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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi state flag no longer flies at Ole Miss. Officials at the University of Mississippi this morning quietly removed the flag, with its Confederate battle emblem, from its place of honor on campus. Students and faculty had said it was a divisive symbol that weakened efforts to promote diversity, tolerance and respect.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are pushing to finalize a sweeping deal to fund the federal government before Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nuhr) leaves Congress at the end of this week. The delicate negotiations are aimed at getting past the thorniest issue awaiting Speaker-to-be Paul Ryan, who is set to be elected later this week. Money to pay for government operations runs out Dec. 11 unless Congress acts. Top House and Senate aides have been meeting with White House officials in search of a deal.
HOUSTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz now has the backing of Texas billionaire Darwin Deason. The technology exec and his son had given millions of dollars to former Texas Gov. Rick Perry before he ended his White House bid last month. The Cruz campaign says Deason is now on board. And the Texas senator also has the backing of the state's lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, a former foe of Cruz.
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A customer who fired at shoplifters fleeing a Detroit-area Home Depot parking lot has pleaded no contest to reckless discharge of a firearm. A defense lawyer says Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez entered the plea this morning. It's not an admission of guilty but is treated as such for sentencing. Earlier this month, police say, two men were driving away with stolen merchandise when the woman fired her gun, flattening a tire on the shoplifters' SUV. The shoplifting suspects were arrested a few days later. The woman -- who is licensed to carry a concealed weapon -- faces up to 90 days in jail, but her lawyer hopes she will only have to pay fines and court costs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a heat index -- combining heat and humidity -- that reaches 170 degrees. A new study is warning that conditions may get just that hot, for hours at a time, in some parts of the Persian Gulf region by the end of the century, if carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace. And that would be just too hot for the human body to tolerate. The study, resulting from computer simulations, appears in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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