NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s posted a surprise third-quarter profit and its strongest comparable sales in more than three years as an extensive overhaul of the 167-year-old New York department store begins to resonate with shoppers. After posting its back-to-back quarterly jumps in comparable sales, Macy’s earlier this week raised its financial guidance for the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell have pledged $6.25 billion to provide 25 million American children 10 and under an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation. The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications, such as requests for green cards, for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops last week. The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted [...]
A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming popular on social media. The two-week Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is scheduled to [...]
Nearly 44 percent of the 16,000 truck driving programs listed nationwide by the federal government may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with minimum requirements. The Transportation Department earlier this week said that it plans to revoke the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers scoured for deals online on Cyber Monday, delivering strong sales for retailers and capping a five-day spending spree that kicked off on Thanksgiving. Adobe Analytics reported that as of 6:30 p.m. EST on Monday, consumers had already spent $9.1 billion online for Cyber Monday, up 4.5 percent from the same [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade policies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said earlier this week, upgrading its outlook for global and United States economic growth this year. The 38-country OECD now forecasts that the world economy will grow 3.2 percent [...]
Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use artificial-intelligence chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So, it might come as a surprise to them that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read those essays and statements. AI tools are now being incorporated into how student [...]