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Few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year's East Palestine train derailment despite the questions residents raised about the deal, lawyers said. The plaintiffs' attorneys said 22 of the nearly 2,000 households in the small Ohio town in which the derailment occurred [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers paused their spending last month as retail sales were unchanged in June from May, after being revised upward to a 0.3 percent increase in May, according to the Commerce Department. Last month, April sales were revised downward — a 0.2 percent decline, from unchanged. Sales rose 0.6 percent in March [...]
HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Before Hurricane Idalia smashed into a small fishing village in northwestern Florida, Charles Long, 68, was fixing up a two-bedroom house. After the August storm, he found remnants of it in a nearby canal and on a neighbor's property. To rebuild a new home elevated on stilts, as code requires, [...]
MOUNT STORM, W.Va. — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they hope will strengthen the nation's energy future. They aren't mining the coal that powered the steel mills and locomotives that helped industrialize [...]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Generations of Pittsburgh residents have worked at steel mills, rooted for the Steelers or ridden the rollercoaster at Kennywood amusement park, giving them a bird's eye view of the massive Edgar Thomson Works, the region's last blast furnace. Now, Steeltown USA's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two swing districts in a swing county may very well decide which party controls the House in the swing state of Pennsylvania, one of several in which pivotal legislative battles are playing out in the shadow of the presidential campaign. Democrat Brian Munroe and Republican Joe Hogan were elected nearly two [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in written testimony earlier this week, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed's single-minded fight against inflation of the past two years that suggests it is moving closer to cutting interest rates. The [...]
Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the population ages and technology such as artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to perpetrate fraud and get away with it. Internet and telephone scams have grown "exponentially," overwhelming police and prosecutors [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 206,000 jobs last month, according to a new federal government report, and the unemployment rate rose from 4 percent to 4.1 percent. Last month’s job growth did mark a pullback from 218,000 in May, but economists say it was still a solid gain. The new report from the Labor [...]
DETROIT (AP) — New-vehicle sales rose only 0.1 percent in the second quarter compared to a year ago, despite larger discounts and slightly lower prices. Brisker sales, however, could be on the horizon: Auto industry analysts say they expect prices to drop further and there's a possibility of interest-rate cuts that would make taking out [...]