WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win Tuesday in the nation’s capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month’s party convention in Philadelphia.
Clinton’s win in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no bearing on her role as the presumptive nominee, but it nevertheless marked a transition in the lengthy primary fight between the two rivals.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Tuesday that women and girls have made great strides in the nearly eight years he’s held office but asserted that they can claim even more progress if society would cast aside long-held stereotypes about the way men and women should behave.
He also urged consumers to patronize more than two dozen U.S. corporations that have pledged to close gender pay gaps.
“Women are leading America at every level of society, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, from the C-suite to the federal bench to the Federal Reserve,” Obama said in remarks at a daylong, White House-organized summit on the state of women.
“And that is progress. It’s real and we have to celebrate it. But we also have to remember that progress is not inevitable,” he said.
LONDON – Nervous “remain” supporters stepped up campaigning in Britain’s European Union referendum Tuesday after odds on a vote to leave the bloc dramatically narrowed following a string of polls showing a surge in “leave” sentiment.
The pound fell to a two-month low against the dollar on Monday as bookmakers cut the odds of an exit vote in the June 23 referendum to as short as 6-5. “Remain” was still the favorite, but only just, after several phone and online polls suggested growing support among voters for leaving the 28-nation bloc.
Senior Labour Party figures warned that leaving the EU could cause a recession and trigger big public-sector job losses.
ATHENS, Greece – A Greek archaeologist believes he has found a fragment of the lost throne of the rulers of Mycenae, famous from ancient myth and the story of the Trojan War.
Christofilis Maggidis, who heads excavations at the site in southern Greece, says the chunk of worked limestone was found two years ago, in a streambed under the imposing citadel.
He told a press conference in Athens Tuesday that the throne was among sections of the hilltop palace that collapsed during an earthquake around 1200 B.C.
Associated Press
