The girls were walking in a Santa Ana, California, neighborhood when a driver struck them.
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The accident happened near the intersection of Fairhaven Avenue and Jacaranda Street, police told KTLA 5.
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A judge in Tijuana ordered officials to release Andrew Tahmooressi from prison. Tahmooressi was imprisoned after he crossed into Mexico on March 31.
Former U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi ® is escorted to a federal court in Tijuana August 4, 2014.
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Tahmooressi — a former U.S. Marine sergeant — was imprisoned after he crossed into Mexico on March 31 with three loaded weapons. He said the crossing was an accident and happened as he went to meet friends in San Ysidro, California.
According to the Union-Tribune, the Mexican Attorney General's Office agreed to Tahmooressi's release. He had been held in El Hongo State Penitentiary, near Tecate.
Andrew Tahmooressi left, in prison on May 3.
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24-year-old Justin Bourque receives the longest criminal sentence in Canadian history.
Justin Bourque, shown here on the day of the shootings.
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The length of the sentence was unprecedented in Canada, according to multiple reports.
Bourque, 24, pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for the shootings in the eastern city of Moncton, New Brunswick.
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The sentencing judge, Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice David Smith, described Bourque's actions as "one of the most horrific crimes in the history of Canada," according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
During the sentencing the judge "described Bourque as being obsessed with guns, video games, heavy metal music and dependent on marijuana," reported CBC. "He said Bourque felt oppressed by the police even though he had no criminal record."
If geology is your thing – and you have a lot of spare time – you too can live stream the rocky roll.
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Experts have been predicting for days that a large swath of Mount Mannen, which means 'the man' in English, is about to come tumbling down, according to local reports.
Heavy rain in the region has caused large rock masses to shift, and geologists are predicting a spectacular collapse. They just can't say when it's going to happen.
"The potential failure is in the order of 120,000 cubic meters, so the final collapse, should it occur, will be quite spectacular," according to a blog entry from geography expert Dave Petley, the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
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Virgin Galactic confirmed in a statement that the spaceship was lost. This is a developing story.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Sept. 25, 2013
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The International Association of Athletics Federations has not yet announced a course of disciplinary action.
In October, Jeptoo took first place in the Chicago Marathon. She was the defending champion from 2013. She has also won back-to-back Boston Marathons.
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WMM has always held a stern line on drugs cheats and has been proactively supporting the sports governing bodies to ensure the integrity of the athletes competing in their races. Cheats need to understand that they are not welcome in our sport and that they will be caught.
There is no way this was an accident.
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Ah! Too spooky!
“Nothing is sacred this Halloween,” reads the costume description. Update: Walmart is removing the costume from its site.
For all your last minute Islamophobic needs.
You can also find their products on Amazon.com.
SMDH.
SMDH twice.
The incident happened at Fowlmere Primary School in Cambridgeshire.
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The act was apparently meant as a joke, but one parent, who didn't wish to be named, told South West News Service: "It doesn't matter whether it was a joke or not." The charity Kidscape described the act as "a form of child abuse".
The school has apologised to the pupil's parents.
Although there was no ill intent or unkindness intended, it is clear this incident should not have happened and the member of staff has resigned from their post. We have spoken to the child's parents and apologised as this fell below the standards we expect.
I have every confidence that the people in charge at Fowlmere Primary, the headteacher and the governors, have done whatever was needed to be done and have handled this properly. The teacher has resigned and I would think there is really no further need for any parent to be concerned.
Some of the runners reveal very personal and emotional stories during the short film.
It was nominated for numerous prizes in 2013 in both the UK and abroad.
And now, almost exactly 12 months later, it has started doing the rounds again.
Although the post does reference the Hackney Gazette, rather than the Post.
It’s honestly louder than a lawn mower. H/T Neatorama .
He holds the world record, at 109.9 db.
- A Jet taking off at 305 meters.
- A power lawn mower.
- A motorcycle.
- A farm tractor.
- A jackhammer.
- A garbage truck.
-A Boeing 707 or DC-8 aircraft at one nautical mile before landing.
- A Bell J-2A helicopter at 100ft.
Employees barely had time to notify listeners that they were being evacuated, according to reports.
A video of 13-year-old Anna van Keulen, who died two weeks ago, has been viewed nearly two million times.
According to Time magazine she died two weeks ago from injuries she suffered after a bike accident on her way to school. Local media reported that she was hit by a car.
My daughter Anna wanted to become famous. Now she has suddenly died. Help her become famous by looking!
JoJo Oldham’s “Spaces of Homelessness” project will shine a light on the lives of homeless people in the city.
JoJo Oldham
JoJo Oldham
According to the project's website: "The aims of the exhibition are two-fold: to shine further light on routes into homelessness, the spaces and places of homelessness and the experiences of the homeless people therein; and to give a greater voice to a homeless population still largely marginalised from mainstream decision-making processes".
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JoJo Oldham
The book is set to be a huge hit over Christmas.
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Police apparently saw the funny side.
Micah Dailey, from Cape Coral, was arrested on Tuesday morning for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
He was held for seven hours before posting $6,500 bail, Lee County Sheriff's Office said.
Commenting on the Florida man’s mugshot, Sergeant Scott Lineberger told Daily News : “It had an element of humour to it.”
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Burt claimed police officers “laughed there asses off” [sic] when he turned up for the picture.
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BuzzFeed News takes a look at the states where voters will decide on marijuana legislation on Nov. 4 — and whether the initiatives have a chance of passing.
Buds are removed from a container at a medical marijuana dispensary in Portland, Oregon.
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America's attitude toward marijuana has been slowly shifting over the past decades, with polls now indicating that a majority of people in the country now support legalization.
In 2012, Washington and Colorado become the first states to legalize recreational use of the drug. Eighteen states have decriminalized marijuana, and 23 states have passed laws in support of medical marijuana.
Legislatures have been slow to support marijuana, so advocates have taken action by pushing for voter decided ballot measures. On Nov. 4, Residents in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., will decide whether to legalize marijuana. In Florida and Guam, a U.S. territory, voters will decide on a medical marijuana program, and a few cities have added decriminalization bills to the ballot.
Alaskans will vote Tuesday on a ballot measure that would legalize a market for recreational marijuana, allowing the state to tax and regulate the drug similarly to alcohol. The measure would also allow residents to possess one ounce of marijuana and grow limited amounts in private.
Alaska was one of the first states to decriminalize weed in 1975 and legalized medical marijuana in 1998. Despite this, thousands of Alaskans have been arrested for possession and there's no system for medical card holders to acquire weed from dispensaries. Supporters say the new measure would strengthen Alaska's existing laws, which legislators aren't upholding.
Recent polls have shown voters are split on the issue, with one poll showing a majority of voters supporting the measure, and another showing the opposite. If marijuana is legalized in Alaska, it could bring in more than $7 million in state taxes in its first year, according to a marijuana advocacy group.
Danielle Baldwin shows off strains of medical marijuana at a smoke shop in Ashland, Oregon.
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Officials in St. Louis County said Thursday that someone hacked a Twitter account and tweeted about the grand jury investigation into Michael Brown’s death.
Protestors at the St. Louis County Justice Center on Aug. 20.
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St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch made the statement in a letter released Thursday, saying that "no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury."
The letter was a response to a controversy that erupted earlier this month when it appeared that someone on the grand jury — which is supposed to conduct its investigation entirely behind closed doors — was talking to a Twitter user going by the name Susan Nichols. In a tweet that was quickly deleted, Nichols suggested Officer Darren Wilson wouldn't face charges for killing Brown.
Later, other would-be exclusive information trickled out in several news stories, including ones published by The New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
McCulloch's letter argues that none of the information became public via leaks from the grand jury.
"As exasperating as I and others find the piecemeal release of information and documents," he wrote, "no information or evidence has been released by the grand jury, any individual juror or anyone associated with the grand jury."
“Anything a man can do, a woman has the right to do better. #kremlin” NSFW, obviously.
About 10 minutes after being posted to Instagram the image was removed. Instagram does have a policy against nudity:
You may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service.
The Islamic Society of Britain tells BuzzFeed News: “No one’s being urged to do anything they don’t want to.”
It was designed by Muslim fashion designer Tabinda-Kauser Ishaq, 24, a student at the London College of Fashion.
She collaborated with the Islamic Society of Britain and integration thinktank British Future on the project.
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Frein was taken into custody Thursday, according to multiple media outlets. Police believe Frein killed a Pennsylvania Trooper in September.
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Pennsylvania Trooper Rob Hicks confirmed to Buzzfed News that Frein, 31, was captured Tuesday. Hicks did not immediately have additional details.
Officials spent almost seven weeks searching for Frein, who allegedly killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and injured another state trooper when he ambushed a police barracks on Sept. 12 during a late-night shift change.
The search led police to Pennsylvania's Poconos Mountain, where they found two pipe bombs that could be set up to trigger if tripped by a wire.
Milk, two sugars and a spoonful of industrial relations reform.
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The Employment Relations Amendment Bill, the first bill passed by the conservative National party in their third term of government, survived a narrow 62 to 58 vote, reports the New Zealand Herald.
The legislation removes meal breaks, which had been guaranteed in law in 2008, in return for requiring employers to pay workers extra when breaks are not provided.
The National party argues the law will enable more flexibility in the labor market.
But the law has outraged unions, as well as the opposition Labour and Greens parties, because it weakens collective bargaining rights.
Before the vote, Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said the bill showed "outrageous disregard for the human condition".
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"There are some really practical examples of where people just say, 'I want to negotiate with my employer and get rid of that tea break,'" he said.
The Kiwi leader says most employers are unlikely to go to "war" over tea breaks with staff out of a desire to get on their good side, according to New Zealand's 3news.
"Post the passing of this law, will you all of a sudden find thousands of workers who are denied having a tea break? The answer is absolutely not."
The letter comes after agents created a fake Associated Press article to nab a suspected school bomber in Seattle in 2007. This is the latest in a series of incidents in which cops have been criticized for pretending to be someone else.
United States Attorney General Eric Holder, left, and Senator Patrick Leahy, right.
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Senator Patrick Leahy isn't happy with feds pretending to be journalists online — even if they are going after dangerous suspects.
On Thursday, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to review "all techniques involving federal law enforcement officials impersonating others without their consent."
Leahy's letter comes just days after the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation created a fake Associated Press article, as part of a 2007 operation to catch a potential school bomber.
A high school in Washington State had received bomb threats; the FBI created the fake article to lure a teenage suspect into unknowingly downloading software that allowed the bureau to trace his computer activity. The operation resulted in the arrest and conviction of a juvenile suspect, the Seattle Times reported.
Still, Sen. Leahy raised questions about the bureau's techniques.
"Such tactics carry legal and ethical risks," Leahy wrote in the letter. "When law enforcement appropriates the identity of legitimate media institutions, it not only raises questions of copyright and trademark infringement but also potentially undermines the integrity and credibility of an independent press."
A spokesman with the FBI's national headquarters said that the bureau generally does not comment on correspondence with lawmakers. In a statement issued earlier this week after the AP incident became public, the bureau's Seattle Division said that its agents only impersonate others when not doing so could put people in danger.
"Use of that type of technique happens in very rare circumstances and only when there is sufficient reason to believe it could be successful in resolving a threat," Special Agent in Charge Frank Montoya said in the statement. "We were fortunate that information provided by the public gave us the opportunity to step into a potentially dangerous situation before it was too late.'
The office of Attorney General Holder did not return requests for comment.
The AP also did not return requests for comment. Earlier this week, a spokesman with the news agency told the Washington Post that the company was "extremely concerned" about the incident, which he said "violated AP's name and undermined AP's credibility."
The incident with the AP is just the last one in a recent string of cases in which federal law enforcement agents have impersonated people or institutions to obtain information.
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News' Chris Hamby revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration created a fake Facebook profile under the name of a cooperating witness. Agents used the profile to communicate with suspects and gather information, going as far as posting intimate pictures of the witness — without her permission.
This week, attorneys for a Malaysian poker player (and alleged triad member) asked a Las Vegas judge to suppress evidence that FBI agents gathered by shutting down the defendant's Internet access — and then gaining access to his hotel room by dressing up as technicians.
A new report from the anti-poverty charity Oxfam says wealth inequality is on the rise around the world.
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With 1,645 billionaires worldwide, the anti-poverty campaigners say the gap between rich and poor has swelled to "new extremes"— and they have some startling statistics to reinforce their point.
"At the start of 2014, Oxfam calculated that the richest 85 people on the planet owned as much as the poorest half of humanity," the report reads. "Between March 2013 and March 2014, these 85 people grew $668 million richer each day."'
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“I want to apologize to all the women I’ve harassed with statements like ‘hi’ or ‘have a nice day.’”
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