WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated” and last week he’ll keep extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until there’s a buyer. Congress approved a United States ban on TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold its [...]
The Trump administration has halted construction on a nearly complete offshore wind project near Rhode Island. Danish wind farm developer Orsted says the Revolution Wind project is about 80 percent complete, with 45 out of its 65 turbines already installed. Despite that progress — and the fact that the project had cleared years of federal [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits, but layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 16 rose by 11,000 to 235,000, the Labor Department reported last seek. That’s slightly more than the 229,000 new applications that economists had [...]
The number of homes for sale in central Ohio is the highest it’s been in nearly a decade, according to a new report from Columbus Realtors. Housing inventory in central Ohio is up 20.8 percent from a year ago and 8.7 percent just from June to July. Last month there were 5,638 single-family homes and [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio reversed an appellate decision that had determined Huntington National Bank owed the co-owner of a collection of skilled-nursing facilities a duty to disclose facts that materially increased his risk in a refinancing deal undertaken by his business partner. The court reasoned that because Ohio contract law does not require a [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart Inc. last week reported increases in second-quarter profits and sales as it pulls in shoppers seeking low prices for groceries and other essentials to offset worries that new American tariffs may make a variety of goods more expensive. The nation’s largest retailer also increased its annual profit and sales outlook. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced last week. The move amounts to a downsizing of the office responsible for coordinating the work of 18 intelligence agencies, including on counterterrorism and counterintelligence. “Over [...]
The number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, a research group said, a major increase that still falls short of estimates from President Donald Trump and some critics of immigration. The Pew Research Center’s closely watched gauge rose from 11.8 million a year earlier [...]