COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio League of Women Voters urged the state’s high court to relocate a portrait of the state’s first female chief justice from a new exhibit to be located in the courthouse basement back to the building’s main hallway. In a letter, Executive Director Jen Miller told Ohio Supreme Court justices in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is potentially a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping American government bonds. Normally, investors rush into Treasurys at a whiff of economic chaos, but now they are selling [...]
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s decision to overrule a Chillicothe Correctional Institution inmate’s effort to renege on the guilty plea he entered for the shooting death of his fiancée in November 2018. The appellate panel affirmed the Licking County Common Pleas Court overruling the motion to withdraw a guilty [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government’s budget deficit has grown to more than $1.3 trillion in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year — the second highest six-month deficit on record, according to Treasury Department data released last week. The deficit for October through March spans the administrations of presidents Joe Biden and Donald [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices fell last month in another sign that inflationary pressures are easing, according to a new federal government report. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — fell 0.4 percent from February, the first drop since October 2023, the Labor Department said. Compared with a year [...]
PALACIOS, Texas (AP) — While American consumers and markets wonder and worry about President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, there’s one group cheering him as they hope he’ll prop up their sinking business: Gulf Coast shrimpers. American shrimpers have been hammered in recent years by cheap imports flooding the United States market and restaurants, driving down [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan’s net income rose 9 percent to $14.6 billion in the first quarter and the New York bank beat Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets, but it’s chief executive warned of global economic uncertainties ahead. CEO Jamie Dimon said a strong performance by the bank’s markets division helped lift the bank [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. Economists, however, say that’s an unlikely scenario even with U.S. tariffs now at 145 percent on products made in China, the country in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation last week mostly along party lines that limits the authority of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders, as Republicans react to several court rulings against the Trump administration. The pace of nationwide injunctions has increased during Donald Trump’s presidency. Republicans argue that the increase is the result [...]