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A wildlife rehab center confirms that cats are killers

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The authors looked at close to 21,000 records of patients admitted to the center, in the central Virginia city of Waynesboro, from 2000 to 2010. Of those, almost 3,000 had been injured by cat attacks — some 14 percent, divided about evenly between birds and small mammals. Among the cat victims were mourning doves, blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels and rarer animals, such as purple gallinules, a kind of water bird. Larger species such as ducks also turned up, and even a kestrel, a kind of falcon. “It’s impressive that cats can take them down,” McRuer said of the kestrel, adding that few previous studies have documented the number of species affected by cat predation. “From the information shared in the study, there is no way to know how many of the mammals or birds labeled as having been subject to interactions with cats were either ill or injured, by misfortune or by another predator, prior to being found by a cat, leaving open a wide range of other

Court cautions Nyame against interfering with prosecution witnesses

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An FCT High Court on Monday cautioned parties, their agents and surrogates to stop interfering with prosecution witnesses. The judge, Justice Adebukola Banjoko, gave the advise at the resumed trial of former Taraba State governor, Jolly Nyame, on Tuesday. Banjoko said she received complaints from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s prosecution team that the defendant was interfering with their witnesses. The judge also said one of her staff had been receiving messages in her mobile phone. “All these interference should stop, nothing but the truth will carry the day,’’ Banjoko said, and adjourned the case till Nov. 1. Nyame is standing trial on 41 counts of money laundering, criminal breach of trust and gratification of N1.64bn. The Prosecuting counsel for EFCC, Mr Henry Ejiga, told the court that the matter could not go on due to the defendant’s interference with the prosecution witnesses. “We encountered constrains in bringing in our witness because the

Will Clinton use final debate to counter Trump's 'rigged' claims?

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Hillary Clinton faces off against perhaps the most unpredictable version of Donald Trump for the third and final debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas, amid her opponent’s increasingly loud cries of an election that is “rigged” against him as he falls in the polls. Much has changed in the 10 days since the two last debated each other. Last week, Trump tweeted that he was glad the “shackles” had finally been taken off him, and then repeatedly told his supporters that “large scale voter fraud” and other alleged–but unspecified–malfeasance means the U.S. election is “rigged” against him. Trump also has pushed back on new allegations from several women that he groped them in the past, and suggested at a rally that one of the women was not attractive enough to assault. He also implied that Clinton had taken drugs before the last debate. Meanwhile, more hacked emails from Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta’s account have been posted by Wikileaks. Clinton’s surrogates say they expec