Just before New Jersey governor Chris Christie was about to convene a press conference, the chairman of the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, David Samson, handed him his resignation Christie said at the news conference.
Less than a year after the oil giant BP began processing tar sands at its Whiting Refinery in Indiana, it is reported that the company is the subject of a spill of an undetermined amount of the substance into Lake Michigan.
According to the LA Times, three Secret Service agents were sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary reasons where they were prepping for President Obama's trip to the Netherlands.
New estimates have been released on the number of people missing or unaccounted for in the one-square-mile mudslide that crashed through a Snohomish County neighborhood on Saturday. That number now stands at 108.