WASHINGTON (AP) – The top Justice Department official who defended the president’s health care law at the Supreme Court is leaving his job. President Barack Obama says in a statement that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. is ending his five-year tenure as the administration’s chief lawyer at the high court. Verrilli made the principal argument…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week for a third straight week yet remained near three-year lows as the home buying season progresses. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 3.66 percent from 3.64 percent last week. That is well below its level a year ago of…
The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA left a “kill list” at his Minnesota home that led authorities to find a woman’s body, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor Bill Klug before taking his…
Trump University stopped operating in 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) – Newly released documents about a now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump reveal strategies for enticing people to enroll in real estate seminars even if they couldn’t afford it. That has opened the presumptive Republican nominee up to fresh criticism from Hillary Clinton that he took advantage of vulnerable Americans. Clinton took to…
Online petitioners have called for new legislation
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is pushing a bill she says is aimed at helping World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas. McCaskill on Tuesday announced legislation to require federal agencies to reconsider disability claims denied to those veterans. The Democrat says the military tested the effects of mustard gas…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that while presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “a phenomenon” and political outsider, he has earned the right to the GOP nomination and the party’s support. McConnell says he does not believe Trump is changing the Republican Party “in a fundamental way,” but instead is…
