Blackouts. Beach week. Bacchanalia. A pivotal job as a bag boy at a grocery store.
The White House released a statement Monday afternoon announcing First Lady Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery earlier in the day at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and is expected to spend the week there. This morning, First Lady Melania Trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition.
Bethesda, MD Twenty-three non-commissioned officers from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have been given the opportunity to follow their dreams of becoming physicians thanks to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, or EMDP2. Nine Air Force, seven Army, six Navy, and one Marine Corps members were selected from hundreds of applicants for the Department of Defense program, which is entering its fifth year.
Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, center, President Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, walks down a stairwell to avoid reporters and cameras as he leaves a Senate office building after meeting individually with some members of the committee that would vet him for the post, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
In this April 2, 2018, file photo, White House physician and nominee for Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. Ronny Jackson arrives at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Now it's Washington's turn to examine Jackson.
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking classified information, is seeking election to the US Senate in the state of Maryland, a document seen on Saturday says. Manning has now gone from prison to US senatorial candidate in less than a year during which she often made headlines, as the fame and infamy she gained by leaking a trove of classified documents follows her after release.
The 71-year-old president went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Friday to undergo his first physical exam in office. Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, performed the assessment.
The United States on Monday met President Barack Obama's goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, the White House announced. Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United States.