WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits. Not President Joe Biden, who is already telling voters his upcoming federal budget proposal will "defend and strengthen" the programs. Not Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has declared cuts to the programs off the table in negotiations to raise [...]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Miss., forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn't working. Along the way students dealt with broken showers in locker rooms, plumbing [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to consumers' pain at the grocery store after more than 58 million birds were slaughtered to limit the spread of the virus. In addition to the cost of the government response that the USDA tallied up and rising [...]
Golden State coach Steve Kerr wants a shorter NBA season. Milwaukee All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo does not. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver isn't sure what the right answer is. Such is the conundrum with the NBA's ongoing battle with load management — often the fancy way of saying resting — and finding ways to optimize player health, [...]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Vintage racecars crowded into the parking lot of the Streamline Hotel for a "legends party" last week, and hundreds of fans got up-close looks at pieces of NASCAR history. They could have found even more by touring the historic building. The Streamline, which opened in 1941 and has been widely [...]
A public-interest audit of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services by a team from the state auditor’s office found that the agency should better track the publicly funded workforce-development programs it administers to secure employment for out-of-work Ohioans. The state receives upwards of $100 million annually from the federal government for unemployment programs, [...]
LIMA (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small city of Lima is playing a critical role in the effort to arm Ukraine as it fends off the Russian invasion. Owned by the Army and operated by General Dynamics, the plant is expected to refurbish Abrams tanks [...]
For the cities and towns that have challenged their 2020 census population figures because they say residents were overlooked during the nation's last head count, victories have been mostly small, but small turned out to be big for tiny Whiteville, Tenn. Of the dozen or so municipalities that have appealed and had the results made [...]
Microsoft's newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet, but if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler. The tech company said last week it is promising [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As former CIA Director David Petraeus recently told the House Intelligence Committee about the needs of the agency's workforce, one of the committee's youngest members flashed a knowing smile and began to nod. Abigail Spanberger spent almost a decade as a CIA operations officer. Now, she's a third-term Democratic congresswoman from Virginia [...]