AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A year after a high school mass shooting near Houston that remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, Texas lawmakers are on the brink of going home without passing any new gun restrictions, or even tougher firearm storage laws that Gov. Greg Abbott backed after the tragedy. A Republican governor [...]
NEW YORK — Behold the power of low expectations. Nearly all the companies in the S&P 500 have said how much profit they made in the first three months of the year, and growth looks to be close to nil. That’s usually a frightening thing for investors because stock prices tend to follow the path [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s high-profile trade offensives have grabbed headlines and rattled financial markets around the world. He’s battling China over the industries of the future, strong-arming Canada and Mexico into reshaping North American trade and threatening to tax cars from Europe. But his trade warriors are fighting dozens of more obscure battles [...]
Deere cut its profit and sales expectations for the year as a trade war between the U.S. and China escalates at the same time that farmers are attempting to recover from a planting season besieged by heavy rains. Prices of soybeans targeted by Chinese tariffs last year fell to a 10-year low this week as [...]
BEIJING — The legacy of American architect I.M. Pei stretches from west to east, from the Louvre museum to his native China, where he helped fuse tradition and modernity as the country opened up after the Cultural Revolution. Pei, who died last week at the age of 102, added elegance to landscapes worldwide with powerful [...]
Gail Kelley started the next chapter of her life with a new business venture in Clintonville. Kelley opened the Sewing Hive earlier this year and now teaches sewing lessons, with some tailored to its students’ interests. Kelley said her students tend to fall into two groups. The first group are older people who want to [...]
WASHINGTON — Conservative lightning rod Roy Moore of Alabama, narrow loser of a turbulent special election for Senate in 2017, is considering a fresh run next year. National Republican leaders are signaling they’ll again try preventing their party from nominating the twice-removed state jurist whose campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of [...]
Most pizza connoisseurs have a favorite element of the quintessentially American fare — the one thing that makes or breaks an otherwise good pie. To the Ezzo family, which concentrates on making some of the best pepperoni to be found on the wholesale market, it’s no surprise that it’s their Old World Italian pepperoni that [...]
Heading out on a road trip in a recreational vehicle allows travelers an opportunity to explore the nation while enjoying some comforts, too. “It’s not so much about just getting to where you’re going and stopping when you’re there, but you really get to enjoy the journey,” says Julie Hall, a spokesperson for AAA. “It’s [...]
