By The Associated Press Firefighters announced progress Wednesday night on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but they warned that fire danger remained from dry and windy conditions. The news was worse in South Carolina, where two fires nearly doubled in size Wednesday, but crews kept the blazes away
Continue Reading OpenHighLowSettleChg. LUMBER 27,500 bd. ft.; $ per 1,000 bd. ft. May 684.5 685.5 660.0 674.5 —11.0 Jul 699.0 700.0 677.5 687.0 —13.0 Sep 711.0 711.0 706.5 706.5 —5.5 Est. sales 773. Tue.’s sales 667 Tue.’s open int 7,454, up 176 LIBOR-1 MONTH $3 million; pts of 100 pct. No open contracts. US T. BILLS $1
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Wednesday: OpenHighLowSettleChg. COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.; dollars per lb. May 65.19 65.99 65.02 65.68 +.54 Jul 66.82 67.56 66.64 67.22 +.47 Oct 69.16 +.33 Dec 68.85 69.51 68.70 69.29 +.49 Mar 70.05 70.65 69.94 70.46 +.44 May 70.80 71.30 70.80 71.15 +.38 Jul
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By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, the biggest challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 22-year rule. The opposition has called for a boycott of companies that
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 570 572¾ 563¼ 565 —4¼ Jul 586 588 578¼ 579¼ —5½ Sep 601 603¾ 593¾ 594½ —6 Dec 623¾ 626 616 617 —5½ Mar 642¾ 643¾ 634¼ 635¼ —5¼ May 651¾ 651¾ 645¼
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 570 572¾ 563¼ 565 —4¼ Jul 586 588 578¼ 579¼ —5½ Sep 601 603¾ 593¾ 594½ —6 Dec 623¾ 626 616 617 —5½ Mar 642¾ 643¾ 634¼ 635¼ —5¼ May 651¾ 651¾ 645¼
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 570 572¾ 563¼ 565 —4¼ Jul 586 588 578¼ 579¼ —5½ Sep 601 603¾ 593¾ 594½ —6 Dec 623¾ 626 616 617 —5½ Mar 642¾ 643¾ 634¼ 635¼ —5¼ May 651¾ 651¾ 645¼
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 570 572¾ 563¼ 565 —4¼ Jul 586 588 578¼ 579¼ —5½ Sep 601 603¾ 593¾ 594½ —6 Dec 623¾ 626 616 617 —5½ Mar 642¾ 643¾ 634¼ 635¼ —5¼ May 651¾ 651¾ 645¼
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Apr 206.87 207.37 206.00 207.07 +.70 Jun 202.72 203.37 201.67 203.02 +.70 Aug 199.07 199.65 198.07 199.35 +.48 Oct 198.85 199.12 197.67 198.77 +.17 Dec 199.50 199.72 198.40 199.37 +.10 Feb 200.15 200.35 199.22 200.00 +.13 Apr
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Apr 206.87 207.37 206.00 207.07 +.70 Jun 202.72 203.37 201.67 203.02 +.70 Aug 199.07 199.65 198.07 199.35 +.48 Oct 198.85 199.12 197.67 198.77 +.17 Dec 199.50 199.72 198.40 199.37 +.10 Feb 200.15 200.35 199.22 200.00 +.13 Apr
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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it
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By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital before the fatal midair collision that killed 67 people in January, and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes, according to the head of the agency investigating the crash. National Transportation Safety
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be useful, too. A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with
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By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a district that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years. Malone’s victory over Republican Josh
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By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland said Wednesday he will at least briefly extend a temporary order requiring the Trump administration to bring back federal workers who were fired as part of a dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, but the judge said he was struggling with the
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Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s army said Wednesday it had recaptured Khartoum’s international airport, and the military chief flew back to the capital for the first time in nearly two years of war, bringing the military closer to regaining full control of the city from the rival Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group. Footage put
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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one. Macron spoke after talks with Ukraine’s president and ahead of a summit in
Continue Reading By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night when she was
Continue Reading The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – NEWS —————————— US AIRCRAFT DOWN DESCRIPTION: NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy is scheduled to testify Wednesday at an oversight hearing of the U.S.
Continue Reading The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – NEWS —————————— US AIRCRAFT DOWN DESCRIPTION: NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy is scheduled to testify Wednesday at an oversight hearing of the U.S.
Continue Reading The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – NEWS —————————— US AIRCRAFT DOWN DESCRIPTION: NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy is scheduled to testify Wednesday at an oversight hearing of the U.S.
Continue Reading The following AP stories are planned for today or have moved. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— KANSAS – UPCOMING – NEWS —————————— US AIRCRAFT DOWN DESCRIPTION: NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy is scheduled to testify Wednesday at an oversight hearing of the U.S.
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By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U.S. Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates are packed
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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school’s campus, working on things like curing cancer and
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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to preserve the $8 billion a year the government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas. The justices heard nearly three hours of arguments in a new test of federal regulatory power, reviewing an
Continue Reading By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland said Wednesday he will at least briefly extend a temporary order requiring the Trump administration to bring back federal workers who were fired as part of a dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, but the judge said he was struggling with the
Continue Reading By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset for a party roiled by infighting since President Donald Trump’s victory. Malone’s victory over Republican Josh Parsons in Tuesday
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In West Philadelphia where he was born and raised, now there’s a street called Will Smith Way. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and city leaders honored the Oscar and Grammy winner on Wednesday, renaming a street next to Smith’s old high school. “Philly, I love you. I am yours. You are mine,” Smith
Continue Reading By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices on Wednesday unanimously accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, and ordered him to stand trial. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet has accused Bolsonaro and 33 others
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By VANESSA GERA and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO on Wednesday clarified comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made earlier in the day, when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their fate was not yet confirmed.
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