I want to be president to defeat the enemies that are trying to kill us. Not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat them. 

Among other things, Graham says he will send 10,000 more US troops to Iraq to stabilize situation there. 

 

 

The nation's highest court is sounding with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wearing a headscarf. The justices saying the employers are generally required to accommodate job applicants and employees' religious needs. NPR's CJ has more on the eight-to-one decision. 

The ruling was written by justice Antonin Scalia with support from several others. The only nay dissenting justice was Clarence Thomas. The court majority held that to win a claim of disparate treatment, job seekers just need to show that their need for accommodation was motivating factor for an employer, not that the employer actually knew for certain that the employee, prospective employee will need an accommodation. 

NPR's CJ. At the time the headscarf violated the company's dress coded retail locations, but that has since changed. 

 

 

A lawsuit has been filed against the first of its abortion ban in Kansas. NPR's CL reports the ban targets the most common procedure used in the second trimester. 

The Kansas law is due to take effect in a month, and bans what it calls dismemberment abortion. The medical term is D&E, dilation and evacuation. Doctors use forceps, tongs or scissors to remove a fetus in parts. That's now banned, and doctors in violation face criminal prosecution. Oklahoma has passed a similar law. Nationally, only a small share of abortions take place in the second trimester, but almost all of them are done by a D&E. Two doctors filed suits contending the Kansas law is unconstitutional since the Supreme Court has guaranteed the right to abortion until roughly the third trimester of pregnancy. Jennifer *, NPR News. 

 

 

Builders are breaking ground on more projects in April. Construction spending rose 2.2 percent, fueled by upticks in housing, government spending and non-residential building. Although the commerce department says construction spending hit the adjusted $1 trillion, the highest level since November of 2015, there were strong gains in non-residential construction, including office buildings, hotels and shopping centers. Government construction was also stronger.  

 

 

Stocks gain ground at the start of new trading week, the market moving higher today. There was a major acquisition in the * industry and some positive economic news. The Dow was 29 points to 18,040, the Nasdaq was up 12 points, S&P 500 gained 4 points. 

 

 

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US remains committed to the current timetable for Iranian nuclear talks despite the fact that secretary of state John Kerry is returning to the US after breaking his leg in a weekend cycling accident. Kerry has spoken with the Iranian foreign minister since the accident, and says he intends to participate in talks scheduled for the end of the month. Kerry apparently fracture his right femur after striking a curb while biking in France. 

 

 

Somewhere in Silicon Valley, there is a woman who doesn't she's got a $100,000 check waiting for her, and not because she won a lottery. *, member station of KTVU in San Francisco reports the woman recycled a vintage computer that turns out to be worth a lot. 

In this part of the world, people recycle a lot of computers. But you don't see too many Apple Is turn-up, as it's the first generation Apple produced. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne made about 200 of them in 1976. The folks in Clean Bay area realized what they had, only when they opened the box a few weeks after a recently widowed woman refused to get a receipt, or read her name.  

We want to just find the lady. 

Victor Gichun says they saw the Apple I for 200 grand to a private collector. And it's the company policy to split the proceeds 50-50.  

I helped her to take boxes from her SUV, and I've talked to her. I remember her very good. 

So is that woman listening now? Swim on by to collect your half. For NPR News, I'm RM.

 

 

Crude oil futures * lower about 10 cents a barrel today, ending the session at 60.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. 

I'm Jack Speer. NPR News in Washington.