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(Nexstar) – U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of Salmonella disease that was linked to Florida growers, where contaminated cucumbers are linked to more than 550 diseases last year. The cucumber, grown by Florida-based Bedner Growers and distributed through the sale of fresh start produce, is linked to at least 26 illnesses in 15 states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported late Monday. At least nine people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. The states with reported illnesses are Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,…

Associated Press Business Writer Stanchion NEW YORK (AP) – US stock indexes are drifting on Tuesday. This is because Wall Street slows down after gathering from deeper holes to the greatest holes of all time earlier this year. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% in noon trading, but within 3.2% of its record. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 87 points (0.2%) as of 11:25am Eastern time, with Nasdaq’s composites 0.4% lower. Treasury yields were also drifting down the bond market, but the value of the US dollar was relatively stable against other currencies after Moody’s ratings stated that the US…

“We are closely monitoring the changes in the macroeconomic environment,” said Pay, after buying now.Swedish payment startup Klarna said its net loss doubled in the first quarter.Klarna offers users interest-free consumer loans to make retail purchases. The company generates revenue by charging consumers who don’t repay the loan on time.Concerns surrounding consumer financial health can cause bleeding into the credit market.In its revenue report released on May 19, Klarna reported a net loss of $99 million, from $47 million the previous year. The company said its customer credit losses also rose 17% year-on-year to $136 million.Online financial services platforms remain…

Associated Press, by Jon Gambrell Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that he has pledged to become Tesla’s CEO in five years as the automaker faces intense consumer and stock price pressure on President Donald Trump’s government. The question came when masks appeared at the Qatar Economic Forum hosted by Bloomberg after Musk recently traveled to Doha as part of Trump’s trip to Middle East last week. SpaceX and Starlink chiefs provided a brief response, and it became a battle over questions about how his business and political involvement had affected his business. Moderator Mishal…

Collier County, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man on death row for the 1995 murder of three cracker barrel workers has died in prison. He was 55 years old. Florida Department of Corrections records show Brandi Jennings died in prison on Sunday. The cause of his death has not been announced. The Naples Daily News reported that Jennings and his accomplice Charles Jason Graves were respectively convicted of three first-degree capital murders and one count of robbery in the murders of Jason Wiggins, Dorothy Sidle and Vicki Smith. The Florida man will be filming with a salesman with two door-to-door…

TAMPA — The day after landowners retracted a controversial plan to acquire a reserve in northeastern Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, when asked about it, did not provide an answer that the Floridians and politicians still haven’t been wondering. At a press conference in Tampa, a Tampa Bay Times reporter asked the governor why Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida supervisor Florida Environmental Regulator, has yet to identify the recently formed Upland LLC. DeSantis replied: “It was not started by the DEP, but by the private landowner.” The governor ignored immediate follow-up: Who is the landowner? He then asked a new,…

Some members said the agreement was close to after the meeting, despite the holdout remaining.President Donald Trump met with House Republicans on May 20 to urge a unified lawsuit over the budget settlement bill, the basis of the second term agenda.Trump’s message to Republicans was a call to action, according to Rep. Dusty Johnson (Rs.D.).”We’ve all been tinkering around quite well, and it’s time to land the plane,” Johnson told reporters.Rep. Nick Larota (RN.Y.) said, “Everyone walked into the room and understood that for the country and your business, and that’s what I took from it.”The bill highlights a rift…

By Michelle Chapman Home Depot does not expect to raise prices due to customs duties. It says it has spent years diversifying the source of products on the shelves. Billy Basteck, vice president of merchandising, said in a conference call Tuesday that Home Depot’s suppliers will shift sourcing in several countries, and that a single non-US country will represent more than 10% of purchases in 12 months. “We don’t see any price increases on a broad base of customers coming up,” he said. Other domestic and foreign companies have warned customers that price increases are underway as the US began…

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man has been arrested after he said he shot two solar panel salesmen Monday afternoon. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said two men were heading door to door at Boavadee Lar Lane in Port Charlotte and trying to sell solar panel packaging for the company. They knocked on the door and were greeted by a woman who was angry at them there and told them to leave. When they began leaving the property, lawmakers said salesmen heard several gunshots and were later identified as 72-year-old William Williams, who was pointing to a gun.…

Following Florida’s first deadly bear attack this spring, there is little argument that the state’s largest land mammals could be dangerous. However, a fierce debate continues as to whether a good way to control bears is to kill them.After a decade of hibernation, the state’s plans to resume bear hunting have deepened discrepancies before a seven-person committee appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of a pivotal meeting of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee. Advocates suggest that thinning the bear population is a “science-based” approach to wildlife management, but the enemy pointed out that the last hunt in…