| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | The meeting Jeff Sessions didn't want to happen | | Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick to be United States attorney general, launched a public campaign as Alabama attorney general in 1996 to prevent a gay rights group from holding a conference at the University of Alabama, according to a KFile review of contemporaneous press accounts and legal filings. |
| Gatlinburg fires: Death toll rises to 11 | | The death toll from raging wildfires fires in Sevier County, Tennessee, climbed to seven after authorities recovered three more bodies at a residence, officials said Wednesday. |
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