WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, economists say those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation. Fed up with prices that remain about 19 percent, on average, above where they were before the pandemic, consumers are fighting back. In grocery stores, they're shifting away from name brands [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — This year looks to be a much better one for the nation’s economy than business economists were forecasting just a few months ago, according to a survey released earlier this week. The economy looks set to grow 2.2 percent this year after adjusting for inflation, according to the National Association for [...]
The NCAA last week lost another legal battle as a federal judge barred the organization from enforcing its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation for recruits by granting a preliminary injunction demanded by the states of Tennessee and Virginia. It was another blow to the NCAA's ability to govern college sports and more than [...]
The first electric school buses in the United States began running a decade ago in three school districts in California, providing a ride that was less noisy, smelly and dirty than the diesel buses kids and parents were used to. Despite the availability of the technology since then, however, fewer than 1 percent of the [...]
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Stephen Vogt likened Saturday's spring training opener to a new school year. "There's something so exciting about the first day," the new Cleveland Guardians manager said before his dugout debut against Cincinnati at Goodyear Ballpark. "It's like the first day of school, you have the new outfit you picked out, haircut, all [...]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law. Facing a wave of shock and anger from the decision, legislators prepared separate proposals [...]
WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium — It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium's industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes. The slime was destructive algae, the result of the excess of chemicals used by farmers to boost their crops, but at a high cost [...]
The Ohio State University’s annual research and development expenditures set a new university record of $1.45 billion in fiscal year 2023, according to the university’s Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge. The figure represented a 6 percent increase compared to the previous fiscal year’s expenditures of $1.36 billion, school officials said in an announcement last [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Industry analysts say they’re expecting 2024 to be a good year for the nation’s homebuilders — as long as mortgage rates don't jump back to the highs they hit late last year. Sales of new homes rose nationally in 2023 for the first time in two years, climbing 4.2 percent from [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a final rule announced last week by the Environmental Protection Agency. The biofuels industry and farming groups, with support of Midwest governors, sought the end of a summertime ban [...]