Two people were killed in Monday's clashes between protesters and security forces near Iraq's main Gulf port Umm Qasr, according to an Iraqi medical source on Tuesday. Security forces used live ammunition and teargas canisters to disperse the protesters and reopened the port, according to witnesses. Receiving the main bulk of Iraq's imports of grain and sugar, the port had been closed by protesters since Wednesday. At least 260 people have been killed and 12,000 others injured since the demonstrations began on Oct. 25, according to Iraq's High Commission for Human Rights. 🔥

The Tempe Police Department says an officer used a Taser on a domestic violence suspect earlier this year while the suspect was holding his one-year-old child. Officers were called to the home for a domestic violence situation and located Ivaughn Oakry. Police say they entered the home and attempted to speak to Oakry, but he was verbally aggressive and non-compliant with officers. Oakry picked up the one-year-old during the confrontation and refused to put the child down. At that point, officers say they chose to deploy Tasers on Oakry. Oakry then fell onto a pile of clothing while still holding the child. Officers were able to take the child from Oakry at that point, as he continued to resist arrest. Firefighters responded to the scene and advised the child was not injured and was not hit by any Taser barbs, ABC 15 reported. 🔫👮🏻‍♂️ #taser

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best" — illustrated. 📋

A global team of more than 11,000 scientists from over 150 countries officially declared that the world is in a "climate emergency," according to a new paper released Tuesday. “Scientists have a moral obligation to warn humanity of any great threat,” said Thomas Newsome of the University of Sydney, one of the paper's authors, in a statement. “From the data we have, it is clear we are facing a climate emergency.” The scientists warned that “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change. “Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we have generally conducted business as usual and are essentially failing to address this crisis,” said William Ripple, a professor of ecology at Oregon State University and co-lead author of the paper. “Climate change has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected.” 🌎

A terrible accident in Vladimir region, Russia. 😱

BREAKING NEWS! The Mexican military has been deployed to the area near the U.S. border. NBC’s Sam Brock reports from Los Angeles.

A 41-year-old Michigan woman was fatally mauled by pit bulls in her mobile home on Friday, according to police. Bay City Public Safety officers were dispatched to the home in the 3200 block of Westshore Drive around 3 p.m. Inside, they found the body of a woman later ID'd as Brandy Joy O’Dell. An autopsy report by the Bay County Medical Examiner’s Officer determined the cause of death was “several bites made by one or more dogs that were pets,” Bay City Department of Public Safety wrote on Facebook. Two “Pitt Bull type dogs were removed from the home and taken to animal control,” police said. Craig Goulet, supervisor of the Bay County Animal Services and Adoption Center, confirmed that the dogs were pit bulls. The dogs are now being housed at the Bay County Animal Services and Adoption Center, The Detroit Free Press reported.

As Southern California grapples with a homeless crisis that's seen encampments spread through the region like wildfire, officials have turned their focus toward camps in high-risk areas for literal wildfires, in hopes of averting an even greater disaster in the future, reported Fox News. Municipal cleanup crews in Los Angeles targeted a 13-acre area Monday in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve in the San Fernando Valley, a high-risk fire area where there have already been two blazes this year. "Anyone who lives in and around this area knows that this area is incredibly dangerous in case a fire ever erupts," Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who represents the area, told reporters. "With the current winter season coming up, we're also very concerned about the flooding that occurs in this area. This is a flood zone."

Only in Jamaica 😂 #lol

Leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood gang are awaiting trial in Sacramento, California, for arranging murders and spearheading a drug trafficking ring from inside California prisons. (pictured, top row: Ronald Yandell, William Sylvester and Brant Daniel; bottom row: Daniel Troxell, Kevin MacNamara and Jason Corbett). Held in a Sacramento jail, the men have already been discussing the locks of their cells, plotted to smuggle in cell phones and exchanged messages in a secret code. Federal prosecutors say there would be 'extraordinary security risks' if they are allowed out even temporarily. The court is just across the road from the Sacramento County Main Jail where they are being held, but authorities fear that even such a short journey would be risky.

A Florida sheriff's deputy who worked at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems is facing a felony charge after video shows him slamming a female student to the ground after she tapped his knee with her foot. Broward County Deputy Willard Miller, 38, was charged Tuesday with felony child abuse without great bodily harm altercation, which took place at Cross Creek School, in on September 25. He's been suspended without pay until internal disciplinary procedures are complete. School security video shows Miller standing and texting inside an office at Cross Creek School when the 15-year-old female student walks behind him and uses her left foot to push the back of his right knee, causing it to buckle.