Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event was held July 13-14 amid an environment of online shopping decreasing from its COVID-19 pandemic peak. The company has long used the two-day event — one of its biggest all year — to lure people to its Prime membership, for which Amazon recently raised the price to $139 a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country. The new variants, labeled BA.4 and BA.5, are offshoots of the [...]
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the site said earlier this week. Small, intentionally lit fires over the past [...]
WASHINGTON — The dollar has been surging so much that it's nearly equal in value to the euro for the first time in 20 years. That trend, though, threatens to hurt American companies because their goods become more expensive for foreign buyers. If U.S. exports were to weaken as a result, so, too, would the [...]
HAMPTON, Ga. — Sure, it's been a wild NASCAR Cup season, with seemingly everyone in the field capable of taking the checkered flag. Through all the chaos, one driver has emerged as the clear favorite. Chase Elliott is the guy everyone else is chasing. The 26-year-old became the first three-time winner in the Cup series [...]
The dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series now has the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the PGA Tour said it was confident it would prevail. "This was not unexpected," the tour said in a statement. The Journal said players' agents have [...]
In today’s housing market, there is a strong demand for homes and not enough available for sale to meet that demand. Whether someone is looking to buy or sell a home, home design is increasingly becoming an expectation in the real estate market — not a perk, according to a local home stager. “Staging is [...]
Democratic legislation that caps annual property tax increases at 5 percent for homeowners whose income is at or below the county median has yet to advance beyond an initial hearing by a Senate committee. The Property Tax Relief and Local Government Act, sponsored by Sen. Hearcel Craig of Columbus, is intended to bolster the existing [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on July 11 granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing the state's trigger law banning most abortions, as implications of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade reverberate nationwide. With the decision, abortion remains legal up to 18 weeks in Utah, which is among [...]