SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decades long problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast. U.S. Customs and [...]
GENEVA (AP) — With the normally brisk Easter season around the corner, the mood in Switzerland’s chocolate business is bittersweet, thanks to high cacao prices and the newly added American tariffs on imports. Many Swiss, from the government to chocolatiers to watchmakers and other businesses, are sensing “shock” over the new American position on trade, [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy said it has identified 16 federal sites, including storied nuclear research laboratories such as Los Alamos, at which tech companies could build data centers in a push to accelerate commercial development of artificial intelligence technology. The sites are “uniquely positioned for rapid data center construction, including in-place energy infrastructure with [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers added 228,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, according to a new federal government report. The hiring numbers were up from 117,000 in February and were nearly double the 130,000 that economists had expected. U.S. Labor Department revisions shaved 48,000 jobs off January and February payrolls. [...]
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports last week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus, he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the [...]
Ohio’s Pay Stub Protection Act takes effect on Wednesday requiring employers to include certain details within their employees’ pay statements. One key provision of the act requires all Ohio employers to provide employees with comprehensive earnings and deductions statements for each pay period, according to a news release from the Ohio Department of Commerce. The [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright’s crowning achievement, the world’s first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie, outside Dayton. A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, [...]
Automaker Stellantis is temporarily halting production at a plant in Canada and a plant in Mexico shortly after President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on imported vehicles. The move will result in the temporary layoff of 900 American employees. Stellantis, which owns car brands such as Jeep, Citroën and Ram, said it will [...]
A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef once it reaches its final resting place off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Competing diving businesses are vying for the massive ship to be scuttled closer to them, while one group is suing to stop the ship from being sunk at all. The SS United States, [...]