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– Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald says allegations that he raped Kesha are "horrendous and untrue." In a series of tweets on Monday, the producer denied drugging and raping the star and accuses her of lying to get out of her contract, People reports. "I didn't rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister," he wrote. "Kesha has denied under oath the horrible allegations now being made against me," he added, posting an image of a 2011 New York Daily News story that reported Kesha had testified under oath that the producer "never made sexual advances" toward her. "It's sad that she would turn a contract negotiation into something so horrendous and untrue," he wrote. "Imagine if you or somebody you loved was publicly accused of a rape you knew they didn't do," Gottwald wrote. "Imagine that. I have three sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right." Last week, a judge refused to nullify Kesha's recording contracts, prompting Taylor Swift to donate $250,000 "to help with any of her financial needs." The New York Daily News reports that other stars have rallied behind Kesha, including Jack Antonoff of Fun., who has offered to produce new music for her. "Just make something and wait on it till that creep can't block you anymore," he tweeted. (Kesha talked about another struggle with Vogue last year: an eating disorder.)

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 The 28-year-old singer has been making headlines for her much more natural look over the past year, and in a new interview with Vogue, gets candid about her struggles with an eating disorder and her subsequent style transformation. Kesha entered rehab for an eating disorder last January, where she stayed for two months.

 "It's been quite a journey. [With the criticism], I went to a dark place," Kesha reveals to the magazine. "There was a lot of not eating -- and I started to think being hungry to the point of feeling almost faint was a positive thing. The worse it got, the more positive feedback I was getting. Inside I was really unhappy, but outside, people were like, 'Wow, you look great.'"

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 "I was singing these songs like 'We R Who We R,' and I really believed them," she adds. "I wanted to be genuine. But I was sad and [I wasn't eating]."

 Kesha now makes a conscious effort to stay healthy and to love herself.

 "I realized being healthy is the most important thing I can do for myself," she stresses. "Now, I'm trying to embrace the skin I'm in. It's difficult sometimes. Every day I have to look in the mirror and make the choice to be kind to myself. This is who I am -- I have to love that."

 Still, she doesn't regret any of her more questionable outfits in the past.

 "No, I look back lovingly because I was having so much fun [with hair and makeup]," she reflects. " ... And before I went on stage I used to pour beer on my body [as an adhesive] then roll in a bathtub full of glitter. I don’t do that anymore because it irritated my skin."

 Though don't count out her love affair with glitter just yet. "I'm not done with it forever -- there are still hints of glitter," she says.

 NEWS: Kesha -- 'I Was Really Hurting My Body'

 Last October, Kesha rattled the music industry when she filed a lawsuit against music producer Dr. Luke, which accused him of sexual, physical, verbal and emotional abuse.

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 Until now I haven’t commented on the lawsuits, which should be resolved in court not here on Twitter. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 It’s a shame that there’s so much speculation out there basing itself on so little information. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 The only truly objective person who knows the facts is the judge. The judge did not rule in Kesha's favor on Friday — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 I understand why people without all the information are speaking out. I can appreciate their compassion. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 But lives can get ruined when there’s a rush to judgment before all the facts come out. Look what happened at UVA, Duke etc. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 of course any sane person is against rape and sexual assault but everybody who is commenting is doing so without knowledge or facts. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 They are getting behind an allegation only - motivated by money. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 I didn’t rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 Kesha has denied under oath the horrible allegations now being made against me. Here is the testimony. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 Mark Geragos (kesha's attorney) represented Scott Peterson and Chris Brown. How can he pretend he cares about women's rights? — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 Imagine if you or somebody you loved was publicly accused of a rape you knew they didn't do. Imagine that. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 I have 3 sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 Kesha and I made a lot of songs together and it was often good but there were creative differences at times. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 It’s sad that she would turn a contract negotiation into something so horrendous and untrue. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 But I feel confident when this is over the lies will be exposed and the truth will prevail.. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 I want to thank all my friends and family who have supported me throughout this. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 This is an ongoing legal case so I won't be responding / talking much about this. This should be tried in a court of law. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016

 Three days after Kesha 's request for a preliminary injunction that would allow her to record and release music without Dr. Luke was denied by a New York Supreme Court judge, the producer spoke out on Twitter against the singer's claims that he drugged and raped her."I didn't rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister. Kesha has denied under oath the horrible allegations now being made against me," he wrote."Imagine if you or somebody you loved was publicly accused of a rape you knew they didn't do. Imagine that," he continued. "I have 3 sisters, a daughter, and a son with my girlfriend, and a feminist mom who raised me right. Kesha and I made a lot of songs together and it was often good but there were creative differences at times.""It's sad that she would turn a contract negotiation into something so horrendous and untrue. But I feel confident when this is over the lies will be exposed and the truth will prevail."Dr. Luke has also previously denied Kesha's claims through his lawyer Christine Lepera and countersued for defamation. In her lawsuit , the singer alleged the producer "made repeated sexual advances toward her … would force her to use drugs and alcohol to remove her defenses."After the injunction was denied on Friday, artists like Kelly Clarkson Lady Gaga and more chimed in on Twitter with their support for the "Timber" singer. Taylor Swift also donated $250,000 to Kesha. ||||| Scott Legato/Getty Images Jack Antonoff called Dr. Luke a "creep" and offered to produce new music with Kesha.

 Beyond the social media and even monetary support, some stars are ready to step in for Kesha as her new producer.

 Days after a judge rejected the 28-year-old’s request to no longer work withher alleged rapist Dr. Luke, Jack Antonoff, along with DJ Zedd, have offered to produce music for the “Tik Tok” artist.

 Fun's lead singer called the producer a "creep" and even offered to wait to create new music for the pop star.

 DR. LUKE DENIES KESHA'S RAPE ALLEGATIONS, CLAIMS 'SHE WAS LIKE MY LITTLE SISTER'

 "Hey @kesharose -- don't know what the legal specifics are, but if you want to make something together and then leak it for everyone I'm around," Antonoff tweeted Monday afternoon.

 .. @kesharose or just make something and wait on it till that creep can't block you anymore. standing offer ... https://t.co/jHMAPA3xSY — jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) February 22, 2016

 “Or just make something and wait on it till that creep can't block you anymore," he added.

 The 31-year-old also offered support from those he collaborates with, though it’s unclear who he meant.

 In the past, he’s worked with singers like Taylor Swift and Sara Bareilles.

 “Standing offer from me and everyone I work with,” he continued.

 Kevin Mazur Zedd also offered to work with the pop star with her new music.

 Moments later, Zedd chimed in with his own musical services.

 “@KeshaRose very very sorry to hear about the whole situation," the 26-year-old tweeted.

 "I'll be happy to produce a song for you if you want my help,” he continued.

 The musicians are the latest stars to rally behind Kesha after she broke down in tears following her devastating court verdict against Dr. Luke last week.

 On Sunday, Swift donated $250,000 to the singer for “her financial needs during this trying time,” according to the star’s rep.

 Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News The singer broke down down in court last week after a judge ruled she had to keep working with her alleged rapist.

 A long list of celebrities from Ariana Grande to Lorde have also blasted the court system and lauded Kesha’s bravery.

 Earlier in the day, Dr. Luke finally broke his silence in a lengthy Twitter rant in his defense, in which he called the singer his “little sister.”

 The super producer denied all allegations, calling them a fabrication “motivated by money.”

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– Last year, four public university presidents boasted compensation of more than $1 million, a study finds. At the top: Graham Spanier, the former Penn State president driven out by the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Spanier made $2.9 million in the 2011-2012 fiscal year; part of that was his $1.2 million severance pay, the New York Times reports. "The fact that Graham Spanier turns out to be the highest paid president in the country says something about the nature of compensation packages for people who leave under a cloud," says a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, which conducted the study. Meanwhile, Jay Gogue, at Auburn University, saw compensation of $2.54 million. Ohio State's Gordon Gee earned $1.9 million—along with his rent-free mansion and private jet. George Mason's Alan Merten received $1.87 million. Compensation has soared in recent years, says the Chronicle reporter; Gogue's pay, for instance, jumped from $700,000 to $2.5 million in a year. And 28 presidents were making between $600,000 and $700,000 last year, compared to 13 the prior year. Median compensation among public research university presidents was $441,392.

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 In the 2011-12 fiscal year, the nation’s highest paid public university president was Graham B. Spanier, the president of Pennsylvania State University, who was forced out in November 2011 over his handling of a child sex abuse scandal involving a football coach.

 According to the annual compensation report by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Mr. Spanier was paid $2.9 million in 2011-12, including $1.2 million in severance pay and $1.2 million in deferred compensation.

 “The fact that Graham Spanier turns out to be the highest paid president in the country says something about the nature of compensation packages for people who leave under a cloud,” said Jack Stripling, the Chronicle reporter who worked on the survey. “Severance agreements are often very lucrative.”

 Three other public university presidents also had compensation topping $1 million: Jay Gogue of Auburn University, at $2,542,865; E. Gordon Gee of Ohio State University, at $1,899,420; and Alan G. Merten of George Mason University, at $1,869,369. Mr. Merten retired from George Mason last June after 16 years as president.

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 Mr. Gee, who in 2007 became the first public university president to earn more than $1 million, had a base salary last year of $830,439, the highest among the 212 chief executives included in the Chronicle report. He is known for prodigious fund-raising energy, which has brought the university more than $1.6 billion since he took the post, and for the lavish lifestyle his job supports, including a rent-free mansion with an elevator, a pool and a tennis court and flights on private jets.

 Mr. Stripling said there had been a sea change in the last few years, with the rich getting richer and some pay packages exceeding not just $1 million, but $2 million. Deferred compensation agreements can increase pay drastically, as was the case with Mr. Gogue, whose pay went from $720,000 to $2.5 million in a single year when he completed a five-year contract.

 But the biggest growth last year, Mr. Stripling said, was in the $600,000 to $700,000 range, a category that included 28 chief executives, up from only 13 the previous year.

 According to the Chronicle report, the median total compensation for the presidents of public research universities was $441,392, up 4.7 percent from the previous year’s $421,395. The median base salary, $373,800, was up 2 percent from $366,519 the previous year.

 Rounding out the top 10 earners were Jo Ann M. Gora of Ball State University ($984,647); Mary Sue Coleman of the University of Michigan system ($918,783); Charles W. Steger of Virginia Tech ($857,749); Mark G. Yudof of the University of California system ($847,149); Bernard J. Machen of the University of Florida ($834,562); and Francisco G. Cigarroa of the University of Texas system ($815,833). |||||


NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a man in the strangling death of a New York City woman out jogging (all times local):

 3:45 p.m.

 A man arrested in the strangulation death of a New York City woman out on a run last summer is facing a murder charge.

 Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 20 year-old Chanel Lewis, of Brooklyn, was expected to be arraigned later Sunday. The charge carries a penalty of 25 years to life in prison if he's convicted. No information on an attorney for him was available.

 Karina Vetrano had gone running near her Queens home on Aug. 2 when she was attacked and strangled. Her father found the 30-year-old's badly beaten body in a secluded marsh.

 Police arrested Lewis on Saturday and said DNA evidence led investigators to him. The DNA profile of the attacker came from genetic material found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck.

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 12:23 p.m.

 Police have arrested a man in the strangulation of a New York City woman who had gone out for a run last summer and was found dead in a secluded marsh.

 Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says 20-year-old Chanel Lewis, of Brooklyn, made "incriminating statements" when he was arrested Saturday night. Formal charges were pending Sunday. It wasn't immediately clear if Lewis has an attorney.

 Karina Vetrano was killed Aug. 2 after going for a run not far from her Queens home. Her father later discovered her badly beaten body.

 Boyce says the encounter that led to 30-year-old Vetrano's death apparently was a chance one.

 He says DNA evidence led to the arrest. Genetic material found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck resulted in a DNA profile. ||||| Tweet with a location

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– Police may have cracked the murder of a 30-year-old jogger in Queens last summer. Detectives have a suspect in custody after finding a DNA match with evidence at the scene of Karina Vetrano's killing, reports the Daily News. NYPD Chief Robert Boyce identified the suspect on Twitter as Chanel Lewis, 20. Boyce says the Brooklyn man made "incriminating statements" upon his arrest Saturday night, and that the encounter that ended with Vetrano's death looks to be a random one, the AP reports. Vetrano went out for a run on Aug. 2, and her father found her body that night as part of a search team. Lewis reportedly has no criminal history and voluntarily supplied his DNA to investigators. Genetic material was found under Vetrano's fingernails and on her phone and neck, notes the AP. (Vetrano was seen on videotape shortly before her killing.)


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AP: The Spanish ObamaCare website is just about as awful as the English version

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 What was initially supposed to be what Spanish-speaking Americans were assured was a trifling delay of merely three weeks soon became a delay of more than two months, and the Spanish-language version of HealthCare.Gov didn’t end up opening for business until December 6th — less than a few weeks before the deadline to obtain January-1st coverage. Much like the debut of the English version of HealthCare.Gov, however, Spanish speakers have been encountering their own slew of functionality problems in the very belatedly available opportunity to signup online, via the AP:

 And the translations were so clunky and full of grammatical mistakes that critics say they must have been computer-generated — the name of the site itself can literally be read “for the caution of health.” “When you get into the details of the plans, it’s not all written in Spanish. It’s written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them,” said Adrian Madriz, a health care navigator who helps with enrollment in Miami. … In New Mexico, the state with the nation’s highest percentage of Latino residents and where more than 20 percent of the state’s population goes without health insurance, fewer than 1,000 people total signed up for coverage in October and November. … “In my opinion, the website doesn’t work,” said Grettl Diaz, a 37-year-old Miami gas station cashier who is originally from Cuba. Diaz said she tried to sign up at home using CuidadoDeSalud.gov. After she couldn’t get the website to accept a scanned document, she called the government’s Spanish hotline seeking help. However, she was repeatedly told to call back because the site was down. She got through days later and waited over an hour for an operator before she was ultimately disconnected.

 And I would imagine that all of the technical medical and financial lingo it takes to describe health insurance plans makes the computer-generated translations all the more difficult to navigate. Obama administration have been quick to point out, much like they were in the glitch-riddled rollout of the English version, that there have been paper and phone options available to Spanish speakers all the while, but there’s just no getting around the fact that yet another one of their grandiose ObamaCare promises — in this case, to concentrate major resources in the effort to provide easy access to a group with among the highest uninsured rates in the nation — has fallen tremendously, incompetently flat.

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 In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 photo, Yolanda Madrid of Miami, left, talks with navigator Daniela Campos, right, while signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, in Miami. Mirroring... (Associated Press)

 The site, CuidadoDeSalud.gov, launched more than two months late.

 A Web page with Spanish instructions linked users to an English form.

 And the translations were so clunky and full of grammatical mistakes that critics say they must have been computer-generated — the name of the site itself can literally be read "for the caution of health."

 "When you get into the details of the plans, it's not all written in Spanish. It's written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them," said Adrian Madriz, a health care navigator who helps with enrollment in Miami.

 The issues with the site underscore the halting efforts across the nation to get Spanish-speakers enrolled under the federal health care law. Critics say that as a result of various problems, including those related to the website, many people whom the law was designed to help have been left out of the first wave of coverage.

 Federal officials say they have been working to make the site better and plan further improvements soon. Also, administrators say they welcome feedback and try to fix typos or other errors quickly.

 "We launched consumer-friendly Spanish online enrollment tools on CuidadoDeSalud.gov in December which represents one more way for Latinos to enroll in Marketplace plans," said Health and Human Services Department spokesman Richard Olague in an email to The Associated Press. "Since the soft-launch, we continue to work closely with key stakeholders to get feedback in order to improve the experience for those consumers that use the website."

 Still, efforts to enroll Spanish-speakers have fallen short in several states with large Hispanic populations, and critics say the translated version of HealthCare.gov could have helped boost those numbers.

 In California, officials have acknowledged the need for improvements, saying fewer than 5,500 people signed up for health care in Spanish in October and November, the most recent period for which records are available. About 4.3 million California residents speak only Spanish, according to census data. It's not clear how many of these residents are without health insurance, but observers say few groups are more vulnerable.

 "Spanish speakers are typically the ones who need to sign up for health insurance," said Veronica Plaza, a professor who teaches medical Spanish at the University of New Mexico. "They are the ones who could use the support."

 In New Mexico, the state with the nation's highest percentage of Latino residents and where more than 20 percent of the state's population goes without health insurance, fewer than 1,000 people total signed up for coverage in October and November.

 In Florida, federal health officials have not said how many of the state's nearly 18,000 enrollees for October and November were Latino, but that group accounts for about one-third of the roughly 3.5 million uninsured people in the state. About 1.2 million people in the state speak only Spanish.

 Across the U.S., about 12 percent of the 317 million people in the country speak only Spanish, but federal officials have said less than 4 percent of calls to a national hotline were Spanish-only as of last month.

 Many blame at least some of the enrollment problems on the trouble-plagued site.

 "In my opinion, the website doesn't work," said Grettl Diaz, a 37-year-old Miami gas station cashier who is originally from Cuba.

 Diaz said she tried to sign up at home using CuidadoDeSalud.gov. After she couldn't get the website to accept a scanned document, she called the government's Spanish hotline seeking help. However, she was repeatedly told to call back because the site was down. She got through days later and waited over an hour for an operator before she was ultimately disconnected.

 "I'm very frustrated," she said through a translator this month. "I've spent at least one week on the phone, and I couldn't get it done."

 Diaz, who speaks very little English, finally went to a counselor for help and is now waiting for an email from health officials saying she can proceed with her application.

 Diaz hasn't had insurance since moving to Florida two years ago. She will likely qualify for a tax subsidy to help pay her monthly premiums and has said she wants insurance mostly for peace of mind.

 "Now, I am healthy," she said. "But I don't know what will happen tomorrow."

 Such stories have frustrated Latino advocates, especially since the problems with the site come after an unprecedented collaboration between competing Spanish-language media outlets and Latino businesses, urging members of their communities to sign up for health care on Oct. 1. But advocates say despite promises from federal officials, the Spanish-language site was not up until Dec. 6.

 "In many states, groups were cooperating and ready to go," said Patricia Perez, a partner of the VPE Public Relations, a Pasadena, Calif.-based firm that focuses on U.S. Latinos. "It was a missed opportunity."

 Univision Communications Inc., which runs the largest Spanish-language media network, has been airing daily public service announcements about the health care overhaul. It hosted and aired a live town hall meeting out of Los Angeles last month to discuss the law, and another such event has been planned for February.

 The network frequently airs segments about the Affordable Care Act on its weekend health shows, and it produced a documentary exploring obstacles Latinos face signing up for health insurance, network spokesman Jose Zamora said.

 The film, featuring a 19-year-old Mexican-American whose father suffered three heart attacks with no insurance aired Dec. 1 — five days before CuidadoDeSalud.gov went live.

 Since the site has been active, users have reported disappointment and frustration in both the functionality and language.

 For example, links comparing insurance plans took users to the English version of the options. That glitch was fixed last week after The Associated Press contacted Health and Human Services to ask about the problem.

 As for the language, Plaza, the New Mexico professor, said a recent examination by her research students concluded that the translations were done "by a computer-generated process" and came across as awkward.

 "There are problems with the verbs and word order that make sentences hard to understand," said Plaza, who helped develop an audio version to help residents in New Mexico sign up.

 "Sometimes," she added, "it's just the terms they use."

 The website translates "premium" into "prima," but that Spanish word is more commonly used to mean a female cousin, Plaza said. A more accurate translation, she said, would be "cuotas," ''couta mensual" or "costo annual."

 According to Health and Human Services, the website was translated with the same methods and team used to translate content into Spanish for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

 But health care workers in Miami also have reported technical problems that don't exist on the English version of HealthCare.gov.

 Nini Hadwen, a health care navigator, said she also prefers to use the English website even when she's enrolling Spanish-language applicants. CuidadoDeSalud.gov "doesn't navigate as smoothly from page to page," she said. "It takes longer."

 Also, navigators say Spanish-language applicants must provide income and immigration documentation. Frequently, applicants are required to scan and fax supplemental documents, which can also be challenging, as Diaz's case shows.

 However, Jane Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health in Washington, D.C., defends the site, saying Friday that delays were merely "part of the process" and that she was confident federal officials would get it running better soon.

 "Insurance is way complicated. It's not like paying for a cellphone," she said. "Technology is only part of the answer."

 Overall, Delgado said Spanish-speaking Latinos will benefit from the federal overhaul in the long-term because the population is less likely to be insured compared with other groups.

 Still, Gabriel Sanchez, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico, said the problems hurt the credibility of federal officials and reinforce the belief held by some that authorities are indifferent to the plight of Latinos.

 Sanchez said, "They will look at this, and think, 'Man, they really don't care about us.'"

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 Kennedy and Associated Press writer Laura Wides-Munoz contributed to this report from Miami.

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 In Silicon Valley, the executives and engineers who’ve helped build the Apple, Google and Facebook empires earn high salaries and enjoy a slew of perks, including stellar health benefits.

 The clients of the Ravenswood Family Health Center, a community clinic in East Palo Alto just two miles away from Facebook’s sprawling headquarters, live in a very different Silicon Valley.

 They’re the gardeners, nannies, factory workers and service staff who keep Silicon Valley homes and offices humming, the lawns manicured and the families comfortable.

 They are also, in many ways, a microcosm of the population the Affordable Care Act was meant to help.

 Many earn between $5 and $15 an hour, don’t own or use computers and are more comfortable speaking Spanish than English. Sixty-five percent of East Palo Alto’s population is Latino, a group seen as crucial to the success of the health law. Many lack health insurance and pose a lower financial risk because they are typically younger and healthier than others.

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 Yet California, with the greatest number of Latinos in the country, is far behind in reaching this population. And across the nation, the picture appears even worse.

 Those who primarily speak Spanish are largely being left out of the first wave of coverage under Obamacare. Many missed this week’s deadline for enrollment in plans beginning Jan. 1. People who want to be covered for any part of 2014 must sign up by March 31.

 In part, the lag in sign-ups among Spanish speakers reflects a digital − and a cultural − divide. Many are hesitant about handing over personal information to strangers over the Internet, advocates say. This group tends to be less educated, and have lower incomes and less access to technology than fluent English-speakers.

 When Elizabeth Gonzalez, 31, started getting migraines her doctor prescribed medicine that cost $300. She had health insurance provided through a San Mateo County program for low-income adults, but the medicine wasn’t covered and she couldn’t afford it.

 “I guess I don’t need it,” she remembers thinking. Then she started wondering whether the new health law might offer a better plan.

 Gonzalez, a part-time library aide, started hunting for resources to help her decipher the Affordable Care Act. Though a Los Angeles native, she was raised in Morelia, Mexico and preferred to have the law explained to her in Spanish.

 California’s health insurance marketplace, Covered California, has had a functioning Spanish-language website since Oct. 1 – which puts it ahead of most of the rest of the country. But Gonzalez couldn’t access the site from home because she doesn’t have Internet service or a smartphone.

 “With my budget, I don’t have access to that,” she said in Spanish. “I have to limit myself to the primordial.”

 Instead, she relied on staff at the county’s human services office, two floors up from the library where she works, to guide her.

 Staff members there told her she needed to fill out an application and to wait for up to a month to hear whether she was eligible for Medi-Cal − California’s insurance program for the poor. Discouraged, she made repeated telephone calls to the hotline for Covered California.

 “There’s no one picking up, probably because there’s not enough people,” she said. “We need more information in poor communities and places to help you fill out forms so you know you’re doing it correctly. There’s not enough [information] in Spanish.”

 According to the latest data released by the state, less than 5 percent of California’s roughly 110,000 signups in October and November were completed in Spanish.

 Statewide, Spanish-speaking operators at Covered California call centers, as well as navigators who can walk people through enrollment, are in short supply. The section on the Spanish version of Covered California for requesting help with enrollment still links to an English website.

 In other parts of the country, Spanish speakers are worse off.

 In the 36 states that rely on the federally run insurance exchanges, including Texas and Florida, Latinos until recently couldn’t enroll online in Spanish. CuidadoDeSalud.gov − the Spanish-friendly version of the federal marketplace − wasn’t fully working until Dec. 6, more than two months after its English counterpart, HealthCare.gov, launched on Oct. 1.

 Officials decided to hold off opening enrollment on CuidadoDeSalud.gov until they addressed the technical glitches plaguing the English version. Even now, the Spanish website is rife with grammatical errors.

 Federal officials note they have bilingual call centers, but Spanish-only calls to the federal exchange’s call centers barely totaled 180,000, or the equivalent of 3.5 percent of all calls, as of Dec. 10.

 Unlike English speakers, Latinos who speak Spanish still don’t have the option to window-shop for plans before creating an account. The section in which customers can consult plans before signing up with a username and password is still non-existent in Spanish.

 With many Latinos missing the deadline to be enrolled for coverage in the new marketplaces on Jan. 1, community organizers have shifted their attention to March 31, when the enrollment period for 2014 officially closes. Consumers who don’t enroll by this date will face a penalty. Medi-Cal enrollment will remain open, however.

 “Most of our community is going to be focused on that March 31 deadline, and that’s where the big push will be,” Jane Delgado, the president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, an advocacy group based in Washington D.C., said earlier this month. “I’m less concerned about getting everybody enrolled quickly than about getting people enrolled in plans that fit their needs. I have no doubt people will enroll. They just need better information and local navigators they can trust.”

 Adding to their worries, Latinos living in households with undocumented relatives often fear that signing up for a government run program will lead to unwanted scrutiny and even deportations. Others are wary of getting cheated or having their personal information hacked online.

 Mindful of the mistrust, Ravenswood has been careful to develop a bond with its patients.

 The clinic has eight certified enrollment counselors to help clients determine what kind of insurance they need and can afford.

 “The majority of people coming in are people who we have to help 100 percent. We’re both translating and explaining everything, even when they do speak English,” said Ravenswood CEO Luisa Buada. “In general, everyone really, really wants someone to hold their hand through the whole process.”

 Maria Garcia, 51, is among the roughly 200 people Ravenswood has screened or enrolled since October 1. Garcia, whose husband supports the family with his manufacturing job, went for help in part because she was concerned about fraud.

 “Latinos − we don’t trust easily,” she said. “We wanted to be sure this wasn’t a scam.”

 Garcia doesn’t speak English and though she has a computer at home, “I haven’t learned to use it,” she said. She generally relies on her children to search the Web for her and to translate the information she needs.

 This time, the staff at Ravenswood helped her. Starting in January, she’ll be paying $36 a month for coverage for her and her husband thanks to a government subsidy.

 After her discouraging experiences with the county office and the various hotlines, Gonzalez ended up at Ravenswood as well. It was just across the street from the library. Staffers quickly told her she qualified for Medi-Cal. Her migraine medication will now be covered.

 “I was happy,” she said.

 Ravenswood’s counselors are booked solid through the end of January. Buada and her staff have set up six enclosed booths, each with a small table, a chair, a Lenovo computer and a wrap-around black-and-white curtain, so that people who don’t have a computer or Internet access at home can feel comfortable coming in.

 “We are very good with cellphones or email, but to use that website, you actually have to have access to a computer. That’s a problem,” said the National Alliance for Hispanic Health’s Jane Delgado.

 Even with the possibility of federal subsidies, some Latinos can’t afford coverage and will remain uninsured.

 The median income for an East Palo Alto household is roughly $50,000, compared to a median income in the county of nearly $90,000. (On average, East Palo Alto households consist of four people compared to three countywide.) Often, 75 percent to 80 percent of a poor family’s income is spent on housing.

 “We’ve had a lot of people come in interested,” Buada says. But when they see how much it’s going to cost, “they say, ‘I can’t pay for this,’ and leave.”

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– Welcome to ObamaCare's website woes, part two: the Spanish version. Americans who visit CuidadoDeSalud.gov to enroll for ObamaCare say it's slow, has links to English-speaking pages, and poor translations—like using "prima" for "premium" even though the Spanish word is commonly used for "female cousin," the AP reports. "When you get into the details of the plans, it's not all written in Spanish," says a health care navigator who helps people enroll in Miami. "It's written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them." So attempts to enroll Spanish-speakers seem to be flailing so far (the exact numbers aren't in) and critics are pouncing; Hot Air calls it yet another "grandiose" ObamaCare promise that falls "tremendously, incompetently flat." But the Obama administration notes that Spanish speakers have been able to use phone and paper options to enroll. And that may suit some Hispanics better, according to an NBC News report on health care among low-wage, Spanish-speaking workers near Silicon Valley. Many of them say they have no Internet connection and wouldn't feel comfortable handing over personal information online.


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– Harvey is getting its proper attention in the US, but another devastating flood is unfolding in a different part of the world. Monsoon rains have triggered flooding and mudslides that have left more than 950 people dead in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, reports the AP. In all, about 40 million have been affected by the disaster, with most of the deaths coming in the northern Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Assam. The UN foresees a humanitarian disaster with hunger and disease to follow. Click through the photo gallery for a sense of the devastation. BuzzFeed also has images.

FILE- In this Aug. 19, 2017 file photo, flood affected people sleep by the national highway toll plaza at Araria district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Devastating floods triggered by monsoon... (Associated Press)

 PATNA, India (AP) — Devastating floods triggered by seasonal monsoon rains have killed more than 950 people and affected close to 40 million across northern India, southern Nepal and northern Bangladesh, officials said Thursday.

 The rains have led to wide-scale flooding in a broad arc stretching across the Himalayan foothills in the three countries, causing landslides, damaging roads and electric towers and washing away tens of thousands of homes and crops.

 The northern Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam in the remote northeast are the worst hit, accounting for 680 deaths, most of them from drowning, snake bites or landslides.

 South Asia's monsoon rains run from June to September.

 Disaster management authorities in Bihar said the state's death toll of 367 could go up further as floodwaters recede and bodies are recovered from submerged houses.

 Army soldiers and volunteers have evacuated around 770,000 people from inundated areas. Of these, some 425,000 were living in 1,360 relief camps set up in school and government buildings, said Avinash Kumar, a Bihar state official.

 In neighboring Uttar Pradesh, the state government said around 2.3 million people in 25 districts have been affected by the floods when at least three major rivers overflowed their banks, entering fields and homes.

 An Uttar Pradesh government spokesman blamed the unprecedented flooding on the release of water from dams in upstream Nepal.

 "Rains have been intense but the release of water from Nepal has aggravated the situation," said Manish Sharma.

 Army troops have been helping to evacuate people marooned on rooftops or trees, while air force helicopters dropped packets of food, drinking water and medicines to those camping on higher ground, mostly along highways.

 Meanwhile, the state administration was bracing for the threat of infections as floodwaters recede. Health workers have begun sending supplies of mosquito repellent, bleaching powder and water purification tablets to the worst-hit areas, said health official Badri Vishal.

 In the eastern state of West Bengal, the top elected official, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said 152 people had died and 15 million had been affected by floods in the past few weeks.

 Another 71 people were killed in Assam as rivers breached their banks and entered low-lying villages. At the renowned Kaziranga National Park, officials said around 300 animals, including around two dozen rhinos and a Royal Bengal tiger, have been killed after floodwaters submerged nearly 80 percent of the wildlife park.

 In neighboring Bangladesh, the death toll climbed to 132 while some 7.5 million people have been affected in this year's floods, according to the Disaster Management Ministry.

 Crops on more than 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) of land have been washed away while another 600,000 hectares (1,482,600 acres) have been damaged, posing a serious threat to food production, the ministry said Thursday.

 The U.N. World Food Program said that Bangladesh was at risk of "devastating hunger" after major floods that destroyed crops, homes and livelihoods of people across many impoverished areas in a delta nation of 160 million people.

 "Many flood survivors have lost everything: their homes, their possessions, their crops," Christa Rader, WFP's Bangladesh country director, said in a statement. "People need food right now, and the full impact on longer-term food security threatens to be devastating."

 Nepal's Home Ministry spokesman Ram Krishna Subedi said floodwaters were receding and rivers were returning to normal.

 The death toll from the floods in Nepal stood at 146, with about 30 missing.

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 George reported from New Delhi. Associated Press writers Julhas Alam in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Binaj Gurubacharya in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Biswajeet Banerjee in Lucknow, India contributed to this report. ||||| Heavy monsoon rains of historic proportions have slammed Nepal, Bangladesh, and India for weeks, leading to what international rescue and aid organizations say is the worst flooding in decades.

 Nearly 1,400 people have been killed by the flooding and landslides in the three countries so far, while millions continue to be displaced from their homes. Torrential monsoon rains have destroyed tens of thousands of houses, schools, and hospitals, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The agency estimates that almost 41 million people have been affected in three countries.

 Many of the flooded areas already have high rates of malnutrition. The disaster has raised concerns of food shortages and water-borne diseases, as thousands of hectares of farms have been washed away and relief work continues to be disrupted by continuous rain. As water from the floods recede in parts of Nepal and Bangladesh, Reuters said nearly 80,000 people have been hit by diarrhea, malaria and dengue fever.

 This is what the floods have done to millions across Nepal, Bangladesh, and India. |||||


Video (02:39) : Police arrived at the home in the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway shortly after 12:30 a.m. Thursday at the request of Los Angeles police, said Brooklyn Park Police Deputy Chief Mark Bruley. A woman was found inside dead from a gunshot wound, Bruley said in a statement.

 Authorities investigating a St. Paul man in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a UCLA professor discovered a “kill list” in his apartment that led them to the body of his estranged wife.

 Police found Ashley Hasti, 31, dead in her Brooklyn Park home shortly after 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Her name and the names of two UCLA professors were on the “kill list” found in the North End apartment belonging to Mainak Sarkar, 38, who killed himself after gunning down Professor William S. Klug. Police said Sarkar, who had two semi-automatic pistols and multiple rounds of ammunition, also intended to kill the second, unnamed professor who was off campus when he arrived.

 “He was certainly prepared to engage multiple victims with the ordnance he had at his disposal,” Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.

 Sarkar apparently believed Klug had stolen some of his work while he was a doctoral student at UCLA.

 Sarkar’s motive for Hasti’s slaying remains unclear. The two were married by a justice of peace in 2011, said Hasti’s grandmother, Jean Johnson. The couple split about a year later and Hasti moved back home to Brooklyn Park.

 “They just didn’t get along,” Johnson said. The two didn’t divorce because Hasti couldn’t afford one, Johnson said. Hasti was in medical school at the University of Minnesota and expected to graduate next spring.

 Gallery: Police ID man who carried out UCLA murder-suicide Gallery: Police ID man who carried out UCLA murder-suicide

 “The only enemy she had was him, I guess,” she said. “I never thought he would do something like that.”

 The two met while Hasti, who grew up in the Twin Cities, was in school in California from 2009-10. Hasti attended a one-year post-baccalaureate pre-med program at Scripps College in Claremont. Sarkar seemed like a quiet, smart man, but he was “real hyper,” Johnson said. “He had trouble sleeping. He just needed to see a doctor.”

 Johnson said she didn’t know whether there was any animosity or anger after the two split. “I would ask about him and Ashley would say, ‘He’s got his own place and he’s doing just fine.’ ”

 At a midday news conference, Beck said Sarkar left a note at the UCLA scene asking authorities to check on his cat. That led police to the St. Paul apartment, where a second note with the “kill list” led them to Hasti’s body.

 St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders said he could only confirm that the department searched an apartment in the 1000 block of Agate Street, traced to Sarkar through police and court records, to assist another agency. He said a suspicious package was found nearby and rendered safe by the bomb squad. At the request of Los Angeles police, Brooklyn Park authorities arrived at Hasti’s home in the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway and found her dead inside from a gunshot wound.

 “What I can tell you is we believe she was deceased prior to the UCLA shooting Wednesday, but because it is so early in the investigation the timing [of her death] we don’t know at this point,” said Brooklyn Park Deputy Chief Mark Bruley.

 There were no other police calls that week to the home.

 Sarkar’s only contact with police aside from Wednesday’s search was in 2006 for a traffic accident.

 Hasti was stellar student

 At the time of her death, Hasti was enrolled for the summer term in the University of Minnesota Medical School, a university spokesman said. She’d been enrolled in the med school continuously since 2012. In 2008, she received a bachelor’s degree from the U in Asian languages and literatures, the spokesman said.

 Jason McGrath, an associate professor at the U, taught two of her undergraduate classes. Even 10 years later, he remembers her earning top grades and having a warm personality, he said. In a recommendation letter for Hasti’s pre-med program, McGrath described her as “a student of rare intelligence and talent” who wrote a paper so good that he asked her if he could post it anonymously to the course website as an example to other students.

 “She was one of the best students of her time,” he said. “She had an easy familiarity in talking even to her professors, which was appreciated because you like students who are approachable and don’t keep you at arm’s length.”

 Hasti was a part-time liberal arts student at North Hennepin Community College from 2003 to 2006 and again from 2011 to 2012, said spokesman Mike Laninga.

 Beck said authorities believe Hasti was shot “within the last couple of days,” and that Sarkar arrived in Southern California “very recently.”

 Sarkar lived in Minnesota for a number of years, and “I don’t think either of them expected to see him,” Beck said of the professors. Beck said police have contacted the professor who was unharmed to make sure he is safe. “I would characterize his response as knowing [Sarkar] had issues with him,” Beck said, “but not to the level that would rise to homicide.”

 The chief said police are looking for Sarkar’s car, a 2003 Nissan Sentra with Minnesota plate 720KTW, in hopes of tracking his movements and determining a motive.

 Students attended a candlelight vigil for Prof. William Klug at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Thursday night in Los Angeles. A former UCLA graduate student killed a woman in Minnesota before carrying two semi-automatic pistols and a grudge back to Los Angeles, where he fatally shot a young professor on Wednesday he once called a mentor and then killed himself, police said Thursday.

 Beck told KTLA-TV that it appears that mental health problems were a factor in the UCLA shooting He said Sarkar apparently believed that Klug, 39, had released intellectual property that harmed him.

 Sarkar earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UCLA in 2013, the university confirmed to the New York Times.

 On March 10, in a blog post that has since been deleted, Sarkar called the professor “a sick person” who stole his work. “I was this guy’s Ph.D. student,” he wrote. “We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it [to] another student. He made me really sick.”

 On the block where Hasti lived, Gordy Aune, a neighborhood watch leader, said he talked with people who lived at the home “a couple of times over the years.”

 Wayne Hasti, Ashley’s father, also lived there, “but they weren’t around very often,” Aune said. Public records show Wayne Hasti has owned the home since 1995.

 On her social media accounts, Hasti’s interests stretched beyond medical school to her pet cat, stand-up comedy at open-mic nights and rap parody songs.

 “She was a kind, beautiful, giggly girl,” Johnson said. “Everybody liked her. I just don’t understand why he had to do that. He just took a big piece of my heart with her.”

 Star Tribune staff writers Karen Zamora and Liz Sawyer contributed to this report. ||||| Brooklyn Park deputy chief Mark Bruley, left, reads a brief statement during a press conference Thursday June 2, 2016, at Brooklyn Park City Hall about a woman who’s body was found, in Brooklyn Park,... (Associated Press)

 Brooklyn Park deputy chief Mark Bruley, left, reads a brief statement during a press conference Thursday June 2, 2016, at Brooklyn Park City Hall about a woman who’s body was found, in Brooklyn Park, Minn. The investigation into a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus took a more sinister turn Thursday... (Associated Press)

 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a murder-suicide at UCLA (all times local):

 9:05 p.m.

 Hundreds of students have gathered at UCLA to remember a professor who was shot and killed by a former student, who then took his own life.

 The crowd gathered for a vigil Thursday night in Bruin Plaza, where the base of the bear mascot statue was covered with colored notes paying tribute to William Krug.

 The 39-year-old professor was shot in a campus office Wednesday by one of his former students, Mainak Sarkar, who then turned the gun on himself.

 Sarkar claimed Klug had stolen his computer code. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says Sarkar was mentally unstable and the theft was all in his mind.

 Authorities say days before the shooting, Sarkar also shot and killed his estranged wife in Minnesota.

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 7:45 p.m.

 The grandmother of the slain wife of the UCLA gunman says the two of them "just didn't get along."

 Jean Johnson, grandmother of Ashley Hasti, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that her granddaughter and Mainak Sarkar split about a year after they married in 2011, and she moved back to her hometown of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

 Johnson said the two didn't get a divorce because Hasti couldn't afford one.

 Johnson says Hasti was in medical school at the University of Minnesota and expected to graduate in spring.

 She says Sarkar was the only enemy her granddaughter had.

 Authorities say Sarkar shot and killed a professor at UCLA on Wednesday and later found a "kill list" he had made.

 A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation tells The Associated Press Hasti was on the list.

 The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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 Reporting by AP writer Amanda Lee Myers

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 7:45 p.m.

 The wife of a UCLA professor gunned down in his campus office says she'll miss him every day for the rest of her life.

 Mary Elise Klug released the statement Thursday via UCLA a day after her husband, engineering professor William Klug, was shot and killed.

 Klug says she is grateful for the outpouring of support from UCLA and elsewhere for what she calls an indescribable loss.

 She says Klug was so much more than her soul mate and knowing so many others share her sorrow has provided comfort.

 She asks that her family's privacy be respected so they can mourn.

 A campus vigil for Klug will be held later Thursday night.

 Police say Mainak Sarkar shot William Klug on Wednesday before fatally shooting himself.

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 5:40 p.m.

 A law enforcement official says the Minnesota woman on the UCLA gunman's "kill list" was Ashley Hasti, and documents show they were married.

 Los Angeles police said the list was found in gunman Mainak Sarkar's Minnesota home and included two UCLA professors and a woman.

 Following Wednesday's UCLA shooting that left one of the professors and Sarkar dead, police went to the woman's home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and found her dead.

 Police would not disclose the woman's name.

 However, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said the name on the kill list was Hasti, and a neighbor told The Associated Press that Hasti lived in the home with her father.

 The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.

 The neighbor, Gordy Aune Jr., is the neighborhood watch commander and said he sometimes spoke with the Hastis on his walks. He described them as quiet.

 Records in Hennepin County, Minnesota, show Hasti married Sarkar in 2011. It's not clear if they still were married.

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 Reporting by AP writer Amanda Lee Myers

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 1 p.m.

 The man who carried out the UCLA murder-suicide wrote a dissertation in which he thanked the professor he fatally shot.

 The 2013 dissertation by Mainak Sarkar includes two lines about professor William Klug. It says: "I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. William Klug, for all his help and support. Thank you for being my mentor."

 The document thanks several other professors and three friends, with Sarkar saying, "I will always remember all the good time we had together."

 The dissertation, approved by Klug and four colleagues, is dedicated to Sarkar's dead mother, Ira Sarkar. It's titled, "Coupled Cardiac Electrophysiology and Contraction using Finite Element."

 Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday that Sarkar drove from his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota to kill Klug and another professor named in a "kill list" found in Sarkar's home. Sarkar killed himself after killing Klug. The other professor named is safe.

 A woman on the "kill list" was found dead in her home outside Saint Paul, and authorities say it appears she was killed before the UCLA shooting.

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 11:30 a.m.

 The Los Angeles police chief says a note about a cat at the scene of the UCLA murder-suicide led to the discovery of a so-called kill list and a dead woman's body in Minnesota.

 The note was found Wednesday after Mainak Sarkar killed engineering professor Bill Klug and then himself in Klug's office.

 Beck says the note requested that the finder check on a cat at Sarkar's residence in St. Paul, Minnesota.

 At the residence, investigators found a so-called kill list with the names of two professors and a woman living in Brooklyn Park outside St. Paul.

 Local police found the woman's body and believe she was killed before the UCLA shooting.

 Police believe Sarkar also intended to kill the other professor, who was off campus at the time.

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 11:10 a.m.

 The Los Angeles police chief says investigators believe the man who carried out the UCLA murder-suicide went to the campus to kill two professors.

 Chief Charlie Beck says the second professor was off campus Wednesday when Mainak Sarkar (MY'-nahk SUR'-kahr) arrived armed with two guns and many rounds of ammunition.

 Sarkar killed engineering professor Bill Klug and then killed himself.

 Beck says the other professor's name turned up in a "kill list" discovered in Sarkar's Minnesota residence.

 A woman also named on that list was found dead early Thursday of an apparent gunshot at her Minnesota home.

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 10:10 a.m.

 A blog post that appears to be written by a man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA calls the victim of the crime a "sick guy."

 The blog, posted in March by a man identifying himself as Mainak Sarkar (MY'-nahk SUR'-kahr), says he and UCLA Professor Bill Klug had personal differences.

 The blog accuses Klug of stealing Sarkar's intellectual property and giving it to another student and says "he made me really sick."

 It ends with: "Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust."

 Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told KTLA-TV on Wednesday that the motive of the UCLA shooting was tied to Sarkar's belief that Klug released his intellectual property. Beck says UCLA asserts it was all in Sarkar's imagination.

 Family and friends of Klug describe him as a kind, gentle man who didn't appear to have conflicts with anyone.

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 9:45 a.m.

 Police in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say they found a dead woman when Los Angeles police asked them to conduct a welfare check at a local address in connection with the UCLA murder-suicide investigation.

 A Brooklyn Park police statement says officers responded early Thursday and found the woman dead of an apparent gunshot wound.

 The statement says early indications are that the woman's shooting happened before the UCLA shooting, which occurred at midmorning Wednesday.

 Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tells KTLA-TV that a "kill list" was found in the Minnesota home of UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar.

 The list contained the names of UCLA engineering professor Bill Klug, who was slain in the murder-suicide, another UCLA professor, and the Minnesota woman. Beck says the other UCLA professor is OK.

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 9 a.m.

 The Los Angeles police chief says the man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA left a "kill list" at his Minnesota home that led authorities to find a woman's dead body.

 Speaking on KTLA-TV, Chief Charlie Beck says Mainak Sarkar drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor William Klug before killing himself.

 Beck says when authorities searched Sarkar's home in Minnesota, they found a "kill list" with the names of Klug, another UCLA professor and a woman.

 Beck says the woman was found shot dead in her home in a nearby Minnesota town. The other professor on the list is all right.

 Beck says it appears that mental issues were involved and says Sarkar's dispute with Klug appears to be tied to Sarkar thinking the professor released intellectual property that harmed Sarkar.

 Police are asking the public's help to find the car Sarkar drove to Los Angeles, a 2003 Nissan Sentra with the license plate of 720KTW.

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 7:15 a.m.

 Los Angeles police have identified the man they say carried out a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus.

 A police spokeswoman, Officer Jenny Houser, says the gunman was Mainak Sarkar.

 Sarkar gunned down mechanical engineering professor William Klug in an office Wednesday before taking his own life.

 The shooting triggered a huge police response until authorities determined there was no continuing threat.

 Classes are resuming Thursday except for the engineering department, which will reopen next week. ||||| "William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor," Sarkar wrote. "He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy. He made me really sick. Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust." |||||

Write a summary.

– The woman on the "kill list" of UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar was his estranged wife, who was apparently shot to death in her Minnesota home before Sarkar traveled to California, authorities say. Jean Johnson, grandmother of 31-year-old University of Minnesota medical student Ashley Hasti, tells the Star Tribune that the couple married in 2011 and split up around a year later, but they didn't get a divorce because Hasti couldn't afford one. Her body was found in her St. Paul home after cops at UCLA found a note from Sarkar asking them to "check on my cat" and giving his Minnesota address. Police found her name on a list in Sarkar's apartment and realized she could be in danger. Johnson says her granddaughter was a "kind, beautiful, giggly girl" and she doesn't know if there was any tension between her and Sarkar. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says that Sarkar drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles and was probably in town for a "couple of days" before killing UCLA professor William Klug and shooting himself in Klug's office, the Los Angeles Times reports. The chief says Sarkar's car hasn't been found yet and it's not known whether he committed other crimes between Minnesota and California. Beck says investigators believe Sarkar, who made online postings accusing former mentor Klug of stealing his work, had planned to kill another UCLA professor but couldn't find him. That professor "is fine" and was aware Sarkar had issues with him, Beck says. On Thursday night, hundreds of students and faculty members gathered at UCLA to mourn Klug, known as a kind and dedicated professor who did his best to help students, including Sarkar, the AP reports. "Bill was so much more than my soul mate," his wife, Mary Elise Klug, said in a statement. "I will miss him every day for the rest of my life."


The Hubble space telescope sure has seen some strange things in deep space, but this most recent find is possibly one of the strangest. Introducing the six-tailed comet… or is it an asteroid? Or some kind of weird alien sprinkler system in the asteroid belt?

 The object — called P/2013 P5 — was discovered in August by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, an observation that baffled astronomers. All they could see was a nondescript fuzzy blob. So, employing the help of Hubble, the space telescope slewed around and observed the mystery object twice in September. What it saw was something just as baffling as what Pan-STARRS astronomers originally described: it was a weird multi-tailed comet-like object. Or so it appeared.

 ANALYSIS: Hubble’s Bizarre X-Shaped Slow-Motion Asteroid Collision

 Apart from the fact that P5 appears to have jets of gas and dust projecting in all directions — like spokes on a bicycle wheel — between the Sept. 10 and Sept. 23, “the entire structure had swung around,” writes a Hubble science news release. This is all very un-comet-like — and, indeed, un-asteroid-like — behavior.

 “We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it,” said David Jewitt, lead investigator from the University of California at Los Angeles. “Even more amazingly, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It’s hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid.”

 So what is it? Needless to say, there are theories.

 NEWS: Dying Space Rock: Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Discovered

 The asteroid belt, that is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is home to a huge population of asteroids. Asteroids are known to be affected by the sun’s radiation — like their cometary cousins, they heat up. But given enough time, asteroids can undergo what is known as the Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect.

 The uneven heating on an asteroid’s surface can cause it to “spin up.” In a nutshell, the YORP effect heats up the sun-facing side of an asteroid, but as the asteroid rotates, it radiates heat into space from the dark side. This heat radiation is carried away by infrared photons that themselves exert a tiny amount of momentum, or recoil, as they depart the asteroid. Over long periods (thousands to millions of years), this radiation acts to speed up an asteroid’s spin.

 But what of P5? Could the YORP effect explain these strange spoke features?

 Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany, modeled a spinning asteroid to show the tails may be caused by impulsive dust-ejection events. Basically, we could be witnessing an asteroid that has been “spun up” at such a high rate by the sun that it is starting to lose integrity — centrifugal forces are causing it to eject dusty jets into space. “Given our observations and modelling, we infer that P/2013 P5 might be losing dust as it rotates at high speed,” said Agarwal. “The sun then drags this dust into the distinct tails we’re seeing.”

 GALLERY: The Most Mind-Blowing Space Spirals

 The space rock, which measures up to 240 meters wide, has probably only lost about 100-1000 tons of dust — a tiny fraction of its total mass. Although the spinning jets of dust seems the most likely explanation, follow-up observations are needed to see if the jets are being emitted in a plane, from the asteroid’s equator.

 “In astronomy, where you find one, you eventually find a whole bunch more,” said Jewitt. “This is just an amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many more to come.”

 Jewitt’s team has published a paper describing this fascinating object in the Nov. 7 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters (doi:10.1088/2041-8205/778/1/L21).

 Image: Left: A Hubble observation of P/2013 P5 exhibiting the spoke-like dusty jets. Right: Diagram showing the spinning asteroid generating the jets. Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), M. Mutchler (STScI), and S. Larson (University of Arizona) |||||

 Nov. 7, 2013: Astronomers viewing our solar system's asteroid belt with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust. Designated P/2013 P5, the asteroid resembles a rotating lawn sprinkler.

 "We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," said lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California at Los Angeles. "Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we’re looking at an asteroid."

 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope set of images reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5.

 Jewitt leads a team whose research paper appears online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

 P/2013 P5 has been ejecting dust periodically for at least five months. Astronomers believe it is possible the asteroid's rotation rate increased to the point where its surface started flying apart. They do not believe the tails are the result of an impact with another asteroid because they have not seen a large quantity of dust blasted into space all at once.

 Scientists using the Pan-STARRS survey telescope in Hawaii announced their discovery of the asteroid Aug. 27. P/2013 P5 appeared as an unusually fuzzy-looking object. The multiple tails were discovered when Hubble was used to take a more detailed image Sept. 10.

 When Hubble looked at the asteroid again Sept. 23, its appearance had totally changed. It looked as if the entire structure had swung around.

 "We were completely knocked out," Jewitt said.

 Careful modeling by team member Jessica Agarwal of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany, showed that the tails could have been formed by a series of impulsive dust-ejection events. She calculated that dust-ejection events occurred April 15, July 18, July 24, Aug. 8, Aug. 26 and Sept. 4. Radiation pressure from the sun stretched the dust into streamers.

 Radiation pressure could have spun P/2013 P5 up. Jewitt said the spin rate could have increased enough that the asteroid's weak gravity no longer could hold it together. If that happened, dust could slide toward the asteroid's equator, shatter and fall off, and drift into space to make a tail. So far, only about 100 to 1,000 tons of dust, a small fraction of the P/2013 P5's main mass, has been lost. The asteroid's nucleus, which measures 1,400 feet wide, is thousands of times more massive than the observed amount of ejected dust.

 Astronomers will continue observing P/2013 P5 to see whether the dust leaves the asteroid in the equatorial plane. If it does, this would be strong evidence for a rotational breakup. Jewitt's interpretation implies that rotational breakup must be a common phenomenon in the asteroid belt. It might even be the main way small asteroids die.

 "In astronomy, where you find one, you eventually find a whole bunch more," Jewitt said. "This is just an amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many more to come."

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 Jewitt said it appears P/2013 P5 is a fragment of a larger asteroid that broke apart in a collision roughly 200 million years ago. There are many collision fragments in orbits similar to P/2013 P5's. Meteorites from these bodies show evidence of having been heated to as much as 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This means the asteroid likely is composed of metamorphic rocks and does not hold any ice as a comet does. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– The Hubble telescope has spotted a spectacular, perplexing object in the middle of the Asteroid Belt: a rock with six "comet-like" dust tails streaming behind it. "We were literally dumbfounded when we saw it," David Jewitt, the head of the astronomy team studying the P/2013 P5, said in a NASA release. "Even more amazing, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust. That also caught us by surprise. It's hard to believe we're seeing an asteroid." The team hypothesizes that the sun's radiation set the 260-yard-wide rock spinning—thanks, Discovery explains, to the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect—so quickly that it lost structural integrity. Using modeling, one team member calculated six dates when the asteroid likely ejected dust into space. So far, it has likely ejected as much as 1,000 tons of dust into space, but that's still a tiny fraction of its mass. "This is just an amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many," Jewitt says. "In astronomy, when you find one, you eventually find a whole bunch more."


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The news for CNN has been bad for a long time, but it got especially bad in the second quarter of this year. Ratings for the networkâ€™s prime-time shows plunged by 40 percent from a year ago, and the networkâ€™s performance was its worst ever for a second quarter.

 CNN ties this to bad news â€” or no news really â€” because a year ago several breaking events during the quarter enhanced the networkâ€™s ratings, while this year the three-month period was relatively quiet.

 And all three cable news networks experienced declines in the second quarter among the viewers who matter to news advertisers, those from the ages of 25 to 54.Â MSNBC was down by 18 percent and Fox News down by 14 percent, while CNNâ€™s decline was more than double those figures.

 After its worst-ever May, and now a worst-ever quarter, the litany of “worst evers” is growing at CNN, which has yet to find an answer to what to do when news is light. The network still steers clear of the opinion-oriented programs that bring regular streams of viewers to hosts like Bill Oâ€™Reilly and Sean Hannity on Fox and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.

 Another worst ever for CNN was the rating from the Piers Morgan show at 9 p.m, which was down 32 percent from a year ago, to just 137,000 viewers in the 25-54 group. CNN has never before had a 9 p.m. show do that badly for a quarter.

 The figures for those 25-54 year-old viewers went like this:

 For its Monday through Friday prime time, CNN averaged 142,000 viewers, down from 236,000 a year ago. MSNBC averaged 227,000, down from 278,000 in 2011. Fox News, while posting its worst quarter in that ad-preferred group since the second quarter of 2008, still led easily with 438,000, down from 508,000 a year ago.

 In terms of total viewers, the Fox advantage, as always, was much greater. It averaged 2.14 million viewers, about flat with last yearâ€™s 2.15 million. MSNBC averaged 817,000, down 12 percent from 926,000 in 2011. Again CNN had by far the biggest decline, with just 470,000 total viewers, only a little better than half of what MSNBC scored, and only about a fifth as much as the Fox News number. The CNN number was down 35 percent, from 727,000 viewers for the same quarter a year ago.

 CNN is highlighting some increases so far in June, with Anderson Cooperâ€™s show up 5 percent and Mr. Morganâ€™s show up 9 percent.

 CNN reacted to the ratings news with an official e-mail comment from the network: â€śAs a news organization our ratings reflect the news environment much more so than the other networks. That said, we always want higher ratings but not at the expense of nonpartisan, quality journalism.â€ť ||||| In April, as Republicans were throwing their weight behind Mitt Romney and the lengthy, combative presidential primary process was drawing to a close, CNN’s senior vice president and Washington bureau chief Sam Feist presented his staff with a “CNN Half-time Election Report.”

 The four-minute video, shown at the quarterly staff meeting, was a highlight reel of CNN debates, primary night coverage, and interviews interspersed with laudatory reviews. CNN, the video reminded its staff, had hosted more debates than any other network and landed some of the most significant interviews in the election cycle.

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 “And It’s Only Halftime…” the video concluded.

 In fact, the scoreboard, according to many inside and outside the network, doesn’t look nearly as good as the video suggests.

 CNN, the founder of the cable news genre, is now registering its lowest ratings since the first Gulf War. In the second quarter of 2012, the network attracted fewer viewers than at any time in the past 21 years, it was reported Tuesday. An average of 446,000 people now watch CNN’s primetime programming while a mere 319,000 watch its daytime programming — declines from 2011 that are at least twice as severe as those suffered at Fox News and MSNBC.

 (Also on POLITICO: Contempt battle explodes on CNN)

 Primetime programming is described by media insiders and academics as lackluster and stale. Several staffers at the network complain of low morale and an absence of editorial leadership. Earlier this month — in a further sign that all is not well — the network announced that it intended to cancel poorly rated politics show “John King USA.”

 One former executive said CNN faces an “identity crisis.”

 While CNN struggles to make 24-hour news compelling, its competitors at Fox News and MSNBC have redefined the industry. They eschewed traditional, straight-forward newsgathering in favor of partisan, personality driven analysis — a model that is increasingly successful in an era of hyperpartisan politics, but one that CNN has resisted even as its ratings continue their slow and steady decline.

 There is now, according to industry experts, a very real possibility that without a coherent strategy, the only nonpartisan network left on cable could become largely irrelevant to the national conversation.

 “News has become much more personality driven and much more opinionated since CNN launched 32 years ago, and CNN has had difficulty moving in that direction,” Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research at Horizon Media, told POLITICO. “They move in fits and starts, and they don’t do a very good job of it.” ||||| Coming off its least-watched month in primetime in 20 years in May, CNN has taken another big ratings blow: The cable news network has registered to its lowest-rated quarter in primetime since 1991. For this year’s second quarter, CNN hit a low among total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic, with all primetime programs posting steep declines. The network averaged 446,000 total viewers and 129,000 in the 25-54 demo in primetime. Compared to last year’s second quarter, that’s down 35% and 41%, respectively. Rival Fox New Channel, meanwhile, with 1.79 million primetime total viewers on average, was down 1% from its 2011 second-quarter numbers. FNC lost 14% in the 25-54, bringing in 355,000 viewers. MSNBC was down 13% in total primetime viewers, with 689,000 on average, and down 17% in the 25-54 with 217,000. The quarter ran March 26-June 22.

 Individually, CNN shows hemorrhaged viewers heavily compared with last year. Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room, which airs from 4-6 PM ET, was down 42% in 25-54 and 26% in total viewers. His show is expanding to three hours beginning Friday, taking over CNN’s recently cancelled John King U.S.A. At 7 PM, Erin Burnett OutFront, which debuted in October replacing a then-moving John King U.S.A., was down 45% in 25-54 from last year’s second quarter and down 33% in total viewers. Piers Morgan Tonight, which replaced Larry King Live in January 2011, was down 33% in the 25-54 and 29% in total viewers. Pulling double duty, Anderson Cooper took a double hit: Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 PM was down 23% in the 25-54 and 19% in total viewers, and its 10 PM airing was down 48% in the demo and 44% in viewers. The top-rated cable news shows for the second quarter were all FNC shows, with The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity sitting at No. 1 and No. 2.

 Deadline's Dominic Patten - tip him here. ||||| CNN continued to struggle during the second quarter of 2012. The network had its lowest-rated quarter in 21 years (since 1991) in primetime, and in 11 years (since 2001) in Total Day.

 The ratings for Q2 2012:

 Primetime (Mon-Sun): 446,000 Total Viewers / 129,000 A25-54

 446,000 Total Viewers / 129,000 A25-54 Total Day (Mon-Sun): 319,000 Total Viewers / 95,000 A25-54

 In Total Day, the network is down -35% in Total Viewers and -45% in the A25-54 demo. In primetime, CNN is down -35% in Total Viewers and -41% in the demographic. It is worth noting that Q2 2011 had several notable news events that boosted cable news ratings, including the death of Osama Bin Laden and the Royal Wedding.

 “Erin Burnett OutFront” is down -33% in Total Viewers and -45% in the demo since last year, when John King was the 7pmET anchor. “Anderson Cooper 360″ at 8pmET is down -19% in Total Viewers and -23% in the demo compared to last year, when “In the Arena with Eliot Spitzer” aired in the timeslot. “Piers Morgan Tonight” is down -29% and -33%, respectively.

 There is some good news for CNN in the form of monthly ratings. Compared to May 2012, which marked a 20-year ratings low for the network, CNN has grown +8% in Total Day and +6% in M-F primetime in June. Individual primetime programs have grown among younger viewers: Burnett’s program is up +24%, while Cooper’s is up +5% and Morgan is up +9% for the month. |||||
What is a summary?

– CNN's glory days are unquestionably behind it. Want proof? Q2 of 2012 clocked in as its lowest-rated quarter in 21 years. In fairness, Deadline notes that all three cable news networks reported a dip, but when you stack up the numbers, things looks pretty gloomy for the network: It averaged 446,000 total primetime viewers to Fox News' 1.79 million; even MSNBC eked out 689,000. Not even the dashing Anderson Cooper could save the day—his show reeled in 19% fewer viewers. On the heels of the dour numbers, the media weighs in: TVNewser tempers CNN's 35% drop in primetime viewers year over year, pointing out that Q2 of 2011 was a biggie: Osama bin Laden was killed and Kate and Wills tied the knot. (By comparison, Fox News was down 1%; MSNBC, 13%.) And a big part of the network's problem, posits the New York Times, is its avoidance of hyperpartisan analysis, which helps fill in the gaps when there's just not much going on. It "has yet to find an answer to what to do when news is light," writes Bill Carter. Politico goes behind the scenes, talking to staffers and former execs who report that morale is low and cite a lack of editorial leadership. "It’s frustrating to hear our leadership talk about the exemplary journalism we do, then turn on the TV during the day and see CNN doing another story about 'birthers' or 'tips for dining out alone,'" said one staffer, complaining about the lack of strategy. But one senior VP tells Politico that isn't so, saying its "clear" editorial direction rests upon "worldwide newsgathering and reporting a broad range of stories without picking sides." Still, Dylan Byers writes that "Cooper, once known for intrepid reports from disaster zones, now makes his most notable contributions to the following day’s news with a humor segment called 'The RidicuList.'"