STATE DEPARTMENT — President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination for Secretary of State Tuesday, picking ExxonMobil chairman and chief executive officer Rex Tillerson to be the nation’s top diplomat. Tillerson, friendly with Russia’s president, has spent his 41-year career at the same oil company. Trump said Tillerson’s knowledge of running a global company is crucial to […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the Central Intelligence Agency’s conclusion that Russia interfered in last month’s presidential election to boost his chances of winning was “ridiculous,” calling it “just another excuse” by Democrats for his upset of former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton. “I don’t believe it. If you take a look at […]
John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth, has died at age 95, officials said Thursday. Glenn had been admitted more than a week ago to Ohio State University’s James Cancer Hospital, according to the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. “When John Glenn blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas […]
The death toll from the blaze that gutted an Oakland, California warehouse reached 36 on Monday, and could climb further as investigators continue to search the building where an electronic dance party turned into an inferno. Officials say that so far only about 20 percent of the building has been searched. One local fire official, […]