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This undated photo released Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 by the Long Beach, Calif., Police Department shows weapons and ammunition seized from a cook at a Los Angeles-area hotel who allegedly threatened a mass shooting. Authorities say he had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at his home. Rodolfo Montoya was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 20, a day after allegedly telling a co-worker at the Long Beach Marriott he planned to shoot fellow workers and others. (Long Beach Police Department via AP)

Employee charged in California hotel shooting threatA Long Beach hotel worker who allegedly had an arsenal at his home has been charged with threatening a mass shooting at his workplace

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Gun rights advocates gather outside the Texas Capitol where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a round table discussion, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, in Austin, Texas. Abbott is meeting in Austin with officials from Google, Twitter and Facebook as well as officials from the FBI and state lawmakers to discuss ways of combatting extremism in light of the recent mass shooting in El Paso that reportedly targeted Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas governor expresses concern about private gun salesRepublican Gov. Greg Abbott has raised concern about private firearm sales but didn't commit to crack down on them or act on gun control issues

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David Bressler, who say he was sexually abused while a student at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA)—also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys in Manhattan, listen during a press conference, Thursday Aug. 22, 2019, in New York. Bressler is among 38 former students in a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by two rabbis: George Finkelstein, a long-time MTA principal, and Macy Gordon, a long-time MTA Judaic Studies teacher. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Yeshiva University hit with sexual abuse lawsuitThirty-eight former students of a Manhattan high school operated by Yeshiva University are suing the university over their claims they were sexually abused

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In this Aug. 12, 2019 photo, mourners visit the makeshift memorial near the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting that police are investigating as a terrorist attack targeting Latinos. The flags show the nationalities of those killed in the attack, including a German man who lived in nearby Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. On Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, Walmart said it plans to reopen the El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting, but the entire interior of the building will first be rebuilt. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Walmart to revamp, reopen El Paso store after mass shootingWalmart says it will reopen its El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a shooting this month, but only after the entire interior of the store is rebuilt

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This photo taken from video provided by KABC-TV shows the outside of a Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Lancaster, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The mayor of Lancaster says a deputy shot and wounded outside the station is going to be Okay after he visited him at the hospital. Authorities are searching for the shooter in buildings surrounding the station where the deputy was hit in the shoulder while standing in the parking lot Wednesday afternoon. (KABC-TV via AP)

Shooter at large after LA deputy shot at sheriff's stationA shooter remains at large after wounding a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in a station parking lot in the Mojave Desert city of Lancaster

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Federal agents hold a detainee, center, at a downtown Los Angeles parking lot after predawn raids that saw dozens of people arrested in the L.A. area Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. U.S. authorities have unsealed a 252-count federal grand jury indictment charging 80 people with participating in a conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through a range of fraud schemes and laundering the funds through a Los Angeles-based network. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Thursday most of the defendants are Nigerian nationals. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

FBI takes down Nigerian fraudsters in $46M caseFederal authorities broke an international crime ring that stole millions through fraud schemes and money laundering

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, Harvey Weinstein enters State Supreme Court in New York. A lawyer for Weinstein has asked that the disgraced movie mogul's upcoming criminal trial be moved out of New York City, saying he can't get a fair trial. In a longshot motion filed with the state appellate court on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, attorney Arthur Aidala suggested the trial be moved to upstate Albany County or Suffolk County on Long Island. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Weinstein to be rearraigned as DA seeks actress's testimonyHarvey Weinstein is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a new indictment as prosecutors seek to have jurors hear from an actress who's accused him of a 1993 rape

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North Dakota Health Department disregarded its own policy in updating the volume of a 2015 natural gas spill pipeline spill.;

North Dakota agency disregarded policy on spill reportingNorth Dakota's Health Department disregarded its own policy in updating the volume of 2015 pipeline spill at a natural gas processing plant, and it remains unclear whether promised quarterly inspections of the site have been done as cleanup continued

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President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Trump is returning from Louisville, Ky., where he spoke to the American Veterans (AMVETS) 75th National Convention. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump scraps plan to push for foreign aid cutTrump scraps effort to cut some $4 billion in foreign aid that lawmakers had already approved

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Library Director Jennifer Ramirez works to get her computer operational with assistance from their technology advisers at the public library in Wilmer, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Cyberattacks that recently crippled nearly two dozen Texas cities, including Wilmer, have put other local governments on guard. Ramirez said that currently only one computer is operational at the library. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Cyberattacks on Texas cities put other governments on guardCyberattacks that recently crippled nearly two dozen Texas cities have put other local governments on guard

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FILE - In this July 4, 2019, file photo, protesters are arrested by Philadelphia police after interrupting The Salute to America Independence Day Parade held near Independence Hall in Philadelphia. A fledgling coalition of liberal Jewish groups is increasingly making itself heard as it fights the Trump administration’s immigration policies. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

Jewish groups speaking out against Trump immigration policyFrom fiery protests outside detention centers in Texas, New Jersey and Rhode Island to a blockade of an Amazon store in New York, a fledgling coalition of liberal Jewish groups is speaking out against the Trump administration's immigration policies

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Vermont's Roman Catholic Bishop Christopher Coyne speaks Thursday Aug. 22, 2019 in South Burlington, Vt., about a new report that found there were "credible and substantiated" allegations of the sexual abuse of minors against 40 priests in the state between 1950 and today. The report said all but one of the allegations occurred before 2000. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Report alleges sex abuse by 40 Vermont priests since 1950A new report from Vermont's Roman Catholic Church says there were "credible and substantiated" allegations of the sexual abuse of minors against 40 priests in the state between 1950 and today

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