The United States announced this week it again will pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country’s national interest and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech. The decision comes two years after the United States rejoined UNESCO after leaving in 2018, during [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel was not convinced by the appeal of a woman who faulted a trial court’s divorce decree and designation of her ex-husband as sole legal custodian of the couple’s two minor children. Anna Messina asserted that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Division of Domestic Relations, abused its discretion in denying [...]
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency board has approved financing for two central Ohio affordable housing developments. The Lofts at 40 Long project received approval to authorize up to $43 million in multifamily housing bonds through the Housing Finance Agency to transform a former YMCA building in downtown Columbus into 121 units for families. The development [...]
General Motors’ profit declined 35 percent in its second-quarter, but the automaker topped expectations and stuck by its full-year financial outlook that it lowered in May. GM CEO Mary Barra also said in a letter to shareholders earlier this week that the automaker is attempting to “greatly reduce our tariff exposure,” citing $4 billion of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health-care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at construction sites [...]
Honda this week marked the 40th anniversary of production at the Anna Engine Plant, the company’s largest auto engine plant in the world. The 2.8 million-square-foot facility in western Ohio is part of the automaker’s EV Hub, which is advancing the concept of flexible manufacturing to produce internal combustion en-gines, hybrid powertrains and all-electric motors [...]
Coca-Cola said it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Donald Trump. Trump said in a social media post last week that Coca-Cola had agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship product in the United States instead of high-fructose corn [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has named a longtime pharmaceutical executive to run the agency’s drug program, the latest in a string of leadership changes at the agency. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, [...]
Subway has hired a former Burger King executive as its new CEO. The Miami-based sandwich chain said that Jonathan Fitzpatrick will join the company on Monday. Fitzpatrick is the first CEO hired since Subway was bought by the private equity firm Roark Capital in 2024, and Roark didn’t have to look far to find him. [...]
MIAMI (AP) — Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts this week that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on the nation’s roads or throw up a major roadblock. In Miami, a Tesla driver who has admitted he was wrong to reach for a dropped cellphone moments before a deadly accident, [...]