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President Donald Trump said former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime when requesting to unmask the names of Trump's associates who were incidentally mentioned on intercepted communications during the Obama administration.

The US Navy has implemented a "safety pause" for its fleet of T-45 training jets, according to a US official, a move that comes just days after more than 100 instructional pilots refused to fly in protest of continuing issues with the aircraft's oxygen system.

The first thing people tend to notice about Crystal Hodges is her birthmark: a red and purple patch, called a port-wine stain, that covers the left side of her face. As a child, a bully likened her to a notorious Batman villain.

Arkansas's controversial plan to execute eight men in 10 days later this month has hit an unexpected stumbling block. State law requires that at least six people, "respectable citizens," witness executions to ensure that its laws and procedures are followed. But, to date, the state cannot find enough people who are willing to witness them.

It's the largest global corruption scandal in modern history.

"Man Down," starring Shia LaBouf, sold only one ticket during its weekend premiere in England.

President Donald Trump's tweets irritated a robotics engineer so much that he built a robot to burn each and every one of them.

Since her time as a national security adviser and former UN ambassador during the Obama administration, Susan Rice had largely been out of the limelight until she was recently thrust into the snowballing White House surveillance controversy.

"Prison Break" had a great cast, thrill-ride pace and logic-be-damned quality when it premiered in 2005, which was fun, at least for a while. Fox's revival, alas, begins with a flawed blueprint, while suffering from a been-there, broke-out-of-that quality.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he doesn't think it's a coincidence that a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria occurred shortly after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad could remain in power.

Behind the drama that will play out in the Senate over the next several days is the reality that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a big risk when he decided to block President Obama from filling the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat with a liberal justice. And it's likely to pay off for him in the form of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch.

In a Pepsi ad, Kendall Jenner joins a group of protesters and offers a soda to a police officer who accepts and smiles. The ad was quickly accused of appropriating the Black Lives Matter movement.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley strongly condemned Russia and the Syrian government Wednesday over the chemical weapons attack on civilians, suggesting that the US is open to using military action to solve the country's ongoing civil war.

President Trump's decision to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council's principals committee suggests a potentially significant change in the power balance among the four top White House advisers.

Men all over the world are standing up to homophobia by holding hands.

President Donald Trump made a big accusation on Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times: Former Obama Administration national security adviser Susan Rice likely broke the law in requesting the names of Trump campaign officials caught up in the broader surveillance of Russian officials seeking to meddle in the 2016 election.