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This Tuesday, March 27, 2018, photo provided by the California Highway Patrol shows a helicopter hovering over the scene where a vehicle plunged off a cliff in Northern California near Mendocino, Calif. The California Highway Patrol identified the adult victims Wednesday as Jennifer Hart and Sarah Hart, who died along with a few other children.
President Donald Trump promised during the campaign to stock his White House with "the best people in the world" -- but it's turning out more like "the best people in the immediate circle of people who I directly know." How else can you explain that within the last month or so, we've heard reports that Trump wanted to install his personal pilot as head of the FAA and then this week he installed his doctor as head of the VA? When his campaign needed some help back in 2016, he went to the Republican operative who lived nearest -- literally in Trump Tower -- to take things over: Paul Manafort.
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality documents and sources have revealed the Federal Justice Department is involved in an ongoing issue concerning the Denka manufacturing plant in Laplace. The Environmental Protection Agency classifies chloroprene as likely carcinogen and says the chloroprene emissions coming from the Denka Performance Elastomer facility put people who live and work nearby at the highest risk of developing cancer in the nation.
And he recently made one particular cancer patient's day by giving her some words of encouragement via video call to her hospital bed in Idaho. Cierra Shaffer is a 17-year-old battling leukemia at St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Boise.
A big new government study is reigniting the heated debate over whether cell phones could be linked to cancer. It's a multi-year, $25 million study... that focused on what cell phone radiation does to rats.
U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward, state Rep. Darin Mitchell and other candidates are expected to attend a meet-and-greet the Colorado River Tea Party is hosting Saturday, along with a presentation by filmmaker and blogger Trevor Loudon. Newly appointed District 13 legislators and candidates Rep. Tim Dunn, R-Yuma, and Sen. Sine Kerr, R-Buckeye, are also on the list for the event as of Wednesday evening.
Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road reached their destination Wednesday - House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf. About 50 students set out Sunday from Madison on their "50 Miles More" march.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol work at the scene where a couple and several of their children plunged in their SUV off Highway 1, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, near Fort Bragg, Calif. Searchers scoured the Northern California coast Wednesday for missing children of a couple who were killed along with three of their other children when their SUV plunged off scenic Pacific Coast Highway onto rocks in the ocean.
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his record and called protests against him the work of fascists Wednesday, a day after an attack on his campaign caravan underlined Brazil's deep divisions ahead of heated elections. His left-leaning Workers' Party said gunshots hit two buses in the caravan Tuesday.
In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the commercial longline fishing vessel Princess Hawaii sinks about 400 miles north of the Big Island on Sunday, March 25, 2018. Eight people, including the crew, captain and a federal fishery observer abandoned the ship and escaped in a life raft.
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General will review the FBI's and DOJ's application to monitor former Trump campaign aide Carter Page during the election. The department's internal watchdog said it is reviewing the process "in response to requests" from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and congressional lawmakers.
A Bosnian Serb residing in North Carolina was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for his criminal conviction of obtaining a Permanent Resident Card , commonly referred to as a "green card," by making materially false claims and statements on his initial application for refugee status, which served as the basis for obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident status. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray for the Western District of North Carolina and Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the announcement.
'The X-Files' star David Duchovny also made a cameo in a segment that tried to get to the bottom of why so many residents were complaining about lack of help from FEMA. Just in time for spring break, Samantha Bee aired her travel special from Puerto Rico on Wednesday night, which surveyed the work still to be done on the island since Hurricane Maria and investigated why the U.S. didn't do more to help.
A package of Oklahoma tax hikes aimed at generating hundreds of millions of new dollars for teacher pay and averting statewide school closures received final legislative approval Wednesday night. The Senate voted 36-10 to increase taxes on oil and gas production, cigarettes, fuel and lodging - narrowly receiving the three-fourth's majority needed to pass - and the chamber broke into applause afterward.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is exploring hate speech and the First Amendment at an event in Boston. Breyer is scheduled to have a public discussion on Thursday with the president of the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit history museum in Philadelphia.
Emails released to The Associated Press show then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence faced widespread backlash from conservatives after agreeing to change a "religious freedom" law critics decried as anti-gay. Emails released to The Associated Press show then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence faced widespread backlash from conservatives after agreeing to change a "religious freedom" law critics decried as anti-gay.
Only minutes after taking to Twitter early Wednesday morning to falsely claim that "no one" was talking about repealing the Second Amendment, CNN New Day co-host Chris Cuomo doubled-down on that assertion during an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. When the Republican pointed to a Tuesday New York Times op/ed in which former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens demanded that the right to bear arms be revoked, Cuomo simply pretended it didn't happen.
Roughly 22 million Americans turned on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels say that she once spanked President Donald Trump with a magazine that had his face on the cover and then had unprotected sex with him. For many, the interview was the latest in a series of uncomfortable moments brought to their living rooms by a nontraditional president who has long graced the pages of tabloids, much to his delight, and broken every rule of political etiquette.
Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road have reached their destination - House Speaker Paul Ryan's hometown. A group of about 40 students make their way along Old Highway 92 south of Evansville, Wis., on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, as they march to U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's hometown of Janesville to call for stricter gun control laws.