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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's been rampant speculation that Republicans could turn to House Speaker Paul Ryan as their presidential nominee, should Donald Trump and the other GOP candidates flame out at a contested convention. But Ryan himself is trying to put a definitive spike in that idea. He held a news conference at the party headquarters today at which he declared: "I do not want, nor will I accept, the Republican nomination."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is being pressed to reconcile President Barack Obama's statements on Hillary Clinton's emails. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Obama defended his former secretary of state, saying she did not intentionally endanger national security in her handling of classified information. Spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama was not trying to meddle and investigators would not be swayed by his views anyway.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Columbus, Ohio, are mourning the death of one of their own. Officer Steven M. Smith died this afternoon, two days after being critically wounded when a man opened fire on a SWAT team. Police say Lincoln Rutledge shot Smith and held police at bay for several hours on Sunday after officers tried to arrest him for allegedly setting fire to his estranged wife's house.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia has executed a man who was convicted of the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old neighbor during a 1996 burglary. Kenneth Fults is the fourth person executed in Georgia this year. The 47-year-old pleaded guilty to killing the woman and was sentenced to death by a jury.
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's Parliament has been holding an emergency debate on a suicide crisis in a remote aboriginal community. Eleven people, nine of them minors, attempted suicide over the weekend in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat. There have been about 100 suicide attempts in the community since September and at least one death. The crisis has brought attention to the disparity between the bleak living conditions of Canada's indigenous peoples and the rest of the country.
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