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WASHINGTON (AP) — For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has declined in recent years [...]
Stellantis says it will invest $13 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States, a move that the automaker says will increase its domestic vehicle production by 50 percent and add more than 5,000 jobs. The world’s fourth-largest carmaker said the investment will support the introduction of five [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are forecast to reduce or delay plans to hire seasonal workers who pack orders at distribution centers, serve shoppers at stores and build holiday displays during the biggest selling season of the year. American Christmas LLC, which creates elaborate holiday installations for commercial properties such as New York’s Rockefeller Center [...]
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage edged lower last week, returning to its lowest level in about a year. The average long-term mortgage rate slipped to 6.3 percent from 6.34 percent the previous week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.32 percent. The drop brings the average rate [...]
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project with President Donald Trump during his White House visit last week, a government official familiar with the matter said. A Canadian company pulled the plug on it four years ago after the Canadian government failed to persuade [...]
A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms and on the ballot. The efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage got jump-started when Texas Republican lawmakers decided to reshape districts. Since then, lawmakers in Democratic-led California and Republican-led Missouri have approved revised districts, and officials in other [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to support the mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals. The long-debated Ambler Road project was approved in Trump’s first term, but was later blocked by the Biden administration after an analysis determined the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to offer an aid package to soybean farmers to help them survive China’s boycott of American beans in response to his new tariffs even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. Farmers are worried, however, that time is quickly running out [...]
The value of OpenAI has grown to about $500 billion following the sale of $6.6 billion worth of its shares to a group of investors. Analysts say that OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, following a secondary stock sale designed to retain [...]
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Pete Carroll could be just about anywhere, doing nearly anything that comes to mind, after accomplishing so much as a championship-winning coach in college and the NFL, the multimillion-dollar contracts he received as reward for such efforts. After a year away from the NFL, however, the 74-year-old Carroll chose to return [...]