The Washington Post reports that Barr refused to go through with the demand. But Trump took to Twitter late Wednesday to dismiss the claims as 'fake news'. The two men are pictured main together. A unnamed source claims the request was made at the time the transcript of the president's call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was released. It was the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that opted not to send the whistle-blower's complaint to Congress but Barr was not involved in that. Since becoming AG, Barr has been one of Trump's staunchest defenders.

The brave man did not surrender to the robbers after the attack. One of the robbers was detained, the second is wanted, Moscow, Russia.

Senator Tom Cotton says Trump could have US forces impose 'world of hurt' on Mexican cartels after the Mormon massacre that killed nine and insists 'the only thing that can counteract bullets is bigger bullets'.

Being an Angeleno means you smile together during the good times and you mourn together during the sad times. Tonight, we mourn the loss of @losangelesfiredepartment Captain James Como. A son, a brother, a father. Rest In Peace Captain Como. 🗿 #RIP

Adam Curtis Williams, 33, (left and inset) and Amanda Noverr have been arrested in connection to the deaths of a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach. Kleberg County Sheriff's Office said Williams and Noverr were captured in Mexico. On Tuesday, the sheriff's office said Williams was wanted on felony theft charges after they released a surveillance photo of him and Noverr crossing the border into Mexico in a stolen RV belonging to victims James Butler, 48, and 46-year-old Michelle Butler. Kleberg County Sheriff Richard Kirkpatrick said authorities worked with Mexican authorities to locate the pair. 👮🏻‍♂️

#Meanwhile in Nant, France ... 😂 #lol

😳 #WTF?

#Meanwhile in Russia ... 😂 #facepalm

Hundreds of mourners from the U.S. reportedly spent the night in a remote farming community in northern Mexico ahead of Thursday’s scheduled funerals for some of the victims of a horrible massacre of nine American women and children. Armed Mexican military personnel, traveling in jeeps, escorted caravans of visitors as they arrived in La Mora, Sonora, from Utah and from Tucson, Ariz., where many had gone to visit the surviving children in a hospital, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. “They won’t ever recover from something as traumatizing as this,” Rebecca Langford, a sister-in-law to victim Dawna Langford, told the newspaper. Dawna Langford’s two sons also were slain in the Monday attack. 😢

An elderly man fell to his death after slipping down a “lava tube” in his yard in Hawaii, local police said Wednesday. Authorities responded to man’s house in Hilo on Monday morning after an acquaintance of the man said he had not been heard from in several days, Hawaii police said. Investigators determined he had fallen through a soft area of ground in his yard, then plummeted down a lava tube, authorities said. Lava tubes are large conduits beneath the ground that are formed by flowing lava. When they’re extinct, the tubes do not have lava in them, but form large tunnels beneath the earth’s surface. Fire department crews pulled the man’s body from about 22 feet beneath the ground, police said. ☠️👮🏻‍♂️

Somewhere in Russia ... 🤣 #facepalm

Hong Kong Police Seeks to Hack Telegram, Key Tool in Protests, the Epoch Times reports. The Hong Kong Police Force has been trying to find out the identities of the people running those two Telegram accounts, including by seeking help from cyber experts outside Hong Kong. One cyber expert, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said that over the past few months, he was repeatedly approached by senior inspectors to use “any means necessary” to uncover their identities. In one phone call from a senior inspector, the officer asked the source whether it was possible to break Telegram’s encryption protocol to find out who the administrators behind “dadfindboy” and “tanakayotsuba” were, and where they live, with the intention of arresting them at their homes, the source said. “They’re very desperate,” he said, adding that the police force was seeking “demigod” level access to Telegram.

German official fainted during in the Bundestag speech . #losers