The lawyers of Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving terrorist suspect behind the Paris attacks, confirmed they will no longer defend him, French media reported. They had hoped that Abdeslam would speak about the attacks, but he has remained silent.

Abdeslam is currently in detention in the town of Fleury-Mérogis, northern France. His two high-profile lawyers, Belgian Sven Mary and Frenchman Frank Berton, informed their client on October 6 that they would no longer work with him, French media reported.

"We both decided to give up the defence of Salah Abdeslam," lawyer Frank Berton said in an interview to BFM TV.

According to the US Embassy in Kabul, armed suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the Afghan capital and may be holding hostages.

Armed suicide bombers have attacked a mosque in the Afghan capital and may be holding hostages, the US Embassy in Kabul said in a statement on Tuesday.

"The US Embassy in Kabul has received reports that several heavily armed suicide bombers entered Karte Sakhi Mosque (PD-3) and may have opened fire on parishioners," the statement said.

Not once, not twice, but the taxpayers of Sacramento have been held liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars, three times because of the actions of a single vicious cop. For the third time in only six years, Sacramento taxpayers have once again been robbed to pay for Deputy Paul "Scotte" Pfeifer's brutality.

The latest settlement was for $200,000, paid to John Reyes after Pfeifer tasered, pepper sprayed, and beat him with a flashlight for no reason outside of a Starbucks last September.

Federal court documents dismissing the case were filed Tuesday without any admission of wrongdoing by Pfeifer or the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, according to the Sacramento Bee.

"It is disappointing and almost unbelievable that the Sheriff's Department continues to maintain that Pfeifer did nothing wrong," said Reyes' attorney, Stewart Katz. "The department is clearly incapable of honestly evaluating the conduct of its personnel.

"As for Mr. Reyes, the proceeds of the settlement allowed him to clear his family support obligations and buy some property and a home, as opposed to being homeless on the streets of Carmichael. That part of it gives me an enormous sense of satisfaction."

In all three lawsuits, Pfeifer was accused of beating suspects with his flashlight. Two of these beating were captured on video.

Mickey Donohue, 49, was brutally beaten by Pfeifer after a short car chase. That incident was caught on dashcam.

Following a drive-by shooting in East Jerusalem that left two Israelis dead, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem vowed to punish those responsible and to stop the alleged "animal behavior" of Palestinians through severe repercussions.

On Sunday, a Palestinian killed an Israeli pedestrian and a police officer in a drive-by shooting near the national police headquarters in Jerusalem before being fatally shot himself by police.

As the deadly wave of violence between Palestinians and Israelis shows no sign of abating, despite a drop in incidents from a high point last autumn, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Meir Turgeman called for harsher measures against Palestinians.

"The people in East Jerusalem want to kill us and destroy us. Why do we need to give them a new chance every day?" Turgeman told Radio Jerusalem in an interview.

"Each time we lived in false hope that these people if we would help them, would change their animal behavior, but it turns out that nothing helps," the politician said.

The UK government is not prepared for the imminent arrival of robots, which will "fundamentally" change lives, take over jobs and raise serious ethical issues, MPs have warned.

Artificial intelligence (AI) such as driverless cars and supercomputers that can help doctors with medical diagnoses will soon be the norm, the Science Technology Committee says, but the government's role in preparing for the change is "lacking."

"Science fiction is slowly becoming science fact, and robotics and AI look destined to play an increasing role in our lives over the coming decades," said Tania Mathias, the Tory acting chairwoman of the committee.

"It is too soon to set down sector-wide regulations for this nascent field but it is vital that careful scrutiny of the ethical, legal and societal ramifications of artificially intelligent systems begins now."

The committee warned the government does not have a strategy in place for developing new skills to help workers succeed in a world with greater reliance on AI.

Children as young as 10 are being pressured into sharing explicit images of themselves "virtually every day," police say, with many not reporting such requests because it has become so common.

Detective Superintendent John Macdonald, from Scotland Yard's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, says "any child is vulnerable" to online predators, who target victims by showering them with compliments then quickly resorting to threats if they don't comply.

"Before the internet was mainstream, it was dangerous for an offender to try and target a child because they would have to have that physical face-to-face contact, whereas now all they've got to do is sit in the comfort of their own home and do it relatively safely," Macdonald told the Press Association.

"They've got access to any kid."

Did you know that almost 70 percent of the U.S. population is essentially living paycheck to paycheck? As you will see below, a brand new survey has found that 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Of course one of the primary reasons for this is that most of us are absolutely drowning in debt. In fact, the total amount of household debt in the United States now exceeds 12 trillion dollars. So many Americans are so busy just trying to pay off their existing debts that they can't even think about saving anything for the future. If economic conditions remain relatively stable, the fact that so many of us are living on the edge probably won't kill us. But the moment the economy plunges into another 2008-style crisis (or worse), we could be facing a situation where two-thirds of the country is in imminent danger of running out of cash.

If you are living paycheck to paycheck, you live under the constant threat of your life being totally turned upside down if that paycheck ever goes away. During the last crisis, millions of Americans lost their jobs very rapidly, and because so many of them were living paycheck to paycheck all of a sudden large numbers of people couldn't pay their mortgages. As a result, multitudes of American families went through the extremely painful process of foreclosure.

Unfortunately, it appears that we have not learned anything from the last go around. According to the brand new survey that I mentioned above, 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings...

Haiti is a tiny island nation that can't seem to catch a break. Hurricane Matthew devastated the nation, propelling concerns of impending famine and cholera outbreaks into its remote, hard-to-access regions.

As of Tuesday, Haiti's death toll reached at least 1,000 people as a result of being hit by Hurricane Matthew, but the worst could be yet to come, according to some experts. The United Nations has appealed for $120 million for three months of emergency funding, $70 million of which would go to water, sanitation and medical efforts.

On Tuesday, Haiti's interim president Jocelerme Privert confirmed the need for emergency, calling the loss "amazing," and adding, "the concern is if we don't take action now for the longer impact ... three to four months when the foods stop coming we are going to have a real famine."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Monday that "some towns and villages have been almost wiped off the map. Crops and food reserves have been destroyed."

Colin Kaepernick has been abstaining from standing for the national anthem. Self-styled patriots have been losing their minds over it. That is because they are true believers in a cult. The cult is the State.

All states are cults: religions. And like all religions, states have sacraments, including holy rituals. The national anthem is one of the holy ritual sacraments of the cult of the American State. Those fully initiated and indoctrinated in that cult have been programmed to go into attack mode when divergent cult members (heretics) fail to observe such sacraments, like the national anthem or the pledge of allegiance to the holy pole cloth. Such peer pressure is how cults maintain their numbers.

Voting is another one of those sacramental rituals. As with the national anthem and pledge of allegiance, true believers are aghast when you advocate abstention from voting. School, which is our chief initiation into the State cult, thoroughly and universally indoctrinates its initiates into the sacrament of voting and democracy. We've all been brainwashed from the time we were tiny children into the holy myth of democracy: that democracy is what makes us special, what makes America exceptional; that patriots suffered and died for democracy, from the Suffragettes to the Civil Rights movement, from the Revolution to the Civil War to World War II to the War on Terror; that through voting we are empowered to fight for what's right, to make our country, our very lives, better. You can see how important this sacrament is to the State cult from all of the voting propaganda pushed by the government and the establishment media.

Since 2011, prosecutors in New Jersey requested that 1,251 minors be tried for crimes as adults. Of that amount, 87.6 percent of the juveniles were black or Hispanic, according to a new report.

Of the total 1,251 requests for a minor to be tried as an adult in New Jersey from July 1, 2011 to May 19, 2016, 692 of those requests were granted by judges. Those minors were 87.4 percent black or Hispanic, WNYC reported in a new series, 'Kids in Prison.'

"There are obvious disparities and gross disparities in the exercise of discretion to seek a waiver," Laura Cohen, director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School, told WNYC.

According to a 2011 report by the US Department of Justice National Institute for Corrections, black youth constitute about two-thirds of minors in the adult criminal justice system and are about nine times more likely than white youth to receive adult prison sentences.