St. Michael's College principal Gregory Reeves speaks to reporters, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, in Toronto. Police arrested six students from the prestigious private all-boys Catholic school and charged them... (Associated Press)

 St. Michael's College principal Gregory Reeves speaks to reporters, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, in Toronto. Police arrested six students from the prestigious private all-boys Catholic school and charged them with sexual assault related to a video that was posted on the internet. (Christopher Katsarov/The... (Associated Press)

 TORONTO (AP) — Police arrested six students from a prestigious private all-boys Catholic school in Toronto on Monday and charged them with sexual assault related to a video that was posted on the internet.

 Toronto Police Inspector Dominic Sinopoli said the teens, who are all 14 and 15, are from St. Michael's College and were charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon.

 The high school is known for its sports programs and has produced many National Hockey League players over the years.

 Sinopoli said the school failed to notify police immediately and police became aware of the sexual assault through the media. Police are investigating at least three other hazing incidents, including another alleged sexual assault.

 Those arrested are young offenders and cannot be named. They appeared in court Monday and received bail.

 St. Michael's has expelled eight students and suspended another in connection with at least two other incidents that allegedly took place on campus and were captured on video.

 "The incidents of sexualized assault that happened to our students and on our school grounds are simply horrific," the school said in a statement.

 "These incidents are clearly indicative we have a problem. We need to do much better at our culture and our student's ability to talk to us."

 On Sunday, the school said it was conducting an independent examination into the "underlying attitudes and behaviors" that it said were inconsistent with the school's culture.

 Sinopoli said five of the students who appeared in court Monday turned themselves in and another was arrested while heading to school. He said several videos are being circulated.

 The school's principal did not attend a police press conference because of a bomb threat at the school which caused students and faculty to be evacuated. ||||| Six students of St. Michael’s College School have been released on bail after being charged with assault and sexual assault offences in a spiralling scandal over a series of incidents at the prestigious all-boys private school. Five students turned themselves in to police and one was arrested on his way to school, Deputy Chief James Ramer and Insp. Domenic Sinopoli of the sex crimes unit told reporters at a Monday morning news conference at Toronto police headquarters.

 Toronto police Inspt. Domenic Sinopoli announces criminal charges at a Monday news conference against six students of St. Michael’s College School. Rick Madonik/Toronto Star ( Rick Madonik / Toronto Star )

 The six boys have each been charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon, Sinopoli said. Their charges are all in relation to a single incident that was captured on video and posted to social media depicting an alleged sexual assault of a teen boy. The 22-second video, which has been viewed by the Star, shows the teen held down by a group of boys in a locker room while he is allegedly sexually assaulted with what appears to be a broomstick.

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 As the graphic allegations were read out in a small Toronto courtroom Monday afternoon, some of the parents of the accused teens began crying. The teens appeared distraught and hunched forward in the prisoners’ box as Crown Erin McNamara described what allegedly occurred. Two shook their heads at certain points. All six were released with the consent of the Crown with their parents as sureties. Two of the teens were released on $7,000 bail, with the other four on $5,000 bail. Their conditions of release include not contacting or being near the complainant, not going to St. Michael’s College School and only using social media with the “direct and constant supervision” of their sureties.

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 Police are also investigating at least three other incidents at the school, one an alleged sexual assault and two alleged assaults. There are “a minimum of four victims,” Sinopoli said. “We also know there are several videos being circulated,” said Sinopoli, adding police are concerned the videos may still be being shared online. Police have warned that anyone in possession of the alleged sex assault video should delete it immediately because it meets the definition of child pornography. The news conference was briefly delayed after a bomb threat was called in to the school Monday morning, police said. The Roman Catholic school expelled eight students and suspended another one in connection with at least two incidents that allegedly took place on campus and were captured on video. Late last week, the alleged sex assault video and another video began circulating on social media sites.

 Six teens have been arrested and charged after an alleged sexual assault at St. Michael’s private school in Toronto. Police say anyone in possession of the video of the alleged incident should delete it immediately. (The Canadian Press)

 The Star also viewed the second, 49-second video, shot in the boys’ washroom. It shows a young boy in his underwear — he appears not to be physically injured — placed in a large sink by other boys, who splash water on him and slap him. At a late afternoon news conference at the school, principal Greg Reeves told reporters it’s clear St. Michael’s College School has “a serious problem.” “As a school we have a responsibility to keep our students safe, but our collective best efforts, have failed,” he said. Pressed by reporters, he said he didn’t call police about the video of the alleged sexual assault in the locker room, which he saw Monday evening. When police arrived at the school Wednesday he said he told them about it, but was always intending to call them. Sinopoli said Reeves had called police Monday for advice related to a hazing incident, but there “was never really a complaint” until after police heard about the video from the media. After days of questions about who knew what and when, the school released a detailed timeline of events late last week, confirming officials took a full day to report the locker room video to police.

 Reeves told the Star in an interview Sunday evening that the delay was because he was busy with expulsion meetings related to the washroom video on Tuesday. The mother of the locker room victim was out of town and he set up a meeting with both parents for Wednesday. “My whole focus was on the protection of this young man,” Reeves said. At the police news conference, Sinopoli said the school should have immediately notified police about the alleged sex assault video. Reeves said at the Monday news conference that when he saw the video he called the victim’s dad, and his mom was out of town. Neither had been informed by their son. The victim was his priority, Reeves said. “I know I’m being criticized for that, but I’ve spoken with the victim’s parents, they are very pleased with the timeline, and I think that we’re helping the healing of that victim,” Reeves said. Reeves said the school is co-operating with police. He said a confidential voice mail has been set up and a full-time social worker is being hired. Last week, the school did its own internal investigations into both the locker room and bathroom videos, brought in crisis counsellors, and met with members of the junior football team and their parents. “There’s no good news in this story whatsoever,” Mayor John Tory told reporters at city hall after news of the students’ charges. “This is a school that has a great history, a great distinguished history in our city, but sometimes it can be the case that cultures within organizations like that — not confined to that school or schools in general — can fail to meet the accepted standard or fail to keep up even with changing attitudes.” Tory said he couldn’t comment on the timing of when police were notified about the alleged incidents. “The police should be called in instances where there is suspected criminal conduct as soon as possible,” he said, adding it was best left to others to examine what happened in this case. Over the weekend, the elite all-boys school announced an independent third-party investigation into the school’s culture. The “SMCS Respect and Culture Review” will look at the traditions, rituals and social practices of students. Parents and alumni will also be consulted. It will be led by a three-member independent committee of prominent citizens individuals who don’t have any connection to the school and a final report is expected by the summer. Recommendations will be implemented by the start of the 2019-20 school year. It looks as if you appreciate our journalism. Our reporting changes lives, connects communities and effects change. But good journalism is expensive to produce, and advertiser revenue throughout the media industry is falling and unable to carry the cost. That means we need you, our readers. We need your help. If you appreciate deep local reporting, powerful investigations and reliable, responsible information, we hope you will support us through a subscription. Please click here to subscribe. Correction — Nov. 21, 2018: This article has been edited to correct the spelling of Toronto police Insp. Domenic Sinopoli’s name. With files from Isabel Teotonio, Alyshah Hasham and Jennifer Pagliaro May Warren is a breaking news reporter based in Toronto. Follow her on Twitter: @maywarren11 |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– Police arrested six students from a prestigious private all-boys Catholic school in Toronto on Monday and charged them with sexual assault related to a video that was posted on the Internet. Toronto Police Inspector Dominic Sinopoli said the teens, who are all 14 and 15, are from St. Michael's College and were charged with assault, gang sexual assault, and sexual assault with a weapon. The high school is known for its sports programs and has produced many National Hockey League players over the years. Sinopoli said the school failed to notify police immediately and police became aware of the sexual assault through the media. Police are investigating at least three other hazing incidents, including another alleged sexual assault, the AP reports. A 22-second video reviewed by the Toronto Star shows a boy being held down in a locker room and sexually assaulted with what appears to be a broomstick. The six students arrested appeared in court Monday and received bail. St. Michael's has expelled eight students and suspended another in connection with at least two other incidents that allegedly took place on campus and were captured on video. "The incidents of sexualized assault that happened to our students and on our school grounds are simply horrific," the school said in a statement. "These incidents are clearly indicative we have a problem. We need to do much better at our culture and our (students') ability to talk to us." The school's principal did not attend a police press conference because of a bomb threat at the school which caused students and faculty to be evacuated.


– A rare outbreak of winter tornadoes has killed at least seven people in Missouri and Arkansas and left a trail of destruction across the South and Midwest. Three people were killed by a tornado in a small town in northern Arkansas and a tornado spawned by the same weather system killed four more in Missouri. Tornado watches are in effect for parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana as the system moves east. Making matters worse, the storm system has caused flash flooding in parts of Alabama, MSNBC reports One Arkansas man survived with only bumps and bruises after a tornado plucked him from his home. "It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me," he told AP. "I was Superman for a while. You're just free-floating through the air. Trees are knocking you and smacking you down." Meteorologists believe the violent winter weather is linked to changes in Pacific Ocean temperatures, which have affected the jet stream across the central US.

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Chris Sisemore kept his eyes open as a rare but deadly winter tornado plucked him from his rural Arkansas home and flung him across the street.

 Paige Sisemore, 18, of Lincoln, Ark., sits on the foundation of a home behind a makeshift cross made from debris after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010.... (Associated Press)

 Margie Sisemore, left, and Tammy Borden, right, clean up in the aftermath of a tornado that tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday,... (Associated Press)

 A small piece of metal siding sits wrapped around a tree after a trailer shattered in heavy winds Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, near Rolla, Mo. Part of the trailer's frame was found about 50 feet away from its... (Associated Press)

 Standing on a large debris pile, Naomi Shortell, left, looks through a pair of glasses just found by volunteers as she and her friend, Jennifer Hawkins, right, dig through what is left of Shortell's brother-in-law's... (Associated Press)

 Jerald Welch waits for his insurance agent to call after severe winds tore the roof off of most of his house Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, near Rolla, Mo. Several homes and trailers in the neighborhood were... (Associated Press)

 The St. Paul's Catholic Church's rectory, foreground, church and school lie damaged after severe weather in St. Louis, Mo. on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Rev. Mike Dieckmann and Rev. Jim Holbrook were in the... (Associated Press)

 Debris from a house lies in a pile on Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills, Mo. on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air struck the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least... (Associated Press)

 A St. Louis County police officer helps residents with their belongings as they evacuated their home on Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills, Mo. on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Tornadoes fueled by unusually... (Associated Press)

 Jordan Brewer stacks canned goods onto an upturned deck as he and a friend help recover belongings from a trailer which was shattered in heavy winds Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, near Rolla, Mo. Brewer was assisting... (Associated Press)

 Donovan Archer, left, tosses a toy guitar to Jordan Brewer, right, as they try to help friends and family of Jason Stevenson recover a few belongings after his trailer was shattered in heavy winds Friday,... (Associated Press)

 Margie Sisemore cleans up in the after a tornado destroyed several homes in the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled... (Associated Press)

 Harlin Gast walks past the debris in his neighborhood in Sunset Hills, Mo. on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Gast got a cut on his head in Friday's storm that destroyed his home and another belonging to his son.... (Associated Press)

 Chris Sisemore, right, describes being thrown from his home by a tornado that tore through Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter... (Associated Press)

 A recreational vehicle leans against a house and a toppled shed sits in the foreground just off Highway E about two miles north of Interstate 44 Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, near Rolla, Mo. Tornadoes fueled... (Associated Press)

 "I wanted to see the end coming. You're only going to see it one time and I thought that was it," he said, hours after surviving the twister. "It takes more than a tornado to get me."

 At least six people were killed and dozens injured as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday and early Saturday.

 Three people died in the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati when a tornado touched down just before sunrise Friday, and three others died when a storm spawned by the same weather system ripped up the Missouri countryside near Rolla. Early Saturday, two people were injured in central Mississippi and several homes were damaged by a storm in Attala County. Tornado watches were in effect for parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana on Saturday morning as the system continued moving east.

 Sisemore, who lives in Cincinnati, had bumps and bruises but no serious injures.

 "It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me," he said. "I was Superman for a while. ... You're just free-floating through the air. Trees are knocking you and smacking you down."

 In south-central Missouri, 21-year-old Megan Ross and her 64-year-old grandmother Loretta Anderson died at a Lecoma farm where their family lived among three mobile homes and two frame houses, Dent County Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Nash said. The National Weather Service determined the home was hit by a weak tornado that was 50 yards wide and traveled less than a mile.

 "We found debris from one of the trailers a mile away," Nash said. "One of the frames of the trailer was 15 feet up in a tree. All the frames were all twisted up," and refrigerator from one of the mobile homes was found 200 yards away, he said.

 North of Rolla, not far from Lecoma, 69-year-old Alice Cox was killed when a tornado destroyed a home while the Belle, Mo., woman was visiting a friend, according to Phelps County Emergency Management Director Sandy North.

 In Arkansas, Gerald Wilson, 88, and his wife, Mamie, 78, died in their home and Dick Murray, 78, died after being caught by the storm while milking cows, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said.

 At Fort Leonard Wood, a tornado with winds of 136 to 165 mph demolished about a dozen homes and caused lesser damage to many more in a neighborhood that houses officers.

 Spokesman Jeff S. Maddy said many from the fort were traveling for the holidays.

 "The good thing here is if you had to have a storm like this, it couldn't happen at better time because we have the holiday season and so many people are visiting family and friends away from Fort Leonard Wood."

 In Illinois, a tornado may have touched down in Petersburg, northwest of Springfield, where about two dozen homes were damaged _ some severely _ and a woman was injured when her car was struck by a falling tree branch. Her injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening.

 The region has been bracing for severe weather for much of the week. Gulf moisture riding southerly winds pushed temperatures into the upper 60s and 70s on Thursday _ ahead of a cold front expected to drop temperatures into the teens by Saturday morning.

 "This storm system has been showing significant signs that it could develop," said Chris Buonanno, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in North Little Rock.

 "In the winter you don't always have the instability" that would allow tornadoes to develop, Buonanno said. "This time, we have the instability."

 While the spring brings most of the region's tornadoes, violent weather at this time of year isn't unheard of. A February 2008 outbreak killed 31 in Tennessee and 14 in Arkansas, and in January 1999 two separate outbreaks across the South killed 18, including seven in Arkansas.

 A year ago, there were no tornado deaths nationwide between Oct. 9, 2009, and March 10, 2010.

 Buonanno said there appears to be some association between changes in South Pacific Ocean temperatures and changes in the flow of the jet stream in the central part of the United States, causing an uptick in violent weather.

 Friday's tornado fatalities were the first in the nation since Sept. 16, when a woman hit a falling tree while driving in Queens, N.Y., and a man was killed in his home at Belleville, W.Va. The deaths push this year's count to 42 nationally, and to 5 in Arkansas. The deaths in Missouri were its first of the year.

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 Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth and Margaret Stafford in Kansas City, Mo., Sophia Tareen in Chicago and Kelly P. Kissel in Little Rock; and AP photo stringer April Brown in Cincinnati, Ark., contributed to this report. ||||| Shaken residents spent New Year's Day sifting through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes that touched down in several states in the final hours of 2010, killing seven people in two states and injuring dozens of others.

 Six of the victims — three in Missouri and three in Arkansas — died Friday as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest. A seventh victim who was injured Friday near the south-central Missouri town of Rolla died Saturday at a hospital in Columbia, said Bruce Southard, the chief of the Rolla Rural Fire Department.

 The woman, whose name wasn't immediately released, was entertaining a friend, Alice Cox, 69, of Belle, Mo., in her trailer when the twister hit.

 Southard said nothing was left of the trailer except for the frame and that the twister scattered debris 40 to 50 yards from where the trailer had sat. The woman were found under a pile of debris, Southard said.

 "It's like you set a bomb off in it," Southard said in a phone interview. "It just annihilated it."

 At a farm nearby, 21-year-old Megan Ross and her 64-year-old grandmother Loretta Anderson died when a tornado hit where their family lived among three mobile homes and two frame houses, Dent County Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Nash said.

 The National Weather Service determined the home was hit by a weak tornado that was 50 yards wide and traveled less than a mile.

 In the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati, Gerald Wilson, 88, and his wife, Mamie, 78, died in their home and Dick Murray, 78, died after being caught by the storm while milking cows, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said.

 Gov. Jay Nixon was spending New Year's Day touring damage from the storm that also caused damage in near St. Louis.

 Nixon started the tours around 11 a.m. in the St. Louis County town of Sunset Hills, where violent storms hit after noon Friday and left a trail of debris. Nixon was headed to Rolla later in the day.

 Parts of Alabama and Florida were on tornado watch for much of Saturday and the same storm system triggered flash flooding in parts of Alabama.

 "Several roads in and around Harstelle are becoming impassable due to rising water," the National Weather Service reported, adding that Albertville and Guntersville also saw road closures.

 Overnight, two people were injured in central Mississippi and several homes were damaged by a storm in Attala County.

 In Cincinnati, the tornado plucked Chris Sisemore from his rural home and flung him across the street. Sisemore had bumps and bruises but no serious injures.

 "It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me," he said. "I was Superman for a while. ... You're just free-floating through the air. Trees are knocking you and smacking you down."

 Sisemore added that he kept his eyes open the entire time. "I wanted to see the end coming. You're only going to see it one time and I thought that was it," he said. "It takes more than a tornado to get me."

 Sisemore's mother, Margie Sisemore, said her son thought a tree had come crashing through his window.

 "He jumped under his bed, said it grabbed his legs — took him up through the ceiling and he landed over yonder," she said, gesturing across the street.

 At Fort Leonard Wood, a tornado with winds of 136 to 165 mph demolished about a dozen homes and caused lesser damage to many more in a neighborhood that houses military officers.

 Spokesman Jeff Maddy said many from the army base were traveling for the holidays.

 "The good thing here is if you had to have a storm like this, it couldn't happen at better time because we have the holiday season and so many people are visiting family and friends away from Fort Leonard Wood."

 In Illinois, a tornado may have touched down in Petersburg, northwest of Springfield, where about two dozen homes were damaged — some severely — and a woman was injured when her car was struck by a falling tree branch. Her injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening.

 In southern Missouri, storms damaged buildings and boat docks around Table Rock Lake, leaving several boats adrift after wrenching them from their moorings. Several homes and businesses were damaged in the St. Louis County town of Sunset Hills, and a church was damaged in nearby Fenton.

 The region has been bracing for severe weather for much of the week. Gulf moisture riding southerly winds pushed temperatures into the upper 60s and 70s Fahrenheit on Thursday — ahead of a cold front expected to drop temperatures into the teens by Saturday morning. |||||


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Image copyright Win McNamee/Getty Images Image caption Ms Trump reportedly stopped using her personal email for official work after being told the rules

 Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of messages discussing official White House business last year, officials confirm.

 A review into her emails revealed she had used her private address to contact government officials.

 Ms Trump sent the emails before she was briefed on the rules, her lawyer says.

 In 2016, her father Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of putting the US "in danger" over her use of a private email while secretary of state.

 On Monday, the Washington Post reported that while Ms Trump's emails contained mostly logistical and personal information, some may still have been in violation of federal records rules.

 How serious is this?

 A Trump administration official told CBS News that Ms Trump's emails did not contain classified information, and what had occurred was basically a lack of understanding of the rules.

 Ms Trump stopped using her personal address for government correspondence after she was informed that she should not be doing so, the official said.

 However, Austin Evers, from a group called American Oversight, which submitted the freedom of information request that led to the discovery of Ms Trump's use of personal email last year, said the "president's family is not above the law".

 "There are serious questions that Congress should immediately investigate," Mr Evers said in a statement.

 "Did Ivanka Trump turn over all of her emails for preservation as required by law? Was she sending classified information over a private system?" he added.

 Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ms Trump's counsel Abbe Lowell, said in a statement to US media: "Ms Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family."

 He added that Ms Trump did not create a private server and never transmitted any classified information.

 "The account was never transferred or housed at Trump Organization, no emails were ever deleted, and the emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules."

 What did Trump say about Clinton's emails?

 During his presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump said that Mrs Clinton's use of a private server to send official emails while in her post as secretary of state in 2009 was a scandal "bigger than Watergate".

 He repeatedly criticised her conduct, calling her actions "illegal" and a threat to the security of the US.

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President Trump insists Ivanka's emails are 'not like Hillary's'

 At the time of his campaign, Mr Trump frequently encouraged crowds at rallies to chant "lock her up" and threatened to imprison Mrs Clinton over the saga.

 He also called on Russia to help locate some 30,000 emails that Mrs Clinton had not turned over to investigators after she, or her lawyers, determined it was unnecessary as they were personal messages.

 What was the Clinton email saga all about?

 Before becoming secretary of state, Mrs Clinton set up an email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, that she used for all work and personal emails during her four years in office.

 She did not use, or even activate, a state.gov email account, which would have been hosted on servers owned and managed by the US government.

 She said it was for convenience.

 An FBI investigation concluded that Mrs Clinton should not face charges, but said she and her aides had been "extremely careless" in their handling of classified information.

 Are private emails illegal?

 It is not illegal for White House officials to use personal email accounts for government business.

 However, under the Presidential Records Act and Federal Records Act, government officials must forward any official correspondence to a work account within 20 days for preservation.

 If this is not done reliably, the use of private accounts can put official records beyond the reach of journalists, lawmakers and others who seek publicly available information.

 There are also rules against sharing classified or privileged information on personal email accounts. ||||| Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.

 White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.

 The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. He attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” for using a personal email account as secretary of state.

 Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.

 The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell.

 In a statement, Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Lowell, acknowledged that the president’s daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information.

 “While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” he said in a statement.

 Mirijanian said Ivanka Trump turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records.

 And he stressed that her email use was different from that of Clinton, who had a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton’s emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation.

 “Ms. Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted,” Mirijanian said.

 Like Trump, Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely.

 Ivanka Trump often discussed or relayed official White House business last year using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

 Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records.

 Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were “marked classified.” The FBI later determined that 110 emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.

 [Inspector general blasts Comey and says others at FBI showed ‘willingness to take official action’ to hurt Trump]

 Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Trump’s daughter did not know that government officials should not use private emails for official business.

 “There’s the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,” Evers said. “There is no reasonable suggestion that she didn’t know better. Clearly everyone joining the Trump administration should have been on high alert about personal email use.”

 Ivanka Trump and her husband set up personal emails with the domain “ijkfamily.com” through a Microsoft system in December 2016, as they were preparing to move to Washington so Kushner could join the White House, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

 The couple’s emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft, the people said.

 Trump used her personal account to discuss government policies and official business fewer than 100 times — often replying to other administration officials who contacted her through her private email, according to people familiar with the review.

 Another category of less-substantive emails may have also violated the records law: hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house, they said.

 People close to Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staffers about prohibited use of private email, according to people familiar with the situation.

 Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations.

 Revelations about Clinton’s personal email system led to an FBI investigation of whether she had mishandled classified information. The scandal shadowed Clinton throughout the 2016 White House race, culminating in then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his conclusion that she had been reckless with government secrets but that there was not sufficient evidence she had intended to skirt the law.

 During the campaign, Donald Trump said the Democratic nominee’s “corruption is on a scale we have never seen before” and called her personal email use “bigger than Watergate.”

 Trump supporters still chant “Lock her up!” at his rallies, and the president, nearly two years into his administration, continues to tweet about Clinton’s emails.

 “Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD,” he tweeted in August, referring to a Fox News story about claims that the bureau did not scrutinize all her emails. “Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!”

 Ivanka Trump first used her personal email to contact Cabinet officials in early 2017, before she joined the White House as an unpaid senior adviser, according to emails obtained by American Oversight and first reported by Newsweek.

 [Ivanka Trump shuts down her namesake clothing brand]

 In late February 2017, she used her personal email to contact Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon and propose they meet to explore “opportunities to collaborate.” The following month, she emailed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, suggesting that their staffers meet to discuss ways to collaborate on “locational/workforce development and k-12 STEM education.”

 While her messages were largely about government work, Trump was not then subject to White House records rules.

 When she joined the White House on March 30, Trump pledged to comply “with all ethics rules,” responding to complaints that her voluntary role gave her all of the access and perks of the White House — but none of the legal responsibilities or constraints.

 “Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role,” she said in a statement at the time.

 But Trump continued to occasionally use her personal email in her official capacity, according to people familiar with the review.

 Her husband’s use of personal email for government work drew intense scrutiny when it was first reported by Politico last fall. The revelation prompted demands from congressional investigators that Kushner preserve his records, which his attorney said he had. At the time, administration officials acknowledged to news organizations, including the New York Times and Politico, that Ivanka Trump had occasionally used a private account when she joined the White House.

 [Kushner used private email account for some White House business]

 But Trump had used her personal email for official business far more frequently than known, according to people familiar with the administration’s review — a fact that remained a closely held secret inside the White House.

 “She was the worst offender in the White House,” said a former senior U.S. government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal dynamics.

 After discovering the extent of her email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell, Ivanka Trump’s attorney, to help review her personal emails to determine which were personal and which were official business, according to the people.

 The White House Counsel’s Office did not have access to her personal account and could not review it without invading her privacy and possibly violating privileged communications with her attorneys, people familiar with the review said.

 After his review, Lowell forwarded emails that he had determined were related to official business to Ivanka Trump’s government account, a move he viewed as rectifying any violations of the records law, they said.

 Lowell’s review found fewer than 1,000 personal emails in which Trump shared her official schedule and travel plans with herself and her personal assistants, according to two people familiar with the review.

 Separately, there were fewer than 100 emails in which Trump used her personal account to discuss official business with other administration officials.

 The scope of her personal email use had not emerged in response to American Oversight’s records request, which sought Trump’s correspondence with Cabinet agencies in early 2017. Most internal White House communications are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

 “I’m disappointed — although not entirely surprised — that this administration disregarded clear laws that they more than anyone should have been aware of,” Evers said.

 In many cases, government officials contacted Ivanka Trump first at her personal email address. That was the case with a note she received in April 2017 from Treasury Department official Dan Kowalski, who was seeking to set up a meeting between the president and the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international economic group of which the United States is a member.

 “I apologize for reaching out to you on your personal email for this, but it is the only email I have for you,” he wrote, according to an email obtained by American Oversight.

 “For future reference my WH email is [redacted],” Ivanka Trump replied. “Thanks for reaching out and making this introduction.”

 But other times, Trump used her private email to initiate official business.

 In April 2017, she used her personal email to write to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s chief of staff, Eli Miller, suggesting that he connect with her chief of staff, Julie Radford. The email chain, obtained by American Oversight, was copied to Radford’s government account.

 “It would be great if you both could connect next week to discuss [redacted],” she wrote. “We would love your feedback and input as we structure.” |||||

– Ivanka Trump might not have been paying attention at the numerous rallies where her father denounced Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for government use. Officials have confirmed that the president's daughter used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails relating to government business last year, the Washington Post reports. The emails to White House aides and Cabinet officials were sent from a private domain she shares with husband Jared Kushner. Sources tell the Post that aides were shocked at the extent of her use of private email, some of which violated federal records rules—but when she was asked about it, she said she wasn't familiar with the rules. Administration officials say Ivanka Trump's correspondence did not contain classified information and she stopped using the account for government business after the rules were explained to her, the BBC reports. They say that unlike Clinton, Trump never deleted any emails. The American Oversight watchdog group says its freedom of information requests uncovered the scale of private email use. "We expected to find the president’s daughter had an unusual role in the White House, but we didn’t anticipate this kind of extensive use of a personal email server," says Austin Evers, the group's executive director. The New York Times reports that Democratic lawmakers are expected to look into the email issue when they take control of the House next year. (The White House ordered an investigation of private email use last year.)


AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man scheduled to be put to death next week for murdering his 2-year-old daughter has been granted a stay of execution after his lawyers argued his conviction stemmed from “junk science” about shaken baby syndrome.

 Death row inmate Robert Roberson is seen in an undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Texas Department of Criminal Justice/Handout via REUTERS

 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday halted the planned June 21 execution of Robert Roberson and sent his case back to a trial court. It based its decision on a recent state law that permits legal challenges citing new scientific evidence potentially pointing to wrongful convictions.

 Roberson, 49, was found guilty of killing his daughter in 2002. Prosecutors said he took her to the hospital after causing fatal head injuries or trauma in the toddler.

 In a brief filed with the court this month, his lawyers said new scientific evidence showed that he should not have been convicted and the state relied on “false, misleading, and scientifically invalid testimony.”

 Roberson has contended that the death of the girl, Nikki Curtis, may have been caused by a fall from her bed or a fever of 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit (40.3°C) that led to a visit to a doctor two days before her death.

 Prosecutors presented experts at his original trial who said Nikki died of shaken baby syndrome and that Roberson intended to sexually abuse her.

 The Texas attorney general’s office has said in court filings that Roberson was properly convicted and sentenced to death.

 For decades, pathologists, pediatricians and courts recognized a distinct set of internal head injuries - brain swelling, bleeding on the surface of the brain and behind the eyes – as proof of death by deliberate shaking, even in the absence of other overt signs of violence.

 But medical consensus has shifted in recent years and research now shows such injuries can be caused by accidental falls from a short height, or even medical conditions such as blood-clotting disorders and latent trauma from a difficult birth, which can manifest weeks later.

 Lawyers for Roberson also pointed out that it is impossible to shake a baby to death without causing serious neck injuries, which his child did not suffer.

 “Robert Roberson was wrongfully convicted of murdering his ... daughter based on junk science and highly inflammatory sexual-abuse allegations that were false,” his lawyers said in their court filing. ||||| This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Roberson III. Texas' highest criminal court has given a reprieve to Roberson, who was set for execution next week for the... (Associated Press)

 This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Roberson III. Texas' highest criminal court has given a reprieve to Roberson, who was set for execution next week for the slaying of his 2-year-old daughter 14 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) (Associated Press)

 This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Roberson III. Texas' highest criminal court has given a reprieve to Roberson, who was set for execution next week for the slaying of his 2-year-old daughter 14 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) (Associated Press) This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Roberson III. Texas' highest criminal court has given a reprieve to Roberson, who was set for execution next week for the... (Associated Press)

 HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys who contended "junk science" was used to send a father to death row for killing his 2-year-old daughter 14 years ago have won a reprieve blocking the Texas inmate's execution set for next week.

 Robert Roberson III, 49, was set to die Tuesday for the February 2002 death of his daughter, Nikki Curtis, at his home in Palestine in East Texas. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sent his case back to his Anderson County trial court late Thursday to review claims he is innocent of capital murder. There is no timetable for the appeal to be resolved. One judge on the nine-member court, Lawrence Meyers, voted to refuse the reprieve and dismiss the appeal.

 Lawyers argued Roberson's conviction was based on "junk science" and "false, misleading and scientifically invalid testimony" and that new scientific evidence establishes he would not have been convicted.

 The child had serious head injuries, and Roberson contended she accidentally fell from a bed. Medical staff at a Palestine hospital called police because they considered the injuries suspicious. Physicians who examined her said bruises to her chin, cheek and jaw and a subdural hematoma — bleeding outside her brain but inside her skull — likely were intentional and no accident.

 Nikki died the next day, Feb. 1, 2002, and a medical examiner ruled blunt force head injuries as the cause.

 Defense attorney Benjamin Wolff told the appeals court that Nikki's death could be attributed to a number of things, such as undiagnosed meningitis, an accidental injury before Roberson began caring for her the day she died, a fall from the bed he didn't see or a fatal congenital condition.

 The Anderson County District Attorney's office did not immediately respond to a message left Friday.

 According to court records, she'd been living with Roberson and his girlfriend, Teddie Cox, for about three months after a court awarded him custody of the child.

 Testimony from Cox, who was not the child's mother, showed he had no interest in caring for his daughter, but was her sole caretaker for the first time on Jan. 31, 2002, and was not pleased.

 Prosecutors initially said Roberson sexually assaulted the 2-year-old, based on statements from a hospital nurse, but dropped that element of the capital murder charge late in the trial when evidence could not conclusively support it.

 "But by then, the damage had been done," Wolff said in Roberson's appeal. "The state used this rank speculation to drive home its view that Robert was not just a poor, mentally impaired father struggling with sobriety, but a deviant — capable of raping and brutally shaking his own daughter to death."

 Roberson was a parolee with previous convictions for burglary and theft and parole violations.

 At least seven other Texas inmates have executions scheduled for the coming months, including one in July and four in August.

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– A man on death row in Texas has been granted a last-minute reprieve after his lawyers successfully argued he was convicted on "junk science" regarding shaken baby syndrome, Reuters reports. Robert Roberson, who had been scheduled to be executed June 21, was convicted in 2002 of murdering his 2-year-old daughter. According to the AP, Roberson's girlfriend says he was angry when he became the sole caregiver of his daughter, Nikki. That same day, Roberson brought Nikki to the hospital with serious head injuries. Doctors thought they looked intentional and called police. Nikki died the following day. While Roberson maintains Nikki was hurt falling off her bed or from a fever, experts during his trial testified that she died of shaken baby syndrome and that Roberson planned to sexually abuse her. But new research shows that what used to be taken as signs of shaken baby syndrome—brain swelling and bleeding behind the eyes and on the brain’s surface—can also be caused by short falls or undiagnosed medical conditions. Roberson's lawyers successfully convinced eight of the nine members on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Roberson had been convicted on "false, misleading, and scientifically invalid testimony." Nikki never showed any outward signs, such as an injured neck, of shaken baby syndrome. Roberson's case will now go back to trial. (This boy died 12 years after being shaken as a baby.)


– Is Russia's leader glowering over America? A YouTube video purporting to show Vladimir Putin's face forming in a flock of birds above New York City has gotten a lot of online attention—especially in Russia, UPI reports. Posted under the name Sheryl Gilbert, it was aired last week by Russia's state-owned and "strictly patriotic" Zvezda news station, notes the Washington Post. Russian users quickly weighed in, posting comments like "It's a warning to the US that they shouldn't start a war with Russia" and, from a Ukrainian, "Putin bribed American birds." Many say the 11-second video is fake, Australia's News Network reports, but no one has described the alleged fakery in detail. Gregory West, whose Twitter account describes him as a "Patriot," "Conservative," "Political Blogger" and "Proud Husband of @ _SherylGilbert," tweeted, "Saw it several days ago during a trip and that's amazing! Can you see the face? Who is it?"

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Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Contains archived websites, blogs, editorials and other materials posted online by, or on behalf of, 17 Russian political and cultural figures who have expressed some opposition to foreign and domestic policy in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The archive also captures eight websites that chronicle a range of contemporary political and human rights positions and events that reflect the prevailing climate. The political and cultural figures whose websites and/or blogs have been captured include: Rustem Adagamov, widely-read Russian blogger; Sergei Aleksashenko, economist, businessman; Konstantin Borovoi, entrepreneur and opposition politician; Leonid Gozman, opposition politician; Il’ia Iashin, opposition politician, co-founder of Russian “Solidarity” party; Oleg Kashin, political journalist and author; Oleg Kozyrev, author, screenwriter, blogger and journalist, leader of youth movement “Democratic Alternative”; Andrei Makarevich, founder of classic rock group Mashina Vremeni [Time Machine]), who Russian state media condemned as a “traitor” for performing a charity concert for Ukrainian children displaced by the war; Andrei Mal’gin, journalist, literary scholar and critic, publisher, and political activist well known for his blogging; Aleksei Naval’nyi, Russian political and social activist, lawyer, and popular blogger; Boris Nemtsov, prominent Russian opposition leader gunned down in Moscow on February 27, 2015; Valeriia Novodvorskaia (d. July 2014), a political activist, dissident, human rights advocate, independent journalist, and founder of liberal political parties; Dmitrii Oreshkin, political scientist and activist; Sergei Parkhomenko, publisher, journalist, political observer; Irina Prokhorova, literary scholar, editor, television personality, opposition political figure; Artemii Troitskii, rock journalist, music critic who emigrated to Estonia in 2014 because of the worsening political climate; Nikolai Uskov, historian, journalist and publishing executive. This archive also includes captures of the following sites: Civil Platform, founded in 2012, with the aims of establishing civil society in Russia, upholding of the rights of the individual, and economic reform. Human Rights in Russia, a website dedicated to raising awareness of threats to human rights in Russia, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth organization. Politkom.Ru, web platform of the Center for Political Technology, which purports to be an independent source of news and analysis and an open forum for exchange of opinions between politicians, analysts and journalists. Putin. Itogi publishes “independent, expert” reports on Putin’s leadership, among them reports written by Boris Nemtsov. Solidarnost’ is a “united democratic movement” founded in 2008 as a coalition of opposition organizations against authoritarianism. Bolotnaya Square Case is a website devoted to documenting the consequences for dozens of protesters after their participation in an opposition rally in Moscow in May of 2012. Traitor.net is a website that singles out political and cultural figures for their expression of disagreement with Russian incursions into Ukraine. ||||| Matthew Dunn news.com.au

 IT turns out Vladimir Putin was seen invading the skies of New York City last week.

 OK, that might be a stretch, but if you believe an 11-second YouTube clip, the Russian president was definitely there in spirit.

 Sheryl Gilbert was on board a tourist bus when she captured footage of a flock of birds swarming around the New York skyline.

 What made the clip impressive was the fact the birds flew into a formation that resembled a human face.

 And it is not just any face, but the face of Putin.

 Since being uploaded to YouTube, the video has gained a lot of attention and has been viewed more than a million times.

 While many are quick to condemn the video as a fake, a number of Russian YouTube users think the event is a message.

 “This is a hint: imagine what we can do during the war, if we can now make your birds fly resembling the face of our president,” commented one user.

 “It’s a warning to the US that they shouldn’t start a war with Russia,” wrote another.

 Check out the video below and let us know your thoughts in the comments section or tweet us @newscomauHQ ||||| NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A video showing the "strange behavior" of birds in New York is going viral after a Russian news station spotted the shape of Vladimir Putin's face in the flock.

 The video, posted to YouTube by Sheryl Gilbert, purports to show the "strange behavior of birds" flying in a flock near the Brooklyn Bridge.

 The video went viral in Russia after news station Zvezda aired the footage and reporters said a shape seen in a close-up of the birds appears to be the face of President Vladimir Putin.

 The station, owned by the Russian Defense Ministry, cautioned the video could have been faked, but Gregory West, who identified himself as Gilbert's husband, said on Twitter the footage was real and shot from a tour bus during a recent visit to New York.

 "Saw it several days ago during a trip and that's amazing! Can you see the face? Who is it?" West tweeted. |||||

 Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Mikhail Klimentyev/ Presidential Press Service/RIA-Novosti/AP)

 In Russia, Vladimir Putin's face is a common sight on television, newspapers, T-shirts, book covers and patriotic graffiti. So it was no wonder that a Russian TV channel, Zvezda ("Star"), claimed that Putin's face could be seen in the outlines of a swarm of birds flying above New York. Zvezda is known for its strictly patriotic views and is owned by the Russian Defense Ministry.

 The TV channel pointed to a YouTube video posted by someone named Sheryl Gilbert. The video was uploaded Tuesday and generated lots of comments in Russian on Wednesday after the Russian channel picked it up. "It's a warning to the U.S. that they shouldn't start a war with Russia," one user wrote. "Putin bribed American birds," commented another in Ukrainian. Someone else suggested that the outlines did not resemble Putin's face as much as that of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. But there wasn't much support for that view.

 Gregory West, who claims to be the husband of Sheryl Gilbert, posted a link to the video on Twitter on Tuesday. "Saw it several days ago during a trip and that's amazing! Can you see the face? Who is it?"

 Some suggested that it was Steve Jobs, Robin Williams or Jerry Mouse. But some think the video is a fake. Zvezda also warned that it cannot guarantee the authenticity of the video. ||||| Add a location to your Tweets

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This afternoon stories began swirling about a new threat provisionally called "here you have". It's thus named because it arrives in an e-mail with "here you have" in the subject. ABC News reported that NASA, Comcast, and ABC's parent Disney were hit hard, among others. The McAfee Labs Blog referred to it as a virus, a Trojan, and a worm. The term "worm" refers to a malicious program that can spread to other computers without any human interaction, so that last point had me worried.

 As it turns out, this threat isn't a worm. It can't attack your computer by itself. In fact, it can't do anything at all unless some goofball clicks the wrong link (though once that happens it can infect connected computers and USB drives). Really, it's barely more than a social engineering attack. The fact that it managed to spread widely through various multinational businesses doesn't say a lot for the security savvy of the workers.

 People! DO NOT click links in e-mail messages from unknown people. DO NOT even click links in e-mail messages from your friend, since the real source of the message might be a virus. DO keep your computer protected with an antivirus or a security suite. That way if you click the wrong link in a fit of weakness you'll still be protected from whatever new threat replaces "here you have". ||||| Here you have... a royal pain in the neck.

 A global e-mail virus spammed inboxes Thursday afternoon, slowing -- and in some cases halting -- work at offices around the world as employees watched their inboxes inexplicably fill with e-mails under the subject line "Here you have." Some workers were forced to go without e-mail altogether, as the flood of spam put their services out of commission.

 Organizations including NASA, Comcast, AIG, Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Florida Department of Transportation and Wells Fargo are just a few of the organizations apparently affected by the worm, which appears to have sent out hundreds of thousands, if not millions of e-mails.

 On Friday, the Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks said it found a possible link between the worm attack and a cyber-jihad organization called "Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad".

 It said the worm was first seen in August, although the attack was much smaller in scale.

 The company said both the August worm and the one that hit corporate e-mail services Thursday referenced a known Libyan hacker who has tried to unite other like-minded hackers in a cyber-jihad.

 SecureWorks said that according to a 2008 posting from the hacker, his goal is "to penetrate U.S. agencies belonging to the U.S. Army."

 When contacted by ABCNews.com, Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee, told ABCNews.com that the company was investigating the attack. Although McAfee did not disclose how widespread the attack was, around 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, the subject of the spam e-mail, "Here you have," was the second hottest search on Google trends.

 "We do know that it's essentially an e-mail based worm that's propagating that has a link that alleges to be a pdf document that it wants the user to click on," Alperovitch said. "In reality, it's a piece of malware that's obfuscating as a pdf and it has the capabilities to spread virally once it's installed on your machine."

 Later, the company published a report about the virus on its website, saying that the risk for both home and corporate e-mail is "low." McAfee's report also identified the spam as a Trojan and said the origin is unknown.

 On its blog, McAfee said that because multiple variants of the worm are spreading, it "may take some time to work through them all to paint a clearer picture."

 E-Mail Subject: 'Here You Have.' 'Just For You'

 One version of the spam e-mail simply says, "Hello: This is The Document I told you about, you can find it here" and includes a link that appears to be a pdf document.

 Another version of the worm includes the subject "Just For you" and says "This is The Free Dowload Sex Movies,you can find it Here."

 If a user clicks the link and downloads the virus, it spreads to contacts in that individual's e-mail account and continues to propagate. McAfee also said that it attempts to stop and delete security services. McAfee says it has coverage for at least the main strain of the virus.

 If you receive the messages, McAfee says to delete the message without clicking the link and alert your IT office.

 Security firm Symantec said the worm appears to be a new malware attack but is similar to the "Anna Kournikova" virus from 2001, which also carried the subject "Here you have." (The virus tricked users into opening an e-mail message supposedly containing a picture of tennis player Anna Kournikova.)

 Symantec speculates that the threat -- initially named Trojan.Horse but renamed to W32.Imsolk.A@mm -- originated from a botnet and appears to be hitting "many, many companies indiscriminantly."

 "Once the threat copies itself to another machine, if a user even opens the folder that contains the threat on this new machine, this will launch the threat and cause it to spread further through both email and over shared drives," the company wrote in a bulletin.

 Department of Homeland Security Officials Investigate Virus

 Department of Homeland Security officials are looking into the virus and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and DHS National Cyber Security Division are expected to issue a bulletin later today. They will also conduct forensic analysis to try and determine where the worm originated. A DHS official said that several federal departments and agencies are experiencing the virus, although the official would only confirm NASA.

 "US-CERT has received multiple reports from a number of federal agencies and private sector entities experiencing an email worm...US-CERT is in the process of collecting and analyzing samples of the malware and has developed and disseminated mitigation strategies," said DHS press secretary Amy Kudwa in a statement.

 A spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation e-mail has been taken down at the agency because of the spam attack. He said six other agencies in Florida have also been hit by the virus.

 While the trojan hindered communications, it hasn't had a major impact on operations, he said.

 "It's not life and death, a bridge hasn't collapsed and killed anybody," said Nelson Hill, chief information officer for the Florida Department of Transportation.

 Adobe systems on Tuesday advised computer security experts that there were vulnerabilities in the Adobe reader software, noting that hackers were looking to actively exploit a recently detected vulnerability. This could explain why the e-mail was being sent in a .pdf format.

 NASA: 'Houston We Have a Problem... Spam'

 As IT professionals raced to address the problem, annoyed employees took to Twitter to rant.

 "Office servers offline, due to spam assault. No e-mail for anyone. Now maybe I can get some work done!" posted one employee.

 "The world is coming to an end. The "here you have" email virus just took down times square," joked another.

 NASA's Lunar Science Institute tweeted, "Houston, we have a problem... it's called spam."

 ABC News' Jason Ryan, Marisa Bramwell, Lee Ferran and Sidney Wright contributed to this report. |||||
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– An email spam virus swept through corporate America's inboxes yesterday, causing servers to be shut down at major operations including Comcast, AIG, Disney, and NASA. The virus spread through emails with the subject line "Here you have," which contained a link that downloads a virus that sends the same email to everybody in a user's address book. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating, reports ABC News. Security experts say anybody receiving the "here you have" email should delete it and contact their IT departments. They stress that people should never click links in emails from unknown people, or even in suspect emails from people they know. "The fact that it managed to spread widely through various multinational businesses doesn't say a lot for the security savvy of the workers," notes Neil Rubenking at PC World.


Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, speaks at a press conference at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014. North Korea on Sunday presented to the media the American who... (Associated Press)

 PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday presented to the media an American man who says he illegally crossed into the country but has not been put into custody and is seeking asylum in Venezuela.

 Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, of El Paso, Texas, said he entered North Korea by crossing the river border with China. Details of how and when he got into the country were not immediately clear.

 In his comments to reporters, Martinez strongly criticized the U.S. for alleged human rights violations.

 Martinez's mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez of El Paso, told CNN that her son was bipolar and earlier had tried to enter North Korea by swimming across a river, but was stopped and shipped back to the United States, where he was placed in a California psychiatric hospital.

 "Then he got out," she told the network. "He is very smart and he got the court to let him out, and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China. He took out a payday loan online and left for China."

 She said the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was looking for him.

 Martinez made his comments at the People's Palace of Culture, which North Korean authorities have used in recent years for press conferences where they present North Korean defectors who have returned to North Korea, or on at least one occasion, a South Korean citizen who was detained in North Korea. It is also used for signing ceremonies between North Korea and other countries.

 His comments came amid North Korea's own loud protests of a resolution in the United Nations that could open the door for its leaders to face charges of crimes against humanity for human rights violations, raising questions of whether Martinez was trotted out to the media for propaganda purposes.

 North Korea recently released three Americans — two who had entered the country on tourist visas and Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who had been convicted of "anti-state" crimes. ||||| Story highlights The man is identified as Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, of El Paso, Texas

 His mother says her son is bipolar and has been in a psychiatric hospital

 In a statement, he says he crossed illegally into North Korea

 He denounces the American political and economic system in the statement

 An American who said he crossed illegally into North Korea denounced the United States political and economic system Sunday morning at a press conference in that country.

 The man said he was Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, a U.S. citizen raised in El Paso, Texas.

 Martinez's mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez of El Paso, said their son was bipolar and earlier tried to enter North Korea by swimming across a river, only to be stopped and shipped back to the United States, where he was placed in a California psychiatric hospital.

 "Then he got out," she said. "He is very smart and he got the court to let him out and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China. He took out a payday loan online and left for China."

 Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, delivers his statement at a press conference he said he requested.

 She said the U.S. Embassy in Beijing is looking for him.

 "My son is very intelligent," she said. "He said he wanted to protect Latinos and he worried about the world and about people. At 15 he obtained his computer certificate. He loves to read and write and work on the computer. He loved to help poor people. He is our only child."

 Later she released a statement that said: "I'm glad and relieved that my son is safe. I am appreciative to the North Korean authorities for pardoning my son and releasing him. I look forward to spending Christmas with him after they release him."

 When asked how she knew her son was being released, she said it was from reading the press conference statement.

 But the legal status of Martinez in North Korea is unclear and it's unknown if he's free to leave the country.

 In his 4,000-word statement, Martinez admitted committing a crime by illegally entering the country but said he was "extremely grateful for having been pardoned from the punishments given to violators of these laws, and for the most generous reception I have received."

 He delivered his statement at a press conference he said he requested. Images released by North Korea showed him wearing a suit and sitting in a room facing a large group of people.

 North Korea said in a separate statement that Martinez entered the country in November, two days after American diplomat James Clapper arrived. Clapper negotiated the release of Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller, the last two American citizens known to be held by North Korea. They arrived back in the United States on November 8.

 Martinez said he first tried to cross over from South Korea's Han River and tried again from China's Yalu River in Dandong.

 He went on to criticize American politicians and police as well as the electoral and prison systems.

 "The illegal war carried out against the nation of Iraq serves as a perfect example of how the U.S. government acts much like a Mafia enterprise, but criminally plundering entire nations of their resources, strategic reserves and economies instead of smaller scale business and individuals, and does so without a code of ethics," he said.

 He said the electoral system in the United States "is unfairly built for the benefit of the wealthy through the necessity of costly fundraising for political candidates seeking office. The democracy of this nation is an illusion and its representatives act as nothing more than power brokers for those who can offer them."

 Of the wealthy people in the United States, he said, "These billionaires in power are nothing short of sociopathic megalomaniacs on the path to absolute world domination."

 He also talked about unidentified flying objects, CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, "ultrasonic" devices that cause people to hear voices and experience bodily discomfort and how the Western news media unfairly portrayed North Korea. |||||

Write a summary.

– North Korea has within its borders one Arturo Pierre Martinez, and both are currently making some noise, with the latter slamming the United States' human rights record at a press conference this morning. The 29-year-old is an American from El Paso, and he says he's in the country illegally, having crossed over via its border with China, reports the AP. Martinez says he's not being detained and that he's seeking asylum in Venezuela. Complicating matters is his apparent mental health status: His mother tells CNN that he is bipolar and that an earlier attempt to cross over into North Korea ended in Martinez being returned to the US and placed in a California psych ward. "Then he got out," she says. "He is very smart and he got the court to let him out and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China. He took out a payday loan online and left for China." In a lengthy and rambling statement, Martinez says he's "extremely grateful for having been pardoned ... and for the most generous reception I have received." He goes on to address a laundry list of injustices, ranging from the American electoral system to its prison system and its billionaire "sociopathic megalomaniacs on the path to absolute world domination." Then, as CNN puts it: "He also talked about unidentified flying objects, CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, 'ultrasonic' devices that cause people to hear voices and experience bodily discomfort and how the Western news media unfairly portrayed North Korea." It's the latest salvo since the UN last month said Pyongyang's leaders should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.


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HAVANA TIMES — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published today a list of 70 artworks recently stolen from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

 The organization condemned the theft which it said “threatens the integrity of the seized property”, placing them at the mercy of illicit trafficking of cultural assets at the national and international level,” stated UNESCO in a press release.

 Days after the story first broke in Café Fuerte, Cuban authorities confirmed the robbery, but without giving specific figures on the number of stolen pieces.

 The theft of the works, mostly belonging to the artistic period known as the “Turn of the Century” on the Caribbean island (the time between 1897 and 1927), was discovered after several pieces were put on sale in Miami, home to the largest Cuban exile community .

 The works on the list are mostly paintings on canvas by several artists with the most being by Cuban artist Leopoldo Romañach.

 The Cuban authorities said storage facilities of the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana showed no signs of violence and that the frames were carefully repositioned.

 “Access to the site was not violated, so it cannot be ascertained the exact date the theft took place,” said the National Council of Cultural Heritage in a statement in late February.

 The authors of the theft cut the canvases and “neatly repositioned the frames, so that at first glance the heist would not be detected,” said the Council which asked for help to locate the stolen works.

 In the days following the acknowledgement of the theft, the Cuban Minister of Culture, Rafael Bernal was summarily dismissed from his post, but no reason was given. ||||| Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Law enforcement officials in Cuba and the United States are investigating a theft of at least 70 works of art from the island nation with a value totaling more than $1 million, says the Miami art dealer who first reported the heist to U.S. authorities.

 On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) circulated a list of the missing artworks, which art dealer Ramon Cernuda examined and said would likely be valued at close to $1.5 million.

 Cernuda first alerted law enforcement officials to the theft in February after buying a painting by a 20th-century Cuban artist for $15,000.

 After researching the painting, Cernuda said he discovered the work was registered to Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts. He said he contacted officials there who, upon searching their archives, confirmed the painting and others were missing.

 While no major works were stolen, Cernuda said the case was notable because art theft is relatively rare in Cuba. Museums are tightly guarded and artwork is usually inspected before it leaves the country.

 "The theft is so much more complicated than the smuggling out of Cuba," Cernuda said. "To just get the art out of the museum is very complicated."

 Cuban authorities have not said whether any arrests have been made, but a statement issued by the Cuban National Council of Cultural Heritage said an investigation showed the artworks were removed from their frames while in storage.

 Cernuda said the same dealer in Miami who sold him the painting he purchased had another 10 Cuban artworks for sale that appeared to have been crudely cut from their frames.

 "It's an obvious tell that something is going on," he said.

 Cernuda said he has turned over the painting he purchased to the FBI, and he said the agency is investigating.

 Despite chilly relations between the United States and Cuba, Cernuda said he expected any art that is recovered would be returned to the island.

 "I am about certain it will go back," he said. "Stolen property is stolen property." |||||

– They're not quite working together, but American and Cuban authorities are both looking into the theft of at least 70 artworks from a Havana museum. In the first such heist reported since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, paintings worth a total of around $1.5 million were apparently cut from their frames while in storage at the Cuban capital's National Museum of Fine Arts, reports CNN. The theft was uncovered after Miami art dealer Ramon Cernuda bought a suspicious painting and alerted both the museum and the FBI late last month; the museum then reviewed its archives and confirmed the theft. Cernuda says art theft in Cuba is extremely rare, and it is rarer still for stolen Cuban art to be found in the US. "The theft is so much more complicated than the smuggling out of Cuba," he says. "To just get the art out of the museum is very complicated." Soon after the museum acknowledged the theft, Cuba's minister of culture was fired without explanation, the Havana Times notes. Cernuda says he turned the stolen painting over to the FBI and he believes the agency will hand any recovered artworks back to Havana despite poor US-Cuban relations. "I am about certain it will go back," he says. "Stolen property is stolen property."


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina police officers who investigated a noise complaint decided to let it slide -- and then they slid down the street along with neighbors who were enjoying a makeshift water slide.

 The Asheville officers got national media attention, including a nod from Good Morning America, after their trips down the slippery slide were captured on video and shared by the department .

 Police spokeswoman Christina Hallingse said the officers were responding to a noise complaint Sunday morning when they arrived at the holiday block party. Hallingse said the noise of children playing turned out to be at an acceptable level, so the officers issued no citations.

 They also determined the slide laid out along the street allowed cars to pass, so they joined in the fun. ||||| (CNN) It was a telltale sign the party was coming to an end: The police showed up.

 But when cops in Asheville, North Carolina, responded to a complaint about a giant slip-and-slide that had been set up for a Fourth of July block party, they did the unexpected: They took a ride themselves.

 Resident Katlen Joyce Smith said one of the local dads decided to build a slip-and-slide for the neighborhood kids to enjoy during the annual block party.

 In the middle of the party, two officers showed up. They had received a complaint from one of the neighbors that the DIY water slide was blocking the road, Asheville police said.

 "When the police came, they quickly realized that wasn't the case and asked if they could take a turn," Smith said.

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– Two North Carolina police officers who investigated a noise complaint decided to let it slide—and then they slid down the street along with neighbors who were enjoying a makeshift water slide, the AP reports. The Asheville officers got national media attention, including nods from CNN and Good Morning America, after their trips down the slippery slide were captured on video and shared by the department. Police spokeswoman Christina Hallingse said the officers were responding to a noise complaint Sunday morning when they arrived at the holiday block party. Hallingse said the noise of children playing turned out to be at an acceptable level, so the officers issued no citations. They also determined the slide laid out along the street allowed cars to pass, so they joined in the fun.


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American Airlines flight diverts after captain becomes ill, dies

 An American Airlines captain died after falling ill while flying an early morning route from Phoenix to Boston. The incident occurred about four hours into Flight 550, when the co-pilot took over and diverted to land in Syracuse. 12NEWS.COM - Ariz.

 This Aug. 13, 2013, file photo shows the tails of American Airlines and US Airways aircraft at Washington's Reagan National Airport. (Photo: Susan Walsh, AP)

 An American Airlines pilot died after becoming ill on an overnight "red eye" flight from Phoenix to Boston, American Airlines confirmed to Today in the Sky.

 The incident occurred about four hours into Flight 550, which then diverted to Syracuse and landed there around 7:10 a.m. Monday morning, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.

 In a recording of a conversation with air traffic control, Flight 550's first officer can be heard calling in the emergency while saying the captain had become "incapacitated."

 "Syracuse, American 550, medical emergency, captain is incapacitated, request handling for runway," the co-pilot said, according to an audio recording of the conversation posted on the website savvystews.com.

 American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein confirmed to Today in the Sky the captain died, though the immediate cause of the pilot's death could not be confirmed.

 "We are incredibly saddened by this event, and we are focused on caring for our pilot's family and colleagues," Feinstein said.

 While the death of a pilot during a flight could raise concern among uneasy fliers, the captain and first officer are each capable of flying commercial airliners alone. The Federal Aviation Administration requires two crew members in the cockpit at all times for just such an emergency.

 “Pilots train for the incapacitation of another crew member,” said John Cox, a former airline pilot and now a consultant as head of Safety Operating Systems, “This would have been something the first officer was trained to deal with.”

 Airline pilots get two physicals per year after 40 years old, as required by the FAA and are typically healthy people, Cox said. FAA also has a mandatory retirement age of 65.

 “This is a tragedy and I’m very sorry for his family,” Cox said. “But as far as were the passengers at risk? No.”

 Flight 550 was on an Airbus A320 and had 147 passengers and five crewmembers, according to American. The flight spent about four hours on the ground in Syracuse and then continued on to Boston after a replacement crew arrived to the aircraft in Syracuse.

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 The pilot, Capt. Michael Johnston, 57, was flying from Phoenix to Boston when the plane was forced to land in Syracuse, New York.

 "Capt. Johnston was piloting Flight #550 from Phoenix to Boston early Monday morning when he fell ill," American Airlines said in a statement. "All of us at American extend our condolences to Mike’s wife, Betty Jean, and to his entire family."

 There were 147 passengers on board with five crew members, including the pilot. An airline spokesperson confirmed the incident to ABC News and said it is "incredibly saddened" and is focusing on taking care of the family members and crew involved.

 Recordings of the crew's communications with air traffic control, obtained via liveatc.net, show that someone on the plane called in saying that the "captain is incapacitated" and at another point, saying "pilot is unresponsive, not breathing."

 The nature of the pilot's sudden illness has not been disclosed.

 An airline spokesperson said that one of the flight attendants is also a nurse and had tried to assist the ill pilot.

 Airlines in the United States are required to have two pilots on board, and that was true in this case as well.

 Editor's note: An earlier version of this story mistakenly stated that the flight was heading from Boston to Phoenix. It was heading from Phoenix to Boston. ||||| Play Facebook

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 An American Airlines pilot died during a red-eye flight from Phoenix to Boston early Monday, the airline said.

 "Unfortunately our pilot passed away. We are incredibly saddened by this event and we are focused on caring for our pilot's family and colleagues," an airline spokesperson said.

 The flight, which carried 147 passengers and five crew members, was diverted to Syracuse, New York. The airline said the co-pilot landed the jet safely at 7 a.m. ET Monday.

 "We landed and had no idea what was going on," said passenger Louise Anderson. "Airport security was waiting for us. They let us know that they were going to get another crew to fly us to Boston."

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 It wasn't until the second flight with a new crew that passengers were told the pilot had passed away, so "there was no time to panic when we were on the flight," Anderson said. She added that American Airlines "handled the situation really professionally."

 the pilot died on our redeye back to Boston (leading to 4h in Syracuse). life is short. do what you love before it's too late. — lulusaurus-rex (@lulakilla) October 5, 2015

 Anderson, who was flying home to Boston after competing in a race in California over the weekend, said she slept during most of the trip but remembers the pilot's voice filling the cabin at the start of the flight. "As he was announcing the weather for Boston he said it was going to be 79 or 80 degrees," she said. "He had to correct himself."

 The pilot's name and age were not released. The airline did not specify a cause of death. |||||Summary:

– Authorities say an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston has been diverted to Syracuse, New York, after the captain became ill and later died. Airline Spokeswoman Andrea Huguely says Flight 550 was diverted shortly after 7am Monday and the first officer safely landed the plane. She confirmed that the flight's captain had died. Details of the medical emergency and the identity of the deceased pilot weren't immediately released. Before the flight landed at Syracuse, the first officer called air traffic control and said "American 550. Medical emergency. Captain is incapacitated." He requested a runway to land and said there were 154 passengers on board. The plane later completed its leg to Boston. USA Today reports that the incident occurred about four hours into a "red eye" overnight flight. Though the AP reports it wasn't immediately clear when the pilot died, outlets including CNN and ABC News cite airline officials who say he died mid-flight. ABC notes that after calling the tower to report the captain was incapacitated, the first officer also said, "pilot is unresponsive, not breathing." "We landed and had no idea what was going on," one passenger tells NBC News. After boarding the plane that would take them to Boston with a new crew, the passengers were told the pilot had died, so "there was no time to panic when we were on the flight," she says.