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Tuesday Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters on Capitol Hill that he had “total confidence,” in his former U.S. Senate colleague Attorney General Jeff Sessions. McConnell said, “I have total confidence in the attorney general. I think he ought to stay exactly where he is.”

I could be wrong about this. Over the last couple of days, Donald Trump has been very critical of Jeff Sessions. President Trump criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an interview broadcast early Thursday, saying he “never took control of the Justice Department." “The Dems are very strong in the Justice Department," Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” "And I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. Never took control of the Justice Department. “It’s sort of an incredible thing,” he added. “We have this country going so well,” Trump said, adding that “[Secretary of State] Mike...

A convertible carrying the grand marshal in Saturday's gay PrideFest parade struck and killed a man just as the event began in downtown Anchorage, police said.

Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr is apparently okay after crashing his car into a telephone pole in Wellesley Sunday morning. According to police, the 57-year-old scribe and WRKO talk-show host was driving south on Wellesley Avenue, between Oakland and Forest streets, when his 2004 Acura suddenly crossed into the oncoming lane, hit a curb, and slammed into a telephone pole. Wellesley police Sgt. Marie Cleary said Carr refused medical treatment and the car was towed. (The pole was split in half.) Carr was cited for a marked-lanes violation. "There were no signs of alcohol or anything suspicious of that nature,"...

Ear wax could hold key to how glands work Scientists in Japan have accidentally found the gene responsible for ear wax and say it may have links to some limb or gland conditions.They were trying to help a woman with uncontrollable limb movements when they stumbled across the gene.The gene responsible for the condition is on the same part of the chromosome as the ear wax gene.The woman and a number of relatives with the same condition had a wet form of earwax which is rare among Asian people.Scientists say the discovery could shed more light on how the...