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09/30/2016 07:14 am ET - Huffingtonpost Excerpt Donald Trump  ramped up his feud with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado on Friday, calling her “disgusting” and accusing her of having a sex tape. Alicia Machado Democratic candidate  Hillary Clinton  referenced Machado in Monday night’s presidential debate. Machado, who is from Venezuela, said that  Trump bullied her after she gained weight , calling her “Miss Piggy” and an “eating machine.” She  then appeared  in an ad for Clinton, revealing more details about the GOP nominee’s fat-shaming. Trump lashed out at Machado after the ad went viral,  telling “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday that she was  “the worst [Miss Universe] we ever had. She was impossible.” He  doubled down on Wednesday , claiming that he was actually helping  Machado by bullying her because Miss Universe officials wanted to fire her for gaining weight. Trump campaign manager  Kellyanne Conway ...

09/25/2016 08:58 am ET Eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were hurt in a shooting that Baltimore police called an act of “retaliatory violence” on Saturday night, authorities said. A spokesman of the Baltimore Police Department told reporters at a news conference that the shooting appeared to be in response to a fatal shooting on Labor Day that left one person dead and others injured.  Police said the attack was “planned” and involved three shooters, two with handguns and one with a long gun that seemed to be a shotgun. Police said all the eight victims were expected to recover from their injuries. Further details were not immediately available on the shooting or identities of the shooters. A separate shooting in Baltimore on Saturday left two people with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) more  

BY SIMONE MORGAN-LINDO Observer staff reporter morgans@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, September 25, 2016  In sharp contrast to the accepted principle of Islam being a religion that preaches peace, the sons of late ska pioneer Prince Buster marred his funeral yesterday when they engaged in a verbal brawl that almost became physical outside the Islamic Council of Jamaica on Camp Road in St Andrew. The uproar occurred just after Sheikh Musa Tijani concluded the brief Muslim funeral rites. Ishaq Ali (right) is being restrained during the uproar  at the Muslim Funeral Rites for his late father, musician  Prince Buster, yesterday. (Photos: Garfield Robinson) At the centre of the fracas, which saw the siblings hurling insults at each other, was the final resting place of their late father. The ska legend had apparently asked to be buried at May Pen Cemetery in his West Kingston community. During the verbal clash, the entertainer’s son, Saladin Ali, was heard sa...

A video released to NBC News shows the moment when police in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot Keith Scott. In the video, which lasts two minutes and 12 seconds, Scott’s wife pleads with an officer not to fire his weapon. At the same time, the officer is pointing a gun in Scott’s direction, screaming at him to “drop the gun.” “Don’t shoot him, he has no weapon,” Rakeyia Scott says several times. She tells the officers that her husband has a TBI, or a traumatic brain injury, and then assures them, “He’s not gonna do anything, he just took his medicine.” She then yells toward Scott, “Keith, don’t you do it!” It’s unclear whether she is telling him not to get out of the vehicle he’s in. Police fire their weapons, and Scott can be seen lying on the ground. “Did you shoot him?” Rakeyia Scott asks officers. “He better live. He didn’t do nothing to them.” Keith Scott was waiting in his truck for his young son to come home from school, his lawyer told NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez, but ...

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Chinese engineers Saturday completed the Beipanjiang Bridge, breaking another Chinese bridge's record as the highest in the world. Photo: CCTV This video originally appeared on WSJ.com Posted September 12, 2016

BY JEDIAEL CARTER Staff reporter carterj@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, September 11, 2016     Matriculating to the tertiary level for some is a tremendous feat. For Amakeda Wallen it is even more special. Defeating all odds, the 18-year-old has become the first deaf person to be invited to read for a degree at the University of Technology (UTECH). “I started this year, it has been good so far,” said Wallen who communicates through sign language. Entering on a $5-million scholarship from the institution, Wallen will pursue a Bachelor’s degree in business management at the College of Business and Management (COBAM) which will cover her tuition and accommodation for her tenure (four years) at the institution. “I feel really good about it. I think I can make a difference,” Wallen said of her accomplishments. Acting President at the University of Technology Professor  Colin Gyles (right) interacts with his new student Amakeda Wallen (centre) while a representat...

Monday, September 05, 2016     MONTEGO BAY, St James — The St James police have been working since yesterday morning to determine the circumstances leading to the death of three unidentified males whose charred remains were discovered in burnt-out car. According to Senior Superintendent Marlon Nesbeth, head of the St James Police Division, the police received a report about the vehicle in the Barnett Bush section of Spring Mount in the parish. Upon their arrival, the bodies of three males were discovered inside the vehicle. Nesbeth said the men are believed to hail from the parish of Westmoreland, but stressed that they will rely on the results of forensic tests to make certain and to determine the circumstances that led to their demise. — Horace Hines

RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, September 05, 2016     Kingston Western Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie yesterday decried the upsurge in violence in the community after the shooting of a five-year-old girl on Tulip Lane in Denham Town. Agony and Pain “This is madness, madness that has gone beyond any sense of reasoning. For the last couple of weeks I have been in touch at the highest level with the police in regards to the latest upsurge and the fact that the upsurge has been intensified. We have seen several persons being shot; some have lost their lives. In the past four days this section of the area has been under constant attack,” McKenzie told the Jamaica Observer. The five-year-old was among four people shot and injured in a drive-by yesterday afternoon. Up to press time yesterday she was said to be in critical but stable condition. The incident is the latest in a spate of shootings across the city in r...