Five people dead after two planes crash midair in Alaska and other top stories.

• Five people dead after two planes crash midair in Alaska

  Pilot Harry Wrase Jr. of Wasilla, Alaska, was one of the victims in a two-plane collision over Bethel, Alaska, August 31, 2016. His niece Hannah Nadesta Brown posted this photo of him with the caption: My heart is so broken. Today we lost my uncle to ...

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• Aug. 2016: Chicago's Bloodiest Month in Two Decades

  

  Chicago saw its bloodiest month in two decades this August, after police recorded a staggering 90 murders, 384 shootings and 472 total shooting victims. So far this year, police in the Windy City have logged at least 468 murders and 2,848 shooting victims.

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• Bill Clinton used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email server

  

  Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found. Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access sca..

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• Tropical Storm Madeline: Weaker cyclone brings rain, wind - Honolulu Star

  

  Tropical Storm Madeline caused flooding Wednesday in the Vacationland subdivision of Kapoho on Hawaii island. HOLLYN JOHNSON / HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD Suisan Fish Market in Keaukaha was boarded up as. HOLLYN JOHNSON / HAWAII ...

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• She beat her son with a hanger — and said Indiana's religious freedom law gave her the right

  

  (iStock) The 7-year-old boy had a total of 36 deep purple bruises across his back, on his arm and on his thigh. He had a loop mark on his ear that, court records say, was from the small hook of a plastic hanger that his mother had used to beat him. When the boy’s elementary school teacher patted him on the back, he flinched. The state Department of Child Services was then called to the Indianapolis school. According to a probable cause affidavit, the boy’s mother, Kin Park Thaing, hit the bo..

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• Police: Woman kidnapped by husband found dead, he's wounded

  

  This undated driver's license photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation shows Kevin Ewing of West Finley Township, Pa. Pennsylvania State Police say Ewing, a man free on bond while awaiting trial on charges he beat his wife Tierne Ewing while holding her captive for nearly two weeks, kidnapped her again at gunpoint Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, from a residence in West Finley Township, Pa., about 50 miles southwest of Pittsburgh along the West Virginia border..

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• Supreme Court won't let North Carolina use strict voting law

  

  The Supreme Court will not allow North Carolina in the November election to use its strict voting law that a lower court found was enacted “with almost surgical precision” to blunt the influence of African American voters. An evenly divided court said Wednesday that it would not restore the law that a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit found unconstitutional. The court’s short order did not give the justices’ reasoning. It was not a ruling on the merits of the law ..

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• Paul LePage, the Governor of Maine, Now Says He's Not Quitting

  

  AUGUSTA, Me. — Paul R. LePage, the embattled Republican governor of Maine, declared on Wednesday that he would not step down despite widespread criticism over a profane threat and generalizations about drugs and race that had prompted him to hint on Tuesday that he might abort his second term.“I will not resign,” said Mr. LePage, who tried to put to rest swirling questions about his state of mind.“I’m not an alcoholic, and I’m not a drug addict, and I don’t have mental issues,” he said. “What I..

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• Marco Rubio is at a crossroads

  

  Sign Up for Our free email newsletters Marco Rubio won his primary this week, and is now officially the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Florida. Finally, a bit of good news for this gifted politician, after a rather humiliating year. It wasn't so long ago when Rubio was the GOP's great hope. Young, charismatic, smart, Latino, with a winning personal story, he looked tailor-made for a presidential run. And so he ran. But his media-based campaign never really got traction. He..

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• Big Rig Slams Into Firefighters Along I-95, Closing Roadway for Hours

  

  A big rig slammed into a firetruck bringing traffic on Interstate 95 to a screeching halt for hours early Thursday and leaving five Philadelphia firefighters hurt.The tractor-trailer crossed lanes and slammed into the stopped firetruck in the southbound left-hand shoulder around 3 a.m. under the Chestnut Street overpass/Penn's Landing Tunnel in Old City."It was chaotic out here," said NBC10 photo journalist Pete Kane who witnessed the wreck in his rear-view mirror.The wreck left five Philadelphi..

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