WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how online companies can track and advertise to children, including turning off targeted ads to kids younger than 13 by default and limiting push notifications. The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, requires kid-oriented apps and [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The program tasked with replacing the century-old Interstate 5 bridge that connects Portland, Ore., with southwest Washington, and serves as a vital transportation and commerce link, is set to receive $600 million in federal funds. Washington's Democratic U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, announced the [...]
The average home price in central Ohio has shown no signs of regressing even as mortgage rates remain the highest they’ve been in years, according to figures released by Columbus Realtors. The average price of a home sold in the Columbus region last month was $341,884, which is 7.1 percent higher than it was in [...]
Republican Reps. Adam Mathews and Thomas Hall introduced before the holiday break a bill designed to address several issues relating to the administration of property taxes, including a loophole allowing school districts to join property tax valuation challenges, despite a law that explicitly prohibits it. During a Ways and Means Committee hearing in the Ohio [...]
When the coronavirus pandemic took hold, states scrambled for masks and other protective gear. Three years later, as the grips of the pandemic have loosened, many states are now trying to deal with an excess of protective gear, ditching their supplies in droves. With expiration dates passing and few requests to tap into its stockpile, [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of immigrants to the United States jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation's overall population growth, according to estimates released earlier this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The country added 1.6 million people, more than two-thirds of which came from international migration, [...]
DETROIT — Tesla's recall of more than 2 million of its electric vehicles — an effort to have drivers who use its Autopilot system pay closer attention to the road — relies on technology that research shows may not work as intended. Tesla, the leading manufacturer of EVs, reluctantly agreed to the recall last week [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge this week allowed the Arlington National Cemetery to remove a century-old Confederate memorial one day after blocking the removal over a report that gravesites were disturbed. At a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Va., U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said he issued the temporary injunction Monday after receiving [...]
MENANDS, N.Y. (AP) — Kaine is a big, buoyant dog looking for a home, but lately, he's spending a lot of time at the office. Animal shelters around the country are bursting at the seams amid the rising cost of living, so the gray and white 7-year-old has been staying in a worker's office at [...]
WASHINGTON — The IRS said it is going to waive penalty fees for people who failed to pay back taxes that total less than $100,000 per year for tax years 2020 and 2021. Nearly 5 million people, businesses and tax-exempt organizations — most making less than $400,000 per year — will be eligible for the [...]