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BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (AP) — A U.S. Air Force command says nearly all of its Sig Sauer M18 pistols can be safely carried at nuclear weapons sites after the death of an airman sparked a monthlong pause and safety inspection of the handguns. Sig Sauer is currently facing lawsuits over unintentional discharge claims [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As armed National Guard troops patrol the nation’s capital as part of a federal takeover of Washington’s police department, handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump, according to the latest AP-NORC poll. Americans are generally not happy about the president’s handling of issues such as immigration and the [...]
Cracker Barrel said this week it’s returning to its old logo after critics, including President Donald Trump, protested the company’s plan to modernize. In a post on its website, Cracker Barrel said it will retain its old logo, which features an older man in overalls sitting next to a barrel and the words “Old Country [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Commuters and students in Philadelphia woke up earlier than usual on Monday to navigate service reductions that the region’s public transit agency has called more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the country. The cuts took effect as the school year began in the nation’s sixth-most populous [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ view of the nation’s economy declined modestly in August as anxiety over a weakening job market grew for the eighth straight month. The Conference Board earlier this week said that its consumer confidence index ticked down by 1.3 points to 97.4 in August, down from July’s 98.7, but in the same [...]
When Justine Siegal and Keith Stein envisioned the nation’s first professional women’s baseball league in 70 years, they wanted to do it right. So, they examined the blueprints of successful women’s leagues and studied the pitfalls that caused promising ventures to fail. Their research helped shape the Women’s Professional Baseball League, launching next year, the [...]
AT&T will spend $23 billion to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, an expansion of AT&T’s low- and mid-band coverage networks. AT&T said that the licenses cover nearly every United States market — more than 400 total — which the company plans to deploy as soon as possible to lure more home internet subscribers [...]
California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn earlier this month found what Duffy called significant [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — One of the nation’s leading operators of automated license-plate reading systems this week announced it has paused its operations with federal agencies because of confusion and concern about the purpose of their investigations. Flock Safety, the cameras of which are mounted in more than 4,000 communities, put a hold last week [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed to impose new tariffs and export curbs on countries with digital taxes or regulations that affect American technology companies. Trump didn’t mention specific places but his comments were taken as a threat against the European Union’s digital rules to rein in companies such as Google, Apple and Meta. [...]