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The number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has hit a record high, according to U.S. government data. The total number of individuals expatriating rose 26 percent from 2015, to 5,411 in 2016. While it’s tempting to point to the exhausting 2016 election season as a reason for many to renounce, Bloomberg News points out that the increase largely stems from tax laws that in 2010 were made tougher for U.S. citizens banking overseas. Because America taxes people based on nationality, under the recent rules its citizens are liable for U.S. taxes even when living abroad. Since the new compliance regulations went into effect, Bloomberg noted, the number of expatriations has reached a new high each year.

LEHIGH ACRES, Florida --
Six months ago, 76-year-old Donald Royce married his 62-year-old bride, but they haven't consummated the marriage.

After arguing about "sleeping arrangements", Royce said wanted to scare his wife by shooting the mattress.

He missed and ended up shooting her in the butt and hip.

The Brandenton Herald reports that Royce told Lee County sheriff's deputies, "I shot her and the gun is in my room," adding that he never meant to shoot her.

Royce was arrested Saturday and faces a second-degree felony charge of aggravated battery using a deadly weapon. He remains in jail on a $100,000 bond.

Royce's wife said that they had been together for six years and didn't think he was capable of doing something like this, saying the situation was a "nightmare."

As she recovered in Lee Memorial Hospital, she wanted to share that violence against women is not okay, and that a woman has a right to her own body, regardless of age or marriage status.

A frantic overnight search for missing 15-year-old Abiela Adams has ended, with the discovery of her body. Her throat was slit, police said.
Adams' body was found in Courland, on Tobago's north west coast. Some of her clothing was missing, indicating that she was the victim of sexual assault or an attempted assault.
When she went missing, family members made a report to police. And friends and family went on social media asking for help in locating her.
Adams, a pupil of the Signal Hill Secondary School and a youth footballer, was last seen at around 7.30p.m. on Friday.
She was described as wearing a black top and black "football" pants. Adams was a highly regarded members of her school football team.
The killing is the fourth for the year in Tobago. In all of 2016, there were four murders in Tobago

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