Mexican president courts private investment for new state lithium company

Yahoo Finance
Home Depot Q1 earnings preview: Pro customers expected to offset fewer DIY shoppers
US shoppers under pressure is expected to spend less at Home Depot, but it may make up some of the loss with professional consumers.
Associated Press
Republican group takes rare step of targeting GOP incumbent who voted to oust McCarthy
A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual — spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. It's just the latest example of how money is flowing into races involving some of the eight Republican lawmakers who voted along with Democrats to oust McCarthy. About $3.3 million has been spent on ads in the Virginia race going into Friday, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact.
Reuters
US to force China-linked firm to sell land near US missile silos
The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming that is home to part of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, citing fears of spying. The move comes as the United States has become increasingly concerned about the national security risks posed by Chinese-led purchases of American property near sensitive military sites. MineOne Partners Limited, which is owned by Chinese nationals, partnered with other companies to buy real estate for cryptocurrency mining in June 2022, the White House said.
NBC News
40 people work to free two horses stuck in mud for hours in Connecticut
Two horses that were trapped in the mud for several hours in Lebanon, Connecticut, were freed by dozens of people Saturday.
Associated Press
Third person pleads guilty in probe related to bribery charges against US Rep. Cuellar of Texas
Federal investigators have secured a third guilty plea in connection with an investigation into U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas on charges that he accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Irada Akhoundova, 67, pleaded guilty May 1 in Houston federal court to acting as an agent for Azerbaijan without registering with federal officials. Details of her guilty plea were unsealed on May 9.
Reuters
Top Biden official doubts Israel can achieve 'total victory' in Gaza
The Biden administration does not see it likely or possible that Israel will achieve "total victory" in defeating Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday. While U.S. officials have urged Israel to help devise a clear plan for the governance post-war Gaza, Campbell's comments are the clearest to date from a top U.S. official effectively admitting that Israel's current military strategy won't bring the result that it is aiming for.
AFP
Global stocks tread water ahead of US inflation data
Global markets were in cautious mode Monday with Wall Street marking time while major European stock markets put the brake on following a record run last week as investors wait on key US inflation data.World markets rallied last week on optimism that the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England will soon cut borrowing costs after raising them in efforts to contain soaring prices.
Associated Press
Ohio adult-use marijuana sales approved as part of 2023 ballot measure could begin by mid-June
Recreational marijuana could be available for sale in Ohio by mid-June, after new licensing rules for dispensaries cleared a key legislative hurdle Monday. Ohioans over 21 were immediately able to legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but they had nowhere to legally buy it — prompting concern by Gov. Mike DeWine and some fellow Republicans in the Legislature that openings would be created for a black market. On Monday, the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review allowed rules to proceed without objection that clear the way for a dual licensing program that will allow existing medical marijuana dispensaries to also sell non-medical pot products.
TODAY
Hoda Kotb shows off her daughters’ homemade Mother’s Day gifts: ‘Lucky me’
TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb is one proud mama this Mother's Day, and she shared new pics of her daughters Haley and Hope.
AFP
Former fixer Cohen testifies Trump told him to pay hush money
Donald Trump's one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at his criminal trial testified Monday how, under Trump's directions, he paid a porn actress to hush up "catastrophic" revelations of a tryst.Trump is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse Cohen for a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, when her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump could have doomed his campaign.
CNN
An explosive wildfire threatens to overrun a Canadian town as US gets season’s first dose of smoke
An out-of-control fire exhibiting “extreme fire behavior” is threatening to overrun a small Canadian community as the country’s wildfire season explodes to early life for the second consecutive year.
Associated Press
Proposed Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment draws rival crowds to Capitol for crucial votes
The amendment would guarantee some of the nation's broadest protections of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights if it is approved by both chambers this session and then by voters in two years. Dozens of green-clad ERA supporters holding signs saying “I AM AN EQUALITY VOTER” and “You Belong Here” with a rainbow flag design sang in a chorus outside the House chamber ahead of a floor session that was expected to last into the night. It does not include the word “abortion,” but that's meant to be protected by prohibiting the state from discriminating against a person “making and effectuating decisions about all matters relating to one’s own pregnancy or decision whether to become or remain pregnant.”
Associated Press
Wisconsin Senate plans to vote on overriding Evers vetoes of 36 bills, including PFAS funding
Republicans said Monday that the state Senate would be voting to override the governor's veto of three dozen bills on everything from fighting PFAS pollution to doing away with work permit requirements for teenagers — moves that Democrats derided as desperate election year stunts. Both moves come six months before the election and are just the latest bit of political jousting between Evers and the Legislature. Both are trying to use the stalemate over PFAS funding and other issues to their advantage in the November election as Democrats hope to pick up seats in the Legislature under the state's new legislative boundary maps.
USA TODAY
Volunteer fire department sees $220,000 raised for ambulances disappear in cyber crime
A bad actor intercepted a wire transfer of $220,000 for Rockville Volunteer Fire's new ambulances, slightly changing the bank routing number.
NBC News
San Francisco poised to become first U.S. city to ban 'forever chemicals' in firefighter gear
San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the U.S. to ban firefighter clothing made with PFAS, also known as forever chemicals.
Politico
White House opposes House bill to force Israeli arm shipments
The measure would force the U.S. to send bombs that have been delayed over Israel's conduct in Gaza.
Associated Press
Questions and grief linger at the apartment door where a deputy killed a US airman
At the apartment door where a Florida deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson, a small shrine is growing with the tributes from the Air Force unit grappling with his loss. There is a long wooden plank, anchored by two sets of aviator wings, and a black marker for mourners to leave prayers and remembrances for the 23-year-old. Shells from 105mm and 30mm rounds like those that Fortson handled as a gunner on the unit's AC-130J special operations aircraft stand on each side of the door — the empty 105mm shell is filled with flowers.
Associated Press
Biden blocks Chinese-backed crypto mining firm from land ownership near Wyoming military base
President Joe Biden on Monday issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base. The order forces the divestment of property operated as a crypto mining facility near the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base. It also forces the removal of certain equipment owned by MineOne Partners Ltd., a firm that is partly owned by the Chinese state.
Politico
Justice Department vows crackdown on election-related threats
Officials see an uptick in use of advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, to mask threats and enhance disruptions.
Associated Press
3 men charged in Whitey Bulger's 2018 prison killing have plea deals, prosecutors say
Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals were disclosed nearly six years after the 89-year-old gangster, who spent almost two decades on the lam, was beaten to death in his cell at a troubled West Virginia prison. Fotios “Freddy” Geas and Paul J. DeCologero were accused of repeatedly striking Bulger in the head while Sean McKinnon served as a lookout.

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