WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain’s casket has arrived at Washington National Cathedral for a memorial service where two former presidents — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — are among the scheduled speakers. Saturday’s service is the last event in Washington for the late Arizona senator. He’ll be buried Sunday at his alma mater, the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Ronan Farrow’s former producer at NBC News says his old network breached its journalistic duty by failing to stick with the story of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. Farrow instead took the story to the New Yorker, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times for the…
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN , Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three children, including two infants, were among the dozens of passengers seriously injured when the commercial bus they were riding in was hit head-on by a semitruck on a New Mexico highway, killing eight people, hospital officials said Friday. Officials at University of New Mexico…
By LAURIE KELLMAN and MATTHEW DALY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans lined up for blocks outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday to say goodbye to John McCain as officials, relatives and friends paid their tributes inside to the Vietnam hero and longtime senator lying in state under the majestic dome. Earlier, Vice President Mike…
By JEFF KAROUB and NEKESA MUMBI MOODY , Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Pink Cadillacs filled the street early Friday outside Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple, and hundreds of fans lined up as they awaited the funeral of Aretha Franklin, who was dressed in a sparkling gold dress for her final outfit. Dignitaries attending Friday’s service…
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and ALINA HARTOUNIAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A blown tire on a semitrailer may be to blame for a deadly head-on crash with a commercial passenger bus along Interstate 40 in New Mexico near the Arizona border, according to authorities. At least seven people were killed, and many of the 49…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and BRIAN MELLEY , Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to kill the newspaper’s journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard denied the bias claim and said it would defend the…
By MELISSA DANIELS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI , Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Sen. John McCain was eulogized as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good fight — at a crowded church service for the maverick politician Thursday that ended with the playing…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is signaling that he knows who will succeed White House counsel Don McGahn, saying he’s “very excited” about the individual. Trump did not announce a successor in his tweet Thursday but said: “I am very excited about the person who will be taking the place of Don McGahn as White…