Updated June 30, 2021 at 8:36 PM ET
Donald Rumsfeld, who served twice as U.S. secretary of defense and who was an architect of America s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died. He was 88. It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, Rumsfeld s family said in a Twitter post. History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends and the integrity he brought to a life dedicated to country.
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Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International s search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday.
Updated June 30, 2021 at 6:54 PM ET
U.S. and international rescue teams are hopeful they will find survivors as they work long hours searching through the rubble of a beachfront condo building in Surfside, Fla.
It s been nearly a week since part of the 12-story structure collapsed in the middle of the night. Eighteen people are confirmed dead and 145 more are unaccounted for.
Leon Roy Hausmann is a board member of Cadena International, a disaster assistance nonprofit that has provided a trained team of volunteers from Mexico to help with the search and rescue.
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Alabama filed a federal lawsuit to force the U.S. Census Bureau to move up the release of 2020 census redistricting data and stop its plans for using a new way of keeping people s information in the data confidential.
Updated June 30, 2021 at 2:22 PM ET
A three-judge court has rejected Alabama s request to force the U.S. Census Bureau to move up the release of 2020 census redistricting data. The federal judges have also allowed the bureau to continue plans for a new way of keeping people s census information confidential.
The ruling issued on Tuesday was expected to be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. But in an email to NPR on Wednesday, Joy Patterson, a spokesperson for the Alabama state attorney general s office, said: At the moment, Alabama and the other plaintiffs do not intend to appeal the district court s order.
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Updated June 30, 2021 at 3:54 PM ET
In a largely party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday to create a select committee to launch a new inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
With a larger share of Republicans voting against the plan, it marks the latest turn in a partisan fight to investigate the riot.
As invited members of Washington, D.C. s Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Capitol Police looked on from the gallery, Democrats blasted GOP members who opposed the select committee ahead of the vote. We have a duty to the Constitution and to the American people to find the truth of Jan. 6 and to ensure that such an assault on our democracy can never happen again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said shortly before acknowledging the officers who were on duty the day of the attack. And rather than being frivolous with the facts, we are going to be prayerful and patrio
Bill Cosby, center, and spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, right, approach members of the media gathered outside the home of the entertainer in Elkins Park, Pa., Wednesday, June 30. Pennsylvania s highest court has overturned comedian Cosby s sex assault conviction. The 83-year-old Cosby had served more than two years at the state prison near Philadelphia and was released.
Updated June 30, 2021 at 5:36 PM ET
Comedian Bill Cosby has been released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated the indecent assault conviction against him.
The court s decision upends the long-running legal battle against the once-beloved actor, whose conviction marked a major milestone in the #MeToo movement after he was accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women stretching back decades.