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WASHINGTON (AP) — Producer prices fell unexpectedly last month, dropping 0.1 percent from July, according to a new federal government report. The Labor Department earlier this week reported that its producer price index — which captures inflation in the supply chain before it hits consumers — showed that wholesale inflation decelerated in August after advancing [...]
Ohio crop farmers started this year’s growing season dealing with an abnormally wet spring that has been followed by an unusually dry spell leading up to harvest time. As a result, the quality and quantity of some crops could be reduced, according to agriculture researchers. The April through July timeframe was the eighth-wettest such period [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rising housing values and a shortage of homes on the market gave homeowners the upper hand for years when it came time to sell. That’s no longer a given in some regions of the country. In some areas, it’s getting tougher for sellers to drive a hard bargain. Analysts say a [...]
After American Eagle rolled out its new ad campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney over the summer, the fall denim campaign sparked a debate about race, Western beauty standards and the backlash to “woke” American politics and culture. Reactions centered on ads that used the word “genes” instead of “jeans” featuring the blonde-haired, blue-eyed actor [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to increase the number of people trained to spot problems with railroad bridges, but the railroad operators themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential. Currently, there are seven Federal Railroad [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. The decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies a decade after a merger of the brands created one of the biggest food manufacturers on the planet. One of the companies, currently called Global Taste Elevation Co., will include brands such as Heinz, Philadelphia cream cheese and Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kraft Heinz [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Every time he rushed out on a fire call, East Providence Lt. Thomas Votta knew he put himself at risk for cancer. There are potential carcinogens in the smoke billowing out of a house fire, but also risks from wearing his chemically-treated gear. Last month, the Rhode Island fire department [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy rebounded this spring from a first-quarter downturn, according to new federal government figures. In an upgrade from its first estimate in July, the Commerce Department last week said that the country’s gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 3.3 percent annual [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs. An executive order signed last month eliminates a widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth [...]