The Daily Populous

Wednesday October 18th, 2017 day edition

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Three of the Chicago law enforcement officers involved in dragging a Louisville doctor off a United Airlines’ flight in April are no longer on the job, officials revealed Tuesday.

The report did not reveal the identities of the officers.

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Related: Here’s Why It’s Legal for Airlines to Kick You Off Your Flight.

Dao refused to leave his Chicago-to-Louisville flight after he was told by United Airlines officials that his seat was needed for a crew member working a connecting route.

Passenger David Dao is dragged out of a United Airlines plane at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Monday, April 10, 2017.

In Tuesday’s report, Ferguson also revealed that two security officers tried to cover for each other. »

B1G 2016: Wisconsin Traditions

Authored by offtackleempire.com
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Yet here they are, woven into the fabric of the experience that is college football.

Now Wisconsin has so many gameday traditions that I could write until next Thursday and still get told I missed one.

This is a Big Ten blog first and foremost, and I'm not going to entertain the masses with every single Wisconsin tradition. »

Your eyes make waste. Without it, you could go blind

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That’s where—according to new research—a waste product of the retina fuels part of the eye that powers the rods and cones that help us sense light.

Without this waste, that part of the eye “steals” glucose from the retina, leading to the death of retinal cells and likely vision loss.

Rods and cones are very active, and they need a lot of energy to do their jobs. »

Trump takes credit for ISIS 'giving up'

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Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump took credit for the fact that ISIS is in retreat during an interview Tuesday, claiming that ISIS wasn't on the run before because "you didn't have Trump as your president.".

"ISIS is now giving up, they are giving up, there are raising their hands, they are walking off.

Trump also claimed on Tuesday that the US was losing the war on terror before he came in. »