Garland speaks at school where he tutors kids

Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's choice for the Supreme Court vacancy, speaks at the graduation ceremony for J.O. Wilson Elementary School, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Was... . Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, sits with Jenifer Morales-Garcia, left, and Vernell Garvin, right, both fifth graders who Garland tutors, during the graduation ceremony fo... .

Obama and Clinton slam Trump

President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton conducted an extraordinary joint attack on Donald Trump on Tuesday, with the president accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of "doing the terrorists' work for them" and Clinton excoriating him as a liar and a "pathological" personality who is temperamentally unsuited to be president. Their remarks, made at simultaneous speeches in Washington and Pittsburgh, came the day after Trump had revived insinuations about Obama's loyalty to the U.S. and had vowed that as president he would ban immigration not only by Muslims but people from any country with a "proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies."

Morning news: Obama could come to Cincy next month; Cincinnati…

The board of the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority yesterday voted to purchase two large Hamilton County sites for industrial redevelopment, including the 67-year-old Cincinnati Gardens arena . Pending financing and further research into feasibility, the Gardens would be demolished so the Port can attract an advanced manufacturing company.

Review agency: Chicago police need anti discrimination rule

The agency that investigates police misconduct in Chicago says the city's police department needs a policy that prohibits officers from engaging in any kind of discrimination. The recommendation from the Independent Police Review Authority's chief administrator, Sharon Fairley, came after the agency suggested firing an officer who was accused of using a racial slur about President Barack Obama.

Parents ‘overwhelmed’ by support after gator kills toddler

A jury has convicted a former Vanderbilt football player of encouraging his teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating. It took jurors just over four hours of deliberation Saturday before finding... A jury has convicted a former Vanderbilt football player of encouraging his teammates to rape an unconscious woman he had been dating.

Americans Are Right to Be Angry at President Obama

Is Islamic State opposed to gay marriage? Was anger at the US Supreme Court's decision mandating recognition of homosexual marriage what prompted Omar Mateen to massacre fifty Americans at the gay nightclub in Orlando on Saturday night? What about gun control? Is Islamic State, to which Mateen announced his allegiance as he mowed down innocents like blades of grass, a libertarian group that abhors limitations on private ownership of firearms? In other words, are Islamic State and its fellow jihadists from Iran to Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and al Qaida adjuncts of the Republican Party? Is Omar Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph at the helm of ISIS a social conservative, a libertarian and a card carrying member of the GOP, or just one of the three? Because President Barack Obama seems to think that this is the question most Americans should be asking.

Obama Democrats Exploit Orlando Shooting for Political Gain

It comes as no surprise that Barack Obama jumped on Omar Mateen's mass shooting in Orlando the way any self-respecting ghoul jumps on a fresh corpse to aid Hillary Clinton's campaign. A real leader would have called out this act of militant "Islamic" terrorism as an act of war against the United States, but Obama chose instead to promote a political agenda .

Brits Begin Search for Another Lost King’s Remains in Parking Lot

King Henry I of England, who took the throne in year 1100, died without an heir in 1135 of an illness thought to be brought on by eating lampreys, a type of jawless fish, against his doctor's orders. His body was interred at Reading Abbey, according to historian C. Warren Hollister's book Henry I. Much of the abbey was destroyed in the centuries since and the monarch's remains were lost among the rubble and ensuing development.

‘Not the America we want’: Obama blasts Trump’s Muslim plans

President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric on Tuesday, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security and a menacing echo of some of the most shameful moments in U.S. history. Obama's rebuke was his most searing yet of the man seeking to take his seat in the Oval Office.

Obamaa s Yosemite trip comes amid park service controversies

President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Yosemite National Park occurs amid both pomp and peril for the National Park Service. Even as Yosemite officials ready themselves, and the park service celebrates its centennial, lawmakers and Interior Department investigators are criticizing what a House panel on Tuesday termed "misconduct and unethical behavior," including allegations of serial sexual harassment.

GOP scrambles to distance itself from Trump on Orlando

Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered fiery denunciations that underscored the potential peril for the GOP. Republican hopes are fading for a new, "more presidential" Trump as the party's divisions around him grow ever more acute.

In White House plan, Pa. would get $46M to combat opioid crisis

Pennsylvania would get around $46 million to combat its opioid and heroin epidemic under a $1.1 billion treatment funding proposal in President Barack Obama's 2017 budget, federal officials announced today in a press release and conference call. Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate, though, were not predicting easy passage.

Clinton says Trump’s Orlando response merely ‘bizarre rants’

Hillary Clinton fired back at Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying the presumptive Republican nominee is offering voters little more than "outright lies," "bizarre rants" and "nonsensical" words in the wake of the country's most deadly mass shootings. Republican candidate for President Donald Trump arrives in his plane to speak to supporters at a rally at Atlantic Aviation on June 11, 2016 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

$40 billion aid to Israel is ‘largest ever’ to any country, says Susan Rice

U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the proposed military aid package to Israel is larger than any the United States has ever offered to any country. The 10-year aid program would give Israel up to $40 billion to upgrade its military aircraft and missile defense systems, and to defend against militants in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and al-Qaida and Islamic State affiliates in Syria and Egypt.