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The measure's prospects in the Senate are dim after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he opposed the bipartisan, 9/11-style panel.

The suspect is accused of firing more than 700 shots at other vehicles on German highways over five years. A three-judge panel will determine if he should face attempted murder charges.

Royal Dutch Shell has signed an agreement to develop oil and gas fields in Iran, despite the nuclear deal's uncertain future. It's the largest energy company to return since sanctions were lifted.

Investors paused to catch their breath Thursday after the stock market suffered its worst drop of the year the day before. Consumer spending is still strong, despite signs of a looming recession.

Authorities still don't know how the mask got there, but they said it may signal that at least that one passenger was alive long enough to put it on.

Rock historian ED WARD tells us about the music genre known as "techno." INT. 2: Playwright MART CROWLEY. His works were recently re-published in a book, "3 Plays by Mart Crowley" (Alyson Publications). "The Boys in the Band" (1968), is the classic portrait of a gay artist living in New York and was one of the first plays to break the taboo on the portrayal of homosexuality. A revival of "The Boys in the Band" opened in June and the film version is being featured at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this summer. CROWELY''s other works in the book are "A Breeze from the Gulf" (1974) and "For Reasons that Remain Uncertain" (1994).REV. 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new three part series on PBS, "Signal to Noise: Life with Television.

The D.C. United soccer team announced Friday that it had fired the club's athletic trainer for allegedly making a "discriminatory hand gesture" in a photo that appeared on social media.

The Federal Reserve chairman sent a strong signal that the Fed will approve another interest rate cut. He endorsed a stimulus package and said that lawmakers' efforts need to be put into effect quickly.

The Federal Reserve cuts the federal funds rate by half a point. It's the first reduction in more than four years and it's twice as large a cut as many economists were predicting.

The National Hurricane Center is now marking a spot from the northwest Caribbean into the eastern Gulf of Mexico with a moderate chance for development. Tropical Storm Franklin is now becoming better organized and will likely become a hurricane over the weekend.