Obituaries

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States and closed the Russian consulate in Seattle in response to a nerve agent attack earlier this month in Britain, senior U.S. officials said.It was the toughest action that Trump has taken against Russia, and followed what one of the officials called a ?reckless attempt? by the Russian government on March ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea called on the United States on Monday to understand its position and adopt a ?serious attitude? to contribute to maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.Ri Jong Hyok, director of North Korea's National Reunification Institute and deputy head of its Supreme People's Assembly, said that his country sought to build a ?just and peaceful new world, free from aggression ...

BOGOTA - Billions of people live on farmland that is deteriorating and producing less food, and this situation could force hundreds of millions of people to migrate over the next three decades, a major report said on Monday.The study, which is backed by the United Nations, said climate change and worsening land quality could see crop yields halve in some regions by 2050, and warned that larger tracts of degraded ...

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday, March 24, at the Mt. Pleasant Veterans' Hall. Sixteen members and 10 guests braved the snowy, icy weather to attend. Hostesses Debbie Schmidt, Carol Messer and Helen See provided a wonderful assortment of refreshments.Regent Barbara Welander conducted a brief meeting, after opening rituals. It was agreed to donate funds to the Iowa ...

During the lenten season, Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church hosted soup suppers each Wednesday evening in their Parish Hall.

CEDAR RAPIDS -- A parish is left without its priest after the Rev. Mark Reasoner of St. Jude Catholic Church died unexpectedly Sunday, according to his obituary.Reasoner, 53, collapsed during the first morning service. Paramedics were called, and eventually Reasoner resumed the services in the church, where he later was found dead.Reasoner served a pastoral coordinator at Holy Family Catholic Schools. He ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Nestle SA inaugurated a new quality control lab outside Sao Paulo on Friday, which the company said would help it expand into organic products in Brazil, and potentially grow to serve all of Latin America and beyond.In February, Nestle told Reuters it was launching its first organic food line in Brazil, as part of the world's largest food company's global push to capture growing interest in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday wrote Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg detailing new concerns about the social media company's use of data and formally requesting that he testify at a future hearing.?The hearing will examine the harvesting and sale of personal information from more than 50 million Facebook users, potentially without their ...

(Reuters) Shares in Nike surged 4 percent on Friday as at least eight Wall Street analysts raised their targets on the sneaker maker, judging better than expected forecasts signaled the beginning of the end of a year-long rough patch in North America.Just five months ago, Wall Street analysts warned that Nike's recovery in its home markets would be a long one as German rival Adidas launched a raft of new shoes ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs met a barrage of criticism at a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday, as the European Union, Brazil, Japan, Australia and others joined a debate started by China and Russia.The EU representative told the meeting that the tariffs could not be justified by a claim to national security, and said the United States was making that claim ...