January 1, SEN. PAUL: SCOTUS WILL REJECT WH NATIONAL EMERGENCY

President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a border wall will be struck down by the Supreme Court, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is predicting.

In an opinion piece for Fox News posted Sunday night, Paul – a frequent Trump ally who broke away to oppose the emergency declaration — warned it might be Trump’s own nominees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, who will “rebuke him on this.”

“Without question, the president’s order for more wall money contradicts the will of Congress and will, in all likelihood, be struck down by the Supreme Court,” Paul wrote.

Hillary Clinton Rules Out 2020 WH Run

Suburban New York news outlet she plans instead to work with candidates in the crowded Democratic field.

“I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” she told News 12, her first public statement about her intentions.

“I want to be sure that people understand I’m going to keep speaking out,” the 2016 Democratic nominee for president added.

Second Man Seems AIDS-Free After Transplant

(AP) – Researchers say a London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant. It’s the second such success since “Berlin patient” Timothy Ray Brown more than a decade ago.

Such transplants are dangerous and have failed in other patients. The new findings were published online Monday by the journal Nature.

Anonymous SC Winner Claims $1.5B Mega Millions Jackpot

(NRP) – The mystery surrounding the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from last October is partly over as lottery officials announced Monday that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the prize but elected to remain anonymous.

A lottery commission statement said the person submitting the claim for what was the second-largest lottery in U.S. history has chosen the cash option, a one-time payment of nearly $878,000,000. That’s the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in United States history, it said.”We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable prize,” said Hogan Brown, the Commission’s Executive Director.