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South Carolina women’s basketball team, the 2017 NCAA champions, declined President Trump’s invite to the White House Friday.

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South Carolina women's basketball team, the 2017 NCAA champions, declined President Trump's invite to the White House Friday.

The White House said 18 NCAA teams would attend the college sports championship gathering at the executive mansion.

However, Dawn Staley, the head coach of the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks, said the team would be unable to attend.
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"We did hear from the White House about attending (Friday's) event, but we will not be able to attend," Staley said in a statement. "As I've been saying since our practices for this season started, all of our focus is on the season ahead. The only invitation we are thinking about is to the 2018 NCAA Tournament."

After the Gamecocks won the NCAA title in April, Staley said the team would go to the White House if invited because "it's what it stands for. It's what national champions do."

In September, Staley told The Associated Press she still had not received an invitation from the White House "and that in itself speaks volumes."
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Staley said if the team received an invite they may not attend after "some things transpired over the last few months," ESPN reported.

In September, Trump rescinded Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry's invitation to the White House after his team won the NBA championship. Trump took away the invite after Curry suggested his team did not wish to meet with Trump.

The Warriors announced that they would not go to the White House to meet with Trump following the rescinded invitation.

North Carolina's men's basketball team said earlier this year it could not agree on a date for a visit. Trump hosted the Clemson Tigers football team at the White House in June.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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South Carolina women's basketball team, the 2017 NCAA champions, declined President Trump's invite to the White House Friday. The White House said 18 NCAA teams would attend the college sports championship gathering at the executive mansion. However, Dawn Staley, the head coach of the University of South Carolina's Gamecocks, said the team would be unable to attend.

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Aaron Hernandez has had the worst CTE scan anyone has seen at his age.

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McKee and her team have examined more than 100 former NFL players' brains for the neurodegenerative disease, formally named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and found Hernandez's case to be significant.

"This is the first case that we've seen that kind of damage in such a young individual," she said, adding that the type of brain damage observed is usually seen in someone 20 years older.

Hernandez was 27 years old when he fatally hanged himself in prison in April. He was found to have had stage 3 CTE; stage 4 is the most severe.

McKee was careful to state that she couldn't make a connection between his pathology (seen in the lab) and his behavior. "We can't connect the dots," she said. But she pointed out that the parts of his brain mostaffected by the disease included areas that controlled memory, judgment and emotion.

A 'classic' case

"Everyplace we looked, it was classic CTE," McKee said of Hernandez's brain.

CTE can be diagnosed only after death. It's believed to result from repeated head trauma. In football, this can happen not just from hard hits to the head that result in concussion but from the repeated rattling of the brain inside the skull that occurs during tackles and falls to the turf. These repeated hits are known as subconcussive hits and can result in a buildup of a kind of protein called tau in the brain.

There is no treatment or cure for the disease.

McKee and her team focused only on the diagnosis, choosing not to look at Hernandez's clinical history or speak to his family.

She said that his brain was one of the best and most intact specimens her team had ever handled and that she believed it would contribute greatly to the overall understanding of the disease. "This will really advance and accelerate research going forward."

Damage took 'years to develop'

Researchers still aren't clear why some people may develop this disease while others do not.

In Hernandez's case, McKee pointed out that tests revealed a variant of the APOE gene, which has been associated with higher risk for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Whether it played a role in the severity of Hernandez's CTE is unclear. However, "this is substantial damage that took years to develop ... not something that developed acutely," she said.

Hernandez played for the New England Patriots from 2010 to 2012 after a standout collegiate career at the University of Florida.

His family is pursuing a lawsuit against the NFL, alleging that it knew about and hid the dangers of head trauma. "The NFL had made certain representations to players during this time that Aaron was playing (2010 to 2012), and those representations turned out to be false," family attorney Jose Baez said in September.

The NFL has said it will contest the claim vigorously.

In 2015, a federal judge approved a class-action lawsuit settlement between the NFL and thousands of former players who accused the league of hiding the dangers of concussions and repeated head trauma. The agreement provides up to $5 million per retired player for serious medical conditions associated with repeated head trauma.

CTE has been detected in militaryveterans, as well as players of other contact sports; however, it has become most associated with football. It has been diagnosed in San Diego Charger and Hall of Famer Junior Seau, as well as the Philadelphia Eagles' Kevin Turner and the Oakland Raiders' Ken Stabler.

A recent analysis by BU found evidence of CTE in 110 of 111 brains of former NFL players. However, there is a potential bias in this review, as relatives of these players may have submitted their brains for diagnosis due to clinical symptoms noticed while the players were living.

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Aaron Hernandez's CTE was unusually severe, doctor says

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McKee and her team have examined more than 100 former NFL players' brains for the neurodegenerative disease, formally named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and found Hernandez's case to be significant. "This is the first case that we've seen that kind of damage in such a young individual," she said, adding that the type of brain damage observed is usually seen in someone 20 years older.

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Man drops cocaine while in court for a drug charge.

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Aly Raisman, Olympic gymnastics star, says she was sexually abused by disgraced doctor.

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A Florida dad fires gun shots to stop his 17 year old daughter attempted kidnappers and he is being credited for it

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A father in Florida is being credited with thwarting an attempted kidnapping of his 17-year-old daughter, firing shots as four teen suspects tried to break into his garage, police said.

An investigation revealed that the teens believed the father to be wealthy and had hatched a plot to rob his house and kidnap his daughter, according to the sheriff's office.

Deputies from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to a possible home-invasion robbery in progress at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at a home in Baker. The 51-year-old homeowner told authorities his daughter had called him to say that someone tried to block the roads to their home with barrels - an apparent attempt to force her to exit her car and walk.

Instead, she simply drove around them, according to a statement by the sheriff's office.

"A short time later her father heard his dogs barking and saw his front motion-activated flood lights come on," the statement continued. "He also heard what sounded like his car door closing and went to get his gun."

He saw some people trying to force their way into his garage and fired three shots, sending the would-be intruders scurrying into the woods, police said.
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Florida dad fires gun to stop 17-year-old daughter's attempted kidnappers, cops say

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A father in Florida is being credited with thwarting an attempted kidnapping of his 17-year-old daughter, firing shots as four teen suspects tried to break into his garage, police said. An investigation revealed that the teens believed the father to be wealthy and had hatched a plot to rob his house and kidnap his daughter, according to the sheriff's office.

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Crack in a wall in NYC was found, the fire department called to immediately evacuate.

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A New York City apartment building has been evacuated after a large crack was discovered in the structure.

The New York City Fire Department responded to calls from the Upper East Side apartment around 1:45 p.m. Thursday. Authorities evacuated the building after determining the floors could collapse. According to the FDNY, the interior wall crack spans multiple levels of the seven-story building.

Fire officials say the owners of the building had been trying to fix the problem before tenants called 911.

Authorities say tenants will be prohibited from returning to the apartment building for at least 24 hours.

Fire officials are not sure what caused the crack. An investigation continues.

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A New York City apartment building has been evacuated after a large crack was discovered in the structure. The New York City Fire Department responded to calls from the Upper East Side apartment around 1:45 p.m. Thursday. Authorities evacuated the building after determining the floors could...

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Tesla made a new update to there car to not make it to accelerate faster, but to accelerate slower.

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First there was "Insane" mode that made Tesla Model S and X electric vehicles accelerate really fast. Then there was "Ludicrous" mode, which made them accelerate even faster.

Now with its latest software update, Tesla has come out with something that sounds even crazier: "Chill" mode, which makes the car accelerate more slowly.

It's not often that an automaker goes out of its way to make its cars slower than they already are. But Tesla realized that some customers don't want to blast off every time they touch the accelerator pedal.

Related: Does Tesla have enough cash to fix Model 3 production woes?

"Chill" mode is for those who find Tesla's normal acceleration to be a little too abrupt.

It is not clear how much slower the car accelerates under "Chill" mode, and Tesla declined to say. But someone operating in "Chill" mode probably doesn't care all that much, anyway.

Tesla calls the new mode "ideal for smoother driving and a gentler ride for your passengers."

A Tesla Model S running in Ludicrous mode has been clocked going from zero to 60 miles an hour in under 2.3 seconds, making it quicker, by that measure, than Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

Tesla's software updates happen, like smartphone updates, "over the air" while customers' cars are parked. Owners were alerted to the new feature when they started their cars after this latest update.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 9, 2017: 5:52 PM ET

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Tensions as Paris suburb tries to stop Muslim street prayers

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Tensions have erupted as residents and the mayor of a Paris suburb try to block Muslims from praying in the street, in a dispute that reflects nationwide problems with mosque shortages.

Police formed a human barricade between a few dozen Muslim residents trying to pray Friday in the streets of Clichy-la-Garenne and more than 100 demonstrators trying to stop them.

As the Muslims chanted "Allahu akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, the demonstrators sang the Marseillaise.

Mayor Remi Muzueau led demonstrators to the site where Muslims have been praying for months. Those praying tried to set up on a side street instead, but police pushed them back, prompting minor skirmishes.

No one has been hurt, but both sides appear to be digging in their heels in the dispute.

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An Italian Photojournalist visits Marine Cpl. Todd Nicely for 2 weeks every year, and in those 2 weeks they hang out and take pictures. This may seem perfectly normal to you, but the catch is that Todd Nicely uses prosthetic limbs for his arms and both of his legs. He's a quadruple amputee.

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In the spring of 2014, after little more than a Google search and a Facebook conversation, Italian photojournalist Federico Borella was tapping on the front door of a home in Lake Ozark, Missouri, for his next photographic journey.

There lived Marine Cpl. Todd Nicely, a quadruple amputee who lost his limbs while deployed in Afghanistan's Helmand province in 2010.

Inspired by photojournalist Darcy Padilla's work in the book "Family Love," Borella wanted to follow Nicely to capture the effects of war without witnessing it on the front lines. Nicely's life after war, adjusting to disability, was his opportunity.

As he waited for Nicely's door to open, Borella was worried. It was his first experience interacting with a quadruple amputee, who uses prosthetics for all of his limbs.

Within two hours, Borella was able to begin telling Nicely's story - thanks to some help from Nicely's puppy, Xerxes.

"It was funny because we were talking, and Xerxes was making him upset for something. ... This was the key that permitted me to say, 'Can I take a picture of your dog?' " he said. "In a very natural way, we decided immediately to start taking pictures. I asked him to pose for a portrait sitting on a chair, in his living room, with his dog between the prostheses."

Borella flew to Missouri for two weeks once a year to follow and photograph Nicely, hoping to capture moments at his home, with family or friends, at events or spending time in different cities. Each visit inspired his vision for what he would capture when he next returned.

Ultimately, Borella wanted to understand the reasons why people fight for their country, like Nicely, who joined the military because of the September 11 attacks. He expected to find someone whose life had been ruined by war. Yet what he found was a new perspective.

"He was not upset about the accident. He has no regrets, and that kind of fortitude impressed me a lot," Borella said. Nicely did not "want to be called a hero."

The first experience photographing Nicely focused on how he used his prosthetics during his daily life, including cooking, exercising, driving or just smoking a cigarette.

Initially, "my work was more journalistic," Borella said. In 2015, he captured moments with family and friends, and in 2016, it was about capturing moments with strangers and people beyond his close support group.

After Borella fostered a friendship with Nicely, his work became more about capturing those moments when Nicely's facial expressions truly depicted his emotions.

"When you start learning from another person and when you start to understand how this person can be happy or sad or something else, a different aspect of behavior, you can translate this into pictures," Borella said.

Borella and Nicely's relationship went beyond the photographs.

They watched television and sports, played Xbox, went out to eat, went boating and just drove around. Over the course of three years, Borella spent a lot of time with Nicely, his family, his friends and his dog.

"I consider myself as a part of the family. When I am at Lake Ozark, I feel like I am at home, especially because of Todd and his family," he said. "To be a part of the life of your subject, in my opinion, is the secret to having very intimate work."

Borella had also been there for even the seemingly darker times. In April 2016, Borella visited St. Louis to photograph Nicely at a charity event. A couple weeks afterward, Borella discovered that, after attempting to reach out to a veteran hotline, Nicely had tried to take his own life.

A couple months later, Borella reached out to ask how he was doing. Nicely's sense of humor shone through: "I am like a cat," he recalled Nicely telling him. "I have nine lives, and now I have seven lives."

Borella took a break from his project in 2017, as Nicely regained strength and decided to pursue business school to earn a degree in finance with a minor in marketing.

"He can be depressed, obviously; at the same time, he can have the strength to go on after everything," Borella said.

These intimate moments, like others that he shares with Nicely, are the ones he hopes to capture in the future, in black and white, to "hide every color and every distraction and focus on the emotion."

The distance that comes with living in Italy makes this journey a difficult one, and it saddens him to leave Lake Ozark each year. But he decided early on that this project would be a long one in which he could be with Nicely to capture many more moments, like marriage and maybe even kids.

"Maybe he wants to be a photographer. That is a question I have for him."

Borella hopes to return in 2018 to attend the wedding of Nicely's sister. Beyond that, he hopes to turn the long story of Marine Cpl. Todd Nicely into a photo book.

Federico Borella is an Italian photographer based in Bologna, Italy. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram and Visura.

Photo editor: Brett Roegiers

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"Magnum's P.I" actor John Hillerman dies at the age of 84.

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John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died, his nephew said Thursday. Hillerman was 84.

Hillerman, who had been in declining health, died Thursday at his home in Houston, nephew Chris Tritico said. The cause of death was not immediately known, he said.

Besides playing manager of the Hawaiian estate that Magnum used as home base, Hillerman was known for his 1970s roles as arrogant radio show detective Simon Brimmer on the "Ellery Queen" series and the difficult boss on the sitcom "One Day at a Time."

When Hillerman decided to retire about 17 years ago, the actor born in Denison, Texas, returned to his native state and was content leaving Hollywood behind, said his nephew. He remembered his uncle, an Air Force veteran, fondly.

"He had an outstanding sense of humor and was one of the most well-read people I ever met. You couldn't play Scrabble with him," Tritico said.

As for that quasi-British accent that Hillerman used on "Magnum" and elsewhere, his nephew said that was honed during several decades of playing varied roles on the New York stage before he turned to TV and movies.

Hillerman used something closer to his own voice in Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles," playing Howard Johnson, one of the comic Western's many Johnsons. He appeared in a number of TV series, including "Valerie," ''The Love Boat" and "The Betty White Show," and in films including "The Last Picture Show" and "High Plains Drifter."

His last credits included 1996's "A Very Brady Sequel" and an early '90s appearance on "Murder, She Wrote."

The role of Higgins was his favorite, Tritico said.

"The reason he didn't take another big role is he refused to take a sitcom after 'Magnum,'" he said. "He wanted to continue doing the serious work that he felt 'Magnum' was."

Hillerman's survivors include a sister, Jo Ann Tritico, and seven nieces and nephews including Chris Tritico, a Houston attorney.

At his request no services will be held, Chris Tritico said.

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John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died, his nephew said Thursday. Hillerman was 84. Hillerman, who had been in declining health, died Thursday at his home in Houston, nephew Chris Tritico said.

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A father scared off 4 intruders who planned on breaking into his by and kidnapping his daughter by s h o o t i n g at them.

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A quick-thinking father managed to scare off four intruders police said were planning to kidnap his daughter and rob his home.

A 17-year-old girl was leaving her Baker, Florida, home on Tuesday when she found Preservation Road blocked with barrels and garbage cans, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

The girl, however, managed to drive around the blockade, outsmarting the plot to force her out of the car, police said.

Shortly after, her 51-year-old father heard a car door close and noticed the motion-activated flood lights outside the family home turn on.

He grabbed his gun, and when he spotted the intruders trying to break into his garage, he fired three shots, according to the sheriff's office.

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The suspects ran off into the woods and police, acting on a tip from another neighbor, later pulled over a White Jeep Liberty on Highway 4.

Keilon Johnson, 19, along with three underage teenagers, were arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and attempted home invasion robbery.

Johnson has been booked into the Okaloosa County Jail, while the other three were transfered to a juvenile justice facility.

Police found latex gloves and face masks inside the SUV. The said the teens planned to kidnap the 17-year-old girl before heading to her home to confront her father, who they believed was wealthy.
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A quick-thinking father managed to scare off four intruders police said were planning to kidnap his daughter and rob his home. A 17-year-old girl was leaving her Baker, Florida, home on Tuesday when she found Preservation Road blocked with barrels and garbage cans, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

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Tesla's cars can now accelerate ... more slowly

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First there was "Insane" mode that made Tesla Model S and X electric vehicles accelerate really fast. Then there was "Ludicrous" mode, which made them accelerate even faster.

Now with its latest software update, Tesla has come out with something that sounds even crazier: "Chill" mode, which makes the car accelerate more slowly.

It's not often that an automaker goes out of its way to make its cars slower than they already are. But Tesla realized that some customers don't want to blast off every time they touch the accelerator pedal.

Related: Does Tesla have enough cash to fix Model 3 production woes?

"Chill" mode is for those who find Tesla's normal acceleration to be a little too abrupt.

It is not clear how much slower the car accelerates under "Chill" mode, and Tesla declined to say. But someone operating in "Chill" mode probably doesn't care all that much, anyway.

Tesla calls the new mode "ideal for smoother driving and a gentler ride for your passengers."

A Tesla Model S running in Ludicrous mode has been clocked going from zero to 60 miles an hour in under 2.3 seconds, making it quicker, by that measure, than Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

Tesla's software updates happen, like smartphone updates, "over the air" while customers' cars are parked. Owners were alerted to the new feature when they started their cars after this latest update.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 9, 2017: 5:52 PM ET

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Actress Haley Atwell says Weinstein should be punished because he is a "predator" and she was "lucky to have never been alone with him."

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Breathing in Delhi air equivalent to smoking 44 cigarettes a day

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It was early on Tuesday morning when residents in the Indian capital of Delhi first began to notice the thick white haze that had descended across the city.

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Florida dad fires gun to stop 17-year-old daughter's attempted kidnappers, cops say.

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A father in Florida is being credited with thwarting an attempted kidnapping of his 17-year-old daughter, firing shots as four teen suspects tried to break into his garage, police said.

An investigation revealed that the teens believed the father to be wealthy and had hatched a plot to rob his house and kidnap his daughter, according to the sheriff's office.

Deputies from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to a possible home-invasion robbery in progress at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at a home in Baker. The 51-year-old homeowner told authorities his daughter had called him to say that someone tried to block the roads to their home with barrels - an apparent attempt to force her to exit her car and walk.

Instead, she simply drove around them, according to a statement by the sheriff's office.

"A short time later her father heard his dogs barking and saw his front motion-activated flood lights come on," the statement continued. "He also heard what sounded like his car door closing and went to get his gun."

He saw some people trying to force their way into his garage and fired three shots, sending the would-be intruders scurrying into the woods, police said.
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A father in Florida is being credited with thwarting an attempted kidnapping of his 17-year-old daughter, firing shots as four teen suspects tried to break into his garage, police said. An investigation revealed that the teens believed the father to be wealthy and had hatched a plot to rob his house and kidnap his daughter, according to the sheriff's office.