Hundreds more Americans have been reported to have a vaping-related breathing illness, and the death toll has risen to 13, health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 805 confirmed and probable cases have been reported, up 52 per cent from the 530 reported a week ago. At this point, illnesses have occurred in almost every state. The confirmed deaths include two in California, two in Kansas, two in Oregon and one each in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Missouri. The Mississippi death was announced by officials in that state Thursday and a second death in Oregon was revealed by authorities later in the day. ☠️😱
Hundreds of thousands of climate protesters took to the streets across the globe on Friday for a second weekend of mass demonstrations to highlight government inaction on climate change. The latest round of protests, which builds on last week's marches by millions of children around the world, rolled through Asia and Europe and will culminate in a rally in Montreal, Canada, where teenage activist Greta Thunberg is scheduled to speak. Thunberg, who is credited with inspiring the school strikes, this week lambasted world leaders for a lack of climate change policies at the United Nations Climate Action summit in New York this week.
New York rapper Tekashi 69 REJECTS witness protection and says he'll foot the bill for his own security 'so that he can stay famous' after 'snitching' on fellow gang mates at bombshell trial. Tekashi, 23, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was charged in November 2018 with a string of charges including racketeering and firearms offenses. He was staring down the barrel of 47 years in prison but cut a deal with prosecutors to testify for them against former gang mates Anthony 'Harv' Ellison and Aljermiah 'Nuke' Mack who are allegedly part of the Nine Trey sect of the infamous Bloods. In November 2018, he was charged along with five others in a sweeping indictment which alleged their involvement in drug sales and two shootings in New York City (in video).
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More than 300 men and boys have been rescued from a 'house of torture' Islamic boarding school where they were detained and raped by staff for years in Kaduna, Nigeria. Many were found chained up and the detainees, mostly children, said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving. Police raided a building in the city on Thursday where the victims were kept in 'the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them', a police spokesperson said. 😱
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Residents in parts of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are preparing for an early season snowstorm. National Weather Service officials issued winter storm warnings and watches in western Montana, northwestern Wyoming and the Idaho panhandle from Friday evening through Sunday. The National Weather Service said the storm could be 'a historically significant early season snow event' that brings record cold for September. 'It looks like valley #snow is becoming more likely. Accumulations will be minimal, but for so early in the season, it will be a major impact, along w/all the other impacts we'll see. Suffice to say: this will be a historic storm,' the NWS tweeted. Up to 3 feet of snow and blizzard conditions are forecast for the plains along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.😱❄️☃️
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! A young man committed suicide in the subway of St. Petersburg, Russia. 😱
Water drunk by 7.5 million Californians is contaminated with PFAs, highly-toxic chemicals that raise cancer risks and never break down in the environment. The toxins are used to make water- and oil-repellent products, easily migrate into soil and water - then stay there, forever. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advises a cap of 70 parts per trillion (ppt) PFAS in drinking water to mitigate risks that they will cause cancer, reproductive problems and immune system dysfunction. A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) study of water systems in 74 California communities found that at least one sample taken from 40 percent of those systems was over the EPA's suggested limit - and even that, EWG says, is too high. ☣️☠️
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Russia's Defence Ministry released footage of its new Okhotnik 'Hunter' drone taking its first test flight alongside the country's latest Su-57 fighter jet.