Bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the Ohio Senate could help the outreach efforts of the state director of Veteran Services in alerting veterans to information about benefits and special programs, according to a sponsor of the bill. “It is critical that our state government take action and assist Ohio veterans in obtaining the benefits they [...]
Restaurants are struggling with record-high egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem. Breakfast is booming at eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the past decade to 570. Eggs Up Grill has 90 restaurants in nine southern [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans last week released a budget plan that sets the stage for advancing many of President Donald Trump’s domestic priorities, providing for up to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit. The budget plan also directs a variety of House committees to cut spending [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research firm — in 2020, arguing it had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices came in higher than expected last month with progress against inflation appearing to have stalled, further undercutting expectations for lower interest rates this year. The Labor Department last week reported that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.4 percent from December and [...]
Government Oversight Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives this week heard testimony from the sponsors of a bill crafted to give the General Assembly oversight of administrative rulemaking. “As we all know, our country and our state were built on the idea that we have three co-equal branches of government, but in 2025, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation accelerated last month as the cost of groceries, gasoline and rents rose, which could embolden the Federal Reserve’s resolve to delay further interest rate cuts. The consumer price index increased 3 percent in January from a year ago, this week’s report from the Labor Department showed, up from 2.9 percent the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, testifying before the Senate Banking Committee earlier this week, received little scrutiny from senators about the Fed’s interest-rate policy, which has contributed to higher borrowing costs but has also been credited for helping to slow inflation. While several senators flagged the spike in inflation that followed the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is scrapping last-minute guidance issued by the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges’ plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments subject to federal Title IX rules. President Donald Trump’s education officials announced the change Wednesday, saying the memo from former [...]
Spirit Airlines has rejected a third takeover bid from budget rival Frontier, saying that it would focus on its own plan to emerge from bankruptcy and stabilize its finances. The offer this week, similar to the last bid, offers Spirit shareholders $400 million in debt and a 19 percent stake in Frontier Group Holdings Inc., [...]