President Donald Trump says he’s “more than close” to naming a new health and human services secretary. But Trump tells Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade in an interview Tuesday that he’s not ready to reveal a name because the individual’s background needs to be looked into a little bit more. […]
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‘A Murder on Orchard Street’: The witnesses
Riding along with the police is exactly what I love about my job. I go where most people can’t or won’t or shouldn’t go, to observe the real people behind the scenes and experience the day-to-day lives that only insiders know about. After eight months of spending nearly seven-days-a-week with […]
Trump: Drug czar nominee, Rep. Marino, withdrawing his name
President Donald Trump says the Pennsylvania congressman he chose to be the nation’s drug czar is withdrawing from consideration for the job. Trump’s announcement Tuesday on Twitter follows reports that Republican Rep. Tom Marino played a key role in passing a bill that weakened the federal government’s authority to stop […]
Unwanted sexual advances not just a Hollywood story, poll finds
More than half of U.S. women have experienced unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances from men, three in 10 have put up with unwanted advances from male co-workers and a quarter have endured them from men who had influence over their work situation. Those results in a new ABC News-Washington Post […]
The Note: Fake news or real, the Trump-McConnell bromance was on display
The TAKE with Rick Klein When President Trump declared that he’s “closer than he’s ever been” to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the two men were practically touching each other. Real or fake, temporary or lasting, the fact that Trump chose to highlight this particular alliance just days after Steve […]
Rape allegation makes Muslim teen’s death a capital case
An already disturbing case about a 17-year-old Muslim girl killed as she walked to her mosque took another unsettling turn after an indictment alleged the victim was raped as well. The indictment Monday includes capital murder and rape charges and will allow prosecutors to pursue a death-penalty case against Darwin […]
North Korea says ‘a nuclear war may break out any moment’
North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.” Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has […]
Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta’s ties to tax havens
A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said. Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a large town on […]
What to know about hepatitis A, as California outbreak triggers state of emergency
As California finds itself in the grips of the largest person-to-person hepatitis A outbreak in more than two decades, health officials are taking emergency measures to curb the spread of the deadly disease. On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a State of Emergency in light of the outbreak that […]
McCain slams ‘half-baked, spurious nationalism’ sweeping US
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., slammed “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in an impassioned speech while accepting the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia this evening. McCain, who was presented with the medal by former Vice President Joe Biden, began by saying he was humbled by the award before eventually lashing out at the nationalism […]