BOSTON – After the top elected Republican in the country said that his party's presumptive presidential nominee had made "textbook" racist remarks about a federal judge, Donald Trump's chief backer in the Bay State dismissed the controversy.
"These have been reluctant Republicans to accept his nomination to begin with. It doesn't surprise me that they're looking for reasons to, I suppose, continue to say that they're right," said Rep. Geoff Diehl, a Whitman Republican.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman ignited widespread outrage will leave jail two months early.
Online inmate records show 20-year-old Brock Turner is expected to be released from the Santa Clara County jail on Sept. 2. He was booked June 2.
