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COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The latest clash between protesters and supporters of Donald Trump has led to about 20 arrests. The violent confrontation took place last night outside a speech by Trump in California's conservative Orange County. Police in riot gear and on horseback pushed the crowd back and away from the venue.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening moderately lower on Wall Street as several companies turn in disappointing quarterly results. Amazon bucked the downward trend and soared 10 percent after reporting a big jump in revenue and a bigger profit than investors had expected. Stocks fell yesterday, with tech stocks leading the slide after billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he sold his stake in Apple.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden has spoken privately with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Biden was in Vatican City to speak about cancer research at a conference on regenerative medicine. The pope also spoke at the conference, after Biden. The White House says in between their speeches, the pope greeted Biden privately offstage. They also exchanged small tokens. Biden was joined by his son, Hunter, and by a son-in-law, a doctor who's been involved in his push on cancer research. Biden's other son, Beau, died of cancer last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is again considering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers like OxyContin should be required to take safety training courses. That's according to federal documents. A panel of FDA advisers meets next week to review risk-management plans that were put in place nearly four years ago to reduce misuse and abuse of long-acting painkillers. The powerful opioids are frequently abused for their euphoric effects. Critics have said the plans didn't go far enough, and that physician training should be mandatory.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dog that went missing 10 years ago in Alabama is being reunited with its owner. Tracy Dove assumed Charlie was gone forever when he disappeared from a pen in northern Alabama in 2006. She thinks someone stole the one-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer. An animal rescuer got a call recently about an old dog lying outside a church in south Alabama. A microchip implanted in the dog led her to Dove. No one knows where Charlie has been for the last decade, but he now has a gray muzzle and a cancerous tumor in his chest. Dove says she wants the make the rest of his life as comfortable as possible.
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