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Senin, 06 Juli 2015

Who Is Chloe Bartoli?

The Woman Involved In Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick’s Breakup
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AB Post-Who Is Chloe Bartoli?-Chloe Bartoli has shown in place inside the chit chat websites a reasonable amount lately from the latest vacation to Monte Carlo, wherever pics display the woman snuggling approximately Kourtney Kardashian’s today ex-boyfriend, Scott Disick. Previously 7 days, allegations which Kourtney’s infant dad cheated upon Kourtney having Bartoli get manage widespread.


Nevertheless which, accurately, can be Chloe Bartoli?
In line with the Coveteur, Chloe Bartoli works together with the woman sibling, Marielou Bartoli, as a movie star stylist — however when you request Kourtney Kardashian, Chloe Bartoli is an opportunist. At the least, that’s just what Major accounts.
Disick isn’t the only real massive brand Chloe Bartoli may be linked to. Previously, Bartoli also offers also been said to get out dated Jared Leto, and several connected with Bartoli’s buyers incorporate Leto, Poppy Delevingne, Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, Selena Gomez, along with Nicole Richie.


Bartoli can be involved in a lot more than just doing you hair, as well. Chloe recently launched the apparel range named Re/Done, which recycles along with repurposes old-fashioned denim in to hip items which is often utilized today, in line with The movies Life.


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Due to the fact photos connected with Chloe Bartoli along with Scott surfaced on the internet, Kourtney Kardashian provides mentioned she actually is for good finished having Disick, in line with Elizabeth! On the web. Kourtney along with Scott are relationship for around nine decades, along with Kourtney provides jammed having Scott by means of numerous tough levels connected with his existence, as well as substance abuse issues along with the loss of life connected with his mom and dad.

Since reports connected with Kourtney along with Scott’s breakup gone open, Chloe Bartoli provides dealt with a major backlash upon social websites. With pics published on her Instagram consideration, by way of example, Bartoli may be named your dream house wrecker which “ruined a family. ”

Chloe Bartoli is responsible for breaking up Scott along with Kourtney

Minggu, 05 Juli 2015

Islamic State crisis: Air strikes target Syria stronghold



 The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group says it has carried out a series of air strikes in Syria on its main stronghold, Raqqa.


The city is seen by the militants as the capital of the "caliphate" they declared in Syria and Iraq in 2014.

The US military described the 16 strikes as one of the largest assaults carried out in Syria so far.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 23 IS members were killed in the attack.

The London-based monitoring group also said a US drone strike on a Raqqa school on Saturday killed six civilians, including a child.

US military spokesman Lt Col Thomas Gilleran said: "The significant air strikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh [IS] the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq."


The raids follow the release of a video, apparently by IS, showing 25 men being shot dead in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

Stills from the video showed the killers appeared to be young teenagers.

What difference could Syria IS strikes make?

Battle for Iraq and Syria in maps

Elsewhere in Syria, government forces are reported to have entered the town of Zabadani, as they attempt to retake it from non-IS Sunni Muslim rebels.

The Syrian troops (loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad) are being supported by the Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group, Hezbollah.


Zabadani is close to Syria's border with Lebanon.

The BBC's correspondent in Beirut, Jim Muir, says that the Syrian regime is determined to regain control of the strategic town once and for all, as is Hezbollah.

It wants to be sure that Shia communities on the Lebanese side of the border will be safe from attack by the Syrian rebels, who are mainly Sunnis, our correspondent says.

In this area they are led by the Nusra Front, an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Syria.

Source : BBC.com

Greece debt crisis: Greek voters reject bailout offer

Greek voters have decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout.



The final result in the referendum, published by the interior ministry, was 61.3% "No", against 38.7% who voted "Yes".

Greece's governing Syriza party had campaigned for a "No", saying the bailout terms were humiliating.
Their opponents warned that this could see Greece ejected from the eurozone, and a summit of eurozone heads of state has now been called for Tuesday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said late on Sunday that Greeks had voted for a "Europe of solidarity and democracy".

Referendum as it happened

"As of tomorrow, Greece will go back to the negotiating table and our primary priority is to reinstate the financial stability of the country," he said in a televised address.

"This time, the debt will be on the negotiating table," he added, saying that an International Monetary Fund assessment published this week "confirms Greek views that restructuring the debt is necessary".

But some European officials had said that a "No" would be seen as an outright rejection of talks with creditors.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the eurozone's group of finance ministers, said the referendum result was "very regrettable for the future of Greece".

Germany's Deputy Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said renewed negotiations with Greece were "difficult to imagine".

Mr Tsipras and his government were taking the country down a path of "bitter abandonment and hopelessness", he told the Tagesspiegel daily.

The partying by the "No" camp will go well into the night here and the government will be popping open the ouzo. Alexis Tsipras has called the eurozone's bluff - and it appears to have gone his way.

But the triumphalism won't last. There is still a sizeable chunk of the Greek nation deeply unhappy with what has happened. And the government will have to unite a divided country.

More than that, a deal with the eurozone has to be struck fast.

Greek banks are running critically low and will need another injection of emergency funds from the European Central Bank.

Given the bad blood of the past two weeks - Greece's Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, calling the eurozone's strategy "terrorism" - it will be hard to get back around the negotiating table. And with the banking crisis and tax revenues plummeting amidst the instability, Greece's economy has weakened again, making a deal even harder to reach.

The eurozone's tough rhetoric will continue. But Greece's government will have its answer prepared: we put your demands to a democratic test - and they were rejected.

Greece had been locked in negotiations with its creditors for months when the Greek government unexpectedly called a referendum on the terms it was being offered.

Banks have been shut and capital controls in place since last Monday, after the European Central Bank declined to give Greece more emergency funding.

Withdrawals at cash machines have been limited to €60 per day. Greece's latest bailout expired on Tuesday and Greece missed a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the IMF.

Robert Peston, BBC economics editor, Athens

Greek banks have stayed shut for a week

Greek banks are desperately in need of a lender of last resort to save them, and the Greek economy.
And sad to say no banker or central banker to whom I have spoken believes the European Central Bank (ECB) can fulfil that function - because it is struggling to prove to itself that Greek banks have adequate assets to pledge to it as security for new loans.

There are only two options. The Bank of Greece could make unsecured loans to Greek banks without the ECB's permission - which would provoke a furious reaction from Eurozone leaders and would be seen by most of them as tantamount to leaving the euro.

Or it can explicitly create a new currency, a new drachma, which it could then use to provide vital finance to Greek banks and the Greek economy.

Greece on verge of euro exit

Greek government officials have insisted that rejecting bailout terms would strengthen their hand, and that they could rapidly strike a deal for fresh funding in resumed negotiations.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said that with a "No" vote, Greek banks would reopen on Tuesday.
He was due to meet senior Greek bankers late on Sunday. State Minister Nikos Pappas, a close ally of Mr Tsipras, said it was "absolutely necessary" to restore liquidity to the banks now the referendum was over.

Summit called

Some European officials sounded conciliatory after the vote.

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted: "Now it is right to start trying for an agreement again. But there is no escape from the Greek labyrinth with a Europe that's weak and isn't growing."

Belgium's finance minister said the door remained open to restart talks with Greece "literally, within hours".

Eurozone finance ministers could again discuss measures "that can put the Greek economy back on track and give the Greeks a perspective for the future," he told the VRT network.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was consulting the leaders of eurozone member states, and would have a conference call with key EU officials and the ECB on Monday morning.

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are scheduled to meet in Paris on Monday. A summit of eurozone heads of state has been called for Tuesday.

The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wanted Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.

Greece's Syriza-led government, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, said creditors had presented it with an "ultimatum", using fear to put pressure on Greeks.

The Greek government's opponents and some Greek voters had complained that the question in Sunday's referendum was unclear. EU officials said it applied to the terms of an offer that was no longer on the table.

The turnout in Sunday's referendum was 62.5%.
As the result became clear, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who had campaigned for a "Yes" vote in the referendum, resigned as leader of the centre-right New Democracy party.

Source : BBC.com

20 Things That Will Make You Love Emilia Clarke More Than You Already Do

20 Things That Will Make You Love Emilia Clarke More Than You Already Do

1. You probably know her as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones.



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A Queen, a Khaleesi, a badass who’s also the Mother of Dragons.

2. She also plays the role of Sarah Connor in Terminator : Genisys.


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As if she wasn’t badass enough.

3. Did you know that she’s friend with Neville Longbottom?

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Daenerys + Neville = SHIP THEM!!


4. She posed with Schwarzi and soldiers based in South Korea.

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#SquadGoals #SupportOurTroops


5. She’s always down for fun.

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She tries to make us laugh, we just want to be her BFF.

6. She’s a fashion icon


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You need these sunglasses.



7. This was the first photo she posted on Instagram.




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Just when you thought you couldn’t love her more.



8. When she introduced us to “Cali from the Valley.”


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She loves Clueless, I repeat, she loves Clueless.

9. When Kristen Wiig did a hilarous impression of Daenerys and she posted this to tell the world how much she liked it.

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Notice the majestic eyebrows.

10. When she unintentionally revealed an interesting fact about Jason Momoa.

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11. She’s so cute when she laughs!

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12. So effing cute!

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13. She reminded us that we have the right to vote and that we should use it.

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She’s Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons. So you better listen to her.

14. She’s funny and she’s not afraid to laugh at herself.

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Game of ~throne~.

15. When British Vogue interviewed her.

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Her laugh is so adorable.

16. Her smile is contagious.

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17. When she became a rastafarian Targaryen.

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And it was for a good cause.

18. When she answered to her french fans in the “Box of Questions” - “La Boîte à Questions.”

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“You know nothing Jon Snow.”

19. When Josh Horowitz interviewed her and she said those few words that every Game of Thrones fan wanted to hear.

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SPOILERS or not, we don’t know yet.

20. And finally, when she won the eyebrow-off.

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“Take that Cara Delevingne!”

Source : buzzfeed.com

USA vs Japan preview, What to know ahead of 2015 Women’s World Cup final at BC Place


USA vs Japan preview of 2015 Women’s World Cup - VANCOUVER – The rivalry between the U.S. and Japan’s women’s national soccer teams has generated some tremendous moments. Japan won on penalty kicks at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup and the U.S. exacted a measure of revenge in the gold-medal game at the London 2012 Olympics.

One thing their rivalry hasn’t generated is animosity. Heading into Sunday’s FIFA Women’s World Cup final at BC Place, the teams took turns heaping praise on each other.


“I can’t reflect too much on 2011,” said U.S. head coach Jill Ellis. “I have tremendous respect for Japan and what they are today and not just what they’ve accomplished in the past.”

“I really am grateful for this opportunity,” Japan coach Norio Sasaki said through a translator on Saturday. “I feel a sort of fate because we always play in the final against the U.S.”

While their personalities may not clash, their respective styles of play could prove to be an interesting contrast. The U.S. unveiled a more aggressive offensive formation in their semi-final win over Germany.

Sasaki said his Japanese side has what it takes to counter the American attack.

“The strength of the U.S. team is the power and also the organized way of playing. The structure and the strong desire to win. They are highly motivated,” he said. “We don’t have as much power, but we have the skills, techniques and a network amongst the players.”

What time is the U.S.-Japan Women’s World Cup final?

Kick-off is 4:00 p.m. PDT.

What channel is the U.S.-Japan match?

The game will be broadcast in Canada on CTV and RDS. In the U.S., the match will air on FOX.

Players to Watch

Curtain call for two legends

Sunday’s final will be the last World Cup matches for two of the greatest players in women’s soccer.

Abby Wambach

The brash forward has accomplished everything a footballer can — except win a World Cup. The 35-year-old has accepted a reduced role on the 2015 roster for a chance to finally win it all on the much-maligned turf at BC Place.

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Sawa was a workhouse for the 2011 team that won it all. Like Wambach, the 36-year-old has accepted a limited role, but could prove to be a critical cog in an organized Japanese side.

Captains courageous

Both team captains–Japan’s Aya Miyama and the USA’s Carli Lloyd–have been integral to their team’s success.

Carli Lloyd

No one has benefited more from the USA’s more aggressive style than Lloyd, who has been allowed to roam and create scoring chances. Lloyd has scored in all three knockout games at the Women’s World Cup.
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Aya Miyama

Along with Lloyd, Miyama is a frontrunner to win the Golden Ball as the tournament’s top player. Miyama has two goals and two assists in the tournament and her chemistry with forward Yuki Ogimi will pose the biggest threat to a U.S. defence that has gone more than 500 minutes without surrendering a goal.

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Who will be at the game?

Americans and plenty of them. All estimates suggest Sunday’s crowd will be filled with U.S. soccer fans, which should give the American players a boost.

There will also be a few big names at BC Place. U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden will be in attendance along with his wife Jill. They will be joined by U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, former U.S. men’s national team player Cobi Jones and former U.S. women’s national team player Mia Hamm.

Who will not be there?

One person will be conspicious by his absence: FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

Blatter is skipping the Women’s World Cup final. And his No. 2, secretary general Jerome Valcke, is also staying away.

Blatter was initially due to attend Sunday’s final in Vancouver. But his travel plans were downgraded to undetermined.

That changed Tuesday to a no.

There was no immediate word on who will present the trophy to the winning team at BC Place.

-with files from Canadian Press

Source : Globalnews.ca

2015 Women's World Cup


VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- If it means ending a wait that is now a less than a week shy of 16 years, older than many of the fans expected to fill BC Place in a sea of red, white and blue on Sunday, Abby Wambach will bide her time on the bench.

If asked, she will watch the beginning of Sunday's Women's World Cup final against Japan from that vantage point. She will, if asked, watch the game conclude from there. She probably won't be asked to do both, having started three times and had a part in all six games the United States previously played in this tournament, but anything is possible on the day she will step on a World Cup field for the final time in her career as the U.S. tries to win the final game of the tournament for the first time since 1999.

So often the finisher, the most prolific one of all time, she waits willingly to see the conclusion of an era she will inevitably define.

Which isn't to say she will wait patiently.

"All I care about is winning this World Cup," Wambach said of her role in advance of the final. "And, of course, it being my last World Cup chance, we're one game away. It excites me. And it's really nerve-racking. It's brutal. I'm not going to say this because it's brutal to sit on the bench because I'm not playing; it's brutal to sit on the bench because I really feel like it's taking years off my life. I now understand what my parents have been going through. I get what our friends and family talk about, how stressful it is, because you don't have control of the outcome of what's going on unless you're on the pitch."

On this stage, even she has struggled to control that outcome when on the pitch in previous World Cups. When there is only one outcome that matches a team's expectations, both those of the public and, frankly, those of the participants, there is ample room for disappointment. Just as Wambach has done almost everything there is to do in the sport, the teams on which she has played have also done almost everything there is to do. Almost.

"I think that obviously the legends of the '99 World Cup obviously set a very high standard for this program," said Heather O'Reilly, who earned her first cap not long after Wambach did so in 2001. "It's been really cool for me as a player to have been here for many years and see the development of the game. A lot of good players have come in and out. And our mission is always the same, and that's to win these major tournaments."

O'Reilly isn't the sort to haphazardly choose her phrasing. She said major tournaments for a reason. Most of the United States players on the field Sunday have won a major title. Many of them have done so against Japan; many members of the U.S. team beat Japan to win gold in the most recent Olympics. This is not a generation that has come up empty on the big stage. Wambach is an Olympic champion twice over, not three times only because of an injury days before the 2008 tournament that was part of the Beijing Games.

But as Wambach is among the first to point out, the World Cup is different. Her pursuit of that prize is a personal narrative but also a history of the time in which she played.

Just four years after the magic of 1999, Wambach's World Cup debut came when the tournament returned to the United States at the logistical equivalent of the last minute in 2003 because of concerns about the SARS virus in China. Played in the fall, thereby forced to compete head-to-head against college and professional football, the World Cup suffered the unenthusiastic reception afforded to many sequels. While the U.S. drew nearly 90,000 fans to three group games it won by a combined 11-1 margin in 2003, almost identical to its margin of dominance in the halcyon days just four years prior, the attendance mark was less than half that for the same games four years earlier.

A semifinal loss to Germany, combined with the demise days before the tournament of a professional league born out of the optimism during an afternoon in the Rose Bowl, only underscored an uncertain future for those asked to replace the stars who preceded them.

Against a two-fold blow of football season and a time difference unfavorable to television viewers at home, the 2007 World Cup in China might have passed with little comment, good or bad, if not for the scale of the 4-0 loss to Brazil in the semifinals and the heat of the comments from Hope Solo after a game in which she watched from the bench.

If the time before the 1996 Olympics and 1999 World Cup was the prehistory of the women's game, the years between that pair of semifinal losses -- first to Germany and then Brazil -- were the dark ages. Not a single one of even the 30 largest home crowds in national team history was recorded between the 2003 and 2011 World Cups. In 14 games on domestic soil in 2005 and 2006, the national team averaged 5,070 fans (the comparable period in 2013 and 2014 drew an average of more than 12,000 fans in 24 games).

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"Abby Wambach made her World Cup debut in 2003, then carried the U.S. women's soccer torch passed to her by Mia Hamm."

The renaissance, of course, arrived courtesy of Wambach's head in the 2011 tournament in Germany. In addition to the core fan base that remained in place and the familiar audience of soccer-playing girls and their families, a country that was generally awakening to the sport anyway and always eager for a good story went along for the ride. Megan Rapinoe's cross and Wambach's header in the dying embers of extra time against Brazil sparked a fire that burned beyond the penalty shootout loss against Japan in the final, further stoked by Olympic gold against Japan a year later after a classic semifinal against Canada on the (natural) turf of one of soccer's hallowed grounds.

On Saturday in Vancouver, Japanese captain Aya Miyama spoke of concerns about dwindling momentum for the game in her own country four years after World Cup glory and of her desire to ensure the sport became a fixture and not, as she put it, a fad for girls in that country.

As Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly and others stepped away from the United States' team, professional leagues came and went and World Cups slipped away.

And always the comparison lingered for Wambach and those around her.

"The game's evolved; it's come so far," Carli Lloyd said. "It's just really different. But I don't want to win a World Cup just because people will stop talking about the '99 team. I want to win a World Cup because I've dedicated my entire life to this. And my dream is to be a world champion."

The same is true for Wambach, which is why she will do anything asked of her Sunday, even if it's nothing. It's because of everything that came before it.

"I can't be happier for this team to be in another final," Wambach said. "It's an achievement of itself. But we still have to win. We haven't won anything yet. And we know what that feels like from four years ago, and it's not a good feeling."

It is all the worse because it is a long wait until the next chance comes around. For Wambach, the wait would be forever.

Source : espn.go.com

Hillary Clinton accuses China of 'stealing US secrets'


US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has accused China of stealing commercial secrets and government information.
She accused China of "trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in America", and urged vigilance.
US officials had named China as the chief suspect in the massive hack of the records of a US government agency earlier this year.

China had denied any involvement, and called US claims "irresponsible".

'Fully vigilant'
Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Ms Clinton said that China was stealing secrets from defence contractors and had taken "huge amounts of government information, all looking for an advantage."

She added that she wanted to see China's peaceful rise but that the US needed to stay "fully vigilant".

"China's military is growing very quickly, they're establishing military installations that again threaten countries we have treaties with, like the Philippines because they are building on contested property," she said.

"The hacking of federal government computers may have compromised the records of four million people"

US officials have blamed China for a major data breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that was revealed in June.

The hacking of federal government computers could have compromised the records of four million employees.

US intelligence chief James Clapper called China a "leading suspect" after the incident.
But China dismissed the accusation, saying that it was "irresponsible and unscientific".
China has previously argued that it is also the victim of hacking attacks.
Republican presidential candidates have used the recent OPM cyber hack to attack President Obama's administration, accusing it of "incompetence".
Marco Rubio and Rick Perry have called for the US to threaten sanctions against organisations linked to hacking, while Mike Huckabee has argued that the US should "hack China back".
Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Martin O'Malley has called for better funding for cyber security.
The hack against the OPM is not the first time that China has been blamed for a cyber attack against the US.
An earlier attempt to breach OPM networks was blocked in March 2014, with the US saying China was behind the attack.

source : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33399711

Sabtu, 04 Juli 2015

Suspect in killing of San Francisco woman had been deported five times

Killing suspect deported 5 times- San Francisco - Kate Steinle was walking on a busy pier in San Francisco with her father when there was a single popping sound in the air.

She fell to the ground, struck by a bullet, the victim of what police say appears to be a random killing.

The man accused of firing the deadly shot -- 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- is an undocumented immigrant, a repeat felon who has been deported five times to Mexico, according to immigration officials.

It would have been six, a federal law enforcement source told CNN, except authorities in San Francisco wanted him on a drug-related warrant.

So U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which had Lopez-Sanchez in its custody in March after his release from federal prison, turned him over to San Francisco deputies. ICE said they requested an immigration detainer, asking that the agency be notified before Lopez-Sanchez was released.

But San Francisco is a city that doesn't honor such requests and the sheriff's department released him. Freya Horne, chief legal counsel to the San Francisco County Sheriff, told CNN that he was let go because there was no legal cause to detain the suspect.

On Wednesday evening, he shot the 31-year-old Steinle at Pier 14 once in her upper body, according to police. He was found about a mile away an hour later and arrested. CNN could not determine on Friday if he has an attorney.

Family: She was loving, smart, beautiful
Steinle's father told the San Francisco Chronicle there was one pop and his daughter fell to the ground.

"She just kept saying, 'Dad, help me, help me,'" Liz Sullivan, the victim's mother, told CNN affiliate KRON.

Steinle, a medical device salesperson, died at San Francisco General Hospital. Sullivan said her heart stopped twice on the way to the hospital and she died during surgery.

"She fought for her life," Sullivan said. "They said how strong she was but they just couldn't save her."

Family members called her loving, smart and beautiful. Her cousin said she loved her mother and father "more than anything."

Several of the dozen or more people on the pedestrian pier took photos of the suspect and showed them to police.

Suspect had seven felony convictions
ICE said it turned Lopez-Sanchez over to San Francisco authorities on March 26 for an outstanding drug warrant. The agency requested an immigration detainer, but Horne said San Francisco officials believe that violates Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The sheriff's office said, "When Mr. Lopez-Sanchez was booked into the jail, there was no active Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrant or judicial order of removal for him."

The department would have returned Lopez-Sanchez if there had been a court order or warrant, it said.

Charges were dropped March 27 but Lopez-Sanchez was held until April 15 while the sheriff's office determined there were no other warrants for his arrest and he had completed his federal prison sentence.

According to KRON, San Francisco's policy on undocumented immigrants "states that a law enforcement official shall not detain an individual on the basis of a civil immigration detainer after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody."

The federal law enforcement source told CNN the sheriff's department "didn't even need to hold him. They simply could have notified that they were going to release him and we would have gotten him."

Police said Lopez-Sanchez last lived in Texas, where he was on probation. ICE said Lopez-Sanchez has seven felony convictions, four for drug offenses. His most recent deportation was in 2009.

He was released from federal prison in March after serving several years for felony re-entry after deportation.

Lopez-Sanchez is in San Francisco County Jail and faces a homicide charge. ICE has requested another immigration detainer.

Trump: San Francisco killing shows perils of illegal immigration

Source : CNN

Guinness Names Blosom the Holstein the World’s Tallest Ever Cow


It’s official. At 6-foot-4, Blosom is the world’s tallest cow ever.

That’s the determination made by Guinness World Records, which had previously named the female Holstein the world’s tallest living cow.

The new record was announced on June 25.

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Blosom lived on a farm in Orangeville, Illinois. Her owner, Patty Meads-Hanson, got Blosom when the cow was just eight weeks old.

Blosom was 13 years old when she died on May 26. During her life, she was the official "greeter" for Memory Lane Crafting Retreat, a retreat situated on the farm.

ABC News couldn’t reach Meads-Hanson for comment on Thursday evening, but a post on Blosom’s Facebook page said the cow “was called to graze in a more glorious pasture.”

Blosom died after suffering a leg injury.

Meads-Hanson found the cow down in a pasture, her left leg in “a position that wasn’t normal,” according to a post on the Facebook page. Two veterinarians worked in the pouring rain to try to lift the cow but they were ultimately unsuccessful.

“Her injury appeared to happen when she laid down, slipping in the mud, and damaging a ligament in her hip, and would never be able to stand. I had to make that hard decision - I wouldn't let her suffer. It's the last act of kindness you can do for an animal you love, but it sure is hard,” Meads-Hanson wrote on Facebook.

Donations are being sought to erect a memorial to Blosom on Meads-Hanson’s farm.

Source : ABC News

Man mocks alligators, jumps in water and is killed in Texas


(CNN)A man who apparently mocked alligators, then jumped in the water -- despite warning signs -- is dead after being attacked in Texas.

Orange County Police were called to Burkart's Marina near the Louisiana state line early Friday morning after reports that Tommie Woodward, 28, and an unidentified woman were swimming in a bayou and had been attacked by a large alligator.

Woodward's body was found several hours later. The woman was not injured.
Orange County Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told CNN affiliate KFDM that Woodward ignored verbal warnings and a posted "No Swimming Alligators" sign and seemed to mock the deadly creatures before going in the water.

"He removed his shirt, removed his billfold ... someone shouted a warning and he said 'blank the alligators' and jumped in to the water and almost immediately yelled for help," Price said.

The "No Swimming Alligators" sign was posted this week after a 10-foot alligator was spotted in the bayou waters.

Witness heard 'An alligator's got him'
"Please do not go swimming, there's a bigger alligator out here. Just please stay out of the water," witness and marina employee Michelle Wright said she told Woodward.

She said the next thing she heard was the woman screaming, "An alligator's got him." Wright said she used a flashlight in the darkness to scan the water.

In an emotional interview with KFDM, Wright said, "I saw his body floating face down. And then he's out there for a couple of seconds and then he's dragged back down. And then he comes back up still face down and then he gets pulled down again. And then he just disappears."

Wright, who said she knew the victim and his family, said it was a moment she would never forget. She described the events that started out as a late night swim as "heartbreaking."

Woodward had recently moved to the area from St. Louis with his twin brother and was working at a nearby shipyard.

'If the sun is down, stay out of the water'
Alligators are predatory and territorial. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the creature "will eat anything it can catch," and should be treated with caution.

"If the sun is down, stay out the water. That's when they're eating. That's when they're hunting," alligator expert Arlie Hammonds told the affiliate.

Although there have been numerous fatal alligator attacks in Florida, the Orange County attack may be the first of its kind in Texas.

Source : CNN's Dave Alsup, Jeremy Grisham and Carma Hassan contributed to this report

Obama Plans Broader Use of Clemency to Free Nonviolent Drug Offenders

WASHINGTON — Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century.

The expansive use of his clemency power is part of a broader effort by Mr. Obama to correct what he sees as the excesses of the past, when politicians eager to be tough on crime threw away the key even for minor criminals. With many Republicans and Democrats now agreeing that the nation went too far, Mr. Obama holds the power to unlock that prison door, especially for young African-American and Hispanic men disproportionately affected.

But even as he exercises authority more assertively than any of his modern predecessors, Mr. Obama has only begun to tackle the problem he has identified. In the next weeks, the total number of commutations for Mr. Obama’s presidency may surpass 80, but more than 30,000 federal inmates have come forward in response to his administration’s call for clemency applications. A cumbersome review process has advanced only a small fraction of them. And just a small fraction of those have reached the president’s desk for a signature.

“I think they honestly want to address some of the people who have been oversentenced in the last 30 years,” said Julie Stewart, the founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a group advocating changes in sentencing. “I’m not sure they envisioned that it would be as complicated as it is, but it has become more complicated, whether it needs to be or not, and that’s what has bogged down the process.”

Overhauling the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan venture. Like Mr. Obama, Republicans running for his job are calling for systemic changes. Lawmakers from both parties are collaborating on legislation. And the United States Sentencing Commission has revised guidelines for drug offenders, so far retroactively reducing sentences for more than 9,500 inmates, nearly three-quarters of them black or Hispanic.

The drive to recalibrate the system has brought together groups from across the political spectrum. The Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy organization with close ties to the White House and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, has teamed up with Koch Industries, the conglomerate owned by the conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, who finance Republican candidates, to press for reducing prison populations and overhauling sentencing.

“It’s a time when conservatives and liberals and libertarians and lots of different people on the political spectrum” have “come together in order to focus attention on excessive sentences, the costs and the like, and the need to correct some of those excesses,” said Neil Eggleston, the White House counsel who recommends clemency petitions to Mr. Obama. “So I think the president sees the commutations as a piece of that entire process.”

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The challenge has been finding a way to use Mr. Obama’s clemency power in the face of bureaucratic and legal hurdles without making a mistake that would be devastating to the effort’s political viability. The White House has not forgotten the legacy of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a woman while furloughed from prison and became a powerful political symbol that helped doom the presidential candidacy of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts in 1988.

But with time running short in Mr. Obama’s presidency, the White House has pushed the Justice Department to send more applicants more quickly. Mr. Eggleston told the department not to interpret guidelines too narrowly because it is up to the president to decide, according to officials. If it seems like a close case, he told the department to send it over.

Deborah Leff, the department’s pardon attorney, has likewise pressed lawyers representing candidates for clemency to hurry up and send more cases her way. “If there is one message I want you to take away today, it’s this: Sooner is better,” she told lawyers in a video seminar obtained by USA Today. “Delaying is not helpful.”

Under the Constitution, the president has the power to grant “pardons for offenses against the United States” or to commute federal sentences. A pardon is an act of presidential forgiveness and wipes away any remaining legal liabilities from a conviction. A commutation reduces a sentence but does not eliminate a conviction or restore civil rights lost as a result of the conviction.

In recent times, attention has focused on presidential pardons because they have become politically controversial, such as Gerald R. Ford’s pardon of Richard M. Nixon, the elder George Bush’s pardons of Iran-contra figures and Bill Clinton’s pardons of the financier Marc Rich and scores of others.

Modern presidents have been far less likely to commute sentences. Lyndon B. Johnson commuted the sentences of 80 convicted criminals in the 1966 fiscal year, and no president since then has matched that in his entire administration, much less in a single year. Ronald Reagan commuted only 13 sentences in eight years in office, while George W. Bush commuted just 11 in the same amount of time. The elder Mr. Bush commuted three sentences in his four years.

Mr. Obama started out much like the others, commuting just one sentence in his first five years in office. But in his first term he signed a law easing sentencing for new inmates by reducing the disparity between crack and powder cocaine, while his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., issued new guidelines to prosecutors to avoid charges requiring excessive prison terms.

In his second term, Mr. Obama embarked on an effort to use clemency and has raised his total commutations to 43, a number he may double this month. The initiative was begun last year by James M. Cole, then the deputy attorney general, who set criteria for who might qualify: generally nonviolent inmates who have served more than 10 years in prison, have behaved well while incarcerated and would not have received as lengthy a sentence under today’s revised rules.

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'Limitless' host Theresa Vail: Second Amendment is my life

A top ten Miss America 2014 finalist, an avid bowhunter and a sergeant in the Kansas Army National Guard, Theresa Vail is out to prove she can do anything she sets her mind to.

Now the former Miss Kansas is pushing herself outside of her comfort zone on her new Outdoor Channel show, “Limitless with Theresa Vail.” Oh, and did we mention she’s only 24?

FOX411: What can fans expect from the show?
Theresa Vail: After Miss America, Outdoor Channel saw my hunting background and they contacted me and asked if I wanted a show and I said yes. From there it developed into this non-traditional hunting, adventure-type show.They can expect to see me in every episode doing something that I’ve never done before with the exception of the first episode -- I’ve done the death march before -- everything else has been a new challenge so they see me struggle at times. I keep pushing myself and I don't stop trying.

FOX411: The show is called “Limitless.” What does that mean to you?
Vail: I came from a very depressing background of bullying. I didn't have a lot of friends at school. What pulled me out of that was me pushing myself to do things I wasn't comfortable with otherwise I would have stayed in this lonely state.

FOX411: Being in the public eye, has it been hard to stick to your guns, so to speak?
Vail: Not at all. I know what I stand for, I'm proud of what I stand for and that's why it's so easy to stand up in the face of adversity. I fully believe that teaching a woman how to use a gun is the best thing you can do for her and for her confidence and her personal empowerment. That’s when I became completely confident in defending and protecting myself. The Second Amendment is my life.

FOX411: Do you think you have to be an outdoors enthusiast or hunter to enjoy the show?
Vail: No, I think that's the beauty of this show. It’s not just catering to hunters, it’s not just catering to outdoor enthusiasts, it’s catering towards anyone who wants to see a motivational story. I think that's what this does.

FOX411: You've been outspoken about your American pride. Do you think the country is headed in the right direction?
Vail: That is a very difficult question considering everything that’s been going on lately. The controversy with the Confederate flag, and everything that’s been happening. But why I’m proud to be an American is because there are still people out there who believe in what this country is founded on and I hope that those people speak out and once again be united.

FOX411: You recently shared a picture on Facebook of a squirrel you ate. What’s the secret to cooking the perfect squirrel?
Vail: Very carefully. You cook it in a crock pot with, oh gosh what do I put in there? French onion soup mix and let it sit overnight for a couple of hours and the meat just falls off the bone and it's delicious.

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Brandi Glanville reveals her 'Real Housewives' salary

Brandi Glanville is setting the record straight about not returning full-time for the next season of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."

In a new interview with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show, the 42-year-old reality star confirms she's only coming back "for a little bit" next season, and explains why it was her decision to limit her appearance. It's no secret that Brandi was portrayed as the villain among her fellow housewives Eileen Davidson, Yolanda Foster, Kim Richards, Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna and Lisa Vanderpump -- and it seems that finally caught up with her.

"Last year was a really tough year for me because I felt like I played ball with everyone -- I gave my all to the show and then when it aired I felt like, 'Oh my God, they did me no favors in the editing room,'" she says about her less than flattering portrayal. "I got really upset and a little depressed. But you don't get a say. They're making a show -- they don't care about us."

She also says being on the show took a toll on her personally.

"I was doing things to my own detriment that I couldn't explain -- like throwing wine in someone's face and I'm not sure why," she laughs, referring to the memorable episode in which she threw wine at Eileen's face. "I slapped Vanderpump. I really don't know why. At the end of the day, I got so much hate from social media."
She stresses that despite reports, she wasn't fired from the Bravo show. In fact, she claims she actually turned down half a million dollars to appear full-time -- a big change from the $16,000 she says she was initially paid her first year when she appeared as a "friend of." She says she earned $136,000 for season two, and even more for season three.

"I have so much more on my plate than this show," she explains. "I talked to producers, I really didn't want to come back. I have other offers to do other things and I said, 'Listen, I will come back if it makes sense -- if it's with Yolanda or of it's with Kim. Otherwise, I don't talk to any of the other ladies, and I don't like them."

Still, how will the show go on without its resident drama-maker?

"I think the show will be successful but it will be different," Brandi muses. "It's just gonna be completely different. I mean, it'll be interesting to see who turns on who. You still have to make a show."
As for her relationship with "Real Housewives" executive producer Andy Cohen, Brandi says she can't tell if the Bravo television personality likes her or not.
"I think that people think that he's best friends with all the housewives -- he definitely has a few that are his real friends -- but I don't know if he likes me," she admits. "I can't kiss ass, it's not in my make up. And every other housewife, they all kiss his ass."

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