As promised, President Donald Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies during his first day in office with a spate of orders largely favoring oil, gas and coal. Yet there is one renewable energy that did find favor: geothermal. Energy analysts say that makes sense — geothermal energy makes electricity 24/7. Many people working in [...]
To celebrate what would have been company founder Paul Newman’s 100th birthday on Sunday, the Newman’s Own Foundation is inviting others to follow its lead and donate 100 percent of their profits to charity, as part of the 100 percent for Purpose Club. In a TED talk, Alex Amouyel, the foundation’s CEO and president, made [...]
Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years. Applications for jobless benefits rose by 6,000 to 223,000 for the week ending Jan. 18, the Labor Department said. Analysts were expecting 219,000 new applications. Weekly applications for jobless benefits [...]
Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the East Palestine train crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue their appeal for higher compensation and more information about the contamination. Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week discussed a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. The new entity, Stargate, will start building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix added nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter to help propel its earnings beyond analysts’ projections, capping the video streaming service’s best year yet in a sign that its expansion into live programming is paying off. The numbers released earlier this week covered an October-December period highlighted by Netflix’s [...]
A judge in northwestern Ohio this week found a pastor guilty on criminal charges for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the winter chill. Chris Avell, pastor of Dad’s Place Church in the city of Bryan, could [...]
Efforts to exclude people in the United States illegally from the census have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began. Trump joined in the battle immediately upon returning to office, signing an executive order that rescinded a [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses had a merry December, as shoppers wrapped up their holiday shopping. That’s according to the Fiserv Small Business Index. The seasonally adjusted index for December was 146, up three points from November. The figure is derived from point-of-sale transaction data, including card, cash and check transactions in-store and online [...]