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Boeing earlier this week named a longtime aerospace industry veteran as its next chief executive, who will take over a company that has been rocked by legal, regulatory and production problems. Robert "Kelly" Ortberg, a former CEO at Boeing supplier Rockwell Collins, will succeed David Calhoun as CEO and president effective Aug. 8, the company [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Mass market retailers are plying shoppers with offers for computers, clothes and other back-to-school essentials at affordable prices. To seal the deal, they are marketing "buy now, pay later" services as a way for customers to spread out the cost of going back to class in style. The strategies for securing [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after launching a fight against inflation and one year after leaving its benchmark interest rate at a near-quarter-century high, the Federal Reserve is expected to signal this week that it will likely reduce borrowing costs as soon as September. A rate reduction this fall — the first since the pandemic [...]
GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues coated her truck and she no longer enjoys spending time outdoors. Dobbins feels her life — and health — were better before 2016, when Drax [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's economy accelerated last quarter at a 2.8 percent annual pace, according to a new report from the Commerce Department. The report said the gross domestic product — the economy's total output of goods and services — picked up in the April-June quarter after growing at a 1.4 percent pace in [...]
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — At the start of every work day, construction worker Charles Smith puts on the essentials, including a hard hat, safety glasses, a reflective vest and a small, watch-like band for his wrist. Rather than track time, however, the band’s purpose is to ensure he doesn't overheat while working during sweltering summer [...]
Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes were damaged when the eastern Kentucky county flooded. It was the 13th time in 12 years that the rural county was declared a federal disaster. Those are disasters so costly that [...]
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — As allegations of sexual abuse grew at the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the nation, officials continued placing children in their care in a system that lacks adequate oversight, advocates say. A lawsuit filed last week by the Justice Department alleges employees of Southwest Key Programs Inc. sexually [...]
NEW YORK — In a dimly lit room strung with fairy lights and ivy, transit workers file in and lie on inflated cots. Soothing piano notes play as a teacher rubs their ankles and toes, helping each with heated blankets and eye masks. “Breathe in,” she says. “Think of a balloon, filling up with fresh [...]
From opposite ends of the world, the uncomfortable conditions Shamim Ahamed and Purvi Tiwari experienced doing separate doctoral research inside greenhouses inspired them to study the heat in the indoor structures. Tiwari, a researcher at Indira Gandhi Agricultural University in India, realized the heat-amplifying effect of greenhouses is a big concern that should be studied [...]