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, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to strengthen its legitimacy and political might. The GENIUS Act sets initial guardrails and consumer protections for stablecoins, which are tied to assets such as the American dollar [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grants for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter requesting the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states. President Donald Trump’s administration on July 1 withheld more than $6 billion in federal grants for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics last week said it won’t comply with a request from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy following the death of a third patient receiving one of its treatments for muscular dystrophy. The unusual move is a latest in a string of events [...]
The Trump administration has imposed new restrictions on flights from Mexico and threatened to end a longstanding partnership between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico in response to limits the Mexican government placed on passenger and cargo flights into Mexico City several years ago. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Mexico’s actions to force airlines to move [...]
Ohio’s technology credentialing program in May awarded the most funding in its nearly six-year history, according to a news release from Gov. Mike DeWine’s office. During the May application round of TechCred, more than $9.9 million in funding was awarded, representing the highest total amount from any round of the program since it was launched [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that pay an investment income, a trend that may help explain the resilience of the economy after a bout of high inflation and recent uncertainty due to tariffs. The analysis by JPMorganChase Institute examined [...]