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1 injured, manhunt ongoing after stabbing incident at Toronto shopping mall


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:18 UTC
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© Mark Blinch / Reuters
A teenager has been seriously injured in a stabbing incident inside the Yorkdale shopping center in Toronto, Canada, local media report, citing police. Four suspects are believed to be on the loose, possibly "still in the mall."

The teenager, whose injuries are described as "very serious," was stabbed on Monday evening at the entrance to the cinema inside the busy mall, local CTV News reported, citing police.

"There are several units on the scene searching in and around the entire area. It is unknown if the suspects are still in the mall," CP24 reported Toronto police spokesperson Allyson Douglas-Cook as saying.
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'Shadow of death': Canadian serial killer nurse sentenced to 8 life sentences for murder of elderly patients


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:43 UTC
Elizabeth Wettlaufer
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A Canadian nurse has been sentenced to eight concurrent life sentences for murdering eight elderly people who were under her care at nursing homes in Ontario.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 50, will serve a life sentence, without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Wettlaufer was charged last October with eight counts of first degree murder with her sentence being handed down by Justice Bruce Thomas on Monday.

When delivering his verdict, the judge said that Wettlaufer described a feeling of "euphoria" from killing the patients, and that "far from an angel of mercy" she was instead a "shadow of death that passed over them," Canada's national broadcaster CBC reports.

Wettlaufer murdered her victims by injecting them with a lethal dose of insulin. The majority of them were murdered over a seven-year period, from 2007 -2014, at the Caressant Care long-term care home in Woodstock, Ontario.
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CNN 'journalists' responsible for retracted Russia-Trump story resign


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:24 UTC
CNN fake news
© Mark Makela / Reuters
Three journalists, including the executive editor of a new investigative branch, have left CNN following the recent retraction of a story on an alleged Congress investigation into a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials."

Report author Thomas Frank and two senior CNN Investigations Unit figures resigned over the story. Investigations Unit editor Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris, CNN Investigations executive editor, who was building a team that includes notorious Russia-hawk Michael Weiss, both resigned.
"In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication," CNN stated.

Comment: Further reading: All of CNN's anti-Russian fake news must now be approved by executive editors

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Russian FSB: Social media app 'Telegram' used to execute St. Petersburg terrorist attack


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:04 UTC
Putin Russian FSB Federal Security Service

Vladimir Putin with Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Members
Popular messaging app Telegram was used by terrorists to prepare and conduct the April 2017 attack in St. Petersburg, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claims. The messenger will most likely be blocked in Russia.

The statement comes as the messenger faces being blocked if it fails to provide the necessary data for official registration in accordance with Russian law.

Telegram was used by "the suicide bomber, his accomplices and a foreign curator to conceal their criminal intentions at all stages of organization and preparation of the terrorist attack," the FSB said in a statement.
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Supreme Court sides with Missouri Lutheran church in case with religious freedom implications

Lauretta Brown
TownHall
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:44 UTC
church playground
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday in favor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, a case with national religious freedom implications that involved a denied grant application for playground resurfacing.

The case began in 2012 when Trinity Lutheran Church applied for a Missouri Department of Natural Resources state grant meant to help public and private schools, nonprofit daycare centers, and other nonprofit entities buy rubber playground surfaces made from recycled tires.

The grant application was denied because the Department had a provision in place that "no money shall ever be taken from the treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion." The Supreme Court ruled today that this state policy violates the rights of Trinity Lutheran under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

Chief Justice Roberts explains in his opinion that "the Free Exercise Clause 'protect[s] religious observers against unequal treatment' and subjects to the strictest scrutiny laws that target the religious for 'special disabilities" based on their 'religious status.'"
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Russians name Stalin 'most outstanding' world figure, Putin ties for second


RT
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:34 UTC
Russian leader busts
© Vasily Maximov / AFP
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has once again been named the most oustanding world figure by Russians. Vladimir Putin shared second place with poet Alexander Pushkin. Among non-Russians, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton made the top 20.

Stalin, Putin, Pushkin, and Vladimir Lenin took the top three positions in a Levada Center poll which asked Russians to name the "most outstanding people of all times and peoples." The poll results were published on Monday.
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Passengers told to 'say a prayer' after engine in AirAsia plane 'shudders like a washing machine and shuts down' (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:08 UTC
Air Asia planes
© REUTERS/ Enny Nuraheni/Files
Passengers aboard Air-Asia Flight D7237 from Perth, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were startled by a terrifying bang outside of the plane, before the jet began to violently shake up and down for 90 uninterrupted minutes.

The seats shook so much that the 359 passengers of the Airbus A330 felt like they were "sitting on top of a washing machine," as one unnamed passenger put it. The first minutes of the shaking were reportedly the worst, according to several passengers, who believed that the plane was going to go down.

"I was crying a lot," Sophie Nicolas told Australia's ABC. "A lot of people were crying, trying to call their moms and stuff. But we couldn't really do anything. Just wait and trust the captain."

"It was just like a small explosion almost from the left wing, and the plane just started shuddering," she added.

The captain, however, informed the passengers that they should pray for a safe landing. "Please listen to everything," an airline staffer told the frightened passengers over the intercom. "Our survival depends on your cooperating. Hopefully everything will turn out for the best."

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Surgeon to perform head transplant to find out if there is life after death


Sputnik
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:48 UTC
Sergio Canavero
© AP Photo/Scott Heppell
The first human head transplant operation scheduled for later this year will be a quantum leap forward for humanity. However, in the lead-up to the groundbreaking operation, to be conducted as part of Project Heaven, scientists have come across a serious ethical problem.

Scientific progress can't be stopped and every great discovery has suffered its share of skepticism and critique.

Project Heaven being implemented by Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero is the first of its kind and if successful, it will prove that absolutely nothing is impossible under the sun.

Comment: Information concerning life after death:

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Search of Texas man's home leads to discovery linking him to 1988 cold case murder of two teenagers

Minyvonne Burke
New York Daily News
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:16 UTC
john cyrus gilbreath

John Cyrus Gilbreath is considered a person of interest in 1988 murder of two teens.
Police in Texas may have finally caught a break in the 1988 murder of two teens after they discovered blood and a fingernail at a man's home.

The gruesome discovery was made after officers pulled over John Cyrus Gilbreath June 12 on suspicion of possession of marijuana.

According to the Standard-Times, after a search of Gilbreath's home they found evidence linking him to the murders of Shane Stewart and his girlfriend, Sally McNelly.

During the traffic stop, a passenger in Gilbreath's car told authorities that the 47-year-old San Angelo man was a drug distributor.
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Michael McCarthy convicted of murder in 2-year-old Bella Bond's death

Holly Yan and Eric Levenson
CNN
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:09 UTC
bella bond murder conviction
© CNN
Michael McCarthy (R) convicted Monday of killing Bella Bond now faces an automatic life sentence for the 2-year-old's death. Rachal Bond pled guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder
  • McCarthy faces a mandatory life sentence; his lawyer says he will appeal
  • Bella's partially decomposed body was found in trash a bag off the coast of Deer Island
The man convicted Monday of killing Bella Bond now faces an automatic life sentence for the 2-year-old's death.

Michael McCarthy was found guilty of second-degree murder for the death of Bella, whose remains were found two years ago in a trash bag near Boston. In Massachusetts, a conviction for second-degree murder carries an automatic sentence of life in prison. Bella BondSuffolk County prosecutors said McCarthy, the then-boyfriend of Bella's mother Rachelle Bond, killed Bella, put the toddler's body in a trash bag and dumped it into the water near Deer Island.

After the verdict, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley thanked the jurors.
"An innocent life was not merely snuffed out, but callously discarded," Conley said.
But McCarthy's defense attorneys said the murder charge was largely based on the word of Rachelle Bond, a "scheming, manipulative woman" who lied about her daughter's death to cover up her own responsibility.

Comment: Boyfriend of murdered 'Baby Doe's' mother held without bail; mom's bail set at $1M

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