Mt. Pleasant News

WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts.The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration's request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially ...

Just Peace Outreach Group (J-POG) is hosting Kathy Kelly on Sunday, Dec. 10. Kelly is the coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times. She received the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation Peace Prize in 2015. She will be speaking on ?Yemen, Afghanistan, and the War against the Poor.?Kelly has recently returned from Kabul, Afghanistan, where she was ...

My husband, Daniel, is the type to always be looking for something to keep life interesting and find things to do off the beaten path. One aspect in which he has been a blessing for me is that of food. He likes coming up with new ways to prepare food or simplify and shorten the time I need to spend in the kitchen. Whether it's baking a big batch of cookies and freezing some for his lunch, or making a mega amount ...

Winfield-Mt. Union students will be presenting two concerts to entertain the community this season.WMU High School Band and Choir will present a concert of holiday music on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. in the big gym. There will be a good variety of music to put listeners into a festive mood. Selah, a local women's ensemble, will be featured as guest performers and will sing with the WMU HS Choir. Plan ...

WASHINGTON ? A federal judge ordered Energy Transfer Partners LP to coordinate with local tribes and the Army Corps of Engineers to create an oil-spill response plan for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline by next April, a decision he said will allow oil to keep flowing and prevent spills.The order on Monday by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg came nearly six months after he ruled that the Army Corps of ...

(Reuters) Indivior's experimental drug to help fight America's growing opioid addiction crisis was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late on Thursday, boosting its sales prospects as competitors threaten revenues from an older product.Shares in the London-listed company, which specializes in addiction treatment, were up 10.9 percent at 411 pence at 0818 GMT on Friday. The stock was the top gainer ...

ANKENY ? The Des Moines company selected to grow marijuana and manufacture medical cannabis products would like to produce tinctures, creams, soft gels, suppositories and even inhalers that allow patients with a variety of ailments to get customized therapies.?We want to create efficacious doses within the parameters established by the law,? Lucas Nelson, an attorney for Kemin Industries and a consultant with ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) ? U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has been forced to cancel a planned trip to Russia's Far East next week because senior regional officials could not find time to meet him, the U.S. Embassy to Russia said in a statement on Friday.The United States has a consulate in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and the embassy said his planned visit was part of a series of trips to places where the ...

YANGON ? Pope Francis met leaders of several faiths in majority-Buddhist Myanmar on Tuesday, stressing the importance of ?unity in diversity? but making no mention the Muslim Rohingya who have fled en masse to Bangladesh after a military crackdown.The pope held private talks with Myanmar's military chief in Yangon on Monday, the first day of a visit fraught with tension after the United States accused the ...

NEW YORK ? American Airlines still has hundreds of flights without pilots assigned to them in December, the company said on Thursday, after a scheduling error gave too many pilots time off.The number of flights that remain pilotless is now ?a few hundred,? the airline said, compared to a peak that the carrier's Allied Pilots Association (APA) union estimated at 15,000. American said it expects the number to ...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck Delaware on Thursday in a rare seismological occurrence for the U.S. Northeast, officials said, with the temblor's strength equaling the estimated magnitude of an 1871 quake that was believed to be the largest ever in the state.The quake, previously reported at magnitude 5.1 and then at 4.4, was centered in the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, according to a ...

JERUSALEM ? As dark falls, Adeeb Joudeh, a Muslim, makes his way through the stone alleyways of Jerusalem's walled Old City cradling the ancient key to one of Christianity's holiest sites.Centuries ago, the imposing iron key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried, was entrusted to his family, one of Jerusalem's most prominent clans, says Joudeh.He ...