WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department reported last week that U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, well short of the 115,000 forecasters had expected. Worse, revisions shaved a stunning 258,000 jobs off May and June payrolls. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent as Americans dropped out of the labor force and [...]
Penske Entertainment, the Roger Penske-owned entity that holds Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar among its assets, said last week it has sold a one-third interest in the company to Fox. The sale was described as a strategic investment and partnership designed to launch new growth for IndyCar. It includes a multiyear contract extension for Fox [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has raised the tariff rate on U.S. imports from Canada to 35 percent from 25 percent, effective Aug. 1. The announcement from the White House said Canada had failed to “do more to arrest, seize, detain or otherwise intercept ... traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs.” Trump has [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted last week. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.1 percent, up from 3.7 percent the year before. It’s the third record-breaking year [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for decades that gauged young people’s health and athleticism with 1-mile runs, sit-ups and stretching exercises. “This is a wonderful tradition, and we’re bringing it back,” Trump said of the fitness test that began [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil’s second-quarter profit dropped to the lowest level in four years and sales fell as oil prices slumped as OPEC+ ramped up production. Exxon earned $7.08 billion, or $1.64 per share, for the period ended June 30. A year earlier it earned $9.24 billion, or $2.14 per share. That was [...]
Attorney General Dave Yost has announced the appointment of Mathura Sridharan as solicitor general, the state’s top attorney for appeals in state and federal courts. Sridharan, who has served as deputy solicitor general since 2021, will fill the vacancy left by Elliot Gaiser, who was tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel has affirmed the Ohio Court of Claims’ dismissal of a Hilltop man’s suit alleging fraud and forgery — among other offenses — against the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the state Department of Medicaid. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel determined that the court’s dismissal of [...]
The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, announcing last week an end to setting aside large areas for “speculative wind development.” More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas, the offshore locations deemed most suitable for wind energy development. The Bureau [...]