AFN NEWS ON THE HOUR

Thursday, March 8, 2018

1)  AP Radio News: I am Ed Donahue. California Governor Jerry Brown says Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump Administration continue to divide the country. “There’s a lot of concerns about people, foreign people who sow division and discord. Now, we have the Attorney General doing precisely that.” Sessions was in Sacramento a day after the Justice Department sued the State of California over immigration enforcement. “ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents are federal law enforcement officers carrying out federal law. California cannot forbid them or obstruct them in doing their jobs.” Meantime speaking today to the Latino Association, President Trump says Democrats are blocking immigration reform. “The Senate Democrats filibuster a plan because they don’t care about the immigrations. System reform and they don’t want to solve the problem.” The President scrapped the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] program for young immigrants last year.

 

2) A White House answer raises more questions about the President and the porn star. Here’s what White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said about President’s payment to a porn star. “None of these allegations are true.” Then she added, “This case’s already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that. I would refer you to the President’s outside counsel.” But if there wasn’t arbitration, that would indicate there was a contract. Sanders wouldn’t say anything further about it. The actress Stephanie Clifford who performed as Stormy Daniels claims in a lawsuit against the President that his attorney initiated a bogus arbitration process. I’m Warren Levinson.

 

3) An organizer of last summer’s White nationalists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is suing the city over its denial of his request to hold an anniversary event. The day ended with three people dead.

 

4) A federal appeals court in Detroit ruled in favor of a woman who said she was illegally fired by a funeral home after disclosing she was transitioning from male to female and dressed as a woman.

 

5) Stocks finished mixed at the close. The Dow finished down 82 points. This is AP Radio News.

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Hello, everybody. I’m Tony Tantillo, your fresh grocer. Today’s tip of the day is gonna be with those cut-up peppers. They are already in a pre-package bag for you. It is so popular to buy already cut vegetables, but a lot of markets are cutting their bell peppers or peppers in general. Put them in containers or put them in package bags, you can buy them and take them home. So, that is a great thing. But remember. When you buy them like this, the rules are applied like you’re buying the fresh ones as a whole, not cut up. You wanna make sure that those bell peppers in that container have bright color still red, nice in red and bright. The orange, the yellow and the green, almost like mother needs you to put them besides bell peppers. That’s how bright they have to be. When you bring those bell peppers sold as already cut up, use them within a day or two. Do not hold them. And I’m Tony Tantillo, your fresh grocer. For some rare recipes of those peppers, just go to tonytantillo.com.