NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners who rely on eggs for their products are facing sticker shock because the usually reliable staple is in short supply. The Avian flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, causing egg prices to skyrocket. The average price of a dozen Grade A eggs reached [...]
A push to ban sugary drinks, candy and more from the federal government program that helps low-income families pay for nutritious food has been tried before — but it may soon get a boost from new Trump administration officials. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed Health and Human Services secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio law requiring fetal or embryonic remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried violates the constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights that the state’s voters approved in 2023, a judge ruled in permanently blocking the law. The decision last week by Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway came in a case [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake-up announced by its parent company that will relocate the chain’s American corporate office to Texas. The food chain now known as KFC — launched by Colonel Harland Sanders and his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Airbnb is suing the city of New Orleans for requiring the company and short-term rental platforms ensure properties they market are in compliance with city laws. “What we’re looking at now, due to Airbnb’s lawsuit, is that they do not want to be regulated,” City Council President J.P. Morrell said in [...]
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the company’s employees to side against union representation. About three-quarters of employees at an Amazon fulfillment center in Garner, a town located near Raleigh, voted against joining a grassroots labor organization called Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity [...]
Projects supporting the proposed Anduril Industries facility in Pickaway County have been awarded $86 million from the state Department of Development to help pay for a new taxiway at the nearby Rickenbacker International Airport and also for the construction of a water and wastewater/sewer extension, utility extensions and roadwork. The infrastructure work will be conducted [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to increase already record-setting domestic oil and gas production. Trump’s administration also announced it has granted conditional export authorization for a huge liquefied natural gas project in Louisiana, the first [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, baked goods and frozen treats. The agency said it was taking the action because studies found that the dye, also known as [...]