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WWJ News
January 07, 2020 - 5:44 pm

Feds Begin Taking DNA Samples From Immigrants At Border In Detroit

The Trump Administration says the aim is to cut down on crime.
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Lora DiCarlo offers a complete line of robotic sexual stimulation devices for women shown here at the CES Unveiled media preview event, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Associated Press
January 07, 2020 - 3:54 pm

Sex Tech From Female-Led Startups At CES Gadget Show

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sex tech is gracing the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week after organizers endured scorn for revoking an innovation award to a sex device company led by a female founder. CES is allowing space for sex tech companies as a one-year trial. At the show, such companies were...
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WWJ News
January 07, 2020 - 3:50 pm

NEW Girl Scout Cookie Announced For 2020 Season

Girl Scouts begin taking cookie orders this month, for delivery in February.
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gabriela-arevalo
January 07, 2020 - 1:17 pm

6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Puerto Rico One Day After Strong Tremor

One day after an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck Puerto Rico, the Caribbean island was hit again with a 6.4 earthquake in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Several aftershocks were recorded in the following hours, including an earthquake that registered at a magnitude of 6.0 three hours...
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This Jan. 4, 2020 booking photo made available by the Volusia County, Fla., Corrections, shows Joanne Mercade, who is accused of battery after authorities say she threw a bucket of human feces at her landlord in Osteen, Fla. She is charged with battery on a person over the age of 65. (Volusia County Corrections via AP)
Associated Press
January 07, 2020 - 1:08 pm

Florida Woman Accused Of Throwing Human Feces At Landlord

OSTEEN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman tossed a bucket of human feces at her landlord and somehow ended up with dried excrement smeared all over her own face, authorities said. Joanne Mercader, 59, initially told deputies that her landlord first assaulted her with excrement, according to an arrest...
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Associated Press
January 07, 2020 - 10:29 am

Police: Man Gets Arrested In Attempt To Support Jailed Lover

LANCASTER, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky say they've arrested a man who wanted to go to jail to support his jailed girlfriend. Raymond Pace, 47, was charged with offenses including possession of methamphetamine, heroin and drug paraphernalia, news outlets report. Pace called authorities...
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In this Nov. 5, 2019 photo, in St. Francis, Wis., Amy Carter looks at her Yorkshire terrier-Chihuahua mix Bentley, who has epilepsy. Carter, gives him CBD, which she says has reduced his seizures. The federal government has yet to establish standards for CBD that will help pet owners know whether it works and how much to give. But the lack of regulation has not stopped some from buying it, fueling a $400 million CBD market for pets that grew more than tenfold since last year and is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2023, according to the cannabis research firm Brightfield Group. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
Associated Press
January 07, 2020 - 9:43 am

Researchers: Some Pet Products Touted As CBD Don't Have Any

Companies have unleash ed hundreds of CBD pet health products accompanied by glowing customer testimonials claiming the cannabis derivative produced calmer, quieter and pain-free dogs and cats. But some of these products are all bark and no bite. “You'd be astounded by the analysis we've seen of...
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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper delivers a statement on Iraq and Syria, at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Associated Press
January 06, 2020 - 6:33 pm

Congress Demands Answers From Trump About Soleimani Killing

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials on Monday braced for Iran to respond to the killing of its most powerful general, noting heightened military readiness in the country and preparing for a possible “tit-for-tat” attempt on the life of an American military commander. President Donald Trump ordered the...
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., left, looks on as Negah Hekmati speaks about her hours-long delay returning to the U.S. from Canada with her family days earlier, at a news conference Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, in Seattle. Civil rights groups and lawmakers were demanding information from federal officials following reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were held up and questioned at the border as they returned to the United States from Canada over the weekend. In a statement Sunday, the Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said more than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans were detained and questioned at the Peace Arch Border Crossing in Blaine, Washington. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Associated Press
January 06, 2020 - 5:56 pm

Groups Demand Answers After Iranians Say They Were Detained

SEATTLE (AP) — Civil rights groups and lawmakers demanded information from federal officials Monday following reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were held up and questioned at the border as they returned to the United States from Canada over the weekend. The Washington state chapter of the...
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Harvey Weinstein leaves State Supreme Court in New York, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The disgraced movie mogul faces allegations of rape and sexual assault. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Associated Press
January 06, 2020 - 3:48 pm

Harvey Weinstein Arrives At Court Ahead Of Sex Assault Trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors charged Harvey Weinstein on Monday with sexually assaulting two women on successive nights during Oscars week in 2013, bringing the new case against the disgraced Hollywood mogul on the eve of jury selection for his New York trial. The case, brought by a...
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