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By T.J. Buffenbarger
It didn’t snow…
The weather was largely cooperative other than in some of Texas and Oklahoma Saturday and Haubstadt on Sunday. After a spring that was so brutal I actually wondered if I should put my snow blower towards the back of the garage on April 22nd. It was nice to have a full weekend of racing to discuss rather than a non-stop string of weather postponements and cancellations.
Brooms galore!
Sweeps were the theme of the weekend when it came to feature races. From the highest level of sprint car racing with Daryn Pittman scoring two consecutive wins with the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series to Jessica Bean winning both USAC Speed2 Eastern midget features were just two of the drivers picking up multiple feature wins this weekend.
Bud Kaeding’s sweep of two features in a single night at Tulare Thunderbowl with the King of the West Sprint Car Series and Civil War Series was done in spectacular style. Tucker Klaasmeyer’s pair of POWRi wins were impressive with a stacked field of midgets both nights at Jacksonville Speedway and Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55.
All Stars Provide Great Racing All Weekend
The Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil1 provided Ohio fans awesome racing all weekend. Friday night’s race for the lead between Jac Haudenschild and Carson Macedo was one of the best I’ve seen all season. At one point it appeared a five car race for the lead could be in play until a caution gave the leaders open track. Macedo suffered heartbreak again, losing an engine one year ago while leading, this time suffering a flat right rear while up front.
Saturday at Wayne County Speedway Tim Shaffer came from deep in the field to win the main event. With a strong cast of characters signed up for the entire tour this year the All Star Series is one of our top storylines to follow in 2018.
Glad to have Gas City open again
Gas City I-69 Speedway having a full menu of racing for 2018 is some of the best news going into the season. The 2018 opening event went off smoothly and offered a hammer down racing surface that Shane Cottle took full advantage of on his way to victory. We’re glad things went well on opening night for Gas City promoter Jerry Gappens and his crew. Look for a feature on Gappen’s and Gas City’s revitalization later in the week.
Hafertepe Breaks Tim Allison’s 360 Track Record in Route to Eldora Sweep
Sam Hafertepe’s sweep of the K&L Ready Mix National Racing Alliance program Saturday afternoon at Eldora Speedway was far from a surprise. The one aspect of Hafertepe’s victory that was a surprise was demolishing the 360 track record at Eldora set by Tim Allison set on April 13, 2002 by over half a second.
Granted the racing line has changed a bit, progressing lower on the track earlier in the evening than it was in 2002. The night Allison set the record was the same night Craig Dollansky’s blistering lap of 12.707 seconds was set. Hafertepe’s 360 qualifying lap has me wondering if a new winged 410 sprint car track record is possible at Eldora this year.
Jason Barney Pads his Victory Total with Empire Super Sprints
After a rough off season that included a snowmobile accident that broke his collar bone Jason Barney bounced back to win the season opening feature for the Empire Super Sprints on Saturday. Our friends at DirtTrackDigest have a great story about Barney’s recovery this winter along with the unique tools that assisted him to that win.
Lawson’s Upset Victory at Hickory
Occasionally sprint car racing on pavement offers up a surprise winner that makes for a nice story. Being lucky enough to cover a few of this Bronzie Lawson IV’s win Saturday at Hickory Motor Speedway falls under this classification. Lawson took advantage of the 10 car inversion and held off some stout competition in a field that included Jimmy McCune and Aaron Pierce for the victory. Hopefully Lawson’s win is a sign of more great stories to come from the pavement side of the sport.

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Redemption, thy name is Rumor.
The five-year-old German shepherd from Wisconsin with the black and red coat was named America’s top dog by winning best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.
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Rumor had come within touching distance of the top prize at Westminster a year ago, falling short at the final hurdle after winning the herding group to make the last seven. She retired afterward, but re-entered competition last month for one final run at the prestigious title.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Kent Boyles, the dog’s breeder, owner and handler. “I’m not sure I have the words to describe it.”
Rumor, whose official champion’s name is Lockenhaus’ Rumor Has It V Kenlyn, beat out a stacked field of six other group winners, among them a Norwegian elkhound named Duffy, a Pekingese named Chuckie, a miniature poodle named Aftin, an Irish setter and Adrian, a boxer naed Devlin and a Norwich terrier named Tanner.
“She’s got an awesome attitude and a lot of beautiful details about her,” Boyles said. “She really enjoys showing.”
Rumor, named for the Adele song “Rumour Has It” that was released 10 days before she was born in 2011, becomes only second German shepherd to win the nation’s most prestigious dog show and only the second winner from the herding group. Manhattan, another German shepherd, took the top prize in 1987.
“The German shepherd standard talks about quality and nobility,” said Thomas H Bradley 3d, the veteran arbiter who judged best in show. “With her, it’s easily recognizable.”
Rumor, whose official champion’s name is Lockenhaus’ Rumor Has It V Kenlyn, beat out a stacked field of six other group winners, among them a Norwegian elkhound named Duffy, a Pekingese named Chuckie, a miniature poodle named Aftin, an Irish setter and Adrian, a boxer naed Devlin and a Norwich terrier named Tanner.
Boyles looked relieved shortly after midnight as he fielded questions from a throng of media.
“This is her official retirement,” he said. “She can’t accomplish any more than what she’s accomplished. This is the ultimate win for her.”
So what’s next for America’s best dog?
“Babies, I hope,” Boyles quipped.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Almond milk, soy milk, rice milk and coconut milk may all offer lactose-free alternatives to cow's milk, but new research suggests that the dairy version remains the most nutritious option.
The finding stems from a Canadian analysis that assessed the nutritional value of a single serving of the four most popular plant-based milks relative to cow's milk.
"We thought that a review was much overdue in understanding the nutritional information of various plant-based milks," explained study author Sai Kranthi Kumar Vanga.
And ultimately, "we were surprised that many of these milks do not have the nutritional density of cow's milk, both in terms of micro and macro nutrients.
"Nutritionally speaking, cow's milk is still the go-to beverage that has a balanced profile," said Vanga, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of bioresource engineering with the faculty of agriculture and environmental sciences at McGill University in Quebec.
The new study was sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and received no dairy industry funding.
Cow's milk is packed with protein and other key nutrients, including fat and carbohydrates. It also contains some antimicrobial properties, and has been shown to help infants fight off fever and respiratory infections, the researchers said.
But they acknowledge that cow's milk does raise health concerns. It can carry harmful pathogens, including salmonella and E. coli, and many infants and children are allergic to it, though some outgrow their allergy.
And many adults are lactose-intolerant, meaning they lack enough of a digestive tract enzyme critical to processing lactose-laden foods such as cow's milk. This is more common among blacks, Asians and Native Americans.
Add to the list a drive to lower cholesterol intake and a growing interest in vegan diets, and many consumers have turned to plant-based milks as an alternative.
To compare the nutritional pros and cons, the researchers reviewed several dozen studies, collected nutritional data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) database and analyzed the nutritional labeling of commercially available unsweetened plant-based "milk" products.
The team concluded that while coconut milk is low in calories and gets good marks for taste, it offers consumers zero protein and comes loaded with saturated fats.
Similarly, almond milk was also low in calories and given high marks for taste, while providing a range of fat, carbohydrates and protein comparable to cow's milk. However, it posed a potential problem for those with nut allergies.
Rice milk ranked comparably with cow's milk in terms of caloric content, but contained more sugar and did not provide an equivalent range of fat, carbohydrates and protein.
And soy milk was deemed to be lacking in taste and posed a potential problem for those with a soy allergy. But it was found to be rich in protein, while offering a similar balance of fat and carbs to cow's milk.
"All in all, soy milk is the closest in terms of nutrients to cow's milk," said Vanga.
But, he added, "plant-based milks do not have a similar nutritional profile [as cow's milk] and should not be looked at like a direct substitute, as most of the consumers see it now."
That thought was seconded by Lona Sandon, program director of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
"Plant-based milk alternatives can play a role in the diet, especially for people living with cow's milk allergies or lactose intolerance," she noted. "However, they are not nutritionally superior, and do not deserve the health halo many people put on them, or clever marketing would like you to believe."
What's more, "the negative hype about cow's milk has not been found to be justified," Sandon said.
"People can choose low-fat options to avoid the saturated fat," she said, "and for those with lactose intolerance, there are plenty of lactose-free cow's milk options on the market.
"Cow's milk is still the best option in many cases, particularly for infants and toddlers who need the calories, protein, fat and calcium for proper growth and development," Sandon said.
The findings were published recently in the Journal of Food Science Technology.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has ruled that election candidates cannot use religion or caste to seek votes, describing them as corrupt practices under electoral laws.
India has a Hindu-nationalist government, and most political parties select candidates in various districts based on caste and religious considerations.
The ruling on Monday is considered significant as it comes months before elections in Uttar Pradesh state where dominant campaign issues are caste affiliations and the building of a Hindu temple in place of a 16th century mosque demolished by Hindu hardliners.
Legislature elections are also due in Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur states.
Hindus constitute nearly 80 percent of India’s 1.25 billion people, while Muslims comprise 14.2 percent and the remaining 6 percent adhere to other religions, such as Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism.
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BEDFORD, Pa. (AP)  A former Pennsylvania district attorney accused of tipping off female drug dealers and giving them lenient treatment in exchange for sex pleaded guilty Wednesday to corruption charges in a deal that will keep him out of prison.
Former Bedford County District Attorney William Higgins pleaded guilty to all 31 misdemeanor counts he faced, including official oppression and obstructing the administration of law, according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Under a plea agreement, Higgins will spend no time behind bars. He will lose a portion of his state and county government pensions and is expected to lose his law license under a separate disciplinary proceeding.
Shapiro's office did not mention the terms of the plea agreement in a news release, nor did Shapiro mention it in a videotaped statement.
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"The offer that was made by the commonwealth was an offer he felt he couldn't refuse," said Higgins' attorney, Steven Passarello.
Higgins resigned in early April after the charges were filed, saying in a statement that he'd been accused of conduct "unbecoming of a district attorney" and "unbecoming of a husband and father."
One woman performed oral sex on Higgins about a month after he told a state trooper not to charge her with drug delivery, according to a police affidavit. Another woman said that after she performed oral sex on Higgins, he told her that her cousin could thank her for not getting arrested, authorities said.
Police said Higgins also revealed the names of confidential informants to female drug dealers with whom he was having sex, or to their friends and associates.
"Former District Attorney Higgins traded his power and law enforcement authority for sexual favors and he violated his oath to the people of Bedford County  compromising the security of his community and the safety of confidential informants," Shapiro said.
Higgins, a 43-year-old Republican, was sworn into office in 2004 as the state's youngest district attorney.
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NORFOLK, Va. – A federal judge sentenced suspended Norfolk City Treasurer Anthony Burfoot to serve six years behind bars Monday. He’s also ordered to pay back $250,000.
In December, a jury found Burfoot guilty of six of the eight charges he was facing for public corruption and perjury. He was facing 4 perjury charges but only found guilty of two of those charges.
Burfoot must turn himself in by Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Federal prosecutors were seeking a sentence of 17.5 years. However, a court filing stated that Burfoot’s attorney asked he serve no more than two years.
Burfoot’s attorney also filed new motions in hopes of getting him a new trial citing newly discovered evidence.
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Question: Sen. Mike Lee: Americans Don’t Want Obamacare Bailouts

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The Republican Congress that was elected to repeal Obamacare is now considering bailing it out. It shouldn’t.
Earlier this month, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying arm of the health insurance industry, sent a letter to the Republican leadership demanding billions of dollars in new subsidies for Obamacare insurance policies.
The letter did not mention that health insurance companies are already enjoying record high profits without additional taxpayer subsidies.
Unfortunately, the congressional leadership appears committed to giving the insurance companies what they want. The omnibus spending bill set to be released Monday will likely contain a provision that would send Obamacare insurers $10 billion in “reinsurance” payments a year for three years — 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Instead of repealing the Obamacare regulations that have caused premiums to more than double since 2013, Republicans are set to buy off insurance companies to hide the true cost of rising premiums.
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While advocates for these insurance subsidies argue that these payments will reduce premiums, it’s essential to understand that they do not reduce premiums in real terms.
There’s no real decrease in costs. They hide part of the premium by shifting it to taxpayers. That’s a bailout.
Don’t think for a second that this would be a one-time $30 billion price tag. Why would a future Congress allow a $10 billion annual bailout to end on a cliff in 2022? Insurers’ lobbyists will be back in 2022 leveraging their control over premiums for the spigot to continue.
What congressional leadership would be agreeing to by including reinsurance bailout funds in this omnibus is a $10 billion annual corporate bailout in perpetuity.
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On top of being bad policy, these reinsurance payments will fund abortion unless the Hyde Amendment — a pro-life protection preventing taxpayer funding of abortion coverage — is specifically applied.
Pro-life groups were clear in 2017 that unless the Hyde Amendment is included, any member voting for the reinsurance payments would “not only be voting to sustain what many have called the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, but would also be voting to directly appropriate taxpayer dollars for insurance that includes abortion.”
Thus far, none of the bailout proposals have included the Hyde Amendment.
Congressional leadership needs to listen to the voters who sent them to Washington to end Obamacare. In a recent poll, 61 percent of Americans opposed Congress paying health insurance companies to temporarily lower premiums.
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What Americans need is real relief from the Obamacare regulations that are already raising the cost of health care. We need to allow the states to run their own health insurance markets again.
Bailing out Obamacare’s fundamental failures only puts the real goal further out of reach.
Mike Lee is the junior Republican senator from Utah. A version of this Op-Ed appeared on The Daily Signal website under the headline “Americans Don’t Want Obamacare Bailouts.”
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A stunt woman has died following a motorcycle accident on the set of Deadpool 2 in downtown Vancouver.
The accident occurred just after 8 a.m. on Monday.
Witnesses say the woman was filming a stunt when she lost control of her bike, jumped a curb and crashed into Shaw Tower across from Canada Place.
She was treated by ambulance personnel but police say she died at the scene.
A motorcycle remains on the ground in front of a shattered-out glass window at the back of Shaw Tower. Vancouver police have taped off the area.
WorkSafeBC says the accident is under investigation.
Deadpool 2, the sequel the 2016 Marvel Comics blockbuster starring Vancouver actor Ryan Reynolds, has been shooting in Vancouver since June 26. The film crew closed down downtown streets last week to film sequences involving motorcycles and scooters.
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Domino, a female character played by actress Zazie Beetz, was spotted riding a black Ducati motorcycle down Hastings Street. It was the same model of motorcycle involved in Monday’s accident.
Jason Cameron, a business agent with the Union of B.C. Performers said it’s not known if the stunt woman was one of their members.
The UBCP represents 6,000 people who work as actors, stunt performers, singers, and voice actors.
“We’re waiting for more information to come in. We would have had members on set,” said Cameron.
He said a union representative headed out to to the set after hearing news of the accident. Trauma counselling will be available, he said.
Cameron said despite today’s tragic accident, performing stunts is very safe.
“The nature of stunt performing is it is very dangerous but we are also talking about skilled and trained stunt performers who perform these very dangerous stunts in a safe way,” he said.
“These very complicated sequences and stunts happen on film sets all the time. (Accidents are) pretty rare considering how often stunts like this are performed. It’s exceedingly rare which is a test to the skill level.”
Cameron said Deadpool 2 is a “stunt-heavy” production.

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Tom Cruise appeared to be hurt after a stunt went wrong on the set of "Mission: Impossible 6" in London.
The actor was seen limping after he jumped off of scaffolding and hit the side of a building.
TMZ posted a video that shows Cruise trying to jump onto the roof of a building, but the actor falls short and hits the edge with his torso. Within the clip, Cruise attempts to run across the rooftop before he falls to the ground. At one point, he gets up and limps back towards the scaffolding where he is pulled by his harness.
It's unclear as to what the extent of the injury is, or if he was hospitalized.
Cruise, 55, is known for performing many of his own stunts.
"Mission: Impossible 6" is set for release in July 2018. Cruise announced in June that the long-awaited "Top Gun" sequel will be called "Top Gun: Maverick."


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Question: Vendor to make amends for primary election fiasco in DuPage; new company sought for November

The company blamed for causing a malfunction the night of the March primary election in DuPage County that delayed final vote tallies until the early hours of the following morning will not be used for the November general election, county board Chairman Dan Cronin said.
At Tuesday’s county board meeting, Cronin said the county had reached a settlement with Liberty Systems, which had contracted with the county to provide vote tabulation supplies used in the March 20 primary.
On election night, cards supplied by Liberty did not fit the county’s optical scan vote tabulation devices. The problem forced officials to transport the devices to the election commission headquarters in Wheaton to be tabulated, which delayed final results until after 3 a.m.
“The settlement provides remuneration for the damages the Election Commission incurred, while also clearing a path for a new vendor to provide service to DuPage County voters in November,” said Cronin, who said three contracts the county had with Liberty had been terminated.
Under the settlement, Liberty agreed not to bid for the county contract for the November election, Cronin said.
In addition, the company agreed not to charge the county for the faulty cards, and Liberty will repair or replace 167 tabulation machines damaged by the cards, Cronin said. The company will also compensate DuPage for overtime costs associated with the error.
Following the meeting, Cronin said later he was pleased with the outcome.
"I'm delighted," Cronin said. "I think it was a very effective resolution to a bad situation. I've got to give credit to (election commission chairwoman) Cathy Terrill and the board who all were engaged very intensely in the discussions and negotiations. They knew they had to do something."
Cronin would not say whether further changes with procedures or vendors would take place if the election commission eventually consolidates with the county clerk's office.
"We'll take it one step at a time," he said. "I have some expectations about what it's going to look like. We'll get there."
Clifford Ward is a freelance reporter. Freelance reporter Gary Gibula contributed.

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Question: Congress seeks normalcy, heads back to work after shooting

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The business of the House was resuming a day after a rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police. The assailant, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP, fought a gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.
Colleagues said Scalise, who had been fielding balls at second base, dragged himself away from the infield, leaving a trail of blood before they rushed to his assistance. He was listed in critical condition Wednesday night at a Washington hospital, which said he will require several more operations.
The shooter was identified as James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old home inspector from Illinois who had several minor run-ins with the law in recent years and belonged to a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.”
Capitol Police officers who were in Scalise’s security detail wounded the shooter, who was taken into custody. He later died of his injuries, Trump told the nation from the White House.
“Everyone on that field is a public servant,” Trump said, his tone somber, America’s acrimonious politics set aside for the moment. “Their sacrifice makes democracy possible.”
After visiting Scalise Wednesday evening at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Trump tweeted: “Rep. Steve Scalise, one of the truly great people, is in very tough shape – but he is a real fighter. Pray for Steve!”
Lawmakers noted their good fortune in having armed protectors on hand — “Thank God,” they exclaimed over and over — and said otherwise the shooter would have been able to take a huge deadly toll.
Across the Potomac River in Washington, the shocking events left the Capitol horrified and stunned, and prompted immediate reflection on the current hostility and vitriol in American politics. Lawmakers called for a new dialogue on lowering the partisan temperature, and Trump urged Americans to come together as he assumed the role of national unifier for one of the first times in his presidency.
Proceedings were canceled for the day in the House, and instead Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California issued their own calls for unity. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” Ryan said, to prolonged applause. On Thursday House proceedings were to resume as usual, and lawmakers were returning to the Capitol in search of some semblance of normalcy.
Shortly after the shooting, Bernie Sanders, the former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on the Senate floor that the shooter apparently was a volunteer for his campaign last year. Sanders said he denounced the violence “in the strongest possible terms.”
Scalise, 51, the No. 3 House Republican leader, was first elected in 2008. The popular and gregarious lawmaker is known for his love of baseball and handed out commemorative bats when he secured the job of House whip several years ago.
Texas Rep. Roger Williams said that one of his aides, Zack Barth, was shot but was doing well and expected to fully recover. Two Capitol Police officers sustained relatively minor injuries. A former congressional aide was hospitalized.
The shooting occurred at a popular park and baseball complex in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, where Republican lawmakers and others were gathered for a morning practice about 7 a.m. They were in good spirits despite the heat and humidity as they prepared for the congressional baseball match that pits Republicans against Democrats. The popular annual face-off, which raises money for charity, is scheduled to go forward as planned Thursday evening at Nationals Park in Washington.
Hodgkinson has been in the area since March, living out of his van, said local FBI Special Agent In Charge Tim Slater. Democratic former Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille said he had spoken often with the man on recent mornings at the nearby YMCA.
Hodgkinson’s apparent Facebook page included strong criticism of Republicans and the Trump administration. But Slater said authorities were still working to determine a motive and had “no indication” Hodgkinson knew about the ball practice ahead of time.
The GOP lawmakers’ team was taking batting practice when gunshots rang out and chaos erupted.
Scalise was fielding balls at second base when he was shot, according to lawmakers present. Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, said his colleague “crawled into the outfield, leaving a trail of blood.”
“We started giving him the liquids, I put pressure on his wound in his hip,” Brooks said.
The gunman had a rifle and “a lot of ammo,” said Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who was at the practice.
Texas Rep. Joe Barton, still in his baseball uniform, told reporters that Scalise’s security detail, Capitol Hill police and then Alexandria police returned fire in a battle that lasted as long as 10 minutes and included dozens of shots.
“The security detail saved a lot of lives,” he said. “It was scary.”
Lawmakers took cover in the dugout. Barton said his son, Jack, got under an SUV.
Texas Rep. Mike Conaway described what sounded like an explosion, then lawmakers scattering off the field as police roamed in search of the gunman and engaged him.
“The guy’s down to a handgun, he dropped his rifle, they shoot him, I go over there, they put him in handcuffs,” Conaway said, adding that if the shooter had “gotten inside the fence, where a bunch of guys were holed up in the dugout, it would have been like shooting fish in a barrel.”
Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina said he had just left the practice and encountered the apparent gunman in the parking lot before the shooting. The man calmly asked which party’s lawmakers were practicing and Duncan told him they were the Republicans. The man thanked him.
The wounded Capitol Police officers were identified as David Bailey, who was treated for a minor injury, and Crystal Griner, who was shot in the ankle. Also wounded was former congressional aide Matt Mika, who now works for Tyson Foods in its Washington office. Mika’s family said the lobbyist was shot multiple times and was in critical condition following surgery.
The event raised questions about the security of members of Congress. While the top lawmakers, including Scalise, have security details, others do not and they regularly appear in public without protection. The last time a lawmaker was shot was when Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona was hit in the head and grievously injured while meeting with constituents at a supermarket parking lot in 2011.
Following the Giffords shooting, lawmakers have held fewer open town halls and have been advised to increase security at such events.
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Associated Press reporters Eric Tucker, Matt Barakat, Meghan Hoyer, Sarah Brumfield, Michael Biesecker, Mary Clare Jalonick, Ken Thomas, Vivian Salama, Stephen Ohlemacher, Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor in Washington and Alexandria, and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.

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'I've invested 35 years of my life with a commitment to northern social work... and I feel it very, very deeply,' says Dawn McInnes of the proposed cuts. (submitted by Charlotte Babicki)
The Association of Social Workers in Northern Canada (ASWNC) says shutting down the social work program at Aurora College would have a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of people in the N.W.T.
It also says the decision will hurt the practice of social work in the North, something Dawn McInnes is struggling to accept.
"I'll be doing something pretty ordinary, and I'll break down in tears. It's a great loss."
In an emotional phone call with the CBC on Tuesday afternoon, McInnes, an ASWNC board member and a retired social worker herself, said the thought of the program being cut is hitting her hard.
"I've invested 35 years of my life, with a commitment to northern social work and northern social work education and I feel it very, very deeply. It really hurts."
The government of the Northwest Territories proposed cutting the two-year program in the budget released Feb. 1.
Education Minister Alfred Moses said the decision was made by the college's board of governors. The board also chose to cut the four-year bachelor of education program when the government asked it to identify efficiencies in its operations.
McInnes says the college needs to reconsider its decision.
"This program has done very well over the past 35 years to train culturally sensitive social workers and qualified social workers who work in their communities, many of them using the language of the community to support individuals, groups, families and communities as a whole."
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In a press release ASWNC says the curriculum incorporates Indigenous knowledge through guest speakers and cultural camps to ensure that northern social work students are aware of the history of colonization. It also says the program implements key calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the principals of the Indigenous Education Protocol for Colleges and Institutes, of which the college is a signatory.
"Closure of this program signals a significant step back by the college on their commitment to the implementation of these vital declarations."
McInnes says she's hopeful the decision to cut the social work program will be overturned, but she knows it will take work.
She says she's doing what she can, including meeting with premier Bob McLeod on Wednesday morning to ask him to stop the program cut.
"You [Premier McLeod] have the power, and the responsibility, to do this."

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 15, and here’s what’s happening across California:
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Moment of truth
With new rainstorms approaching, the Oroville Dam’s two crippled spillways will be put to their biggest test ever. Officials have been frantically trying to repair the emergency spillway, which they feared on Sunday would collapse. So far, the damaged regular spillway has saved the day, churning out massive amounts of water that have slowly reduced the reservoir’s water levels, hopefully out of the danger zone. Los Angeles Times
Wing and a prayer: Inside the frantic repair effort on the dam: A lot of rocks, helicopters and sandbags (and some prayers). Los Angeles Times
Visualizing the crisis: This series of graphics and photos helps you understand the engineering challenges and high stakes at work at the Oroville Dam. Los Angeles Times
Snow to the rescue? A cold storm could save the day, producing more snow that will stay in the Sierra Nevada and that will gradually become water in the reservoir. Los Angeles Times
Home for now: Evacuations have been lifted, but those homecomings could be short-lived. OrovilleMR
Climate change and Oroville: The Oroville Dam crisis offers a stark lesson in what climate change is doing to California’s snow-dependent water system. New York Times
San Bernardino plea
Enrique Marquez Jr., a friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, will plead guilty this week in connection with the purchase of two rifles used in the December 2015 attack as well as an earlier aborted plot to open fire on the 91 Freeway and the campus of a Riverside college, according to court documents. The attack, which Marquez was not accused of taking part in, killed 14 people. Los Angeles Times
L.A. STORIES
Bullying blues: Bullying is a big problem in Los Angeles schools. One in 5 high school students and 1 in 4 elementary students said they had been bullied during the last school year, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Los Angeles Times
An L.A. landmark: Looking back at the Beverly Hills Hotel in its heyday, when the ultimate status symbol was getting a phone brought to you poolside. Vanity Fair
Westside norovirus worries: A choir girl and former member of the swim team at Santa Monica High School has died, igniting fears of a norovirus outbreak. She is the second student from the school to die this school year. Los Angeles Times
Santa Monica makeover: Lincoln Boulevard on the Westside is far from L.A.’s most beautiful street. But now there is an effort to remake it as being more friendly, and a bit nicer to look at. Curbed Los Angeles
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Spurning federal $$: A Claremont Islamic graduate school has turned down an $800,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to work on countering violent extremism. The Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School cited the “anti-Muslim actions of the current executive branch” as the reason it spurned the largesse. San Bernardino Sun
The housing crunch: Even with some of the toughest laws requiring the building of affordable housing, the state’s “housing crisis has reached an epidemic level, with rents at an all-time high and home ownership rates at their lowest since the 1940s.” NBC Bay Area
The oddest of enemies: Political consultant Mitchell Schwartz and Mayor Eric Garcetti agree on a lot. They’re both progressive Democrats and would probably be political allies if Schwartz weren’t challenging the mayor in his re-election run. Los Angeles Times
Pay gap progress: The California Senate late last year gave 10% raises to 71 employees to shrink a lingering gap between what male and female employees earn. Sacramento Bee
CRIME AND COURTS
Secret Durst witness: A secret witness is slated to testify at a hearing in the murder trial of real estate scion Robert Durst. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October, meaning the trial is unlikely to start until at least 2018. Los Angeles Times
Ford almost-fail: Harrison had a close call with his plane flying over a passenger jet Monday in Orange County, and the FAA is investigating the incident. Los Angeles Times


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NEW YORK — Police are investigating a video that surfaced Tuesday showing officers shocking a pregnant 17-year-old girl as she screams in agony inside a New York City apartment building.
"Get off of me, get off of me!" the girl yelled as officers attempted to hold her down before using a stun gun — clearly visible in the cellphone video, according to WPIX.
According to the criminal complaint, the girl, Dailene Rosario, who is reportedly 14 weeks pregnant, interfered with the police, screaming at them before finally pushing past one officer. Rosario allegedly shoved the officer into the doorframe of an apartment as she went by.
The incident, which happened around 10 p.m. last Friday, began when officers, responding to an unrelated call at the Bronx building, happened upon a fight involving Rosario's ex-boyfriend and another man, according to the New York Daily News. The scuffle reportedly started over a video game.
When officers tried to handcuff her, Rosario threw herself down and sat on her hands.
"Yo, why are you cuffing me?" Rosario shouted, according to the complaint. "I didn't do anything."
In the cellphone video, Rosario is seen struggling with officers until they shock her with the stun gun. A group of onlookers gathered around the girl repeatedly shout at the officers, "She's pregnant. She's pregnant!"
Rosario is charged with resisting arrest, second degree harassment and disorderly conduct.
“We are aware of the incident,” the NYPD said in a written statement. “It is under internal review.”

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DANVERS, Mass. — No, a live alligator was not lurking by the side of a Massachusetts highway this weekend: It was just a plastic toy.
The Salem News (http://bit.ly/2w3mn06 ) reports that police in Danvers got their first report of an alligator along Route 128 at around 8:40 a.m. Sunday. One person walked into a police station to report the alligator on the southbound side of the highway a couple of hours later.
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RIO DE JANEIRO(Reuters) - Leaders of Rio de Janeiro’s heavily armed drug gangs agree on at least one thing with the head of Brazil’s army: An ongoing military intervention cannot solve the soaring crime and violence that is roiling the seaside metropolis.
“Will the army break this cycle of violence?” asked a leader of the Red Command, Rio’s most powerful drug gang, on a recent weeknight as deputies weighed marijuana and cocaine on a digital scale in a slum from which they operate. “Not a chance.”
The comments, made to Reuters during a rare visit to leaders of Rio’s two most influential drug gangs, come two months after President Michel Temer deployed 30,000 troops here, saying organized crime had “taken over Rio de Janeiro.”
The gang leaders are admitted criminals wanted by police for their role in drug violence.
Their viewpoint, which Reuters sought in an effort to understand both sides of Rio’s violent divide, reveals organizations that are unapologetic for their criminal activities but not likely to attack a military they see as a temporary inconvenience, at worst.
“Nothing will change,” said a leader of the Pure Third Command, Rio’s second most powerful gang and the arch rivals of the Red Command. He said he may lie low during the intervention but his foot soldiers will keep selling drugs.
“I will return and get back to work when they leave,” he added.
Two months into the army’s 10-month deployment, this metropolitan area of more than 12 million people is even more tense than before – riven by the recent murder of a prominent city councilwoman and, days later, police killings of eight young men in Rocinha, Rio’s largest slum.
The killings add to a mounting toll of homicides that spiked after a recent recession gutted Brazil’s economy and Rio’s public security budget. In just three years, as police went unpaid and ill-equipped, violent deaths here surged 35 percent, according to state figures.
Although violence has plagued Rio for decades, the rate is the grisliest of many indicators once again despairing locals. Before the recession, many thought Rio had finally turned a corner, booming with offshore oil and successfully hosting the most recent summer Olympic and World Cup competitions.
Now, even the head of Brazil’s army, General Eduardo Villas Boas, says Rio should not expect a quick fix for violence that pits underfunded police against drug gangs and paramilitary militias that control large swathes of the metropolitan region.
In March, the first full month with the army in charge of security, 191 violent deaths were reported within Rio city limits, a 24 percent increase from February. Police killings of suspects jumped 34 percent in the same period.
While the military will work to restructure police ranks and root out pockets of well-documented corruption, real solutions must be “extremely long term,” the general said during a March briefing. Rio’s problems stem from “decades and decades of neglect and not meeting the population’s basic needs,” he added.
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Nearly a fifth of Rio’s population live in favelas, sprawling slums where many go without basic water, sewerage or garbage services. Favelas are home to millions of law-abiding citizens but also, because of the lack of state presence, Rio’s most powerful drug gangs.
Despite their role in the drug trade, which ravages communities and spawns bloody turf wars, the gangs have long provided authority where the government does not. The gangs are tolerated, even welcomed, by many residents fearful of what they see as trigger-happy police.
The March shootings in Rocinha were typical of the grim contradictions that often surround Rio law enforcement operations, many of which are never fully investigated. While police claimed the young men were drug traffickers, their families denied any gang connections.
Reuters recently spent three days and nights in the redoubts of the Red Command and, separately, the Pure Third Command. Their leaders, who spoke on condition of anonymity and that their precise locations not be disclosed, discussed the military intervention and the large social divide that in many ways empowers them.
They did not discuss specific crimes or recent incidents.
A Brazilian drug gang member checks his mobile phone in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 19, 2018. Picture taken March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Alan Lima
Scores of subordinates, armed with pistols and AR-15 style rifles, guarded streets around both hideouts. Neither soldiers nor police, who retain responsibility for most street patrols and other day-to-day law enforcement, were anywhere nearby.
The Red Command leader, who started as a gang lookout three decades ago at age 11, said he expects little interference during the intervention. Deployments in 2014 and 2016, when soldiers supplemented police forces while Rio hosted the World Cup and Olympics, barely affected business, he recalled.
“They tried before,” he said. “There was no real impact on violence or our ability to operate.”
That is in part because the gangs, who often have superior armaments to police forces, hail from and are the de facto rulers of many of Rio’s roughly 1000 favelas. They not only control the drug trade but have the authority, especially in moments of conflict, to order businesses and schools to close.
“To truly attack us, they have to turn this into an urban war,” the Red Command leader said. “The gangs, no matter which, are part of the favela. We come from it and blend into it, are part of the fabric. How are they going to pull that apart without a slaughter?”
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The Pure Third Command leader, speaking to Reuters in a favela 25 kms (16 miles) away from the Red Command-controlled slum, said the previous deployments made it clear to gangs that they, after frequent armed clashes with police, are more seasoned combatants than troops.
After all, Brazil’s army has not waged war in nearly 150 years.
“Soldiers are inexperienced kids who have seen a lot less fighting than we have,” he said. “They do not really want to come after us.”
Brazil’s army did not respond to requests for comment beyond those already made by the general.
But security experts not involved in the intervention agree with the gangs’ assessment. At most, they say, the army can help Rio authorities analyze the problems of a police force known as corrupt, violent and ineffective.
“The best thing that can come from this is that the army gives a comprehensive diagnosis of the challenges,” said Paulo Storani, a former Rio police commander who now works as a security consultant.
In the chaotic streets of favelas where the gangs operate, the challenges are not hard to see. Trash piles up along pothole-filled roads, where a din of engines and high-pitched horns blare from motorcycles dodging pedestrian traffic.
In the slum where Reuters met the Red Command leader, a group of young boys, shirtless and shoeless, chased each other. They held makeshift pistols carved from white foam packaging.
A few yards away, a group of teenage boys brandished the real thing. Some straddled Kawasaki motorcycles, others leaned against cars, Glock 9 mm pistols holstered to their hips.
“We are left on our own here,” said Flavia Rocha, a 26-year-old mother of two who runs a small grocery store nearby.
She lamented the quality of government across Rio, a city and eponymous state where every governor elected in the last two decades has been convicted of corruption, faces criminal charges or is under investigation. “And people wonder how criminals came to dominate these areas,” she said.
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As Rio’s institutions have crumbled, the gang leaders said, their factions have grown stronger. Not only have they been able to reclaim territory that police forces had occupied before the recession, gangs no longer feel on the defensive.
“If the police come in, we are stronger than before and can combat them with even more force,” the Pure Third Command leader said.

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RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's army is often called to help when things go wrong, so it was no surprise to see soldiers deploy during a crippling truckers' strike. The difference this time: loud calls for the military to take over the country altogether.
Truckers launched their action 10 days ago, gumming up the food and fuel supply system across Latin America's biggest economy.
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Their protest began over rising fuel prices. However, public backing for the shutdown indicated much wider discontent at Brazil's floundering economy, unpopular government and rampant corruption.
In response, center-right President Michel Temer ordered the army to escort non-striking trucks safely past picket lines.
Soldiers take part in an operation to clear highway Regis Bittencourt, 30km from Sao Paulo, as a truckers' strike against rising fuel costs in Brazil that has left much of the country paralyzed, is now over. (Photo: AFP/Nelson Almeida)
But far from being angry at the arrival of troops, a number of strikers greeted them with banners reading: "Intervention now!"
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"Intervencao ja!" as it goes in Portuguese, is shorthand for a return to the military dictatorship that ruled here between 1964 and 1985, or at least a coup, followed by new elections.
The slogan appears periodically on the fringes of mainstream anti-government rallies.
Now, though, it took center stage during national media coverage, with drivers unafraid to voice support for a takeover.
"We want military intervention, if possible, to sort out this country," said Alexandre Bastos, 43, who was taking part in a truckers' blockade of a refinery outside Rio de Janeiro, told AFP.
"Intervention would have nothing to do with dictatorship. We just want the army to intervene."
There was even a fake news rumor spread on WhatsApp that the constitution required military intervention once the strike lasted seven working days and six hours, which would have meant on Tuesday (May 29)
The supposed deadline came and went. But all of a sudden this normally toxic subject had become that much more mainstream.
"It's a feeling that is growing in the population, which sees the military as the solution to the nation's problems," reserve army general Augusto Heleno told Folha de S.Paulo newspaper Wednesday.
Heleno, who commanded UN peacekeepers in Haiti, insisted that the armed forces "do not intend, do not seek" a coup.
But he then went on to praise the dictatorship's image of "a more organised country, where people had a better life."
"I'm not saying it was like that. But this is the image a lot of people have."
SOLDIERS TO THE RESCUE
Brazilians have got used to seeing the military step in where other institutions fail.
Residents of Rio de Janeiro no longer bat an eyelid at the sight of soldiers in full battle dress. During the 2016 Rio Olympics and again, starting last year, soldiers regularly deployed everywhere from Copacabana beach to the chaotic, violent favelas where drug gangs rule.
A government decree this year went a step further, putting generals in charge of Rio's police, firefighters and other emergency services, citing the regular leaders' failure to control crime.
It's not just bringing law and order, either.
Soldiers take part in an operation to clear highway Regis Bittencourt, 30km from Sao Paulo, on May 30, 2018 as a truckers' strike against rising fuel costs. (Photo: AFP/Nelson Almeida)
When Brazil was in the midst of a Zika crisis in 2016, with the Olympics coming, it was the military that again came to the rescue, going house to house to eradicate mosquitoes in at-risk areas.
The military's sterling reputation is a big part of the presidential campaign for former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, a frontrunner in the October polls.
Although Bolsonaro often expresses nostalgia for the dictatorship, he declined to support the truckers demanding intervention, saying that the right wing should come to power through the ballot box, rather than being told "there was a coup."
Still, even if coup talk is mostly hot air, the subject was worrying enough to prompt Supreme Court Chief Justice Carmen Lucia on Wednesday to pronounce: "Democracy is the sole legitimate path."
Temer's institutional security minister, Sergio Etchegoyen, also sought to reassure Brazilians.
"Military intervention is a topic from last century," he said.


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Sixteen-year-old Murad Rahimov peered down into a gigantic space he had only dreamed about before: the world's largest clean room, kept scrupulously free of any dust or contamination, where NASA assembles and tests spacecraft before launch.
Murad's eyes gleamed and a smile played on his face as he took it all in — the scientists encased in sterile white suits; the replica of the massive new space telescope, the most powerful ever built, that will study the first galaxies born after the Big Bang.
Murad is obsessed with space. He has been ever since he was three, back in his home country Uzbekistan. His young imagination was sparked when his aunt gave him a picture book about space, and he couldn't stop looking at the images of the solar system. Soon after, he told his parents his dream: He wanted to become an astronaut and work for NASA.
On this recent day, he was getting a private tour of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., thanks to an NPR listener who heard about Murad's passion for space in a story that aired earlier this year. In January, NPR profiled the Rahimov family on the day they became naturalized as U.S. citizens. The Rahimovs immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, when Murad was nine. When they first landed in Kansas City, Murad spoke no English. Now, heading into his junior year of high school, he's on an accelerated track, taking extra classes in the summer and packing his schedule with AP courses.
Listener Aaron Schnittman heard that story on the radio, and his ears perked up when he heard that Murad's goal is to work for NASA. He emailed NPR that same day, that his brother is a research astronomer working for NASA at Goddard. "I think it would be a cool follow up to connect the son to my brother and help him make the connections needed to pursue studies in astronomy," he wrote.
Cool, indeed. The connection was made, emails were exchanged, and last week, at the invitation of Jeremy Schnittman, Murad and his mother, Limara Rahimova, made the trip to Goddard outside Washington, D.C. Schnittman, an astrophysicist who specializes in black holes, spent several hours showing the Rahimovs the inner workings of the space flight center and sharing his enthusiasm for space science.
Murad was clearly in his element, sporting a t-shirt with a picture of the Millennium Falcon spaceship from Star Wars, and a line from the movie: "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy."
He and his mother got to see the giant cryo-vac chamber where spacecraft are tested to find out if they'll withstand the extreme temperatures of space. They walked inside the acoustic chamber that blasts spacecraft with earsplitting sound to simulate the vibration of launch. They toured the laser lab where scientists are fine-tuning measurements to detect gravitational waves. "Amazing," Murad marveled.
Back in his office, ("black hole central," as he calls it) Schnittman talked with Murad about his research into how light gets bent around black holes. Naturally, they both share a hero in Albert Einstein, whose photo Schnittman keeps pinned above his desk. "It's remarkable," Schnittman said. "It's over 100 years since Einstein did all of this stuff, and still, everything is Einstein. Einstein, Einstein, Einstein."
When Murad mused about the possibilities of time travel, Schnittman sounded optimistic. "It's really not that much of a stretch to say that we're one step closer to time travel," he told Murad. "This is something that Einstein predicted 100 years ago. According to the theory, the equations, time travel should be possible. The trick is just building it and getting it to work, but as far as we can tell, there's no rule against it."
The astrophysicist and the would-be astronaut parted ways with the promise to stay in touch.
Later Murad said he loves science because it shows "the sheer awesomeness, the sheer scale of how insignificant and alone we are in the universe. All these petty fights that people have between themselves, they are just insignificant. When you start thinking about space, you get lost in the vastness of it. That's what captivates me the most."
Now that he's a U.S. citizen, he believes his dream of becoming an astronaut is more within reach. He and his brother automatically became citizens when their parents did. Murad was at school the day they took the oath: "I came home and looked at my parents, and felt all this pride," he said. "You could sense that something has changed. They were smiling from ear to ear."
For his mother, Limara, becoming a U.S. citizen has grounded her in a new way. "I felt before like I'm between countries," she said. "But now I feel like I'm staying ...both my feet here in this land."
Limara works at a school, and each morning they all stand for the pledge of allegiance. Before, she said, "it didn't touch me. But now, yes! And I know what each word in the pledge of allegiance means. And it means, for me, a lot."
As for Murad? The rising high school junior has his sights set on going to Cal Tech, and on the Mars mission he dreams of one day leading. "Some people, they tell me to try to get a real job," he said, "of maybe not shooting so high. But nah. I'm shooting for it. I'm gonna chase my dreams."
Meantime, there's a celestial show about to happen, one he's been excited about for years: the total solar eclipse.
Murad's hometown, Kansas City, is a perfect spot to see it: right in the path of totality.
Next Monday he will be outside, watching in awe as the moon slides over the sun, and dreaming big dreams of space.

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Last weekend's massacre in Las Vegas is only the latest reminder of the persistent gun violence in the United States. And a new set of statistics on the rates of gun violence not related to conflict underscores just how outsize U.S. rates of gun deaths are compared to those in much of the rest of the world.
Take countries with the top indicators of socioeconomic success — income per person and average education level, for instance. The United States ranks ninth in the world among them, bested only by the likes of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Iceland, Canada and Finland.
Yet while those countries all also enjoy low rates of gun violence, the U.S. has the 31st highest rate in the world: 3.85 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2016. That was eight times higher than the rate in Canada, which had .48 deaths per 100,000 people — and 27 times higher than the one in Denmark, which had .14 deaths per 100,000.
The numbers comes from a massive database maintained by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) that tracks lives lost in every country, in every year, by every possible cause of death. The figures for 2016 were released just last month. As in previous years the data paints a fairly rosy picture for much of the world, with deaths due to gun violence rare even in many countries that are extremely poor — such as Bangladesh and Laos, which saw .16 deaths and .13 deaths respectively per 100,000 people.
Prosperous Asian countries such as Singapore and Japan boast the absolute lowest rates, though the United Kingdom and Germany are in almost as good shape.
"It is a little surprising that a country like ours should have this level of gun violence," says Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health and epidemiology at the IHME. "If you compare us to other well-off countries we really stand out."
To be sure, there are quite a few countries where gun violence is a substantially larger problem than in the United States — particularly in Central America and the Caribbean. Mokdad says a major driver is the large presence of gangs and drug trafficking. "The gangs and drug traffickers fight amongst themselves to get more territory, and they fight the police," says Mokdad. And citizens who are not involved are often caught in the crossfire.
Mokdad said drug trafficking may also be a driving factor in two Asian countries that have unusually large rates of violent gun deaths for their region: the Philippines and Thailand.
With the casualties due to armed conflicts factored out, even in conflict-ridden regions such as the Middle East, the United States rate is worse than all but one country: Iraq.
The U.S. gun violence death rate is also higher than nearly all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including many that are among the world's poorest.
One more way to consider this data: The IHME also estimates what it would expect a country's rate of gun violence deaths to be based solely on its socioeconomic status. By that measure, the U.S. should only be seeing .79 deaths per 100,00 people — almost five times less than its actual rate of 3.85 deaths per 100,000.

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Question: Burn survivor stunned by orangutan’s reaction to her scars at Indianapolis Zoo

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INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman who was badly burned in an accident is receiving international attention after an interaction she had with a curious orangutan at the Indianapolis Zoo, according to WXIN.
Darci Miller was working in her backyard on May 5, 2015 when she tried to clear out some garbage by burning it, accidentally igniting some gas fumes in the process.
She was hospitalized for three weeks and underwent multiple surgeries.
"I was in a coma for nine days," Miller said.
The majority of the burns were on her upper arms, chest and face. She recovered well, and she was eventually allowed to go home as long as she was under 24-hour care.
She’s had numerous surgeries since then in order to get more range of motion in her neck and arms.
On June 14, 2017, she traveled to Indianapolis with her fiancé Jason Costello for an appointment at the burn center. They had some free time, so they decided to go to the Indianapolis Zoo. Miller told WXIN it had been years since she last visited the zoo, so she wanted to check out the new orangutan exhibit.
That's where Miller met Rocky. The orangutan appeared to be fascinated with Miller and her injuries.
"He immediately spotted me and came over to the window and was very engulfed in everything I had going on," said Miller. "It was kind of a guessing game. He was just pointing to everything so I was just showing him the bandages on my neck, and my tattoos and the burns on my arms."
One of the zookeepers told Miller that Rocky is very inquisitive, and he’s very interested by tattoos or anything out of the ordinary.
Miller told WXIN she was thinking, “There is no way this is possible. Is this real?”
Miller says she spent 20 minutes in the exhibit interacting with Rocky. She left with Costello to explore other areas of the zoo, but they stopped by the orangutan exhibit one last time before leaving. She said Rocky immediately came to the window to greet them, and it was clear he recognized her.
Miller says the past few years have definitely been filled with ups and downs, and this interaction was definitely one of the ups.
“This day made me feel really good about myself,” Miller said.
Zoo officials have also seen the video. A spokesperson issued the following statement about the interaction between Rocky and Miller:
"Like all orangutans, Rocky is observant and curious. Our orangutans eagerly interact and communicate with people they know well, such as their caregivers. Rocky is a bit different. He regularly interacts with people he may not know. The exchange in the video is a great example of this. Rocky is communicating with the woman in the video, and shows a clear sense of urgency when he gestures towards her injury. We can’t say what was going through his mind at the time, but his behavior demonstrates strong interest and concern. There is no doubt that this was an important interaction for him, and his gestures to the woman clearly communicate that."
The attention is nothing new for Rocky. The 12-year-old orangutan has gotten national attention for mimicking human sounds, the first known orangutan to do so. He's also had a photo shoot where he was paired up with the singer Fergie.
Miller said she has offered to help firefighters show young students the dangers of fire. She's also looking forward to meeting Rocky again and seeing if she gets a similar reaction.

Talk about running wild!
A giraffe named Thabisa escaped her enclosure at the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo in Indiana, leading to some frolicking around in one of the zoo’s parking lots for the animal and a couple tense hours for staff.
Video from the Associated Press shows workers trying to herd the calf with large sheets.
The zoo announced via their Twitter account Monday afternoon, “It was a zoo here today (pun intended), but we are happy to report that Thabisa is safe and sound.”
Thabisa the Giraffe Cathie Rowand/The Journal-Gazette/AP
“As many of you may know, Thabisa decided to have a little adventure today,” they said in a statement. “Thanks for all of your concern, but after realizing our nonpublic parking lot near the giraffe barn wasn’t all that exciting, she decided to go back into the barn all on her own. She remained on zoo property for the duration of her adventure, and is now resting safely behind the scenes.”
It was a zoo here today (pun intended), but we are happy to report that Thabisa is safe and sound. pic.twitter.com/fuipLdoTtS — Fort Wayne Kid's Zoo (@fwkidszoo) April 23, 2018
The Associated Press reported that it is unclear how Thabisa, who joined the zoo’s giraffe herd in November, escaped.
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Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo said this was their first such incident in the four decades of having giraffes.
“We will re-evaluate our giraffe exhibit and take extra precautions to ensure the continued safety of our animals and staff,” the facility said.
Sorry folks, but with her little face and big ears, Thabisa definitely takes the cake for world's cutest baby. #NoImCuter @zoos_aquariums pic.twitter.com/APvnZQFnLc — Fort Wayne Kid's Zoo (@fwkidszoo) December 21, 2017
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Perhaps the zoo should take a cue from Japan’s Ueno Zoo and their famous (and viral) escaped animal drills. Each year, the zoo has a keeper dress up in an animal costume and run “rampant” before being “brought down” by their coworkers.