Knock knock

Hector Macqueen (Gavin Houck) knocks on one of the doors of the Orient Express to deliver tea during Southwest Playhouse’s production of “Murder on the Orient Express.” CDN

Inspecting possible evidence

Countess Andrenyi (Toni Ruiz), left, and Hercule Poriot (Ryan Driskell) exam the body of Samuel Ratcheet (Tony Bowman) during Southwest Playhouse’s production of “Murder on the Orient Express.” CDN

(AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen death row inmates who were plaintiffs in the case.

(AP) — President Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels while declaring a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia. He's attempting to jumpstart an industry key to his climate change-fighting goals that advocates say has been disrupted by a federal investigation.

(AP) — Americans are processing the nightmare of the slaughter of children in Texas, the racist murders in Buffalo, New York, and the other numbingly repeated scenes of carnage in the United States.

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