Cleaver had filed a motion earlier this month to delay the Democrats’ leadership election, a move that allowed time for Ryan to announce a longshot bid to topple Pelosi.
Six others, including three players, survived the impact after the charter aircraft came down in a mountainous area as it approached Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellin.
More than 2,000 USA military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said, just ahead of a federal deadline for activists to leave the camp they have been occupying.
Apparently under pressure from Trump, Carrier announced this week it had agreed to keep more than 1,000 jobs at the plant and at its headquarters, while still planning to move more than 1,000 other U.S.jobs to Mexico.
The standard rank-in-file leadership elections were cast into marginal disarray when Pelosi was challenged by the more centrist Democrat Tim Ryan of Ohio.
At least a dozen more were injured in storms that raged in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee according to the National Weather Service.
The three Midwestern states – long Democratic bastions – all went for Trump in the recent election and were the key to his victory in the Electoral College, although Clinton won handily in the nationwide popular vote.
Others continued pressing their election argument with efforts such as petitioning the Electoral College to vote down Trump.Through it all, Clinton remained largely silent.
No one has been killed because of the fires and officials say there were able to rescue almost 30 back-country hikers that were in the mountains surrounding the city.