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NEW YORK (AP) — Regulations are a double-edged sword. They're created to improve business dealings, discourage unfair or illegal business activity, and protect workers. For small business owners, however, they often mean more red tape, higher costs and possible penalties for failing to comply. "For a small business, you have a higher cost per employee [...]
Shoppers in central Ohio are expected to spend 5.2 percent more during the holidays this year than they did in 2022, according to a forecast released by the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants. Last year, retailers in the Columbus region had $6.7 billion in sales during the holiday season. The new report, compiled by the [...]
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — The control stations for America's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says "launch." Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's employers added 199,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell, according to a new report from the Labor Department. The report showed that the unemployment rate dropped from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent. The unemployment rate has remained below 4 percent for 22 straight months, the longest such streak [...]
Despite new electric vehicle market share and sales hitting a record in the United States this year, EV growth is starting to slow and fall short of the auto industry's ambitions to transition away from combustion engines. The industry this year reached a milestone: More than 1 million new EVs have been sold in the [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — NCAA President Charlie Baker is asking members to make one of the most dramatic shifts in the history of college sports by allowing highly resourced schools to pay some of their athletes. In a letter sent to more than 350 Division I schools earlier this week, Baker said he wants the [...]
Tech leaders have been vocal proponents of the need to regulate artificial intelligence, but they're also lobbying hard to make sure the new rules work in their favor. That's not to say they all want the same thing. Facebook parent Meta and IBM earlier this week launched a new group called the AI Alliance that's [...]
Trouble with playground bullies started for Maria Ishoo's daughter in elementary school. Girls ganged up, calling her "fat" and "ugly." Boys tripped and pushed her. The California mother watched her typically bubbly second-grader retreat into her bedroom and spend afternoons curled up in bed. For Valerie Aguirre's daughter in Hawaii, a spate of middle school [...]
LAS VEGAS — Miriam Adelson is one of the richest women in the world, a U.S. and Israel newspaper publisher and political powerbroker who, after selling $2 billion in stock to buy the Dallas Mavericks, will still be the majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company her late husband built. A company [...]
Most cities around the country would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public-health crises such as the ones in Flint, Mich., and Washington, D.C. Millions of people consume drinking water [...]