(KTRS/AP) – The Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald is facing calls to resign after he compared wait times at clinics to the wait for rides at Disney theme parks. Senator Roy Blunt described the comment as “right out of Never Never Land.” Illinois US Representative and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth did not call for…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A leading House Republican is telling Congress that IRS chief John Koskinen should be impeached because he’s misled congressional investigators probing his agency. In prepared remarks to the House Judiciary Committee, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he has no confidence Koskinen is running his agency “with any integrity.” Chaffetz is leading an…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican senator is calling for Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald to resign after McDonald compared long wait times at VA health care sites to waiting in line at a Disney amusement park. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri said McDonald’s “preposterous statement is right out of `Never-never land,’ ” and said the…
The outcome probably will enable Foster to win a new trial, 29 years after he was sentenced to death
WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI agents probing whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server imperiled government secrets appear close to completing their work, a process experts say will likely culminate in a sit-down with the former secretary of state. The FBI has already spoken with Huma Abedin, a Clinton confidant who was among the…
BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore’s mayor says the city is prepared to respond to any disturbance after the acquittal of an officer in the death of the young black man Freddie Gray. In her statement Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the city will protect neighborhoods, businesses and residents. Gray’s death April 19, 2015, set off more…
BERLIN (AP) – German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says it has made a $62 billion offer to buy U.S.-based crops and seeds specialist Monsanto Company. Bayer said Monday that the all-cash offer values Monsanto shares at $122 each. It said in a statement that the acquisition “would be a compelling opportunity to create…
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Hotels, restaurants and even community groups who work at arena concession stands are feeling the economic shockwaves from the growing number of canceled concerts and shows over North Carolina’s new LGBT law. Greensboro Coliseum Complex lost an estimated $188,000 from three no-shows since the law was passed in March and city…
Safer once claimed “there is no such thing as the common man,” explaining, “If there were, there would be no need for journalists.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries. The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves, even on days that flag displays are…