SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Seventeen states are suing President Donald Trump’s administration for withholding billions of dollars for building more electric vehicle chargers, according to a federal lawsuit announced last week. The Trump administration in February directed states to stop spending money for electric vehicle charging infrastructure that was allocated under President Joe Biden, part [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration last week proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of a U.S. air traffic control system that it said still relies on floppy disks and replacement parts found on eBay and has come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of recent deadly plane crashes and technical failures. The plan calls for six new [...]
China’s exports to the United States tumbled in April while its trade with other economies surged, suggesting that President Donald Trump’s tariffs offensive is hastening a shakeup in global supply chains. Total exports from China rose 8.1 percent last month from a year earlier, much faster than the 2 percent pace most economists had been [...]
The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates. The move, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to cut the cost and size of [...]
STONINGTON, Maine (AP) — Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s lifeblood industry mount. Trade imbalances with Canada, tight regulations on fisheries and offshore wind farms towering like skyscrapers on open water pose three of those threats, said Olsen, part of the fifth generation [...]
TOKYO (AP) — Panasonic will slash its global workforce by 10,000 people, half in Japan and half overseas, to become a more efficient, “lean” company, the Japanese manufacturer said. The job cuts, amounting to about 4 percent of its 230,000 workers, will include early retirement offers in Japan and closures and consolidation of various operations, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmental groups who called the plan a betrayal that could lead to increased drilling, mining and logging in the [...]
A Canal Winchester state lawmaker has offered a solution to what she has characterized as Ohio’s “looming housing crisis” through legislation that would link residential development to economic development in specially designated districts. Republican Sen. Michele Reynolds recently shared details of Senate Bill 184, which establishes Residential Economic Development Districts and a Housing Accelerator Fund [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell despite heightened uncertainty about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact the U.S. and global economies. Jobless claim applications fell by 13,000 to 228,000 for the week ending May 3, the Labor Department said. That’s in line with the 229,000 new applications analysts [...]