NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton said Friday it was time for a “rethinking” of America’s strategy for North Korea following the regime’s latest test of a nuclear weapon.
Donald Trump’s campaign chief, meanwhile, refused to outline the Republican presidential candidate’s plans for defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Speaking after meeting with a bipartisan group of national security experts in New York, the former secretary of state said she would seek to impose tougher sanctions on the communist nation. She also argued the latest test provides an opening to pressure China, which has been tepid in its response to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
“I think we have an opening here that we haven’t had for the last several years that I intend to do everything I can to take advantage of,” Clinton said.
Clinton spoke hours after Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, pressed repeatedly on Trump’s plans for the region, said only, “He wouldn’t do what’s being done now.”
“He’s not going to reveal all of his plans and he’s made that very clear. And maybe someone can ask him in a debate,” Conway told “CBS This Morning.” “But the fact is that this entire world would be put on notice that there’s a strong leader in the White House.”
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police chief killed himself soon after learning that authorities were investigating allegations he illegally sold city-owned firearms, including an assault rifle, a sheriff’s official said Friday.
Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass told The Associated Press that Bay St. Louis police chief Mike DeNardo illegally sold one city-owned assault rifle, and that authorities were looking into allegations that other city-owned weapons were sold as well.
It is the latest development in a case that has shocked many in this small, tourist-friendly beach community. On Thursday, hours after DeNardo killed himself in the police station’s parking lot, the mayor had said the chief was under investigation.
A federal official also had said investigators received “unsubstantiated criminal intelligence” about DeNardo. But until now, there were no details of what the investigation concerned. Bass said the investigation started from an anonymous tip and was in its early stages. He lamented the death of a man who he said was well-regarded around town.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As their colleagues were cut down by gunfire, three men rushed a shooter in an attempt to thwart the San Bernardino terror attack, according to an in-depth report of the massacre that provided new details Friday.
The three county employees were shot in the ensuing barrage by a colleague and his wife. The report did not say if any survived, though a federal prosecutor hailed their sacrifice.
“These victims had no chance to protect themselves as a result of the callous perpetration of violence, while others heroically sacrificed themselves in an attempt to stop the shooting,” U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said in a statement. “In the face of this unfathomable suffering, the law enforcement personnel and citizens who put themselves in harm’s way to help others exemplifies the very best that our country has to offer.”
The report by the Police Foundation, a policy study group, and the Department of Justice provided a detailed account of the pandemonium that unfolded as the Islamic extremists opened fire at a Dec. 2 meeting of the man’s colleagues and, minutes later, as police first arrived at the scene of horrific bloodshed.
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in the massacre at a training event and holiday gathering of the San Bernardino County Health Department, where Farook worked as a food inspector.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. lawmaker accused Yosemite National Park of breaking federal law by adding 400 acres for a wildlife preserve without clearing it through Congress, but federal park officials said Friday that he’s misinterpreting the law.
The addition of wetlands, grassy meadows and forest on Yosemite’s western boundary marks its largest expansion in nearly 70 years. Any significant amount of land added to a national park needs congressional approval, U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop said in a statement to The Associated Press.
“The Park Service acted outside of its authority, and we will require them to account for their actions,” said the Utah Republican, who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, which has oversight of public land.
Bishop’s staff says inquiries have just begun into how Yosemite acquired the land without oversight and what steps Congress will take next.
National Park Service spokesman Jeffrey Olson said the congressman is misreading the law. The land was donated, so it doesn’t require congressional approval like acquisitions using federal funding, Olson said in a statement.
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Navy gave a first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer on Friday during the ship’s first port stop at a Rhode Island naval station.
The 610-foot-long warship has an angular shape to minimize its radar signature and cost more than $4.4 billion. It’s the most expensive destroyer built for the Navy.
It’s headed from Naval Station Newport to Baltimore, where it will be commissioned in October before going to its homeport in San Diego. It was built at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
During a tour, the Navy showed off the ship’s bridge, weaponry and mission center.
In the bridge, there are 180-degree windows and chairs for the ship’s captain and executive officer to command the vessel. They overlook two gun mounts that resemble cannon barrels. The Zumwalt’s powerful new gun system can unload 600 rocket-powered projectiles on targets more than 70 miles away.
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Cops: Photos of boy with passed-out adults show drug scourge
CLEVELAND (AP) — A safety director in a city that released photos of a 4-year-old boy in a vehicle with two adults slumped over after overdosing on heroin and fentanyl said Friday he and others wanted to send a message to addicts they should find safe places for their children when using debilitating drugs.
The photos were taken Wednesday in East Liverpool, a city of about 11,000 residents along the Ohio River, and were posted to the police department’s Facebook page Thursday.
Safety Director Brian Allen said city officials initially struggled with the decision to make the photos public but he wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.
“Sometimes the truth is a gruesome thing,” Allen said. “And that picture is the truth of what my officers deal with every single day.”
The adults are the boy’s grandmother and her boyfriend. The 50-year-old grandmother, Rhonda Pasek, was being held on a child endangerment charge; she couldn’t be reached for comment in jail and didn’t have a lawyer. The 47-year-old boyfriend, James Acord, pleaded guilty to child endangerment and operating a vehicle while intoxicated and was sentenced to 360 days in jail. The Columbiana County children’s services agency took custody of the boy.