Lincoln to Host Future National High School Finals Rodeos

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Governor Approves New Protocol for Lethal Injections

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Apple Sales Beat Estimates on Demand for Latest iPhones

Apple Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analyst projections, fueled by demand for the company’s latest and priciest iPhones. Apple said sales rose 3.3 percent to $78.4 billion, with earnings of $3.36 a share in the three months through Dec. 31. Analysts forecast profit of $3.22 a share on revenue of $77.3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Radio stations in several states hacked with anti-Trump rap

Radio stations in South Carolina and several other states say their signals were hacked and interrupted by an anti-Donald Trump rap song that contained obscene language. Multiple media outlets report a radio station in Salem, South Carolina, had its signal hacked Monday night and replaced by a rap played on a loop for at least 15 minutes, making a vulgar reference to Trump.

Nintendo plans to release 2 or 3 mobile games every year

A man stands in front of Nintendo’s logo at the presentation ceremony of its new game console Switch in Tokyo, Japan January 13, 2017. Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it plans to release two or three mobile games every year, a day after the Japanese videogames maker disappointed investors with a one-third cut to its full-year operating profit outlook.

Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Seen Gaining U.S. Approval Soon

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to issue Energy Transfer Partners LP the last permit it needs to finish the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, two North Dakota lawmakers said. Acting Army Secretary Robert Speer directed the Army Corps to move forward with the easement necessary to build the final leg of the $3.8 billion crude line under North Dakota’s Lake Oahe, North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday, citing a conversation he had with Speer.

Nevada casinos win $11.3 billion in 2016, up from 2015 take

Casinos in Nevada won $11.3 billion from gamblers in 2016, marking a second consecutive year of gambling revenue gains but still missing the pre-recession record set in 2007, state officials said Tuesday. The statewide amount that casinos took in was up 1.3 percent compared to 2015, according to data released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

Budweiser focus on immigration in Super Bowl spot

But this year’s Budweiser ad released Tuesday featuring an immigrant’s travel to the U.S. became suddenly more topical than Anheuser-Busch executives were probably expecting, released days after President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday temporarily banning refugees and nearly all citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The 60-second ad called “Born the Hard Way,” shows Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch traveling by boat from Germany to the U.S. in 1850s.

Radio station hijacked by anti-Trump messaging

Radio stations in South Carolina, Kentucky, and several other states claim that their signals were hijacked in recent days, interrupted by an obscene rap song that denounced President Donald Trump. A station in Salem SC was hacked on January 30 by a rap that played continuously for 15 minutes.

EU mobile roaming charges to disappear after deal on wholesale caps

A man makes a phone call using his mobile phone at the Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, May 16, 2014. The European Union clinched a preliminary deal on Wednesday to cap wholesale charges telecom operators pay each other when their customers call, send texts or surf the web abroad, paving the way for the abolition of roaming fees in June, the European Commission’s digital chief said on Twitter.

Apple Sales Beat Estimates on Demand for Latest IPhones

Apple Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analyst projections, fueled by demand for the company’s latest and priciest iPhones. Apple said sales rose 3.3 percent to $78.4 billion, with earnings of $3.36 a share in the three months through Dec. 31. Analysts forecast profit of $3.22 a share on revenue of $77.3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Jim Cramer’s ‘Off the Charts’: Things (Should) Go Better With Coke

Diversification is essential to protect portfolios from a sustained selloff. What happens, for example, if so-called Trump stocks , especially the cyclicals that tend to roar higher when the economy improves, suddenly take it on the chin? That’s exactly what’s happened in the last couple of days, Jim Cramer said during his Mad Money program’s “Off the Charts” segment.

Aleppo’s online student

Mariam Hammad, despite every adversity of war and hardship, is trying to be a student in Aleppo in the dark heart of Syria’s civil war. But in constant danger, forced out of her home twice by shelling and living without regular supplies of electricity or water, this 22-year-old has refused, against all odds, to give up being a student.

UK economy to slow down this year and next, says NIESR

The UK economy may slow down in the next couple of years, even while the world economy picks up, says the National Institute of Economic and Social Research . Its latest forecast suggests the UK will grow by 1.7% this year and by 1.9% in 2018, both down from the growth rate of 2% recorded for 2016.

Profits jump 25 percent at Germany’s Siemens

Siemens AG, the German maker of gas turbines, trains and medical machines, says net income rose 25 percent to 1.93 billion euros for its most recent quarter. The Munich-based company said Tuesday the strong performance in the last three months of the year – the company’s fiscal first quarter – allowed it to raise its outlook for the full fiscal year.

Owner, charity liable in building collapse that killed 6

A jury has found the Salvation Army, an adjacent building owner and other defendants liable for a Philadelphia building collapse that killed six people inside the charity’s thrift store. Thirteen other people were buried in rubble but survived when a towering wall from an adjacent demolition project collapsed onto the small store.

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Consumers have spoken loud and clear in the past few years — we’re tired of boring big-label beer that mostly tastes the same. Instead, craft brewing — made up of smaller-batch independent brews — has grown quickly as drinkers look to find unique flavors and labels.

The Luxottica Essilor Mega-Merger: Company Overviews

In this segment of Industry Focus: Consumer Goods , Motley Fool analyst Vincent Shen provides some key background onfashion frames retailer Luxottica Group as the two companies seek to combine their businesses in a $50 billion deal. Learn more about their respective revenues, market share, product offerings, and positions within the industry.

Wal-Mart dumps its version of Amazon Prime for new path

Wal-Mart is replacing a program that offered free shipping but had an annual fee with one that has a lower free shipping threshold and faster delivery as it hopes to answer Amazon’s powerful Prime membership success. The retailer says it will reduce shipping time to two days on 2 million of its most popular items including essentials like diapers and pet food as well as hot toys and electronics.

1 Thing Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC Has to Prove in 2017

That is after its banks had reduced the borrowing base under its credit facility for the second time that year resulting in another deficiency. This situation caused the upstream MLP to caution that: [It] anticipates that its forecasted excess cash flow will not be sufficient to pay the remaining borrowing base deficiency.

It takes more than social media to make a social movement

People chant slogans at the Indianapolis International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, during a protest against President Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending all immigration for citizens of seven majority Muslim countries for 90 days. President Trump may have used the power of social media to make his way into the White House, but now social media networks are showing that muscle can work for his opposition, too.