LONDON (AP) — Instagram users younger than 16 won’t be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages they’ve received without parental approval, owner Meta Platforms said as it widened its safety measures for teenagers. The social media company also said it was extending safeguards for Facebook and Messenger users to younger than 18. [...]
A pair of northeast Ohio lawmakers wants to double the dollar amount of the tax incentives available for theater and film producers who elect to either stage their productions or make their movies and TV shows in the Buckeye State. Sens. Tom Patton, R-Strongsville, and Jane Timken, R-Jackson Township, cite the more than 300 percent [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — This spring homebuying season is shaping up to be more favorable for home shoppers than it’s been in recent years — as long as they can afford to buy. Home prices are rising more slowly, mortgage rates remain elevated, but have been mostly easing and could be headed lower, analysts say. [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration acted last week to roll back safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of the country’s national forests under an emergency designation that cited dangers from wildfires. Former President Joe Biden’s administration also sought more logging in public forests to combat fires, yet U.S. Forest [...]
States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out from under budgetary squeezes. One solution some policymakers are considering is restricting the number of people on Medicaid who can use the diabetes drugs for weight-loss purposes. Pennsylvania’s Medicaid coverage [...]
Republic Airways and Mesa Air Group Inc. are combining in an all-stock deal that will create a regional airline with access to more planes to service routes. Specific financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in a statement released earlier this week. Republic, started in 1974, has a fleet of more than 240 Embraer 170/175 [...]
John Gutierrez had been thinking about buying a new laptop for the past year. The Austin, Texas, resident needed a computer with faster processing and increased storage for his photography work and had his sights set on a product from a Taiwanese brand. Then President Donald Trump announced expansive new import tariffs last week, including [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Industry groups representing hundreds of chemical and petrochemical manufacturers are seeking blanket exemptions from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. The request by the American Chemistry Council and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers comes as the Trump administration offers industrial polluters a chance [...]
POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled last week following a trial more than a decade in the making. Jurors found that energy giant Texaco, acquired by Chevron in 2001, had for decades violated Louisiana [...]