Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen has resigned after an internal investigation into his personal conduct. Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, said the investigation into McMullen’s personal conduct was unrelated to the business, but was found to be inconsistent with its business ethics policy. Board member Ronald Sargent will serve as chairman and interim [...]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a pair of actions to increase domestic lumber production, including a directive for the Commerce Department to investigate the possible harms that lumber imports pose to national security. Trump signed an executive order to increase the possible supplies of timber and lumber and possibly [...]
Logistics operators based in Asia have been leasing more warehouses in the United States in response to changes in e-commerce, global trade and manufacturing. Leasing by Asia-based logistics firms more than doubled in key American markets such as New Jersey and Los Angeles last year compared to 2023, according to global real estate firm Cushman [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach broke up with spring break last year and city leaders still aren’t interested in couples counseling. Officials recently announced they were bringing back enhanced security measures for practically the entire month of March, including parking restrictions and increased fees for nonresidents. The new rules were introduced last year [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress last week voted to repeal a federal fee on oil and gas producers who release high levels of methane, undoing a piece of former President Joe Biden’s climate policy. The fee, which had not gone into effect, was expected to bring in billions of dollars. The Senate on Thursday voted along [...]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has offered to restore direct air links the United States as part of the latest round of consultations with Washington, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Russian and American diplomats met in Istanbul last week to discuss normalizing the operation of their respective embassies that has been crippled by multiple rounds of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) —Consumers reduced their spending last month by the most since February 2021, even as inflation slowed. Americans cut their spending by 0.2 percent in January from the previous month, the Commerce Department said last week, citing unseasonably cold weather. Inflation declined to 2.5 percent in January compared with a year earlier, down from [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The sun hadn’t set on Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign launch in Ohio last week before President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social his endorsement of the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur and former Department of Government Efficiency co-chair, calling the multimillionaire “something SPECIAL.” The timing of Trump’s announcement intrigued Ohio political observers, who [...]
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — The nation’s lobster industry’s catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the crustaceans. The industry is based mostly in Maine, where lobsters are both a cultural signifier and the backbone of the coastal economy. The state’s haul of lobsters has declined every year from 2021, when it [...]