Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Christopher Vondracek
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The banner year for corn may not be what it's cracked up to be.
Brandon Fast says it used to cost him $250 a wheel to replace the tires on his 18-wheeler on his farm near Mountain Lake. Now, that price is nearly double—just one reason he's not yet celebrating the near-historic $8-a-bushel-and-up corn prices popping up at some ethanol plants and grain elevators throughout southwestern Minnesota. "It's almost one step forward, two steps back at this point," said Fast, a corn farmer who also runs a seed and chemical business, on Thursday. Between new tires, fertilizer, and a backlog of shipping containers
Washington Times,
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Guy Taylor
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One of Washington’s goals in responding to the Ukraine crisis is to erode Russia’s ability to carry out future military actions akin to the now three-month-old invasion of Ukraine, Defense Secretary of State Lloyd Austin said Monday upon returning from a stealth visit to Kyiv. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Mr. Austin told reporters in Poland, where he and Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived early Monday after traveling by train to the Ukrainian capital. Security was tight for the trip,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Natasha Anderson
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The US has pledged another $713million for Ukraine as two top Biden officials visited Kyiv under the cover of darkness where they blasted Russia's 'failing' invasion. In the highest-level meeting between the US and Ukraine since the war, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin took a train from Poland to Kyiv where they met with Volodymyr Zelensky in an overnight trip shrouded by secrecy.(Snip)At the meeting, Austin and Mr Blinken announced a total of $713million in foreign military financing for Ukraine and 15 allied and partner countries; some $322million of that is earmarked for Kyiv. The remainder will be split among NATO members and other nations
Daily Mail (UK),
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James Gordon
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Multiple US airlines are now so desperate for staff that they've swapped planes for buses on some shorter routes. Several carriers, including American Airlines have hired coach companies to carry passengers when the distances are small. American will bus people between Philadelphia and between multiple other airports that would only be a short hop away by air. The service will start June 3 between Philadelphia International and airports in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic City, New Jersey with the bus company called Landline. Meanwhile, United is offering one-stop connectivity to both Fort Collins and Breckenridge, with four daily buses from Denver to the former and just one to the latter.
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com,
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Jonathan D. Salant
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Low-income New Jerseyans will be getting another $12.8 million to help them pay their heating and cooling bills, the final tranche of a record allocation to the state. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus law, the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law and the regular spending bills will deliver $302.4 million to the state through Sept. 30, more than double the $112.7 million the state ordinarily would receive under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. The money represents the biggest allocation for the program since it began in 1981 and follows a surge in energy prices during the recovery from the coronavirus-induced recession and the Russian
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Natasha Anderson
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The U.S. secretaries of state and defense are making a secret visit to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky as he calls for more powerful weapons to fight Russian forces. Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin met with Zelensky in Ukraine on Sunday—13 days after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won plaudits for flying to the war-torn nation and walking the streets of Kyiv with Zelensky.
Joe Biden has made no such-attempt to show solidarity with his own in-person visit, and his press secretary Jen Psaki has said there are no plans for the 79 year-old to travel there.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Katelyn Caralle
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Natasha Anderson
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The Texas National Guard soldier who died trying to save alleged drug smugglers in the Rio Grande River was identified Sunday as Specialist Bishop E. Evans, 22, from Arlington, Texas. The search is still underway for Evans' body after he presumably drowned Friday after jumping in the water diving Texas and Mexico in an attempt to rescue two men from the current. Republican Texas Representative Chip Roy sent a quick 'rest in peace' message on Twitter upon the release of the deceased's name. Illinois GOP Representative Mary Miller tweeted on Sunday: 'Praying for Texas National Guard SPC Bishop Evans and his family. What a horrible tragedy for them to endure,
Guardian [U.K.],
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Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Sixteen people–most of whom were trying to enter the US without permission–were injured when their pickup truck crashed while being chased at high speeds by Texas police, according to authorities.
Two of those hurt were critically wounded and flown to hospitals in San Antonio by helicopter, said the sheriff of Medina county, Randy Brown, whose deputies pursued the truck at the center of the wreck.
A steadily growing number of law enforcement agencies across the US have prohibited their officers from chasing fleeing vehicle drivers who are not suspected of violent crimes. Brown on Saturday said his office largely defers to deputies’ judgments about whom to chase
Associated Press,
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Ben Winslow
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Hildale, Utah—Marion Timpson’s own marriages reflect Utah’s recent legal battles over polygamy. “I married Holly in 2005 and Katie in 2013, and I married Lisa in 2014,” the polygamist told FOX 13 News, referring to his wives. One of his marriages took place shortly after a federal judge struck down Utah’s anti-polygamy laws. Reality TV polygamist Kody Brown and his wives sued the state and won, effectively decriminalizing plural marriage as a religious belief. (Snip)“Bigamy had been a felony in Utah since 1935 and it clearly didn’t do what the law, I think, or the people who put that law intended it for it do.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Chris Matthews
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First it was statues, then it was street names and books by white authors. Now left-wing radicals have cricket and knitting in their woke sights as they aim to decolonise Britain—and they've used millions in taxpayers' money to do it. Taxpayers' cash is being spent to decolonise English museums, which depict a history written by 'white, wealthy, able-bodied men'. Arts Council England has poured millions of hardworking Britons' money into Museum Development England, which said museums in the country, including attractions dedicated to cricket and knitwear, needed help with 'equity and inclusion'. There has been continued outrage at the lengths woke museum and arts bosses are going
Daily Mail (UK),
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Chris Matthews
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A knifeman shouted 'we have to kill Macron' as he stabbed a priest and a nun multiple times in an unprovoked attack in France this morning. Father Krzysztof Rudzinski, 59, was stabbed 20 times with a 7cm knife before Sister Marie-Claude, 72, was cut in the hand as she reportedly snatched the knife from the attacker. French police arrested a 31-year-old French man from Fréjus, southeastern France, after the attack at 10am in the Saint Pierre d'Arène church, Nice.(Snip)'The perpetrator was a disturbed man, who was born in Fréjus, who has no prior convictions and who took out several knives.
Daily Mail (UK) & Wires,
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Andrea Cavallier
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Alec Baldwin just can't catch a break from a run in with the law.
Baldwin, 64, was spotted opening an envelop containing a parking ticket after stopping to grab lunch near his home in ritzy East Hampton over the weekend. Baldwin and his wife Hilaria, 38, who is pregnant with their seventh child, have been seen in the upscale Long Island community several times since he has come under fire for shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his western, Rust, last October. The actor, who was out for lunch Saturday, returned to his vehicle to find the dreaded bright yellow parking ticket on his windshield. He grabs it,
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Yes, most certainly disturbed. France seems to be OK with becoming a Muslim nation dominated by foreigners who burn their cathedrals and attack their clergy, and will probably re-elect the "centrist" Little Macron over that far-right radical Le Pen. Far right is bad, very bad.