INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s failed again in a widely anticipated study, disappointing many who had hoped Eli Lilly had finally found a way to slow the progression of the mind-robbing disease. The drug did not work better than a placebo treatment in a study of 2,100 people with mild Alzheimer’s, the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman tapped for a top-level administration post during his White House transition so far. It will be a Cabinet-level position, and Haley has accepted, Trump said in a statement Wednesday. Jason Miller, a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are urging President Barack Obama to take no more action on Iran that could reinforce the nuclear deal before he leaves office. House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce are issuing the request in a letter to Obama dated Tuesday. The…
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor said Tuesday he will again seek a murder conviction against a white former University of Cincinnati police officer, and wants to move the trial after a jury couldn’t agree on a verdict in the fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters…
LOS EBANOS, Texas (AP) — All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile frontier with…
NEW YORK (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet on Monday with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and former Texas governor and GOP presidential rival Rick Perry. That’s according to top aide Kellyanne Conway. She told Fox News on Monday that Perry is a possible contender to lead the Defense or Energy departments and…
CHICAGO (AP) – New research documents another decline in dementia rates but experts say the rising numbers of older Americans may halt that trend unless better ways are found to keep brains healthy. The study released Monday shows the rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in adults aged 65 and up dropped to about…
AP – Kanye West has abruptly pulled the plug on his Saint Pablo Tour. A representative for the rapper said Monday the remaining dates of West’s current tour have been canceled. No reason was given. The tour, now in California and with dates through Dec. 31, had future stops in Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, New…
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Vice President-elect Mike Pence says Mitt Romney is “under active consideration” by President-elect Donald Trump to be nominated as Trump’s secretary of state, “along with some other very distinguished Americans.” In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Pence says Romney’s recent meeting with Trump was a “warm and substantive” exchange. He…
