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NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready for an onslaught of ads full of celebrities, cute animals and snack brands during breaks in the action at Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9, when the Philadelphia Eagles face the Kansas City Chiefs at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Anheuser-Busch, Meta, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Taco Bell, Uber Eats [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. It also appears there may be no relief in sight, given the surge in demand as Easter approaches. The average price for a dozen eggs [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into an electric grid that serves everyone else. The practice raises questions over whether diverting [...]
Central Ohio home sales and prices increased last year, according to new data from Columbus Realtors. Home sales in the Columbus region rose 4.2 percent in 2024 compared to 2023 and the average price of a home sold last year increased 5.1 percent to $365,257. There were 28,754 homes sold last year compared to 27,592 [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific reported 7 percent more fourth-quarter profit compared to a year ago as it managed to deliver more shipments with fewer employees and continued to make the railroad company more efficient. The Omaha, Neb.-based railroad firm last week reported $1.76 billion in profit, or $2.91 per share, to top Wall [...]
Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the East Palestine train crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue their appeal for higher compensation and more information about the contamination. Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of [...]
BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) — On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass. The growing solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Weight loss and diabetes drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the federal government and drug manufacturers, the Biden administration said last week. The price negotiations for the additional 15 drugs selected will be handled by the Donald Trump [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive the nation’s manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce reliance on foreign-made computer chips, allegedly could “sharply increase production’’ of semiconductors in the United States. If it does so, though, it will be at a high cost and might not deliver [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation accelerated last month as prices for gas, eggs, and used cars rose, yet underlying price pressures also showed signs of easing, bolstering hopes that the Federal Reserve could still cut its key interest rate this year. The consumer price index rose 2.9 percent in December from a year ago, a new [...]