Help has arrived for many people with medical debt on their credit reports. As of July 1, the three major credit reporting companies have stopped counting paid medical debt on the reports that banks, potential landlords and others use to judge creditworthiness. The companies also will start giving people a year to resolve delinquent medical [...]
Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last six months. The S&P 500, Wall Street’s broad benchmark for many stock funds, closed the first half of 2022 with a loss of more than 20 percent after starting the year at an all-time high. It was the worst start [...]
Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, are the world’s only megacities of 10 million-plus where large felines — mountain lions in one, leopards in the other — thrive by breeding, hunting and maintaining territory within urban boundaries. Long-term studies in both cities have examined how the big cats prowl through their urban jungles, and how people [...]
With abortion now or soon to be illegal in more than a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people [...]
A French battery manufacturer has announced that it will locate its North American headquarters and a factory in Hilliard. “We found Columbus to have the right ecosystem of potential supply-chain partners, academic partners and the right fit for workforce as we are looking at hiring production operators, engineers and a full leadership team to run [...]
A Senate committee has yet to schedule a hearing of a bill to codify reasonable religious accommodations for Ohio college students. The Testing Your Faith Act cleared the Ohio House of Representatives by an 88-1 vote in late spring and was taken up by the upper chamber, where it was referred to the Workforce and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, as he marked his 74th birthday, Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade ‘s nationwide protection for abortion. If he was ready to take a victory lap, Thomas didn’t let on. Instead, he called on his colleagues to do more, to revisit the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats, according to a new poll that finds deep pessimism about the economy plaguing President Joe Biden. Eighty-five percent of adults say the country is on the wrong track, and 79 [...]