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Close-up on canopy of Grumman Hellcat fighter aircraft seen in USS Independence aircraft elevator hatch (OET/Nautilus Live). Scientists have released incredible pictures of sunken light aircraft carrier USS Independence that were taken by underwater robots exploring the wreck. The historic ship, which served in World War II and was used in the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, was intentionally sunk off Califoia in 1951. The 622-foot-long Independence sits in 2,600 feet of water in the Greater Farallones National Maritime Sanctuary. Related Image Expand / Contract Bow of USS Independence (OET/Nautilus Live). Experts on the research vessel E/V Nautilus are using two Remote...

Elizabeth Smart in Sandy, Utah, in 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) SALT LAKE CITY – Kidnapping survivor ElizabethSmartsays poography led to her captor raping her more than he already did in the nine months she was held. Smartmade the remarks in a video posted Friday by Fight the New Drug, an anti-poography advocacy group. Smart, who was taken from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 at the age of 14, recounts how Brian David Mitchell showed her magazines containing hardcore poography. She says he then wanted to mimic what he saw. Smartsays she caot say that looking at poography caused Mitchell to kidnap her but that "poography made my living hell worse." Smartdescribes herself as an advocate ag...

U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has admitted he "let my team down" when he falsely claimed that he and three of his USA Swimming teammates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro last week. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that aired Saturday night, Lochte said he was "taking full responsibility for" the furor that overshadowed the final week of the Summer Games. Initially, Lochte claimed that he, Feigen, Jack Conger and Guar Bentz were robbed at gunpoint by theives posing as police officers early Sunday moing. Local authorities claimed that the swimmers had vandalized a gas station bathroom while intoxicated after attending a party with fellow athletes. "I over-exaggerated t...

The State Department admitted Thursday it postponed a $400 million payment to Iran in January until a group of Americans held in the country was released -- but not all media outlets apparently saw it as a top story. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday that the negotiations to retu the money – originally from a 1979 failed military equipment deal made between Iran and the U.S. – were conducted separately from negotiations to free the four prisoners. However, Kirby also said that the U.S. withheld the cash delivery until Iran made good on its promise to release the prisoners on January 17. The story was given prominence on most news sites and in newspapers. The New Yor...

The New York Times published an extensive report Monday examining Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s work for a pro-Russian party in Ukraine – but despite pointing to it as a “rising issue” in the presidential campaign, glossed over its own past reporting on the Clintons’ Russian coections. The latest article detailed ledgers purportedly showing more than $12 million earmarked for Manafort by the pro-Russian party. According to the Times, investigators claim they were part of an illicit off-the-books operation, though Manafort denies ever getting such payments. The Times noted that Manafort’s “involvement with moneyed interests in Russia and Ukraine” has been reported bef...

United States' Simone Manuel celebrates wiing the gold medal in the women's 100-meter freestyle during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP) Simone Manuel leaned her head into her hands and broke down in tears when she recognized her historic achievement. With her victory in the 100-meter freestyle, she became the first African-American woman to capture an Olympic gold medal in swimming. The 20-year-old Manuel upset world-record holder Cate Campbell and tied with Pey Oleksiak of Canada at the Rio Games on Thursday. "I hope that I can be an inspiration to others so this medal is for the people who come behind me and g...

A Rhode Island ex-cop who killed himself after leading New Jersey troopers on a brief chase had his dead wife in the trunk, according to reports Sunday. The chase began when a trooper spotted Franklin Osgood, 61, on the New Jersey Tupike in Bergen County Saturday night and tried to pull him over, NJ.com reported. Osgood then shot himself, lost control of his 2007 Dodge Charger, struck a metal guardrail and then crashed into a trooper’s patrol car, according to the media outlet. The trooper involved in the crash sustained injuries that were not life-threatening. Osgood later died. A search of the Charger led to the discovery of his deceased wife Mary Jo Osgood, 55. Cops said Osgood put ...

The IRS confirmed in a letter it is looking into claims of “pay-to-play” practices at the Clinton Foundation, after dozens of Republican lawmakers requested a review of potential “criminal conduct” at the organization founded by the family at the center of this week’s Democratic National Convention. Commissioner John Koskinen wrote in a July 22 letter to Republican Rep. Marsha Blackbu that the issue has been “forwarded” to the IRS “Exempt Organizations Examinations” program in Dallas. “This program considers all referrals and will send you a separate acknowledgement letter when it receives your information,” he wrote, in a letter first reported by The Daily Caller. It’s unclear whethe...

PHILADELPHIA – Hillary Clinton took a historic step closer Tuesday to fulfilling her dream of shattering what she once called “that highest, hardest glass ceiling”when Democratic delegates at the party's national convention in Philadelphia officially nominated her as their candidate for president – making the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state the first woman to top a major party presidential ticket. South Dakota’s delegation put her over the top in the tally, but it was ex-primary foe Beie Sanders who closed out the roll call and made her nomination official after his home state of Vermont cast its votes. “I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of t...

PHILADELPHIA – Tens of thousands of politicians, delegates, reporters and politicaljunkies who have come to this sprawling East Coast city --amid a relentless heat wave -- to attend the Democratic National Convention are being greeted with traffic gridlock, subway snafus and venues without food or water and piled high withtrash. The headaches surrounding the logistics of the event have served to mar an already turbulent kick-off marked by rowdy protests. The early arrivers Tuesday at the downtown convention center where the events are being held were met by work crews furiously trying to clean up trash and leftover food including chicken fingers and French fries. On Sunday night, at a ...

A potential Russian coection to the politically explosive hack of Democratic National Committee files is becoming clearer, with a former senior intelligence official who ran computer security for the Defense Intelligence Agency telling Fox News the hackers left behind evidence on the servers that points to sophisticated techniques associated with the country. The trail of evidence on the DNC servers includes malicious code used to steal emails and documents, according to Bob Gourley, co-founder and partner at strategic consulting firm Cognitio and former chief technology officer (CTO) at the DIA. “Forensic evidence points pretty clearly to a very sophisticated nation state,” he said. “...

CAST OF BERKS YOUTH THEATRE PRODUCTION OF "BYE BYE BIRDIE," LEFT TO RIGHT: TAYLOR SWIFT, CODY DERESPINA, CHRIS BROSSMAN, AND JESSICA FLAMHOLZ (DIANE STASKOWSKI/READING EAGLE) I’m Team Calvin. Before Taylor Swift allegedly tried undercutting Scottish DJ Calvin Harris by leaking her involvement in his new single, an 11-year-old pre-fame Taylor was trying to undercut another love interest. Me. A few things to clarify here: The year was 2001. I was 14 at the time and Swift did not like me in the least (nor I her), but the character she played in a Berks Youth Theater version of “Bye Bye Birdie” was in love with the character I played. But off stage, Swift and my “relationship” could not have...

Two court bailiffs were killed and a deputy sheriff shot Monday inside a southweste Michigan courthouse when an inmate broke loose and got his hands on an officer's gun, officials said. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said the 45-year-old suspect, Larry Daell Gordon, was also killed. He was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Josephwhen a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer. During the incident, Bailey says Gordon took hostages for a short period of time before trying to leave through another door. The sheriff said he faced multiple felony charges but did not specify what they were. Bailey said it does not appear...

Two court bailiffs were killed and a deputy sheriff shot Monday inside a southweste Michigan courthouse when an inmate broke loose and got his hands on an officer's gun, officials said. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said the 45-year-old suspect, Larry Daell Gordon, was also killed. He was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Josephwhen a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer. During the incident, Bailey says Gordon took hostages for a short period of time before trying to leave through another door. The sheriff said he faced multiple felony charges but did not specify what they were. Bailey said it does not appear...

Two court bailiffs were killed and a deputy sheriff shot Monday inside a southweste Michigan courthouse when an inmate broke loose and got his hands on an officer's gun, officials said. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said the 45-year-old suspect, Larry Daell Gordon, was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Josephwhen a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer. During the incident, Bailey says Gordon took hostages for a short period of time before trying to leave through another door. He was killed by other officers. The sheriff did not say what charges the inmate was facing. Bailey said it does not appear that Gordon ...

Wakulla County first responders work on the scene of an accident on Saturday, July 2, 2016 in Wakulla, Fla. (Joe Rondone /Tallahassee Democrat via AP) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla – Five people were killed and 25 were injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collided with a tractor trailer causing both vehicles to burst into flames Saturday on a highway in the Panhandle, sheriff's officials said. The Blue Bird bus from Georgia was carrying roughly 34 adults and children when it ran a flashing red light before hitting the tractor trailer, then spun around and hit the semi again. One of the bus passengers killed was a small child. The driver of the semi-truck, Gordon Sheets, 55 of Copiague, New Yor...

EXCLUSIVE – The claim that the fatal 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under siege, according to the final report of the GOP-led Benghazi Select Committee. The GOP report, released Tuesday, followed by less than a day a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection. According to portions of the Republican report reviewed by Fox ...

Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub attacker, grew up in a home frought with violence, with his mother accused of beating her husband during their many fights, according to reports published Saturday shedding new light on what may have helped spark the massacre. Police had arrested Mateen's mother,Shahla, on charges of domestic violence in 2002, police records show.Speakingto the Daily Beast, a former Walgreens coworker,Becky Diefendorf, described Shahla as "paranoid." Officers said they arrestedShahla after she and her husband had a heated argument that ended with her pulling his hair and pinching him so hard that it left a mark. According to the police report, her husband claimed she'...

Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub attacker, grew up in a home frought with violence, with his mother accused of beating her husband during their many fights, according to reports published Saturday shedding new light on what may have helped spark the massacre. Police had arrested Mateen's mother,Shahla, on charges of domestic violence in 2002, police records show.Speakingto the Daily Beast, a former Walgreens coworker,Becky Diefendorf, described Shahla as "paranoid." Officers said they arrestedShahla after she and her husband had a heated argument that ended with her pulling his hair and pinching him so hard that it left a mark. According to the police report, her husband claimed she'...