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Inside the US prison where inmates ‘begged for their lives’ amid days of violence

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In a system marked by racism and neglect, five inmates died this month. Prisoners and families demand urgent reform People were begging for their lives as they were stabbed, said Kelly Mallett, as his gaze drifted. There were fires being set. Trash everywhere. Rats. Roaches. It was just total chaos. The 44-year-old is a former inmate at Mississippis crumbling state penitentiary at Parchman, part of a sprawling, century-old prison farm complex in the north of the state. He had only been free for two days and was the first eyewitness…

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Fox News reporter posts years-old photo of Iranian graffiti thanking Trump

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A Fox News producer tweeted out a photo of Arabic graffiti that supposedly shows Iranian support for President Donald Trump. After a military strike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani on Thursday, Iranian protesters took to the streets to mourn Soleimani. However, Yonat Friling, from Fox News, portrayed support for Trumps decision in Iran with a tweet on Friday. From Tehran this morning graffiti says Thank you Trump. (Source protected), @Foxyonat tweeted. Her tweet has since been deleted. @Foxyonat The image; however, has a few suspicious qualities. First, this…

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The Oscar nominations are a bit mixed up – just like a movie industry that’s in transition

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(CNN)If the “snubs” and oversights feel a little more acute and arbitrary with the latest round of Oscar nominations, blame that in part on a year that produced an abundance of good movies, and few genuinely great ones. Both “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” are fine movies. For many, however, each paled next to signature works by the directors responsible for them — “Irishman,” another mob drama, falling short of Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” while “Once Upon a Time” is arguably the fourth or fifth best…

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Police Searching For Suspect Who Killed 10 Seagulls After Luring Them With Popcorn – Perez Hilton

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The world is a sick place sometimes. Police in Maryland were left dismayed by a case of animal cruelty after someone allegedly lured seagulls to a local parking lot with popcorn and proceeded to purposefully run them over with their vehicle. Laurel police Cpl. Laura Wilson said to FOX 5 DC: “I was shocked. I heard the call come out through our dispatchers, and you have that moment and you’re like, is this really a call? Am I going to this right now? And I get there, and the sight…

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112 Stars And Exoplanets Named In Huge Worldwide Campaign

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently ran an incredibly popular naming campaign where 780,000 people worldwide participated in naming exoplanets and host stars as part of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. The NameExoWorld initiative previously took place in 2015 when 31 exoplanets were given proper names. The IAU wanted to go bigger this year and get even more countries involved. A total of 112 countries participated, proposing names that were then voted on by the general public. Overall, 360,000 names were proposed and each national committee prepared a shortlist. The…

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112 Stars And Exoplanets Named In Huge Worldwide Campaign

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently ran an incredibly popular naming campaign where 780,000 people worldwide participated in naming exoplanets and host stars as part of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. The NameExoWorld initiative previously took place in 2015 when 31 exoplanets were given proper names. The IAU wanted to go bigger this year and get even more countries involved. A total of 112 countries participated, proposing names that were then voted on by the general public. Overall, 360,000 names were proposed and each national committee prepared a shortlist. The…

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California’s wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead

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The states 2019 fire season was relatively mild, but included nine public safety power shutoffs. Is it making the system safer? In 2019, millions of Californians experienced a wildfire safety blackout, some for nearly a week at a time, as the troubled utility company Pacific Gas & Electric and other investor-owned utilities grappled with replacing one devastating disaster with another, comparatively manageable one. 2019 was not an anomaly, but the beginning of a new way of life for many California residents. While de-energization for fire safety has been state policy…

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California’s wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead

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The states 2019 fire season was relatively mild, but included nine public safety power shutoffs. Is it making the system safer? In 2019, millions of Californians experienced a wildfire safety blackout, some for nearly a week at a time, as the troubled utility company Pacific Gas & Electric and other investor-owned utilities grappled with replacing one devastating disaster with another, comparatively manageable one. 2019 was not an anomaly, but the beginning of a new way of life for many California residents. While de-energization for fire safety has been state policy…

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California’s wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead

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The states 2019 fire season was relatively mild, but included nine public safety power shutoffs. Is it making the system safer? In 2019, millions of Californians experienced a wildfire safety blackout, some for nearly a week at a time, as the troubled utility company Pacific Gas & Electric and other investor-owned utilities grappled with replacing one devastating disaster with another, comparatively manageable one. 2019 was not an anomaly, but the beginning of a new way of life for many California residents. While de-energization for fire safety has been state policy…

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Los Angeles cops arrest man accused of trying to take girl, 6, who was sitting on mother’s lap: report

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Evan McLaurin-Nelson, 31, allegedly approached the family multiple times as they were eating dinner, attempting trying to grab the six-year-old girl who was sitting on her mother’s lap outside the patio of the unnamed pizza restaurant in Venice, Calif.  (Los Angeles Police Department) “They got him down, but the whole time he was just yelling out loud, ‘Save the girl, I need to save her,’” Riley told Los Angeles’s KABC. Riley said it appeared McLaurin-Nelson was on drugs. BALTIMORE SEES 12 SHOT, 5 DEAD IN JUST 1 DAY OF SHOOTINGS…

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Texas Man Strangled Sister Because He Was Embarrassed by Her Pregnancy, Cops Say

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Maybe its the time to murder her. Thats the thought that, according to police, popped into Eduardo Arevalos head on Dec. 16 after an argument with his pregnant sister, Viridiana. An affidavit made public on Monday alleges that Eduardo approached his older sister as she sat on the couch in their home in a Dallas suburb called The Colony, crooked his right arm around her neck, and squeezed the life out of her. Then the 19-year-old tossed her in his car trunk, drove to a field, and dumped her body,…

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