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WASHINGTON (AP) — Unlike Senate Majority Leader Mitch MConnell, Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley says he is open to meeting with President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat. Merrick Garland is the chief judge of a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. Five other GOP senators say they'll meet with Garland.
WASHINGTON (AP) — According to document released by his lawyers, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl says he left a post in Afghanistan in 2009 to draw attention to what he saw as leadership problems. Also released was a July 2015 document showing that an Army Sanity Board Evaluation concluded that Bergdahl suffered from schizotypal personality disorder when he left the post. Bergdahl, who was captured, faces a general court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A University of Virginia student faces more than a decade behind bars in North Korea. The regime's highest court took just an hour to convict and sentence 21-year-old Otto Warmbieran to 15 years after convicted him of subversion. He was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner.
SEATTLE (AP) — Two hospitals in Washington state are the latest to urge nearly 1,500 patients to get tested for hepatitis and HIV after a former surgery technician was charged with stealing and swapping a syringe in Colorado. Rocky Allen has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he took a syringe of painkillers and replaced it with one containing another substance at a Denver-area hospital in January.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Sinatra Jr. has died. He was 72. The Sinatra family said in a statement to The Associated Press that Sinatra died today of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida. Kidnapped and held for ransom when he was 19, Sinatra Jr. had already followed his dad into the music business by then. He later worked for his father as his musical director and conductor.
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