WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week ruled for the Food and Drug Administration in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use. The high court ruled that the FDA, during President Joe Biden’s administration, did not violate federal law when it denied an application from Dallas-based company [...]
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell, remaining within the same range of recent years. Jobless claim filings fell by 6,000 to 219,000 for the week ending March 29, the Labor Department said. That’s less than the 226,000 new applications analysts forecast. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs and [...]
Meta said it has been hit with a hefty fine for resisting Turkish government demands to limit content on Facebook and Instagram. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has been trying to restrict opposition voices on social media after widespread protests erupted following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, who is a key rival. “We pushed back [...]
Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional supervision after a fight in the tower and another alarming near miss two months after a midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people. The Federal Aviation Administration said last week it also is [...]
An appellate panel affirmed judgment in favor of the defendants in a suit brought by a Columbus woman who wants the Franklin County treasurer’s office to stop sending her unpaid-tax notices for property she claims she no longer owns. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals determined the Franklin County Common Pleas [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gadgets sold without batteries, toys sold in slimmed-down boxes or no packaging at all and an increase in household goods that shoppers need to assemble themselves are some of the ways consumer product companies are retooling their wares to reduce costs and avoid raising prices. The moves come as President Donald [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Most major car companies reported double-digit sales increases in March. For some companies, the strong performance last month helped make up for a sluggish start to the year. Automakers sold nearly 1.6 million vehicles in the United States last month, up 13.6 percent from February. That brought total sales for the [...]
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — From the Southwest to Minnesota, Iowa and even parts of New Jersey, it seemed that winter never materialized. Many communities marked their driest winters on record, snowpack was nearly nonexistent in some spots and vegetation remains tinder dry — all ingredients for elevated wildfire risks. More than 1,000 firefighters and fire [...]
Little has changed in the past year to fix Ohio’s capital-punishment system, according to the 2024 Capital Crimes report released this week. The report, an annual statutory requirement of the attorney general’s office, provides the procedural history and other information on every case that has resulted in a death sentence since Ohio’s death-penalty law was [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans said they are progressing on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts this week, even though they’re punting some of the decisions — including the costs and how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package — until later. The Senate GOP’s budget framework would be the companion [...]