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YouTube star Daddyofive loses custody of two children featured in 'prank' video, mother says

A family has lost custody of two children featured in a series of "prank" videos, which some said actually showed child abuse.

The YouTube account "DaddyOFive" became wildly popular in recent weeks after posting videos where two parents played "pranks" on their children.

Now Rose Hall, the biological mother of 9-year-old Cody and his sister Emma, says that she has obtained emergency custody of her children.

But they also attracted detractors, including YouTube star Philip DeFranco, who released a video editing some of the more horrifying clips together.

That video was viewed more than three million times and brought widespread condemnation of the DaddyOFive channel.

They said that they were unaware of the effect the videos would have on their children and apologised for them getting out of hand.

The rest of the videos have now been removed from the channel and the apology has been viewed almost two million times. »

North Korea's Got a Big Crystal Meth Problem

Authored by vice.com

North Korean meth is the bomb—at least, according to US officials who tested two batches last year.

After the famine ended in the 2000s, North Korean factories began to produce a more modern type of drug: methamphetamine.

North Korea's involvement in the drug trade is a result of economic necessity and the ideology of self-reliance. »

Protesters throw Pepsi cans at police during May Day demonstrations

Authored by theguardian.com

A May Day protest in Portland has been shut down after demonstrators threw full cans of Pepsi at officers, with one hitting a medic, according to police in the US city.

On Monday, as the pro-labor, anti-Trump rally in Oregon descended into violence, Portland police tweeted that demonstrators had started hurling objects including full Pepsi cans at officers.

Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) A @PDXFire medic was hit by a full @pepsi can thrown during #MayDayPDX protest march. »

Atlanta Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2035

Authored by huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON — Atlanta lawmakers approved a measure on Monday aimed at powering the city entirely on renewable energy sources, including solar and wind, by 2035.

Atlanta becomes the 27th U.S. city and the first in Georgia to pledge a 100-percent renewable energy goal, according to the Sierra Club.

“I got a question mark on the global warming thing,” he said at a forum last month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. »

University of Virginia Names a Campus Building in Honor of a Slave

Authored by jbhe.com

The University of Virginia has announced that it has named a campus building in honor of Peyton Skipwith, a former slave who quarried stone for some of the early structures on the Charlottesville campus.

Skipwith was owned by John Hartwell Cocke, one of the first members of the university’s board of visitors.

The new building which houses administrative offices is thought to sit on the site of the original quarry. »