NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Tuesday: OpenHighLowSettleChg. COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.; dollars per lb. Jul 65.64 66.34 65.22 66.12 +.48 Oct 68.80 68.80 68.62 68.62 +.30 Dec 68.34 68.98 67.95 68.74 +.40 Mar 69.63 70.28 69.34 70.10 +.41 May 70.49 71.20 70.30 71.05 +.41 Jul 71.56 +.38 Oct
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Midfielder Lo’eau LaBonta has been named to her first U.S. team roster for matches against China and Jamaica. The 32-year-old LaBonta plays for the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League and has three goals this season. Joining her in earning a first call-up with the
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who was Missouri’s youngest governor before serving four terms in the U.S. Senate, was remembered Tuesday as a beloved statesman who helped train a generation of leaders. The Missouri State Highway Patrol escorted his body from
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Jul 524 538¾ 523½ 536¼ +13½ Sep 537½ 552¼ 537½ 550 +13½ Dec 560¼ 573¾ 559¼ 571½ +13 Mar 580½ 592¾ 579 590¾ +12½ May 591¾ 603 589½ 601¼ +12 Jul 599 609½ 599
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Jul 524 538¾ 523½ 536¼ +13½ Sep 537½ 552¼ 537½ 550 +13½ Dec 560¼ 573¾ 559¼ 571½ +13 Mar 580½ 592¾ 579 590¾ +12½ May 591¾ 603 589½ 601¼ +12 Jul 599 609½ 599
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Jul 524 538¾ 523½ 536¼ +13½ Sep 537½ 552¼ 537½ 550 +13½ Dec 560¼ 573¾ 559¼ 571½ +13 Mar 580½ 592¾ 579 590¾ +12½ May 591¾ 603 589½ 601¼ +12 Jul 599 609½ 599
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Jun 212.87 213.65 212.45 213.17 +.20 Aug 207.77 208.55 207.05 207.85 —.07 Oct 204.87 205.92 204.55 205.30 +.23 Dec 205.20 206.22 204.90 205.67 +.42 Feb 205.25 206.25 205.02 205.85 +.63 Apr 205.30 206.10 204.87 205.67 +.65 Jun
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Jun 212.87 213.65 212.45 213.17 +.20 Aug 207.77 208.55 207.05 207.85 —.07 Oct 204.87 205.92 204.55 205.30 +.23 Dec 205.20 206.22 204.90 205.67 +.42 Feb 205.25 206.25 205.02 205.85 +.63 Apr 205.30 206.10 204.87 205.67 +.65 Jun
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Tue: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel Jul 524 538¾ 523½ 536¼ +13½ Sep 537½ 552¼ 537½ 550 +13½ Dec 560¼ 573¾ 559¼ 571½ +13 Mar 580½ 592¾ 579 590¾ +12½ May 591¾ 603 589½ 601¼ +12 Jul 599 609½ 599
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By MEGAN JANETSKY and FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of semi-trucks. Among the cargo: tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions – all fleeing the latest wave of cartel violence eclipsing the northern
Continue Reading By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Israel has begun allowing a trickle of food and medicine into the Gaza Strip after sealing the territory’s 2 million Palestinians off from all imports for more than 2 1/2 months. The humanitarian crisis is the worst it’s been in 19 months of war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he
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By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BARCELONA (AP) — The European Union will lift sanctions on Syria’s economy but keep those in place targeting the former Assad regime, the EU’s top diplomat announced Tuesday. Foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas spoke after chairing a meeting of foreign ministers from the 27-member bloc. She said the decision was
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN, THOMAS BEAUMONT and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key financial supporter of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he’ll be spending “a lot less” on political campaigns, a reversal that could be a setback for Republicans ahead of next
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An angry Sean “Diddy” Combs demanded $20,000 from Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s mother and threatened to release explicit sex tapes of his longtime girlfriend after learning she was dating someone else, the mother testified Tuesday at the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. Regina
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By MIKE CATALINI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Federal prosecutors alleged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey pushed and grabbed officers while attempting to block the arrest of the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention facility, according to charges in court papers unsealed on Tuesday. In an eight-page complaint, interim U.S.
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By FERNANDA FIGUEROA and AARON MORRISON Associated Press After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the combusted landmark lit the internet ablaze with mass jubilation and consternation over the weekend. For
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Harris Dickinson is sitting on a rooftop terrace in Cannes, trying to find all the movie tattoos on his body. There’s a little one for 2001’s “Donnie Darko,” but there’s a much larger one on his arm for “Kes,” Ken Loach’s seminal British social realism
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By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A Virginia man has been charged with felony burglary after being pardoned for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, which included smashing the door panel that rioter Ashli Babbitt tried to breach before police shot her. Zachary Jordan Alam, 33, of Centreville, was arrested May 9 in a neighborhood
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By MATTHEW LEE and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators sparred Tuesday over the Trump administration’s foreign policies, ranging from Ukraine and Russia to the Middle East, Latin America, the slashing of the U.S. foreign assistance budget and refugee admissions. Rubio defended the administration’s decisions to
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man charged in the shooting death of the director of baseball operations at Creighton University has been ordered to remain at a psychiatric hospital after he was found not responsible by reason of insanity. A judge on Monday ordered Ladell Thornton to undergo an evaluation to determine a treatment
Continue Reading New York(AP)-noon stocks LastChg. AT&TInc 27.85 — .18 Altria 59.81 +.34 AmerenCp 98.57 — .40 AmExpress 295.86 —3.44 ArchDanM 50.26 +.25 AutoZone 3875.66 —4.31 BPPLC 29.29 — .12 Boeing 207.17 +1.92 BristMySq 47.71 +.49 Brunswick 53.24 +.30 Chevron 137.99 — .50 Citigroup 75.91 — .22 CocaCola 71.59 — .35 ConAgraBr 23.10 +.09 ConocoPhil 89.70 —
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An appeals court in Serbia on Tuesday released three out of six political activists from jail following protests and international criticism of the populist government, which has faced monthslong anti-graft demonstrations. But the court in the northern city of Novi Sad ordered that the three remain under house arrest, pending legal
Continue Reading FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — A chlorine leak at a Texas chemical plant on Tuesday prompted officials to ask residents in two Texas cities near the facility to shelter in place. Chlorine gas was released around 9 a.m. from a plant in Freeport that is owned by Olin Corp., according to Brazosport CAER, an organization that
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By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put U.S. weapons in space. Speaking Tuesday from the Oval Office, Trump said he expects the system will
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By SOPHIE BATES Associated Press TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band. “I still have hope,” Lowery said. He, his wife
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa sheriff is warning that his county may be publicly shamed by the Trump administration for insufficiently backing the president’s immigration agenda, though he says he is “more than happy” to help. He said he just wants to ensure he doesn’t end up with
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