited 

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Trump fires missile at a commander and kills general. Now Donald Trumps war powers are now less. Trump says that they fired a missile at Iran commander because he was planning to bomb the embassy and also said that the general is the deadliest terrorist.