By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. Mahdi’s lawyers said his original attorneys put on a shallow case trying
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Authorities released a woman and her three children from custody on Monday after immigration agents detained them late last month while investigators were making an arrest at an upstate New York farm as part of an unrelated criminal case. President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, told Carthage-based TV station
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By SEJAL GOVINDARAO and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again Monday. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband. In opening statements the prosecution said that
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49. The former lawmaker from
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The appointment of a junior foreign service officer to serve as the senior official in the State Department’s personnel office is facing opposition and concern from current and former U.S. diplomats and their union. The American Foreign Service Association, which represents U.S. diplomats, the American Academy
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The appointment of a junior foreign service officer to serve as the senior official in the State Department’s personnel office is facing opposition and concern from current and former U.S. diplomats and their union. The American Foreign Service Association, which represents U.S. diplomats, the American Academy
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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to gun laws in New York that ban firearms from certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character.” The high court did not give an explanation on why it chose not to
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Monday: OpenHighLowSettleChg. COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.; dollars per lb. May 62.22 66.15 61.81 65.99 +2.63 Jul 63.80 66.99 63.06 66.89 +2.33 Oct 65.35 68.69 65.35 68.69 +2.28 Dec 65.30 68.31 65.04 68.23 +2.07 Mar 66.31 69.37 66.30 69.37 +1.98 May 67.25 70.46 67.25
Continue ReadingOpenHighLowSettleChg. LUMBER 27,500 bd. ft.; $ per 1,000 bd. ft. May 585.5 586.0 571.0 571.5 —20.0 Jul 615.0 616.0 604.0 605.5 —12.5 Sep 637.5 637.5 629.5 629.5 —15.5 Est. sales 2,136. Fri.’s sales 1,975 Fri.’s open int 6,609 LIBOR-1 MONTH $3 million; pts of 100 pct. No open contracts. US T. BILLS $1 million; pts
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison.
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers. Microsoft accused one of the workers in a termination letter Monday of misconduct “designed to gain notoriety and
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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sex abuse trial of former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in Nevada has again been postponed. A judge on Monday moved the start of the trial in state court in Las Vegas to Aug. 4. The 48-year-old had been scheduled to stand trial
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday. “Garth Greenwell has wrought a narrative of illness and identity in visceral detail, conveyed with a precision of language that
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 557¼ 572¾ 553¾ 559¼ +1¾ Jul 570 584¾ 567½ 572¾ +2¾ Sep 584 598¼ 581¾ 586¾ +2¾ Dec 606½ 619¾ 604¼ 608¾ +2¼ Mar 628¼ 638 623 627¼ +1¾ May 639 639 636¼
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Apr 201.55 202.95 198.60 198.92 —3.70 Jun 196.20 199.40 194.02 194.17 —4.03 Aug 192.30 195.67 190.32 190.52 —4.18 Oct 190.30 193.92 188.95 189.35 —3.75 Dec 191.47 194.62 189.95 190.52 —3.18 Feb 193.00 195.90 191.22 191.97 —2.80 Apr
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. CATTLE 40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Apr 201.55 202.95 198.60 198.92 —3.70 Jun 196.20 199.40 194.02 194.17 —4.03 Aug 192.30 195.67 190.32 190.52 —4.18 Oct 190.30 193.92 188.95 189.35 —3.75 Dec 191.47 194.62 189.95 190.52 —3.18 Feb 193.00 195.90 191.22 191.97 —2.80 Apr
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 557¼ 572¾ 553¾ 559¼ +1¾ Jul 570 584¾ 567½ 572¾ +2¾ Sep 584 598¼ 581¾ 586¾ +2¾ Dec 606½ 619¾ 604¼ 608¾ +2¼ Mar 628¼ 638 623 627¼ +1¾ May 639 639 636¼
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 557¼ 572¾ 553¾ 559¼ +1¾ Jul 570 584¾ 567½ 572¾ +2¾ Sep 584 598¼ 581¾ 586¾ +2¾ Dec 606½ 619¾ 604¼ 608¾ +2¼ Mar 628¼ 638 623 627¼ +1¾ May 639 639 636¼
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Winter Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade Mon: OpenHighLowSettleChg. WHEAT 5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel May 557¼ 572¾ 553¾ 559¼ +1¾ Jul 570 584¾ 567½ 572¾ +2¾ Sep 584 598¼ 581¾ 586¾ +2¾ Dec 606½ 619¾ 604¼ 608¾ +2¼ Mar 628¼ 638 623 627¼ +1¾ May 639 639 636¼
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in Haiti’s capital, according to a report on Monday by the U.N. political mission in Haiti that questioned the delay in the response by authorities. The report notes that during the
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that claimed a local news outlet defamed him in public comments about its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the misspending of $77 million in federal welfare funds. The one-page ruling Friday by Madison County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Mills sided
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By PETER SMITH Associated Press The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and migrant children, saying the “heartbreaking” decision follows the Trump administration’s abrupt halt to funding. The break will inevitably result in fewer services than what Catholic agencies
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