Eric Holder’s visit Friday to the state that holds the first primary along the road to the White House is sparking further speculation that the former attorney general is seriously mulling a Democratic presidential bid in 2020.
{FD} Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, takes aim at Trump in NH, fueling 2020 speculation
Eric Holder’s visit Friday to the state that holds the first primary along the road to the White House is sparking further speculation that the former attorney general is seriously mulling a Democratic presidential bid in 2020.
{FD} The summit’s back on: Trump, NKorea’s Kim to meet after all
A top aide to Kim Jong Un will make a rare visit to Washington Friday to hand a letter from the North Korean leader to President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after reporting “good progress” in talks between the two sides to revive …
{FD} Toxins in Salem drinking water prompt Oregon governor’s emergency declaration
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown issued a state of emergency Thursday for Marion and Polk counties, five days after the discovery of toxins in the tap water in Salem, the state’s capital and second-largest city.
{FD} As storm season starts, AP photographer revisits Puerto Rico
Associated Press photographer Ramon Espinosa spent weeks roaming Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island last September.
{FD} Man gets death penalty for strangling 2 women in vacant home
A man convicted of strangling two women and suspected in two more deaths is scheduled to be sentenced after an Ohio jury recommended that he get the death penalty.
{FD} Spelling bee winner is 14-year-old Texan who spelled ‘koinonia’ correctly
Karthik Nemmani, 14, of McKinney, Texas, won this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee late Thursday.
{FD} Pakistan’s ex-judge to become interim prime minister
Pakistan’s former chief minister Nasir-ul-Mulk is set to be sworn in as the caretaker prime minister for a period of two months, hours after the ruling party completed its term and the country’s president dissolved the lower house of parliament.
{FD} Taiwan to loan ally Haiti $150 million amid China onslaught
Taiwan says it will lend ally Haiti $150 million for infrastructure development in a bid to shore up relations amid a renewed diplomatic onslaught by rival China that has stripped it of two foreign allies in the past month.
{FD} AP PHOTOS: Spelling bee brings out intense reactions
Competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee often struggle to contain their emotions as they react to obscure, complicated or tricked-up words that they may have never heard before.
{FD} US job growth might have picked up in May despite trade rift
U.S. employers are thought to have hired at a solid pace in May and helped extend the economy’s nearly nine-year expansion — the second-longest on record — despite uncertainty caused by trade disputes.
{FD} FOX NEWS FIRST: Samantha Bee wants to move on from her ‘one bad word’; Kim’s letter to Trump; Buzz for Holder 2020
Plus, how Roseanne Barr ‘begged’ ABC not to cancel her show
{FD} Indonesia’s Merapi volcano ejects towering column of ash
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has shot a towering plume of ash about 6 kilometers (4 miles) high in an eruption authorities said lasted 2 minutes.
{FD} Student, housewife among 15 terror suspects held in Malaysia
Malaysian police have detained 15 suspected militants, several of them foreigners, who were planning attacks on places of worship in Kuala Lumpur.
{FD} Mississippi juvenile reportedly shoots, kills hatchet-wielding home invader
A Mississippi man armed with a hatchet died after being shot on Tuesday by a juvenile whose home he was trying to break in to, authorities said.
{FD} Tennessee deputy-killing suspect stole officer’s gun, car before disappearing, report says
The man wanted in connection to the fatal shooting of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy reportedly stole the officer’s car and firearm before going off the grid.
{FD} Comey interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating possible McCabe charges: report
Former FBI Director James Comey was recently questioned by the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office as part of a probe into whether Andrew McCabe, his former deputy, committed a crime by lying to federal agents, a Thursday report claimed.
{FD} Prosecutor: 3 bodies at home of Massachusetts man accused of sexually assaulting, torturing woman
Three bodies have been found at the home of a man charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and brutally torturing a woman with a hammer, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
{FD} Drug-dealing dean convicted of shooting student over marijuana sales
A former high school dean known as an anti-violence advocate was convicted Thursday of shooting and nearly killing a student he had recruited to sell marijuana for him.
{FD} NFL player Jermaine Gresham praised online for paying desperate passenger’s bag fee
Arizona Cardinals tight end Jermaine Gresham came to the rescue when an unexpected baggage fee almost kept journalist Delilah Cassidy off the flight – and his actions have gone viral on Twitter.