Chrysler recalls some vehicles
Fiat Chrysler says affected vehicles have driveshaft bolts that can come loose on all-wheel drive models, increasing the risk of a crash. The automaker says affected cars include 2014-2017 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 vehicles equipped with all-wheel drive. About 75,000 cars are affected in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Lawmakers seek N. Korea review
The apparent assassination of the North Korean leader’s estranged half-brother is strengthening bipartisan calls for the U.S. to re-list North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation lifted nine years ago.
Senators want probe info saved
The Senate intelligence committee sends formal requests to more than a dozen organizations, agencies and individuals, asking them to preserve all materials related to a probe the panel is conducting on Russian interference in the 2016 election and related issues, a congressional aide says. The letter from committee chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., comes Friday — the same day committee members received a classified briefing from the FBI director.
Southern California rain eases
A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least three people, has eased off. But it is only a temporary reprieve as new storms take aim farther north.
Blind cleric in terror plot dies
Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York City in the decade before 9/11 and spiritual guide to a generation of Islamic militants, dies in a federal prison. Abdel-Rahman, who had diabetes and coronary artery disease, was 78.
Pakistan closes border crossing
Pakistani authorities shut down a second key border crossing into Afghanistan, halting trade supplies to the neighboring landlocked country and increasing tensions between the two nations in the wake of a bloody suicide bombing at a beloved shrine in Pakistan.
Trump sons open golf club
Eric and Donald Trump Jr., who now lead the Trump Organization, ceremonially open a Trump-branded golf club in Dubai, meeting with Emirati elites as questions remain about how separated their father is from the empire bearing his name.