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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump last week ordered federal government officials to consolidate wildland firefighting into a single program, despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes. The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts now split among five agencies and two Cabinet departments. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A string of recent cyberattacks and data breaches involving the systems of major retailers have started impacting some shoppers. United Natural Foods, a wholesale distributor that supplies Whole Foods and other grocers, last week said that a breach of its systems was disrupting its ability to fulfill orders — leaving many [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices increased 2.4 percent in May compared with a year ago, according to a new Labor Department report. That is up from a 2.3 percent yearly increase in April. On a monthly basis, overall prices ticked up just 0.1 percent from April to May, down from 0.2 percent the previous month, [...]
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech’s pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing earlier this week during an annual developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and cosmetic changes in its technology. The pre-summer rite, which attracted thousands of developers [...]
Digital price labels, which are rapidly replacing paper shelf tags at supermarkets, haven’t led to demand-based pricing surges, according to a study authored by Ioannis Stamatopoulos of the University of Texas, Austin, Robert Evan Sanders of the University of California, San Diego and Robert Bray of Northwestern University. The academicians said they examined five years’ [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers slowed hiring last month, but still added 139,000 jobs, according to a new federal government report. Hiring fell from a revised 147,000 in April, the Department of Labor said late last week. The job gains last month were above the 130,000 that economists had forecast. Health-care companies added 62,000 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period, according to an analysis released last week by the Congressional Budget Office. The numbers were revealed in a letter sent to Democratic congressional leadership outlining how the Trump administration’s plan to impose wide-ranging tariffs on countries around [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.75 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released this week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The package would reduce federal outlays, or spending, by nearly $1.3 trillion over [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court earlier this week rejected a pair of gun-rights cases, though one justice predicted the court would soon consider whether assault weapons bans are constitutional. The majority did not explain its reasoning in turning down the cases over high-capacity magazines and state bans on guns such as the AR-15, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key inflation gauge slowed last month, according to a new report from the Commerce Department that showed consumer prices rose 2.1 percent in April compared with a year earlier. That figure is also down from 2.3 percent in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, [...]