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Warner's board is advising shareholders to stick with the lower offer from Netflix.

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Voters will have less time to get mail-in ballots to elections officials this year.

Multiple states are eliminating grace periods for casting ballots by mail, as NPR's Ashley Lopez reports.

19 states have raised their minimum wage.

The bottom rate varies by state, but the highest is $17.13 an hour in Washington state and $16 an hour in Hawaii.

The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, where it's been since 2009.

American farmers hurt by U.S.

tariffs are learning how much federal aid they can expect per acre.

The Agriculture Department says payments from a recently announced $12 billion Farm Aid package should begin arriving by the end of February, but some farmers say it will not be enough.

Authorities say it's too soon to speculate on the cause of a deadly fire that claimed at least 40 lives at a skeet resort bar in the Swiss Alps.

President Guy Parmelin calls it one of the worst tragedies in Swiss history.

As NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports, a social media video appears to show flames spreading above the bar.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock.

Colombia's armed forces say they have, quote, neutralized the main leader, Atrenda Agua, the country's most feared criminal gangs.

The BBC's Mimi Swaby has more.

Mimi Swaby reporting.

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