<\/article>\n<\/div>\nBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal appeals court panel on Friday rejected the state of Missouri’s challenge to a massive upstream Missouri River water project in North Dakota, potentially ending a second legal battle over the project that has been in the works for more than three decades.<\/p>\n
The $244 million Northwest Area Water Supply project aims to bring river water to 82,000 people in northwestern North Dakota, giving them a reliable source of quality water. Missouri worries the project will diminish the river water it needs for drinking, farming and shipping. The state sued in 2009.<\/p>\n
The underlying dispute centers on how much water NAWS will actually use. Missouri maintains it will deplete the river by 3.5 billion gallons each year, causing “manifold injuries to Missouri’s sovereign and proprietary interests.” North Dakota counters that the number is misleading because the river system has the capacity for more than 23 trillion gallons of water.<\/p>\n
The legal battle didn’t address the water disagreement. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington, D.C., ruled in 2017 that Missouri had no authority to sue the federal government over the matter. The state appealed, but a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld Collyer’s ruling.<\/p>\n
“In the end, we are unpersuaded by Missouri’s argument” that there are exceptions in case law under which its claim fits.<\/p>\n
Missouri could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state attorney general’s office didn’t immediately comment.<\/p>\n
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem praised the ruling, calling it “a significant and long-sought victory for the citizens of North Dakota.”<\/p>\n
Congress first authorized the NAWS project in 1986. It ran into a snag in 2002 when the Canadian province of Manitoba sued over concerns about the possible transfer of harmful bacteria or other agents from the Missouri River Basin to the Hudson Bay Basin. The international dispute was resolved about a year ago when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Manitoba government reached an agreement giving Canada a say in water treatment and monitoring.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Hiring jumped in April as U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs, a strong gain that suggests businesses have shrugged off any concerns the economy may slow this year.<\/p>\n
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate fell to a new five-decade low of 3.6%, though that drop partly reflected an increase in the number of Americans who stopped looking for work. Average hourly pay rose 3.2% from the previous year, a healthy gain though unchanged from the previous month.<\/p>\n
April’s figures show that solid economic growth is still encouraging robust hiring, nearly a decade into the economy’s recovery from the Great Recession. The expansion is set to become the longest in history in July. Businesses say they are struggling to find workers, but have taken a range of steps to fill jobs, including training more entry-level workers, loosening educational requirements and raising pay.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress if he does not comply with a new Monday deadline for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report and some underlying materials.<\/p>\n
The new offer from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler comes after the Justice Department missed the committee’s earlier deadline for the information. Nadler narrowed his offer in a new letter to Barr on Friday, saying the committee would limit its request for underlying materials to those directly cited in the report.<\/p>\n
Nadler said the committee “will move to contempt proceedings and seek further legal recourse” if the department doesn’t comply.<\/p>\n
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CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 A federal court has ruled that Ohio’s congressional map is unconstitutional and has ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n
A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously Friday that district boundaries were manipulated for partisan gain by Republican mapmakers and violate voters’ rights to democratically select their representatives. The ruling blocks Ohio from holding another election under the current map.<\/p>\n
The ruling is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Voters’ rights and Democratic groups who sued Ohio Republican officials said redistricting completed after the 2010 Census yielded a statewide map that has produced an unbending 12-4 Republican advantage in Ohio’s delegation. Republicans said the map was drawn with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump says the “Russian Hoax” was one of the topics he discussed with Russian’s Vladimir Putin (POO’-tihn) during a “Very productive talk!”<\/p>\n
Trump tweeted Friday: “As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing.”<\/p>\n
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said earlier that Trump and Putin “very, very briefly” discussed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report during the call, “essentially in the context of that it’s over and there was no collusion, which I’m pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of long before this call took place.”<\/p>\n
Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, but outlined extensive contact and Russian efforts to help Trump win.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Mueller report made it clear: While the candidates were focused on campaigning in 2016, the Russians were busy laying traps for a cyberattack that changed the landscape of American politics.<\/p>\n
The aftershocks continued well into Donald Trump’s presidency and are rippling into the 2020 presidential contest. Whether the candidates and political parties will be able to avoid a repeat is an open question.<\/p>\n
Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a lower priority for candidates, especially at the early stages of a campaign. They need to raise money, hire a staff, pay office rents, lobby for endorsements and travel repeatedly to the early voting states.<\/p>\n
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