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Syria is joining the Paris agreement. Now what?

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Syria Is Joining the Paris Agreement. Now What?

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The United States is officially the only country to reject the climate accord.

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Florida school is selling bulletproof panels for students back pack

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The Florida Christian School website has a list of items available for purchase. These include winter wear, red school logo T-shirts and ballistic panels.

George Gulla, dean of students and head of school security at Florida Christian School, told CNN the bulletproof panels would add "another level of protection" to students of the pre-K through grade 12 school "in the event of an active shooter."

The school has never had a shooting incident.

"The teachers are trained to instruct the students to use their backpacks as a shield to protect themselves," Gulla told CNN in an email.

The cost of the panels is $120.

Gulla also said showing teachers how to use the panels is just a part of the overall safety training he gives them.

Bulletproof is the new black

The five deadliest shootings in modern US history have occurred roughly in the past 10 years. The second-deadliest was last year at a gay nightclub in Orlando. The deadliest happened just over a month ago in Las Vegas. The fifth deadliest occurred this past weekend at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. These tragic events have increased the amount and types of bulletproof products on the market.

In 2013, months after the mass shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, a Maryland university made the decision to invest in bulletproof whiteboards. The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore purchased 200 of the whiteboards, citing the deadly Newtown shooting as the deciding factor.

Whiteboards and backpacks are not the only bulletproof items available in the wake of mass shootings. There is an entire industry dedicated to the manufacture of bulletproof products. These include notebooks, computer briefcases, barrier blankets, furniture, and even underwear.

There also is a bulletproof high-end fashion line that offers everything from formal wear to raincoats to leather jackets. Several world leaders wear the brand's products.

Looking for a quick fix?

Despite the popularity of bulletproof products available for school settings, some say making these items available to children could cause more harm than good.

School security expert Kenneth Trump, no relation to the President, said people are looking for a "quick fix" to a problem that needs a more in-depth solution.

"The first and best line of defense is a well-trained staff and student body," Trump said. "If you need a bulletproof backpack, don't you need a bulletproof front pack, headgear, and bulletproofing the rest of your body down to your toes?"

Trump also said that while these products are well-intended they are not "well focused for a child-centered environment."

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The Florida Christian School website has a list of items available for purchase. These include winter wear, red school logo T-shirts and ballistic panels. George Gulla, dean of students and head of school security at Florida Christian School, told CNN the bulletproof panels would add "another level of protection" to students of the pre-K through grade 12 school "in the event of an active shooter."

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Josh Gordon used to play for the cleveland browns and he came out and said he was on something almost every game he played.

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CCTV stills have emerged of the moment that child rapist Steven Letts approached his vulnerable young victim before kidnapping her and plying her with cocaine, cannabis and vodka.

Letts, 38, who is the nephew of serial killer Rose West who took part in the murder of 10 people with husband Fred West, was filmed talking to his victim as she walked through Gloucester City Centre.

She was with her support worker but vanished with Letts when she approached him and asked for a cigarette.

He offered her a joint instead and the support worker told him that the girl, who is in care, was under age.

He denied abducting her and raping her over a two-day period on March but was found guilty on both counts at Gloucester Crown Court.

After abducting her he took her back to his flat where they drank apple vodka and took cannabis.

Letts then gave his victim cocaine to smoke through a pipe 'to see how her body copes with it'.

A friend who was in the flat at the time left when the girl said that he was underage.

Letts kissed the girl in his kitchen and she once again told him how old she was. When she became tired she fell asleep under a blanket in Letts' bed but when he got in he cuddled her before starting to rape her.

The girl said her ordeal lasted for around 30 minutes and it 'started to hurt'.

She said she wanted him to stop, but felt guilty because he had given her alcohol and cocaine.

Her ordeal only came to light when she asked a social worker how long she would have to wait to find out if she is pregnant.

When Letts was later arrested, police found DNA matching the girl inside his underwear. Letts will claim he believed the girl was 16 years old when they met.

Summing up, Judge Jamie Tabor QC read the girl's statement about events at Letts' flat.

'He kissed me and I said I cant do this because I'm only 15,' it said. 'He told me sad stories like a couple of months ago he tried to strangle himself.

'I think he said that so that I'd feel bad and kiss him. I did tell him i was 15 [instead of 12] because I thought I had more of a chance of getting drink and drugs.'

Letts claimed he was a 'good Samaritan' who had helped the girl when she was upset, and denied having intercourse with her.

Prosecutor Sarah Regan said the victim wanted Letts to stop but felt guilty because he had given her alcohol and drugs.

The 'troubled' child had already tried heroin and spice despite her young age.

Police were tipped off by the support worker but the girl did not divulge the details of what had happened straight away.

When police quizzed her about it, she said she had not told them because she did not want to get him into trouble.

Letts' mother - who has been present in the public gallery throughout the trial - shouted: 'I will still fight your corner' as he was taken down.

The panel returned a unanimous verdict with all twelve jurors finding Letts guilty of both charges.

Rose West was born Rosemary Letts in Northam in Devon to William Letts and Daisy Fuller.

She has a younger brother Graham Letts.

Rose is now an inmate at HMP Low Newton, Brasside, Durham, after being convicted of ten murders in 1995.

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Chilling moment man kidnaps girl, 12, to rape her after giving her cocaine, cannabis and vodka

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CCTV stills have emerged of the moment that child rapist Steven Letts approached his vulnerable young victim before kidnapping her and plying her with cocaine, cannabis and vodka. Letts, 38, who is the nephew of serial killer Rose West who took part in the murder of 10 people with husband Fred West, was filmed talking to his victim as she walked through Gloucester City Centre.

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Mass whale slaughter in remote Faroe Islands

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Gruesome pictures given to Fox News show the mass slaughter of whales and dolphins in a series of hunts in the waters around the Faroe Islands this summer.

The pictures were taken by volunteers from ocean conservation group Sea Shepherd Global posing as tourists on the Faroe Islands. The group told Fox News that its volunteers participated in "covert land-based patrols" to document the hunts over a 10-week period from July to early September this year.

The project's goal was to expose "the continued barbaric killing of dolphins and pilot whales by the Faroese," according to Shepherd UK Director Rob Read, in a statement emailed to Fox News. Some 18 volunteers from the U.K. and France took part, he added.
GRUESOME PIC SHOWS MASS SLAUGHTER OF WHALES IN FAROE ISLANDS HUNT
The hunts, or "drives" date back to the late 16 th century. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a 'spinal lance' that is inserted through the animal's neck to break its spinal cord.

Sea Shepherd Global said that its volunteers documented 9 separate hunts, which are known as grindadrap in the local Faroese language. The 9 hunts accounted for the deaths of 198 Atlantic white-sided dolphins and 436 pilot whales, according to the conservation group.

The Faroe Islands government slammed Sea Shepherd's activities in a statement emailed to Fox News. "Sea Shepherd representatives will go to any lengths to paint a negative picture of the Faroese whale hunt as 'barbaric', 'unnecessary', 'evil' and 'lunacy' describing Faroese as 'sadistic psychopaths', with the aim of inciting anger and outrage against the people of the Faroe Islands," it said. "They have chosen an easy target, as whale drives in the Faroe Islands take place in the open for anyone to watch and document."
'UNPRECEDENTED' ORCA HUNTING FRENZY CAPTURED ON FILM
The government noted that whale meat and blubber of pilot whales have long been a valued part of the Faroes' national diet. "Catches are shared largely without the exchange of money among the participants in a whale drive and residents of the local district where they are landed," it said. "Each whale provides the communities with several hundred kilos of meat and blubber - meat that otherwise had to be imported from abroad."

One Sea Shepherd volunteer, whose identity has been withheld by Sea Shepherd Global, described the Aug. 29 hunt at the Faroese village of Hvannasund.

"Witnessing a grind first hand was truly an eye-opening experience," explained the volunteer, in a statement provided to Fox News. "As the pilot whales were driven to the shoreline by the small boats the intensity of the thrashing bodies grew. Hooks were sunk into the blowholes and the whales were dragged onto the shore in a sadistic game of 'Tug of War.' We witnessed whales seemingly bashing their heads against the stones in a frenzy."
HUGE SEAL BATTLES OCTOPUS IN INCREDIBLE FIGHT TO THE DEATH
Sea Shepherd Global says that 46 long-finned pilot whales were killed in the Aug. 29 Hvannasund hunt.

An unnamed eyewitness also described a hunt at the village of Bour on Aug. 31, where 29 long-finned pilot whales were reportedly killed. "We recorded children attempting to remove the teeth of several whales with nothing more than a pocket knife as well as removing slices of what appeared to be a tumour on one whale," said the Sea Shepherd volunteer, in a statement.

Around 1,700 pilot whales and white-sided dolphins (including the aforementioned hunts) have been caught in the Faroe Islands so far this year, according to the Faroe Islands government. "The annual long-term average catch of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is around 800 whales, with large fluctuations in total catches and the number of individual whale drives from year to year," it added.
MYSTERIOUS OCTOPUS INVASION ROCKS BEACH IN WALES
Official s tatistics show that 295 pilot whales were killed last year and 501 were killed in 2015.

Faroese authorities say that whaling on the islands is sustainable. "The long-term annual average catch of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands represents less that 1% of the total estimated stock," said the islands government, in its statement emailed to Fox News. "It has long since been internationally recognised that pilot whale catches in the Faroe Islands are fully sustainable."

The hunts can happen at any time of the year and the long-finned pilot whales are not an endangered species.
FISHERMAN CATCHES FISH THAT GREW AROUND A DRINK WRAPPER
The 'spinal lance' used to kill the whales was designed by a Faroese veterinarian and ensures that the mammals lose consciousness and die within a few seconds, a spokesman for the Faroe Islands government told Fox News earlier this year. An entire pod of whales is typically killed in less than fifteen minutes, he said.

The islands' government says that the pilot whale population in the eastern North Atlantic is approximately 778,000, of which around 100,000 are around the Faroes.

"Sheep farming, whaling and fowling have enabled the Faroe Islands as an island nation to maintain a relatively high degree of self-sufficiency in food production," said the government, in its statement to Fox News. "In the Faroe Islands it is considered both economic and environmental good sense to make the most of locally available natural resources, and to maintain the knowledge required to use what nature can provide in a harsh oceanic environment."
TEEN GIRL SURVIVES 'JAWS'-LIKE SHARK ATTACK IN AUSTRALIA
The Faroes are a self-governing group of islands that is part of Denmark, but are not part of the European Union, where whaling is banned.

Activists have been urging the European Union to take action against Denmark over the Faroe Islands' whale hunts.
The Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Gruesome pictures given to Fox News show the mass slaughter of whales and dolphins in a series of hunts in the waters around the Faroe Islands this summer. The pictures were taken by volunteers from ocean conservation group Sea Shepherd Global posing as tourists on the Faroe Islands.

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A woman was caught red-handed stealing money from her Uber driver's tip jar.

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A new exoskeleton robot suit can now help kids with cerebral palsy walk. Reasearchers from National Institutes of Health Clinical Center created it. It looks like super hero armor. Kids love it.

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The House Ways and Means Committee began its work on a massive tax overhaul, but the day quickly devolved into a partisan food fight, with Democrats claiming Republicans were rushing their bill in an effort to score political points.

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The House Ways and Means Committee began its work on a massive tax overhaul, but the day quickly devolved into a partisan food fight, with Democrats claiming Republicans were rushing their bill in an effort to score political points.

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A new look into the life and decisions of Ric Flair.

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A new documentary focused on the life and prolific career of professional wrestler Ric Flair is set to debut next week that will explore some of the darker aspects of the star's life, including his downward spiral with alcohol.

"Nature Boy" a "30 for 30" documentary will debut on ESPN Tuesday in which almost 50 wrestling personalities, family members, friends and pundits of Ric Flair, whose real name is Richard Fliehr, will discuss his influence on the spectacle of professional wrestling and his tumultuous personal life.

The Charlotte Observer has compiled a list of some of the most surprising quotes from the upcoming documentary that highlight the personal struggles of Flair and how it affected those around him.

The documentary will tackle the star's notorious inability to stay monogamous. He's had four wives and confessed in the documentary to being with an estimated 10,000 women, saying that monogamy made him "miserable."

"Let me tell you something, if you're wrestling and you're in Hutchinson, Kansas, and you're gonna spend the night there, I'm gonna find something to do. I'm not going through that night by myself," he says in the special, per The Observer.

In addition to women, Flair admits that alcohol played a big role in the demise of his personal life. Specifically, he recalls a time he met with a sports psychologist in the 1980s, at the height of his drinking.

"(He asked) 'How much do you drink a day?' I said, 'I'll drink at least 10 beers, and probably five mixed drinks.' He said, 'Well, how many days a week do you do that?' I said, 'Every day.' He said, 'Well, how do you mean every day?' I said, 'I work every day. I drink a beer in the car, I get to the hotel and I drink vodka.' He came out of his chair and (he said), 'You drink every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and you've been doing that for how long?' I said, 'Well, let me see. It's 1989, I started in '72, you do the math. Almost 20 years.' He said, 'That's not possible.' I said, 'Oh yeah, it is.' By the time I got through with that son of a b----, he was laying on the couch and I was on the chair talking to him."

"Nature Boy" will cover the highs of the star's career as well as how people around him such as pro wrestlers Triple H and Shawn Michaels dealt with his depression after he lost his son in 2013.

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Ric Flair documentary highlights the wrestler's struggles with monogamy and alcohol

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After examination from researchers, a Vincent van Gogh painting was discovered to have a grasshopper in it for more than a century.

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years.

A grasshopper, that is.

Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

"Van Gogh worked outside in the elements," Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which houses the painting, told the Kansas City Star. She added that "we know that he...dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers."

Van Gogh completed "Olive Trees" in St. Remy, France, and the grasshopper - which is missing its thorax and abdomen - was found after a researcher looked at the painting's brush strokes under a microscope. The inspection was part of a project to analyze the museum's 104 French paintings.

"But just go and sit outdoors, painting on the spot itself!" van Gogh wrote in an 1885 letter to his brother, Theo, according to the Kansas City Star. "Then all sorts of things like the following happen - I must have picked up a good hundred flies and more off the 4 canvases that you'll be getting, not to mention dust and sand."

The bug was dead when it fell onto the canvas, a paleo-entomologist said, and it will be left in the painting.

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Vincent van Gogh painting had grasshopper stuck in it for 128 years

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years. A grasshopper, that is. Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

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A woman on saturday stole her uber drivers tips. The video is below
https://gizmodo.com/i-have-a-few-questions-about-this-video-of-a-woman-stea-1820221050

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Woman caught on camera stealing money from a Uber driver´s tip jar

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Woman caught on camera stealing money from Uber driver's tip jar

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A woman wearing a bra as a top was caught red-handed taking money from her Uber driver's tip jar. The young woman was on the tail end of an Uber trip in New York City in August with two others.

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Tiger attacks employee at zoo

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A tiger at the zoo in Russia's westernmost region attacked one of the staff after she entered the enclosure in violation of safety regulations, zoo authorities said.

The Kaliningrad Zoo said in a statement Monday that the rare Amur tiger charged at the female employee. Visitors shouted at the tiger and threw tables and chairs in order to distract it, the zoo said.

Russia's Investigative Committee launched a probe but the zoo said the employee breached safety regulations.

Komsomolskaya Pravda ran a picture on its website showing the tiger lying on top on the woman, who appears to be screaming.

The 16-year old tiger, called Taifun, has never been aggressive, the zoo said, adding that it has no plans to euthanize the animal.

The city's top website, New Kaliningrad, quoted regional health minister Olga Voronina as saying that the employee had been hospitalized with multiple wounds and was in a serious but stable condition. The zoo said her life was not in danger.

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A tiger at the zoo in Russia's westernmost region attacked one of the staff after she entered the enclosure in violation of safety regulations, zoo authorities said. The Kaliningrad Zoo said in a statement Monday that the rare Amur tiger charged at the female employee. Visitors shouted at...

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Devin Kelley walked into a Texas church turning joyous prayers into screams of terror as he killed more than 20 people. At least 10 people who survived the carnage remain hospitalized in critical condition.

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Four days after the shooting, investigators continue looking into Kelley's past and motive as people in the small town of Sutherland Springs are trying to cope with the tragedy.

At least 10 people who survived the carnage remain hospitalized in critical condition. Other survivors along with members of this close-knit community comforted each other and gathered at a memorial of crosses near the First Baptist Church.

"It was something that I don't want to think about anymore," said Rosanne Solis, one of the worshipers who survived the shooting. "It's always going to be there."

Kelley carried out the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history on Sunday, but records show his violent behavior could have begun years ago.

Latest developments

Kelley escaped from a New Mexico mental health facility in 2012 after sneaking guns onto an Air Force base and making threats against commanders, according to a police report.

The FBI has the shooter's cellphone, but has not yet accessed its content due to encryption, said Christopher Combs, FBI special agent in charge.

Husband and wife, Robert and Karen Marshall, were among the 25 people -- and an unborn child -- killed Sunday during the Texas shooting, family members told CNN affiliates WTAE and KDKA.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, will travel to Sutherland Springs on Wednesday to meet with victims' families, he tweeted.

Warning signs

Kelley had a troubled past and was prone to domestic violence and animal cruelty, according to public records and those who knew him.

During his time in the Air Force, Kelley was involved in "multiple occasions of domestic abuse" against his ex-wife and stepson, said Don Christensen, a retired Air Force colonel.

Kelley was placed into pretrial confinement at a civilian facility in New Mexico to wait for his court martial in 2012 but he managed to escape days later, according to documents from the El Paso Police Department obtained by CNN affiliate KVIA and two Air Force officials.

When officers were called to find Kelley, they were warned that he was a danger to himself and others and that he had sneaked firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base. He had reportedly threatened his commanders, the documents said.

He was ultimately discharged after he pleaded guilty to assault charges, admitting he hit his then-wife and stepson, officials said.

After his release in 2014, he landed in El Paso County, Colorado, where he was arrested on an animal cruelty charge. A neighbor told police he saw Kelley punching a dog, grabbing it by the neck and then dragging the animal. Kelley denied the account and was issued a summons but didn't spend any time in jail.

Kelley's social media suggested a fascination with mass shootings, a law enforcement official said.

He spent time posting anti-God and pro-gun statements, said Christopher Leo Longoria, who attended high school with Kelley.

Longoria described Kelley's Facebook posts as "a ridiculous amount of nonsense." Kelley's page has been taken down but people in the community have confirmed its existence and content.

Kelley had previously attended the Texas church but he was not welcomed there, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CNN on Tuesday.

Pastor Frank Pomeroy of First Baptist Church knew Kelley from his attendance at church events, according to Tackitt. The pastor wanted him out.

There were no threats but Pomeroy told authorities Kelley "was not a good person to be around."

"He did not think that he was a good person and did not want him around his church," Tackitt said of the pastor. "But he said, 'How do I run him away from my church?'"

Families remember the victims

As authorities have yet officially identified the victims of Sunday's shooting, families and close friends are sharing the stories of the victims.

Husband and wife Robert and Karen Marshall had recently moved to Texas from Pennsylvania and were visiting the church for the first time when the shooting took place.

Robert Scott Marshall -- who goes by Scott, according to his sister, Holly Hannum "was a great guy."

"He would have given you the shirt off his back and would've helped you do anything," Hannum told CNN affiliate WTAE.

He was a veteran, and Karen was also in the service. She was planning on retiring, Scott's father, Robert Marshall, told CNN affiliate KDKA. He added that his son worked on engines.

Just feet away from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, 26 white crosses honoring the victims stand surrounded by American flags, balloons and flowers.

Judy Green, a Sutherland Springs resident and member of the church, brought pink roses for the victims. For her, many of them were family, including 14-year-old Annabelle Pomeroy.

"I know Annabelle loved roses in rose color and purple. I don't have words for my loss for her, loss for everyone," Green told CNN affiliate KSAT.

"She's been our little baby. We all raised her in the church. She's been special," Green's husband Rod said.

CNN's Ray Suarez, Madison Park, Darran Simon and Amanda Jackson contributed to this report.

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Four days after the shooting, investigators continue looking into Kelley's past and motive as people in the small town of Sutherland Springs are trying to cope with the tragedy. At least 10 people who survived the carnage remain hospitalized in critical condition.

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First responders called to church shooting stunned by what they found inside

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Even as a seasoned emergency medical worker, Paul Brenner had no idea how bad it was going to be when he stepped into the First Baptist Church. "That guy shot kids," Brenner said pausing. "It wasn't just like 'I shoot you.' He shot kids to the point of mutilation."

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A 128 year old grasshopper was found in one of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings. It will be left in the painting.

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years.

A grasshopper, that is.

Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

"Van Gogh worked outside in the elements," Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which houses the painting, told the Kansas City Star. She added that "we know that he...dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers."

Van Gogh completed "Olive Trees" in St. Remy, France, and the grasshopper - which is missing its thorax and abdomen - was found after a researcher looked at the painting's brush strokes under a microscope. The inspection was part of a project to analyze the museum's 104 French paintings.

"But just go and sit outdoors, painting on the spot itself!" van Gogh wrote in an 1885 letter to his brother, Theo, according to the Kansas City Star. "Then all sorts of things like the following happen - I must have picked up a good hundred flies and more off the 4 canvases that you'll be getting, not to mention dust and sand."

The bug was dead when it fell onto the canvas, a paleo-entomologist said, and it will be left in the painting.

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Vincent van Gogh painting had grasshopper stuck in it for 128 years

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years. A grasshopper, that is. Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

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One of Vincent Can Gogh's painting had a grasshopper stuck in it for 128 years.

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years.

A grasshopper, that is.

Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

"Van Gogh worked outside in the elements," Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which houses the painting, told the Kansas City Star. She added that "we know that he...dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers."

Van Gogh completed "Olive Trees" in St. Remy, France, and the grasshopper - which is missing its thorax and abdomen - was found after a researcher looked at the painting's brush strokes under a microscope. The inspection was part of a project to analyze the museum's 104 French paintings.

"But just go and sit outdoors, painting on the spot itself!" van Gogh wrote in an 1885 letter to his brother, Theo, according to the Kansas City Star. "Then all sorts of things like the following happen - I must have picked up a good hundred flies and more off the 4 canvases that you'll be getting, not to mention dust and sand."

The bug was dead when it fell onto the canvas, a paleo-entomologist said, and it will be left in the painting.

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Vincent van Gogh painting had grasshopper stuck in it for 128 years

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A significant detail was inadvertently included in a Vincent van Gogh painting, but with scholars and art lovers alike it was crickets for 128 years. A grasshopper, that is. Researchers looking closely at Vincent van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting have discovered part of a grasshopper that has been trapped in the paint for more than a century.

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US is only nation that didn't sign Paris agreement for climate change

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Syria will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not signed on to the landmark climate deal.

Syrian officials announced their intention to ratify the accord at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday.

"I confirm that the Syrian Arab Republic supports the implementation of Paris climate change accord, in order to achieve the desired global goals and to reflect the principles of justice and shared responsibility, but in accordance with the capabilities of each of the signatories," Syria's Deputy Minister of Local Administration and Environment M. Wadah Katmawi said.

Katmawi added that developed countries, "in their capacity as the primary contributors to climate change, should live up to their legal and humanitarian responsibility" by offering technical and financial support to developing countries to help battle climate change.

The Syria People's Assembly voted to approve ratification of the agreement last month, according to the country's state-run media outlet SANA.

Syria, plunged in a civil war, was not present at the 2015 negotiations for the climate agreement, which is dedicated to lowering emissions and strengthening countries' abilities to deal with the effects of climate change. Nearly 200 countries signed on the pact at the time. Nicaragua was the only other hold-out, based on criticisms that it was "insufficient" in addressing climate change.

However, the Central American country recently announced its intent to join the agreement. In late October, Nicaraguan Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo said the nation had submitted a "document of adhesion" to the United Nations to join the pact.

"It is the only instrument we have in the world that allows us to unify intentions and efforts to face climate change and natural disasters," she said of the agreement at the time.

President Donald Trump announced in June that the US would withdraw from the climate accord, a process that will be complete in 2020.

"We're getting out," he said. "And we will start to renegotiate and we'll see if there's a better deal. If we can, great. If we can't, that's fine."

In addition, Trump is not invited "for the time being" to the climate change summit being hosted in December in Paris, the Elysee Palace press office told CNN on Tuesday. Invitations are being sent first to countries that are "very active and particularly engaged" in climate change and will then extend an invitation to whoever the US government chooses to represent them.

French President Emmanuel Macron is one of numerous foreign leaders who decried Trump's decision to exit the agreement. He appeared to troll Trump in a televised speech when he pledged to "make our planet great again."

At the opening plenary for the COP23 on Monday, the US representative reaffirmed that "the administration's position remains unchanged" on the agreement: the US will withdraw unless the terms of the agreement are renegotiated to be "more favorable to the American people."

At the time Trump announced the US' withdrawal, the leaders of France, Italy and Germany indicated in a joint statement that the US could not unilaterally renegotiate the agreement. The UN body that facilitated the deal said it "cannot be renegotiated based on the request of a single party."

Trump's decision to leave the accord sparked massive outcry. Former President Barack Obama, whose administration negotiated the agreement, said the decision would hurt American workers, saying "the nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created." Mayors and governors throughout the US vowed to carry on the commitments of the climate accord in their own jurisdictions.

The US trails only China as the world's worst emitter of carbon dioxide, according to the European Commission's emissions database. In 2015, it released 5.1 million kilotons of carbon dioxide, more than all 28 European Union countries combined, and makes up almost a sixth of all global emissions.

CNN's Schams Elwazer, Shama Nasinde, Bijan Hosseini, Angela Barajas, Kevin Liptak, Ben Westcott and Steve George contributed to this report.

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syria seeks to join paris climate agreement

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Syria will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not signed on to the landmark climate deal. Syrian officials announced their intention to ratify the accord at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday.

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Danica Roem has changed history as she is the first openly transgender person to be elected to state legislation. She is representing Virginia. Her job is to serve on the house of delegates.

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Elections at the state and local levels are being held across the country, with a number of notable candidates in the races.

Among them is Danica Roem, who would be Virginia's first openly transgender elected official if she manages to unseat 13-term Virginia House of Delegates incumbent Bob Marshall.

Here are a few to keep an eye on:

Virginia House of Delegates

All 100 seats in the House of Delegates are up for election. Republicans hold 66 out of 100 seats in the chamber and Democrats are not expected to be able to take back the legislature, but there are a number of higher-profile races that garnered national attention. The exact number of seats that Democrats are able to pick up could be a good indicator of the strength of the party's brand in different parts of a swing state like Virginia. Forty-three of the 88 Democratic candidates running for the House of Delegates are women.

Virginia races of note:

13th district - Roem (D) v. Marshall (R): Roem would be the state's first openly transgender elected official if she wins, and Democrats have been gunning hard to unseat 13-term incumbent Marshall. Marshall is a hardline conservative that entered politics as an anti-abortion activist.

12th district - Hurst (D) v. Yost (R): Chris Hurst's life was flipped upside down after his girlfriend Allison Parker, a journalist at WDBJ, was murdered on live television in 2015 by a former co-worker. Now Hurst is running for political office and hoping to unseat Joseph Yost, who has held this district since 2011.

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31st District - Guzman (D) v. Lingamfelter (R): If elected, Elizabeth Guzman would be the first Latina elected to the Virginia statehouse, and this district in suburban Prince William County outside of Washington, D.C., is another competitive race that Democrats are hoping to pull out.

Washington State Senate district 45

If Democrat Manka Dhingra is able to defeat Republican Jinyoung Lee Englund, it would give the Democrats control of the Washington State Senate, which would mean complete Democratic control of the West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington) in every state legislative body and governor's seat.

The suburban and wealthy district east of Seattle was won handily by Hillary Clinton during the general election, and a win there has Democrats in the state eager to begin enacting an even more progressive agenda in the state, spearheaded by Gov. Jay Inslee.

Kentucky Rowan County clerk election

Kim Davis, who was sent to prison in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is running for re-election for the first time since she was jailed.

Utah's 3rd congressional district

The race for Utah's 3rd congressional district is not expected to be competitive with the Republican nominee, Provo Mayor John Curtis, primed to take over the seat after Jason Chaffetz resigned from Congress back in May. The district is reliably red, and even with some pushback in the state, President Donald Trump won it in 2016 by 18 points. Chaffetz cruised to re-election by almost 50 points in 2016.

Curtis is taking on Democrat and physician Kathie Allen, who has not attracted much support from national Democrats, as well as Jim Bennett, a third-party candidate and son of former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, and grandson of former U.S. Sen. Wallace Bennett.

New York City mayoral election

Incumbent Democrat Bill de Blasio is poised to sail toward re-election as the mayor of New York City, despite the fact that his approval ratings dipped to as low as 50 percent in a July 2017 poll from Quinnipiac.

De Blasio did not face any major resistance in the Democratic primary over the summer, and none of his challengers in the general election appear to have made much headway. The Republican candidate is state assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.

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Transgender Virginia candidate could make history and other races to watch

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Elections at the state and local levels are being held across the country, with a number of notable candidates in the races. Among them is Danica Roem, who would be Virginia's first openly transgender elected official if she manages to unseat 13-term Virginia House of Delegates incumbent Bob Marshall.

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Lamborghini is working with engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a new all-electric supercar that won't have batteries.

Instead, the body of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept car, made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor. Supercapacitors store and release energy in a manner different from that employed by batteries. They have certain advantages, but also serious disadvantages.

It could be years, if ever, before scientists from MIT and Lamborghini, which is part of the Volkswagen Group , can overcome the downsides. But the effort would be worth it, said Mauricio Reggiani, Lamborghini's head of research and development.

"At the moment, we are really optimistic," he said.

Even the best batteries won't work in a supercar, Reggiani said, because they're too heavy and bulky. If the car used only small batteries, so as not to add too much mass, he said, they would get drained quickly and wouldn't provide peak performance for very long.

"If I have asuper sports car and I want to go the [race track], I want to go one, two, three laps without having to stop and recharge after every lap," he said.

Supercapacitors, which can be made from carbon, have the flexibility to be formed into body panels, which the car needs anyway, thereby limiting their impact on the car's weight and design.

Supercapacitors also take in and release energy much more quickly than batteries which is helpful in a performance car. Batteries can get hot, and their performance can suffer, when high-powered electric motors, plus heavy-footed drivers, try to draw too much power from them too quickly.

Supercapicitors have some major drawbacks, though. They aren't very good at storing large amounts of energy long term. Today, supercapacitors are usually used in roles that involve quick, short bursts of energy such as to quickly restart a gasoline engine. Making supercapacitors that are as good at holding energy as they are at doling it out is one of the biggest challenges the scientists are working on, said Reggiani.

Each of the car's four wheels would be independently powered by an electric motor. This would give the car all-wheel-drive, a traditional feature of modern Lamborghinis, while also providing more design freedom, since a big electric motor wouldn't need to be housed in the body of the car.

Another interesting function of the carbon nanotube body, according to Lamborghini, is that it can be made "self-healing." Sensors in the body could detect cracks that, provided they were tiny enough, could immediately be filled through small internal tubes. More serious damage would be reported to the driver and to Lamborghini technicians who could make needed repairs.

Besides simply making all of this technology work, the challenge will be making it feasible for a production car,even at Lamborghini prices, Reggiani said.

Automakers of all types are being pressed to reduce emissions and offering all-electric cars would be one way to do that.

In the more distant future, it's conceivable this technology could eventually be used even in more mainstream electric cars.

The car's name means "Third Millennium" in Italian. Lamborghini hopes to have it all working long before then.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 6, 2017: 4:52 PM ET

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Instead, the body of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept car, made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor. Supercapacitors store and release energy in a manner different from that employed by batteries. They have certain advantages, but also serious disadvantages.