McMaster Out, Bolton In As Trump’s National Security Adviser

By JILL COLVIN, CATHERINE LUCEY and KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, injecting a hawkish foreign policy voice into his administration ahead of key decisions on Iran and North Korea. Trump tweeted Thursday that McMaster has done “an…

State Treasurer Eric Schmitt Launches New Business Initiative

St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  There’s a new initiative for Missouri’s small business community. On Thursday, State Treasurer Eric Schmitt joined business and finance leaders at the St. Louis Regional Chamber of Commerce to launch the Missouri FIRST (Financing Investment in our Rural, Small Business and Technology communities) program, which revamps the state’s linked deposit program.…

Police: Bomber’s Video Amounts To Confession, But No Motive

By JIM VERTUNO and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 25-minute cellphone video left behind by the bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for weeks details the differences among the weapons he built and amounts to a confession, police said. But his motive remains a mystery. Mark Anthony Conditt, an unemployed college dropout…