WASHINGTON (AP) — The House earlier this week passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, providing critical momentum as the measure now moves to the Senate, where bipartisan support will be needed to get it over the finish line. Republicans needed overwhelming support from their members to pass [...]
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more. And, if so, why? Finding the answers could shed light on the fare that makes up more than 70 percent of the nation’s food supply. Ultraprocessed foods have been linked to ailments including [...]
French publishers and authors said this week they’re taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model. Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s “massive use of copyrighted [...]
Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives this week heard from lawmakers sponsoring a bill that would require citizenship status be added to the list of other demographic data certain agencies collect from the residents they encounter. House Bill 42 would require law enforcement agencies, the departments of Rehabilitation and Correction, Education and Workforce, [...]
Mortgage lender Rocket Cos. has agreed to acquire online real estate brokerage Redfin in an all-stock deal valued at $1.75 billion. The transaction gives one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders an in-house network of more than 2,000 real estate agents across 42 states and Redfin’s popular home and rental housing listings platform, which draws [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — China retaliated against President Donald Trump’s tariffs with an additional 15 percent tax on key American farm products, including chicken, pork, soybeans and beef. The Chinese tariffs, announced last week, were a response to Trump’s decision to double the levy on Chinese imports to 20 percent on March 4. China’s Commerce Ministry [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — The Trump administration has cut millions of dollars in federal funding from two cybersecurity initiatives, including one dedicated to helping state and local election officials. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, has ended about $10 million in annual funding to the nonprofit Center for Internet Security, a CISA [...]
Southwest Airlines said it will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals. Southwest, which built years of advertising campaigns around its policy of letting passengers check up to two bags for free, said free [...]