Ahmed Mohamed and his family plan to leave the United States for college in Doha, Qatar

After finally meeting President Obama last night, Ahmed Mohamed and his family plan to leave the United States for the foreseeable future.
Schools from across the country have made offers to Ahmed since he was arrested at Irving’s MacArthur High last month—his homemade clock confused with a hoax bomb, transforming him into a symbol of perceived anti-Muslim bias.
But apparently it was an offer from the Middle East that most intrigued the family. The Mohameds announced today that they’ve accepted a foundation’s offer to pay for the 14-year-old’s high school and college in Doha, Qatar, which Ahmed visited a few weeks ago as he began a world tour.
His sister, Eyman Mohamed, said Ahmed will study at Doha Academy, while she and his other siblings find schools in the rich capital city, which hosts a huge university complex called Education City.
“Looking at all the great offers we’ve had, it’s the best decision,” said Eyman, 18. “They even have Texas A&M at Qatar … It’s basically like America.”
She spoke as the family boarded an airplane from Washington, where Ahmed concluded his world tour at the White House this week, back to their smallish house in Irving.
But they’ll only be here for a few days, Eyman said, before they jet off to a new life on the other side of the world.

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Not that their story in the United States is done. Before leaving Washington, Ahmed appeared with a U.S. Congressman who, along with nearly 30 other members of congress, have asked the federal government to investigate whether anti-Muslim discrimination prompted Ahmed’s arrest.
Meanwhile, Ahmed has become a villain—dubbed “Clock Boy”—on right wing websites that claim the family has Islamist ties and plotted his celebrity. There’s been zero evidence shown for those conspiracy theories, though Ahmed probably didn’t help his optics by meeting last week with Omar al-Bashir, dictator of the country he was born in and an accused war criminal.
“We are going to move to a place where my kids can study and learn and all of them being accepted by that country,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, before he got off the phone and stepped onto the airplane.
The family’s full statement follows.

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Muhammad Ali
Ali in 1967
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Nickname(s)	The Greatest The People's Champion The Louisville Lip
Rated at	Heavyweight
Height	6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[1]
Reach	78 in (198 cm)
Nationality	American
Born	January 17, 1942 (age 73) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	61
Wins	56
Wins by KO	37
Losses	5
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Muhammad Ali back in hospital with urinary tract infection after he was found 'unresponsive in his bed' just days shy of his 73rd birthday

• Muhammad Ali is back in hospital for the second time in four weeks
• The former boxing great was found in an unresponsive state in his home
• He is suffering from a recurring urinary tract infection
• He is due to celebrate his 73rd birthday on Saturday  
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Stephanie Courtney (born February 8, 1970)^[1] is an American actress and comedian, best known for playing the advertising character Flo in television and radio commercials for Progressive Corporation beginning in 2008,^[2] and noted for her recurring roles on several television series, including the voices of Renee the Receptionist and Joy Peters on the Adult Swim comedy Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–06), Marge on the AMC drama Mad Men (2007); and Diane on the ABC comedy Cavemen (2007). She also appeared in the season 2 premiere of Men of a Certain Age. Courtney is a member of The Groundlings, an improvisational and sketch comedy theater in Los Angeles, California.

Boston - Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rocky nook with hilltops three
Looked eastward from the farms,
And twice each day the flowing sea
Took Boston in its arms
The men of yore were stout and poor,
And sailed for bread to every shore.


And where they went on trade intent
they did what freeman can,
their dauntless ways did all men praise,
the merchant was a man.
The world was made for honest trade, -
to plant and eat be none afraid.


The waves that rocked them on the deep
to them their secret told;
said the winds that sung the lads to sleep,
'Like us be free and bold!'
The honest waves refuse to slaves
The Empire of the ocean caves.


Old Europe groans with palaces,
Has lords enough and more;-
We plant and build by foaming seas
A city of the poor;-
For day by day could Boston Bay
Their honest labor overpay.


We grant no dukedoms to the few,
we hold like rights and shall; -
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
or land or life, if freedom fail?


The noble craftsmen we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
each honest man shall have his vote,
each child shall have his school.
A union then of honest men,
Or union nevermore again.


The wild rose and the barberry thorn
Hung out their summer pride
Where now on heated pavements worn
the feet of millions stride.


Fair rose the planted hills behind
the good town on the bay,
and where the western hills declined
the prairie stretched away.


What care though rival cities soar
along the stormy coast:
Penn's town, New York, and Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most!


They laughed to know the world so wide;
The Mountains said: 'Good-day!
We greet you well, you Saxon men,
Up with your towns and stay!'
The world was made for honest trade, -
To plant and eat be none afraid.


'For you,' they said, 'no barriers be,
for you no sluggard rest;
each street leads downward to the sea,
or landward to the West.'


O happy town beside the sea,
Whose roads lead everywhere to all;
Than thine no deeper moat can be,
No stouter fence, no steeper wall!


Bad news from George on the English throne:
'You are thriving well,' said he;
'Now by these presents be it known,
You shall pay us a tax on tea;
'It is very small,-no load at all, -
Honor enough that we send the call.'


'Not so,' said Boston, 'good my lord,
We pay your governors here
Abundant for their bed and board,
Six thousand pounds a year.
(Your highness knows our homely word,)
Millions for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.'


The cargo camel and who could blame
If Indians seized the tea,
and, chest by chest, let down the same
into the laughing sea?
For what avail the plough or sail
or land or life, if freedom fail?

Chris Harper-Mercer left nine innocent people dead at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.

A gunman singled out Christians, telling them they would see God in “one second,” during a rampage at an Oregon college Thursday that left at least nine innocent people dead and several more wounded, survivors and authorities said.
“[He started] asking people one by one what their religion was. ‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and if you’re a Christian, stand up. And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second.’ And then he shot and killed them,” Stacy Boylen, whose daughter was wounded at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., told CNN.

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A Twitter user named @bodhilooney, who said her grandmother was at the scene of the carnage, tweeted that if victims said they were Christian, “then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”
Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer’s disdain for religion was evident in an online profile, in which he became a member of a “doesn’t like organized religion” group on an Internet dating site.
Kort­ney Moore, 18, said she saw the teacher of her Writing 115 class get shot in the head at the college’s Snyder Hall before the gunman started asking people to state their religion and opening fire, the city’s News-Review newspaper reported.
Harper-Mercer, 26, was killed in a shootout with police outside one of the classrooms, said Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin.
“There was an exchange of gunfire,” he said. “The shooter threat was neutralized.”
Although police put the death toll at 10 — including Harper-Mercer — with seven people injured,