Ginsburg regrets comments on Trump...Gingrich waits to hear...Big offshore wind farm planned

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she regrets what she calls her "ill-advised" public criticism of Donald Trump. Ginsburg says in a statement issued by the court that judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. She promises to be more restrained in the future. Ginsburg told The Associated Press last week that she did not want to think about the prospect of Trump winning the presidency. She escalated her criticism in later media interviews.

NEW YORK (AP) — Newt Gingrich says he expects to hear from Donald Trump about his vice presidential decision as early as this afternoon. Gingrich, the former House speaker, is among Trump's top choices, along with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Trump and his running mate will make their first joint appearance tomorrow in New York.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign and Republican party leaders seem poised to defeat GOP renegades trying to derail Trump's presidential nomination. But it's unclear whether they'll prevail before the dispute flares into a potentially angry and embarrassing floor fight next week. The two sides today are beginning what could be a two-day faceoff at early meetings of the convention's rules committee. The initial votes are expected to demonstrate how firmly Trump and GOP Chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE'-bus) control the convention.

PEMBROKE, Ga. (AP) — A Louisiana truck driver has pleaded guilty to nine criminal charges stemming from a fiery interstate crash that killed five nursing students last year in southeast Georgia. John Johnson entered the pleas today in a courtroom west of Savannah. He was behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 16 when it smashed into stop-and-go traffic. The collision killed five nursing students from nearby Georgia Southern University. Johnson's employer agreed to pay $78 million to settle civil lawsuits after the crash.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York utility says it plans to construct an offshore wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest. The CEO of the Long Island Power Authority says the utility's board of directors is set to approve a proposal next week to construct a 90-megawatt, 15-turbine wind farm 30 miles east of Montauk. The project will be built by a company already building the nation's first offshore wind farm near Block Island, Rhode Island.

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