GOP senator: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan a 'butthead' who doesn't need a security clearance
CNN
Washington (CNN) Sen. John Kennedy defended President Donald Trump's decision to revoke John Brennan's security clearance and called the former CIA director a "butthead" who doesn't need the clearance. "I think most Americans look at our national ...

NPR

Dozens Overdose In Connecticut Park On Tainted Synthetic Marijuana
NPR
More than 70 people have overdosed in or around a historic Connecticut park near the Yale University campus after receiving what authorities believe was synthetic marijuana laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl. Although there have been no deaths, ...

ABC News

Husband arrested in connection to missing wife, young daughters in Colorado
ABC News
Police have arrested a Colorado man in connection to the disappearance of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. On Wednesday night, the Frederick Police Department, working with the FBI and Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said it had arrested ...

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The Latest: Gunmen besiege Afghan intel compound in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Latest on developments in Afghanistan after a deadly suicide bombing in a Shiite area of Kabul (all times local):
2:27am, August 16, 2018

Afghanistan revises death toll from suicide bombing to 34
KABUL, Afghanistan The Afghan authorities have revised the death toll from the previous day's horrific suicide bombing in a Shite area of Kabul to 34 ... More
2:11am, August 16, 2018

Nevada Democrats hope Latinos can propel them to victory
LAS VEGAS As temperatures topped 110 degrees last week outside a Latin American grocery store in Las Vegas, 19-year-old Diara Hernandez bounded up to customers, ... More
2:10am, August 16, 2018

California considers limiting broad 'felony murder' law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Brandon Hein was 18 when he and three other teenagers were charged in the 1995 stabbing death of the 16-year-old son of a ... More
2:06am, August 16, 2018

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