A Free Speech Arizona symposium is still going ahead in Phoenix after "violent threats" forced organizers to drop its headline speaker, right wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos.

The event, organized by United Liberty Coalition, is taking place in Glendale despite a week of "violent threats"and "security concerns," according to organizers.

The group said it was forced to drop the controversial former Breitbart editor because of security concerns.

"This decision was difficult for us to make but ultimately the safety of both our speakers and guests are of the utmost importance to us," the group said.

Annabella Sciorra, Daryl Hannah, and other women explain their struggles with going public.

In March, Annabella Sciorra, who received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Sopranos, agreed to talk with me for a story I was reporting about Harvey Weinstein. Speaking by phone, I explained that two sources had told me that she had a serious allegation regarding the producer. Sciorra, however, told me that Weinstein had never done anything inappropriate. Perhaps she just wasn't his type, she said, with an air of what seemed to be studied nonchalance. But, two weeks ago, after The New Yorker published the story, in which thirteen women accused Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, Sciorra called me. The truth, she said, was that she had been struggling to speak about Weinstein for more than twenty years. She was still living in fear of him, and slept with a baseball bat by her bed. Weinstein, she told me, had violently raped her in the early nineteen-nineties, and, over the next several years, sexually harassed her repeatedly.

"I was so scared. I was looking out the window of my living room, and I faced the water of the East River," she said, recalling our initial conversation. "I really wanted to tell you. I was like, 'This is the moment you've been waiting for your whole life. . . .' " she said. "I really, really panicked," she added. "I was shaking. And I just wanted to get off the phone."

All told, more than fifty women have now levelled accusations against Weinstein, in accounts published by the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other outlets. But many other victims have continued to be reluctant to talk to me about their experiences, declining interview requests or initially agreeing to talk and then wavering. As more women have come forward, the costs of doing so have certainly shifted. But many still say that they face overwhelming pressures to stay silent, ranging from the spectre of career damage to fears about the life-altering consequences of being marked as sexual-assault victims. "Now when I go to a restaurant or to an event, people are going to know that this happened to me," Sciorra said. "They're gonna look at me and they're gonna know. I'm an intensely private person, and this is the most unprivate thing you can do."

Editor's note: This just breaks our heart and we are thinking of the family and loevd ones of the Carver's.

They couldn't live without each other.

When Dennis Carver realized the loud cracks weren't fireworks but instead rapid gunfire, he jumped on top of his wife, Lorraine Carver, to shield her from the bullets.

"That's just the kind of love they had for each other," Brooke Carver, the couple's oldest daughter, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Their love was selfless."

Minutes earlier, the couple had been line dancing and singing along to country performer Jason Aldean at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on Oct. 1.

It was during the third or fourth lull in gunfire when the two got up, hand in hand, and started running. They ran for their lives and didn't stop until they got out uninjured, their daughter said.

Two days after the shooting attack, the couple, who lived in Henderson part time and owned a plumbing company, returned to their Riverside County home in California.

They would go on to spend the next two weeks more in love than ever with each other and with life.

"After the shooting, they heard from all of the people they cared about most. They were so happy," said Brooke, 20. "The last two weeks of their lives were really just spent living in the moment."

But on the night of Oct. 16, the couple's younger daughter, 16-year-old Madison Carver, heard a loud bang outside her window. When she ran down the street and rounded the corner, a familiar vehicle engulfed in flames came into view. Dennis, 52, and Lorraine, 53, had died together less than half a mile from their home.

According to the Riverside County Fire Department, their vehicle crashed into a metal gate outside their community at 10:50 p.m. on the 20000 block of Avenida De Arboles. It took firefighters nearly an hour to completely put out the fire, the department said in a statement.

'Little pieces of them'

Where others see a tragedy, the couple's daughters see a show of love (which confuses us - the editor a tiny bit).

If they had to lose both their parents at the same time, they said they're thankful it happened so close to the time of the Las Vegas massacre.

"We were so relieved when they got out of the shooting alive," Brooke said. "But I also think we've been given little pieces of them that we would've never gotten if the shooting hadn't happened right before they died."

Their father was strong and independent and always put the people he loved first. Their mother was humble and generous and appreciated the simple things in life - like a hearty laugh or a colorful flower arrangement.

Three days after the shooting, Brooke said she was on the phone with her father. They asked about each other's days and their plans for the weekend.

"Hey, you think I should get roses or different flowers for your mom?" her dad asked her.

There was no special occasion - no birthday, no anniversary.

"He just wanted to give my mom a reason to smile after the shooting," she said. "I swear they were more in love those two weeks than the last 20 years."

Nearly a month later, she said, not a single petal had fallen from the dried-up roses.

"It's almost as if they're frozen in time," her sister added. "We're so lucky we have those flowers to remind us of them."

A week after the fatal crash, another item carrying memories of their 52-year-old father showed up on their doorstep. During the confusion of the shooting, he had lost his phone, but a Las Vegas FBI agent promised to ship the phone to him.

"When we turned it on, all his photos and messages were still there," Brooke said. "This is how we know they're looking down and watching over us."

'Just the four of us'

The couple had been together for 22 years but waited until their daughters were older to get married. They wanted to share the special day with their girls.

On Aug. 9, 2010, they tied the knot at the Little White Chapel on the north end of the Strip. Their two daughters were the only witnesses.

"It's always been just the four of us," Brooke said. "But it never felt lonely because they loved us so much. They were always so happy and full of life."

Now they're down to two, but the daughters say they plan to honor their parents' memory by living by their family motto: We do as we do and we be happy.

"We've found some peace in knowing that our parents just loved each other so much that they had to go at the same time," Madison said. "They couldn't live without each other."

SOURCE (only their little local Henderson county paper and the Epoch Times were the sources we could find to cover this!)

While some progress has been made combating human trafficking in Canada more needs to be done, especially in educating the public, says former MP Joy Smith.

"There is human trafficking in Canada and it happens a block away from where you are sitting," Smith told more than 150 people attending the screening of a feature-length documentary Human Trafficking: Canada's Secret Shame produced by the Joy Smith Foundation. Smith hopes to get the documentary shown in schools and at police departments nationwide.

Most human trafficking in Canada involves Canadian women and girls, and the problem disproportionately affects Indigenous communities, panelists said following the Oct. 18 presentation. In addition to luring girls at schools, shopping centres and venues where they hang out, traffickers are increasingly using social media.

Investigators are looking into the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state, after contractors were filmed dumping radiation-affected water and later tried to bury the evidence at the site of one of the largest nuclear cleanup efforts in the world.

Several videos obtained by Seattle's KING-TV show workers at the Hanford facility's Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) dumping liquids from large metal containers that are labeled "Caution: radioactive materials."

"In nearly 25 years of working here I've never seen anything like that," a Hanford worker told KING.

The workers are employed by Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the organization responsible for cleaning approximately 53 million gallons of high-level radioactive and chemical waste stored in the containers at Hanford.

The facility dates back to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. For decades, it produced the majority of the plutonium for the US nuclear weapons arsenal. In 1988, production stopped and the site became a burying ground for radioactive waste. Hanford has since become the most contaminated spot in the Western Hemisphere, prompting a multi-billion dollar clean-up process that isn't expected to be completed until 2060.

On Tuesday evening, it cost me $200 to obtain the privilege of sitting in one of the top rows in the upper balcony section of a massive auditorium and watching a tiny blue dot surrounded by phlegmy yellow light.

The amazing thing about this dot is that it could talk. This was confirmed by sound emerging from speakers hidden somewhere behind me and a glance at the not-even-movie-theater-sized screen behind it. The dot congratulated members of something it called "the Hillary Clinton Fan Club," which might be because the dot in question was, in fact, the aforementioned former secretary of state herself.

Clinton was here in the appropriately named Hill Auditorium allegedly to promote her new memoir, What Happened. It was the first book tour event that I have ever heard of charging admission, much less offering tickets - mine were among the cheapest - at prices that could easily get you into the Michigan-Ohio State game. There are 3,500 seats in the auditorium, and all of them looked full. But the really extraordinary thing was that Clinton didn't actually seem to want to talk about her book. What I heard instead sounded a lot like a cry for help.

A few weeks before Election Day last year, Clinton challenged Donald Trump to say that he would unconditionally accept the results on Nov. 8. It was a perfect gotcha question for someone of Trump's temperament and he spent days hemming and hawing and publicly weighing various nightmare hypotheticals, but eventually he said that he maybe kind-of would.

It is now clear that someone should have asked Clinton the same question.

Donald Trump once predicted that Jeff Bezos and his Amazon empire would have "such problems" if he became president, but on Wednesday Trump gave the company a game-changing gift by opening up the skies to a drone pilot program for services like package delivery.

Trump signed a memorandum that allows states, municipalities and tribal groups to test drones for a sweeping array of activities such as disaster response, mapping, agriculture - and delivery of goods. Until now, the Federal Aviation Administration restricted drones from flying over people, operating at night or buzzing beyond the visual line-of-sight of the ground-based pilot.

"America's skies are changing," said Michael Kratsios, deputy assistant to the president in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "Our aviation regulatory framework has not kept pace with this change."

More than 1 million drone owners have registered with the FAA, Kratsios said, and commercial drone numbers are expected to soar fivefold by 2021.

Personally, I would wish for the child a life of normality out of the public glare. Bana's parents and their associates, however, have wished instead to maximise her public exposure. In this, they have had the support of publishers, media, politicians and celebrities, notably J K Rowling.

As citizens, and as parents, people will all have their own views on this. What citizens and parents will not necessarily be able to do, however, is express those views with complete freedom in public; nor will they be able to inform them as fully as a free society would permit.

Anybody who wants to think and say things that conform to the carefully managed narrative from the authorised channels remains free to do so. Anybody who seeks to question it in public is liable to be censored. All critical reviews of Bana's book, for instance - and I personally saw scores of them when they were first submitted - have simply been deleted by Amazon. But that is the least of it.

Every nation has a right to distinguish between genuine refugees and economic migrants who do not share that nation's culture, Cardinal Robert Sarah has said.

Speaking at the Europa Christi conference in Poland on Sunday, the African cardinal noted that the country refuses to accept the "logic" of migrant redistribution that "some people want to impose".

In comments reported by Polish magazine Gosc, Cardinal Sarah added that while every migrant is a human being who must be respected, the situation becomes more complex if they are of another culture or another religion, and imperil the common good of the nation.

World leaders cannot question the "right of every nation to distinguish between a political or religious refugee" who is forced to flee their own land, and "the economic migrant who wants to change his place of residence" without adapting to the new culture in which he lives.

A group of Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium could soon be stripped of their Catholic identity if they fail to stop granting euthanasia to mentally ill patients in defiance of an order from Pope Francis that they end the practice.

"As the Brothers of Charity Organization decided in its meeting on Sept. 11 not to adapt its vision statement on the performance of euthanasia, and thus allowing euthanasia under certain conditions in their institutions, by which it goes against the request of the Vatican to conform to the Catholic doctrine in this matter, and given the fact that the attempts to enter into consultations in Belgium did not produce the desired result, the Brothers of Charity Organization will be invited by the Vatican to explain their vision, after which a final decision will be made," the Brothers of Charity Generalate in Rome announced in a statement earlier this month.

Brother René Stockman, worldwide leader of the Rome-based Brothers of Charity who opposes euthanasia, had warned its Belgian arm this summer that the group would lose the right to call themselves Catholic if they didn't abandon its defiant euthanasia policy adopted in March. He told The Wall Street Journal that the chain of hospitals could lose buildings that belong to the Catholic Church. He said that despite inviting the board to Rome to explain their position on euthanasia, the Vatican will be making no compromise on their stance against it.