Coroner: Leader of large organic food scheme dies by suicide
Aug 21, 2019
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Missouri farmer blamed for running the largest organic food fraud scheme in U.S. history has died by suicide, weeks before he was to report to federal prison to begin…
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Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program
Aug 20, 2019
By DAVID CRARY and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR NEW YORK (AP) — Planned Parenthood said Monday it’s pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from…
Florida’s iconic palm trees threatened by invasive disease
Aug 19, 2019
By TERRY SPENCER DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill.…
Israel grants Tlaib West Bank visit on humanitarian grounds
Aug 16, 2019
By ISAAC SCHARF JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s interior minister said Friday he has received and granted a request by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds. The decision marked…
Rep. Steve King says rapes, incest helped populate the world
Aug 15, 2019
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Rep. Steve King on Wednesday defended his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether there would be “any population of the world left”…
Flooded Mississippi a threat as hurricane season heats up
Aug 14, 2019
By JEFF MARTIN and JANET McCONNAUGHEY NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The river that drains much of the flood-soaked United States is still running far higher than normal, menacing New Orleans in multiple ways just as…
Farms turn to technology amid water warnings in Southwest US
Aug 13, 2019
By DAN ELLIOTT GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water…
Autopsy of Epstein performed, but details yet to be released
Aug 12, 2019
By JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO NEW YORK (AP) — The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical…
Scandal-ridden NRA head LaPierre digs in against gun control
Aug 09, 2019
By LISA MARIE PANE In the aftermath of the back-to-back shooting massacres in Texas and Ohio, the debate over gun control has returned to the National Rifle Association and its immense power to stymie any significant legislation…
Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests
Aug 08, 2019
By ROGELIO V. SOLIS and JEFF AMY MORTON, Miss. (AP) — U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a…