Evening Edition: Rep. Franks, facing ethics investigation, says he will resign immediately
Deputy national security adviser who helped drive Middle East policy to leave administration Email pointed Trump campaign to already-public WikiLeaks documents
Republican Trent Franks of Arizona said his wife's ailment prompted him to move up his resignation from the original date of Jan. 30. On Thursday, the House Ethics Committee said it would investigate Franks for potential misconduct after officials learned that he had asked female employees to bear his child as a surrogate.
Unlike some top White House officials who were fired or resigned amid controversy, Dina Powell is exiting on good terms with the president, four senior administration officials said. Her departure is among personnel changes expected as President Trump ends his first year in office.
Donald Trump and his top aides were directed in September 2016 to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had been posted days earlier. The message was one of thousands turned over to the House Intelligence Committee and others investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Liliana Cruz Mendez crossed the border illegally at age 18. Eleven years and two children later, she was sent back to a country that has one of the world's highest murder rates.
The scandals that have plagued Republican Roy Moore have put Democrats within striking distance of winning a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama for the first time in decades. But a victory for Doug Jones will require many other things to happen.
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More than 50 peacekeepers also were hurt in the attack in eastern Congo, the U.N. mission in the country said. The majority of those killed and injured were from Tanzania.
President Trump declared an emergency in the state as firefighters battled half a dozen blazes across the region. The largest wildfire spread across more than 200 square miles and crept toward the college town of Santa Barbara.
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After the officer involved was acquitted of second-degree murder charges, officials in Arizona released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life in the moments before he was killed in January 2016.
Online shopping has been heralded as the ultimate modern-day convenience, but in at least one respect, it can be anything but. Many residential buildings are running out of room for the never-ending barrage of deliveries.
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