Elvis to Scalia: 7 to receive nation’s top civilian honor

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has announced his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and they include the wife of a major Republican Party donor, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

Trump will also posthumously recognize the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016.

Medals are going to Miriam Adelson, a doctor and wife of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a Republican donor; Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 41 years in the U.S. Senate; former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and Alan Page, who began a legal career after leaving the NFL.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest honor for a civilian.

The death toll from flash floods rose to 12 Saturday and the kingdom’s main tourist attraction, the ancient city of Petra, was closed for cleanup after the biggest deluge in the area in decades. Friday’s floods struck several areas, and rescuers continued the search for missing people around the Wala reservoir.

Police said Saturday that the death toll from Friday’s bombings outside a hotel in Mogadishu has risen to 53 with over 100 injured. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein said many of the injured suffered horrific wounds, raising fears that death toll could rise. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.