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(CNN)The first wife of the Texas church shooter described him as a menacing and abusive man who constantly threatened her and her family with death.
Devin Patrick Kelley carried out the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history on Sunday, killing 25 people and an unborn child at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, near San Antonio.
In an interview Friday with the TV show "Inside Edition," Kelley's ex-wife, Tessa Brennaman, 25, said her life was filled with abuse when she was married to him.
Brennaman recounted one instance when she got a speeding ticket and Kelley pulled a gun out of his holster, pointed it at her and asked, "Do you want to die? Do you want to die?' "
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/11/us/texas-shooter-first-wife-speaks/index.html
Couple Prevents U.S. Military Veteran From Jumping off Coronado Bay Bridge
A San Diego couple was in the right place at the right time when they spotted a man walking along the Coronado Bay Bridge and immediately felt something was wrong.
Wednesday was date night for Dr. Matthew Bruhin and his wife, Elizabeth. The couple told NBC 7 they hit some traffic on the way back to their home on Coronado Island.
Their path crossed a stranger’s path, just in the nick of time.
“As we came on the Coronado Bay Bridge, it was literally the exact timing he was walking up the bridge,” Bruhin said, referring to a man walking alone along the bridge.
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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Coronado-Couple-Saves-Man-From-Jumping-off-Coronado-Bay-Bridge-456788003.html
Denver council unanimously votes to ban cat declawing
The Denver City Council on Monday night moved to make Denver the first U.S. city outside of California to ban the practice of removing cats’ claws. Council members voted unanimously in favor of the proposal at its first reading, all but guaranteeing its passage.
The ban would make it illegal to declaw cats if there isn’t a specific medical reason, such as a tumor or a malformed paw. Supporters of the ban said the procedure is the same as amputation, but some medical professionals said that the decision should be left to doctors and cat owners.
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https://www.denverite.com/denvers-track-first-cat-declawing-ban-outside-california-45252/
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Are Cats Liquid?
By Marc-Antoine Fardin
November 10, 2017
A liquid is traditionally defined as a material that adapts its shape to fit a container. Yet under certain conditions, cats seem to fit this definition.
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Here a cat, whose body fits perfectly within a sink, behaves like a liquid. William McCamment, CC BY-SA
This somewhat paradoxical observation emerged on the web a few years ago and joined the long list of internet memes involving our feline friends. When I first saw this question it made me laugh, and then think. I decided to reformulate it to illustrate some problems at the heart of rheology, the study of the deformations and flows of matter. My study on the rheology of cats won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.
The prizes are awarded every year by Improbable Research, an organization devoted to science and humor. The goal is to highlight scientific studies that first make people laugh, then think. A ceremony is held every year at Harvard University.
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http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/11/10/the_question_that_won_me_the_ig_nobel_prize_are_cats_liquid__110450.html
Woman jailed for Hillary Clinton documentary fraud
A woman has been jailed after duping film-makers into believing she could get them behind-the-scenes access to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Ann Leuser fraudulently claimed to have a close connection with the former US secretary of state and tried to enter into a contract for a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
The 56-year-old of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, even paid an actress £5,000 to impersonate Mrs Clinton's director of communications Jennifer Palmieri over the phone.
During a period of 10 months, she sent fraudulent emails to a producer claiming to be from members of the Clinton campaign team.
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https://stv.tv/news/north/1401991-woman-jailed-for-hillary-clinton-documentary-fraud/https://stv.tv/news/north/1401991-woman-jailed-for-hillary-clinton-documentary-fraud/
Emotional goodbye at Michigan airport as woman deported after 30 years in U.S.
By Dana Afana dafana@mlive.com
After 30 years in the U.S., where she raised three children, worked and paid taxes in Sterling Heights, Zahrija Purovic, 50, was put on a plane and sent to Montenegro on Thursday.
Despite no criminal record and a pending motion for a stay of removal in federal appeals court, immigration authorities ordered her to pack her belongings, purchase a plane ticket and appear at Detroit Metro Airport.
Upon arriving with family members and friends around 4 p.m. Thursday, two ICE agents told Purovic that she had not been granted a stay, and escorted her to her flight.
During an emotional goodbye, a friend of 16 years collapsed to the floor while hugging Purovic. After regaining consciousness, the woman asked the ICE agents if they could say one last goodbye.
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http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/11/nonsensical_deportation_will_c.html
Portuguese trawler nets 'prehistoric shark'
Portuguese scientists have captured a "shark from the age of the dinosaurs" off the Algarve coast.
Researchers caught the rare frilled shark aboard a trawler, where they were working on a European Union project to "minimise unwanted catches in commercial fishing", Sic Noticias TV reports.
The scientists from the country's Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere dubbed the shark a "living fossil" because remains have been dated back 80 million years, making it one of very few species of such antiquity still around today.
The Institute said the male fish measured 1.5 metres (5ft) in length and was caught at a depth of 700 metres (2,300 ft) in waters off the resort of Portimao.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41928537
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