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Police have released a photo of Robison, but say his hair may be dyed purple.
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Police have released a photo of Robison, but say his hair may be dyed purple.
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"Philadelphia Zoo announced today that Zenda, a 25-year-old female African lion, was euthanized on Thursday, December 29th due to an acute decline in her mobility and behavior," the Philadelphia Zoo said in a statement.
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An aircraft headed to Ohio State University Airport on Thursday vanished over Lake Erie shortly after takeoff from Cleveland, Ohio. The Coast Guard suspended their search-and-rescue efforts Friday to allow local authorities to begin recovering the plane and victims.
John T. Fleming, CEO of the Superior Beverage Company, was piloting the plane before it indicated a rapid altitude loss and lost radar contact. The time between takeoff and air traffic control notifying the Coast Guard of the missing plane was about 30 minutes, the Associated Press reported.
The caucus posted a list of hundreds of regulations and rules the president-elect should consider eliminating or modifying after he's sworn in as the president of the United States Jan. 20, including the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act championed by first lady Michelle Obama.
The caucus lists the act among its "recommended list of regulations to remove" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"The rules are hallmarks of the Obama administration, but kids aren't eating the foods, industries can't comply with the standards, and schools are wasting money," according to the document, First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke, and Issue.
Students across the country have revolted against the first lady's effort to fight childhood obesity through government bureaucracy with parody videos online, school lunch boycotts and pictures of their gruesome, unidentifiable lunches posted online with the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama.
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In most places, the Chavez family would be an exception – but in the school district that includes East Palo Alto, their plight is not uncommon.
In most places, the Chavez family would be an exception – but in the school district that includes East Palo Alto, their plight is not uncommon.
Every night for the past year or so, Adriana and Omar Chavez have slept in an RV parked in East Palo Alto, a downtrodden community in Silicon Valley.
On a recent morning before sunrise, they emerged on to the empty street. Omar showed his phone to his wife: 7.07am. "Shall I wake up the girls?" he said, his breath visible in the freezing air.
He headed inside to rouse their three daughters, huddled together in the low-ceilinged bed just above the driver's cab, and ready them for school.
In most places, the Chavez family would be an exception. But in the school district that includes East Palo Alto, located amid the extraordinary wealth generated by the tech industry, their plight is not uncommon.
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A homeless man has been found dead near this theatre in Chatham.
A homeless man has been found dead near this theatre in Chatham.
He had been sleeping rough with a group of three friends near the Central Theatre where TV Dancing on Ice star and Olympic gold medallist Robin Cousins was starring in Jack and the Beanstalk.
The tragedy comes less than a week after another homeless man, Michael McCluskey, was found dead a few minutes' walk away in Chatham High Street on Christmas Eve.
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University of California Los Angeles students march through campus on November 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, during a 'Love Trumps Hate' rally in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential elections.
University of California Los Angeles students march through campus on November 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, during a 'Love Trumps Hate' rally in reaction to President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential elections.
Cornell Students Hold A Post-election "Cry in"
Cornellians held a "cry in" over hot chocolate to "mourn" Trump's victory on campus. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that students, "sat in a circle to share stories and console each other, organizers encouraging attendees to gather closer together and 'include each other.'" Additionally, students signed posters in protest.
UT Austin Students Organize "Cocks Not Glocks" Protest
On the first day of classes at the University of Texas at Austin, students picked up and strapped on dildos to protest Texas's new "campus carry" law permitting licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns on campus. More than 5,000 dildos, which were donated by sex shops, were distributed over five days.
UMass Students Hold A "Shit-in"
For a week, students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst planned a "shit-in," occupying restrooms to demand more gender-neutral facilities. The "shit-in" sign up google form gave protesters the option of sitting alone or "with other sitters" and the choice of a "'Men's' rooms" or "'Women's' rooms."
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"The inauguration and inaugural is a representation of the president-elect and a representation of the vice president-elect," Boris Epshteyn, the director of communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), told Breitbart News in an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the PIC's offices in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
"What does that mean? It's all about the people," Epshteyn said. "It's not about any one celebrity or any one entertainer or about any of those folks sipping champagne and cocktails somewhere in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills. It's about the American people. We're so proud of the amount of support and outreach we've received from all over the country. This inaugural will represent the people. That's one, and two it's about getting to work right away."
So, logistically, what does this all mean? Specifically, Epshteyn says, Trump will only have three official inaugural balls as compared with 10 separate balls for Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.
"There will be three balls instead of 10, as there were in 2009 with President Obama because this president—Donald J. Trump—is all about getting to work and making sure Americans are safe in their homes, safe in their jobs," Epshteyn said. "Look at the news that just came out this week: 8,000 jobs being brought to America between Sprint and OneWeb."
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No one was killed in the collision, but at least three people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, Finnish media report, citing police sources. At the same time, Helsinki's rescue services department said that two women and one man were seriously injured, while another man received light injuries, Finnish M TV Channel reports.
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State Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Prince William) compares his resolution to the 1964 declaration made by the US surgeon general, which reported the links between cigarettes and disease.
"Before smoking was identified as a problem, at least the recognition that it led to certain pathologies was a starting point to put restrictions on it," Marshall said on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. "If you recognize it as a problem, then you're going to try to find ways to solve it within the framework of the statutes we can pass and the institutions we have."
Marshall's House Joint Resolution 549 (HJ549) is not proposing any sort of ban or restrictions, only for "education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level in order to address the pornography epidemic that is harming the people of the Commonwealth and the nation."
Comment: The less-than-appetizing school breakfast is the latest in a long line of disgusting and inedible school meals served to students following restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other aspects of school meals imposed by the federal government at the urging of first lady Michelle Obama in 2012. See also: Unbelievable: Hawaii school defends Michelle Obama poverty breakfast because it 'meets federal guidelines'