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JD Vance takes center stage
at Republican convention Day 2
DALLAS -- Vice President JD Vance took the stage Thursday night on the second and final night of the Republicans' midterm convention in Dallas. The party knows that history is not on its side this election season but is counting on President Donald Trump to propel voters to protect their House and Senate majorities.
With Vance taking the primetime speaking slot just ahead of the president, the convention was also teeing up a potential post-Trump future. Vance has not said whether he will run for the White House, and Trump has yet to name an heir apparent, but the crowd roared "JD! JD!" when he stepped to the microphone.
"It is pretty cool to hear a crowd that is this fired up chant your name, so go ahead and do it again," Vance said, and the audience obliged.
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks
judge to spare her second trial
BOSTON -- Lindsay Clancy's attorney is asking a Massachusetts judge to acquit her of charges that she killed her three young children.
Her trial ended in a mistrial. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues prosecutors failed to prove Clancy was criminally responsible and that the case should not be tried twice.
Eleven of 12 jurors were prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. Clancy's defense said she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her children in 2023. Prosecutors said she knew what she was doing. If the judge grants the motion, Clancy would not face another trial.
Florida executes 15th inmate of year,
man tied to the 'Hog Trail Murders'
STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected 1990s killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders" has been executed, becoming the state's 15th person executed this year.
Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Thursday after receiving a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery, whose mutilated body was found in a wooded southwest Florida area where authorities found the remains of at least six people over a three-year span. Prosecutors never took the other cases to trial.
Kimmel says interview with Talarico
won't air on TV under FCC pressure
Jimmy Kimmel says the federal agency regulating television has "threatened" his show. An interview with James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will now air on YouTube instead of TV. This isn't the first time a Talarico interview has moved online. Stephen Colbert's show did the same in February. The Federal Communications Commission has been enforcing equal time rules for political candidates, which traditionally didn't apply to talk shows. Kimmel suggests Trump's presidency influenced this change. The FCC hasn't commented, and Kimmel didn't elaborate on the threats.
The Associated Press