OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rancher Brett Kenzy said he hopes President Donald Trump’s tariffs will make imported beef expensive enough that Americans will turn to cattle raised at home for their hamburgers and steaks. That might raise prices enough to give Kenzy and others the incentive they need to expand their herds for the first [...]
A pair of tractor-trailers with automated truck-platooning technology began traveling Interstate 70 between Columbus and Indianapolis earlier this week. The deployment is a collaboration between the Ohio Department of Transportation’s DriveOhio initiative and Indiana’s transportation agency to advance the adoption of truck-automation technologies in the logistics industry across the Midwest, a news release provided. “Everything [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week announced deals with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishment for not following executive orders. The firms would be required to provide free legal services for causes Trump’s administration supports. The White House said that the firms of Kirkland & Ellis [...]
Pfizer is ending the development of its potential once-daily pill treatment for obesity after venturing into the biggest and most expensive level of clinical testing. The drugmaker said that it would stop studying danuglipron after a participant in one of its trials experienced a possible drug-induced liver injury that ended once the person stopped taking [...]
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided last week to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. The International Maritime Organization estimates $11 billion to $13 billion in revenue annually from [...]
A committee in the Ohio House of Representatives is considering bipartisan legislation to create a special partnership for the purposes of developing trade, investment and economic support — among other relationships — between the Buckeye State and Israel. House Bill 188 would create the Ohio-Israel Trade and Innovation Partnership, a 17-person commission charged with exploring [...]
Meta Platforms Inc. faces an antitrust trial this week that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses. The looming antitrust trial will be the first big test of President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission’s ability [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tariff exemptions announced last week on electronics such as smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. White House officials, including President Donald Trump, spent Sunday downplaying the significance of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, once again, was working into the early morning hours Friday with its new majority leader, Republican John Thune, setting the pace. It wasn’t until just after 2 a.m. that the last of the senators had straggled into the chamber to cast their vote on the confirmation of retired Air Force [...]