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RJ Mitte, "Breaking Bad" actor, dies at age 34

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RJ Mitte, who rose to fame playing Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on the hit series "Breaking Bad," has died, his representative confirmed to CBS News. He was 34.

A cause of death was not provided. Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press that Mitte was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m. on Monday in Brownsville, Texas.

Mitte played the son of Bryan Cranston's high school-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White and Anna Gunn's Skyler White on the AMC series, often cited as one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

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Immigration agents search congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home

US immigration agents have searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar as part of a criminal investigation. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents "executed a judicially authorised search warrant" for the property in the Washington DC area, a US justice department spokesperson said. The search "is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation", the spokesperson said, but no further details were given. The US Congress is currently out of session and it is unclear if Omar was at home.

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Trump says he's "looking at" firing Kimberly Guilfoyle

Washington — President Trump said he and his administration are "looking at" firing Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after an associate of Guilfoyle's alleged she asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing. "Well, we're looking at it," the president told reporters on his way to Ohio when asked if he's considering firing Guilfoyle. "We're not happy."

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Rep. Omar's D.C. home searched by DHS investigators

Rep. Ilhan Omar 's Washington, D.C., home was the target of a raid early Monday morning by ICE's investigations unit. Sources say the investigation centers on Omar's immigration paperwork. The documents in question date back to Omar's childhood, involving paperwork completed by her late father when she was a child. Omar's office said in a statement that Omar had "done nothing wrong" and called the raid an "outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies."