WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s flu season — the most intense in 15 years — has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening brain complication in children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 19,000 people have died from the flu so far this winter, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has dropped several enforcement actions against companies such as Capital One and Rocket Homes, the agency announced last week. In notices of voluntary dismissals filed last week, the CFPB dropped lawsuits it had brought against Capital One, Rocket Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, owned by Warren [...]
A central Ohio state lawmaker seeks to protect the property rights of short-term rental operators throughout Ohio with legislation that would prohibit jurisdictions from imposing regulations on such an enterprise. Sen. Andrew Brenner, a Delaware Republican, told members of the Local Government Committee in the Senate that significant regulations have been imposed by municipalities and [...]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order designed to boost the domestic copper industry by investigating the national security implications of imports and weighing tariffs as a response. From talk of acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral wealth to prodding Ukraine for minerals in exchange for help fending off [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has given New York a March deadline to comply with its order to halt Manhattan’s new congestion pricing system, but state officials vowed to continue the tolling program, which is meant to thin traffic and pump new revenue into the nation’s busiest transit system. The Federal Highway [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nvidia last week reported a surge in fourth-quarter profit and sales as demand for its specialized Blackwell chips, which power artificial intelligence systems, continued to grow. For the three months that ended Jan. 26, the tech giant based in Santa Clara, Calif., posted revenue of $39.3 billion, up 12 percent from [...]
Applications for jobless benefits rose to a three-month high but remained within the same range of the past three years. The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose by 22,000 to 242,000 for the week ending Feb. 22, the Labor Department said. Analysts projected that 220,000 new applications would be filed. The four-week average, [...]
A Powell state lawmaker believes the residents of large-population townships such as Orange Township in Delaware County are entitled to improved proportional representation on township trustee boards if the electorate so chooses. Rep. Brian Lorenz said residents in townships with a population of 500 are substantially better represented proportionally by their trustees than individuals from [...]