DETROIT (AP) — A couple of blocks from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Electrify America has opened an indoor charging station that allows drivers to relax in a lounge while their electric-vehicle batteries are being charged. The 20-plug direct-current fast-charging station, near downtown San Francisco, is part of a trend toward more appealing neighborhood stations, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's cybersecurity agency has launched a program aimed at boosting election security, shoring up support for local offices and hoping to provide reassurance to voters that this year's presidential elections will be safe and accurate. Officials with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was scheduled to introduce last week its [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's administration has backed off of its plans to impose rules that advocates feared would have restricted gender-affirming medical treatment for adults in a way no other state has. The rules proposed by two state departments would have required the psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in [...]
WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States. The shift reflects the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing as well as U.S. efforts to import from countries that are friendlier and closer to home. Figures released [...]
LOS ANGELES — Three months after an arson fire at a state-leased storage space shut down a major Los Angeles freeway, California transportation officials are recommending changes to the leasing program that would explicitly ban storage of hazardous materials such as wood pallets and gasoline and provide more scrutiny of people who want to rent [...]
Last year was a record-setting one for construction of industrial space in central Ohio, according to a new report from real estate consulting firm CBRE. In the region, builders completed 17.1 million square feet of new industrial buildings in 2023, the most ever for a single year, the report noted. It’s also about 30 percent [...]
A joint resolution calling for a convention of states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution advanced to a second hearing this week by a committee in the Ohio House of Representatives. House Joint Resolution 3 would add Ohio to an ongoing call for such action by 19 other states, said Rep. Riordan McClain, R-Upper [...]
DENVER (AP) — Single mom Caitlyn Colbert watched as rent for her two-bedroom apartment doubled, then tripled and then quadrupled over a decade in Denver — from $750 to $3,374 last year. Every month, Colbert juggled her costs. She had to decide whether to pay the rent or pay swim team fees for one of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for soot pollution, saying that reducing fine particle matter from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. Environmental and public health groups hailed the new Environmental Protection Agency rule finalized Wednesday as a major step in improving the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is poised to take in hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than previously anticipated, according to new analysis released Tuesday by the Treasury Department and the IRS. Tax revenues are expected to rise by as much as $561 billion from 2024 to 2034, thanks to [...]