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Image copyright PA Image caption The hammer made three holes in the top layer of protective glass

 A hammer-wielding man has been arrested after an attempted smash and grab of a Magna Carta from its display at Salisbury Cathedral.

 Alarms went off when the would-be thief tried to break through the glass box which protects the charter on Thursday.

 The suspect was held on suspicion of attempted theft of the document - claimed to be the best preserved of four original Magna Cartas.

 It was not damaged and nobody was injured, police said.

 The man was wrestled to the ground by staff when he attempted to flee after the attempted raid at 16:45 BST, the Dean of Salisbury said.

 The Very Reverend Nick Papadopoulos said: "There were people around so the cry went up, it was pretty thick glass so it hadn't yielded easily despite having a hammer hit it.

 "It was a great shock but everyone responded magnificently, both our staff and volunteers and members of the public.

 "They raised a cry and he did not get away."

 The drama unfolded just before Evensong near to closing time at the visitor centre.

 Dean Papadopoulos added: "He had been carrying a hammer so our guys were very courageous.

 "They were able to restrain him and they held him for 12 minutes."

 Image copyright PA Image caption The Dean of Salisbury Cathedral described his staff as "courageous" after they restrained the man

 A silent alarm was activated which alerted staff to the disturbance, he added.

 A 45-year-old man is being held on suspicion of attempted theft, criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon.

 He has been taken to Melksham police station where he is being questioned.

 Magna Carta is a charter of rights agreed by King John in 1215. It is considered one of Britain's most influential legal manuscripts.

 Several versions were sent around the country "as evidence of the King's decision", according to Salisbury Cathedral's website.

 Only four original copies survive today, and the cathedral is home to what is claimed to be "the most beautiful".

 The charter was put on display at the cathedral three years ago as part of an exhibition funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 The charter has been removed for safe-keeping while the case is refurbished, Dean Papadopoulos said.

 A facsimile copy of the charter will be displayed, and the visitor centre will re-open as soon as possible.

 Image copyright PA Image caption The document is displayed at Chapter House at the cathedral

 What is Magna Carta?

 Magna Carta outlined basic rights with the principle that no one was above the law, including the king.

 It charted the right to a fair trial, and limits on taxation without representation.

 It inspired a number of other documents, including the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 Only three clauses are still valid - the one guaranteeing the liberties of the English Church; the clause confirming the privileges of the city of London and other towns; and the clause that states that no free man shall be imprisoned without the lawful judgement of his equals.

 The British Library has two copies of the 1215 Magna Carta.

 Source: The British Library

 The historical document is encased in two glass layers, Dean Papadopoulos added.

 "The layer that is closest to the document itself was completely untouched by the individual concerned, but his hammer did do some damager to the initial glass screen."

 Two copies of the Magna Carta that date from 1215 are held by the British Library and go on regular display there.

 The Salisbury copy went on display in 2015 in the 13th Century Chapter House at the cathedral. ||||| SALISBURY Cathedral was evacuated yesterday afternoon after someone "tried to smash the case of the historic Magna Carta", in what police believe was an attempted theft of the document.

 A 45-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted theft, possession of an offensive weapon and criminal damage, and has been taken to Melksham custody for questioning, where he remains.

 The Journal understands this was a result of a visitor to the cathedral "smashing the case of the Magna Carter with a hammer and trying to destroy it".

 Crowds could be seen in the Close after someone manually started the fire alarm to alert others to the incident.

 The Magna Carta has not been damaged and nobody was injured in the incident, but the document has now been removed for safe-keeping.

 The damaged Magna Carta case

 One witness, Jenny from Salisbury, was walking through the Close at the time of the incident and says she saw a citizen's arrest taking place.

 She told the Journal: "We were walking past the cathedral as the alarms started, and everyone was starting to come out.

 "As we got to the stonemason's gateway we heard some shouting and could see a few people coming out of the gates so we stopped.

 "It looked like some men ‘play-fighting’ but as they got through the gates I saw a hammer drop to the floor and one of the men kicked it into the road whilst another man held on to him.

 "They then held onto him with hands behind his back whilst they picked up the hammer - lots of people around started to come over

 "The men really did a good job."

 A spokesman for Salisbury Cathedral said: "We can confirm that at the end of the afternoon yesterday, a man attempted to break into the case which houses Magna Carta in the Cathedral’s Chapter House.

 "He was arrested by police shortly afterwards and taken into custody.

 "We are very relieved that no one was hurt during the incident and that the Magna Carta itself is undamaged.

 "We are very grateful to all who dealt with the situation so swiftly and effectively.

 "We are very sorry that, for the time being, our copy of Magna Carta will not be available to visitors and will have it back on display as soon as we can."

 Fire crews were called at 4.53pm, but dispatched by just after 5pm as there was no fire lit.

 Magna Carta 1215 is the best surviving copy of one of Britain's most influential legal documents, and is on permanent display at Salisbury Cathedral.

 It is regarded by historians as the foundation of constitutional liberty in the English-speaking world.

 We are aware there were a number of witnesses to the incident who may not have spoken to police. If this was you, please get in touch via 101 and quote crime reference number 541800101438. |||||Summary:

– A narrow escape for a precious historical document: Police in England say a 45-year-old man is in custody after allegedly using a hammer to smash holes in a protective glass case housing the best preserved of the four surviving original Magna Cartas. The Thursday incident at Salisbury Cathedral was part of a suspected effort to steal the prized charter of rights signed by King John in 1215, report the BBC and Salisbury Journal. The document kept at the cathedral was undamaged and has been removed from display temporarily. The unnamed suspect is being held on suspicion of attempted theft, criminal damage, and possession of an offensive weapon. (The four Magna Cartas were united for the first time in 2015.)


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– They call her "chopstick girl," which provides a sense of her size: all of 11 inches long and weighing just 23 ounces. The Independent reports that a girl in southwest China has survived after being born last week at just 23 weeks. She came along after doctors had to perform an emergency procedure on the mother's cervix, which triggered what the lead pediatrician at Chongqing Southwest Hospital called a "spontaneous abortion" (though most definitions seem to frame "spontaneous abortions" as occurring before the 20th week). Shanghaiist reports the 24-year-old mother-to-be was experiencing complications from placenta previa, in which the placenta obscures part or all of the opening of the cervix. Doctors had told the parents the procedure would trigger the baby's birth and gave the infant almost zero chance of survival. But she remains on 24-hour care in an incubator. One complication: She's so young and tiny that her veins are not yet fully developed, making it trickier to provide her with nutrients. Xinhua has photos. (Click to read about a Canadian mom who gave birth in the US and got a bill of nearly $1 million.)

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 Multimedia Placenta previa

 Placenta previa (pluh-SEN-tuh PREH-vee-uh) occurs when a baby's placenta partially or totally covers the opening in the mother's cervix — the lower end of the uterus that connects to the top of the vagina. Placenta previa can cause severe bleeding before or during delivery.

 The placenta provides oxygen and nutrients to your growing baby and removes waste products from your baby's blood. It attaches to the wall of your uterus, and your baby's umbilical cord arises from it. In most pregnancies, the placenta attaches at the top or side of the uterus. In placenta previa, the placenta attaches to the lower area of the uterus.

 If you have placenta previa, you'll probably be restricted from physical exertion for a portion of your pregnancy and you'll likely require a cesarean section (C-section) to safely deliver your baby.

  ||||| A ‘miracle baby’ in China that survived despite being born at just 23 weeks has managed to live through her first week of care.

 The tiny baby girl, who is now eight days old, was born last week in Chongqing, southwest China, after doctors performed an emergency operation to correct a problem with her mother’s cervix.

 Before the operation, doctors warned the child’s parents that the baby would be born severely premature and would have next to no chance of survival.

 Yet despite the doctor’s bleak forebodings, the baby lived through the operation. Chief of Paediatrics at the Chongqing Southwest Hospital said that the fact the baby survived a “spontaneous abortion” was very rare, as it is almost impossible for a baby to live through something like this.

 The baby, who weighs just 660 grams and measures 28 cm, was taken straight to an incubator after the operation and is currently receiving around the clock care.

 Due to the baby being born so early, medical staff have said that the baby’s organs and veins have are yet to fully develop and this has caused some complications in giving the baby girl the correct medication and nutrients.

 The ‘miracle baby girl’ has been named ‘chopstick girl’ by local Chinese media because she is the same height as she is the same height as a chopstick. |||||


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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved forward on Wednesday with his latest attempt to garner attention for widely condemned anti-vaccine arguments — ones that have earned him a meeting with President Donald Trump — by announcing a $100,000 “challenge” to prove the safety of vaccines.

 “We need a debate,” Kennedy declared at the news conference, claiming he has also spoken with White House staff several times in the last month to discuss the creation of a Trump administration panel to examine vaccine safety.

 Kennedy, the son of the late US Attorney General, is a longtime environmental activist. He gained notoriety with a 2014 book arguing that a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal, used only in some flu vaccines since 1999, was linked to autism.

 His claims have been denounced repeatedly by medical organizations and physicians.

 “I’m a vaccine scientist. I’m also the father of an adult daughter with autism,” Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, told BuzzFeed News.

 “Not only is there an abundance of evidence showing that vaccines are safe, there’s not even any plausibility of an association [with autism].”

 Last week, amidst growing attention to the issue, 350 medical organizations led by the American Academy of Pediatrics signed a 28-page letter to President Trump expressing "unequivocal support" for the safety of vaccines. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearly states that there is “no link between vaccines and autism.”

 It’s an issue that Trump has raised several times however, both on the campaign trail and as president. On Tuesday, in a conversation with educators and Betsy DeVos, Trump noted the rising autism rate, saying, “Well, maybe we can do something.”

 In January, Kennedy met with Trump at Trump Tower in New York and afterwards claimed they had discussed him leading a so-called vaccine safety commission. The Trump administration later walked back Kennedy’s claims to say that the discussions to have a so-called “committee on autism” were only tentative.

 On Wednesday, Kennedy said that he’s been contacted by the Trump administration three times since their original meeting in January. “They tell me that they’re still going forward with a commission,” Kennedy said, adding that he “can’t tell” whether it will happen. BuzzFeed News has asked the administration for comment on these claims.

 But in a panel discussion at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Wednesday that included the actor Robert De Niro, Kennedy argued that the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, in cahoots with journalists, have been denying the dangers of vaccines, fueled largely by money pumped in by a powerful pharmaceutical industry. He called the public health agency a “cesspool of corruption” and “a vaccine company,” that hid science from the public. To that end, Kennedy announced the "World Mercury Project Challenge,” offering $100,000 to anyone who could find a scientific study that demonstrated the safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines in children and pregnant women.

 “What we’ve been told is not science. It’s more akin to religion. It’s orthodoxy,” Kennedy told an audience of perhaps two dozen journalists, and several thousand people watching the livestream on his group’s Facebook page. “We need to break this impasse.”

 De Niro, who has a son with autism, came under fire last year before pulling an anti-vaccine documentary to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. “Trump I don’t care about,” he said during the Q&A following Wednesday's event. “If he does the right thing, he does the right thing. It’s about this, period.”

 Kennedy’s claims, as well as his motivations with the newly announced challenge, were immediately denounced by scientists as incorrect, and as a dangerous ploy.

 “Press conferences like this become a distraction from the really important and hard work that needs to be done,” Hotez said. |||||

 Actor Robert De Niro talks to reporters and film professionals at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia, last August. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

 Cause: Vaccine safety. Specifically the debunked link between mercury found in early childhood vaccines and autism, a claim the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has unequivocally refuted.

 Celeb: Legendary actor Robert De Niro, who’s got a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Kennedy Center Honor medallion to add to his stack of Hollywood trophies.

 What’s he doing on the panel? The 73-year-old Oscar winner was maligned last March when he initially defended the inclusion of “Vaxxed,” a documentary about the alleged danger of vaccines, at the venerable Tribeca Film Festival. After an outcry from the scientific and cinematic communities, De Niro, a founder of the festival who also has a son on the autism spectrum, pulled the film.

 [7 things about vaccines and autism that the movie ‘Vaxxed’ won’t tell you]

 Scene: It was a fiery panel at the National Press Club on Wednesday morning. Led by Robert Kennedy Jr., chairman of the World Mercury Project, the stage was stuffed with men who believed journalists had dropped the ball.

 Kennedy spoke for 20 minutes, pointing to a leaning tower of 240 studies, three charts and several binders threatening to burst that all, according to him, proved that certain vaccines were unsafe to a certain population of children. So certain was he in the science that Kennedy announced a $100,000 reward for any journalist (or anybody) who could produce “a single study that says it’s safe to inject mothers with the levels of mercury we are currently injecting them with.”

 But here’s the kicker, “You’re not gonna be able to do it. The study doesn’t exist,” said Kennedy. Also don’t call him an “anti-vaxxer.”

 “That’s a dirty word used to shut down debate,” he added. Kennedy made clear that he wasn’t against vaccines, he was for safe vaccines. Which is probably why President Trump has been batting around the idea of having Kennedy chair a vaccine safety commission. Kennedy has been in contact with the Trump team about the commission since December, but nothing concrete has been announced.

 [Cleveland Clinic doc pens viral screed against vaccines, peers call it ‘post-truth medicine’]

 For his part, De Niro, dressed in a dark suit, sat quietly in the middle of the stage. When it was his turn to testify to the audience of reporters, the actor was blunt: “I’m glad I’m here. I thought what Bobby said was great. It was eloquent. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I agree with him 100 percent. Thank you.” The end.

 Sound bite: But before the morning was through, De Niro was asked point-blank whether he planned on working with Trump, a man the actor once said he’d like to punch in the face, on this issue.

 “I am only concerned about this. Trump I don’t care about,” De Niro said. “If he does the right thing, he does the right thing. I don’t have to be connected with him.” ||||| W

 ASHINGTON — Prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that he expects the Trump administration to move forward with a vaccine safety commission and that President Trump pledged that he was “not going to back down” if the drug industry objected to the commission.

 Kennedy said he had spoken with presidential aides three times since his January meeting with Trump. His understanding is that a commission is still being developed, he said.

 “Why would anybody not want a vaccine safety commission?” he said at an event with actor Robert De Niro at the National Press Club in Washington.

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 De Niro, whose son is autistic, said he was “only concerned” about safety issues, not politics.

 “Trump I don’t care about. If he does the right thing, he does the right thing,” De Niro said.

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 Kennedy said Trump’s transition team first called him in December and he first spoke with the president-elect by phone in early January. According to Kennedy, Trump said he knew the pharmaceutical industry would combat any efforts to question vaccine safety. “I’m not going to back down,” Trump said, according to Kennedy.

 Trump, Kennedy recalled, said he had five friends whose children seemed to have changed after receiving vaccines.

 Kennedy’s meeting at Trump Tower sparked outrage from scientists and public health experts, who fear the administration could give legitimacy to skeptics of childhood immunizations despite scientific research demonstrating that vaccines are safe. Many of those skeptics believe vaccines are a cause of autism.

 After the meeting, Kennedy said, Trump’s staff told him to speak with reporters about his discussions with the president. Hours later, however, a spokeswoman for Trump said “no decisions have been made at this time” about a possible vaccine panel.

 On Wednesday, Kennedy told reporters that Trump aides called him after the meeting and said they had “got out over our skis” and the concept still needed to be vetted.

 He added that, although he expected the commission to be established, “I can’t tell you what’s going to happen.”

 He said that if the commission moved forward, he would want members without existing prejudices on the issue. He said he also expected the panel would make “mild recommendations,” particularly regarding alleged conflicts of interest at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |||||Summary:

– Despite once expressing a desire to punch him, Robert De Niro now says he's open to working President Trump—at least indirectly—on exploring the debunked link between autism and vaccines, the Washington Post reports. "If he does the right thing, he does the right thing," the actor said following a panel Wednesday at the National Press Club. The panel was led by Robert Kennedy Jr., chairman of the World Mercury Project. According to BuzzFeed News, Kennedy believes journalists are working with the CDC to bury the truth about a vaccine ingredient called thimerosal causing autism in children, and he offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who can produce a study that finds vaccines with the ingredient are safe for kids and pregnant women. De Niro, who was mostly quiet during the panel, did speak up to say he agrees with Kennedy "100%." Science, on the other hand, does not. Doctors, medical organizations, and the CDC say Kennedy's beliefs are unequivocally false. The director of a vaccine education center says seven studies published between 2000 and 2007 alone show that. Furthermore, thimerosal hasn't been used in children's vaccines since 1999 and is barely used in flu vaccines anymore, but autism rates are rising anyway, notes BuzzFeed. Kennedy met with Trump in January about heading a commission on vaccine safety. He says he's spoken to aides three times about the commission since then and expects it to happen, Stat reports. With that on the horizon, 350 medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, sent a letter to Trump last week reasserting the safety of vaccines.


Here is a news article: CLOSE Since September, at least 95 women and girls have said former MSU doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them as early as 1992. At least seven women now say they raised concerns about Nassar starting in the late 1990. Matt Mencarini/Lansing State Journal

 The mediation period in the lawsuits related to Larry Nassar could be extended by 30 days. (Photo: LSJ file photo)

 LANSING - Attorneys are seeking to extend the mediation phase in the federal lawsuits filed over alleged sexual assaults by Larry Nassar.

 In September, eight lawsuit that name Michigan State University, USA Gymnastics and others as defendants entered a 90-day mediation phase during which a settlement could be reached.

 To date, at least 140 women and girls have filed lawsuits related to Nassar's reported sexual assaults and at least 120 have reported him to police.

 Nearly all of the lawsuits name MSU or its current or former employees as defendants. As of Oct. 3, the university's outside law firms have billed it for $4.1 million, a figure that will grow significantly as it does not include work performed by its most expensive law firm after June.

 On Tuesday, attorneys representing the women and girls and all the defendants with the exception of USA Gymnastics filed a stipulation and proposed order to extend the mediation by 30 days, to Dec. 6.

 "Plaintiffs and the MSU Defendants have sought the concurrence of defendant USA Gymnastics for this stipulation, and it has not yet provided its position," attorneys wrote in the motion filed in federal court in Grand Rapids.

 A message was left seeking comment from USA Gymnastics.

 Related: At MSU: Assault, harassment and secrecy

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 The mediator for the lawsuits, Jon Muth, wrote to the judge that the parties have "significant work" to do if they're going to reach a resolution, but that "substantial progress" has been made, according to court records.

 Nassar worked for decades as a doctor at MSU and with USA Gymnastics. Last year, following a story in the Indianapolis Star, dozens of women and girls began to report sexual assaults by Nassar during medical appointments, some dating back decades.

 MSU fired Nassar shortly after the Indy Star story. He left USA Gymnastics in fall 2015 with little notice.

 Nassar faces 22 sexual assault charges in state courts, all but three relate to his role as a doctor. In December, he will be sentenced on three federal child pornography charges.

 Rising legal fees

 MSU is paying five law firms for work related to the Nassar lawsuits, including one that the university has said is handling the "insurance aspects."

 That law firm, Latham & Watkins, has billed MSU for $754,853 since June. Its invoices include one for $264,186 sent in September for 337 hours performed in August.

 The law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is the university's most expensive. It charges $990 an hour each for three different attorneys, plus hourly rates between $470 and $565 for four others.

 In September, the law firm sent MSU two invoices, each for more than $450,000, for work performed in May and June. In all, it has billed MSU for more than $2.7 million.

 As of Oct. 3, MSU's outside law firms have billed it for 6,812 hours worked and $4,174,361, according to university records.

 Here’s a timeline of Nassar’s decades-long career and the allegations against him. This will continue to be updated.

 Here's a map of key people and connections in the Nassar cases. This will continue to be updated.

 Contact Matt Mencarini at (517) 267-1347 or mmencarini@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattMencarini.

 Read or Share this story: http://on.lsj.com/2AiIKN9 ||||| CLOSE Aly Raisman said she, too, was sexually abused by USA Gymnastics’ longtime team physician Larry Nassar. USA TODAY Sports

 Aly Raisman says she, too, was abused by USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Sports)

 A second member of the Fierce Five squad that won gold at the London Olympics has said she, too, was sexually abused by USA Gymnastics’ longtime team physician.

 Aly Raisman confirmed the abuse in an interview with 60 Minutes, which is to air Sunday night. The three-time gold medalist and captain of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic teams also describes it in her book, Fierce, being released next week.

 “I am angry. I'm really upset,” Raisman told 60 Minutes. “I see these young girls that come up to me, and they ask for pictures or autographs, whatever it is … I just want to create change so that they never, ever have to go through this.”

 Raisman’s revelation comes a month after fellow Fierce Fiver McKayla Maroney came forward to say she was abused by Larry Nassar for several years, beginning when she was 13. A third Olympian, Sydney bronze medalist Jamie Dantzscher, has also said she was abused by Nassar.

 According to the Lansing State Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network, more than 140 women have alleged sexual abuse by Nassar, under the guise of medical treatment.

 Nassar was the USA Gymnastics’ team physician for nearly 20 years, beginning in 1996. He was fired by USA Gymnastics in the summer of 2015, but the federation waited five weeks before alerting the FBI. Raisman told 60 Minutes that she met with the FBI after the Rio Olympics, where she won a second team gold as well as silver medals in the all-around and floor exercise.

 More: Olympic gold medalist Maroney says she was victim of sexual abuse

 More: Former gymnast testifies USA Gymnastics was about 'money and medals'

 More: Raisman criticizes USA Gymnastics, USOC for response to sex abuse scandal

 Raisman has been openly critical of the way USA Gymnastics has handled complaints against Nassar as well as other allegations of sexual abuse. The Indianapolis Star, also part of the USA TODAY Network, has reported more than 360 cases in which gymnasts have accused coaches of sexual transgressions over 20 years.

 “It doesn’t matter if you’re the Olympic champion or you’re an 8-year-old that goes to gymnastics in Ohio, or wherever you are in the United States,” Raisman said in a joint interview with USA TODAY Sports and The Associated Press in August, when she and her Final Five teammates from Rio were inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

 “Every single kid is important, and I want USA Gymnastics to do a better job with that.”

 Raisman declined to detail her interactions with Nassar during the August interview, saying she wanted to keep the focus on the scandal and its overall impact.

 “It's important to speak up for something and it's right. It's the right thing,” she said. “More people need to talk about it and I just feel that it's not getting enough attention in the sport. That's what bothers me. I want these young girls to know. It should have never ever happened and I think that needs to be discussed more.”

 Last month, Maroney came forward in a Twitter post, saying Nassar abused her under the guise of medical treatment. Nassar abused her until she left the sport, Maroney wrote, adding, "It seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the chance, I was 'treated.'"

 Maroney said Nassar abused her before the U.S. team won gold in the 2012 Olympics and before she won silver on vault.

 At the 2011 world championships, Maroney said Nassar gave her a sleeping pill "and the next thing I know I was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a 'treatment.' I thought I was going to die that night." She was 15 at the time.

 Maroney shared her account in October with the #MeToo hashtag.

 "People should know that this is not just happening in Hollywood," Maroney wrote. "This is happening everywhere. Wherever there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse. I had a dream to go to the Olympics, and the things that I had to endure to get there were unnecessary and disgusting."'

 Nassar pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges in July, and he faces 22 to 27 years in prison when he’s sentenced on Dec. 7. He also faces 33 charges of criminal sexual conduct in Michigan.

 The sex abuse scandal led to the ouster of USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny, who resigned in March under pressure from the U.S. Olympic Committee. USA Gymnastics announced this week that Kerry Perry, formerly the vice president of business development at Learfield Communications, would start as CEO on Dec. 1.

 USA Gymnastics hired former federal prosecutor Deborah Daniels to review its practices, and her report found USA Gymnastics needed a “complete cultural change” so safety and well-being of athletes was a greater priority than world and Olympic medals.

 USA Gymnastics has adopted all 70 recommendations made by Daniels and is in the process of implementing them. Some have already been addressed with the opening of the U.S. Center for Safe Sport, an independent agency created by the USOC to handle sexual misconduct cases in the Olympic movement.

 In a statement, USA Gymnastics said it was "appalled by the conduct of which Larry Nassar is accused, and we are very sorry that any athlete has been harmed during her or his gymnastics career."

 "Aly’s passion and concern for athlete safety is shared by USA Gymnastics," the statement said. "We are committed to doing what is right, and we want to work with Aly and all interested athletes to keep athletes safe."

 PHOTOS: Every medal won by U.S. athletes in Rio ||||| Aly Raisman, a six-time Olympic medalist and two-time national team captain, said she was sexually abused by former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, according to CBS' "60 Minutes."

 Nassar already faces 22 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and could receive a sentence of life in prison.

 Raisman told "60 Minutes," in an interview scheduled to air Sunday, that she spoke to FBI investigators after serving as national team captain at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the interview, Raisman said she didn't know why it took so long for allegations against Nassar to come forward.

 Gymnast Aly Raisman won three Olympic gold medals -- and six medals overall -- while serving as national team captain at the 2012 Games in London and 2016 Games in Rio. Jean Catuffe/Getty Images

 "Why are we looking at why didn't the girls speak up? Why not look at what about the culture?" she said. "What did USA Gymnastics do, and Larry Nassar do, to manipulate these girls so much that they are so afraid to speak up?"

 Now 23, Raisman told "60 Minutes" that she started seeing Nassar when she was 15. She details the abuse in her book "Fierce," which will be released on Nov. 14.

 USA Gymnastics said in a statement Friday that Raisman sharing her personal experience took "great courage" and it is "appalled by the conduct of which Larry Nassar is accused."

 Raisman, who was also captain of the team for the 2012 Games in London, is the second member of the "Fierce Five" U.S. women's gymnastics team -- and third Olympian overall -- to allege abuses by Nassar. Just last month, Raisman offered her support to McKayla Maroney after she alleged abuse by Nassar dating back to 2009, when she was just 13.

 Nassar was involved with USA Gymnastics for nearly three decades as a trainer and national medical coordinator, a role that led him to treat the country's elite gymnasts at four separate Olympic Games.

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 During the 2017 national championships in August, Raisman declined to get into specifics about whether she was abused by Nassar, but she painted a vivid picture of how Nassar's behavior went unchecked.

 "I think that, you just want, you want to trust people and that he was just a disgusting person, he took advantage of so many people's trust," Raisman told The Associated Press and USA Today Sports. "And I think, it just disgusts me he was a doctor. It's crazy. Because when a doctor says something you want to believe him and it's just awful."

 USA Gymnastics, in a statement to "60 Minutes," said it was "very sorry that any athlete has been harmed" and that "we want to work with Aly and all interested athletes to keep athletes safe."

 More than 140 women are now suing Nassar and his former employer, Michigan State University. The plaintiffs are also suing USA Gymnastics and other defendants. Attorneys for the alleged victims, USA Gymnastics, the school and other parties to the lawsuit are engaged in court-ordered mediation in an effort to reach a settlement. Attorneys have said that more women are expected to join the lawsuits.

 It is not known whether Raisman or Maroney are part of those lawsuits.

 Nassar has already pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges and is in jail, awaiting a Dec. 7 sentencing in that case.

 He also faces charges in state court in Michigan, largely related to allegations that he digitally penetrated women during medical exams for his own sexual gratification. If convicted on any one of the 22 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, Nassar could be sentenced to life in prison.

 In the past, Nassar and his attorneys have defended the intra-vaginal and intra-rectal procedures as accepted medical practice.

 Nassar was a trainer with USA Gymnastics as far back as 1986. In 1996, he was named national medical coordinator, a position he held until the summer of 2015. Nassar resigned his position from USA Gymnastics shortly after concerns were raised about his behavior during medical exams.

 USA Gymnastics never informed Nassar's employer at the time, Michigan State University, about the circumstances surrounding Nassar's resignation, and he continued to treat patients in Michigan until he was fired by the school in September 2016.

 Raisman has called for change within the sport.

 "I am angry," Raisman told "60 Minutes." "I'm really upset because it's been -- I care a lot, you know, when I see these young girls that come up to me, and they ask for pictures or autographs, whatever it is, I just ... I can't ... every time I look at them, every time I see them smiling, I just think ... I just want to create change so that they never, ever have to go through this."

 Raisman has also called for sweeping changes in leadership, including the removal of the chairman of the board, Paul Parilla. USA Gymnastics hired Kerry Perry as its new president and CEO on Tuesday after president Steve Penny resigned in March after 12 years on the job.

 Raisman and Maroney are the highest-profile gymnasts yet to come forward publicly claiming abuse by Nassar. Jamie Dantzscher, a bronze medalist on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, was part of the initial wave of lawsuits filed against Nassar in 2016.

 The list of Nassar's accusers also includes several former national team members. Jeanette Antolin, Jessica Howard and Kami MacKay have all come forward, alleging abuse by Nassar either through the filing of lawsuits or, in the case of MacKay, on social media.

 USA Gymnastics launched an independent review of its policies in the wake of the allegations against Nassar in the summer of 2016, following reporting by the Indianapolis Star that highlighted chronic mishandling of abuse allegations against coaches and staff at some of its more than 3,500 clubs across the country.

 In June, the federation immediately adopted 70 recommendations proffered by Deborah Daniels, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw the review. The new guidelines require member gyms to go to authorities immediately, with Daniels suggesting USA Gymnastics consider withholding membership from clubs that decline to do so. The organization also named Toby Stark, a child welfare advocate, as its director of SafeSport. Part of Stark's mandate is educating members on rules, educational programs, reporting and adjudication services.

 ESPN's John Barr and The Associated Press contributed to this report. |||||
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– Another Olympic gold-medal gymnast has joined former teammate McKayla Maroney in the #MeToo movement, alleging in a 60 Minutes interview to air Sunday that USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar also sexually abused her, USA Today reports. Per ESPN, Aly Raisman, who's now 23, started seeing Nassar when she was 15. Raisman, who says she's "angry" and "really upset" about what happened to her and others, originally addressed in August the many accusations against Nassar, but at the time she didn't get into her own history with Nassar. She said then that she preferred to shine the spotlight on the overall scandal and to get more people "to talk about it." Per the Lansing State Journal, more than 140 women and girls have filed suits related to his alleged sexual misconduct, with nearly as many reporting him to the cops. Now, however, Raisman is talking about her own experience, telling 60 Minutes: "I just want to create change" so other young girls "never, ever have to go through this." She says she met with the FBI after the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Nassar, who was USA Gymnastics' team doctor for almost two decades, was fired in 2015 and is facing nearly two dozen sexual assault charges against him; he's also set to be sentenced next month on three federal child pornography charges. The multiple lawsuits involving accusations against Nassar name as defendants USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University (where he worked as a doctor for decades), and Nassar himself, among others. Via a statement to 60 Minutes, USA Gymnastics said it was "very sorry that any athlete has been harmed" and that "we want to work with Aly and all interested athletes to keep athletes safe."


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These days, the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 43, is perhaps better known for her website, Goop.com, where New Age meets wellness meets urban bourgeoisie. Not content with, well, just content, she has been developing makeup products with Juice Beauty and has introduced her Goop skin-care line. Ms. Paltrow, who is also mom to Apple, 11, and Moses, 9, lives in Los Angeles. Here, she shares beauty, hair and life advice.

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 In general, I love serums and face oils and body oils. I’m a real oil kind of girl. There’s a myth that oil is not good for your skin. I don’t believe in that at all. So lately I’ve been using my Instant Facial — it has some gentle fruit acids in it, and you feel it go active because there’s a little tingle — and seeing great results. There are also some beads in it (obviously not the plastic microbeads), and it leaves me glow-y. I think you’re supposed to use it only three times a week, but I’ve been using it more. Then I’ll use the day or night cream, or our oil, and the eye cream. ||||| A woman died in Spain after suffering an allergic reaction while undergoing live bee acupuncture - an alternative therapy promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow in which the patient is stung by the angered insects.

 The 55-year-old woman had been undergoing the controversial treatment once a month for two years when she suddenly developed a severe reaction, according to a report by Spanish doctors.

 She “developed wheezing, dyspnea, and sudden loss of consciousness immediately after a live bee sting,” the report, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, said.

 The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was taken to the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid but died some weeks later of multiple organ failure. She had suffered a “massive watershed stroke and permanent coma” due to severe anaphylactic shock, said the report’s authors, Ricardo Madrigal and Paula Vázquez Revuelta of the hospital’s allergy unit.

 The 2015 case is believed to be the first reported death from live bee acupuncture - also known as bee venom apitherapy - of a patient who had previously not been allergic. The report said that repeated exposure to the allergen increased the risk of a severe reaction. |||||

– It may not surprise you to learn that Gwyneth Paltrow has sought to treat her ailments—in this case inflammation and scarring—by subjecting herself to the stings of live bees. "It's a thousands-of-year-old treatment," the Goop mastermind told the New York Times in 2016. "It's actually pretty incredible if you research it. But, man, it's painful." Now a report published in the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology reveals what's believed to be the first death related to bee-sting therapy—aka live bee acupuncture, aka bee venom apitherapy—in someone who had previously shown tolerance for the treatment. In the case from 2015, a 55-year-old Spanish woman died of multiple organ failure after two years of the treatment to relieve muscular contracture and stress. In bee-sting therapy, bees placed on a patient's body have their heads squeezed until they extend their stingers, the Telegraph reports. The idea is that the stings cause inflammation and lead to an anti-inflammatory response from the body. The unnamed woman started wheezing and having shortness of breath during one of her monthly treatments at a private clinic before losing consciousness. She died weeks later at the hospital. Researchers say severe anaphylactic shock caused a "massive watershed stroke and permanent coma," as well as the multiple organ failure. "The risks of undergoing apitherapy may exceed the presumed benefits, leading us to conclude that this practice is both unsafe and unadvisable," one researcher says. (Doctor accuses Goop of pushing "fake medicine" with $135 coffee enema.)


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The large, deadly explosion at an Iran military base in Iran on Nov. 12, which Iranian authorities have called an accident that set back research work there by a few days, appears to have been far more devastating than their description suggested, according to an analysis of newly released commercial satellite images of the blast site.

 The images reveal vast destruction and chaotic disarray across a sprawling complex composed of more than a dozen buildings and large structures.

 The Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington, made the satellite images public Monday, along with an analysis of the damage. “It was pretty amazing to see that the entire facility was destroyed,” Paul Brannan, the report’s author, said Tuesday in an interview. “There were only a few buildings left standing.”

 It was impossible to determine from the images whether the explosion had been a simple accident or an act of sabotage.

 The force of the explosion was so great that it shook windows in many surrounding towns, according to Iranian news sites and witnesses quoted at the time. But no photographs of the blast damage were released by the Iranian government, which has become increasingly sensitive about its military capabilities as tensions escalate with the West over its missile and nuclear programs.

 The base, set in an isolated patch of Iranian desert ringed by a security cordon, is about 30 miles west of Tehran and three miles west of the town of Bidganeh.

 The explosion is already known to have killed 17 members of the armed forces, including a founder of the country’s missile program, Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam.

 Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, presided over a vast state funeral for General Moghaddam and 16 other members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps two days after the explosion. The showy memorial service underscored General Moghaddam’s importance.

 Hassan Firouzabadi, the Iranian military chief of staff, said on Nov. 16 that the blast occurred while researchers were working on weapons capable of delivering Israel a “strong punch in the mouth.” He also said their research would result in only a “short-term delay of a few days.” But it was hard to reconcile his appraisal with the obliteration seen in the satellite image.

 The spy-satellite business, once a secretive monopoly of advanced nations, went commercial starting more than a decade ago. Today, a new generation of civilian satellites can peer down from orbit to see objects on the ground as small as two or three feet wide — enough to distinguish between a car and a truck.

 Last week, on Nov. 22, a commercial satellite operated by DigitalGlobe snapped an image of the stricken base. It showed that most of its buildings had been destroyed or extensively damaged.

 In its analysis, the Institute for Science and International Security noted that some of the destruction may have resulted from subsequent demolition of buildings and the removal of debris that may have occurred. But it also discounted that possibility.

 “There do not appear to be many pieces of heavy equipment such as cranes or dump trucks on the site, and a considerable amount of debris is still present,” the report noted. “About the same number of trucks are visible in the image after the blast as in an image from approximately two months prior to the blast. Thus, most of the damage seen in the Nov. 22, 2011, image likely resulted from the explosion.”

 In the interview, Mr. Brannan said that the institute’s sources indicated that the blast occurred while rocket engineers were performing a volatile procedure with a missile engine.

 His report called the work integral to “a major milestone in the development of a new missile.” ||||| Reports

 Satellite Image Showing Damage from November 12, 2011 Blast at Military Base in Iran

 by Paul Brannan

 November 28, 2011

 ISIS has acquired commercial satellite imagery of a military compound near the town of Bid Kaneh1 in Iran where a large explosion occurred on November 12, 2011. Compared to an earlier picture of the site, an image taken on November 22, 2011 shows that most of the buildings on the compound appear extensively damaged (see figures 1 and 2). Some buildings appear to have been completely destroyed. Some of the destruction seen in the image may have also resulted from subsequent controlled demolition of buildings and removal of debris. There do not appear to be many pieces of heavy equipment such as cranes or dump trucks on the site, and a considerable amount of debris is still present. About the same number of trucks are visible in the image after the blast as in an image from approximately two months prior to the blast. Thus, most of the damage seen in the November 22, 2011 image likely resulted from the explosion.

 ISIS learned that the blast occurred as Iran had achieved a major milestone in the development of a new missile. Iran was apparently performing a volatile procedure involving a missile engine at the site when the blast occurred.

 Figure 1. November 22, 2011 commercial satellite image showing extensive damage at a military base in Iran resulting from a November 12, 2011 explosion. Most of the buildings on the compound are extensively damaged or destroyed.

 Figure 2. September 9, 2011 commercial satellite image of the same military base in Iran, for reference, approximately two months before the blast occurred.

 1Allen Thomson, former intelligence analyst, located the geographic coordinates for the town of Bid Kaneh. |||||

– The mysterious explosion at an Iranian military base west of Tehran earlier this month was far more devastating than initially reported, reports the New York Times. Satellite images of the site reveal destruction across a sprawling complex of some dozen buildings. “It was pretty amazing to see that the entire facility was destroyed,” said the author of a report by the private Institute for Science and International Security. “There were only a few buildings left standing." The explosion killed at least 17 servicemen. Iran's military chief of staff said that the blast occurred while researchers were working on weapons capable of delivering a “strong punch in the mouth" to Israel. ISIS experts believe the explosion occurred during a "volatile procedure" involving a new missile.


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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Colonel Gaddafi told the BBC that the protesters are members of al Qaeda

 Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told the BBC he is loved by all his people and has denied there have been any protests in Tripoli.

 Col Gaddafi said that his people would die to protect him.

 He laughed at the suggestion he would leave Libya and said that he felt betrayed by the world leaders who had urged him to quit.

 US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said the interview showed Col Gaddafi was "delusional" and "unfit to lead".

 World foreign ministers earlier condemned attacks on Libyan civilians and the European Union imposed sanctions including an arms embargo, asset freeze and travel ban on Col Gaddafi and his close entourage.

 Col Gaddafi is facing a massive challenge to his 41-year rule, with protesters in control of towns in the east.

 'Mercenaries and thugs'

 Col Gaddafi was speaking in an interview in Tripoli with BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, US TV network ABC, and the UK's Sunday Times newspaper.

 Col Gaddafi accused Western countries of abandoning Libya and said that they had no morals and wanted to colonise the country.

 At the scene Colonel Gaddafi did not look like a man under pressure during the interview in a restaurant overlooking Tripoli's port. He was in a fairly relaxed mood throughout, looking as if he was relishing the biggest challenge he has had in almost 42 years as Libya's leader. Asked if he would follow the advice of Western leaders to quit, he said he no official position to give up. Foreigners didn't understand the Libyan system, Colonel Gaddafi said, claiming that power was already in the hands of the people. He had harsh words for the Western leaders who have been part of Libya's rapprochement with the outside world in recent years. He said he felt betrayed. The West, he said, wanted to recolonise Libya - and that was why it had been singled out. Excerpts: Gaddafi interview

 When asked whether he would resign, he said he could not step down as he did not have an official position and insisted that the power was with the people.

 Col Gaddafi challenged those, including UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who have accused him of having money abroad, to produce evidence.

 He said he would "put two fingers in their eye".

 Col Gaddafi said true Libyans had not demonstrated but those who had come on to the streets were under the influence of drugs supplied by al-Qaeda.

 He said those people had seized weapons and that his supporters were under orders not to shoot back.

 Ms Rice said Col Gaddafi was "frankly delusional".

 "When he can laugh in talking to... journalists while he is slaughtering his own people, it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality," she said.

 Earlier, foreign ministers who had gathered at a UN human rights conference in Geneva called for Col Gaddafi to go.

 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Col Gaddafi and his followers of using "mercenaries and thugs" to attack unarmed civilians, and of executing soldiers who refused to turn their guns on fellow citizens.

 "It is time for Gaddafi to go, now, without further violence or delay," she said.

 Mrs Clinton also said that although US naval vessels were being repositioned near Libya there was no military action pending.

 When asked whether the US would back Col Gaddafi going into exile, Mrs Clinton said: "If violence could be ended by his leaving... it might be a good step but we believe accountability must be obtained for what he has done."

 The US Treasury said it had blocked $30bn (£18.5bn) in Libyan assets - the largest sum it had ever frozen.

 US President Barack Obama met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Monday and both expressed concern at the rising violence and called for a legitimately elected president.

 Mr Ban said of Col Gaddafi: "He lost legitimacy when he declared war on his people."

 'Blood of martyrs'

 Although protesters have secured towns in the east, Col Gaddafi shows no signs of giving up in and around Tripoli.

 In Tajoura, a suburb of the capital, about 400 people protested against him on Monday, chanting: "The blood of martyrs won't go to waste." Gaddafi supporters have reportedly tried to break up the protest by firing into the air.

 Reporters say there have been long queues at banks in the capital as people tried to collect the 500 dinars ($410) promised to all families by the government in an attempt to quell the unrest.

 There has been fighting in the coastal town of Misrata, 200km (125 miles) east of Tripoli, with Col Gaddafi's opponents repelling a government counter-attack.

 Anti-government forces still control Zawiya, 50km west of Tripoli, but pro-Gaddafi forces are surrounding the city. One resident told Reuters: "We are expecting attacks at any moment... They are in large numbers."

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Jim Muir says volunteers are helping to provide food and drink to those who manage to cross Libya's border with Tunisia

 Libyan air force planes also reportedly attacked ammunition depots in the eastern towns of Ajdabiya and Rajma.

 Deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaim said the authorities would attempt to talk to protesters in the east, but added: "If all attempts and efforts for dialogue... are exhausted, a very well guided force will be used in accordance with international rules."

 About 100,000 people have fled anti-government unrest in Libya over the past week, the UN estimates.

 The exodus of Egyptian workers from western Libya began on Wednesday, but has since been intensifying, says the BBC's Jim Muir at the Ras Ajdir border crossing with Tunisia. About 1,000 people an hour are crossing into Tunisia, he says. ||||| I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya.

 "They love me. All my people with me, they love me," he said. "They will die to protect me, my people."

 We conducted the interview at a beachfront restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast. Dressed in his flowing trademark robes and gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses, Gadhafi looked every inch the flamboyant character he's known to be. The longtime leader, who didn't seem to be surrounded by huge amounts of security, seemed relaxed and focused. Walking unabashedly into the restaurant, Gadhafi wanted to show he's not hiding in any underground bunker and that he believes he's still very much in charge.

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 Gadhafi said he wanted to speak to the press to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story.

 The Libyan leader laughed when I asked him whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama.

 "Would anyone leave his homeland? Why would I leave Libya?" Gadhafi said, laughing.

 He invited the United Nations and any other organization to come to Libya and do a "fact finding mission" and questioned how they could freeze assets, impose sanctions and an arms embargo, and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports alone.

 The current uprising is the most serious challenge posed to Gadhafi's leadership since he came to power in 1969. The 11-day revolt has turned the international community against Gadhafi and spurred the United Nations to impose new sanctions against him.

 Just today, a funeral for one of the protesters killed last week in Tripoli turned into a small anti-Gadhafi rally. At Tripoli's central hospital, a doctor confirmed that he received the bodies of nine people shot to death during protests.

 But Gadhafi's version of the truth seemed to be at odds with what people have been talking about and reporting here, and he does not seem to fully comprehend the drama and the magnitude of what's going on around him.

 He said he would not be leaving Libya, and denied -- in very strong terms -- using any force against his people. I asked him several times about reports that aerial bombardments had been used against protesters, but Gadhafi said they did not happen and that they had only bombed military and ammunition depots.

 He seemed to be in complete denial about the protests against him, and that other big cities in Libya, particularly those in the east, had been taken by his opponents.

 He simply rejected the notion that any walls were closing in on him. He denied he was besieged in the capital and said he would survive the current situation.

 Gadhafi reiterated his mantra, saying he's not president and he's not in a formal position. Libya is ruled by the people, and he is one of the people, he told ABC News.

 Gadhafi instead blamed al Qaeda for encouraging young people to seize arms from military installations.

 He said the people who have taken over Benghazi in eastern Libya are terrorists and al Qaeda operatives. He doesn't believe people are demonstrating against him anywhere in Libya, and repeated the charge that those who are have been given hallucinogenic drugs -- a claim he first made in his televised speech broadcast last week.

 Though he spoke mostly in Arabic, at times he became passionate and broke into excited English.

 When I asked him about international fears that he might use chemical weapons or launch a scorched-earth campaign against vital oil supplies, Gadhafi responded with laughter.

 "We solved all these WMD issues with the U.S. and Britain years ago. It's not reasonable to use against your enemy, let alone your own people," he responded. "The terrorists will try. At night, they try and go into the oil fields."

 Gadhafi, who has ruled Libya for 41 years, said he felt betrayed by the United States.

 "I'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight al Qaeda, and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us," he said. "Perhaps they want to occupy Libya."

 Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction in 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, and the United States lifted sanctions and restarted business relations with Libya.

 In 2008, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Libya, marking the first such visit for an official of her position since 1953, and in 2009, Gadhafi visited the United States.

 Libya's longtime dictator called Obama a "good man" but said he might have been given "misinformation."

 "The statements I have heard from him must have come from someone else," Gadhafi said. "America is not the international police of the world."

 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice called Gadhafi's assertion that the Libyan people are behind him "delusional."

 "When he can laugh in talking to American and international journalists while he is slaughtering his own people, it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality," Rice said.

 ABC conducted the interview with two other reporters from the BBC and the Sunday Times of London.

 Read Christiane Amanpour's earlier reporter's notebook from Libya here.

 Follow Christiane Amanpour on Facebook and Twitter. |||||

– In Moammar Gadhafi's Libya, the only protesters are a few al-Qaeda-backed, drug-addled Libyans, the rest of his people love him, and he in fact can't step down—and certainly has no intention of doing so. The Libyan leader sat down with ABC's Christiane Amanpour and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen for an hour-long interview today. Some highlights: "They love me. All my people with me, they love me," he said. "They will die to protect me, my people." For world leaders who accuse him of hiding assets abroad, Gadhafi says he'll "put two fingers in their eye." Gadhafi strongly denies that government forces have used violence against Libyans, insisting that government airstrikes destroyed only barracks and ammunition depots. He insists that he cannot step down, as he has no formal position—Gadhafi says that the will of the people, alone, keeps him in power. Given his al-Qaeda theory, Gadhafi is taken aback by the US support for the demonstrators. "I'm surprised that we have an alliance with the West to fight al-Qaeda, and now that we are fighting terrorists they have abandoned us," he said. "Perhaps they want to occupy Libya." US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said in response that the interview proves Gadhafi is "delusional." "When he can laugh in talking to American and international journalists while he is slaughtering his own people, it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality."


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Replying to @ChelseaYanga @ChelseaYanga Check the link in my bio aye ||||| Add a location to your Tweets

 When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| WASHINGTON — When President Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message on an iPhone.

 The @POTUS account — named for the in-house acronym derived from “President of the United States” — would “serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him,” a White House aide wrote that day.

 But it took only a few minutes for Mr. Obama’s account to attract racist, hate-filled posts and replies. They addressed him with racial slurs and called him a monkey. One had an image of the president with his neck in a noose.

 The posts reflected the racial hostility toward the nation’s first black president that has long been expressed in stark terms on the Internet, where conspiracy theories thrive and prejudices find ready outlets. But the racist Twitter posts are different because now that Mr. Obama has his own account, the slurs are addressed directly to him, for all to see. ||||| Earlier today, the President of the United States and the holder of the highest office in the land, Barack Obama, debuted the first, official Twitter account run by the President and the President alone. Because of how the internet works, hundreds of people immediately asked the President to please sit on my face, daddy. And because of how the Presidential Records Act works, every single one of those tweets, from “spank me” to “fist me,” is getting filed away in the official White House archives.

 From the White House Online Privacy Policy:

 On Twitter, the White House automatically archives “tweets” from official White House accounts, “direct messages” sent to or from official White House accounts, and “mentions” (tweets from other users to official White House accounts; these tweets contain an @ and the username of an official White House account (e.g., @WhiteHouse).

 In other words, for the sole purpose of complying with the Presidential Records Act, the White House will be archiving Twitter user “shithead”’s request that President Obama, Michelle Obama, and former President Bill Clinton all “slay him.” Along with every one of these.

 @POTUS FIST ME DADDY I WANT U TO MAKE ME YOUR BITCH JUST SPUNK IN MY EYE AND MAKE ME CHOKE ON UR DICK May 18, 2015

 .@POTUS fuck me in the ass May 18, 2015

 Congratulations, kids. We’ll see you in the Library of Congress. |||||

– The White House says it's "pleased with the early response" to President Obama's new Twitter account, which has crushed a record and received plenty of adoring messages. But it's the hateful, racist posts that are getting attention, including from the Secret Service. New York Times reports users have called Obama racial slurs and "monkey," while others have told him to kill himself. In one post now removed, @jeffgully49 shared a doctored image of Obama's campaign poster showing the president with a broken neck and his head in a noose. Rather than his slogan "Hope," the poster read "Rope." The Times reports that in another post, account owner Jeff Gullickson of Minneapolis said the Secret Service—whose "Internet Threat Desk" monitors all such communications—had paid him a visit. The paper shares research company Topsy's count of one unspecified slur as being directed at President Obama at least 150 times on Monday, the day of Obama's first tweet. The Washington Post reports it took just 10 minutes for a racist tweet to be directed at @POTUS. And then there's the vulgar content. Obama tweeted this very tame sentiment on Wednesday: "An honor to address the Coast Guard Class of 2015. Confident they'll help us meet big challenges like climate change." It was met with plenty of unprintable replies. Gawker on Monday pointed out that every tweet Obama gets, including, say, "spank me daddy," will enter the official White House archives under the Presidential Records Act. (Obama also had a racist problem on Google Maps.)


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– And then there were 14 ... on the GOP side only, a presidential field that NJ.com reports was last this big when Abraham Lincoln won in 1860. Chris Christie today threw his hat into the ring by way of an announcement made at Livingston High School, his alma mater and the town where "everything started ... for me." Politico reported that Christie's announcement would be made telepromter-free, as befitting his "Telling it like it is" campaign slogan. He kicked things off with stories of his roots—hard work, not much money—and what his mother told him: "God's given you so many gifts. If you just work hard enough, you can be anything." Ten standout lines from there: "Both parties have failed our country." "I wake up every morning knowing I have the opportunity to do something great. That's why this job is a great job, and why president of the United States is an even greater job." "America is tired of weakness in the Oval Office ... and that is why today I'm proud to announce my candidacy." "The lying and stealing has already happened. The horse is out of the barn. We've got to get it back in and you can only do it by force." "After seven years I heard the president say the other day that the world respects" America more "because of his leadership. This is confirmation that Obama lives in his own world, not ours." "We better not turn [this world] over to his second mate Hillary Clinton." "I am not running for president of the United States as a surrogate for being prom king of America. I mean what I say and I say what I mean and that's what America needs right now." "And unlike some people who will offer themselves for the presidency, you're not going to have to wonder if I can do it or not." He promised a campaign "without focus-group-tested answers. A campaign when I'm asked a question I'm going to give an answer to the question that's asked, not the answer my political consultants told me to give backstage." "We are going to tell it like it is today ... the truth will set us free, everybody."

TRENTON — The Republican field for the White House is growing larger by the day, and that could be a problem for Gov. Chris Christie.

 With former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush jumping in last week, the formally declared Republican candidates for the White House stands at a dozen, including five former or current U.S. Senators and four current or former governors. There hasn't been a presidential field approaching this size since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected.

 Christie, who is expected to add his name to the big list in the coming weeks, is already part of a mad scramble of Republicans trying to win national attention and gain the favor of GOP voters responding to presidential polls. That's because Fox News Channel has decided that only the top 10 GOP candidates in the polls will be allowed into its televised Aug. 6 debate (CNN has the same rule for its mid-September debate, although it will hold another one for also-rans in the polls).

 Christie's well-known rhetorical skills would be on full display in such a forum – but only if he makes the cut. Earlier this month, a Washington Post/ABC News poll illustrated just how slender the difference is between first and last in the crowded field: Only five percentage points divide Christie, in eighth place, from the first place candidates U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. And he was just four percentage points from 12th place.

 "You're already seeing the party struggling with who gets invited (to the debate) and who doesn't," said Thomas F. Schaller, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the author of the new book "The Stronghold: How the How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House."

 Schaller said that to gain traction in the media and improve poll numbers, Christie and his rivals will likely start playing nastier faster than ever.

 "The things that break though are the really big stories and really big gaffes," he said, "which really puts a premium on earned media and being really critical. ... Big attacks draw media attention."

 Christie, who specializes in full-contact politics, is already employing a plan of attack.

 On Friday, he once again took aim at 2016 contender Paul for recently leading the effort to let parts of the Patriot Act, which allowed U.S. officials to collect Americans' phone data, expire.

 "What Paul has done has made us weaker and more vulnerable," Christie told an audience in Philadelphia. "It's disgraceful. It's made our country a more dangerous place."

 On Thursday at an ersatz campaign stop in New Hampshire, Christie chided Bush for being "late to the party" with his newly announced economic plan aiming for 4 percent economic growth.

 "This is one of these areas where I'm really flattered that Jeb Bush is copying me because I spoke three, four weeks ago in New Hampshire about a five-step plan to get to four percent growth," Christie said. "Then I heard Jeb announce on Monday that he's for four percent growth too — that's good. I welcome him to the party. He's a little bit late, but I welcome him."

 The size of the field and its closely competitive rankings means a different approach to early campaigning is needed, experts say.

 "As we move into the phase of the campaign where they are debating, the candidates who are shaping the discussion are going to get more (media) attention," said Steve Schmidt, who ran the day-to-day operations of Sen. John McCain's 2008 White House bid, "And so, at a personal level, candidates need to stake out territory, because it's the meat on the bones of why are you running: Do you just want the big house, plane and helicopter, or do you want to get something done for the country?"

 Christie has followed this roadmap as well, proposing detailed plans for reforms to federal entitlement programs, immigration policy, taxes and education. In a normal race, offering up such specificity early on might cost a candidate some voters, but in such an unusually large field, Schmidt says Christie has a clear advantage by defining his positions.

 "There's a tendency sometimes among candidates to take what I call a 'preventative defense' that's organized around the principle of not making mistakes or not putting information out there," Schmidt said. "I think it's not a winning strategy. As a candidate, you need to be an 'advocate for' and not a 'hedger against.' He's doing that, and he's also indicating a style of leadership which he'll articulate in the White House: 'I'm not going to be afraid to take on the tough problems, and I'm going to talk truthfully.'"

 Getting enough attention to make the cut for the GOP debates could be complicated by the summer months, when TV audiences are about 10 percent less than in the winter months, according to Dounia Turrill, a senior vice-president at Nielsen, the TV ratings company.

 And the large field of candidates makes it even tougher, experts say.

 "Historically, we've never had so many people who are seriously running for the presidency and who have become part of the daily news cycle," said Joseph Ellis, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning presidential history, "Founding Brothers."

 Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University, said as a result, "We're going to see more of them and less of them at the same time. There'll be more debates but at the same time, in terms of the major media outlets, each one will have less time and space to be heard."

 In first primary state New Hampshire, where Christie has spent much of his late spring, lifelong Republican Leonore Moniz, 82, of Manchester, articulated a refrain common to scores of GOP voters interviewed by NJ Advance Media in the Granite State in recent weeks: "There's too many of them."

 Finding a way to the front of the pack as soon as possible is especially important because top GOP strategists and presidential historians agree that the 2016 campaign could last longer than any in recent memory.

 Thanks to the 2012 Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which allows unlimited amounts of cash to back presidential candidates, much of the field may stay in the race far longer than usual if hopefuls can find even a single billionaire to champion them.

 "There's an excellent chance this all goes to May or June of next year," said Ellis.

 If that happens, it could put in play a state that rarely has a say in presidential primaries: New Jersey, which holds its primary June 7 next year.

 Richard Davis, who served as the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain's 2008 White House bid, said it could last even longer than that.

 "The combination of big outside money, a condensed primary timetable and 15 candidates will result in a prolonged nominating process and could result in a brokered convention since no candidate will get to the 1,100 delegates needed," said Davis.

 "In 2008, McCain wrapped up the nomination by March. In 2012 it took Romney to May. In 2016 it will go to the convention in July. Not only are there a lot more candidates but with the outside money widely distributed there is no incentive to winnow the field," he said.

 Claude Brodesser-Akner may be reached at cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @claudebrodesser. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.

  ||||| Chris Christie: No teleprompter for launch

 Gov. Chris Christie’s launch rally at his high school in New Jersey on Tuesday will include friends who remember his years as class president — but no teleprompter, in an effort to live up to Christie’s campaign slogan, “Telling it like it is.”

 With the independent-minded voters of New Hampshire the key to his come-from-behind strategy, Christie will spend five straight days in the Granite State, beginning the evening of his announcement day. Plunging into the hand-to-hand campaigning that First Staters relish, he’ll hold at least three town halls and attend a Fourth of July celebration, plus various house and diner stops.

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 Offering himself as a pragmatic, results-oriented conservative, Christie will signal his willingness to take on tough issues that others duck, notably entitlements. Another key part of Christie’s message will be his ability to win and govern in a blue state, where he did well in his reelection race with women, Hispanics and even Democrats.

 A top adviser said the announcement tour is meant to showcase a Christie strength: “Communicating to bring people to his side — even people who don’t agree on every issue.”

 Christie’s wife, Mary Pat, and the rest of his family, along with longtime supporters and friends, will jam the gym at Livingston High School, where he was president for three years, for the 11 a.m. bash. The invocation will be by Joe Carter, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, who has been a key voice for Christie in the African-American community.

 The adviser said the audience “will see a lot of who he is as a person,” including the middle-class upbringing that shaped him: the influence of his late mother, his Irish father working at the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark to put himself through Rutgers, a grandmother who was a Sicilian immigrant and a single mother.

 A preview video shows Christie at a town hall, saying that his loud candor has its roots in his loving, trusting family.

 The adviser said Christie welcomes the discussion about the bridge closing and subsequent investigation at this point.

 “To get past it, there has to be a little discussion,” the adviser said. “People can see now that everything he said was true. That doesn’t mean that the damage is undone. But people and donors are moving past it for the first time. For the most part, people will be looking to the future, not the past.”

 After the announcement speech, Christie will fly to New Hampshire for a 6 p.m. Tuesday town hall in Sandown. On Wednesday, he has an endorsement announcement at Mary Ann’s Diner in Derry, then an afternoon house party in Bridgewater, followed by a town hall at the American Legion hall in Ashland, in Grafton County.

 On Thursday, he has a town hall in Rochester, and he stops by the Pink Cadillac Diner. Then it’s on to a luncheon in Portsmouth, followed by an endorsement announcement and a house party. He’ll remain in New Hampshire on Friday, with events to be announced, and on Saturday will celebrate the Fourth of July with his new best friends in the Granite State.

 Mike DuHaime, Christie’s longtime strategist, will advise the campaign from the outside. Close adviser Maria Comella has moved to his PAC. Samantha Smith, the PAC’s communications director, and James Garcia, the PAC’s political director, are expected to play similar roles from the campaign, which will be based in northern New Jersey.

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– A police officer and national guardsman from Colorado is missing on Russia's tallest mountain, the Denver Post reports. Steven Beare, attempting his first solo climb without a guide, was due at a checkpoint June 16 but never arrived. "We know that there was a really bad storm that came in really quick out of nowhere," his wife Olivia Beare tells ABC 7. "We're thinking that's when he got lost." According to Russian media, an eight-person rescue team tried to follow Beare's route on Mount Elbrus but gave up the search Sunday. Olivia Beare is currently paying a private rescue team $2,500 an hour to continue looking for her husband. The Colorado Police Officers Foundation is collecting donations. Beare, an Army veteran with a young child and another on the way, has been climbing for five years, KDVR reports. His goal was to summit the world's seven highest peaks; he had already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Olivia Beare, who hasn't spoken to her husband since he arrived in Russia on June 12, says he has the skills to survive a blizzard but may be injured. "I'm really scared," she tells ABC 7. She adds to KDVR: "I can’t raise two babies by myself." Littleton Police Chief Doug Stephens says cops "fight through and win" when things seem hopeless, and he's sure Beare is doing just that.

LITTLETON, Colo. — A Colorado officer and National Guardsman is missing in Russia and his family, friends and coworkers are working feverishly to locate him on a remote mountain.

 Olivia Beare, wife of Steven Beare, said her husband, a Littleton Police Department officer, went missing while climbing Mount Elbrus in Russia on June 16.

 She said it was her husband's first solo climb without a guide.

 The last time Beare spoke to him was on Monday night when he first arrived in the country.

 "We know that there was a really bad storm that came in really quick out of nowhere," Beare said. "We're thinking that's when he got lost."

 A few days after he first went missing, Beare said a blizzard hit the mountain.

 "My biggest fear is that he's freezing to death, and he's alone somewhere in the snow, and I don't know if he's going to make it," Beare said. "I'm really scared."

 Beare said a Russian team began looking for him on Sunday, but had to call off their search due to weather.

 She is currently working with family and friends to deploy private search crews, along with two helicopters who will fly above the mountain once the weather permits.

 "My husband was deployed multiple times and I never have worried about him, or worried for him to come home like I have the last three days," Beare said

 Beare said her husband traveled to Russia to take on his second of the world's seven highest peaks — he has already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's an avid climber who has taken on more than 20 of Colorado's 14,000 foot mountains.

 As Beare continues to organize efforts to search for her husband, her friends and Beare's fellow officer's are raising funds to help pay for expenses on the ground.

 Those interested in donating to the efforts can make donations here, or send a check to the Colorado Police Officers Foundation at 2701 W. 84th Ave. #211 in Westminster, CO 80031. In both instances, write Steven Beare's name in the notes section of the donation.

 "I just picture him walking out of the storm into clear skies, I don't know if it will happen," Beare said. "He's on the mountain somewhere." ||||| Littleton Police officer Steven Beare is missing from a solo ascent of the tallest mountain in Russia.

 Beare, a Colorado National Guardsman who has deployed multiple times, went missing while climbing Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, according to his wife, Olivia Beare.

 Tass, the Russian news agency, reported that Beare was supposed to return to a checkpoint on June 16, but did not report in. Tass reported that an eight-person, high-mountain search and rescue team was retracing Beare’s route, but Olivia Beare said they stopped looking on Sunday.

 Mount Elbrus, at 18,510 feet, is also the tallest mountain in Europe.

 Olivia Beare told Denver7 that she spoke with her husband on June 12 when he first arrived in Russia.

 Beare last attempted phone calls from the mountain on Saturday, according to the Colorado Police Officers Foundation, which is raising money to finance a private search team. His exact location is unknown due to a severe blizzard.

 CPOF described Beare as an experienced alpinist who was climbing Mount Elbrus in pursuit of bagging the seven highest peaks in the world. He has extensive training, including in cold weather situations.

 The Beares have a 20-month-old son and Olivia is 11-weeks pregnant with their second child.

 “We need him to come home to his wife and family and your help in this effort is both needed and greatly appreciated,” the CPOF’s website said. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video

 HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. -- The search continues for a Littleton police officer who went missing while mountain climbing in Russia last week.

 Steven Beare hasn’t been heard from since Friday. He was attempting a solo climb of Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe.

 “His goal is to complete the seven world summits,” his wife Olivia Beare said.

 The high school sweethearts have been together 14 years. They have a toddler and another baby on the way in January.

 “That’s not the only reason I need my husband home, but it’s definitely a big reason," she said. "I can’t raise two babies by myself. He is everything in the world to me.”

 Beare is an Army veteran, a member of the Colorado National Guard and has been an officer with the Littleton Police Department for 1 1/2 years.

 "We are keeping officer Beare and his family in our thoughts and prayers. Steven is a highly respected officer for the LPD and all of us are hopeful he will be located quickly," police said in a statement.

 “When circumstances appear hopeless, you fight through and win, no matter what,” Chief Doug Stephens said. “That’s what cops do and I am confident that Steven is doing that now.”

 Beare developed a passion for mountain climbing five years ago and has summited difficult peaks such as Mount Kilimanjaro.

 “He was ready for this climb,” Olivia Beare said. “He felt confident in his skills and his equipment that he has.”

 She said the two have a rule that Steven Beare always calls home when he is finished climbing a mountain. He was due back down Friday but never called.

 A massive snowstorm blanketed the mountain while Beare was climbing. A nearby group has reported seeing him go up but lost sight of him when they were forced to turn back because of low visibility in the snow.

 “He does have other equipment for getting water and through all of his military training, he’s got a ton of mountaineering experience and survival skills," Olivia Beare said.

 "He knows how to hunker down in snow and make a hut. But if he’s injured, I don’t know if that’s happening."

 She said she is hopeful, but worried.

 “The biggest obstacle right now that my husband faces is the cold and the 4 feet of snow that was dumped in this blizzard,” she said. “I’m just worried he’s going to freeze to death.”

 Now it’s a race against the clock. Olivia Beare has been coordinating overseas rescue efforts from her living room in Highlands Ranch.

 There happens to be another climber from Littleton at Mount Elbrus who has been able to facilitate communication between Beare’s family and Russian rescue teams.

 Search and rescue had to call off the search on Sunday because of poor weather.

 “They’re conservative in their search and rescues to protect their own men,” Olivia Beare said.

 Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman sent a letter to the Russian ambassador to the U.S. on Wednesday asking for additional help.

 In the meantime, Olivia Beare has also hired private rescuers to continue the search. However, progress is slow.

 The man she hired to search by foot hasn’t been approved for a visa to enter Russia. And the helicopter teams she hired haven’t been able to deploy because of whiteout conditions on top of the mountain.

 “They are hoping to go out at sunrise (Thursday). The storm is not fully cleared but it’s getting clearer,” she said.

 The only thing Olivia Beare has left to do is hope.

 “I hope he knows that I’m doing everything I can do find him,” she said. “I hope that he’s really pushing himself to be stubborn and strong and stay alive.”

 The private rescue helicopters cost $2,500 per hour. They have already paid for five hours of searching, but might need more.

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An experimental performance unveils the "wizard behind the curtain" in tribute

 Lady Gaga will be honoring the work, influence and legend of David Bowie at this year’s Grammys with a performance powered by Intel.

 Both Gaga and Bowie have used the medium of the stage — and often their own bodies — to express themselves and the many messages throughout their music. To further propel her Grammy performance to honor one of her greatest heroes, Gaga will have the support of Intel to bring her performance to life.

 The collaboration between Intel and Lady Gaga is part of the Experience Amazing campaign. Intel aims to show how its technology facilitates unique experiences throughout the world.

 Intel’s involvement with Lady Gaga’s Bowie tribute is part of the company’s multiyear partnership with The Recording Academy for its ‘Next Generation of GRAMMY Moments’ initiative that will launch next during Grammys week. Intel has resealed a teaser video for the project, which features Lady Gaga’s vision and her involvement:

 In the video Gaga explains, “With the arsenal of the world’s leading technology at my fingertips, I now have the ability to invent the un-inventable.” She says that the collaboration between herself and Intel will “culminate in a performance that inspires to remind the world of the seed of innovation, the wizard behind the curtain, the mind behind the machine.”

 You can check out Gaga’s Grammy performance on Monday, February 15th.

 Experience Amazing ||||| Lady Gaga's tribute to David Bowie started on the 2016 Grammys red carpet.

 The 29-year-old pop star channeled the late singer by wearing an orange wig, a leotard, a bedazzled Marc Jacobs blazer and platform heels, a nod to Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era. Prior to her arrival at L.A.'s Staples Center, Gaga shared two Snapchat videos of herself crying in the makeup chair while listening to Bowie's "Backstar" and "Church." On Saturday, Gaga commissioned celebrity tattoo artist Mark Mahoney to ink Bowie's likeness (from his Aladdin Sane album cover) on the left side of her torso. She Snapchatted the inking, captioning one shot, "This was the image that changed my life," and in another, "Hail Mary full of grace Saint Bowie."

 Gaga will sing some of Bowie's biggest hits later tonight.

 At the Recording Academy and Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy Gala Sunday night, E! News' Marc Malkin got intel on Gaga's performance from Neil Portnoy, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. "She will take us through quite a bit of history of David Bowie's repertoire. It's one of the longest, larger segments of the night," Portnoy said. "There's some very exciting brand new technology that's never been seen on television that will be a part of the segment."

 As if Gaga would settle for anything less. ||||| Lady Gaga paid tribute to David Bowie with a transformative performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards ceremony. Bowie died last month from a long battle with cancer, with his death coming days after his 69th birthday and release of his final album Blackstar.

 Related Grammys 2016: The Complete Winners List The full rundown of who won what on Music's Biggest Night

 Filled with special effects, costume changes and an appearance from Let's Dance and Black Tie White Noise producer Nile Rodgers, Gaga gave a tribute to Bowie as eclectic as his career. Beginning with "Space Oddity," Gaga first appeared on-screen with just her head mutating with space-y colors. From there, she moved to a piano featuring hydraulics before performing full choreography to songs like "Fashion," "Let's Dance" and "Rebel Rebel." Rodgers, who also directed the performance, joined in on guitar for the second half of the tribute, which ended with "Heroes."

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 In 2008, Gaga thanked Bowie "for inspiration" in the liner notes of her debut The Fame. The following year, she listed his single "Rebel Rebel" as one of her favorite pop songs of all time in her first Rolling Stone cover story.

 "All of the things I went through were on my own quest for an artistic journey to fuck myself up like Warhol and Bowie and Mick, and just go for it," she explained to RS in 2010 when discussing her approach to mixing trauma with art. "I like to, within moderation, respect that I'm not Mick Jagger or David Bowie, and I don't just have fans that are a certain age. There are nine-year-olds listening to my music, so I guess I try to be respectful of them if at all possible."

 Last week, Gaga sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl 50. She recently won a Golden Globe for her role on American Horror Story: Hotel and is nominated alongside Diane Warren for Best Original Song at the Oscars.

 Lady Gaga David Bowie Tribute

 "Space Oddity"

 "Changes"

 "Ziggy Stardust"

 "Suffragette City"

 "Rebel Rebel"

 "Fashion"

 "Fame"

 "Under Pressure"

 "Let's Dance"

 "Heroes"

 The Grammys also posted a behind-the-scenes video on Lady Gaga and Rodgers' performance. ||||| "He is a true, true artist and I don't know if I ever went, 'Oh, I'm going to be that way like this,' or if I arrived upon it slowly, realizing it was my calling and that's what drew me to him," she added. |||||

– Lady Gaga showed up on the Grammys red carpet all Ziggy Stardusted-up in her Marc Jacobs getup and platform heels, ostensibly to get her pumped for her much-talked-about tribute to David Bowie (she even got a giant tattoo of Bowie on her torso over the weekend, per the New York Daily News). And like all things Bowie, her set was replete with costume changes and vibrantly colorful lights in an Intel-sponsored performance that was described by PSFK.com before the show as being "experimental" with a "wizard behind the curtain" feel." Gaga ran through some of Bowie's best-loved hits, including "Space Oddity," "Changes," "Ziggy Stardust" (which she accompanied on the keyboard), "Suffragette City," "Rebel Rebel," "Fashion," "Fame," "Let's Dance," and "Heroes." The performance was called a "burst of rock 'n' roll energy on a sleepy night" by the Verge, while Rolling Stone deemed it an "astonishing" and "transformative performance."