MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s 2028 presidential primary calendar. South Carolina — the state that hosted the Democrats’ first-in-the-nation contest in 2024 — is far from a lock to go first. That’s according to several members of the DNC’s new leadership team, including Chair Ken Martin. “The [...]
Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary report last week on the July 18 incident that [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets remained a hot commodity during the company’s latest quarter, but the demand wasn’t quite feverish enough to ease recent worries that the AI craze may be fading. The results announced last week were hotly anticipated because Nvidia has emerged as a key barometer of [...]
CARVER, Mass. (AP) — About this time of the year, Jarrod Rhodes should be checking on the vines of cranberries that have grown on his bog for decades in southeastern Massachusetts. Instead, he is watching a backhoe tear up the cranberry bog, exposing the dark peat underneath that will eventually become a meandering stream through [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department wants American financial institutions to monitor for suspected Chinese money laundering networks handling funds that are used to fuel the flood of fentanyl across American communities. An advisory last week to banks, brokers and others highlights how such operations are working with Mexican drug cartels. The Trump administration is [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy posted a solid second quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations, but the performance was overshadowed by an outlook that has grown cloudy due to tariffs the United States is imposing on trading partners. Comparable sales, a popular barometer of a retailer’s health, increased 1.6 percent, which was in line [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 23 dropped 5,000 to 229,000, the Labor Department reported. Measures of the job market are being closely watched on Wall Street and by [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots last week but limited their use for many Americans, and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children. The new shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are approved for all seniors, but the Food and Drug Administration narrowed their use for younger adults and [...]
On any given Sunday, the massive American Dream mall in New Jersey allows visitors to hit an indoor ski slope, surf an artificial wave, ride roller coasters or shop for a new outfit at dozens of big-name retail stores. One of those things is a problem, argues a new lawsuit against the massive entertainment and [...]