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Ronny Jackson Withdraws From Consideration For VA Chief

By HOPE YEN, LISA MASCARO and CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's pick to lead Veterans Affairs, Ronny Jackson, withdrew Thursday in the wake of late-surfacing allegations about overprescribing drugs and poor leadership while serving as a top White House doctor, saying the "false allegations" against him have become a…
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DNA Brings Arrest In Sadistic Crime Spree From ’70s and ’80s

By SOPHIA BOLLAG and DON THOMPSON , Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A DNA match led to the arrest of a 72-year-old former police officer in one of the most baffling and sadistic crime sprees of the 1970s and '80s — a string of at least 12 slayings and 45 rapes in California by…
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President Trump Travel Ban Is Focus Of Supreme Court’s Last Arguments

By MARK SHERMAN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly muslim countries. It's the last case the justices will hear until October. The Trump administration is asking the…
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Trump Urges VA Nominee To Keep Fighting

. WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says President Donald Trump is urging his nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, Dr. Ronny Jackson, to keep fighting to win confirmation. The Oval Office meeting comes as Jackson's nomination has been imperiled by allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior. The official says Jackson is denying the allegations. The official…
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Spokesman: George HW Bush Hospitalized With Blood Infection

By MICHAEL GRACZYK , Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." He was…
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