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More than 600 people in 45 states have caught salmonella from backyard chickens and ducks, federal health officials reported Tuesday.

"As a speechwriter, you look at this and it's just outrageous," said David Litt, who wrote speeches for President Obama from 2011 until earlier this year.

Each week, we take a look at the biggest friends and foes of labor. We celebrate the workers winning big and small battles, and we shame the companies or people trying to deny working people their rights.

The buckling crane closed all lanes indefinitely Tuesday on the Tappan Zee Bridge, with the accident hurting three drivers and two workers.

Parks officials closed the Brooklyn, New York, beach Tuesday out of an abundance of caution after sharks were spotted just off shore.

President Barack Obama penned an open letter to law enforcement, committing to support them and fight the notion of pervasive division in the country.

"As a speechwriter, you look at this and it's just outrageous," said David Litt, who wrote speeches for President Obama from 2011 until earlier this year.

Newly minted millionaires Marvin and Mae Acosta said Tuesday that they were thankful for the 'rare gift that has been placed in our care.'

"Shame on Sheriff Arpaio," a group of about a dozen women shouted as the nation's most famous sheriff made his way through the crowd.

"Trump tries to talk a good game about trade policy, but how is someone like me supposed to believe a word he says when his own business practices threaten my well-being and that of my co-workers?" said union member Wanda Navarro in Cleveland this week, in advance of the Republican National Convention. "I hear what he says on the need for fair trade, then I look at what he does and it just doesn’t make any sense."