E.P.A. Promised ‘a New Day’ for the Agriculture Industry, Documents Reveal

By ERIC LIPTON and RONI CARYN RABIN August 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — In the weeks before the Environmental Protection Agency decided to reject its own scientists’ advice to ban a potentially harmful pesticide, Scott Pruitt, the...

‘We Can’t Just Pull Out Our Gun’: Border Patrol Alters Training

By RON NIXON August 18, 2017 ARTESIA, N.M. — In a classroom on the campus of the Border Patrol Academy here at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Andrew Andrade, an instructor, is guiding a group of future Border Patrol agents through an...

After a wild week at the White House, weakened stock market hopes for no Fed bombshells

Stocks are technically weakened, and traders are hoping to get past the Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium at the end of the week without any new bombshells. There is little data in the coming week, with just home sales data Wednesday and Thursday and durable goods...