Erdogan assures Khashoggi family Turkey will solve murder: presidency
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Canadian rapper Jon James McMurray dies after falling off plane wing during video shoot
Stopped by for an interview at KFJB in Marshalltown. Issues: tornado recovery, media, farm bill, Kavanaugh, midterm elections
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court says state police must release disturbing writings and other belongings of the Newtown school shooter to the public because they are not exempt from state open record laws.
The court ruled 5-0 Tuesday in favor of The Hartford Courant and state Freedom of Information Commission, whose order to police to release shooter Adam Lanza’s belongings was overturned by a lower court judge. It wasn’t immediately clear when the items will be released.
The 20-year-old Lanza fatally shot 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and killed himself as police arrived.
State police had seized Lanza’s belongings from his Newtown home and rejected the Courant’s request to view the items, which included a spreadsheet ranking mass murders and violent stories he wrote.
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US health chief says overdose deaths leveling off
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health secretary Alex Azar says the number of drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic.
Azar cautioned in a speech Tuesday it’s too early to declare victory.
However, he said that toward the end of last year and through the beginning of this year, the number of deaths “has begun to plateau.”
About 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year, according to preliminary numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this summer— a 10 percent increase from 2016.
But provisional counts posted online by CDC show a slight leveling began toward the end of 2017.
Confronting the opioid epidemic has been the rare issue uniting Republicans and Democrats in a politically divided nation.
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Mass infant grave at Irish Catholic home to be excavated
Dublin (AFP) - Ireland's government on Tuesday approved the full excavation of a mass grave of infant and children's remains on the site of a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers.
Significant quantities of baby remains were discovered in an apparent makeshift crypt in the town of Tuam in western Ireland during test excavations between 2016 and 2017.
"I am committed to ensuring that all the children interred at this site can have a dignified and respectful burial," children's minister Katherine Zappone said in a statement.
"It is only by taking the right actions now can we truly demonstrate our compassion and commitment to work towards justice, truth and healing for what happened in our past and, most especially, for those who were previously abandoned."
During Pope Francis's August visit to Ireland the so-called "Tuam babies" became an emblematic issue among protestors, representing historic abuses by the church in Ireland.
Many demonstrators carried infant shoes at events during the Pope's weekend-long visit in a bid to evoke the grave and a silent vigil was held in the town.
In addition to uncovering and re-interring child remains, the investigation will attempt to identify those buried at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home and make provisions for their memorialisation and conservation of the site.
Initial investigations will focus on remains found in at least 17 of the 20 chambers examined so far.
Eight separate areas warranting further investigation have also been identified, the government said in a statement.
"It has taken us more time than first anticipated to examine the unprecedented technical and legal issues which arise in seeking to appropriately respond to the tragic discovery," Zappone added in her statement.
The government-sanctioned commission was set up following research by a local historian, Catherine Corless, who found that 796 babies and children died at the home between 1925 and 1961 but there were no burial records for them.
She has always maintained they had been buried at the site.
Contested reports that infant remains were discovered in sewage chambers have also heightened outrage around the discovery.
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Boston Marathon bomber's handwritten hospital notes released
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New DJT tweet
Americans should have more health insurance options than one plan that their employer chooses for them. That’s why the Trump Administration is proposing a new way for employers to provide health coverage for their workers.
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