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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 file photo, Executive producer Leonard Goldberg talks about "Charlie's Angels" at the Disney ABC Television Group summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. Leonard Goldberg, a network and studio executive and producer whose TV credits ranged from 'Starsky and Hutch' in the 1970s to the current drama series 'Blue Bloods' and whose independent movies included 'WarGames' and 'Sleeping with the Enemy,' has died on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)

Veteran producer of 'WarGames,' 'Blue Bloods" dies at 85

A veteran television producer and entertainment executive whose credits included 'Starsky and Hutch" and current drama series 'Blue Bloods" has died
Erin Burke, Section Chief of the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit at Homeland Security, poses for a portrait inside the Victim Identification Lab, part of Homeland Security's Child Exploitation Investigations Unit, in Fairfax, Va., Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. The Homeland Security Investigations section's little-known Child Exploitation Investigations lab is where agents scour disturbing photos and videos of child sexual abuse. They look for unlikely clues that help them identify the children and bring their abusers to justice. In one case, it was the loud, persistent chirping of a bird. Another time, it was unusual playground equipment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A locker, a chirp: How tiny clues help solve child sex cases

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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon holds a baby in Dalkeith, whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Midlothian, Scotland, Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. The independence of Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom is not on the ballot, but it's uppermost on the minds of many voters here as they make their final choices ahead of the national election next week. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

Independence not on ballot, but on voters' minds in Scotland

The question of Scotland's independence from the rest of the United Kingdom is not on the ballot, but it's uppermost in the minds of many voters in Scotland as they make their final choices
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, rainwater pools at a gas station attacked during protests over government-set gasoline prices in Tehran, Iran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UN office: Iranian forces were 'shooting to kill' protesters

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2016, file photo, Lauren Bruner, a survivor of the USS Arizona which was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, holds with a 1940 photo of himself at his home in La Mirada, Calif. Divers will place the ashes of Bruner in the wreckage of his ship during a ceremony this weekend in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Bruner died earlier in 2019 at the age of 98. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Pearl Harbor vet's interment to be last on sunken Arizona
Divers will place the ashes of a survivor from the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor in the wreckage of his ship during a ceremony this weekend
FILE - In this Thursday, July 11, 2019 file photo, Harvey Weinstein, left, arrives at court for a hearing related to his sexual assault case in New York. Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in a New York City courtroom Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 for a pretrial hearing in his rape and sexual assault case. The hearing is one of many courts have scheduled across the state in advance of an overhaul of the state's rules for setting bail for criminal defendants. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NY bail reforms lead to court date for Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in a New York City courtroom Friday for a pretrial hearing in his rape and sexual assault case
People throw flower petals on the Indian policemen guarding the area where rape accused were shot, in Shadnagar some 50 kilometers or 31 miles from Hyderabad, India, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. An Indian police official says four men accused of raping and killing a woman in southern India have been fatally shot by police. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Indian police fatally shoot 4 suspects in gang-rape case
Indian police say officers have shot and killed four men suspected of raping and killing a woman in a case that sparked protests across the country
FILE-In this Aug. 29, 2019 file photo people carry the body of the victim who has been identified as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian Muslim during the funeral in Duisi village, the Pankisi Gorge valley, in Georgia. Germany's foreign ministry says it has expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors announced they suspected Moscow's involvement in the brazen daylight slaying of a Georgian man in Berlin. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
Germany: 'No understanding' for Russia outrage on expulsions
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff is urging Russia to support the investigation of a killing prosecutors say appears to have ordered by Russian or Chechen authorities
Active shooter killed at Naval Air Station Pensacola
Authorities say an active shooter is dead after opening fire on multiple people at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola
FILE - In this Friday Nov 22, 2019 file photo, Hunter, a young Belgian Malinois, keeps an eye on Jazz, a nine-day-old giraffe at the Rhino orphanage in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Jazz, who was brought in after being abandoned by her mother at birth, died of brain hemorrhaging and hyphema it was announced Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Abandoned baby giraffe befriended by dog in Africa dies
A South African animal orphanage says a baby giraffe that was befriended by a dog after it was abandoned in the wild has died
A fire burns as a gas explosion severely damaged a 12th storey apartment building in Presov, Slovakia, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. The firefighters said the explosion occurred between the ninth and 12th storey and witnesses told them several people have escaped to the roof. Authorities didn't immediately confirm any injuries or fatalities. (AP Photo/Police of Slovakia/HO)
Deadly explosion in Slovakia; buildng at risk of collapse
Officials say a gas explosion in an apartment block in Slovakia has killed at least five people and others are trapped on the roof of the building as it burns
Sheriff confirms that the shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola is dead.
Sheriff confirms that the shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola is dead.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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There were about 19,000 lights on the award-winning Fiadanca home at 6 Grayhawk Court in Algonquin in 2015. Here are Dante Fiandaca, his wife, Sherry, their daughter Jackie, 13, who designed the light layout, and their sons Johnny, 12, and Dante Jr., 14.
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Rafinha the clown performs Saturday during Cirque Italia, a traveling Italian water circus in West Dundee. With a 35,000-square-foot water stage resembling a ship, Cirque Italia features artists from across the globe who perform acts of contortion, magic, archery, aerial acrobatics and a “Wheel of Death.” The event aims to showcase Italian culture, with the theme of each act centered around a port town in Italy.
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