CHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 565 572¾ 560¾ 568½ +3¼ Jul 576¾ 583¼ 572¼ 579¾ +3 Sep 591½ 596¾ 587 593½ +2½ Dec 614¼ 618¾ 610 615¾ +2 Mar 635½ 636½ 629 634 +1¼ May 639¼ 645 639¼
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By The Associated Press Actor Ralph Fiennes will make his opera directing debut in Paris next season with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” The Paris Opera said Wednesday the production will run from Jan. 26 to Feb. 27 at the Palais Garnier and will star Boris Pinkhasovich in the title role, Ruzan Mantashyan as Tatiana, Bogdan Volkov
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By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of members of a Mexican band after they projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance in the western state of Jalisco over the weekend. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau,
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By ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — As the first news outlets began calling the Wisconsin Supreme Court election for the liberal candidate Susan Crawford, her opponent called her — to concede. Minutes later Tuesday night, the conservative-backed Brad Schimel took the stage at his watch party to acknowledge the
Continue ReadingThe 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 – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–SEVERE WEATHER-HIGH RISK-GLANCE Wild weather expected Wednesday gets a rare ‘high-risk’ designation — the most severe category SUMMARY:
Continue ReadingThe 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 – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–SEVERE WEATHER-HIGH RISK-GLANCE Wild weather expected Wednesday gets a rare ‘high-risk’ designation — the most severe category SUMMARY:
Continue ReadingThe 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 – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–SEVERE WEATHER-HIGH RISK-GLANCE Wild weather expected Wednesday gets a rare ‘high-risk’ designation — the most severe category SUMMARY:
Continue ReadingThe 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 – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS —————————— US–SEVERE WEATHER-HIGH RISK-GLANCE Wild weather expected Wednesday gets a rare ‘high-risk’ designation — the most severe category SUMMARY:
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An iconic pet reindeer beloved by many in Alaska’s largest city has been euthanized, just weeks after someone tampered with his cage and possibly poisoned him, his caretaker said Wednesday. “I don’t have an answer as to why he had to be put down other than
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By AAMER MADHANI and SARAH PARVINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which comes amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider. Low-income patients who go there for things like
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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A district attorney in Boston harshly criticized the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday, after one of its agents detained a suspect while he was on trial. ICE agent Brian Sullivan detained Wilson Martell-Lebron last week as he was leaving court. But a Boston Municipal Court judge
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — DOGE’s days appear to be numbered. Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that “at some point, he’s going to be going back” to running his companies. As far as the
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that Elon Musk would likely leave his administration in “a few months,” the clearest sign that his most powerful and disruptive adviser will be wrapping up his work inside the government. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that “Elon is fantastic”
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cemented a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years and dealt a devastating blow to Republicans who fear it paves
Continue ReadingBy OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The draft of a letter from Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to U.S. President Donald Trump offering exclusive access to air bases and seaports has reignited tensions between Somalia’s government and the breakaway region of Somaliland. In the letter, Somalia offers “exclusive operational control” over the
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By BEN FINLEY Associated Press In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador, his young son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father’s clothes. “He shows me how much he missed Kilmar,” Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador, his young son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father’s clothes. “He shows me how much he missed Kilmar,” Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader
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By JONATHAN MATTISE, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been obsessively planning it for years while hiding mental health issues from family and doctors, a police report released Wednesday reveals. The nearly 50-page
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Continue ReadingNew York(AP)-noon stocks LastChg. AT&TInc 28.19 — .29 Altria 56.18 —2.61 AmerenCp 100.76 +.09 AmExpress 274.51 +4.03 ArchDanM 47.75 — .46 AutoZone 3811.32 —1.95 BPPLC 33.77 — .04 Boeing 167.76 — .42 BristMySq 59.40 — .15 Brunswick 55.08 +1.15 Chevron 166.89 —1.62 Citigroup 71.44 +.90 CocaCola 71.27 — .60 ConAgraBr 26.30 — .31 ConocoPhil 105.88
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By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. government forecasters are using a relatively rare “high-risk” designation — the highest category they use — to warn that a major tornado outbreak appears likely Wednesday in an area that’s home to about 2.5 million people. That area most at risk of catastrophic weather on Wednesday
Continue Reading By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. government forecasters are using a relatively rare “high-risk” designation — the highest category they use — to warn that a major tornado outbreak appears likely Wednesday in an area that’s home to about 2.5 million people. That area most at risk of catastrophic weather on Wednesday
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By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night that would thwart President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada, delivering a rare rebuke to the president just hours after he unveiled sweeping plans to clamp down on international trade. The Senate resolution, passed by a 51-48 vote
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night that would thwart President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada, delivering a rare rebuke to the president just hours after he unveiled sweeping plans to clamp down on international trade. The Senate resolution, passed by a 51-48 vote
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A California man will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C, nearly three years ago, the defendant’s attorneys said in a court filing on Wednesday. Nicholas John Roske, of Simi Valley, California, was arrested
Continue ReadingHere are the scores from yesterday’s men’s college basketball tournaments: ___ NCAA No games scheduled. NIT No games scheduled. CBI No games scheduled. Today’s men’s college basketball tournament schedule: ___ NCAA No games scheduled. NIT No games scheduled. CBI No games scheduled.
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Val Kilmer once proclaimed that he’s almost been fired from all his movies. Thankfully for us, he wasn’t. Though he might have frustrated more than a few directors, they too knew the headaches were ultimately worth it. An actor’s actor, trained at Juilliard and forever fighting against the simplest
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Associated Press It’s International Fact-Checking Day, an event to highlight the work of fact-checkers around the world. In a message marking the day, Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the the International Fact-Checking Network, noted the recent challenges faced by fact-checkers, including a loss of funding and attacks on fact-checkers and their organizations. “This is indeed
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