AFN NEWS ON THE HOUR

Thursday, June 28, 2018

 
 

1) From ABC News, I’m Richard Cantu. A crucial hope on the U.S. Supreme Court is retiring. Justice Anthony Kennedy will leave at the end of July. “It’s not like he was ‘a’ swing justice. He was ‘the’ swing justice. He was the one that both sides had to appeal to for decade now, and we haven’t seen a change in the balance of power in the Supreme Court for decades. It has been a long time since it has been anything close to announcing this report.” ABC News political director Rick Klein.

 

2) President Trump says the search for a new justice will begin immediately but Washington State Democratic Senator Patty Murray says the vote should wait. Justice Republican forced in 2016 during the election year. “I hope that Sen. McConnell follows his own advice that in a decision this knowledge of this much magnitude that touches so many people that he allows the voters to weigh in.” Kennedy was appointed by President Reagan.

 

3) A compromising immigration bill failed in the House, nearly half of the Republicans opposing the measure.

 

4) We’ll learn tomorrow when and where President Trump and Russian President Putin will hold their summit. National security advisor John Bolton, “Both President Trump and President Putin feel that it is important for these two leaders of these two critically important countries to get together and discuss their mutual problems and areas of cooperation.” Bolton who just met with Putin in Moscow says he believes the President will discuss Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

 

5) A man accused of running down Heather Heyer during the Charlottesville counter-protest last year is facing new charges on top of murder. “In filing federal hate crime charges, prosecutors said Fields was full of hate and believed white people were superior to other races and peoples.” ABC’s Aaron Katersky.

 

6) The patriarch of musical Jackson family died. A county coroner says Joe Jackson died in Las Vegas at the age of 89. He launched the careers of the Jackson-5, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.

 

7) On Wall Street, the Dow lost 165 points. You’re listening to ABC News.

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From the Fox Business Network; workers wasting no time getting worked up when they return from a vacation. Around a quarter of working adults tell the American Psychological Association that a positive effect of vacation like feeling less stress and having more energy go away as soon as they return to work. The 40 percent say the benefit only lasts a few days. // Investors are stressing about the trade conflict again. The Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P500 all closing lower on Wednesday. // Food maker Conagra is eating up some of its competition. The company behind such brands as Marie Calendar’s, Hunt’s, Reddi-wip is buying Pinnacle Foods. Pinnacle’s popular brands include Bird Eye and Duncan Hines. The total price tags 10.9 billion bucks. // And attention, jobseekers, forget looking for summer jobs? Calls are already high for the holidays. That’s in addition to still looking to fill positions for the busy back-to-school season. With the Fox Business Report, I’m Charles Payne.