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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, Jennifer Boehme is leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes’ bottoms. The effort, the marine scientist said, will pinpoint hundreds of underwater shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and locate infrastructure. The map, she said, also will help ships avoid submerged [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Economists say a lengthy shutdown could raise prices on goods around the country and potentially cause shortages and price increases at big and small retailers alike as [...]
DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have increased their presence in video distribution. DirecTV earlier this week said that it will acquire Dish TV and Sling TV from its owner EchoStar in a debt exchange [...]
COLUMBUS — Clouds of bubbles streamed aloft and Charli XCX’s song “Talk Talk” boomed alongside a 19-foot Airstream Caravel, as the League of Women Voters of Ohio’s statewide roadshow aimed at registering student voters and exciting them about democracy rolled onto Ohio State University’s main campus last week. The travel trailer, on loan from its [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Eating in is in and eating out is out. That’s the message that inflation-squeezed consumers have been sending to fast-food companies and other restaurants, according to some recent sales reports. Food producers, meanwhile, are benefitting from more palatable prices in grocery store aisles. Inflation has been easing broadly for more than [...]
The extent of contamination and risks from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine last year still are not fully known, according to research by the Associated Press. The method by which the Environmental Protection Agency reported its findings doesn’t offer specific measurements for chemicals that it says fall below a level considered dangerous [...]
WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Fields of tall corn are common throughout the Midwest, but soon that towering corn might become a miniature version of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green giants that have covered fields for so long. “As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next [...]
The Federal Reserve gave home shoppers an interest rate cut and a signal of more cuts to come. Economists and real estate analysts, however, say that doesn’t mean mortgage rates will substantially fall any time soon. While the Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, its policy pivot does clear a path for mortgage rates to go [...]
BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) — Opponents of offshore wind around the country are pelting projects with lawsuits seeking to cancel them or tie them up in litigation for years. The court cases represent another hurdle the nascent industry must overcome, particularly along the East Coast where opposition to offshore wind farms is vocal and well organized. [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Since freight trains have grown longer there has been an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the National Academies of Sciences said earlier this week in a report that urges regulators, Congress and the industry to [...]