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A new, $14.2 million pedestrian bridge on the Florida International University Modesto Maidique Campus in West Miami-Dade has collapsed. People are reportedly trapped under the rubble.
A new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing at least five vehicles under massive slabs and killing several people, authorities said. Several people were seen being loaded into ambulances and authorities launched search and rescue missions.
The Justice Department says in a new filing in former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's corruption case that a 1995 ruling that's long provided guidance in the prosecution of politicians is wrong. It argues that the ruling in the corruption case of another Illinois politician, Dan Rostenkowski, was wrong to conclude that prosecuting federal lawmakers based on ambiguous rules lawmakers wrote violates separation of powers.
Republicans are eyeing a recount and a lawsuit over perceived irregularities in a closely watched US election where the Democratic candidate is claiming victory in a Trump stronghold. With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Mr Lamb, a 33-year-old former prosecutor and first-time candidate, saw his edge over Republican Rick Saccone shrink slightly, to 627 votes out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.
Rattled Republicans were hit with a day-after reality check Wednesday after the startlingly strong performance of a fresh-faced Democrat deep in Trump country.
Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate approved S. 2155, legislation that deregulates Wall Street, on a vote of 67-31. The bill was authored by U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo , chair of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and contains more than 40 provisions that include deregulation of banks with as much as $250 billion in assets, erasure of reporting requirements meant to combat racial discrimination in lending, permission for certain banks to speculate with depositor funds and many others.
Ankit Panda writes that while Rex Tillerson's State Department drifted away from the White House, the new secretary may boost diplomacy's role in enacting Trump's agenda US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's services are no longer required, President Donald Trump has determined. Instead, Trump has chosen Mike Pompeo, currently the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to succeed Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil executive, as America's top diplomat.
Republicans eyed a recount and a lawsuit over perceived irregularities in a closely watched U.S. House race in Pennsylvania where Democrat Conor Lamb clung to a slender lead in the longtime GOP stronghold friendly to President Donald Trump. With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33-year-old former prosecutor and first-time candidate, saw his edge over Republican Rick Saccone shrink slightly, to 627 votes out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.
A Mississippi state lawmaker who came close to defeating U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran now says he'll run for the retiring senator's open seat. Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel announced Wednesday that he will drop his primary challenge to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and instead seek the Magnolia State's other Senate seat.
On the morning after Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., broke a record for the longest filibuster in the history of the House of Representatives - an eight-hour defense of immigrants - a Baltimore amateur genealogist named Jennifer Mendelsohn sat in her home office and logged onto Ancestry.com to begin her own form of protest. "Let's see," she said, typing in the name of a Republican congressman whose anti-immigrant comments had been controversial.
For the second time in less than five months, a high-profile race in our area came down to the wire, with the winning candidate scraping by with a razor-thin margin.
Students sit in silence as they rally in front of the White House in Washington today. Students walked out of school to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley led a hearing Wednesday to talk about the different U.S. Senate proposals to improve school safety in the wake of the Parkland shooting. The hearing was called "See Something, Say Something."
Gov. Bill Haslam is joining several other Tennessee officials voicing concerns over President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday he's concerned about additional costs to manufacturers, particularly the state's car industry.
Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, center, celebrates with his supporters at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is filing legislation that would let Florida and the nation keep daylight saving time all year. The first bill would make daylight saving time permanent across the country.
President Donald Trump's picks for secretary of state and CIA director are running into potential roadblocks among Republicans in the Senate, suggesting a difficult confirmation process at a time when the administration wants to quickly fill the positions. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said Wednesday he will oppose Trump's decision to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and to nominate Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel to lead the nation's spy agency.
To protect the energy sector and other critical infrastructure against cyber threats, lawmakers are looking to boost the Department of Energy's cybersecurity role and questioned the future role of its new cybersecurity office. Government needs to "make sure we're doing everything we can to protect our electric grid" and the energy sector as a whole from emerging threats and emergencies as they arise, said Chairman Greg Walden at a March 14 House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham that aired on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle", U.S. Senator Bob Corker discussed the nomination of Mike Pompeo to serve as secretary of state, whether sanctuary cities will be defunded in the upcoming spending bill, his support for tax reform, and other news of the day.