WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Navy will commission its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Tulsa (LCS 16), during a 10 a.m. PST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 16, at Pier 30/32 in San Francisco. U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma will deliver the commissioning ceremony's principal address. Kathy Taylor, former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the ship's sponsor. The ceremony will be highlighted by a time-honored  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- President Trump issued the following remarks at the Major County Sheriffs and the Major Cities Chiefs Association joint conference: THE PRESIDENT: I have a lot of friends in this room. Thank you. That's a very fancy-looking table. A lot of very powerful people sitting around that table. Thank you very much, everybody. And thank you, Sheriff Judd -- a friend of mine for a long time -- for those kind words and for your outstanding leadership of the Major County Sheriffs of   more