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Sessions raised his voice in protest when asked what those reasons were. Media reports last week said Mr Sessions offered to resign because of tensions with Mr Trump over his decision to recuse himself from the FBI's Russian Federation probe.

In any other presidency, the events laid out by Comey - Trump asking for "loyalty" from the FBI director who was investigating the president's associates, then asking him to drop an investigation into a former aide and ultimately firing him when he did not - might have spelled the end.

Five people were transported to the hospital, according to various media reports . Scalise is the first sitting member of Congress to be shot since Giffords, who was wounded in a January 2011 attack. Alexandria Police say that the shooting happened in the 400 block of East Monroe Avenue. The lock-in was lifted around 9 a.m. The Alexandria Police Department is investigating multiple shootings at a baseball field located behind a YMCA in the 400 block of East Monroe Street in the Del Ray ...

London Ambulances' hazardous environments team has also rushed to the scene. "Crews wearing breathing apparatus and extended duration breathing apparatus have been working in extremely challenging and hard conditions to rescue people and bring this major fire under control, " Cotton said.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has said the fire has been declared a "major incident". One resident, who appeared to be inside Grenfell Tower , said: "Guys my block's on fire". A blog posted earlier today by the group reads: 'Regular readers of this blog will know that we have posted numerous warnings in recent years about the very poor fire safety standards at Grenfell Tower and elsewhere in [the borough]'.

President Trump did not ask Comey to drop the FBI Investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election, nor did any member of his administration. "My judgment was, I need to get that out into the public square", Comey said as he appeared before the panel. Asked on Thursday at the hearing about the prospect of the conversations having been recorded, Comey replied: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes! ".

London Fire Brigade said the cause of the fire was still being investigated. A witness, Safyha, told BBC the fire had spread from one side of the building to engulf the entire tower. "Our priority is to assess the level and nature of injures and ensure those in the most need are treated first and taken to hospital". As we've gone outside I'm looking up at the block and it was just going up.

She became prime minister through a Conservative Party leadership contest when her predecessor, David Cameron , resigned after voters backed leaving the EU . They quit Saturday after becoming a focus of blame for the Conservatives' election disaster. "The government I lead will put fairness and opportunity at the heart of everything we do so that we will fulfill the promise of Brexit together", May said.

Similar to former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey , who testified before the same committee last week , Sessions came out ready to defend himself. Plain and simple. He even said it himself. "It certainly doesn't seem like a sinister interaction, as far as we can tell ". He denied at a Tuesday having an undisclosed meeting with Russia's ambassador to the United States and rejected any misconduct in the ouster of FBI Director James Comey .

Instead, the election obliterated her political authority and the party is trying to secure the support of the 10 Democratic Unionist Party lawmakers to assure passage of May's program. May had called the vote early in hopes of strengthening her majority going into talks on exiting the European Union. Labour's unexpectedly strong second-place showing has thrown national politics into disarray.

May's weakened position in the party ruled out big changes. However, George Osborne, a former finance minister who is now editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper and a vocal critic of May, said she appeared a "dead woman walking".