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Trump to meet with intelligence officials
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s scheduled to meet with intelligence officials Friday for a briefing on Russian interference in the election.
Trump tweeted the schedule update Tuesday.
He is also reiterating his skepticism of the U.S. intelligence community, using quote marks around the word “intelligence.”
Trump has clashed repeatedly with the intelligence community as he prepares to take office. Specifically, he’s taking issue with their assessment that the Russian government interfered with the election he won.
Manson taken to hospital, reports say
Corcoran, Calif. — A California prison official says cult leader Charles Manson is alive following reports that he was hospitalized.
TMZ reported Tuesday that Manson was taken to a hospital in Bakersfield, about 60 miles south of the California prison where he has been incarcerated.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton declined to say whether the leader of the notorious Manson family was hospitalized.
Thornton said Manson, 82, is still assigned to the prison in Corcoran, but she declined to say whether he’s there, citing safety and security protocols.
4 dead following plane crash in Ariz.
Payson, Ariz. — Searchers in Arizona found the bodies of four members of a family Tuesday in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed on a flight from Scottsdale to Telluride, Colo., officials said.
Debris from the singleengine Cessna 210 was spotted north of Payson on the rugged Mogollon Rim, Gila County Sheriff Adam Shepherd said.
The plane had been reported missing Monday night. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known, authorities said.
132 inmates escape Philippine jail
Kidapawan, Philippines — Philippine officials say 132 inmates have escaped in one of the largest jailbreaks in recent years after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the south of the country.
Jail warden Superintendent Peter Bongat said Wednesday that a guard was killed and an inmate was wounded in a gunbattle when dozens of gunmen stormed the North Cotabato District Jail in Kidapawan city before dawn on Wednesday.
Groundbreaking black Marine dies
A Georgia man who served among the first black U.S. Marines in a segregated military during World War II has died.
Angus Hardie “Jay” Jamerson died Tuesday at 89. His death was confirmed by his wife, Doris Jamerson.
Jamerson was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta when he was drafted in 1945 and sent to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where a segregated training area called Montford Point was established after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Marine Corps to begin accepting blacks.
Jamerson, of Villa Rica, and other surviving Montford Point Marines were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal about four years ago for their often overlooked historic role.