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Thursday s rockfall sent a large cloud of dust throughout the park. A second massive rockfall occurred Thursday at the face of Yosemite National Park s famed El Capitan, just a day after a series of rockfalls killed a British climber. The latest incident was confirmed by the National Park Service in a tweet, prompting officials to shut down an exit from the park in Yosemite Valley. It was not immediately clear how large Thursday s rockfall was, but several witnesses described it as much larger than the series that occurred Wednesday, which killed a climber and left another critically injured. #BREAKING: Another rock fall near #ElCapitan in @YosemiteNPS. My photographer and I witnessed the whole ordeal, it… https://t.co/cWbtwmXoKe Thursday s rockfall sent a large cloud of dust throughout the park. On Wednesday, seven rockfalls occurred over a four-hour time span at the park, totaling about 16,000 cubic feet and weighing about 1,300 tons. When ran

“I want it to be the right kind of a bill. I don’t want it to be some piece of crap, which we’re so used to around here," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (front). | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The GOP’s tax-reform efforts got a jolt of momentum this week, but Republicans also are getting a fresh reminder of how hard it will be to write a bill that makes it to President Donald Trump’s desk this year. They will have a number of hurdles to grapple with in the coming months, including selling their new plan to the public, fleshing out the policy, wrangling the rank and file and dealing with the myriad competing interests that will deluge the Hill. Then there’s the Senate, the graveyard of Republicans efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), asked about the biggest challenges in turning the plan GOP leaders released this week into legislation, deadpanned: "Fellow senators. “It’s mostly all

Of particular interest is Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's private email domain, because they still work in the White House, two officials said. | Win McNamee/Getty Images The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The effort began this week after POLITICO reported that both Jared Kushner and a number of other senior White House officials used private email accounts throughout the year to conduct government business. Of particular interest is Kushner and Ivanka Trump s private email domain, because they still work in the White House, two officials said. Accounts of other White House officials are also being reviewed. The probe could take several weeks or even months to complete, according to one of these people, as officials are searching for all ema

Resident: insurance has refused to pay for repairs We first broke the news yesterday when the ground opened up in the Beacon Woods neighborhood in Hudson, forming a hole in a home s front yard. Since then we ve learned that this hole, like many others, may not be covered by sinkhole insurance. HUDSON, Fla. - We first broke the news yesterday when the ground opened up in the Beacon Woods neighborhood in Hudson, forming a hole in a home's front yard. Since then we've learned that this hole, like many others, may not be covered by sinkhole insurance. The good news is that it doesn't appear that the hole has grown since yesterday. But the bad news is that the neighborhood has several confirmed sinkholes, but not everyone has been able to get them fixed. "It was like a snap of the fingers," said Shirley Bruck, describing the hole that opened up in her front yard. She worries it could threaten her biggest investment and her family's safety. "

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema released an announcement video on Thursday afternoon, making her Flake's first Democratic challenger. | Matt York, File/AP Photo Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for Senate against Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, setting up a marquee race between a former progressive-turned-centrist Democrat and one of President Donald Trump s harshest Republican critics. Sinema released an announcement video on Thursday afternoon, making her Flake s first Democratic challenger. State Rep. Randy Freiss, a trauma surgeon who treated former Rep. Gabby Giffords, was also considering a Democratic bid. Flake is facing a primary challenge from former state Sen. Kelli Ward and other Republicans are eyeing his seat. "I owe a large debt to my country," Sinema says in the video, outlining how her middle-class family fell into poverty and how she climbed out of it with help from the government, her church, her teache

Matthews: Trump says he had vote to end Obamacare. Not true Trump said the only reason he didn t have the Senate pass its vote to repeal Obamacare is because of a senator who was in the hospital. None of this was true.

The fact that this wasn t officially titled "Paternity Quest" is heartbreaking to me. So today we got our first full-length look at Father Figures , a new comedy starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms. View this video on YouTube The film was originally titled Bastards , which is still not as good as Paternity Quest (yes, I know they say it in the trailer, but I will never be over this pun). The comedy follows two adult brothers as they discover that their mom may have ~fudged the truth~ about who their real father was, sending them on "Operation: Who s Your Daddy?" to find the truth. The whole thing kind of sounds like a non-musical, raunchier version of the Mamma Mia! plot, and it honestly looks pretty fucking funny. The bumbling brothers are played by Ed Helms and Owen Wilson. Glenn Close plays their mother,

A spokeswoman said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's charter or military plane trips were booked only after officials were unable to find commercial flights that would accommodate Zinke's schedule. | Getty Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides have taken several flights on private or military aircraft, including a $12,000 charter plane to take him to events in his hometown in Montana and private flights between two Caribbean islands, according to documents and a department spokeswoman. Zinke is at least the fourth senior member of the Trump administration to have used non-commercial planes at taxpayer expense, along with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and HHS Secretary Tom Price. President Donald Trump has fumed at Price s pricey travel, and Democrats say the revelations demonstrate a cavalier attitude by Cabinet members toward excessive spending. Interior Department spokeswoman He

If you lost your job because of Hurricane Irma, or you’re simply looking for work, CareerSource Tampa Bay and CareerSource Pinellas want to help. PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. - If you lost your job because of Hurricane Irma, or you’re simply looking for work, CareerSource Tampa Bay and CareerSource Pinellas want to help. CareerSource is looking to hire 7 million people statewide to help with hurricane recovery. The temporary full-time jobs range from cleaning up debris to helping families qualify for federal help. They’re funded by federal dislocated worker grants, and the temp jobs pay pretty well too between $11 to $27 an hour. Juliane Abudi was recently laid off from her job of 10 years, now she’s helping families get emergency post-Irma food stamps. “We all have a common experience. we all share in what Hurricane Irma did to our lives. We all have that connection so it’s wonderful to help in this way,” Abudi explained. If you can pass a background check and drug screen,

Fresh revelations about HHS Secretary Tom Price’s travel came just hours after the embattled Cabinet member said he would pay back his portion of charter flights. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Tom Price says he will pay up for his use of expensive, chartered aircrafts. But the revelations about the Health and Human Services secretary’s use of expensive travel just keep coming. “The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers,” POLITICO’s Rachana Pradahan and Dan Diamond report . Price’s wife, Betty, accompanied him on the flights — even as other members of Price’s delegation flew commercially. Fresh revelations about Price’s travel came just hours after the embattled Cabinet member said he would pay back his portion of charter flights. Price’s move

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President Trump granted a 10-day waiver on rules Logistics, and government regulation, has slowed relief efforts from the Tampa Bay Area to people in Puerto Rico. TAMPA, Fla. - Logistics, and government regulation, has slowed relief efforts from the Tampa Bay Area to people in Puerto Rico. “People have been so generous,” says Tampa attorney Edgar Guzman to ABC Action News, about the donation drive he organized in his company’s event space on N Himes Avenue. “The next thing was determining how we’re going to get this into the hands of the people in Puerto Rico. So that’s when we first came into contact with the red tape going on with the Jones Act, and all the political stuff going on there,” says Guzman. The 100-year-old rule strictly regulates boats with foreign flags from moving goods between U.S. territories; it had boat captains sitting on the sideline during the relief effort, until, after begging from people in Puerto Rico, President Trump waived the rule. “The

NBC: Officials admit Trump was slow on Puerto Rico Late today, US officials privately acknowledged to NBC News that the Trump Administration was too slow to involve the military in the Puerto Rico response.

Two gas stations cited this week Pasco County deputies are cracking down on businesses selling drug paraphernalia out in the open. And with it comes massive fines that some say are excessive. LAND O LAKES, Fla. - Pasco Deputies said they found a whole display case full of drug paraphernalia inside a Land O’ Lakes Sunoco station. 370 items in all. “They had digital scales, grinders used to grind up marijuana, glass pipes, glass bongs,” said Corporal Chris Davila. It was all on the front counter right next to the register. But according to a Pasco County ordinance, businesses can’t sell drug paraphernalia without posting a sign saying no one under 18 is allowed in the store without a parent. At $500 for each item fines can add up in a big way. For the Sunoco the total was $185,000. This comes a few days after a Citgo in Tribly was hit with more than $56,000 in violations for selling pipes. Pipes deputies said are used for smoking meth and crack. “We don’t set the fine

Twitter efforts to fight Russian accounts called ‘inadequate’ Today, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees met behind closed doors with representatives from Twitter.

Gerald’s Game and 1922 are not the next It , but they’re solid reminders of how effective Stephen King’s smaller, more confined storytelling can be in the hands of deft filmmakers. You could call 2017 the year of Stephen King if Stephen King had ever really gone out of style. But it’s true: We’ve seen an abundance of King adaptations over the last several months, from forgettable trainwrecks like The Dark Tower in July to the record-breaking success of It just this month. Then there are the TV series — Spike’s The Mist and Audience’s Mr. Mercedes , as well as Hulu’s Castle Rock , which is currently filming. With so much going on in the world of King, it’s easy to miss something — such as the two motion picture adaptations hitting Netflix this fall. Arriving on Netflix this Friday is Gerald’s Game , based on King’s 1992 novel, a psychosexual thriller about BDSM roleplay gone very wrong. Then there’s 1922 , which debuts on Netflix on Oct. 20; i

HHS Secretary Tom Price said they "were trying our doggone best to accomplish the issue mission and the president’s agenda.” | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday that his use of federal money to travel on private jets was part of an all-out effort to carry out President Donald Trump’s “very ambitious agenda.” Price, who came under investigation after POLITICO revealed that he had taken at least 26 charter flights on official business since May, at a cost of more than $400,000, said in an interview on Fox News that he regretted the impact his decisions had on taxpayers. But the secretary also continued to defend the trips for having been approved through the “normal process” and thus having been “deemed appropriate official travel.” Pressed on how he could square the costly travel with his fiscally conservative ideals, Price said the flights were booked partially out of a des

“I would compare it to repealing the ACA without Congress," one health care expert said. Following Congress’ failed attempts to repeal Obamacare this year, President Donald Trump is considering changing the law on his own — but his plan could open up a loophole in Obamacare so large that it would threaten to destroy the individual and small group markets altogether. The plan involves letting people pool together and buy unregulated insurance plans exempt from both state laws and the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections. When attempted in the past, this has lead to healthy people fleeing the markets for cheaper, unregulated plans, leaving behind sicker people who faced spiraling costs. “It is clear that this approach undermines the individual and small group markets. It just does,” said Kevin Lucia, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. Others experts go even farther. “If they were able to find some w

Trump s Tax plan: a win for the rich? The reality is the tax plan will help the wealthy in a number of ways.

“People either survive or they don t in these situations.” SAINT THOMAS, US VIRGIN ISLANDS — First came Hurricane Irma, battering St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. Less than two weeks later came Maria, another category 5 storm that blasted through the region, again hitting the island’s homes, infrastructure, and wrecking its two hospitals. Surrounded by army vehicles, massive piles of debris, and mangled palm trees, Schneider Regional Medical, like the rest of the island, looks like it survived a bombing. “People either survive or they don t in these situations,” said Dr. Brian Bacot, who has seen around 200 patients and has performed more than 15 surgeries since the hurricanes arrived. Bacot — an orthopedic surgeon who works in part at Schneider and at his own private practice — is now just taking anyone who comes to him in need. Built in the early 1980s and the only hospital on St. Thomas, the facility was struggling to pay its bills, obtain

"You ve no right to a braid! You ve won no victories yet!" It s been pretty well-documented that the costume and makeup team on Game of Thrones uses hair in symbolic ways throughout the series. So I am honestly shocked that we hadn t noticed a glaring, seasons-long trend in Daenerys hair until now. As you probably know, the Dothraki adorn their braids after victories and cut them off after a defeat. That s why Khal Drogo had such a looooooong braid. And that turns out to be one of a few Dothraki traditions that Dany took to heart, because her braids have multiplied over the seasons as she s won more battles. She gained braids after the liberation of Slaver s Bay, and after her victory over the Lannister army. Cersei s hair transformation could be subject to similar symbolism: It was when sh

If you lost your job because of Hurricane Irma, or you’re simply looking for work, CareerSource Tampa Bay and CareerSource Pinellas want to help. PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. - If you lost your job because of Hurricane Irma, or you’re simply looking for work, CareerSource Tampa Bay and CareerSource Pinellas want to help. CareerSource is looking to hire 7 million people statewide to help with hurricane recovery. The temporary full-time jobs range from cleaning up debris to helping families qualify for federal help. They’re funded by federal dislocated worker grants, and the temp jobs pay pretty well too between $11 to $27 an hour. Juliane Abudi was recently laid off from her job of 10 years, now she’s helping families get emergency post-Irma food stamps. “We all have a common experience. we all share in what Hurricane Irma did to our lives. We all have that connection so it’s wonderful to help in this way,” Abudi explained. If you can pass a background check and drug screen,

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's wife, Betty, accompanied him on the military flights, while other members of the secretary’s delegation flew commercially to Europe. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers. The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels to more than $1 million since May, according to a POLITICO review. Price pledged on Thursday to reimburse the government for the cost of his own seat on his domestic trips using private aircraft – reportedly around $52,000 -- but that would not include the cost of the military flights. Price’s wife, Betty, accompanied him on the military flights, while other members of the secretary’s delegation flew commercially to Europ