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Guitarist known as J. Geils found dead in Massachusetts home.

5 Investigates has learned John Warren Geils Jr., the artist known professionally as J. Geils and part of the rock group The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his Groton, Massachusetts home.

The J. Geils Band was influenced by soul music and rhythm and blues, but it moved toward pop and rock by the time the album "Love Stinks" came out in 1980. »

Israeli parliamentarians on Wednesday joined the criticism of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who was forced to apologize on Tuesday for referring to a suspected sarin gas attack in Syria by saying that even Hitler "didn't sink to using chemical weapons" during World War Two.

"Sean Spicer must be fired, and the President must immediately disavow his spokesman’s statements," the official said in a statement.

"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said during a press briefing in response to questions about the implications of the deadly chemical attack last on the rebel-held village of Khan Sheikhun last week. »

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday rolled back an Obama administration attempt to reform how student loan servicers collect debt.

But in a memorandum (PDF) to the department’s student aid office, DeVos formally withdrew the Obama memos.

DeVos’s move comes a week after one of the student loan industry’s main lobbies asked for Congress’s help in delaying or substantially changing the Education Department’s loan servicing plans. »

It’s hard to find examples of worse decision-making and customer treatment than United Airlines having a passenger dragged from an overbooked plane.

(April 11, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR) Here's United Airlines' latest PR nightmare.

But you have to admire the sheer chutzpah of United putting the arm on a full-fare, first-class traveler. »