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DES MOINES (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warns of a "war on the American farmer," telling his audience that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies. His speech came at the annual "Roast and Ride" fundraiser for Republican Sen. Jodi Ernst.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport. Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man took his own life at an eastern Ohio courthouse moments after he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Jefferson County prosecutor Jane Hanlin says 42-year-old Jason Binkiewicz was being led out of the courtroom by a deputy Friday when he got away and threw himself over the building's third floor banister. He was then pronounced dead.

DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say the man arrested in the killing of two Catholic nuns in Mississippi has confessed. They say Rodney Earl Sanders also has a criminal record and is currently on probation. Holmes County Sheriff Willie March says Sanders confessed to the killings during interrogation but gave no reason for the crimes. A state prison spokeswoman says Sanders was convicted and served time for two felonies, armed robbery in 1986 and DUI in 2015.

CHICAGO (AP) — Police union President Dean Angelo Sr. is defending the Chicago Police Department's record against accusations of racial bias. He says, "It's not about ethnicity — it's about criminal involvement." The Chicago Tribune reports that police data tracking every time an officer opened fire in the city over the past six years finds the vast majority of those hit were black males. It also found that about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic.

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