The Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith last weekend, touching off a firestorm in the city, may have known him from high school. The man’s sister, Sherelle Smith, 22, told WITI-TV that her family knows the cop in question from his time at Pulaski High School, even though the Milwaukee Police Department has not publicly identified him. You knew exactly how my brother was, and you shot and killed him,” Smith said in an interview with the local Fox affiliate.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said Wednesday that Donald Trump has won the battle “to be himself” with his latest campaign shakeup and has surrounded himself with people who will “enable” him. “What’s become clear from this is that no matter how much the establishment wants to clean Donald Trump up — get him on a teleprompter and get him on message — he has officially won the fight to let Trump be Trump,” Mook said on a conference call with reporters.
A United Nations commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria is calling the situation in Aleppo's rebel-held east "critical" and demanding immediate action to protect civilians living there, including a reported 100,000 children. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq says the Commission of Inquiry reported Tuesday that government forces are bombing opposition neighborhoods in Aleppo on a daily basis, causing massive civilian casualties. A U.S. official says the Russian bombers that used an Iranian air base to attack militants in Syria have returned to Russia and that no Russian forces are stationed in Iran.
South Korea said Tuesday that its intelligence service had finished investigating 13 North Korean restaurant workers whose joint defection triggered accusations from Pyongyang that they were kidnapped. A Unification Ministry official said the dozen waitresses and their manager had been "released into society" last week. While Seoul said they fled voluntarily, Pyongyang claimed they were kidnapped by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) and waged a vocal campaign through its state media for their immediate return.

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The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria said on Tuesday that she just wants to go home. In her first interview, Amina Ali spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the capital of Abuja, where she and her baby daughter have been held by since her rescue in May for what the government has called a "restoration process". Ali said was not sure whether she would return to education and that she did not know when she would be able to go home.
Indian police say three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slashed by glass-coated kite string used in competitions to bring down the kites of rivals. A 3-year-old girl riding with her parents in a car had her head out of the sunroof when her throat was cut by a kite string, her uncle said Wednesday. The man, Jafar Khan, suffered a fatal head injury, said his father, Ayub Khan.
An inferno scorching swaths of southern California threatened the homes of more than 82,000 people, sending flaming "firenadoes" tearing across the brush and prompting a state of emergency. More than 1,300 firefighters were battling the giant blaze, with more on the way, but they were unable to contain the blaze. Dramatic local TV news footage of the wildfire captured from the front line in the town of Phelan showed tornado-like flaming vortexes -- known as "firenadoes" -- sent spinning into the air by the unusual ferocity of the blaze.

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Every woman pictures walking down the aisle at her wedding, but this Georgia bride left her wedding guests awestruck as she left her wheelchair behind, despite once being paralyzed. "I remember asking my mom if I was going to be in a wheelchair forever," said Jaquie Goncher of Marietta, who was just 17 years old when she broke her neck in an accident at a friend's swimming pool and was left paralyzed. "I really wanted to enjoy my wedding without the wheelchair," she said.
If anybody would know how the NSA operates, and how leaking its secrets works, it’s Edward Snowden. Snowden worked with journalists to reveal the NSA’s extensive domestic spying program and has been living in exile ever since. Needless to say, he’s been following the enormous hack of the NSA’s spying tools very closely, and he not only knows how it happened, he thinks it was a state-sponsored attack.
The 19-year-old college student who tried to bite a man’s face off after allegedly killing a married couple in Florida is now in stable condition after fighting for his life, according to authorities who continue to seek answers as to what prompted the vicious attack. Austin Harrouff, a Florida State University student, is now conscious but is unable to speak because he’s connected to a breathing tube, Trisha Kukuvka, a spokeswoman for the Martin County Sheriff’s Office told TIME on Wednesday. Authorities served a search warrant Tuesday to gather more blood, hair and DNA samples from Harrouff, who is accused of fatally stabbing and beating John Stevens, 59, and his 53-year-old wife Michelle Mishcon as the couple sat inside the garage Monday night.

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