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• The Latest: Ex-lawmaker died from multiple stab wounds

  30-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Police documents say a woman charged in the fatal stabbing of a former Arkansas lawmaker last month was captured on video removing security cameras inside the victim's home.An arrest affidavit that was released Tuesday says former state Sen. Linda Collins died of multiple stab wounds.It says Collins' son and father found her body June 4 wrapped in a blanket and hidden under a tarp outside her home in Pocahontas, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock.
  
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• The Latest: Suspect in Walmart shooting showed knife at work

  30-07-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing two people at a north Mississippi Walmart is being charged with two counts of murder.DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion says 39-year-old Martez Tarrell Abram of Southaven was recently fired from the Walmart after an incident where he showed a knife to a fellow employee.Champion says Abram remains hospitalized in neighboring Memphis, Tennessee, after he was shot twice by a police officer Tuesday morning outside the Southaven store.
  
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• Senate leaders scramble to lift Republican support for budget deal

  30-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate Republican leaders, pushing for passage of a two-year federal spending and debt deal, scrambled on Tuesday to pump up support among their membership despite President Donald Trump's backing.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a planned long summer recess would not begin at week's end without the approval of a budget deal suspending the U.S. debt limit through July 2021 and adding billions of dollars in deficit-spending.The measure passed the Democratic-controlled House of Rep
  
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• Migrants raking up the risks in crossing Mexico for the US

  30-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  He has negotiated dense jungle and clung precariously with other migrants to a freight train, taking on the combined might of two countries' ever more rigid immigration authorities -- but Jose Contreras isn't giving up his dream of reaching the United States.Like the many migrants who set out daily for new lives in America, the Honduran father-of-four will not be deterred by the expanding Mexican immigration crackdown prompted by US pressure.The journey northwards is becoming ever more treachero
  
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• DOJ investigating Zinke's use of personal email, inspector tells lawmakers

  30-07-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings requested the email investigation in April 2018.
  
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• North Carolina ballot fraud investigation yields new charges

  30-07-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A ballot fraud investigation produced new felony charges Tuesday against the political operative at the center of a disputed North Carolina congressional election that's being rerun.Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said in a news release that Leslie McCrae Dowless was indicted on new charges related to the 2018 general election including perjury, obstruction of justice and absentee ballot possession.
  
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• Police: 2 Chicago moms killed in shooting likely not targets

  30-07-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Two women who worked with a group called Mothers Against Senseless Killings to try to stop gun violence in their South Side Chicago neighborhood were killed by bullets that police don't believe were intended for them on the same corner where they would often hand out food and bring children to play.The gunfire on Friday night was instead meant for a man who is affiliated with a Chicago street gang and recently got out of prison, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.The deaths of 26-year-old C
  
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• Deputy accused of killing wife during fight over sex

  30-07-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  New details say that the deputy, who's also a body builder and actor, was fighting with his wife as she accused him of having an affair.
  
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• Pelosi, Schumer Stand Firm in Opposing Impeachment

  30-07-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he stands with House speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposition to impeachment proceedings despite pressure from the caucus to move forward.“I believe that . . . Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately,” Schumer said in reference to Pelosi's strategy of encouraging Democratic House committee chairmen to continue their probes into President Trump and his campaign but hold off on impeachment.After former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony t
  
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• Suspect arrested in murder of 24-year-old Russian Instagram influencer found stuffed in suitcase

  30-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 24-year-old Instagram influencer found dead in a suitcase in her Moscow apartment. Yekaterina Karaglanova, who had recently graduated as a doctor, was known as @Katti_loves_life to her 86,000 followers on the image-sharing website.  Her body was discovered by her landlord last week after he had been contacted by her alarmed parents, who had not been able to reach their daughter for several days.  Stab wounds were evident on the
  
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• Suspect arrested after Russian Instagram influencer is found dead in a suitcase

  30-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 24-year-old Instagram influencer found dead in a suitcase in her Moscow apartment. Ekaterina Karaglanova , who had recently graduated as a doctor, was known as @Katti_loves_life to her 86,000 followers on the image-sharing website.  Her body was discovered by her landlord last week after he had been contacted by her alarmed parents, who had not been able to reach their daughter for several days.  Stab wounds were evident on the
  
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• Ukraine seizes Russian tanker over naval clash: prosecutor

  30-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A Ukrainian court has ordered the seizure of a Russian tanker stopped last week over its alleged involvement in a Ukrainian-Russian naval clash last year, the country's chief military prosecutor said Tuesday.A court, in the southern city of Odessa, ordered the seizure of the tanker Nika Spirit on Monday, according to documents posted by Anatoliy Matios on social media.The Russian owner of the seized tanker, the Altomar Shipping company, told Russian news agency Interfax that its management was "
  
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• A 55-year-old counselor gave up his license after the Florida Health Department determined he kissed a rape survivor patient, 19, and called her 'so sexy'

  30-07-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Mental health counselor Stephen McGinley, 55, voluntarily decided to give up his license after the complaint.
  
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• Andrew Yang's campaign blasted the DNC for not allowing him to use 2 polls from same source for fall Democratic debates

  30-07-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Yang campaign was unhappy the DNC only let them use either an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll or an NBC/SurveyMonkey poll but not both.
  
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• Alabama sued in transgender driver's license case

  30-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson held a hearing in the 2018 lawsuit filed by three transgender women seeking to change the gender of their state license.The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the plaintiffs, said the requirement to show proof of sex-altering surgery is an unconstitutional violation of privacy and a person's ability to make their own medical decisions.
  
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• UN: Onslaught in Syria may spark humanitarian disaster

  30-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.N. humanitarian chief urged the Security Council on Tuesday to take action to end the "bloody onslaught" in Syria's last opposition-held stronghold, warning that continued violence could create the worst humanitarian disaster of the 21st century."Are you again going to shrug your shoulders ... or are you going to listen to the children of Idlib, and do something about it?" he asked.The Security Council has been deeply divided over the Syrian conflict since it began in 2011, with Russia bac
  
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• Trump says he's 'the least racist person' in the world, sees Joe Biden as Democratic debate favorite

  30-07-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump repeated attacks on Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings while proclaiming, "I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world."
  
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• Slain gangster John Dillinger's body to be exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana

  30-07-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  No reason was given for the exhumation. But there have been theories that it was not Dillinger who was killed outside a theater, but rather a double.
  
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• New Ebola case diagnosed in DR Congo's Goma: health official

  30-07-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A new case of Ebola has been registered in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, a key transport hub, a Congolese health official said on Tuesday, as the virus death toll rose to 1,790.It is the second case of Ebola detected in the lakeside city of more than two million people, close to the Rwanda border."I have just been informed of a case of Ebola in Goma," Dr Aruna Abedi, coordinator of the Ebola response in North Kivu province, told AFP.
  
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• Guatemalan villagers recognize viral photo of mother pleading at U.S. border

  30-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Lolinda Amaya cried last week when she saw a viral photograph of a Guatemalan mother imploring Mexico's National Guard to let her enter the United States.It was her niece, Ledy Perez, who had borrowed money weeks earlier and fled her village under cover of night, seeking a better life for her only child.The widely shared photo https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/guatemalan-mother-begs-soldier-to-let-her-enter-us showed her crouched meters away from Mexico's border with the United States, clingi
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein served with fresh court documents alleging rape of 15-year-old girl

  30-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein found out he was facing further legal peril last week, the day before he was found unconscious in his cell with neck injuries. Epstein, 66, was presented with court documents relating to accusations made by Jennifer Araoz, who claimed he raped her when she was 15. Miss Araoz, now 32, made her accusations on July 10 – shortly after Epstein was arrested by police on charges filed by New York prosecutors. She claimed that, in the autumn of 2002, when she ha
  
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• Trump blames 'fake news' for poll showing African-Americans think he's racist

  30-07-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The president disputes the findings of a poll showing that 80 percent of African-Americans believe him to be a racist.
  
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• Rand Paul offers to send Ilhan Omar to Somalia so she will 'appreciate America more'

  30-07-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Sen. Rand Paul said he would offer to buy Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar a ticket to Somalia so she would “appreciate America more.”
  
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• Trump tax returns: California passes measure to ban president from ballot without financial disclosures

  30-07-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  California has passed an unprecedented requirement that Donald Trump release his tax returns, or else find himself ineligible for inclusion on the state’s primary ballot next year.The law was signed on Tuesday by governor Gavin Newsom, and requires all presidential candidates to submit five years of income tax filings in order to be eligible for the primary ballot.The bill was originally passed in the state legislature on a party line vote.“As one of the largest economies in the worl
  
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• Missouri school shooter Drew Grant killed in car crash 21 years after attack

  30-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Missouri man, who, along with an accomplice, shot and killed four studentsand a teacher at an Arkansas middle school 21 years ago, died in a car crashlast Saturday, KAIT reports
  
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• ‘Disgruntled’ Employee Kills Two Co-Workers Inside Mississippi Walmart: Police

  30-07-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA “disgruntled employee” at a Mississippi Walmart killed two co-workers and wounded a police officer in a deadly Tuesday shootout inside the superstore, authorities said.Martez Abram, 39, a recently-terminated employee of the Southaven store, was charged with two counts of murder Tuesday afternoon, DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said. The deadly incident began around 6:30 a.m., when Southaven police responded to reports of an active shooter
  
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• Princess Haya, Dubai ruler’s wife, urges UK court to grant a forced marriage protection order

  30-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, the youngest wife of the multi-billionaire ruler of Dubai, has urged a British court to protect one of her ­children by granting a forced marriage ­protection order. The Jordanian princess, who fled to Britain in May with her two children “in fear for her life”, is fighting an ­application from her husband, Sheikh Mohammed, for the “summary return” of the youngsters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Jordanian
  
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• Heeeere's Joe Biden: Today's Toon

  30-07-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
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• Christian leaders are warning of 'Christian nationalism," which they say 'provides cover for white supremacy and racial subjugation'

  30-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Christian leaders argue that Christian and American identities must remain separate, to not jeopardize both US democracy and their Christian faith.
  
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• Man finds 'mummified' baby in dead mother's freezer

  30-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A man found a “mummified” baby in his mother’s freezer while cleaning out her flat following her death. Adam Smith, from St Louis, Missouri, said he was “confused” and “angry” after discovering the girl’s remains, which he believes could be a sister he never knew he had.The infant’s corpse was wrapped in a pink blanket in a cardboard box which Mr Smith, 37, said his mother had kept alongside food in the freezer his whole life.“It still
  
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• Relatives gather to identify 57 victims killed Brazil prison riot

  30-07-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of family members of inmates killed by other detainees during a prison riot in the north of Brazil have gathered outside the local forensic institute, waiting to identify their loved ones
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: New look at 3 suspects in violent, daylight attack of 2 seniors in San Francisco's Chinatown

  30-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  RECOGNIZE THESE MEN? ABC7 News has exclusively obtained surveillance photos and video showing three young men who San Francisco police investigators believe violently attacked two senior citizens in broad daylight in Chinatown.
  
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• Q&A: What to know about the Capital One data breach

  30-07-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the country's biggest credit card issuers, Capital One Financial, is the latest big business to be hit by a data breach, disclosing that roughly 100 million people had some personal information stolen by a hacker.The alleged hacker, Paige A. Thompson, obtained Social Security and bank account numbers in some instances, as well other information such as names, birthdates, credit scores and self-reported income, the bank said Monday.It said no credit card account numbers or log-in credentia
  
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• Taiwan is firing off more than 100 missiles as the Chinese military holds drills nearby

  30-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  China warned in its latest defense report that it is willing to use military force to unify with Taiwan, which Beijing views as a breakaway province.
  
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• Army Soldiers Will Use Special M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle to Control Robots

  30-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Army soldiers riding in a specially-modified M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle will control a platoon of ground robots during an upcoming exercise in Colorado.The planned 2020 test “moves beyond the basic ‘robotic wingman’ pursuits that have so far led how the mechanized community of the Army is getting at using semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles,” Army Times reporter Todd South explained.Army officials intend for the month-long exercise at Fort Carson to ga
  
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• Prince Harry: ‘Unconscious Bias’ Feeds Racism. ‘You Can Only Be Taught to Hate.’

  30-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Chris Jackson/GettyPrince Harry has said “an unconscious bias” can help foster a person’s racism, “something which so many people don’t understand, why they feel the way that they do.”Harry revealed his views in a conversation with primatologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall in the September issue of British Vogue, guest-edited by his wife Meghan Markle. In the same interview, he said he would have a “maximum” of two children.Meghan Markle&rs
  
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• More than 200 reindeer found dead of starvation in the Arctic, scientists say

  30-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The cause of the reindeer deaths, according to the Norwegian Polar Institute, was starvation induced by altered conditions in the Arctic.
  
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• Nicaragua grants citizenship to embattled ex-Salvadoran president

  30-07-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes has been granted Nicaraguan citizenship, according to a decree published on Tuesday in the Nicaraguan government registry, likely hobbling El Salvador's efforts to bring him home to face charges of embezzlement and money laundering.Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who began his term in June, vowed to bring Funes back to the country within his first 90 days in office.Funes, who governed El Salvador between 2009 and 2014, is accused of embezzlement and
  
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• A 33-year-old woman who used to work for Amazon is the suspect in the massive Capital One hack — meet Paige Thompson

  30-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Thompson is accused of stealing data from millions of Capital One customers, including Social Security numbers and linked bank accounts.
  
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• Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred: official

  30-07-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails Tuesday, an official said.At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.Sixteen were decapitated in the hours-long battle, but most died in a fire that engulfed part of the overcrowded facility that used converted shipping containers to house some of the inmates.
  
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• Hurricane Erick Has Formed Off Hawaii. Here's What to Know About the Path and Strength of the Storm

  30-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Erick is now a category three "major" hurricane
  
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• Scientists decode brain speech signals into text in breakthrough for patients with severe disabilities

  30-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Neuroscientists have created brain-reading software which can decode speech signals in real-time into written sentences, potentially transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak.  The software is the first of its kind to show how the intention to say specific words can be extracted from the brain activity and converted into text quickly enough to keep pace with a normal conversation. It also decodes speech with listening and speaking considered together rather than se
  
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• JetBlue is selling $39 flights through Wednesday

  30-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Until Wednesday, July 31 at 11:59 p
  
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• How a City-Killing Asteroid Got So Uncomfortably Close to Earth

  30-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Scientists only realized its trajectory hours before it happened.
  
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• Police investigate after man says he found baby in freezer

  30-07-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A St. Louis man says a box that had been in his mother's freezer for decades contained the mummified remains of a newborn baby, which he discovered while cleaning out her home after she died.Adam Smith told St. Louis media outlets that he opened the cardboard box Sunday expecting to find something like the top of his mother's first wedding cake or money because she never had a bank account.St. Louis police confirmed that they are investigating a "suspicious death" involving an "unknown infant" f
  
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• #LostTrumpHistory trends as the internet mocks Trump's 9/11 comments

  30-07-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  If you thought President Trump could speak about the brave work of 9/11 first responders without giving himself a little shout out, you'd be wrong.On Monday, Trump signed the act that will extend the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund before more than 200 people who were impacted by the attacks on 9/11. The bill, which was publicly supported by Jon Stewart as it traveled through the House and Senate, will ensure first responders are given financial support through 2090.As Trump was addressing the cro
  
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• Border Patrol detains adults with no end - until lawyers sue

  30-07-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  In early June, twin brothers from Guatemala let their sister in California know they were about to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.It took three weeks to find them: inside jam-packed U.S. Border Patrol cells in South Texas, with no access to phones or lawyers.One of them was inside the fenced-in pens that Vice President Mike Pence visited in July.
  
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• The Navy handed out medals to the prosecutors who ‘failed’ miserably in the war crimes trial of a Navy SEAL

  30-07-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A defense attorney for the Navy SEAL acquitted of murder said that "every prosecutor on that team utterly failed."
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin sheriff draws parallel with Closs case

  30-07-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Wisconsin say a man suspected of killing four people may have been imitating the abduction last year of teenager Jayme Closs.Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said Tuesday that investigators may never know exactly what led to the Sunday attacks.Kowalczyk says German used a shotgun to blast his way into the woman's home, and then shot and wounded her parents.
  
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• Top aides leave Dem campaign arm amid diversity complaints

  30-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A mass departure of top aides shook House Democrats' campaign arm Tuesday, an exodus prompted by complaints from Hispanic and black lawmakers that the organization's staff lacked diversity.Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a statement late Monday that she had "fallen short" and promised to "work tirelessly to ensure that our staff is truly inclusive." Executive Director Allison Jaslow announced her departure and a DCCC aide said fiv
  
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