Preesident Trump Sends Check To Fallen Soldier’s Father
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has sent a $25,000 check he promised to the father of an Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump offered the money during a telephone conversation with the father of Dillon Baldrige a few weeks after the 22-year-old was killed in…
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Vegas Hotel Worker Says Guard Saved His Life
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas hotel employee who entered a hallway near the suite where a gunman was holed up says he thinks the first gunfire he heard was out the windows of the high-rise. Mandalay Bay building engineer Stephen Schuck tells TV host Ellen DeGeneres in an interview set to air Wednesday…
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President Trump Says Comey Knew He Was Going To Exonerate Clinton
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again tweeting about the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation. The latest burst came Wednesday morning in response to the FBI's release of a heavily blacked-out draft memo from May 2016 by Director James Comey in preparation for closing the Clinton…
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Senators Announce Plan For Insurance Markets
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic senators have announced a plan aimed at stabilizing America's health insurance markets in the wake of President Donald Trump's order to terminate "Obamacare" subsidies. Trump himself has spoken approvingly of the deal, but some conservatives are denouncing it as an insurance company bailout. Health insurance markets have been in…
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Better Weather Gives Leg Up To Crews On California Wildfires
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The winds eased, some of the smoke began to clear and the forecast Monday offered a tantalizing chance of rain to thousands of firefighters trying to corral the wildfires that have laid waste to the nation's most celebrated wine-making region. The progress was…
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