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AP Newswatch: Top Stories from the Associated Press

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0:00I'm Ben Thomas with an AP News Minute. The Trump administration's agriculture departments rolled back two programs critical for renewable energy growth. But Donna Warder reports they've also been helping U.S. farmers. Kentucky sheep farmer Daniel Bell has been expanding his flock and he needed rooftop solar for a couple of new barns. But when he applied for a grant through the Department of Agriculture's rural energy for America program, he was told the Trump administration had halted grants. So Bell asked a commercial solar operation if he could build two temporary barns on their land. We run 1,100 use out here to graze this grass and keep it mowed down and help the solar company here. We're not having to pay for this land. We're benefiting the company by keeping the vegetation under the panel's mode. But then at the same time, we're farming this and we've increased our sheep production. And the solar company is paying him. I'm Donna Warder. And I'm Ben Thomas. Not every sale happens at the register.

1:00Before AT&T Business Wireless, checking out customers on our mobile POS systems took too long. Basically a staring contest where everyone loses. It's crazy what people will say during an awkward silence. Now transactions are done before the silence takes hold. That means I can focus on the task at hand and make an extra sailor too. Sometimes I do miss the bonding time. Sometimes AT&T Business Wireless, connecting changes everything.

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