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Man convicted in murder of 15-year-old sentenced to 84 years in prison
Kuzma/iStock(CHICAGO) — One of the two men convicted in the 2013 murder of 15-year-old Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton has been sentenced to 84 years in prison. Pendleton was killed on Jan. 29, 2013, when [Read More…]
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World’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak reaches 600 confirmed cases
omersukrugoksu/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has reached 600 confirmed cases in five months, health officials said. Since the outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Aug. [Read More…]
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Brexit: Vote to take place in parliament as Britain’s future hangs in balance
MicroStockHub/iStock(LONDON) — After two years of protracted negotiations, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal to take Britain out of the European Union is set to go before Parliament for a vote on Tuesday. The [Read More…]
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Trump returns for AFBF’s 100th
President Trump found a friendly audience at the 100th American Farm Bureau Convention. The president found little resistance to his desire to build a wall on the nation’s southern border. A big part of his [Read More…]
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Pentagon extends southern border mission through September
Sherry Smith/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has extended the U.S. military’s support mission along the southwestern border through the end of September. Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan also approved a request from the Department of Homeland [Read More…]
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Peel says trade impacts, direct and hidden, will grow
Trade impacts will become bigger and hidden impacts will rise if trade issues continue, according to a beef marketing specialist. Derrell Peel, with Oklahoma State University Extension, tells Brownfield Ag News, “Projections for U.S. macroeconomic [Read More…]
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NCGA concerned about U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA
The National Corn Growers Association views the possibility of U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA as risky and potentially very detrimental to farmers. NCGA president Lynn Chrisp of Nebraska says they’re letting the Trump Administration know how [Read More…]
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Marshall to chair Missouri Farmers Care
The new chairman of the Missouri Farmers Care Coalition says there remains a need to fight extremist groups that go after production agriculture, like the Humane Society of the U.S., “They continue to work at [Read More…]
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ACE concerned history could repeat itself at EPA
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) is calling on U.S. Senators to ensure history does not repeat itself if Andrew Wheeler is formally confirmed as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. ACE CEO Brian Jennings [Read More…]
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Cattle futures drift ahead of cash business
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures were mixed with a weak undertone pressured weaker wholesale values and waiting for direction from this week’s cash trade. Feeder cattle were also lower on long liquidation. [Read More…]
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Rome mayor agrees to keep Trevi Fountain coins going to charity
fazon1/iStock(ROME) — Each day, some $3,500 in coins are thrown into Rome’s Trevi Fountain by tourists making wishes. This scene, made famous by the 1954 film “Three Coins in the Fountain,” has been a windfall [Read More…]
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TSA staffing shortages hit nation’s busiest airports amid government shutdown
David Tran/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Transportation Security Administration officials are closing more security lanes amid increased callouts from officers not being paid during the government shutdown. The absence rate at TSA on Monday is 7.6 percent, up [Read More…]
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Suspect who allegedly took 2 women hostage at UPS facility in New Jersey died on the scene: Officials
WPVI-TV(LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — The suspect who allegedly took two women hostage at a UPS facility in southern New Jersey Monday morning died on the scene, according to officials. A shooting occurred outside the UPS [Read More…]
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Chilling details emerge in Jayme Closs kidnapping
Courtesy Lindsey Smith (BARRON, Wisc.) — The suspect charged in the kidnapping of Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs and killing her parents in cold blood confessed to investigators that he targeted the 13-year-old after seeing her [Read More…]
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Canadian air traffic controllers sending support in the form of pizzas to US counterparts during government shutdown
Courtesy of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association(NEW YORK) — Canadian air traffic controllers are really leaning in to the stereotypical niceness associated with our neighbors to the north. As a show of solidarity, a [Read More…]
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Traveler was able to get a firearm through a TSA security checkpoint and onto an international flight
TennesseePhotographer/iStock(NEW YORK) — As concerns about the possible impacts of the government shutdown on airport screening grow, a passenger got a gun through the country’s busiest airport and onto an international flight in his carry-on [Read More…]
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U.S. & Europe have different trade goals
U.S. and European Union officials are at odds over whether agricultural issues should be included in trade talks. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has made it clear they want to reduce or eliminate tariffs on [Read More…]
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Cooperatives Working Together offers export assistance
Cooperatives Working Together is helping provide export assistance for another 28 cheese and whole milk powder export contracts. The industry-funded program announced sales for nearly four and a half million pounds of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, [Read More…]
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CME futures down, cash dairy mixed Monday. GDT Tuesday
Milk futures were sharply down and cash dairy prices were mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Monday. January Class Three milk was unchanged at $14.07. February was down $.19 at $14.30. March was down $.13 [Read More…]
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Lack of information is a battle
The government shutdown is not the longest on record and a livestock economist says the lack of information puts US livestock producers at a disadvantage. In this Managing for Profit, Scott Brown talks about [Read More…]