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With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off. She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip, but she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a content creator. "I [...]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week pledged to provide up to $6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most-advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the funding for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers delivered added 303,000 workers to their payrolls last month, according to a new government report. Last month's job growth was up from a revised 270,000 in February and was above the 200,000 jobs that economists had forecast. With the nation's consumers continuing to spend, many employers have kept hiring to [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week awarded $20 billion in federal "green bank" grants to eight community development banks and non-profit organizations for use in disadvantaged communities and help Americans reduce their carbon footprints. The money could fund tens of thousands of eligible projects ranging from residential heat pumps and other energy-efficient [...]
DETROIT (AP) — New vehicle sales rose nearly 5 percent from January through March, as buyers stayed in the market despite high interest rates, but electric-vehicle sales growth slowed during the first three months of the year, with mainstream buyers wary of limited range and a lack of charging stations. Automakers, most of which reported [...]
Major freight railroad operators will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized earlier this week. The Transportation Department’s Federal Railroad Administration released the details of the rule after working on it for the past two years. There has been intense focus on railroad safety since the [...]
The largest uranium producer in the country is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a project that comes as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher. The Biden administration and dozens of other countries have pledged to triple the capacity of nuclear power worldwide and policy changes are [...]
LONDON (AP) — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip. Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV "because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough," searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" playing in teacher Nancy Morris' classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland's Riverside School were on their feet, dancing during a session [...]
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on the East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest disruption to global supply chains. After the container ship Dali hit the bridge and brought it down early Tuesday, ship traffic entering and leaving [...]