WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration. He says he now plans to act on his own.

Obama announced his intention Monday to take executive action.

Obama says there are enough Republicans and Democrats in the House to pass an immigration bill today, and says he would sign it.

But Obama says he’s waited for more than a year to give House Speaker John Boehner space to act. He says Boehner informed him last week that the House won’t vote on immigration this year.

Obama says the thousands of unaccompanied children showing up on the border underscore the need to drop the politics and act on immigration.

The Associated Press

Ignition switches have presented General Motors with significant safety issues this year. Here are details of the switch problems by the numbers:

— 2.6 million: The number of older small cars, including the Chevrolet Cobalt, that GM recalled in February to fix faulty ignition switches that it knew about for more than a decade. The recall touched off a review of ignitions in other GM vehicles.

— 17.1 million: The number of GM vehicles recalled as of Monday for ignition-related defects. Since the February recall, GM has issued five more recalls of ignitions as well as keys that may easily bump out of position. The latest recall, of 8.2 million large cars including the Chevrolet Malibu, happened Monday.

— 13: The number of people GM says died in crashes related to ignition switch problems in small cars.

— 3: The number of people GM says died in crashes in the vehicles recalled Monday. GM says it doesn’t yet know if the ignition switches caused the crashes.

— 165: The number of people GM victims’ advocates say have died in crashes related to ignition switch problems in small cars.

— 1997: Oldest model year of a vehicle recalled for a faulty ignition. The 1997 Chevrolet Malibu was included in Monday’s recall of 7.6 million vehicles.

— 2014: Latest model year of a vehicle recalled for a faulty ignition. The 2014 Cadillac CTS was recalled Monday because its key can unintentionally rotate and turn the ignition off.

— 54: Number of GM recalls so far this year.

— 28.9 million: Number of cars and trucks recalled by GM so far this year in North America.

— $2.5 billion: GM’s estimate for recall-related costs through the first half of the year.

— $7.8 million: The amount compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg says GM would pay to compensate a 10-year-old paraplegic injured in a crash in a small car that was part of the initial recall. Feinberg announced Monday that GM’s compensation fund will begin taking claims from victims and their families on Aug. 1.

— 57 cents: Cost of each replacement switch for the 2.6 million small cars.

— $35 million: Fine levied on GM by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for concealing the ignition switch problems.

—$3.8 billion: GM’s net income last year.

— 9.7 million: Number of cars and trucks sold by GM globally last year.

— 15: Number of GM employees dismissed for conduct that delayed the small-car recall.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — American farmers have planted less corn than in any year since 2010 but more soybeans than ever, as expected.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its annual Acreage Report released Monday that farmers planted 91.6 million acres of corn. That’s 4 percent less than last year but still the fifth-largest corn crop planted since 1944. Analysts expected some farmers to devote more acreage to soybeans because of a drop in corn prices.

The USDA says farmers planted a record high 84.8 million acres of soybeans, up 11 percent from last year. Record soybean acres have been planted in Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Seventy-six percent of the corn crop is in good to excellent condition, compared with 63 percent last year.

JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says women’s health will be jeopardized by a Supreme Court’s decision that allows corporations with religious objections to opt out of a requirement that they cover contraceptives.

TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Kenneth Feinberg says there is no limit on the total amount he can pay people harmed in crashes caused by faulty General Motors ignition switches.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to public sector unions — ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois can’t be required to pay fees that help cover the union’s cost of collective bargaining.

It was a 5-to-4 ruling, split along ideological lines.

The justices said requiring those workers to pay the fees violates the First Amendment rights of non-members who disagree with the positions that unions take.

It’s a setback for labor unions that have increased their ranks — and boosted their bank accounts — in Illinois and other states by signing up hundreds of thousands of in-home care workers. The ruling could cause members to leave those unions — feeling they have little incentive to pay dues if non-members don’t have to share the burden of union costs.

But the ruling was limited to this particular segment of workers, and not private sector unions. And it stopped short of overturning decades of practice that generally has allowed public sector unions to pass their representation costs on to non-members.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City charter school is being praised for improvements it made since the state tried to shut it down last year.

Education officials say Gordon Parks Elementary School has been reborn this year under a new leadership team. The school serves some of Kansas City’s neediest children. It received a federal grant because its academic performance was in the bottom 5 percent among schools statewide.

This year’s school is serving only students in kindergarten through second grade — about 80 students. Education officials say it is recording improvement in attendance, discipline and academic performance.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Kansas Congressional delegation today released the following statements after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration’s attempt to restrict Americans’ religious freedom in the case of Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius:

Senator Jerry Moran said, “Since our nation’s earliest days, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently affirmed our First Amendment right to exercise our religious beliefs freely,” Sen. Moran said. “Today’s Supreme Court decision rightly rejects the federal government’s intrusion into an individual’s religious liberty. This ruling protects religious practice beyond places of worship without harm to others. I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision.”

Senator Pat Roberts agreed, “Every American has a right to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution. This right has been upheld time and again by the Supreme Court over the last 200 years. I applaud the Court for upholding this fundamental principle of our nation.
“Kansans join millions of pro-life Americans in celebrating this victory, especially at a time when the Obama Administration has said it will circumvent the Congress to enact its agenda. The Court’s ruling has affirmed that they cannot circumvent the Constitution.”

Representative Tim Huelskamp, “Today’s ruling in favor of American’s Constitutional rights is a victory for religious liberty, the very soul of the Constitution. If Obama and Sebelius had their way, Americans of a multitude of faiths would have been forced to violate their consciences and pay for abortion-causing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilizations. This landmark decision upholds our nation’s most deeply held tradition – that Americans cannot be forced by the Government to violate their own faith – thereby protecting the beliefs of the Hahns’ and the Greens’ families that life begins at conception.
“The First Amendment, indeed the entire Constitution, should be protected from the radical anti-religious liberty agenda of the Obama Administration. I applaud the Supreme Court for protecting religious beliefs, and I call on President Obama to go even further and eliminate this HHS mandate. Only by doing so can we protect the most cherished of all American freedoms and the heart and soul of our Constitution.”

Congressman Mike Pompeo wrote on his Twitter page, “There are a number of ways ‪#Obamacare is a disaster, but one of the worst is how it impacted people’s religious liberty. ‪#HobbyLobby ‪#SCOTUS.”