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By Emily Schmall CHICAGO, April 30 (Reuters) – An independent commission created by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in the wake of an aggressive immigration crackdown in the Chicago area last year has recommended that local prosecutors investigate federal agents for misconduct.The Illinois Accountability Commission, led by retired U.S. District Judge Rubén Castillo, issued a report on Thursday documenting what it described as a pattern of “unjustified and excessive force,” and […]

LONDON (AP) — Elusive street artist Banksy said Thursday that a new sculpture that appeared in central London of a man striding off a plinth, with his face blinded by a billowing flag, is his work. In a humorous video posted Thursday on his Instagram account, Banksy showed snippets of how the sculpture was put up in the dead of night. The sculpture appeared to have been erected in the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States. The appeal filed Wednesday was a delayed response to a March 16 court order that blocked the decision by President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to end broad recommendations for all children to be vaccinated against flu, rotavirus, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence is permeating workplaces, changing the nature of jobs of every stripe. Teachers are using it to create lesson plans and grade papers. Marketing professionals are harnessing it to work a room and learn about the needs of potential clients. Product managers are asking AI to serve as an interpreter when technical conversations went over their heads in meetings. Some people who employ AI tools […]

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. launched a campaign Thursday for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas, upending the race in a normally Republican state as the GOP’s small majority seems less secure than it was a year ago. The Rev. Adam Hamilton enters the race as a potentially formidable candidate, though it wasn’t immediately clear how […]

CHRISTIANA, Tenn. (AP) — From a distance, the small solar farm in central Tennessee looks like others that now dot rural America, with row upon row of black panels absorbing the sun’s rays to generate electricity. But beneath these panels is lush pasture instead of gravel, enjoyed by a small herd of cattle that spends its days munching grass and resting in the shade. Silicon Ranch, which owns the 40-acre […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Mark Sanford, the Republican former South Carolina congressman and governor whose political ascendency was stalled by a 2009 affair, has ended his latest bid for public office, saying that he’s quitting the race to reclaim his former coastal district to set up a nonprofit to address the national debt, his signature issue. Sanford, 65, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was shuttering his campaign […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s congressional primaries won’t be going forward as scheduled in May, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a majority Black congressional district, the state’s top elected officials said Thursday. Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill, both Republicans, said in a joint statement that Wednesday’s high court ruling effectively prohibits the state from carrying out the primaries under […]

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is talking to oil companies and considering measures to increase production in the United States “really soon” to ease the impact of the Iran war on energy supplies, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Thursday. “We’ve been in constant communication with the oil companies, and have been considering measures that we could take here in the U.S. to increase U.S. […]