MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, a jury found last week. Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access had accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has sued the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for finding the e-commerce giant legally responsible for the recalls of hundreds of thousands of products sold on its site. The independent federal agency ordered Amazon in January to take several actions, including notifying customers who bought more than 400,000 items covered [...]
Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits, but layoffs remain historically low. Jobless claims filings rose by 2,000 to 223,000 for the week ending March 15, the Labor Department said. That’s a little less than the 224,000 new applications analysts forecast. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have remained [...]
An Ohio senator has proposed legislation that would offset the costs of health-insurance mandates imposed on businesses operating in the Buckeye State. Sen. Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, said his measure, Senate Bill 129, completes work begun in 2016 with the passage of House Bill 463 during the 131st session of the General Assembly of the Ohio [...]
Central Ohio is the fastest-growing large metro area in the state, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The number of people living in the Columbus metro area grew 4 percent from 2020 to 2024. The Cincinnati metro area grew by 2.3 percent over the same time period while the Cleveland region’s [...]
In hindsight, NATO was an unnecessarily confusing acronym for a trade organization representing movie theater owners. For 60 years, the National Association of Theatre Owners has promoted interests of movie theaters, from the biggest chains to the one screen mom-and-pop shops. They’ve also regularly received mail and phone calls intended for the other NATO, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have been sniping at each other in public since Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped pass a Republican spending bill that prevented a government shutdown, but the divisions in their party hardly began there. For months, Democrats have been struggling to coalesce behind a political strategy as they confront President Donald [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures, which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone. Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity to [...]