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After a lengthy investigation, the school’s superintendent has referred the case for the military’s equivalent of a grand jury, known as Article 32.

“The initial NCIS investigation has been completed and reviewed. The superintendent has decided to send this case to Article 32 proceedings,” U.S. Naval Academy spokesman John Schofield said Monday.

The accuser, who has not been named, reported the sexual assault after attending an off-campus party at a location known as the “football house,” according to Military.com.  She said she was informed by friends and though social media that she had been sexually assaulted while incapacitated at the party.

All three football players, who have also not been named, remain at the Naval Academy, where one senior was kept from graduating on May 24, the site reports.

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Pistols were the most common firearm stolen, the report says, and gun dealers reported more than 4,000 rifles were simply lost. And these numbers only represent the missing guns reported to the National Crime Information Center. ATF spokesman Charles Mulham points out that in many states it’s not even mandatory to report stolen firearms.

Still, UCLA Public Policy expert Mark Kleiman says the number of lost or stolen firearms seems low, given the 300 million firearms in private hands in the U.S.

“The bigger issue than stolen guns is the easy availability of guns to people who aren’t legally possessed through the private sale loophole,” Kleiman says.

The ATF report also shows Texas is the top state for total firearms reported lost and stolen in 2012.   Kleiman explains that people with stolen firearms might be more likely to commit violent crimes.

“In some cases, gun dealers, federal firearms licensees, falsely report a theft as a way of concealing an illegal sale,” say Kleiman.

As for owners of legally registered guns, Mulham says they should be taking steps to safeguard firearms in their possession.

“You need to [be responsible] in keeping that weapon not only out of the hands of criminals if you were robbed or if your house was to be burglarized, but also out of the hands of children,” he says.

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“She’s doing great and she’s beautiful,” the Kardashian matriarch, 57, told HLN on Sunday night at the Daytime Emmys. “We’re all fine. We’re all good and extremely happy and thrilled for the new baby.”

Kardashian, 33, and her boyfriend of more than a year, rapper Kanye West, 36, celebrated the impending birth with family and friends at a garden party shower on June 2 – the same day the baby’s gender was revealed on an episode of the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

“I’m so excited we’re having a girl. Who doesn’t want a girl?” Kardashian said on the show. “They are the best and I know that’s really what Kanye has always wanted. He wanted a little girl.”

Her family is equally excited.

“I can not even begin 2describe the miracle that is now apart of our family. Mommy/baby are healthy*resting. We appreciate all of the love,” Khloe Kardashian Odom tweeted on Sunday.

“More info will come when the time is right! Thank you all for understanding! We love you dearly! Overwhelmed with love right now ♥”

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“It is transparent,” Obama said in the interview, broadcast Monday night.

“What I’ve asked the intelligence community to do is see how much of this we can declassify without further compromising the program, No. 1,” Obama said. “And they are in that process of doing so now so that everything that I’m describing to you today, people, the public, newspapers, etc., can look at – because, frankly, if people are making judgments just based on these slides that have been leaked, they’re not getting the complete story.”

Obama said that he will meet with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a five-member independent agency that advises the president and Congress on privacy and civil liberties concerns, to “structure a national conversation” about the programs. That meeting will take place in the coming days, according to an administration official, and will be part of a broader outreach to national security, civil liberties and technology stakeholders.

When asked whether he believed admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden should be prosecuted, Obama declined to comment, but he said that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation and “possible extradition.”

In response to criticism that he has adopted Bush administration policies wholesale, Obama dismissed a suggestion that as a U.S. senator he was opposed to intelligence gathering.

“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before.  Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’” Obama said. “My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather: Are we setting up a system of checks and balances?”

He offered a strenuous defense of the NSA programs, which he said guard the privacy of Americans through judicial and legislative review.

“What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails…and have not,” he said.

The first program, called the 2015 program, authorizes the government to collect telephone metadata about phone numbers and lengths of telephone calls.

“There are no names.  There is no content in that database.  All it is, is the number pairs, when those calls took place, how long they took place – so that database is sitting there,” Obama said, adding that the FBI must seek legal authority through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court in order to search the database.

A second program used to gather information from Internet service providers, called the “702 program,” cannot be used against a “U.S. person,” Obama said.

“The one thing people should understand about all these programs, though, is they have disrupted plots, not just here in the United States but overseas, as well,” Obama said

He referenced a foiled plot to blow up the New York subway system that he said may have been uncovered with the help of the programs.

“We’re going to have to find ways where the public has an assurance that there are checks and balances in place, that they have enough information about how we operate that they know that their phone calls aren’t being listened into; their text messages aren’t being monitored, their emails are not being read by some big brother somewhere,” Obama said. “They’ve got to feel that confidence and that it is not potentially subject to abuse, because there are sufficient checks and balances on it while still preserving our capacity to act against folks who are trying to do us harm.”

Obama also declined to go into more detail about what additional assistance the U.S. government would provide to Syrian rebels after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was found to have crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons against its people.

The president suggested that a no-fly zone would be ineffective.

“This argument that somehow, [if] we had gone in earlier or heavier, in some fashion, that the tragedy and chaos taking place in Syria wouldn’t be taking place, I think is wrong,” Obama said. “What I’m saying is that if you haven’t been in the Situation Room poring through intelligence and meeting directly with our military folks and asking, ‘What are all our options?’ and examining what are all the consequences, and understanding that, for example, if you set up a no-fly zone that you may not be actually solving the problem on the zone.”

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“It is transparent,” Obama said in the interview, broadcast Monday night.

“What I’ve asked the intelligence community to do is see how much of this we can declassify without further compromising the program, No. 1,” Obama said. “And they are in that process of doing so now so that everything that I’m describing to you today, people, the public, newspapers, etc., can look at – because, frankly, if people are making judgments just based on these slides that have been leaked, they’re not getting the complete story.”

Obama said that he will meet with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a five-member independent agency that advises the president and Congress on privacy and civil liberties concerns, to “structure a national conversation” about the programs. That meeting will take place in the coming days, according to an administration official, and will be part of a broader outreach to national security, civil liberties and technology stakeholders.

When asked whether he believed admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden should be prosecuted, Obama declined to comment, but he said that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation and “possible extradition.”

In response to criticism that he has adopted Bush administration policies wholesale, Obama dismissed a suggestion that as a U.S. senator he was opposed to intelligence gathering.

“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before.  Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’” Obama said. “My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather: Are we setting up a system of checks and balances?”

He offered a strenuous defense of the NSA programs, which he said guard the privacy of Americans through judicial and legislative review.

“What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails…and have not,” he said.

The first program, called the 2015 program, authorizes the government to collect telephone metadata about phone numbers and lengths of telephone calls.

“There are no names.  There is no content in that database.  All it is, is the number pairs, when those calls took place, how long they took place – so that database is sitting there,” Obama said, adding that the FBI must seek legal authority through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court in order to search the database.

A second program used to gather information from Internet service providers, called the “702 program,” cannot be used against a “U.S. person,” Obama said.

“The one thing people should understand about all these programs, though, is they have disrupted plots, not just here in the United States but overseas, as well,” Obama said

He referenced a foiled plot to blow up the New York subway system that he said may have been uncovered with the help of the programs.

“We’re going to have to find ways where the public has an assurance that there are checks and balances in place, that they have enough information about how we operate that they know that their phone calls aren’t being listened into; their text messages aren’t being monitored, their emails are not being read by some big brother somewhere,” Obama said. “They’ve got to feel that confidence and that it is not potentially subject to abuse, because there are sufficient checks and balances on it while still preserving our capacity to act against folks who are trying to do us harm.”

Obama also declined to go into more detail about what additional assistance the U.S. government would provide to Syrian rebels after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was found to have crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons against its people.

The president suggested that a no-fly zone would be ineffective.

“This argument that somehow, [if] we had gone in earlier or heavier, in some fashion, that the tragedy and chaos taking place in Syria wouldn’t be taking place, I think is wrong,” Obama said. “What I’m saying is that if you haven’t been in the Situation Room poring through intelligence and meeting directly with our military folks and asking, ‘What are all our options?’ and examining what are all the consequences, and understanding that, for example, if you set up a no-fly zone that you may not be actually solving the problem on the zone.”

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“It is transparent,” Obama said in the interview, broadcast Monday night.

“What I’ve asked the intelligence community to do is see how much of this we can declassify without further compromising the program, No. 1,” Obama said. “And they are in that process of doing so now so that everything that I’m describing to you today, people, the public, newspapers, etc., can look at – because, frankly, if people are making judgments just based on these slides that have been leaked, they’re not getting the complete story.”

Obama said that he will meet with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a five-member independent agency that advises the president and Congress on privacy and civil liberties concerns, to “structure a national conversation” about the programs. That meeting will take place in the coming days, according to an administration official, and will be part of a broader outreach to national security, civil liberties and technology stakeholders.

When asked whether he believed admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden should be prosecuted, Obama declined to comment, but he said that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation and “possible extradition.”

In response to criticism that he has adopted Bush administration policies wholesale, Obama dismissed a suggestion that as a U.S. senator he was opposed to intelligence gathering.

“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before.  Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’” Obama said. “My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather: Are we setting up a system of checks and balances?”

He offered a strenuous defense of the NSA programs, which he said guard the privacy of Americans through judicial and legislative review.

“What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails…and have not,” he said.

The first program, called the 2015 program, authorizes the government to collect telephone metadata about phone numbers and lengths of telephone calls.

“There are no names.  There is no content in that database.  All it is, is the number pairs, when those calls took place, how long they took place – so that database is sitting there,” Obama said, adding that the FBI must seek legal authority through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court in order to search the database.

A second program used to gather information from Internet service providers, called the “702 program,” cannot be used against a “U.S. person,” Obama said.

“The one thing people should understand about all these programs, though, is they have disrupted plots, not just here in the United States but overseas, as well,” Obama said

He referenced a foiled plot to blow up the New York subway system that he said may have been uncovered with the help of the programs.

“We’re going to have to find ways where the public has an assurance that there are checks and balances in place, that they have enough information about how we operate that they know that their phone calls aren’t being listened into; their text messages aren’t being monitored, their emails are not being read by some big brother somewhere,” Obama said. “They’ve got to feel that confidence and that it is not potentially subject to abuse, because there are sufficient checks and balances on it while still preserving our capacity to act against folks who are trying to do us harm.”

Obama also declined to go into more detail about what additional assistance the U.S. government would provide to Syrian rebels after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was found to have crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons against its people.

The president suggested that a no-fly zone would be ineffective.

“This argument that somehow, [if] we had gone in earlier or heavier, in some fashion, that the tragedy and chaos taking place in Syria wouldn’t be taking place, I think is wrong,” Obama said. “What I’m saying is that if you haven’t been in the Situation Room poring through intelligence and meeting directly with our military folks and asking, ‘What are all our options?’ and examining what are all the consequences, and understanding that, for example, if you set up a no-fly zone that you may not be actually solving the problem on the zone.”

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Some of Martorano’s victims were innocent bystanders. One man was mistakenly murdered because he shared the same name as a contracted hit victim.

Now he is a federal witness against Bulger, accused of being the head of the Winter Hill Gang and responsible for 19 murders.

The aging hitman, Martorano, 72, told the court that he was heartbroken when he found out that Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi were working for the FBI at the same time they allegedly oversaw Boston’s rackets. Martorano testified that he named his youngest son, James Stephen, after his two criminal cohorts.

“They were my partners in crime, my best friends, my children’s godfathers,” Martorano told the Boston court Monday.

“When I heard they were informants, it sort of broke my heart. They broke all trust that we had and loyalties,” Martorano testified, facing Bulger for the first time since the accused Boston mob boss fled Massachusetts 18 years ago after being tipped off about a federal indictment by rogue FBI agent John Connolly.

Martorano also testified against Connolly, who is serving a life sentence.

Martorano’s testimony comes more than a decade after he cut a deal with the government to testify against Bulger. He has been a free man since 2007 and Bulger’s defense attorney J.W. Carney tried to delay the trial by arguing that the hitman has continued his life a crime, a claim that was denied by prosecutors and dismissed by a federal judge.

Still, Carney insists that Martorano — and other government witnesses expected to testify against Bulger –  are not credible because they pointed fingers at one another to avoid lengthy prison sentences. Bulger sidekick, Kevin Weeks, and Flemmi are also on the witness list.

Carney had especially harsh words for Martorano calling him “criminal psychopath.”

“He would kill people almost randomly. He would kill people as easily as we would order a cup of coffee… The federal government was so desperate to have John Martorano testify … they basically put their hands up in the air and said take anything you want,” Carney said.

Martorano testified after cross-examination of Boston bookmaker Dick O’Brien, 84, who was one of two bookies who testified that they paid “rent” to Bulger to stay in business. He recounted Bulger telling one bookmaking agent who got out of line that he liked to “kill a**holes like him.” James Katz, 73, also testified that people who didn’t pay Bulger could “wind up in the hospital.”

O’Brien, 84, said he was trained in the business by his father, but when he brought his daughter into the mobbed-up enterprise she had a nervous breakdown and had to be hospitalized.

The breakdown came after Flemmi warned O’Brien what happened to turncoats.

Before he went to the meeting, O’Brien told his daughter to go to the FBI in Miami rather than in Boston because he didn’t trust the agents working in that field office.

“It really upset her. We were very close,” O’Brien said.

Carney asked if he came home after that meeting in Florida, whether he was harmed. O’Brien answered, “By the good graces of John Martorano I wasn’t.”

Bulger, 83, is charged with a 32-count indictment that includes accusations that he committed or ordered 19 murders, including the killings of two women who were romantically involved with his underlings. Bulger’s trial comes 18 years after he disappeared ahead of a federal indictment.

He was arrested in June 2011 at a Santa Monica apartment complex where Bulger and his longtime companion Catherine Greig lived for 16 years as Charlie and Carol Gasko strolling the California coastline and shopping on the Third Avenue Promenade. Carney accused the FBI of “pretending to look for him” during opening arguments last week.

The government called those accusations absurd.

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An official with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force said the man — identified as Daniel Morgan Perry and reportedly in his 30s and American — had been transported to Newark’s University Hospital for observation.

During the flight, which landed around 1:40 p.m., the man was restrained by passengers. The official said there were no air marshals on the flight.

“It’s apparently an unstable person who is controlled by his medication and maybe he didn’t take it,” the official said.

Jacques Roizen, who was one of the passengers who restrained Perry, said nearly 10 hours into the 16-hour flight, a man six rows in front of him started screaming out of nowhere. Roizen said that he had not seen the man drinking.

“[He was] screaming stuff about national security advisers, the CIA, saying names of people [he claimed were] working for the CIA,” Roizen told ABC News. “[He was saying] that we couldn’t land the plane, we had to divert the plane. He couldn’t land in the U.S.”

Roizen said Perry was afraid of being poisoned by one of the passengers.

“He saw everybody as a threat,” Roizen said. “He thought everyone was working for the FBI, the CIA….He was drawing a parallel between [National Security Agency leaker] Edward Snowden and himself….He was convinced he was going to die before this flight landed.”

Within minutes, about five passengers had restrained the man with plastic handcuffs from the flight crew.

Florida resident Paula Shea said the staff handled the situation “perfectly” and that she had not gotten scared.

“They did everything that you should do,” she said. “It was a person that was trying to…divert to Canada.”

Roizen said he and another passenger sat by Perry for the remaining six hours trying to calm him by talking about their families, Father’s Day and their children.

He said the man started to cry after a passenger told him that his actions had scared the children aboard.

“He seemed to react to that,” Roizen said. “At one point, he started crying because he said, ‘I don’t want to hurt the children.’ He asked both of us to put him under arrest, asked us to read him his rights.”

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“There was no grip, it was a playful tiff,” Saatchi told London’s Evening Standard newspaper, where he also works as a columnist, on Monday. “The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.”

The photos were taken Sunday, June 9, as Lawson, 53, and Saatchi, 70, dined at Scott’s, a restaurant in London’s affluent Mayfair district, according to U.K. newspaper The Mirror’s Sunday paper, the Sunday People, which published the photos.

In the published photos, Lawson is seen at a table enshrouded in greenery outside a restaurant with a man who appears to be Saatchi. In the pictures, his hand is at her throat as she appears to be stunned by his grasp. In another picture, the man is grabbing at Lawson’s nose as she shuts her eyes.

Other diners at Scott’s who witnessed the couple’s interaction told the Mirror it looked like a violent encounter and that the couple left separately.

“It was utterly shocking to watch,” one onlooker told The Mirror. “I have no doubt she was scared. It was horrific, really. She was very tearful and was constantly dabbing her eyes.”

Saatchi told the Evening Standard that he and Lawson, who has two children from a previous marriage, were discussing the children at the time.

“We were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella’s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasize my point,” he said, according to the paper.

He also sought to clarify British media reports that Lawson was seen leaving the couple’s home with one of her children and a suitcase.

“We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled,” he told the paper.

Spokesmen for both Saatchi and Lawson declined to comment to ABC News.

Saatchi has been cautioned by police — a formal warning that doesn’t carry a penalty.

Lawson has built an empire reportedly worth more than $23 million as the author of nine cookbooks, host of the TV program Nigella Bites, and, most recently, as the star of ABC’s cooking competition show, The Taste.

The celebrity chef gave a revealing interview to Britain’s Financial Times last year in which she discussed growing up with her “funny but depressed” mom and gave a glimpse into her life with Saatchi.

“She’d shout at all of us and say, ‘I’m going to hit you till you cry,’ and so I never would cry. I still don’t … She just didn’t like me,” Lawson said of her mom, Vanessa Salmon, an heiress to J. Lyons & Co., once a restaurant and food-manufacturing conglomerate.

As for her husband, Lawson expressed disbelief that he did not find the same joy in food as she did.

“I say to Charles every morning, so would you like this or that to eat tonight, and he says ‘Oh whatever’s easiest for you’, and I don’t understand why it wouldn’t matter whether this or that gives you pleasure to eat,” she told the Financial Times.

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Villanueva, who told the New York Post she was residing in the country illegally, filed a lawsuit against the Upper East Side couple who are originally also from Chile, Malu Custer Edwards, 28, and Micky Hurley, 35. Villanueva claimed that she had been “trafficked,” forced to work 12-hour days and paid only $2 an hour. She also says that she was locked in a room with the couple’s three children who often hit her and once “slammed a refrigerator door on her head so hard she nearly lost consciousness.” The couple’s lawyer refuted the claims of the lawsuit in an interview with the New York Post, calling them “completely without merit.”

Whether or not Villanueva’s claims are substantiated will be decided by the courts. But, exploitation of undocumented laborers is common in the United States and many victims, often scared to come forward for fear of deportation, lack means and incentive to fight abusive employers.

Take Josue Melquisedec Diaz, for example. An undocumented construction worker in New Orleans, Diaz says that when he complained to his boss that he and fellow undocumented laborers weren’t provided safety gear to handle toxic materials that other workers were provided, his wages were cut in half. And when he pushed further, organizing a strike, his boss called in the police and strikers were placed in deportation proceedings.

A study by the National Domestic Workers Alliance found that 25 percent of domestic workers in California such as maids and nannies are paid below the state’s minimum wage, and 24 percent of the workers who had been fired were discharged for complaining about unsafe working conditions.

For many exploited workers who are undocumented, there is no clear path for justice. Some find some relief in the U Visa, a program which provides temporary status to those who have suffered “substantial physical or mental abuse as a result of having been a victim of a qualifying criminal activity.” But many labor abuses don’t fall squarely in the U visa category, typically used to provide relief to women of domestic abuse.

For that reason, there’s a provision in the immigration bill currently in Congress that would expand U visa qualifying crimes to include labor crimes, including workplace abuse and exploitation, known as the POWER Act.

Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who co-sponsored the POWER Act, says that such legislation would not only protect undocumented immigrants but also help cut down on exploitative labor practices generally.

“When some workers are easy to exploit,” Menendez told the Los Angeles Times, “conditions for all workers suffer.”

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