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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - In a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler and magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas.

Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to Nazis in Germany during World War II.

"Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces," Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said, saying that some pieces were accompanied by old photographs.

Among the items were toys that Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, a large statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika, a Nazi hourglass and a box of harmonicas.

Police say one of the most compelling pieces is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes.

"We have turned to historians and they've told us it is the original magnifying glass" that Hitler was using, said Nestor Roncaglia, head of Argentina's federal police. "We are reaching out to international experts to deepen" the investigation.

The photograph was not released to the public.

The investigation that culminated in the discovery began when authorities found artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires.

Agents with Interpol began following the collector and raided the house June 8. A bookshelf caught their attention and behind it agents found a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery.

Authorities did not identify the collector, who is under investigation by a federal judge.

GOP leaders plan to finalize tax bill in private, Trump aide says

WASHINGTON - The White House plans to privately negotiate a massive overhaul of the tax system with Republican leaders in Congress, possibly giving rank-and-file members little if any say over the finished product, a top aide to President Donald Trump said Tuesday.

Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic aide, said the administration doesn't want to engage in prolonged negotiations after the package is made public this fall. Cohn said the goal is to release the overhaul in the first two weeks of September.

"We don't want to be negotiating the tax bill on the floor," Cohn said at a meeting of technology executives.

This type of top-down approach has a sketchy record on Capitol Hill, especially on issues as difficult to maneuver as the first remake of the nation's tax code in 31 years.

Trump pick for Pentagon job grilled at confirmation hearing

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's choice to take the No. 2 job at the Pentagon had a rocky confirmation hearing Tuesday, with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., at one point threatening to withhold his nomination from a vote and other lawmakers questioning how he will overcome his lack of experience in the Defense Department.

Patrick Shanahan, a vice president at the aerospace company and defense contractor Boeing, who was nominated in March to be deputy defense secretary, also faced questions about how he will manage day-to-day operations in the Pentagon while recusing himself from all decisions with a tie to Boeing. Shanahan has worked for the defense behemoth since 1986.

Ivanka Trump visits the Capitol to talk tax policies for families

WASHINGTON - Seeking to advance her family-focused agenda, Ivanka Trump made her first official sojourn to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to talk tax policy with GOP lawmakers.

The senior adviser and daughter of President Donald Trump attended a meeting led by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that included talks about expanding the child tax credit, paid family leave and other family-focused tax policies.

After the session, Ivanka Trump tweeted: "Just left a productive meeting on the Hill to discuss issues affecting American working families, including childcare & paid family leave!"

Rubio called it a "first step" for Republicans to discuss tax policies for working families.

The meeting did not include any Democrats.

Landslide kills at least 11 in Guatemala, officials say

GUATEMALA CITY - Part of a waterlogged hillside broke loose and slammed into homes and vehicles Tuesday in western Guatemala, killing 11 people.

The landslide buried two houses, a bus and a truck in the municipality of San Pedro Soloma, in the department of Huehuetenango near the border with Mexico.

Sergio Cabanas, executive secretary of Guatemala's national disaster agency, said 10 of the dead were passengers on the bus, and it was not clear how many people lived in the homes that were affected.

The dead included eight adults and three children, and four injured people were treated at a hospital.

Disaster agency spokesman Julio Sanchez said neighbors were being removed from the area due to the risk that another slide could occur.

Crews make progress in deadly wildfire in Portugal

LISBON, Portugal - Emergency services in Portugal said Tuesday they were making good progress in controlling a major wildfire that killed 64 people in the central area of the country, while officials said reports that a water-dropping plane had crashed in the area of the blaze turned out to be false.

Maria Jose Andre of Portugal's Air Accident Office said her department was told by the Civil Protection Agency that a Canadair water-dropping plane had crashed Tuesday while fighting the wildfire.

Civil Protection Agency spokesman Fausto Coutinho could not explain why Portugal's Air Accident Office said it received a call from the agency notifying it of a plane crash, but said the confusing situation on the ground could have misled people.

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Caption: A bust relief of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and other suspected artifacts were found in a hidden room of a collector's home in a suburb of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital.

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