WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Federal Reserve policymakers last week warned against cutting interest rates too soon or by too much in the wake of recent data showing inflation stayed unexpectedly high in January. Their comments echoed the minutes released Feb. 21 from the Fed's last meeting in January. The minutes showed that most central bank [...]
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce Southwest. Previously, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted developers approval to move ahead with planning even if tribes objected. That practice came to an end [...]
NEW YORK — When her cellphone's service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States last week piled new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation of the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny earlier this month in an Arctic penal colony. The U.S. Treasury, State Department and Commerce Department imposed roughly [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Vineyard Wind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62 wind turbines, company and state officials said. The five turbines are operating at full capacity, generating 68 megawatts of power — enough to power about 30,000 [...]
A majority of Ohio Supreme Court justices were persuaded to accept the appeal of an Olmstead Township property owner who has alleged the expansion of a runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport amounted to an uncompensated taking of adjacent real estate. The attorney for Fouad Inc., the titled owner of residential property at 24505 Barrett [...]
Home sales in central Ohio are off to a higher start to the new year than they were a year ago, according to new figures from Columbus Realtors. Home sales in January were 2.8 percent higher than January 2023, with 1,558 homes sold in the first month of the year, compared to 1,515 a year [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Two tech CEOs said production of sophisticated chips will need to greatly increase to support the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the topic during a conference in San Jose, Calif., last week. The discussion came a few hours after chipmaker Nvidia [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS officials last week said there will be more scrutiny on executives' personal use of business aircraft who write it off as a tax expense. IRS leadership said the agency will start conducting dozens of audits on businesses' private jets and how they are used personally by executives and written off as [...]