JANESVILLE, Wisc. (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan backed Donald Trump's bid for president on Thursday, bringing an end to the extraordinary public split between the GOP's presumptive White House nominee and the nation's top Republican in office.
"I had friends wishing I wouldn't support him. I had friends wishing I would," Ryan said in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press. "I really didn't feel any pressure, other than my goal is to make sure that were unified so that we're at full strength in the fall so we can win the election."
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Barack Obama implored the next generation of American military leaders Thursday not to give in to isolationism or pull back from U.S. leadership in the world, drawing a contrast with a foreign policy vision laid out by Donald Trump, then learned a U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds jet crashed moments after flying over the service academy graduation ceremony.
The F-16 was piloted by an officer from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, according to the Air Force. Maj. Alex Turner ejected safely from the plane, which went down in a rural area near Peterson Air Force Base. No one was injured and the cause of the crash is under investigation.
