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This frame grab from video released Tuesday October 17, 2017 and provided by Hawar News Agency, a Syrian Kurdish activist-run media group, shows a fighter from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) firing his weapon during clashes with Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria. The U.S-backed Syrian forces battling the Islamic State group in Syria say Raqqa's national hospital, one of the militants' last holdouts in city has been captured. The capture of the hospital Tuesday leaves the militants cornered in and around the notorious municipal stadium in the city, once the group's de-facto capital. (Hawar News Agency via AP)

Syria Victory Tests U.S. Resolve

by Louisa Loveluck The Washington Post, and Liz Sly The Washington PostOctober 17, 2017

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2016, file photo, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert Sumwalt speaks during a news conference at the scene of the worst hot air balloon crash in U.S. history that killed 16 people in July 2016 near Lockhart, Texas. The crash could result in federal investigators to call for hot air balloon pilots to obtain medical certificates. (Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman via AP File)

Officials: Hot Air Balloon Pilot Was Like a Drunken Driver

by Paul J. Weber Associated PressOctober 17, 2017

U.S. Hits Chinese Fentanyl Makers

by Matt Zapotosky And Sari Horwitz The Washington PostOctober 17, 2017

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2011 file photo, Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is demanding that the White House withdraw the nomination of Marino to be the nation's drug czar. Manchin says Marino played a key role in passing a bill weakening the Drug Enforcement Administration's authority to stop companies from distributing opioids. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Drug Czar Nominee Steps Aside

by John Wagner The Washington Post, and Lenny Bernstein And Scott Higham The Washington PostOctober 17, 2017

Shay Cook, of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue team and her search dog, Zinka inspect a burned out pickup while searching the Coffey Park area Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in Santa Rosa, Calif. A massive wildfire swept through the area last week destroying thousands of housing and business and taking the lives of more than two dozen people.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Californians Head Back Home After Fires

by Sudhin Thanawala And Jocelyn Gecker Associated PressOctober 17, 2017

Judge Blocks Third Travel Ban

by Matt Zapotosky The Washington PostOctober 17, 2017

Naomi Malik, a chiropractor in Woodstock, Vt., washes potatoes while talking with her children Remy, 11, and Vasco, 8, at their home on Oct. 13, 2017. Malik says her kids may be barred from Woodstock Elementary because of her refusal to sign what she says are scientifically inaccurate forms accompanying an application for a religious vaccine exemption. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Mother Refuses to Sign ‘Inaccurate’ Vaccine Exemption Forms

by Rob Wolfe Valley News Staff WriterOctober 17, 2017

The owner of the downtown Hanover building that houses Canoe Club and the Dartmouth Bookstore is proposing to add an extra fourth floor of office space and a ground-level parking garage. The 17,000-square-foot addition would cost about $3.6 million, the owner, Geoff Colla, estimates. (Courtesy UK Architects)

Four-Story Building Addition Sought in Hanover

by Rob Wolfe Valley News Staff WriterOctober 17, 2017

A view of the proposed addition, at left, to the Royalton (Vt.) Memorial Library as seen from Safford Street in an artist's rendering. Officials are fundraising for the addition as the library celebrates being founded in 1917. (Courtesy Royalton Memorial Library)

Royalton Voters to Decide On Library Upgrade Funding

by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling Valley News Staff WriterOctober 17, 2017

Grantham Police Officer Robert Schwartz, left, talks with New Hampshire State Police Sgt., Matthew Koehler, right, as he enters the scene of two untimely deaths being investigated in the Eastman community in Grantham, N.H., Monday, October 16, 2017. The two people discovered Monday morning lived at the Bright Slope Way residence.(Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

N.H. State Police Investigating Two “Untimely Deaths” in Grantham

by Jordan Cuddemi Valley News Staff WriterOctober 17, 2017