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FILE - This undated file image from television video provided by KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa, shows John P. Tomkins, a letter carrier of Dubuque, Iowa. On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced Tomkins to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop." One package was sent to Denver and another to Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/KWWL-TV, File)

'Bishop' would-be pipe bomber gets 37 years

An Iowa letter carrier was sentenced to 37 years in prison Tuesday for sending dud pipe bombs with letters signed "The Bishop" in an odd but potentially deadly bid to drive up the value of shares he owned. John Tomkins, 48, showed little emotion as a federal judge in Chicago ...

  • Updated: 6:43 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Law enforcement stand guard as stockholders arrive for the JPMorgan annual meeting Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said Tuesday that last year's $6 billion trading loss had been expensive and "extremely embarrassing" but he also asked shareholders not to fixate on the issue. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum

Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of the nation's largest bank. But shareholders sent a message that the bank needs better oversight by giving only narrow approval to three ...

  • Updated: 6:38 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Stocks gain on reassurance from a top Fed official

Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higher Tuesday. Stock indexes wobbled between gains and losses in early trading, then took a turn higher just before noon. That's when news crossed that James Bullard, head of the Fed's ...

  • Updated: 6:26 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio House of Representatives shows Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor. Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday. Taylor is a vocal critic of the federal health care law. (AP Photo/Ohio House of Representatives, file)

APNewsBreak: Feds to run high-risk plan in Ohio

Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday. A similar scenario is playing out in 17 other states, creating uncertainty for tens of ...

  • Updated: 6:02 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps

The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are used by 1 in 7 Americans. The ...

  • Updated: 5:51 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The sun sets over the Nile River and the historical site of the Giza Pyramids as seen from Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized businesses. The measure is among many economic reforms the government is trying to impose to control its burgeoning budget deficit. Egypt is negotiating a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, which is pushing for economic revisions.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes

Egypt's president signed a new tax law Tuesday that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians in the latest move aimed at reforming the country's economy. The changes, which are more favorable than the previous tax law for the country's most vulnerable, could boost Islamists in parliamentary elections slated for ...

  • Updated: 5:04 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges. Attorney Seth Waxman ...

  • Updated: 4:50 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges. Attorney Seth Waxman ...

  • Updated: 4:41 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

MIAMI WORKERS BRIBED VENEZUELAN BANKER AND SHORTCHANGED HER, U.S. SAYS

c.2013 New York Times News Service CARACAS, Venezuela — There may be no honor among thieves, but there certainly is no shortage of chutzpah. First came the hefty kickbacks that employees at a Miami brokerage office pledged to pay María de los Angeles González, a Venezuelan banking official, for steering ...

  • Updated: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NC man accused of trying to scam insurance company

Authorities accuse a Lincoln County of filing a fake report of a stolen motorcycle and trailer to get money from an insurance company. The Charlotte Observer reports (http://bit.ly/119jbdi) that 38-year-old William Minford Chatham III of Vale is charged with felony insurance fraud. He is free on $5,000 bond. Sheriff's office ...

  • Updated: 2:47 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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