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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has taken to Twitter with more comments about Khizr Khan (KY'-zur KAHN), the father of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq. Trump tweeted that he was "viciously attacked" by Khan at the Democratic convention and asked, "Am I not allowed to respond?" The tweet came minutes after interviews with Khan aired on NBC's "Meet The Press" and CNN's "State of the Union." Khan thanked Trump for calling his son a hero, but said the Republican presidential nominee is being "disingenuous" because of his campaign rhetoric.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says controlling her emotions was her biggest concern walking on stage at the Democrat National Convention to become the first woman to lead a major party ticket. Clinton says she was afraid she might cry after seeing her daughter, Chelsea, on stage. She tells "Fox News Sunday" that she was also thinking about how proud her own mother would have been of her. Clinton's mother died in 2011.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Health officials are puzzled about how the most basic baking ingredient — flour — became contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces. The tainted flour has sickened 46 people in 21 states and prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn cooks to treat it like other foods that could cross-contaminate kitchen surfaces. Testing points to flour produced at the General Mills facility in Kansas City, Missouri. But the company says it doesn't believe the plant is the source of the bacteria.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer says federal regulators are too slow to get bad food off the shelves. The New York Democrat is calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review its recall process from top to bottom to determine if it's doing enough to prevent contamination-related food illnesses. Schumer notes that a 21-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted flour began in December but the recall wasn't issued until May.
ATLANTA (AP) — Longtime Weather Channel meteorologist Dave Schwartz has died after a long fight with cancer. He was 63. The Weather Channel says on its website that Schwartz died yesterday after being first diagnosed with stage 2 pancreatic cancer 10 years ago. It says he twice beat cancer, but it resurfaced last year. Schwartz had been an on-air meteorologist for the network for more than 20 years.
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