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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week proposed a rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, as millions of people around the country have recently been under high heat advisories. If finalized, the measure would protect an estimated 36 million workers from injuries related to heat exposure on the job — establishing [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — It was March 2022 and Senate candidate J.D. Vance was standing under hot lights in a Cleveland television studio debating four fellow Republicans on whether the United States should support a no-fly zone over Ukraine, not a month into its grinding war with Russia. "Absolutely not," Vance said. "I'm in the minority [...]
DETROIT — Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were lots of people living in her eastside Detroit neighborhood. There aren't as many anymore — and haven't been for a long time. "Right now, on our side of the street there are probably only 10 houses. Should be 50, 60," the 78-year-old Kobylski said last week after [...]
WASHINGTON — It's a scenario that terrifies America's auto industry. Chinese carmakers set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules. Once in place, they send ultra-low-priced electric vehicles streaming into the United States. As the Chinese EVs go on sale across the country, America's homegrown EVs — costing an average of $55,000, [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said this week that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency's investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside. The NTSB also confirmed [...]
HONOLULU — Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore. She travels there about three times a year and rents out her unit for short periods when she's not in Hawaii. "Maui was my dream place," she said in [...]
MENOKEN, N.D. (AP) — Someday, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet over Dan McLean's North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest. It's a vision the U.S. airline industry embraces and agricultural groups see as a key to ensuring strong future sales [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The roar of the leaf blower has become an inescapable part of daily life in communities across America, but now many towns have banned or restricted blowers that operate on gasoline. The measures, however, face blowback from the landscaping industry and some property owners who say that the battery-powered blowers favored [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office earlier last week said it projects this year's federal budget deficit to be $400 billion higher, a 27 percent increase compared to its original estimate released in February. Government officials said some of the reasons for the change include: higher costs from the supplemental spending package signed in [...]