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-Foot-Tall Baby Giraffe Takes First Steps Minutes After Its Birth

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In an amazing birth video, a baby   giraffe   was welcomed into the world and was up and walking in less than an hour. Uzuri, a 19-year-old giraffe, gave birth to baby Lizzy at the Blank Park   Zoo  in Iowa earlier this month and the calf is now thriving. Lizzy was born at six-feet-tall, one of the tallest babies the zoo has ever seen, and has become an ambassador for her species, according to zoo officials. “Less than an hour after birth, Lizzy was up and testing out those long legs but of course, mom was there to guide her,” a zoo official said.

China holds first live-fire drills with aircraft carrier, warships

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BEIJING (Reuters) reported: China's military has carried out its first ever live-fire drills using an aircraft carrier and fighters in the northeastern Bohai Sea close to Korea, state media said. China's growing military presence in the disputed South China Sea has fueled concern, with the United States criticizing its militarization of maritime outposts and holding regular air and naval patrols to ensure freedom of navigation.

Obama says US will retaliate against Russian hacking

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Barack Obama on Thursday said the United States would retaliate against Russian hacking after the White House accused Vladimir Putin of direct involvement in cyber-attacks  designed to influence the US election. The outgoing US president's remarks dramatically upped the stakes in a dispute between the world's leading nuclear powers over interference that may have swayed last month's tight election in which Republican billionaire Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action," Obama told NPR radio. "And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing."

Teen Missing After 21-Year-Old Boyfriend Allegedly Kills Her Mom, Younger Sister

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A 21-year-old Texas man was arrested Wednesday for the murder of his much-younger girlfriend’s mother and little sister, a day after authorities put out an Amber Alert for the missing teenager. Kirsten Nicole Fritch, 16, has been missing since Tuesday, when her mother and sister were found dead in their Baytown home. Officers conducting a wellness check Tuesday morning discovered the bodies of Cynthia Morris, 37, and her 13-year-old daughter, Breanna Pavilicek, each shot at least once, officials said. Morris’ mother had called 911, saying she had been unable to get in touch with her daughter or her granddaughters, and that her daughter had also not shown up for work, Baytown Police said . The grandmother went by her loved ones’ home and when she found the front door slightly open, she called police, officials said.

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 r...

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 t...