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Nov
06
2021
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By Troy Warren
At Least 8 Dead, 300 Injured at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston

At Least 8 Dead, 300 Injured at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston

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BY CHRIS GARDNER, TATIANA SIEGEL | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment A massive outdoor concert featuring superstars like Travis Scott and Drake gave way to tragedy as the crowd "compressed" and caused panic, trampling people and leaving as many as 11 concertgoers in cardiac arrest. At least eight people died and more than 300 were injured during a mass stampede at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival on Friday night in Houston at NRG Park. Houston Fire Department Chief Samuel Peña confirmed the casualties during a late press conference, calling it “a tragic night” for the city. He estimated the attendance at 50,000 and…
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Nov
06
2021
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By Troy Warren
Louisiana body donated to science was dissected for a paying audience

Louisiana body donated to science was dissected for a paying audience

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By Christine Hauser, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks The blurred video showed a cadaver on a table in a hotel ballroom. A man stood over the body, addressing an audience that had paid to watch the dissection of a corpse. Some people snapped on gloves and hovered, peering and touching. This was the body of David Saunders, a 98-year-old Louisiana man. It was not, his widow said, what she intended when she donated his body for medical research after he died of COVID-19 in August. “My impression, it was strictly for medical science, not that his body…
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Nov
04
2021
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By Troy Warren
Chicago: woman who killed mom in Bali indicted on U.S. murder charge

Chicago: woman who killed mom in Bali indicted on U.S. murder charge

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By DON BABWIN and KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press Troy Warren for ChicagoNewsAndTalk.Com  CHICAGO — A Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali has been indicted on murder conspiracy charges in the United States and taken into federal custody. FBI agents took Heather Mack, 26, into custody on her arrival at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago. Mack has been charged with conspiring to kill her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack in a U.S. indictment that…
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Nov
03
2021
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By Troy Warren
QAnon supporters gather in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr. to reappear

QAnon supporters gather in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr. to reappear

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By Catherine Marfin and Michael Williams, The Dallas Morning News Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle Kennedy died in 1999, but supporters of QAnon believe he has spent the last 22 years in hiding Scores of QAnon believers gathered Tuesday afternoon in downtown Dallas in the hopes that John F. Kennedy Jr. would appear, heralding the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president. The supporters first gathered Monday night in downtown Dallas, and about 1 p.m. Tuesday there were several hundred people near Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Kennedy’s son died in a plane crash in 1999…
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Nov
03
2021
By Troy Warren
Father charged with killing man who sold his daughter into sex trafficking ring

Father charged with killing man who sold his daughter into sex trafficking ring

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks A 60-year-old father from Washington state has been charged in the murder of a teen who was found dead nearly a year after he allegedly sold the man’s underage daughter into a sex trafficking ring for $1,000. John Eisenman, of Spokane, was arrested last Friday in the slaying of 19-year-old Aaron Sorenson, according to KIRO News 7. Police say Sorenson was killed in November 2020 but his body wasn’t discovered until late last month in the trunk of an abandoned car in Spokane. Sorenson had been dating Eisenman’s daughter in October…
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Nov
01
2021
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By Troy Warren
Southwest investigates pilot who used ‘Brandon’ phrase

Southwest investigates pilot who used ‘Brandon’ phrase

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By AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Travel #Lifestyle WASHINGTON — Southwest Airlines said it is conducting an internal investigation after one of its pilots used a phrase that’s become a stand-in for insulting President Joe Biden during the pilot’s greeting to passengers over the plane’s public address system last week. The airline announced its investigation after The Associated Press reported the incident in a story about the growing use of the phrase “Let's go, Brandon,” an aphorism in conservative circles for a vulgarity targeting Biden. The pilot’s use of the phrase drew audible gasps from some passengers on…
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Nov
01
2021
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By Troy Warren
Daylight saving time: 7 things to know

Daylight saving time: 7 things to know

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By Stephanie Toone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks If you've been staying up later this fall have something to look forward to early Sunday: one more hour to catch up on sleep. On Nov. 7, daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. and we turn our clocks back one hour. For those who may not know the backstory on the time-changing occurrence, we’ve gathered some notable facts about daylight saving time: The tradition started with bug hunting (of all things). In 1895, George Hudson, New Zealand entomologist, thought up the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed…
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Oct
31
2021
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By Troy Warren
Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK’s assassin, at secret CIA camp

Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK’s assassin, at secret CIA camp

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By Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks Almost 40 years after his death following a bar brawl in Key Biscayne, Ricardo Morales, known as “Monkey” — contract CIA worker, anti-Castro militant, counter-intelligence chief for Venezuela, FBI informant and drug dealer — returned to the spotlight Thursday morning when one of his sons made a startling claim on Spanish-language radio: Morales, a sniper instructor in the early 1960s in secret camps where Cuban exiles and others trained to invade Cuba, realized in the hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 that the…
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Oct
30
2021
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By Troy Warren
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Write Open Letter to G20 Summit Leaders Calling Out Vaccine Inequity

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Write Open Letter to G20 Summit Leaders Calling Out Vaccine Inequity

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BY ARIANA BROCKINGTON | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #LIfestyle The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, along with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wrote, "Of the almost 7 billion doses that have been administered globally, just 3 percent of people in low-income countries have had a jab so far. Where are the rest?" Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have partnered with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to address the leaders at the G20 Summit over the lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines in low-income countries. Ahead of the meeting in Rome this weekend, which will be the first in person G20 Summit since…
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Oct
25
2021
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By Troy Warren
Officials: Iran behind drone attack on U.S. base in Syria

Officials: Iran behind drone attack on U.S. base in Syria

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By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT  WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based. Officials said Monday the U.S. believes that Iran resourced and encouraged the attack, but that the drones were not launched from Iran. They were Iranian drones, and Iran appears to have facilitated their use, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public. Officials said they believe the attacks involved as many as five…
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