DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads

A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped over the summer while trying to repair a campaign sign. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in the state's 8th district to try to unseat GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh, told the Phoenix New Times, a local news outlet, that she was attacked at around 2 a.m. as she was walking toward a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City, north of Phoenix. Greene-Placentia said she was attacked, subdued and then woke up to find that she was being raped by an unknown assailant.

A federal judge in Louisiana ordered the agency to provide an update on its safety study as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a provision allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail.

Jamaal Howard was executed by lethal injection after his lawyers tried to argue that he faced risks similar to Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's attempt to put her to death.

Several hecklers were removed from President Trump's rally in Texas late Wednesday, drawing jeers from the crowd as the president made fun of the protesters.