Trump VP search enters home stretch and other top stories.

• Trump VP search enters home stretch

  

  The presumptive Republican nominee will choose from a narrowing list of potential running mates that represent a wide range of styles. Does Trump want to double the bombast by picking a brash straight-talker who mirrors his own style, like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich? Does he prefer someone whose Washington experience and message discipline would counter his freelancing, like Indiana Gov. Mike Pence? Or does he want to elevate a rising star, like Iowa Sen..

  >> view original



• Officer Charged in Prisoner Death Decides Against Jury Trial

  

  There will be no trial by jury for the highest-ranking police officer charged in the death of a young black man whose broken neck inside a police van caused civil unrest in Baltimore. Lt. Brian Rice's lawyers said Tuesday that he has chosen to be tried instead by a judge — the same one who acquitted two fellow officers in Freddie Gray's death. Rice, who has been suspended without pay, faces charges of manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. Judge Barry Willia..

  >> view original



• Abner Mikva, liberal titan of law and politics, dies at 90

  

  Abner J. Mikva, a liberal titan of law and politics who served as a U.S. congressman from Illinois, a federal judge in Washington and White House counsel to President Bill Clinton, and who was an early mentor to future president Barack Obama, died July 4 at a hospice center in Chicago. He was 90. The cause was cancer, said Brian Brady, national director of the Mikva Challenge, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that aims to engage young people in civic life. Once described by the New York..

  >> view original



• Coast Guard Searching for 3 Fishermen Missing Off Hawaii

  

  The Coast Guard on Monday rescued three boaters who had been trying to assist in the search and rescue of three missing fishermen off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The Coast Guard and the Navy are searching for three missing fishermen reported overdue north northwest of Oahu, July 4, 2016. U.S. Coast Guard The search for Jensen Loo, Clint Oshima and Derek Tomas, all 30, intensified Tuesday after their 20-foot boat was found capsized about 25 miles off the North Shore of Oahu, accordin..

  >> view original



• Teen Loses Part of Leg and May Be Permanently Blind After Homemade Fireworks Experiment Goes Wrong

  

  By Stephanie Petit @stephpetit_ 07/05/2016 AT 09:55 AM EDT A Texas teenager lost part of his leg and may permanently lose his eyesight after attempting to set off a self-made explosive device of 180 sparklers Saturday night, multiple outlets report. According to Click 2 Houston, 15-year-old Rowdy Radford bent down to light the homemade "sparkler bomb" tied together with tape when the creation blew up in his face. A GoFundMe page set up to help with Radford's medical expenses says the tee..

  >> view original

Usain Bolt withdraws from trials with hamstring injury, still hopes to make Olympics .	NASA's Dawn spacecraft finishes objectives at Dwarf Planet Ceres, completes mission .
Nintendo Presses Pause on Virtual-Reality Technology .	College debt, no degree means world of financial hurt .