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A week after 17 people were killed at a Parkland, Fla., high school, President Trump hosted survivors, parents and teachers from that and other recent school shooting tragedies.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been forced out of the Justice Department. The man replacing him for now, Matthew G. Whitaker, has a record of criticizing the Russia probe.

Relatives of the hundreds feared dead after a migrant ship organized by smugglers sank off the Greek coast last week say most of the passengers were desperately fleeing danger or economic hardship.

Sen. Jeff Sessions says success in Iraq means establishing a stable government. He sees "a commitment of years" to make that happen. Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, joined in questioning Gen. David Petraeus Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Record flooding on the Mississippi River sent too much fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico, killing oysters and crippling other seafood harvests that depend on saltwater to survive.

Investigators are trying to understand why a massive cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. Six people are now presumed dead in what investigators believe was an accident.

Pakistan said that the boat, carrying 80 passengers including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania on their way to the Canary Islands.

The former U.S. attorney general is making a play for his old Senate seat in Alabama, and despite his public falling out with the president tells voters there, "I've been with him from the start."

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was elected to the post with Trump's support after 15 contentious rounds of votes, said House Republicans will get to the bottom of the investigation into Trump.

The center of Hurricane Gustav crashed ashore near Cocodrie, La., some 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, Monday morning. New Orleans was spared a direct hit from the 110-mile-an-hour winds.