Washington: US President Donald Trump has selected lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new Labour Secretary. Trump tweeted news of the planned nomination on Thursday, less than a week after his previous secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned amid criticism of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labour field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience” working “with labour and everyone else”, Trump wrote of Scalia, who is currently a partner in the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher firm. AFP
US warship sunk by German sub in WWII located
Maine: A private dive team has located the last US Navy warship to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few kilometres off the coast of Maine. The sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56 on April 23, 1945, was originally blamed on a boiler explosion. But the Navy determined in 2001 that it had been sunk by a German submarine. The Eagle was towing a practice target for bombers before it sank. The boat was equipped with depth charges used to fight off enemy submarines, but evidently, nobody on board or nearby saw the German sub approach and fire on the boat. Agencies
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