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Pilgrim's Pride in takeover bid for Hillshire 05/27/2014 06:02pm • CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Pilgrim's Pride launched a takeover bid for Hillshire Brands on Tuesday that would expand its business beyond fresh and frozen chicken into a variety of packaged meats, including Ball Park hot dogs and Jimmy Dean sausages.The $5.58 billion offer could d Starbucks-owned chain to offer burgers 05/27/2014 04:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Starbucks is dipping its toe into the burger business, with plans to open an outpost of its La Boulange chain that caters to the dinner crowd.A spokeswoman for Starbucks, Linda Mills, said the Los Angeles restaurant is scheduled to open June 12 and will be open until 10 p.m. It will Chemical weapons inspectors attacked in Syria, but all staff safe, officials say 05/27/2014 01:49pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The international chemical weapons watchdog agency says all its staff members are safe after a convoy of inspectors came under attack in Syria.The team was traveling to a rebel-held town where activists and Human Rights Watch say chlorine gas attacks last month killed two peo Chemical weapons inspectors attacked in Syria 05/27/2014 11:10am • ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under attack Tuesday while traveling to the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack in Syria, but all staff members were safe, the international watchdog agency said.The Organization for the Prohibition Which D.C. area CEO made the top 10 list for highest CEO pay? 05/27/2014 10:53am • The Associated Press’ new list of the highest-paid chief executives includes one Washington-area executive in the Top 10. Discovery Communications Inc. CEO David Zaslav made $33.3 million in 2013, ranking him No. 8 in the top 10. Zaslav’s compensation in 2013 was down 33 percent from the Investors ponder economy's direction...Durable goods, home prices reports due 05/27/2014 07:40am • UNDATED (AP) -- The question that's lingering in the minds of investors as they ready for a shortened week of trading is will the economy ever come alive this year. So far, growth has fallen short of expectations, barely expanding in the first quarter after a strong finish to 2013. Wall Street had s Congress OKs funding for rehab of Lynnhaven River 05/27/2014 03:08am • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Congress has approved more than $22 million for a project aimed at rehabilitating the Lynnhaven River.The funding is included in a $12 billion package of 34 water projects nationwide approved last week. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama.The U.S. Army Corps of House, Senate bills to OK spuds in moms' food plan 05/26/2014 03:10pm • MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ubiquitous white potato has scored another victory on Capitol Hill.House and Senate panels this week endorsed the inclusion of fresh white potatoes in the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program. The Agriculture Department doe Buffett's older sister works one-on-one to help 05/26/2014 02:21pm • JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- When Warren Buffett announced in 2006 that he would give away his billions, he was flooded with individual requests for help that still flow in today.Instead of tossing the letters aside, Buffett packages them up and sends them to his big sister Doris. Car Report: 2014 Jetta's smaller engine packs a surprising punch 05/26/2014 03:28am • WASHINGTON -- The 2014 Volkswagen Jetta is a compact sedan that's bigger than most of its competition. And it doesn't have one of the downsides of larger cars -- lack of fuel economy. That's because VW has given the Jetta a smaller engine from the previous 2.5-liter, five-cylinder engines. No Brazil finds 2 tons of pot on samba school grounds 05/25/2014 08:10pm • SAO PAULO (AP) -- Police found more than two tons (1,930 kilograms) of marijuana inside a trailer truck parked on the grounds of a samba school in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazilian officials said Sunday.Two men were detained near midnight Saturday as they unloaded packages of pot from the tractor tra Jim Nabors' farewell saddens some Indy 500 fans 05/25/2014 05:04pm • RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Jim Nabors' final performance of "Back Home Again In Indiana" at the Indianapolis 500 left some race fans mourning the end of a long-running race tradition.The swan song from the 83-year-old Nabors was a touching moment for Cindy Fiddler, a 58-year Ukraine's presidential vote: a step out of crisis 05/25/2014 10:40am • JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) -- Ukrainians vote Sunday in an early presidential election that could be a crucial step toward resolving the country's crisis, but separatists in the east are threatening to block the vote. The election -- which comes six months after the outbreak of protests Tarantino calls digital 'the death of cinema' 05/23/2014 06:22pm • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) -- When Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 for "Pulp Fiction," he showered his cast with high-fives, bounced to the stage where jury president Clint Eastwood awaited, and promptly answered a heckler with a middle fin German lawmakers back early retirement plan 05/23/2014 04:16pm • BERLIN (AP) -- German lawmakers on Friday approved a pension-reform package that included a much-criticized provision for some people to retire early on full pensions.Germany is raising the retirement age to 67 from 65, but it plans to allow people who have paid pension contributions for 45 years to