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— While the angst over whether this country’s political system is broken seems likely to go on for the foreseeable future, it gave way to some degree Wednesday to more immediate concerns about how badly the Washington Monument had been cracked. The monument was damaged Tuesday by a magnitude-5.8 earthquake that rat...
The National Park Service says engineers have discovered several additional cracks in the top portion of the Washington Monument. The cracks were found Wednesday during a daylong inspection of the interior of the monument. A 4-inch (10-centimeter) crack was discovered Tuesday during an inspection of the exterior by...
Passaic bodega owner claims $338 million Powerball prize STAFF WRITERS The Record Photos: Powerball jackpot claimed in Passaic CHRIS PEDOTA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pedro Quezada at Eagle Liquors Monday. Every evening, Pedro Quezada buys a lottery ticket at Eagle Liquors in Passaic. On Monday, though, h...
The winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot told several media outlets Monday that his first priority will be helping his family. FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey...
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Over the years, Richmond.com has published several data projects using public information. Here's a sampling of some of those projects. - Our annual database of state employee salaries was recently updated with 2016-17 data. - Our salary database of local government employees was updated recently with the 2...
A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments. The donor, wealthy businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr., also gave a previou...
Some plants and animals were able to survive through ice ages because of volcanic steam and and heat emissions, according to scientists. This image shows a man standing in volcanic steam in Antarctica. (Photo : Peter Convey / British Antartic Survey) Some plants and animals were able to survive through ice ages bec...
Like an ice age radiator, heat from volcanoes helped Antarctica's plants and bugs survive Earth's glacial periods, scientists think based on the result of a new study. The findings suggest that volcanoes can provide a cozy home for plants and animals during ice ages, either in ice caves or on warm ground heated by ...
The Onion botched a joke about congressmen taking children hostage this morning on Twitter. Now, the U.S. Capitol police are investigating the joke. Everyone chill out! Today, The Onion tweeted: "BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building." This, by itself, was not funny at ...
WASHINGTON—Brandishing shotguns and semiautomatic pistols, members of the 112th U.S. Congress took a class of visiting schoolchildren hostage today, barricading themselves inside the Capitol rotunda and demanding $12 trillion dollars in cash. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who has emerged as spokesman for the b...
The U.S. Capitol Police issued a statement calling conditions at the Capitol building “normal” Thursday morning in apparent response to a series of tweets and an article from the satirical web site The Onion. “It has come to our attention that recents twitter feeds are reporting false information concerning current...
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You may have guessed from Melissa Gilbert’s red wedding dress (and her desire to one day wear it again) that the Little House on the Prairie star doesn’t often follow the crowd. And one more way she’s setting herself apart from Hollywood trends: She’s made the decision to remove her breast implants. Charles Sykes/G...
The Northrop Grumman Remotec Andros™ fleet of hazardous duty unmanned vehicles is the preferred choice of first responders worldwide. The robust, mission-proven design of the Andros line keeps danger at a distance with: Simultaneous tool mounts for rapid response during dynamic missions (i.e. suits changing needs a...
The Dutch police plan to eventually replace their drug- and bomb sniffing dogs with drug- and bomb sniffing robots. The E-Nose is a so-called nano-sensor that can detect chemical and explosive substances, AD reports. According to the newspaper, a study by the University of Twente commissioned by the Ministry of Sec...
Officials said the use of the robot to disarm a violent suspect was unprecedented for the Sheriff's Department, and comes as law enforcement agencies increasingly rely on military-grade technology to reduce the risk of injury during confrontations with civilians.
Image caption The Bois de Boulogne, one of Paris's two main woods, has been named as a possible site Next summer, nudists or naturists may be able to bare it all in a designated area of the French capital, Paris. City councillors have approved plans for an experimental nudist area, possibly in one of Paris's pa...
Paris city councillors will debate Monday on creating spaces for nudists, an idea that Mayor Anne Hidalgo thinks is “très sympa [nice/fun]”. The proposal, put forward by three Green councillors, will be debated Monday. Hidalgo’s deputy Bruno Julliard told RMC radio earlier in the day (see tweet below) that “we will...
The Help 'The Help' review: Period piece take on Kathryn Stockett's novel oversimplifies, miscasts Emma Stone Emma Stone's 'plain' writer character Skeeter is miscast in the oversimplified period film 'The Help.' With Emma Stone, Viola Davis. Racism divides the women of 1962 Mississippi. Director: Tate Tayl...
VIDEO: Legendary Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, 85, Dies - Rick Chambers reports The football coach will be remembered for his award-winning legacy as much as fo... The football coach will be remembered for his award-winning legacy as much as for scandal.
(CNN) Days after the Istanbul airport massacre , reports emerged about the identities of the suicide bombers as well as the organizer -- a man who a U.S. official says is a top soldier in the ISIS war ministry . Two of the three assailants in the terror attack that killed 44 people at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport hav...
Ahmed Chatayev, Chechen suspect for #IstanbulAttacks was in Russia's Most Wanted list. pic.twitter.com/9loKGnXVk3 — Aud™ (@CodeAud) June 30, 2016 Authorities suspect Akhmed Chatayev, a Chechen once given asylum in Europe and acquitted in another attack in Georgia, may have masterminded the coordinated terrorist att...
Hedge fund operator Robert Mercer almost never talks about himself, and neither do the people who know him. Yet Mercer's money is sure making a lot of noise on the campaign trail. The third most generous Republican donor this cycle, Mercer has cut checks for a total of $37 million in the past six years, supporting ...
Ted Cruz’s presidential effort is getting into the shock-and-awe fundraising business. An associate of the Texas senator, a recently announced presidential candidate, tells Bloomberg that a cluster of affiliated super-political action committees was formed only this week, and among them they are expected to have $3...
DENVER -- Denver Health Medical Center confirms an anesthesiologist accused of posting a racially charged comment on Facebook is no longer seeing patients at the hospital until further notice. The post on a picture of a yelling Michelle Obama said, "doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can'...
The University of Colorado’s School of Medicine is planning to cut ties with Dr. Michelle Herren, a faculty member and pediatric anesthesiologist, who made a racist remark on Facebook. “We are beginning the process to terminate Dr. Herren’s faculty appointment,” Mark Couch, spokesman for the school, said Thursday. ...
DENVER -- It's the Facebook post Joann Nieto calls "entirely unacceptable." "I think it's sad," Nieto said. It depicts a picture of a yelling Michelle Obama with the comment, "doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can't hear her! Harvard??? That's a place for "entitled" folks said all th...
CLOSE Nigel Sykes is suing Seasons Pizza and the Newport police department after a failed robbery attempt in 2010 in which employees tackled and subdued Sykes, who came into the store weilding a handgun. (07/23/14) Buy Photo Misael Madariaga, a deliveryman for Seasons Pizza on Maryland Avenue in Newport, heads out ...
A man who attempted to rob a pizza store is now suing the same restaurant. NBC10's Tim Furlong has the details. (Published Tuesday, Jul 22, 2014) A man is suing the same Delaware pizza place that he tried to rob several years ago. Nigel Sykes, 23, filed a lawsuit against Seasons Pizza as well as the police offi...
Skip Ad x Embed x Share San Francisco police are investigating the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a suitcase on the sidewalk of a downtown street. Jillian Kitchener reports. A San Francisco Police Department squad car on Jan. 27, 2015. (Photo: Chris Kievman for USA TODAY) SAN FRANCISCO — Police re...
Story highlights Police are looking for one suspect, talking with other people Suitcase was found on sidewalk with other items (CNN) Police answering a suspicious package call in San Francisco made a most unpleasant discovery when they opened a suitcase and found it contained human body parts. The San Franc...
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Dismembered human body parts were found Wednesday in a suitcase and scattered around a three-block radius in downtown San Francisco, police said. Police responded about 4:15 p.m. to reports of a suspicious package on 11th Street between Market and Mission streets, said Officer Grace Gatpandan. After opening the...
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In a series of Twitter posts late Tuesday evening and early Wednesday, Roseanne Barr apologized for a racist tweet that led to the cancellation of her hit television show. In a statement Barr acknowledged as her own, she said: "I deeply regret my comments from late last night on Twitter. Above all, I want to apolog...
Ms. Barr also retweeted a user who asserted that Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist activists are Soros-sponsored front groups. The user referred to Mr. Soros as the “terrorist in chief.” The assertions about Mr. Soros that appeared throughout Ms. Barr’s timeline are baseless. Even the conservative National Review...
“It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting, I made a mistake I wish I hadn’t but…don’t defend it please.” Following a racist Twitter rant that cost Roseanne Barr her show on ABC, the television star apologized and bid farewell to the social media platform. Then, she returned and blamed the sleep aid Ambien ...
I look like a monkey. Why? My DNA is 96% similar to a monkey's. It makes scientific sense. But due to emotions, double standards & feelings science is cancelled this year. There are 5,000 genders & if you don't agree with me you're a racist xenophobe.
The Classic Tetris World Championships is one of the best gaming events to spectate all year. It's easy to understand, gets real intense, and the commentary adds a ton to the proceedings. But this year had an extra element of spice, after 16-year-old Joseph Saelee obliterated a seven-time world champion to become t...
All photos © Coley Brown Most days, Jonas Neubauer wakes up a little before noon and either goes to work as a taproom manager in southern California or to his other job where he helps run a recreational marijuana startup. But today the 37-year-old Los Angeles native rolled out of bed a little earlier, still groggy,...
Image copyright Classic Tetris World Championship Image caption Joseph Saelee and finalist Jonas Neubauer at the contest. A 16-year-old boy from California was the surprise winner of the grand final of the Classic Tetris World Championship in Oregon. The iconic block stacking computer game is 13 years older tha...
WASHINGTON—Insurers and some states are continuing to look for ways to bypass the balky technology underpinning the health-care law despite the Obama administration's claim Sunday that it had made "dramatic progress" in fixing the federal insurance website. Federal officials said they had largely succeeded in repai...
Weeks of frantic technical work appear to have made the government’s health care website easier for consumers to use. But that does not mean everyone who signs up for insurance can enroll in a health plan. The problem is that the systems that are supposed to deliver consumer information to insurers still have not...
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Kanye West ended his album release party / fashion show in New York with a surprise announcement: that he's working on a video game called Only One about his mother "traveling through the gates of heaven." The game shares its name with a song West released two years ago, speaking from the point of view of his late moth...
Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 fashion show / listening party is starting to wrap up over at Madison Square Garden, and the early viewership numbers are insane. According to a Tidal press release, over 20 million people attempted to watch the stream at its peak. It's unclear how viewership held up throughout the broadcast...
Photo Martin Shkreli, the founder and former chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals and a social media lightning rod, has attempted to divert some attention from the Yeezy proceedings by offering on Twitter to buy the recording of “The Life of Pablo” for $10 million. In an introduction, Mr. Shkreli described...
As promised, Kanye West unveiled his new, long-awaited album The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. The premiere, which was streamed all over the world and was attended by the likes of Kim Kardashian, Frank Ocean, 50 Cent, and others, also included the debut of his Yeezy Season 3 collection. As expecte...
By now you've probably heard about a lunatic with a small airplane named Joe Stack who crashed his plane into an IRS building Austin, Texas in an attempt to get back at the man-or "Big Brother" as he so eloquently stated on his website. I'm not about to blame Joe Stack's kamikaze mission on Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Pal...
Alienated in Austin Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal Revenue Service, and he took his rage out on it by slamming his single-engine plane into the Echelon Building in Austin, Texas. We now know this thanks to the rather clear (as rants go) suicide note Stack left behind. There's no information yet on whether h...
Dell is bound and determined to show that it can be a bigger player in the consumer market. The company also is trying to shake its reputation for stodgy design. I’ve been testing two new Dells that aim to prove both points. One is a pricey, style-conscious, ultrathin laptop; the other is an economical all-in-one d...
Software Browser Sunspider Results (lower is better) Apple iPad 2 (iOS 4.3) 2173.1ms Apple iPad (iOS 4.2.1) 8207.0ms Apple iPad (iOS 4.3) 3484.7ms Apple iPhone 4 (iOS 4.2.1) 10291.4ms Apple iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3) 4052.2ms Motorola Xoom 2141.8ms Motorola Atrix 4G 4100.6ms FaceTime / Photo Booth GarageBand ...
Dear technology journalists of the world: You know how you called that gadget you just reviewed sexy? Tell me, do you intend to fuck it, or do you simply plan to shove it up your ass? "Sexy." You see it applied to non-human objects all the time, but especially electronics. And the thing is, those writing it almost ...
Despite its title, "Elysium" is no promised land. Expectations were high that the film starring Matt Damon would carry the flag for thoughtful, big-budget films that care about more than profits. But it has ended up as something of a disappointment, an epic that has gone over to the dark side without realizing it. ...
Jodie Foster plays Secretary of Defense Delacourt, protector of Elysium, a refuge in space for the rich and elite, from Earth's undesirables. Jodie Foster plays Secretary of Defense Delacourt, protector of Elysium, a refuge in space for the rich and elite, from Earth's undesirables. If his directing career ever...
Tai Lopez is the best example of the glowing 67 Steps reviews. This is why the program is so successful. Tai Lopez leads by example. If you have no idea how the program can help you, 67 Steps reviews are the best way to get started. Don’t just dive in to buy the world-famous Tai Lopez lecture series. Like buying cl...
By Daryn Kagan , Contributing Writer About five months ago, Ryan Garcia’s world changed forever. He and his wife, Lindsey, became first-time parents to Isla Quinn. “She’s gorgeous!” he gushed to me the other day. So what’s the big deal, you might ask? Millions of men become fathers every year. Ah, but t...
The sound of an actual ticking clock can speed up women’s attitudes on reproductive timing New York | Heidelberg, 13 August 2014 The metaphor of a ticking clock is often used to refer to a woman’s growing urge – from puberty onwards to menopause – to conceive before her childbearing years are over. New research...
There’s a category of social-science experiment where the only reasonable response is “Huh, that’s weird.” The latest such experiment comes from the journal Human Nature, and it involves that least fun of subjects: biological clocks. Researchers interviewed a bunch of men and women about the age at which they’d like to...
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson stunned pretty much everyone Tuesday when she told viewers that she supports reinstating the assault weapons ban. On Wednesday, Carlson revealed that Fox viewers viciously attacked her with “tons of f-bombs” for the heresy, reading some of the tamer responses on the air. Despite the fallo...
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(Note: Language in paragraph four may offend some readers.) MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to “go to hell” and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers....
Manila, Philippines - Eric Sison was still alive after he fell three storeys from the roof opposite Maria's* house, snagged his shorts on her neighbours' awning, and, in his underwear, crawled underneath her bed. When the police drew back the yellow curtain that partitions her shanty home from Pasay City's F Munoz ...
WASHINGTON – After saying there was no evidence the two had ever met, the White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama once lived for a few weeks with his uncle, Onyango Obama, a Kenyan who was in the United States illegally and faced possible deportation. The president met his father’s half-brother when ...
President Obama acknowledged on Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than a year ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting. Their relationship came into question on Tuesday at th...
Dressed in green prison fatigues, R. Allen Stanford entered a federal courthouse in Houston today to hear U.S. District Judge David Hitner pronounce his prison sentence. The decision: 110 years. Prosecutors had asked that the one-time billionaire financier get 230 years in prison. (note: Bernard Madoff is serving 1...
Convicted Ponzi-schemer R. Allen Stanford has been sentenced to 110 years in prison, marking the latest chapter in a case that has captivated parts of the financial world for three years. Bloomberg News The government has come down on Stanford as more than just some white-collar criminal. In a blistering senten...
More than 1,000 desert tortoises are taking a trip with the Marine Corps this month. The military is using helicopters to relocate the tortoises to another part of the Mojave to make way for an expansion of its desert training grounds. During the two-week-long process, the hubcap-sized tortoises are being loade...
As military missions go, this one is unique: Relocate desert tortoises inhabiting desert land eyed to train Marine Corps brigades to safer areas away from human activity and military training. By the sixth day of a two-week effort, the Marine Corps was almost halfway through its goal to relocate about 1,100 tortois...
Wildlife biologist Scott Welch looked out over the Mojave Desert and readied for action when he heard a distant helicopter flying in. Just seconds after the aircraft landed, he and two others began loading it with plastic storage bins containing desert tortoises captured at an expansion area of the U.S. Marines Cor...
A pilot climbs out of a British Typhoon jet fighter of the Royal Air Force's Number 3 Squadron, parked at Gioia del Colle air base near Bari, Southern Italy, as Italian army trucks stand nearby, Monday... (Associated Press) Coalition forces bombarded Libya for a third straight night Monday, targeting the air defens...
At the United Nations, the Security Council rejected a request from Libya for a meeting to discuss the situation. Qaddafi forces were holding out against the allied military campaign to break their grip. Rebel fighters trying to retake the eastern town of Ajdabiya said their advance was halted on Monday by tank and...
Katy Perry is all about breaking conventional beauty rules, from her love of everything technicolor and coated in glitter, to her no-brows, black lipstick Met Gala look. So, of course, the pop star — and face of CoverGirl — was the perfect person to help announce that the beauty brand has named its first-ever male Cove...
James Charles, a 17-year-old New York-based makeup artist, might want to rethink the word “aspiring” in his Instagram bio. He’s the first ever male CoverGirl, an honor revealed Tuesday on Katy Perry’s Instagram. Just wrapped another great @COVERGIRL shoot. Honored to have the pleasure to announce the very first...
Just wrapped another great @COVERGIRL shoot. Honored to have the pleasure to announce the very first COVERBOY, James Charles! Follow him @JCharlesBeauty
If you happen to land on James Charles's Instagram feed, you'll immediately note that the talented teen has perfected the art of the dramatic lash, otherworldly highlight, artistic eye, and more. In fact, you may remember that his strobing skills are so good, they even got a shout-out from Zendaya one time. And it look...
The "aspiring makeup artist", according to his Instagram account bio, should really change it to "inspiring". At only 17 years old, James Charles has risen in popularity thanks to his Instagram account, which already has more than 431,000 followers after only one year. His account showcases makeup styles including pixe...
PONTIAC, MI -- The mystery of what happened to Pia Farrenkopf may never be entirely solved, but one piece of the puzzle fell into place this week. The Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office says it's received confirmation that the remains are the woman, who, estranged from family and friends, appears to have ...
(Reuters) - A woman whose mummified remains were found in her garage in a Detroit suburb up to five years after her death has been identified through DNA tests, an official said on Friday. Pia Farrenkopf had set up her bills to be paid automatically through a bank account, a neighbor cut her grass and her mail was ...
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March 28, 2018 – By Clair Robins Your favorite candy will always be around, right? When you think of panic-buying, you wouldn’t think of candy. But that is exactly what’s happening right now. People are panic-buying Necco wafers candy in bulk. The panic began on March 12. That day the Boston Globe covered an an...
Necco wafers have been around since before the Civil War—and plenty of detractors would argue they taste like it, too. The flavors have been described as “tropical drywall,” “plaster surprise,” and “attic citrus.” One Twitter commentator calls it a candy that “only a psychopath would like.” And yet, like anythi...
NECCO-Mania: Fans Stock Up On Chalky Wafers In Case Candy Company Folds Enlarge this image toggle caption Dina Rudick/Boston Globe via Getty Images Dina Rudick/Boston Globe via Getty Images NECCO wafers are a polarizing candy. Some online haters have compared the brittle sugar disks to chalk, or antacid tablets...
From declaring "the beast is alive" to being "free at last," a recap of the actor's response to getting the axe from "Two and a Half Men." Charlie Sheen reacted to getting fired from Two and a Half Men by Warner Bros. with a number of bizarre statements, including: - An interview with TMZ.com after he climb...
Just hours ago, Warner Bros. Television officially fired Charlie Sheen from Two and a Half Men, and TMZ has obtained the barnburner of a letter that WB sent to Sheen’s lawyer Marty Singer to justify his termination. “At the outset, let us state the obvious: Your client has been engaged in dangerously self-destructive c...
New Charlie Sheen Texts: 'The Beast Is Alive' Now officially fired from Two and a Half Men as of Monday, Charlie Sheen is gearing up for his confrontation with Warner Bros.In a text to PEOPLE, Sheen writes: "Put yourself in my shoes for one warlock nanosecond. At some point there is nothing to say. Only war to wage...
If it were even possible to be more frightened for Charlie Sheen , now would be the time. The recently unemployed Sheen headed to the rooftop of the Live Nation building with "goddess" Natalie Kenly yesterday after he reportedly had a meeting there.Sheen waved his machete over the crowd below while smoking cigarettes a...
Doral police arrested Christian David Guevara and charged him with strong arm robbery. They say he threw a 17-year-old girl to the ground and took her iPhone when she wasn’t able to produce cash he demanded.
For 17 years, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez served as a bodyguard to Fidel Castro. But when he became disillusioned with the Cuban dictator’s hypocrisy and tried to retire in 1994, Castro had him thrown in prison. Sanchez made 10 attempts to escape the island, finally making it to Mexico by boat, then across the Texas border i...
A network rep claims that the decision to not move forward with the animated comedy came before an anonymous woman alleged that the former 'Silicon Valley' star sexually assaulted her in 2001. Comedy Central has canceled T.J. Miller's animated series The Gorburger Show after one season. News of the cancellation...
Warning: This story includes graphic content. An alleged victim of former Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller is coming forward with accusations that Miller hit and sexually assaulted her while in college. The accusations were eventually addressed by a student court at George Washington University and have been buz...
We're halfway through one of the least-deadly years in recent Chicago homicide history, but here's a reminder that summer is just getting started: at least 41 were shot and 7 killed in Chicago this weekend. And while city gun violence typically doesn't get as much attention as other mass shootings, especially in more a...
6 dead, at least 41 injured in city’s most violent weekend in 2013 BY MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporter mdudek@suntimes.com 24887084 Updated: The most violent weekend in Chicago this year left at least 41 people injured and six others dead from gunfire. Those killed ranged in age from 16 to 40. “I had a fa...
Chicago Tribune reporter Adam Sege recaps the night's crime, including a police involved shooting that left a 15-year-old boy dead. (Posted Monday, June 17, 2013) As she headed out the door Sunday morning, Adrianne Wilberton put on a brave face. It was time to tell her son the news, and she didn't want him hearing ...
LIMA (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Peru suspect that a Canadian man murdered a revered indigenous medicine woman in an Amazonian village last week before being lynched in retribution, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Tuesday. Funeral of Olivia Arevalo, an 81-year-old indigenous shaman of the Shipi...
Image copyright AFP Image caption The body of Sebastian Woodroffe was found buried in a shallow grave A judge in Peru has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the lynching of a 41-year-old Canadian man in the remote Amazon region last week. A video uploaded to social media showed Sebastian Woodroffe lying in a...