A homeless man has filed a lawsuit against a couple who raised $400,000 to help him secure accommodation and a better life.
The man identified as Johnny Bobbitt, 35, went viral in 2017 after he helped Kate McClure, 28, who was at the time stranded, with his last $20 to fuel her car.

Kate shared the news online, which eventually went viral, then she and her husband, Mark D’Amico, 39, began an online fundraiser for him.

Local media reports that Kate works as a receptionist for the New Jersey Department of Transportation while her husband works as a carpenter.

It was gathered that the fundraiser attracted at least 14,000 donors, which yielded about $400,000. However, Bobbit has now filed a lawsuit claiming the couple used the donation as their personal “piggy bank”.

He accused the couple of fraud and conspiracy in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

Lawyers representing the 35-year-old homeless man claimed in the suit filed in Mount Holly Philadelphia that the couple used the fund raised “to fund a lifestyle that they could not otherwise afford”.

Bobbit said in an interview that the couple bought a new BMW and paid for trips to Las Vegas and Florida.


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Senate President Bukola Saraki on Thursday declared to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari for presidency in Nigeria’s 2019 general election.
Saraki made the declaration while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

“I hereby announce my intention to run for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the coming General Elections in 2019 on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). I do so with the firm conviction that I have what it takes to secure inclusive growth for Nigeria and Nigerians,” he said.

Saraki, who is the Senate President, has been under immense pressure from the ruling party APC to resign or face impeachment by APC senators since his defection from the majority party to the minority PDP.

Concise News recalls that the Senate President’s declaration is coming a day after he met with the immediate past President of the country, Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.

During the meeting, Jonathan lauded Saraki’s leadership style at the National Assembly. He noted that without Saraki’s leadership ability, the National Assembly would have been in chaos and democracy would have been gone.

His words: “Senate President, let me use this opportunity to commend your leadership abilities. Looking at what is happening in the country, if not for your strong leadership, probably the National Assembly would have been in chaos and if the National Assembly is in tatters, then of course, democracy is gone”, Jonathan said.

“I am quite pleased with the kind of relationship you have with the House of Representatives members and how you have been able to hold the National Assembly together because on the day that the parliament was invaded, though the target was the Senate, the House of Representatives members were as active as, if not more active, than the senators; and that cannot happen by chance.

“What we know is that if there is an assault on the Senate. Then it is also seen as an assault on the House of Representatives. If they (House of Representatives members) don’t believe in you, I don’t think some of them would have taken that kind of risk. That commitment shows that they believe in your leadership”, Jonathan was quoted as saying in a statement by Saraki’s Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu.


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A Chicago father identified as Derrick Sanders has allegedly killed his 10-year-old twins before turning the gun on himself at their home in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

The children lived with their mother in the 4900 block of North Marine in Uptown, longtime neighbor Brenda Adams said. The couple had joint custody of the children, who would visit their father every other weekend.

Police said his estranged wife became concerned when the nanny couldn’t get into the apartment, according to news station WBBM.

Sanders’ body was discovered around 11 a.m. in the hallway of the home. The twins, Mason and Addison Sanders, were found dead from gunshot wounds to the back of their heads.Their deaths were ruled homicides following autopsies Tuesday. No motive for the murder-suicide has been released.

“Our condolences go out to the family affected by the senseless murder-suicide at 6200 N. Richmond,” Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.

“A father, cowardly took the life of his two 10 year old children before turning the gun on himself. The offender had no previous history with the Chicago Police Department.” he added.

Leslie Lawrence, who lives in the unit directly below where the shooting occurred, was awakened at 5:15 a.m. by three loud shots. He said there was a long pause between each shot.

He said he thinks the weapon was larger than a handgun, as he was able to feel the vibration from each shot while he was on his top bunk.

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A Chicago father identified as Derrick Sanders has allegedly killed his 10-year-old twins before turning the gun on himself at their home in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

The children lived with their mother in the 4900 block of North Marine in Uptown, longtime neighbor Brenda Adams said. The couple had joint custody of the children, who would visit their father every other weekend.

Police said his estranged wife became concerned when the nanny couldn’t get into the apartment, according to news station WBBM.

Sanders’ body was discovered around 11 a.m. in the hallway of the home. The twins, Mason and Addison Sanders, were found dead from gunshot wounds to the back of their heads.Their deaths were ruled homicides following autopsies Tuesday. No motive for the murder-suicide has been released.

“Our condolences go out to the family affected by the senseless murder-suicide at 6200 N. Richmond,” Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.

“A father, cowardly took the life of his two 10 year old children before turning the gun on himself. The offender had no previous history with the Chicago Police Department.” he added.

Leslie Lawrence, who lives in the unit directly below where the shooting occurred, was awakened at 5:15 a.m. by three loud shots. He said there was a long pause between each shot.

He said he thinks the weapon was larger than a handgun, as he was able to feel the vibration from each shot while he was on his top bunk.

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How to live longer is a question that many people aging want to know the answer.

Quitting smoking and exercising regularly are just two recommended ways to add years to your life.

Eating healthy Even the balanced diet has been considered essential, but should red meat be part of this?

If red meat is good for you has been heavily debated, but new research has revealed that red meat and untreated cheeses can reduce the risk of premature death.

In the study conducted by McMaster University in Canada, more than 218,000 adults from more than 50 countries were divided into five categories based on their diet.

The results were that eating a moderate amount of dairy products and meat every day as part of a balanced diet can drastically reduce the possibility of a person's premature death.

The team of researchers presented their findings at the conference of the European Society for Cardiology in Munich.

Dr. Andrew Mente, principal researcher at the University Population Research Institute, said: "People who have consumed a diet emphasizing fruit, vegetables, legumes, fish, dairy products and meat have had the lowest risk of disease cardiovascular and premature death

"Thinking about what constitutes a high quality diet for a global population must be reconsidered.

"For example, our results show that diary products and meat are beneficial to the health and longevity of the heart, which differs from current dietary advice."


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Catherine Waruguru, a female member of parliament in Kenya has stunned women after telling them to consider getting married as second wives to avoid being single mothers.

Speaking on KTN’s Morning Express, Waruguru said they can only consider a man to be their husband when he is in their house.

“Somebody else’s husband is their husband within the confines of their homes. The moment you left your home, Mike Gitonga, you’re here as a servant who is serving KTN. You’re here because you’re serving Kenyans and you choose what you want. And the constitution allows even president Uhuru Kenyatta and assented to the Marriage Bill (allowing polygamy)” she said.

Waruguru who is married as a second wife encouraged women to find husbands at all costs saying “I’d encourage majority of Kenyan women who are single and they’ve found a man who they think can be a good friend and a husband, moving forward, and they love their children. We do not have to raise our children as single mothers. And especially our boys… I passionately feel for the boy child. Not only through marriages, we need to take this conversation further. That our children, whether boys or girls, they need people to look up to as fathers and if there no fathers we need to go farther to see whether we can get uncles, and mentors.”


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Hundreds of fans lined up to pay their last respect to U.S. soul legend, Aretha Franklin, at the start of a two-day public viewing in Detroit on Tuesday, broadcaster NBC News reported.

Franklin’s body was brought to the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History in a white 1940 Cadillac Lasalle hearse, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Her funeral, open to family and friends only and will be held in the Greater Grace Temple on Aug. 31.

She will then be entombed at the city’s Woodlawn Cemetery alongside her father, three siblings and a nephew.

Franklin, born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, won 18 Grammys during a career spanning more than six decades.

The “Queen of Soul,’’ known for classics such as “Respect’’ and “I Say a Little Prayer,’’ died of pancreatic cancer.

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Washington: It's the standard Washington protocol — a member of Congress dies, and the flags over official buildings are flown at half-staff. That's what happened when John McCain died on Saturday.
But first thing Monday morning, the flag over the White House was back at full-staff, and a barrage of bitter criticism soon followed, with detractors — including the American Legion — interpreting the fleeting tribute as a sign of President Donald Trump's pettiness.

US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation honoring the late Arizona Senator John McCain, after facing repeated questions about his silence over the death of the veteran lawmaker, former prisoner-of-war, and frequent critic of the Trump Administ

He had refused to utter McCain's name earlier this month when signing the defence policy bill named for the senator. He had rejected staff suggestions over the weekend that he issue a statement upon McCain's death. And now he was refusing to follow a tradition of leaving the flag at half-staff until interment.


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Former England and Tottenham defender Gary Mabbutt said a rat ate part of his foot while he was asleep on holiday in South Africa.

The 57-year-old was forced to fly back to the UK for surgery and spent a week in hospital. Mabbutt, who has 16 caps for England, has type 1 diabetes and has little feeling in his feet.

The incident happened six weeks ago when he was visiting his daughter, who is working at the Kruger National Park. "I've gone to sleep and during the night a rat has come into the bedroom, climbed into the bed and has decided to chew on my foot," he said.

"It's made quite a big hole in my toe, going down to the bone, and ate underneath my foot. It bit my daughter's thumb first in the other bedroom, and then she came into me and said 'Dad, something's bitten me'. Being in Africa, you think of snakes and scorpions."


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Three Nigerian men and their Thai female accomplices have been arrested over involvement in a multi-milkion baht romance scams in Thailand.

Briefing journalists during a news conference at the werkend, Thai Crime buster Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakpal gave the names of the Nigerian suspects as Oli Ifeanyi, Samson Orji and Orubor Kingsley Nosa.

They have been variously charged with fraud and illegal entry after their scamming activities.
The men had used social media to trick Thai women into wiring money to them.

Victims were swindled by as little as 30,000 baht and as much as 2 million baht after they were promised gold, money and jewelry.
The Thai women are 34 year old Surairat Sapsang and Kanyaphat Bunlam, 26.

The arrests followed a complaint filed with Muang police station in Kamphaeng Phet province with damage worth about 35,000 baht, and another complaint filed with Muang police station in Rayong province, with 79,500 baht in damage.

Surachate, known as Big Joke in the Thai media - was leading a police task force known as TACTICS - Thailand's ACtion Taskforce for Information technology Crime Suppression.

Police from Beung Kam, Phayathai, Patthalung, Phuket and Rayong were involved.

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'Happy birthday to my king, the one that took me out of poverty' - Maheeda celebrates her hubby as he clocks a year older.

Singer Maheeda's husband Robert is a year older and she took to Instagram to pen down lovely words to him.

Sharing a cute photo of him, Maheeda wrote: 'Happy birthday my king, my Hero, the one that believed in me when no one did, the one that took me out of poverty to a life I only dreamed of b4... the most understanding man in the world, the most loyal human I have ever met , the man that was everything to me when no one was there! Oh what a man ! For all you have done for me , for educating me both mentally and physically, I just can’t thank you enough!!! Because of you I am a much better woman today!!!! No matter what happens I have already tattooed you in my heart!!!!! I love you for ever!!!! Thank you for giving me a great life happy birthday my best friend, thank you my husband!!!! Many more years with me and our daughter ofcos '


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The leader of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, who was responsible for a spate of recent bombings that left hundreds of civilians dead, was killed in an American drone strike.

The deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani announced the death of ISIS-K leader, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell said “I would also add that the United States unrelentingly continues its counterterrorism efforts against ISIS-K, Al-Qaeda, and other regional and international terrorist groups”.

The airstrikes were launched in the Nangarhar province, near the border with Pakistan, according to Agence France-Presse. Ten other ISIS fighters were also killed. Orakzai is at least the 3rd ISIS-K leader in Afghanistan killed in the past 2 years. The Islamic State has lost around 90 percent of the lands bordering Iraq and Syria since declaring a caliphate in June 2014.

The killing of Orakzai comes just after an audio recording of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi apparently resurfaced, in which he congratulated his followers on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday, and referenced Turkey’s recent quarrel with the U.S. over its detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.

His only public appearance was in 2014 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. His last know audio recording was released on Sept. 28, 2017, and there have been several reports is his death or injury.

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In this file photo taken on November 04, 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends a campaign rally at the airport in Grand Junction, Colorado. US senator John McCain, a celebrated war hero known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided America, died August 25, 2018 after losing a battle to brain cancer, his office said. He was 81.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tributes continued to pour in Sunday for John McCain, the former US presidential candidate, veteran senator and war hero who has died at age 81.

Here is a selection of key quotes from home and abroad:

President Donald Trump:

"My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!"

Former president Barack Obama:

"We shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher -- the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched and sacrificed."

Former president Bill Clinton and secretary of state Hillary Clinton:

"Senator John McCain believed that every citizen has a responsibility to make something of the freedoms given by our Constitution, and from his heroic service in the Navy to his 35 years in Congress, he lived by his creed every day."

Former president George W Bush:

"Some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended. Some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them stilled. John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order."

Former president George HW Bush:

"Few sacrificed more for, or contributed more to, the welfare of his fellow citizens -- and indeed freedom-loving peoples around the world."

Former president Jimmy Carter:

"Americans will forever be grateful for his heroic military service and his steadfast integrity as a member of the United States Senate."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

"Senator John McCain was an American patriot and hero whose sacrifices for his country, and lifetime of public service, were an inspiration to millions."

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