John Legend shares why he's a #GlobalCitizen, working in criminal justice:
"This is not an abstract problem. This is not a problem that's just statistics to me. This is something that's real and that we've experienced in our own family."
WATCH: Sen. Flake encourages voters to "keep calling" their elected officials at #GlobalCitizen Festival:
"Feel free to join me in an elevator any time," Sen. Flake says after being confronted by a sexual assault survivor in an elevator Friday before the vote on Judge Kavanaugh.
Sen. Jeff Flake joins Sen. Chris Coons on stage at the #GlobalCitizen Festival to express their support for bipartisan leadership on foreign aid. nbcnews.to/2OmhwQl
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@NBC10Boston North Andover, Mass. police: "Multiple house fires at homes with Gas service. If you have gas service to your house or business please exit the building until further notice."
@NBC10Boston JUST IN: Mass. State Police says it is responding 17 separate addresses in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover for fire or explosion following series of gas leaks in the area.
Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount study; declares, without evidence, that higher toll is political ploy to make him look bad. nbcnews.to/2x9XkYd
BREAKING: Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount the study; declares, without evidence, that the higher death toll is political ploy to make him look bad.
President Trump argues that the preliminary death toll he was given immediately after Hurricane Maria could not have gone up to the toll that independent study reports with an estimated 2,975 people dead; he does not site evidence to back up his refutation of the study.
Last month, Puerto Rico increased its official Hurricane Maria death toll estimate to 2,975 after release of report commissioned by officials. nbcnews.to/2NwJHIM
BREAKING: Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators, sentenced to 14 days in jail. nbcnews.to/2QdWAsF
Papadopoulos, sentenced to 14 days in jail, will also serve 12 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay a fine of $9,500. nbcnews.to/2QdWAsF
“I made a terrible mistake,” Papadopoulos said in a statement to the judge. “I hope to have a second chance to redeem myself.”
LIVE: Former President Obama gives his first major speech ahead of 2018 midterms as he receives an ethics in government award from the University of Illinois. pscp.tv/w/1DXxyYNwVVkxM
Former President Obama: "You need to vote because our democracy depends on it."
Former President Obama on President Trump:
"He is a symptom, not the cause. He's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years."
Sen. Durbin: "We waited for more than a year with a vacancy on the Supreme Court under the direction of your leader in the U.S. Senate ... The fact that we cannot take a few days or weeks to have a complete review of Judge Kavanaugh's record is unfair to the American people."
BREAKING: Democratic senators come out firing, disrupt Senate confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh. nbcnews.to/2wGAg27
JUST IN: After Sen. Tillis raises this @NBCNews report during the Senate confirmation hearing, Sen. Durbin acknowledges that call was held.