Zoo animals are starving to death at Venezuela's zoos

Venezuela is no stranger to crisis. In recent years, the South American country has been on the brink of economic collapse.

A drastic fall in oil prices, which provides almost all of Venezuela's foreign income, has been followed by a severe recession and widespread food and medicine shortages.

For Venezuelans, the scarcity has led to choosing between waiting in hours-long lines for basic food supplies or succumbing to sky-high prices on the black market.

That scarcity has now spread to Venezuela's zoos, where food shortages have left some animals emaciated or even dying.

Method Man quits social media after photo of his wife surfaces online

Method Man quit social media after a rare photo of his wife, Tameka was posted online by Farrah Gray, the "celebrity entrepreneur". Method Man has been married to his wife Tameka for over 17 years and they have 3 children together has always protected his family life from the public.

After he saw the photo of his wife, he reached out to Gray and asked for the photo to be taken down. He wrote:

Homeland chief says biggest fear is lone wolf style terror attack

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the threat of “lone wolf” terror attacks has become his biggest fear, saying self-radicalized militants are much more difficult for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect.

Mr. Johnson, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, said U.S. and foreign counterterrorism officials have had to adjust to the prevalence of “small scale attacks in increasing frequency,” both in the U.S. and Europe.

He specifically mentioned the December terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., when a husband-and-wife team killed 14 people at a holiday party, and the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub last month that killed nearly 50 people.

Man who fought for custody of his son for almost a year gets the devastating news he had been dreading

Dillon Wyckoff who had been in a year-long custody battle over his two-year-old son, Mason Wyckoff got a tragic news on Friday that his little boy had passed away possibly at the hands of his mother. Emergency crews were called to his baby mama's apartment where they found the deceased toddler alongside his unconscious mother, Stephenie Erickson.

He told the Des Moines Register:

“He was everything in my world. She had threatened and threatened to do it, and she did it to hurt me. They haven’t proven anything yet, but I know down deep that’s what happened.”

“It’s been a year-long battle with all this stuff, and it’s been going downhill…We prayed and prayed it wouldn’t be this.”

Mason’s grandmother, Michel Cunningham, said they had lived in fear for months on end, worrying about Erickson’s mental stability especially after she told Wyckoff he would “never see his son again”:

“I tried contacting DHS (the Department of Human Services). We’ve dealt with over seven different police departments for over a year. They kept telling us that we had to wait for ‘something to happen.’ And look at what did.

6 takeaways from Wednesday night at the Democratic Convention

The Democratic A-list on Wednesday cast Donald Trump as a threat to the American dream -- and Hillary Clinton as the nation's only chance to save it.

President Barack Obama called Trump a "homegrown demagogue." Michael Bloomberg dismissed him as a "con." And Vice President Joe Biden, in rejecting Trump, declared that "Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down."

They set the frame for the Democratic National Convention's most important moment: Clinton's speech Thursday night.

Here are six takeaways from the third night in Philadelphia:

Kansas stepfather accused of abandoning infant in trash

 
Police in Lawrence, Kansas, say a 9-month-old girl's stepfather is accused of abandoning the infant in a trash bin earlier this month.
The Kansas City Star reports that 27-year-old Marquis Jamall Young is charged in an arrest warrant with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse.
The child was found early July 7 in the trash receptacle at an apartment complex.
The infant was treated at a Kansas City-area hospital and was released about two weeks later.
A police spokeswoman, Sgt. Amy Rhoads, says the girl is in the state's custody and will continue to receive outpatient treatment for her injuries.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday if Young has an attorney.

Knifeman who killed 19 at disabled care home pictured SMIRKING in back of police ca

Smirking as he is driven away in the back of a police car, this is the knifeman who killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care home for disabled people in Japan .

Satoshi Uematsu turned himself in following the stabbing spree in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture - Japan's worst mass killing in decades.

The 26-year-old today appeared before public prosecutors as a team of police officers raided his home.

About half a dozen plainclothes officers entered the property as reporters and TV cameras stood by.

Hillary Clinton formally selected as Democratic candidate for President with help from Bernie Sanders

 

Hillary Clinton is officially the first woman to top a major party ticket — and Bernie Sanders helped put her there Tuesday evening.

Sanders came to the floor at the Democratic National Convention at the end of their official roll call vote for President to ask that the party give Clinton the nomination by acclamation, his latest move toward unifying the party and assuaging his most stubborn supporters.

Clinton formally surpassed the 2,382 delegate votes she needed to officially lock in the nomination when the South Dakota delegation cast its votes during a state-by-state roll-call early in the evening.

But Sanders’ surprise speech provided the moment of catharsis.

“I move that the convention suspend the procedural votes … I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States,” he said before he kissed his wife Jane.

The crowd inside the Wells Fargo Center erupted into a deafening roar, with loud “Bernie” chants overtaking several delegations.

Sanders was then ushered out of the arena and Democratic National Committee interim Chairwoman Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) retook the stage.

Bill Clinton helps DNC recover after bumbling opening day

Last night’s Democratic convention was a triumph for Hillary and reversed what had begun on night one as an awkward and embarrassing hot mess of a convention.

Bill made a pitch for his wife in a way we hadn’t seen before — lovingly humanizing their relationship — a relationship that has been dissected, discussed, disgusted and digested by everyone who is isn’t them.

The Dems in short, showed us what our nation can be: kind, inclusive, understanding, nonviolent — everything that the Republican convention made us ashamed of becoming.

It was a great thing to see the humanity and the humanization of the first female candidate for President — a portrait that was long overdue and has had serious complications. And with nearly three decades of Clinton fatigue under our belts, making that portrait come to life was a heavy lift.

Heartbreaking: Body of a baby found floating in the water

Body of a baby was found in water yesterday, July 23 at about 4pm. According to the Facebook user whose location reads Bangkok, Thailand, the body was later recovered by security agents. See the heartbreaking photos after the cut.

Man is arrested for putting gun in girlfriend's mouth and threatening to kill her as she breastfed their newborn baby

A Florida man, 29-year-old Kevin A. Smith , allegedly pointed a gun at his 22-year-old girlfriend's head while she breastfed their newborn according to Police in St. Augustine. They say he was upset when he arrived at home and thought his 2-week-old was being fed milk from another woman.
Smith tried to get the baby from his girlfriend, who tried to keep the infant from him, officials at the St. John County Sheriff's Office said. He held the woman down on the bed and pulled a black handgun gun on her, cops told the Palm Beach Post. Smith then pointed the gun at the woman's head — and put it between her teeth. He also took her cell phone so she couldn't call the police.

Smith was on top of his girlfriend, trying to roll her over to get the baby, when the victim's mother arrived. The woman heard screaming and went to check on what was happening.

When Smith went outside to his truck, the victim' s mother quickly took her and the baby outside to her own truck and called the police. Smith was arrested and charged with battery, child neglect and obstructing justice.


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BERNIE SANDERS CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, ACCUSED OF UNDERMINING SANDERS’ CAMPAIGN

In the wake of an email controversy that exploded over the weekend, the Democratic National Convention could be completely derailed as it gets underway Monday, July 25 in Philadelphia.

Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, a vice chairman at the DNC, told The Hill on Sunday, July 24 that those involved in scheming to undermine Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign should either resign immediately or be fired.

“The DNC needs to make a clear statement that this was wrong and that any member of the staff involved in criticizing another candidate, especially using DNC offices and equipment, should be fired,” Rybak said. “If any officer played a role in helping another candidate when we’re supposed to be neutral, they should resign. It’s that simple. Make a clear statement. Clean up this mess so we can move on and work together.”

Davido Signs with RCA Records

Davido and Peter Edge (Chairman RCA Records)

Davido inked a deal with RCA Records, a subsidiary of Sony Records, this past weekend, right before jumping on stage to perform at the recently concluded and very successful One Africa Music Fest concert that held at the Barclays center in Brooklyn New York. This news has been confirmed by Davido’s management.

RCA Records, home to several huge music stars such as Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Zayn Malik, Sia and many more, will handle Davido’s North American music servicing and distribution.

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino Secretary-General Samoura Arrive Nigeria

Gianni Infantino Accompanied by NFF President Amaju Pinnick and Executive Members of the Nigeria Football Federation

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, and Secretary General Fatma Samoura, on Sunday arrived in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja on a two–day working visit.

They were received by the President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, as well as members of the NFF Board.

On arrival, the duo were treated to a brief display by a cultural troupe at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, before a group photograph with members of the NFF executive committee.

According tom Complete Sports, a total of 17 FA presidents from Africa are in Nigeria for this event and will be meeting with the FIFA President and Secretary General later on Sunday. 

EXPLOSIVE HISTORY: Who Sold Nigeria To Britain For £865k in 1899?

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Today we will be discussing the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.
Palm oil of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later.

By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With wealth comes influence.