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Members of the public were evacuated from buildings in Shepherd's Bush as smoke and flames ripped through the tower block.
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Members of the public were evacuated from buildings in Shepherd's Bush as smoke and flames ripped through the tower block.
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"The reality is that the vast majority of the people that Mexico encounters [on its southern border] that are extra-continental will eventually end up on our border," a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official told Reuters this week. The Reuters article confirmed the Syrian nationals reported at the Mexican border with Laredo last year by Breitbart Texas's Brandon Darby and Ildefonso Ortiz are part of this growing pattern of illegal migration. Just a few days after that, Darby and this writer broke the news of six men from Pakistan and Afghanistan being arrested about sixteen miles inside the United States in Arizona. Those men were quickly snatched up from the Border Patrol's custody by the FBI. Shortly after that, five more Syrian Nationals were detained at the Laredo port of entry.
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After drinking seven cans of lager and shots of amaretto and whiskey on April 8, 28-year-old Jennifer Lampe decided to chop the heads off of her boa constrictor and ball python, at her sister's home in Church Stretton, Shropshire.
Following the decapitations, Lampe swallowed the heads but later vomited them up, stating that she had "wanted to keep them."
Lampe was discovered by her sister following the gruesome acts, who called the police.
Officers arrived to find Lampe covered in blood with the headless - but moving - body of her boa constrictor draped around her neck. Both of the reptiles' severed heads were in her trouser pockets.
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Jennifer from Houston, Texas
Jennifer from Houston, Texas
"We have security cameras to protect them," said Jennifer, a mother of three who asked that ABC News not use her last name. "I feel like I've failed. ... People are watching my kids in their home, dressing, sleeping, playing."
She told ABC News today that she found out about the live stream when a friend informed her that someone had posted a picture of the girls' room on a Houston mothers' group on Facebook in an effort to track down the family and warn them. The post belonged to Shelby Ivie, another mother more than 2,000 miles away in Oregon, who had made the shocking discovery Sunday. "I was in tears, thinking of the violation [Jennifer] must feel," Ivie told ABC News today.
Ivie, a mother of two in Keizer, Oregon, told ABC News today that last weekend she and her son were looking at satellite images of Earth online. As she searched for additional live satellite feeds, she came across the free app Live Camera Viewer, which she then downloaded.
Comment: Kudos to Shelby Ivie for her efforts!
Willey and Jones are demanding that NBC News Anchor Andrea Mitchell issue a public apology for baselessly calling Broaddrick "discredited" during a segment that aired May 19 on the highly-rated Today Show.
Following a letter from Broaddrick's attorney demanding a retraction, NBC deleted the "discredited" referenced from the Internet version of Mitchell's report. But NBC has not fulfilled Broaddrick's request, which she says was communicated in the letter, for an apology from Mitchell on the Today Show, as well as an acknowledgement on the show and on NBC's website that there is no information indicating that Broaddrick's story is untrue.
Comment: Bill Clinton's sexual escapades and rape allegations extend way beyond Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones.
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When police arrived, "It was an impossible task to get him off of the victim." A Taser had no effect, nor did a police dog. It took multiple cops and several minutes of fighting with "every bit of strength" to pry Harrouff, who was a football player and wrestler, from the face-eating bear hug he had on the dead man.
Harrouff was making "animal-like" noises when he was transported to the hospital, and could die of "sustained trauma" from officers or a drug overdose. Toxicology reports will confirm whether flakka was in his system, but Martin County Sheriff William Snyder says he would not be surprised.
"When you see a case like this where someone is biting off pieces of somebody's face, could it be flakka?" Snyder said. "The answer is it absolutely could be a flakka case."Flakka, a synthetic drug similar to bath salts, has taken off in popularity in South Florida over the past few years. It causes delirium and the feeling of superhuman strength, and is known to cause extremely bizarre behavior - including a 17-year-old girl "running down a street naked, covered in blood and screaming, "I am God! I am Satan!"
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Dashboard camera footage, released Wednesday, shows the Tuesday evening pursuit of a stolen vehicle in the southern suburb of Roseland. At one point, the driver of the stolen SUV points a gun out of the window and fires at the police cruiser several times. One of the pursuing officers was grazed by a bullet to the head, and can be heard yelling in the video.
"These police officers face this kind of thing every single day," Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at the police headquarters Wednesday. The suspect in the case is "the perfect example of what we've been saying. The same guys committing the same crimes over and over again," Johnson said."This guy doesn't believe we're serious. Law enforcement is being scrutinized all over the country for everything they do but they didn't run away from this, they ran to it."
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Sorry. Not discreet enough.
Sorry. Not discreet enough.
Most people resorted to jokes to show the authorities how absurd they felt the statement was, and the hashtag #MusulmanDiscret (the Discreet Muslim) started trending on Twitter.
Comment: Sounds like Chevènement wants Muslims to be so discreet that they disappear, never to disturb the delicate sensibilities of so-called civilized people ever again.
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Protestors march during disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Protestors march during disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Launched after the death of Trayvon Martin and used as a tactic during the Ferguson rebellion in Missouri, victim-blaming has been criticized by the #BlackLivesMatter movement and other activists fully aware of what the right-wing media is trying to achieve.
Speaking on Fox and Friends, white co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked white Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker if black people were justified in being upset at white people since the officer who shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith dead was black, all the while referring to protesters with the incendiary "R" word.
"Are rioters ignoring the facts about this entire case?" she asks.
Fox, along with websites like Breitbart, has been dragging the victim's name through the mud, publishing an article online in which they rehash allegations from 2014 that Smith coerced a victim to recant a story relating to a gun charge against him.
Comment: Fox News is adept at downplaying the enormous injustice perpetrated by armed police thugs towards unarmed, poor, mostly black people.
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Poremski says she had just stepped out to her car when she turned around and discovered her house in flames with Viviana and Polo still inside.
"I tried to keep getting in," Poremski told CBS News. "She was up the stairs, but the fire smoke was so heavy I couldn't get past it... I kept running back out and back in, trying to get up there. Then, the door curling started falling and I couldn't get back in."
Poremski suffered burns on her hands and face from the various attempts to get into the house and rescue Viviana.
She told CBS News that, in all of her panic and the chaos of the blaze, she couldn't "see all the skin was off my hand from grabbing the rail and it melted off."
Comment: Given this latest bizarre episode, conventional medicine will probably opt for increasing the woman's medication schedule, which will likely only worsen matters. At the very least she should be barred from any contact with animals not for five years, but for life.