ST. LOUIS (AP) — Illinois officials are aggressively fighting the preliminary decision to relocate a federal spy agency to a new site in St. Louis, rather than to a site across the Mississippi River in a suburban area of southern Illinois. Both of Illinois’ U.S. senators and three House members from that part of the…
BERLIN (AP) — German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says it has entered talks with the Monsanto Company about the possible acquisition of the U.S.-based specialist in genetically modified crop seeds. Leverkusen-based Bayer said in a short statement Thursday that its executives had met recently with their Monsanto counterparts “to privately discuss a negotiated…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Thirteen Muslims are suing U.S. immigration officials, alleging in the federal case filed in St. Louis a secret “blacklist” was slowing their quest for citizenship. The Post-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit names U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and immigration officials as defendants. The suit alleges the Controlled Application Review and Resolution…
Trump said in March he planned to release the list of potential nominees to ease concerns about his conservative credentials in the Republican primary
WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists are planning a major study of an experimental HIV vaccine in South Africa later this year. The shots are based on the only attempted HIV vaccine ever to show even marginal effectiveness, in Thailand in 2009. The U.S. National Institutes of Health said Wednesday its study in South Africa will use…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families? That’s the challenge facing a California panel charged with establishing a new history and social studies framework for millions of public school students. On Thursday,…