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NAFCU's Dan Berger reiterated the heavy toll regulatory burden takes on credit unions and their 104 million members in letters Thursday to presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and he noted the association's willingness to work with both parties in this regard. Berger, NAFCU's president and CEO, thanked Clinton for her support in wanting to cut regulatory red tape for credit unions, as noted in her recently released platform for small business and fact sheet for supporting credit unions .
Several tornadoes plowed through central Indiana on Wednesday, demolishing numerous homes and a Starbucks cafe in the town of Kokomo and cutting off power to thousands of Indianapolis-area residents, but no serious injuries were reported. Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who cut short a campaign trip for running mate Donald Trump and returned to Indiana, said eight funnel clouds were confirmed and three touched down during a "very tough day of weather."
Italian rescue workers are expecting fewer casualties than initially feared at the site of a hotel that was badly damaged in Wednesday's earthquake. Officials initially said about 70 people had been staying at the Hotel Roma in the central Italian town of Amatrice when the quake struck.
The relief effort in Louisiana is ramping up after 10 days of monumental flooding. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama will visit Baton Rouge to survey the damage and find out how the federal government can help.
Outside the small town of Walker, Louisiana, the rural B... . Lisa Dupuy, 41, left, prays with pastor Mark Carroll during church services at South Walker Baptist Church in Walker, La., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
And then we'll be the sad losers watching helplessly as homes and dreams are consumed by floodwaters. Just like the unfortunate souls in Baton Rouge, La., last week, and just like folks in West Virginia and South Carolina in the months before that.
"Everything is gone. School is gone. Home is gone. Church is gone," s... . Amanda Burge looks at flood damage with two of her three children Aiden, right, and Hudson, left, at her home in Denham Springs, La., Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.
In this Oct. 21, 2010 file photo, cholera patients receive serum at the St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti. A U.N. acknowledgement that it played a role in introducing cholera to Haiti and vows to aid victims were welcomed Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, in the Caribbean nation, which has experienced the worst outbreak of the disease in recent history.
LIFE IS A BEACH: A beach goer plays with his dogs off of Hobie Island Beach Park on Virginia Key, Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Miami. Sandals mark the crime scene, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, not far from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where the leader of a New York City mosque has been fatally shot and an associate has been wounded in a brazen daylight attack.
A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the United Nations' immunity from a damage claim filed on behalf of 5,000 cholera victims who blame the U.N. for an epidemic of the deadly disease in Haiti.
At the direction of President Barack Obama, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is leading the federal government's effort to provide assistance and support to Louisiana, in response to recent flooding. President Obama received updates throughout the day from his team on current response and recovery efforts underway in close coordination with state, local, and tribal officials.
The Department of Public Safety Homeland Security and Emergency Management division will visit Aitkin, Carlton, Crow Wing and Pine counties in Minnesota this week to assess damages sustained in thunderstorms during the week of July 10. At this time, the damages do not meet federal requirements for FEMA's Public Assistance Program, but they could qualify for funds through the Minnesota State Disaster Assistance Program. During the week of July 10, torrential downpours overwhelmed drainage systems, rivers and streams with 7-14 inches of rain.
U.S. stocks are rising Monday morning as energy companies trade higher with the price of oil. Chemical and mining companies are making the largest gains.
Emergency crews have rescued more than 7,000 people stranded in Louisiana by historic flooding that has killed at least three people and submerged whole communities, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday, as the Gulf Coast braced for more rain and rising waters. Stranded residents have been pulled out of flooded homes and swamped cars in cities and towns across the southern part of the state, said Edwards, who has called for federal emergency relief funds.
Its the kind of information you will never get from one soul connected with the Obama administration. Americans need to know the facts; Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will deal with an Obamacare meltdown of catastrophic proportions.
In his long shot bid to defeat Marco Rubio, Republican Carlos Beruff has yet to ignite the type of political grass fire that two years ago took out a top Republican leader in the U.S. House and nearly claimed four U.S. Senators. Following the insurgent's playbook, Beruff has spent more than $8 million of his own money on television ads.
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Flames from forest fires licked at hom... . A forest fire rages near houses in Curral dos Romeiros, on the outskirts of Funchal, the capital of the Madeira island, Portugal Tuesday, Aug. 9 2016.
In response to a drought-stricken season for New Hampshire farmers, Gov. Maggie Hassan requested Thursday that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issue a drought disaster declaration for three of the state's counties. The USDA Farm Service Agency's State Emergency Board voted Wednesday to seek the disaster declaration.
Jacqueline Lee / Daily News East Palo Alto resident Dennis Parker was among those celebrating the groundbreaking of a San Francisquito Creek flood control project Friday morning at Friendship Bridge. Parker and his wife, Luella Parker, live in the flood plain.