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Ryan Carney has joined K&L Gates as a government affairs adviser after having spent the past nine years on the Hill, most recently serving as chief of staff to Rep. Bryan Steil.

Steven Pfrang is joining BGR Group as a vice president, where he’ll represent clients in financial services and commerce.

The crane that collapsed and killed one worker and injured another on I-95 in Broward County this week is being used in a highway improvement project that has pitted Florida’s transportation department against the construction company contracted for the road work.

And Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) says he won't seek reelection.

Pierre argued that she had informed her employer when she was hired that she could not work Sundays because of her religious beliefs and should not have been scheduled to work on the Sundays she missed. "I love God. No work on Sunday, because Sunday I honor God," Pierre said Wednesday in an interview with NBC 6 Miami. Her lawsuit argued that her former employer, which was managed by Hilton at the time, had violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects workers from discrimination on the bas...