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In this Aug. 7, 2019, photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington. U.S. Rep. Cummings has died from complications of longtime health challenges, his office said in a statement on Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Cummings recalled as powerful orator who took on White House

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who died Thursday at age 68, was remembered as a formidable orator who fought for civil rights and took on the White House by friends, neighbors and leaders across the political spectrum_ including the president himself
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks as Vice President Mike Pence listens during a news conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. The U.S. and Turkey agreed to a five-day cease-fire in the Turks' attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria to allow the Kurds to withdraw to roughly 20 miles away from the Turkish border. The arrangement appeared to be a significant embrace of Turkey's position in the weeklong conflict. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Deal between US, Turkey spawns more questions than answers

Agreement between US and Turkey spawns more questions than answers
FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich sits for an interview with The Associated Press in Columbus. Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, says he supports impeachment. Kasich said Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, on CNN that the final straw was when acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that Trump's decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

'Final straw': GOP ex-Ohio Gov. Kasich supports impeachment

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, says he supports impeaching the president
In this Oct. 11, 2019 photo, visitors sits outside a shop on the Main Street at Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong. The body-blow of months of political protests on Hong Kong's tourism is verging on catastrophic for one of the world's great destinations. Geared up to receive 65 million travelers a year, the city's hotels, retailers, restaurants and other travel-oriented industries are suffering. But some intrepid visitors came specifically to see the protests and are reveling in deep discounts and unusually short lines at tourist hotspots. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In protest clouds, Hong Kong tourists see silver lining

The body-blow of months of political protests on Hong Kong's tourism is verging on catastrophic for one of the world's great destinations
FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2018, file photo, a Dallas Police vehicle is parked near the South Side Flats apartments in Dallas. Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger fatally shot an unarmed black neighbor whose apartment she said she entered by mistake, believing it to be her own. It's unclear when Guyger first talked to investigators about the September 2018 shooting, but she was eventually charged and is serving 10 years in prison after being convicted of murder this month. (AP Photo/Ryan Tarinelli, File)
Activists angry police who shoot can wait to face questions
After a police officer fatally shoots someone, they are given days or even weeks before they have to submit to questioning
FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 file photo, a woman passes by the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Leaders of the synagogue where worshippers were fatally shot last year want to rebuild and renovate the building, turning it into what they hope will be a symbol against hatred and 'the center for Jewish life in the United States.' On Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 they outlined their vision for the Tree of Life building, where three congregations - Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Light - had gathered Oct. 27 when a gunman opened fire, killing 11 and wounding seven.. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
After deadly shooting, Pittsburgh synagogue plans reopening
Leaders of a Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 worshippers were fatally shot last year say they want to renovate the building into what they hope will be a "center for Jewish life in the United States" and a symbol against hatred
FILE - In this April 2, 2109 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a meeting to call for subpoenas after a career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds, on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. Rep. Cummings has died from complications of longtime health challenges, his office said in a statement on Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Cummings, Trump relations soured amid House investigations
Rep. Elijah Cummings said somebody once told him he would see one guy when he met with President Donald Trump "and then you might see another guy" the next day
In this Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, photo, Vulcan Inc. director of subsea operations on the Petrel, Rob Kraft, left, looks at images of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are honing in on a debris field deep in the Pacific. Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the research vessel Petrel to one sunken battleship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga. This week, it's investigating what could be another. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
Deep-sea explorers seek out sunken World War II ships
Researchers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are honing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific
Jimmy Mangrym, a 63-year-old Flint native who has 43 years in at Flint Metal Fabrication in tool and dye, circle in front of an entrance to Flint Engine Operations as UAW members line the street with picket signs on the 32nd day of the nationwide UAW strike against General Motors after stalled contract negotiations on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 in Flint, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)
Despite labor costs, GM averts financial woes of its past
Contract deal with United Auto Workers will drive up General Motors' expenses, but analysts say the company is in far better shape than a decade ago when labor costs helped push it into bankruptcy
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves the podium after addressing a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Britain and the European Union reached a new tentative Brexit deal on Thursday, hoping to finally escape the acrimony, divisions and frustration of their three-year divorce battle. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Johnson returns to London to drum up support for Brexit deal
After winning support of European Union leaders for his new Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is back in London to try to secure backing from the fractious British Parliament
A commuter airplane has crashed near the airport in a small Alaska community on the Bering Sea, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Unalaska, Alaska. Freelance photographer Jim Paulin says the crash at the Unalaska airport occurred Thursday after 5 p.m. Paulin says the Peninsula Airways flight from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor landed about 500 feet (152 meters) beyond the airport near the water. (Jim Paulin via AP)
1 dead after plane landing on Alaska island went off runway
Authorities say one person is dead after a commuter airplane went off the end of a runway while landing at an airport in the remote Aleutian Islands fishing community of Unalaska
Protesters push a bicycle in front of a gate of the Santa Lucia subway station during a protest against the rising cost of subway and bus fares, in Santiago, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Subway service in Chile's capital suspended as protest grows
School and university students have flooded subway stations in Chile's capital, jumping turnstiles, dodging fares and vandalizing equipment as part of protests against a fare hike
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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