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Smith & Wesson’s CEO is faulting “politicians and their lobbying partners in the media” for increased gun violence across the U.S., saying weapons manufacturers are being unfairly blamed. The written comments by Mark Smith, posted Monday in a statement on the company’s website, came weeks after the executive refused to testify before …

Lester Bonner, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, opened his mailbox one morning last June to find a letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The five-page missive said the remaining balance on a $50,000 federal loan he’d received to help him buy his farm would soon be wiped clean.  “It was going …

An independent journalist found dead in northern Mexico was killed by a blow to the head, authorities said Tuesday, reporting the latest in 14 slayings of Mexican reporters and media workers so far this year, the deadliest in recent memory for the profession. Prosecutors in the border state of Sonora …