The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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1 Celebrity eatery closing: Kid Rock won’t renew his licensing agreement for Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit restaurant, the owners of the sports arena in which it’s housed said Wednesday. The news comes after the singer and musician was recently filmed delivering a vulgarity-laced rant against Oprah Winfrey.

2 Paris strike: Tourists are canceling travel plans and Paris is deploying thousands of police as France girds for massive, nationwide strikes and protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul the retirement system.

3 Farm bailout: President Donald Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade conflict with China has cost them. The U.S. Department of Agricultur­e’s calculatio­ns overshot the impact of the trade conflict on American soybean prices, according to six academic studies, a conclusion that is likely to add to criticism that the bailout has generated distortion­s and inequaliti­es in the farm economy.

4 Pleading guilty: A special effects worker faces up to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing explosives while working on the Georgia set of a movie starring John Travolta and Morgan Freeman. Robert Christophe­r Bailey, 50, of Los Angeles entered his plea Tuesday before a U.S. District Court judge in Savannah, according to court records. Federal authoritie­s charged him in coastal Georgia last year during filming of “The Poison Rose.” 5 Red flag warnings: The government of Samoa told the public to hang red flags or cloth outside houses where people have not been vaccinated for measles, to help teams embarking on a massive door-to-door campaign giving free booster shots.

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