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Latest vote shows no candidate for UN chief has the required support of all five key powers

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USABC News

Trump administration threatens to prosecute local California election workers

The Trump administration is escalating its feud with California over allegations of noncitizen voting, threatening on Friday to criminally prosecute election workers who knowingly tabulate ballots belonging to noncitizen voters. "The legal consequences for either facilitating or ignoring a federal crime are significant," Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general, wrote in a letter to Los Angeles officials . "Noncitizen voting in a federal election is a federal crime--and knowingly facilitating such conduct is equally unlawful."

USABC News

Bend, Oregon, shooting: Suspect ID'd, had attended elementary school, police say

The mass shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school on Thursday that left three children and one teacher dead took place inside a special needs classroom, authorities said at a news conference, identifying some of the victims and the suspected shooter. Three boys, ages 5, 8 and 11, and the teacher died at the scene, police said. At a news conference on Friday, authorities identified the teacher as 25-year-old Megan Lambert, and one of the boys as 5-year-old Rhoam Summer. The names of the other two children killed are not being released at the request of their families, police said.

USCBS News

Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after first week

Washington — Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new White House press secretary, is being removed from the role after just five days on the job, two U.S. officials told CBS News on Friday. The news capped a tumultuous week for Zacharia, marked by a heavily criticized performance in the White House briefing room and growing questions over whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer, despite never having passed the bar. One aide told CBS News that Zacharia spent the week unusually isolated and didn't function as a press secretary.