A disgruntled former hospital worker armed with a rifle barged into the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Friday and opened fire, fatally shooting one doctor and wounding six other people before killing himself, New York City police officials said.
The suspect, identified by sources as 45-year-old Henry Bello, was found dead on the 17th floor of the facility, where he had tried to set himself on fire before he shot himself, according to NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill.
We’ve had a real tragedy here,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “One doctor is dead and there are several more who are fighting for their lives right now.”
The mayor did not identify the slain doctor or those who were wounded. O’Neill said five of the wounded were in serious condition and the sixth had been shot in the lower leg.
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A hospital staff member outside the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital as they respond to an active shooter in New York on June 30, 2017. Timothy A. Clary / AFP – Getty Images
The Pentagon is delaying a decision on allowing transgender people to enlist in the military for six months, according to a memo obtained by CNN.
“We will use this additional time to evaluate more carefully the impact of such accessions on readiness and lethality,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote in the memo.
Mattis said “this action in no way presupposes the outcome of the review.”
In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban on transgender people being able to serve openly in the military, but he said the process would occur in stages.
New York Yankees outfielder Dustin Fowler was called up from the minors on Thursday only to be carted off the field with a horrific knee injury during the first inning of his debut game in major league baseball.
Fowler underwent emergency surgery for an open rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee. The 22-year-old, who was called up to play right field, crashed into the short-wall as he tried to catch a foul ball. When he attempted to walk it off, his leg buckled, sending him to the ground.
Fowler remained composed as team personnel carted him off the field. He was taken to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago for surgery.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi looked visibly shaken following the incident. Fowler was just one out away from his first MLB at-bat.
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Dustin Fowler poses for a portrait during the New York Yankees photo day on February 21, 2017. Fowler was injured on Thursday night and will be out for a year.
German lawmakers voted by a wide margin to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, a landmark decision which came just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her longstanding opposition to a free vote on the issue.
The bill gives homosexual couples in Germany the same rights as heterosexual couples, and will allow same-sex couples to marry and jointly adopt children. It passed by 393 votes to 226, with four abstentions.
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The bill is likely to pass through the Bundesrat — Germany’s upper house — next week. The Bundesrat has previously approved legalizing same-sex marriage.
President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America’s leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, “Morning Joe.”
The president’s unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets about us. During the campaign, the Republican nominee called Mika “neurotic” and promised to attack us personally after the campaign ended. This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.
The president’s unhealthy obsession with “Morning Joe” does not serve the best interests of either his mental state or the country he runs. Despite his constant claims that he no longer watches the show, the president’s closest advisers tell us otherwise. That is unfortunate. We believe it would be better for America and the rest of the world if he would keep his 60-inch-plus flat-screen TV tuned to “Fox & Friends.”
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski arrive for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington in 2015. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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Model Miranda Kerr has turned over more than $8 million worth of jewelry to the U.S. Justice Department — items that may have been purchased with misappropriated funds, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.
The pieces, including an 8.88-carat diamond pendant worth $3.8 million and a diamond jewelry set worth $2 million, were given to her by Malaysian financier Jho Low, according to the newspaper.
“From the start of the inquiry, Miranda Kerr cooperated fully and pledged to turn over the gifts of jewelry to the government,” her spokesman told The Wall Street Journal. “Ms. Kerr will continue to assist with the inquiry in any way she can.”
The author Michael Bond, creator of the hugely popular children’s character Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91.
Bond died at home on Tuesday following a short illness, his publisher HarperCollins announced Wednesday in a statement on Facebook, calling him a “giant of children’s literature.”
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Bond was born in Berkshire, England in 1926 and began writing in 1945, after serving in World War II.
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He was working as a cameraman for the BBC when he came up with the idea of a small toy bear that he named after Paddington Station in London, near where he was living at the time.
For good or bad, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous.
Thanks to AI, Amazon recommends items based on your browsing and purchase history. Facebook presents you with targeted ads after crawling your online profile and learning your behavior. And artificially intelligent smartphone apps respond to queries, recognize faces in photographs, and help you remember where you parked your car.
But researchers don’t just see AI as a tool to predict and address our everyday needs. It can now be used to help solve some of the most important social and economic issues of our day. In fact, scientists are harnessing AI’s data-mining ability in the fight against poverty—what the United Nations calls today’s greatest global challenge.
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Scientists have used satellite images to get a feel for the economic activity across the globe. | NASA Earth Observatory
The Senate Republican health care bill would insure 22 million fewer people after a decade than current law, according to an analysis Monday by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Fifteen million more people would be uninsured next year alone.
The GOP bill, titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act, would save $321 billion in the same period by spending $1 trillion less on health care and using the savings to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s taxes, which primarily benefit wealthy individuals and medical companies.
A crowd hovered over the man lying on the grass as his skin turned purple. Chera Kowalski crouched next to his limp body, a small syringe in her gloved hand.
Squeeze.
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The antidote filled the man’s nostril.
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The purple faded. Then it came back. Kowalski’s heart raced.
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“We only gave him one, and he needs another!” she called to a security guard in McPherson Square Park, a tranquil patch of green in one of this city’s roughest neighborhoods.
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“He’s dying,” said a bystander, piling on as tension mounted around lunchtime one recent weekday.
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“Where is the ambulance?” a woman begged.
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“She’s just a teen-adult librarian — and saved six people since April. That’s a lot for a librarian.”
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A hospital staff member outside the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital as they respond to an active shooter in New York on June 30, 2017. Timothy A. Clary / AFP – Getty Images
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“She’s just a teen-adult librarian — and saved six people since April. That’s a lot for a librarian.”
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