NEW YORK (AP) — Amber Salazar last year opened Banned Wagon Books, a pop-up store she sets up everywhere from wineries to coffee shops, featuring such frequently censored works as Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer,” Angie Thomas’ “The Hate U Give” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” “I decided that no matter what it looked like, I was [...]
LOS ANGELES — Before "America First" became the Trump administration's mandate for foreign policy and trade, one sector was already working to bring business back to the United States: the semiconductor industry. Aided by government incentives, American and foreign tech companies alike have invested hundreds of billions of dollars to bolstering semiconductor operations — research [...]
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective home buyers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for the housing market. Existing home sales dropped 0.5 percent last month from March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million units, the National [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing unemployment claims fell slightly as businesses continue to retain employees despite growing economic uncertainty over U.S. trade policy. Applications for jobless benefits fell by 2,000 to 227,000 for the week ending May 17, the Labor Department said. That’s pretty close to the 230,000 new applications analysts forecast. [...]
The Trump administration said last week that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider industry push to allow deep-sea mining that environmentalists oppose because they say it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems. The Department of Interior [...]
A western Ohio lawmaker has proposed legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives to repeal a section of state law that clashes with the Parents Bill of Rights, which went into effect in April. Rep. Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, told members of the Health Committee last week that R.C. 5122.04, which states mental health services may [...]
Retailers are trying to navigate their way through economic uncertainty in 2025. Tariffs, inflation and lingering fears of a recession have left many Americans uneasy and pulling back on spending. Because consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, a retreat would heighten the odds of contraction for the U.S. economy. With [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple’s iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT. OpenAI said it is acquiring io, a product andengineering company co-founded by Ive, in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion. Ive became renowned for a meticulous [...]
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government placed sanctions on seven companies in response to recent U.S. announcements of military sales and aid to Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as part of its territory. The sanctions also come in response to the recent approval of the U.S. government’s annual defense spending bill, which a [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large fossil fuel companies will have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed last week by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to pay into a state fund for infrastructure projects meant to [...]