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The offensive threatens to worsen a security crisis in West Africa's Sahel, already one of the world's deadliest regions, as NPR's Jewel Bright reports.

Middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out on a four-lane highway.

The driver had an asthma attack and the bus began to swerve.

One student grabbed the wheel while another hit the brakes.

Another student called for help.

One gave the driver her medicine and another also helped the driver while reporting the incident to the district.

The students were honored at a rally and will be treated to a lunch field trip next week.

Their principal hailed their courage and the driver has recovered.

Wall Street's record-setting rally halted at it today.

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Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Trump.

In a video statement, Comey says he is innocent.

Comey says he assumed the arrangement of shells reading 86-47 was a political message, not a call to violence against Trump, the 47th president.

It's the second criminal case the Justice Department has brought against Comey.

Investigators are still looking into what may have motivated a Southern California man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump over the weekend.

31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen was a high school educator.

NPR's Odette Youssef reports.

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC, dealing a blow to the oil cartel and its leader, Saudi Arabia.

The UAE has long wanted to produce more oil than OPEC permitted, as NPR's Camilla Dominovsky explains.