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. 😱

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.😱❄️☃️

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.

Thomas Gilbert Jr., the spoiled Princeton graduate who murdered his father because his allowance was being cut, was sentenced to 30 years behind bars in New York City on Friday. The 34-year-old shot his father, Thomas Gilbert Sr., in 2015 in their Upper East Side Home after arguing with him because he threatened to cut his allowance. Gilbert Jr. had tried to plead not guilty by way of insanity but it was rejected by the court because he had sent his mother, Shelley, out to fetch him a Coca Cola and a sandwich before he opened fire on his father. At no stage during the proceedings did he show any kind of remorse. Gilbert Jr. did not react emotionally when the sentence was handed down. He looked back at his mother as he was led away in cuffs.

A New Jersey family has been forced to take down a Halloween display in their front yard of a dummy hanging from a noose. Residents were outraged when they saw the stuffed dummy with a bag over its head hanging from a wooden gallows-like structure outside a home in Mannington. A photograph of the display was circulated on social media and the family were forced to take it down after police visited the house due to multiple complaints. Ryan McDonald, who owns the home, said the gallows was supposed to be part of a larger pirate-themed display. This is not the first time that such a Halloween decoration has sparked public outrage. Last October, a Brooklyn building removed a display of a body wrapped in a bag hanging from a noose on a fire escape, reported NBC 4 New York. And in 2017, residents were stunned by a decoration featuring a body with a hood over his head hanging from a noose, according to WSB-TV. 🎃 #halloween

Black market cannabis vapes are found to contain hydrogen CYANIDE amid health panic after 13 die from mysterious illness linked to e-cigs. NBC News reported that they ordered a testing of 18 vaping cartridges with THC, the main psychoactive compound found in marijuana. Three cartridges were purchased from legal dispensaries in California and those were not found to contain heavy metals or pesticides. But of the 15 that were bought from unlicensed dealers, 13 contained the solvent Vitamin E, which has been found to cause severe lung damage when it is inhaled. Also found was myclobutanil, a pesticide that, when burned, can turn into hydrogen cyanide - a chemical that can lead to fatal asphyxiation within minutes. It comes on the heels of the most recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the slew of vaping-related illnesses that have swept the nation, killing 13 Americans and sickening more than 800.☠️ 😱