Star Wars: Monopoly to include Rey after 8-year-old’s note
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The “Star Wars” version of Monopoly will add a game piece based on the female character Rey after an 8-year-old Illinois girl wrote “Girls matter” in a letter to game maker Hasbro noting the omission. Carrie Goldman, of Evanston, posted a letter on Twitter this week written by her daughter, Annie…
Senator McCain says concerns over Cruz citizenship legitimate
McCain said concerns raised by Republican front-runner Donald Trump over whether Cruz can be president are legitimate
Feds say Alabama judges must obey US Supreme Court decision
U.S. Attorneys issued a statement saying they had “grave concerns” about Chief Justice Roy Moore’s administrative order
Pounding surf accompanies El Nino storm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The last of several El Nino storms this week is accompanied by battering surf that is flooding some low-lying coastal areas in Southern California. Big waves at high tide Thursday overtopped the breakwater in Los Angeles County’s Redondo Beach and encroached on residential beaches in Malibu. No major damage was reported. National…
Mizzou faculty publish letter in support of Melissa Click
Click has already resigned a courtesy appointment at the school’s school of journalism
Benghazi panel to interview former CIA Director Petraeus
WASHINGTON (AP) – A House committee looking into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya is interviewing former CIA Director David Petraeus as the investigation enters its third calendar year – and a presidential election year. Petraeus is the first of four former Obama administration officials the Republican-led committee is interviewing in the next week.…