Three Missouri School Districts To Get Grants For Tornado Safe Rooms

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Three Missouri school districts will receive $3.5 million to build tornado shelters. The State Emergency Management Agency announced Thursday that the grants will go to schools in Christian, Lawrence and McDonald counties. The planned safe rooms would shelter more than 2,250 people. The projects will require local matches ranging from…

Trump Expected To Seek $8.6B For Border Wall In New Budget

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent   WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in his new budget to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall, an administration said Sunday, setting up another showdown with Congress, which has resisted giving him more money for his signature campaign promise. The request would more than double…

Cohen’s Lawyer Says Trump Advisers Were ‘Dangling’ Pardons

  By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s advisers dangled the possibility of a pardon for his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen last year, Cohen’s attorney said Thursday, as congressional investigators zero in on the president’s pardon power. The issue of pardons has emerged as a key…