October 23, 2015
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Human Interest
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Believing that Islamic State captives held on a compound in northern Iraq faced “imminent mass execution,” dozens of U.S. special operations troops and Iraqi forces raided the site Thursday, freeing approximately 70 Iraqi prisoners in an operation that saw the first American killed in combat in the country since the U.S. war against IS began in 2014, officials said.
The raiders killed and captured a number of militants and recovered what the Pentagon called a trove of valuable intelligence about the terrorist organization.
The U.S. service member who died was not publicly identified pending notification of relatives. Officials said this was the first American combat death in Iraq since the U.S. began its counter-IS military campaign in August 2014.
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October 20, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest
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A British supermarket is taking the waste not, want not approach — and it’s anything but rubbish.
By December, 150 of Marks & Spencer’s biggest stores will be ready to donate any extraneous products that are nearing their expiration dates, the company announced in a press release on Friday. Its ultimate goal is to reduce food waste by 20 percent in the next five years.
The program is feeding people in need, cutting back on waste and also combating misunderstandings with regard to what expiration dates on food items actually mean.
Those dates typically just indicate when a product has reached its “peak,” but don’t necessarily mean the food has spoiled at that time, Time reported in 2013. That’s often especially the case with foods that don’t require refrigeration.
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October 20, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest
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A Texas high-school football player has died after suffering an aneurysm during a game, according to local officials and a family friend, at least the sixth prep player to die this season.
Alto High School football player Cam’ron Matthews collapsed on the sidelines of Friday night’s game within a minute of the end of the first half, according to local NBC affiliate KETK. He died at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler at about 5:30 Saturday night, Alto Independent School District superintendent Kerry Birdwell told NBC News.
Kimberly Hinson, a friend of Matthews’ family, told NBC News that the high school junior had just finished a play when he said he was dizzy and then fell to the ground due to an aneurysm. She said the family doesn’t think football was the culprit behind Matthews’ death.
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Sixth high school football player dies this season
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October 14, 2015
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Human Interest
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Millions of Americans live in places where it’s too late to slow the threat of rising sea levels, a new study warns, and researchers are hoping those findings will serve as a call to action for cities that can still be saved by cutting carbon emissions.
The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examines how much rising sea levels will affect cities across the United States over time if carbon emissions stay the same or decrease. The most startling finding is that 414 towns and cities have already passed their lock-in date, or the point at which it’s guaranteed that more than half the city’s populated land will eventually be underwater no matter how much humans decrease carbon emissions; it’s just a matter of when.
That’s “the date where we let the genie out of the bottle, when it’s past the point of no return,” lead study author Benjamin Strauss of Climate Central told The Huffington Post.
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A woman walks atop an earthen levee on the Mississippi River in the Lower 9th Ward as the Steamboat Natchez passes in August 2015 in New Orleans. The city is ringed by hundred of miles of levees to protect against flooding.
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October 14, 2015
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Human Interest
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One of the nation’s biggest sellers of crime-linked guns was found liable for negligence Tuesday in the case of two Milwaukee officers wounded by one of the shop’s firearms.
Jurors in Milwaukee County have ordered Badger Guns to pay almost $6 million to Officer Bryan Norberg and now-retired Officer Graham Kunisch, who were both shot in the face while in the line of duty in 2009.
The two officers sued for negligence, alleging that the West Milwaukee gun shop should have known that the gun eventually used in the shooting was initially sold as part of a “straw” purchase. In those cases, someone buys the gun on behalf of someone else who is not legally permitted to purchase a gun.
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Milwaukee police officer Bryan Norberg, right, and Officer Graham Kunisch in a Milwaukee courtroom testifying against Badger Gun Store where a illegally purchased gun…
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October 11, 2015
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A lifelong gun owner explains why he is destroying his gun.
Usually, “responsible gun ownership” refers to someone using their weapon safely. But for lifelong gun owner Steve Elliott, it means taking responsibility for America’s epidemic of gun violence and the lax regulations that have allowed it.
That is how Elliott, who owns a copywriting and public relations agency in Northern California, explained his decision to destroy his handgun in a Facebook post on Monday. By early Saturday afternoon, more than 28,000 people had shared the post, which included a photo of his disassembled 9mm Ruger handgun.
Elliott describes himself as a quintessential example of the responsible gun owner, using firearms only for sport and protection. He decided to destroy his gun not because of anything he has done personally but because he is fed up with how the concept of “responsible” gun ownership has been…
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October 8, 2015
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Human Interest
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Less than 10 percent of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015, the World Bank forecast on Sunday.
The Washington-based institution’s latest projections expect the number of people who survive on $1.90 a day to drop from 12.8 percent of the human population in 2012 to 9.6 percent this year. That means 702 million people still struggle to survive.
But that’s a stunning decline from the numbers reported over the last 25 years. According to the World Bank, 37.1 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 1990. In 2015, that number is estimated to drop to 9.6 percent.
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October 8, 2015
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Last week’s mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, was the 265th time that’s happened in the U.S. this year. It came after the movie theater massacre in Lafayette, Louisiana, in July that left two dead and nine injured, which came after the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in June that killed nine.
There have been plenty of others. They just didn’t make national news.
Through it all, Congress has done nothing about gun violence. The last time lawmakers acted was in April 2013, when the Senate failed to pass a bill tightening background checks on gun sales. The Huffington Post got to thinking: Is there a level of violence that would cause a lawmaker to reconsider his or her opposition to gun control bills? A mass shooting every week? Another attack on an elementary school, this time in his or her home state?
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October 2, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest
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With the refugee crisis on the top of everyone’s social agenda, there is a population especially feeling the impacts of displacement and violence: women.
Actress Sienna Miller knows the trauma of women refugees well. She was inspired to go visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo after becoming knowledgeable of the rape epidemic there, where one woman is raped every five minutes.
Her visit, she said, showed just how devastating the situation was.
“I met two year olds that had been gang raped,” Miller, who is an International Medical Corps global ambassador, said.
“The impact of what you see is completely heartbreaking and at the same time really galvanizing in terms of the need for all of us to pay attention to the world we are living in.”
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Actress Sienna Miller speaks about women in crisis at the 2015 Social Good Summit on Sept. 28, 2015.
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October 2, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest
James' World
Received This Copy Of A ‘Letter To the Editor’ Of The New York Times From A Friend
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