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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Intelligence Committee will hold its first public hearing Monday into Russia's role in cybersecurity breaches at the Democratic National Committee, as well as President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor had authorized a wiretap of Trump Tower. FBI Director James Comey and Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, are expected to testify.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan says he'll pursue changes to a GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people. The new willingness to compromise comes days before a pivotal vote and is a bid for more support from moderate Republicans, who've expressed continuing unease about the plan to replace "Obamacare." A House vote on the bill is set for Thursday.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. security officers have begun fingerprinting refugees being held on Pacific islands in the final stage of assessing who will find new lives in the United States. A document circulated among asylum seekers shows that officers from Department of Homeland Security are taking biometric details from refugees on Nauru (NAH'-roo), including fingerprints, heights and weights. The document says if refugees pass the initial fingerprint security screening, they'll have face-to-face interviews with Homeland Security.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former police chief of Greenville, North Carolina says he's disappointed with his country of 42 years after he was detained at New York's JFK Airport. Alexandria, Virginia resident Hassan Aden now works as a law enforcement consultant. The son of an Italian mother and Somali father says he was detained March 13 on a return trip from Paris. He says his 90-minute detention was unreasonable. Aden says a customs officer told him that his name was used as an alias by someone on a watch list.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber president Jeff Jones has resigned just six months after taking the job. Jones told the tech blog Recode, which first reported his resignation, that his values didn't align with Uber's. Jones is the latest of several high-level executives to leave the embattled San Francisco-based company. Uber has been hit by several controversies, including allegations that it routinely ignores sexual harassment.
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