Three years ago, President Joe Biden set a goal that half of all new cars and trucks sold in the United States in 2030 would be zero-emission, thus reducing the sales of gasoline-powered vehicles. A new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency requires that about 56 percent of all new vehicle sales be electric by [...]
The United States’ surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette packages. In a Monday opinion piece in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental-health crisis among young people. "It is [...]
Adrian Perkins was running for re-election as the mayor of Shreveport, La., when he said he was surprised by a harsh campaign hit piece. The satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal's office. [...]
The Republican sponsors of the Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act want Ohio to join two-thirds of other states to ensure that faith-based, health care-cost sharing groups are regulated as religious charities. House Bill 474 would create a common definition that classifies health-care sharing ministries (or HCSMs) as charities rather than as insurance. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down a ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history. The high court’s majority found that the Donald Trump administration did not [...]
PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at home to counter the smell and, they say, fight off air-related ailments. “We have a lot of health problems going around in [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders last week voted to restore CEO Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a vote of confidence in his leadership of the world’s largest electric-vehicle maker. The vote doesn’t necessarily mean that Musk will get the all-stock compensation anytime [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Gruenberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Last week’s announcement from the White House came after Gruenberg’s tenure became marred by allegations of workplace abuse that led to him to resign. A longtime financial regulator, Goldsmith Romero is [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a familiar and agonizing experience for legions of New York City renters: before moving into a new apartment, a tenant must first shell out thousands of dollars in fees to a real estate broker, even if that person was hired by the landlord. The hefty one-time payments, known as broker [...]