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LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden earlier this week signed an executive order that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced artificial intelligence operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean-power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States. The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate large-scale [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — New Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe this week is expected to issue a variety of orders targeting crime. The move reflects a national trend. After a period of relaxed sentencing laws, a tough-on-crime approach is back in political favor across the country. Republicans and Democrats alike are promoting anti-crime initiatives as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring increased in December as employers added 256,000 jobs, according to a new Labor Department report. The report, released last week, showed that job growth was up last month from 212,000 in November. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent from 4.2 percent in November. For all of 2024, the economy added [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Russell Maichel started growing almonds, walnuts and pistachios in the 1980s, he didn’t own a cellphone. Now, a fully autonomous tractor drives through his expansive orchard, spraying pesticides and fertilizer to protect the trees that he says have for decades filled him with an immense sense of pride. “The sustainability [...]
BOSTON (AP) — New research indicates students are paying less to attend public universities than they were a decade ago — and tuition increases at private colleges have slowed after years of hikes. Figures compiled by the non-profit College Board indicate the average student attending an in-state public university this year faces a tuition bill [...]
DETROIT (AP) — New vehicle sales rose 2.7 percent last year as prices and interest rates fell, making SUVs, cars and trucks a little more affordable than in the previous year. Industry analysts say discounts such as rebates and low-interest financing should get even better later in 2025, with the biggest deals to be had [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow to block the acquisition of the iconic American company. “We need major U.S. companies representing the major share of U.S. steelmaking capacity to keep leading the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts last week issued a defense of judicial independence, which he said is under threat from intimidation, disinformation and the prospect of public officials defying court orders. Roberts laid out his concerns in his annual report on the federal judiciary. It was released after a year where the nation’s [...]
If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book [...]
The number of construction jobs in Ohio in November was 6.4 percent higher than it was in November 2023, according to a new report from the Associated General Contractors of America. There were 256,100 construction-related jobs in the state in November compared to 240,700 a year earlier. There were also 1,500 more jobs in November [...]