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Graphic Packaging: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/02/2023 06:35am • ATLANTA (AP) — ATLANTA (AP) — Graphic Packaging Holding Co. (GPK) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $207 million. The Atlanta-based company said it had profit of 67 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and non-recurring costs, were 77 cents per share. The resu Australian government cracks down on smoking and vaping 05/02/2023 05:00am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s tobacco tax will be increased by billions of dollars over the next four years as the government cracks down on smoking and vaping. Recreational vaping will be banned as the government seeks to prevent the next generation from becoming addicted to nicotine, Biden, top lawmakers to discuss debt limit at WH May 9 05/01/2023 07:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought Monday to ease a debt limit standoff by inviting the four Congressional leaders to the White House on May 9 — signaling the growing fears of a default as the federal government might be unable to pay its bills as soon as June 1. Administration and con AP sources: Biden to allow Afghans to stay longer in US 05/01/2023 06:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will continue to allow tens of thousands of Afghans who fled Taliban control more than two years ago to stay and work in the U.S., as congressional efforts have stalled that were meant to permanently resolve their immigration status, according to two peop Sonoco: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2023 05:35pm • HARTSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — HARTSVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Sonoco Products Co. (SON) on Monday reported first-quarter earnings of $148.3 million. The Hartsville, South Carolina-based company said it had profit of $1.50 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.40 per share. The DeSantis signs death penalty, crime bills as 2024 run looms 05/01/2023 04:56pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned capital punishment in such cases. DeSantis, a Republican, also signed two other components of his criminal justice legis Amkor Technology: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/01/2023 04:29pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Amkor Technology Inc. (AMKR) on Monday reported first-quarter earnings of $45.4 million. The Tempe, Arizona-based company said it had net income of 18 cents per share. The chip packaging and test services provider posted revenue of $1.47 billion in the per First Republic Bank seized, sold in fire sale to JPMorgan 05/01/2023 04:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday, making it the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and promptly sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to end the turmoil that has raised questions about the health of the U.S. Law firm Shulman Rogers to host investor showcase as part of startup-focused arm 05/01/2023 04:00pm • A startup-focused arm at law firm Shulman Rogers is accepting applications from companies looking to raise seed capital for a new, upcoming investor showcase. Next, a practice group for the Potomac-based firm, is geared specifically to the startup market, offering guidance on everything from launch US Speaker McCarthy: Russia must pull out of Ukraine 05/01/2023 02:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday said Russia must pull out of Ukraine, blistering Russia's “killing of the children” and distancing himself from some in his Republican party who oppose additional major U.S. aid to Ukraine to stave off the Russian invasion. In Israel on Maryland-based potato chip brand My Dad's Chips gets big distribution deal 05/01/2023 12:30pm • Gary and Brian Edell with a package of "My Dad's Chips," which has recently signed its largest distribution deal to date. (Courtesy My Dad's Chips) Gaithersburg, Maryland-based small batch potato chip maker My Dad's Chips has signed its largest distribution deal to date. The deal with Rainfor Uzbeks approve changes that could extend president till 2040 05/01/2023 04:34am • TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Uzbeks gave overwhelming approval in a referendum to constitutional changes that promise human rights reforms but that also would allow the country’s president to stay in office until 2040, the country's central elections commission said Monday. More than 90% of those When states limit care, some trans people do it themselves 04/30/2023 02:29pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With her insurance about to run out and Republicans in her home state of Missouri ramping up rhetoric against gender-affirming health care, Erin Stille nervously visited a foreign pharmaceutical site as a “last resort” to ensure she could continue getting the hormone GOP election officials walking fine line on fraud, integrity 04/30/2023 07:40am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri have promoted their states’ elections as fair and secure. Yet each also is navigating a fine line on how to address election fraud conspiracies as they gear up campaigns for U.S. Senate or governor in 2 Uzbekistan votes on changes that extend president's tenure 04/30/2023 07:03am • TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Voters in Uzebekistan, the most populous former Soviet Central Asian republic, cast ballots Sunday in a referendum on a revised constitution that promises human rights reforms but that also would allow the country's president to stay in office until 2040. Approval appea