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The leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says studying the climate and conservation efforts remain core priorities for the agency following reports that NOAA was considering a dramatic deviation from its mission statement.

Rep. Maxine Waters pushed back against President Donald Trump on Monday, saying she wasn't calling for people to "harm" his supporters, as he tweeted earlier in the day, but to publicly protest his Cabinet members.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill suffered a broken rib after choking at a Senate lunch Thursday, where her Senate colleague Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, performed the Heimlich maneuver to save her.