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White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal aides, is resigning. The departure of one of the president’s longest-serving advisers, who worked as a one-woman communications shop during his winning campaign, came as a surprise to most in the White House — and cast a pall over the West Wing at a tumultuous time. The...

A 10-year-old boy fell 20 feet to the ground from a zip line attraction in Lakeland, Florida, resulting in serious injuries to the boy’s body and head, as well as a lawsuit against the attraction park.

A 10-year-old boy was seriously injured after falling from a zip line attraction at a park in Lakeland, Florida, according to a lawsuit.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign says its headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, was broken into, along with other offices in the same building. Andrew Taverrite, Warren’s New Hampshire communications director, says in a statement that the break-in occurred Wednesday night and “we have no reason to believe this was targeted to the campaign or is anything further than a...

President Donald Trump tweeted an encouraging message about completing the next phase of the Second Avenue subway, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said there’s no agreement from the feds to fund the project.

Two top aides to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are leaving her congressional office, the freshman lawmaker said in a statement Friday. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Corbin Trent, her communications director, are departing, her statement said. Trent is joining the congresswoman’s campaign and Chakrabarti plans to join New Consensus, a non-profit that is promoting Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal...

With immigration raids expected to begin Sunday in at least nine major cities, some U.S. citizens are taking precautions, including carrying their American passports at all times, to avoid being mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The wary Americans, often Latinos, said they don’t want to get swept up in the planned roundups announced by President Donald Trump....

First Lady Melania Trump announced the next White House press secretary on Twitter on Tuesday: her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham. “She has been with us since 2015 – @potus and I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country,” Melania Trump tweeted. “Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse. #BeBest” Grisham, who...

First Lady Melania Trump announced the next White House press secretary on Twitter on Tuesday: her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham. “She has been with us since 2015 – @potus and I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country,” Melania Trump tweeted. “Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse. #BeBest” Grisham, who...

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand said Sunday that her campaign has raised more than $3 million in the first quarter.

Former Fox News executive Bill Shine, President Donald Trump’s fifth communications director, has resigned, the White House said Friday. Shine was communications director for just over eight months. He will work on Trump’s re-election campaign after tendering his resignation Thursday night, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Seth Moulton is weighing a 2020 run for president. Matt Corridoni, Moulton’s communications director, confirmed to NBC10 Boston that the two-term Massachusetts Democrat “is thinking about” joining the race to be his party’s presidential nominee. A rising political star who recently saw a backlash for criticizing U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi assuming the role of House Speaker and may face primary...

Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, said Tuesday she would return to teaching art at a northern Virginia elementary school that explicitly bars its employees from engaging in or condoning “homosexual or lesbian sexual activity” and “transgender identity,” NBC News reported. The employment application for the Immanuel Christian School, which was first reported on by HuffPost, asks...

It’s starting to look like we’re getting closer to the second phase of the Second Avenue subway. Andrew Siff reports.

A political organization backed by Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the way Georgia’s elections are run, making good on a promise Abrams made as she ended her bid to become the state’s governor. The lawsuit was filed in Atlanta by Fair Fight Action against interim Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and state election board members. It...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine has received millions of dollars in severance from Fox News Channel’s parent company and is owed millions more, a new financial disclosure report shows.

Stacey Abrams broke the rules of politics until the very end. The Georgia Democrat who came about 60,000 votes shy of becoming America’s first black woman governor refused to follow the traditional script for defeated politicians who offer gracious congratulations to their victorious competitor and gently exit the stage. Instead, Abrams ended her campaign in an unapologetically indignant tone that...

A New Jersey politician who shared a meme on Facebook during January’s Women’s March in Washington asking whether the protest would be “over in time for them to cook dinner” is eating his words.

Deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel is leaving the White House, one day after first lady Melania Trump’s office issued an extraordinary statement calling for her dismissal.
No replacement has been named. Aides say Ricardel clashed with the first lady’s staff over her visit to Africa last month.

Here’s what to know for Wednesday, Nov. 14.