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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans have issued subpoenas to three technology companies. The companies either made or serviced the private email server that Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state. Republicans are stepping up their attacks on Clinton's handling of sensitive government information that flowed through the server located in the basement of her New York home. The FBI recently closed its probe into the issue without recommending criminal charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of Donald Trump's paid campaign staffers have made raw, racially charged and anti-Muslim statements on their personal social media accounts. An AP review of posts by current and former campaign staff found claims that Muslims are unfit to be citizens or judges. The posts also included ridicule of Mexican accents and a call for Secretary of State John Kerry's death by hanging. Some staff postings or re-postings have inflammatory racial material — at times, even from people responsible for outreach to minorities. A similar review of dozens of Clinton campaign accounts turns up no such inflammatory material.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the fight against the Islamic State group says he's skeptical of any additional military cooperation with Russia in Syria, and believes he can get the mission done without it. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says any decision to cooperate with Moscow is one for the administration to make. But he says that as a soldier, he's "fairly skeptical of the Russians," and that he's not inclined "to believe the coalition can cooperate with them."
CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — Residents of a southwest Alabama town where five people were slain are trying to raise money to help the victims' families pay funeral expenses. Relatives of some of the victims have started an online fundraiser, and a plastic jug for donations sits on the counter of a convenience store a couple miles from the scene of the massacre near Citronelle, located in southwest Alabama. Authorities say a Mississippi man will be charged with murder in the slayings. They say the man killed five people at a house where his estranged girlfriend had sought refuge from him.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The final report on the death of a two-year-old boy at a Disney World resort in Florida reveals that the boy's father had reached into the mouth of an alligator in an attempt to free his son. The report released today by Florida's wildlife agency says the seven-foot alligator bit the head of two-year-old Lane Graves as the boy bent down at the edge of a lagoon at Disney's Grand Floridian resort. Officials say the boy died from a crushing bite and drowning. The report says the alligator may have had a diminished fear of people by being in an area with lots of humans.
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