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Angeli Gomez told CBS News that she received a call from law enforcement suggesting that she could face consequences for speaking to media outlets about her experience. --------------- A Uvalde mom who says she was handcuffed by law enforcement while trying to rescue her sons from the school shooting has claimed that authorities warned her not to speak to the media about her experience. Angeli Gomez, a farmworker in Uvalde, spoke to CBS News on Thursday, describing how she was able to rush into Robb Elementary School and save her kids during the shooting that killed 19 children and two...

This is the remarkable moment a young lion cub tries to save his companion from being tranquilised by attempting to pull a dart out of her body.

A baby boy’s visit to the Oregon Zoo in Portland has given the world a new viral video that’s hard to look away from. As the boy smiles for Mom’s video phone, a lion behind the glass sees the kid as a snack, apparently, trying in vain to chomp through the glass. It’s rather disturbing. And then Mom kind of laughs, a little nervously. Her trust of the glass installers is stronger than mine would have been. Here’s what KGW-TV in Portland reported: The one-year old, named Jack, is dressed in a striped jacket that looked a little like a...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An ordinary family trip to the zoo is anything but, as a female lion takes a special liking to a toddler visiting her exhibit. The 400 pound lioness seemed very curious about the toddler. At one point she even looks like she's trying to eat the boy through the thick glass wall! The boy's father filmed the entire encounter. "I was definitely intimidated and a little, you know, it just seems like natural mother instinct to kind of want to pull him out of there, but he seemed to be having fun," said the mother Catherine...

CAMP AL TAQADDUM, Iraq, May 1, 2009 – Cpl. Susy H. Aguilar was a city girl from coastal California when she shocked her family and friends in 2005 to become the first in her family to join the Marine Corps. Marine Corps Cpl. Susy H. Aguilar sights in and prepares her .50-caliber machine gun for a test fire at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, April 21, 2009. Aguilar extended her contract with the Marine Corps to deploy as a machine gunner. She serves with Transportation Support Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 7, 2nd Marine Logistics Group. U.S. Marine Corps photo...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2009 – In April 2004, at the height of the insurgency in Iraq, five female soldiers unwittingly found themselves fighting alongside Marines in the battle for Ramadi and Fallujah. Their story is told in a documentary film bearing their unit name, “Team Lioness,” which has been shown in private and public screenings throughout the United States and Europe in the past year. The Center for Women Veterans hosted the film at the Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters here yesterday. “These stories are important to us at VA, because women veterans are coming to VA in great numbers,...

Al ASAD, Iraq – Video is available of Lioness Marines conducting security measure tactics at entry control points and traffic control points to deter the use of females for terrorist acts as well as an increase in cultural sensitivities. Footage includes female Marines from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) and other MNF-W units learning culturally sensitive methods for searching female Iraqis at security checkpoints including female Marines loading and firing weapons, practicing searching methods and using techniques on female civilians. For access to the video, contact the Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System by calling (678) 421-6604 or online...

Army Spc. Shannon Morgan looked around and realized she had been left behind by the Marine squad she was accompanying through a mean Iraqi neighborhood. Alone and surrounded by a hostile crowd, all Morgan had to depend on were her wits and an automatic rifle capable of firing hundreds of rounds a minute. At that time, Morgan was a Lioness, a female U.S. soldier who goes on missions in Iraq to help diffuse situations involving local women. Her only ally that day was another Lioness on a rooftop who saw Morgan’s predicament and yelled to alert her to the danger....

A new mini-bulldozer developed by the IDF has emerged as the latest in a series of new ways to combat Palestinian Authority terrorism emanating from Arab cities in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. The “Lioness” made its public debut in the pages of this week’s edition of “BaMachane,” the IDF weekly magazine. Although it looks like a cute little vehicle, however, the Lioness can be deadly. Unlike its predecessor, the new bulldozer was specifically designed for counter-terrorism operations in close quarters, according to IDF Col. Amir Kochavi, who was quoted in the report. “There are different combat requirements that we faced...

NEW YORK (AFP) - A tiny and extremely rare 5,000-year-old white limestone sculpture from ancient Mesopotamia sold for 57.2 million dollars in New York on Wednesday, smashing records for both sculpture and antiquities. The carved Guennol Lioness, measuring just over eight centimeters (3 1/4 inches) tall, was described by Sotheby's auction house as one of the last known masterworks from the dawn of civilization remaining in private hands. "It was an honor for us to handle The Guennol Lioness, one of the greatest works of art of all time," Richard Keresey and Florent Heintz, the experts in charge of the...

A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said. "A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery." The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Two lions and a lioness and her six cubs housed in a Baghdad zoo owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday will be given their freedom in reserves in South Africa, the SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary said. Louise Joubert, the founder of the sanctuary, based in northeastern Limpopo province, told the SAPA news agency that SanWild had managed to secure the release of the lions from the zoo. The lioness and cubs will be settled in the Ngome Community Reserve in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province and the two male lions will go to the SanWild sanctuary, she said. "The lioness...

MADRID (Reuters) - A lioness in a Spanish animal sanctuary ripped the right arm off a British tourist after the 54-year old woman clambered up a barrier and stuck her fingers inside the cage, local media reported. "The lady climbed up the three-meter high barrier...She climbed to the top and stuck her fingers inside the enclosure. Then Martha, one of the lionesses, grabbed her fingers, tugged her in and ripped her arm off," Serafin Domenech, owner of El Arca sanctuary near Alicante in southeast Spain, told state television Wednesday. Local media said the woman, who had been at the park...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- A 500-pound African lion mauled a zookeeper who had stepped into the animal's cage Thursday to pose for a magazine photo. George Koll, 61, was attacked in the head and throat by the male lion. He was listed in critical but stable condition Thursday at Gulf Coast Medical Center. Koll's nurse, Tracy Schroeder, said he would remain in intensive care through Thursday night. "He's stable. He's doing fine,'' she said. Koll, who owns 77 Zoological Park in Southport, was giving a tour to several reporters for the Jehovah's Witnesses' Awake magazine when a photographer asked him...

The strange lioness that has thrice baffled the world by adopting Beisa oryx calves has done it again. The lioness - which has been named by Samburu villagers "Kamuniak'' or the (Blessed One), was seen with another calf yesterday morning by game lovers in the Samburu Game Reserve. The two were spotted near Larsens Camp at the foot of Koitogor Hills, several hundred metres from where Kamuniak had adopted the other three oryxes. A senior warder said the oryx, which is a few days old, was strong unlike its predecessors. The lioness first grabbed the headlines around Christmas last year...

The enigmatic lioness that puzzled the world by adopting its prey, an oryx calf, has done it again. Tourists on a dawn game drive yesterday stumbled on the lioness named Kamuniak (Samburu, for the blessed one) intimately crowding the oryx under a tree, in the far-flung Samburu Game Reserve, one of Kenya's wildlife sanctuaries located 300 kilometres north-east of Nairobi. She was sighted at the base of Lolgotoi Hill, much to the delight of Easter holidaymakers. Samburu game warden Simon Leirana told the Sunday Nation the oryx was about three days old, and in good health. He also said they...