Oklahoma oilman Hamm ready to drop appeal of $1 billion divorce: filing

Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm on Wednesday moved to drop his appeal of a $1 billion divorce award to his ex-wife, a day after the court dismissed her bid to re-open the case, according to a court filing. Hamm's decision to withdraw his counter-appeal of a bitterly fought divorce after a lower court awarded his ex-wife Sue Ann Arnall around $1 billion in January could end their dispute, which has been ongoing since 2012 with billions at stake. In the filing, lawyers for Hamm, the chief executive and majority owner of driller Continental Resources Inc CLR.N, said he "is willing to dismiss his counter-appeal," and asked the state's Supreme Court to do so. The check covered the remaining balance of a divorce ruling that awarded Arnall around $1 billion in cash and assets.

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Syrian opposition, activists report chemical attack in Idlib

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syrian activist groups are reporting another chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib.

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LFL proving once again that it is definitely not your grandfather's football league. Chicago Bliss' free-safety Alli Alberts surprises the crowd and …

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Hulu touts ‘Seinfeld’ deal, new originals

Hulu touted an aggressive slate of originals and exclusive licensing deals at its Upfront presentation.

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What to watch on Wall Street Wednesday

On Wednesday, April 29th the Federal Open Market Committee meeting wraps us with an announcement. In March, the group said an interest rate …

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Idaho governor calls special session to pass child support bill

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Idaho’s governor called on Wednesday for a special legislative session to pass a bill that would bring the state’s child support program into compliance with U.S. law, despite lawmakers’ fears of federal overreach. The U.S. Administration for Children and Families told the conservative Western state it had until June 12 to bring its state child-support laws into compliance or face funding cuts that would affect more than 400,000 children and parents, or one in four Idaho residents. Republican Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter called lawmakers back to work for a special session on May 18 after a Republican-led House of Representatives committee failed to vote on a bill before the end of the 2015 session that had been passed earlier this month by the Senate. “It’s our responsibility to hold them responsible.” Legislation is needed to bring Idaho into compliance with federal law and a 2007 treaty approved by the United States and more than 68 other nations providing for a uniform set of procedures for processing international child support cases, according to the Virginia-based National Child Support Enforcement Association.

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Enola Gay co-pilot’s flight logs don’t sell at auction

NEW YORK (AP) — The personal flight logs of the co-pilot of the U.S. warplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 70 years ago didn't sell at an auction of World War II artifacts and memorabilia.

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Colorado movie massacre survivor details Holmes’ actions

By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – A survivor of Colorado's movie theater massacre told jurors on Wednesday how he lay wounded as he watched gunman James Holmes move slowly about the body-strewn cinema holding a semiautomatic rifle in front of him. Holmes, a 27-year-old former neuroscience graduate student, could face the death penalty if convicted of opening fire inside a packed midnight premiere of a Batman film in July 2012, killing a dozen people and wounding 70 others. On Wednesday, the prosecution called witness Joshua Nowlan, a former U.S. Navy sailor who worked on aircraft carriers.

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Lethal injection case exposes U.S. top court’s death penalty divide

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tensions on the Supreme Court over America's use of the death penalty boiled over on Wednesday as the justices appeared badly split in a case challenging Oklahoma's lethal injection method as a breach of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The nine-member court's five conservatives seemed likely to side with Oklahoma in the case brought by three death row inmates, while its four liberals expressed doubt about the propriety of using the drug at the center of the dispute. Conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often casts deciding votes in close cases, said nothing to suggest he would side with the liberals. The testy nature of exchanges between the justices during the hour-long oral argument illustrated that while the case concerned just one drug, it was playing out against the much bigger question of whether the death penalty should be used in the United States at a time when most developed countries have abandoned it.

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