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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rising housing values and a shortage of homes on the market gave homeowners the upper hand for years when it came time to sell. That’s no longer a given in some regions of the country. In some areas, it’s getting tougher for sellers to drive a hard bargain. Analysts say a [...]
After American Eagle rolled out its new ad campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney over the summer, the fall denim campaign sparked a debate about race, Western beauty standards and the backlash to “woke” American politics and culture. Reactions centered on ads that used the word “genes” instead of “jeans” featuring the blonde-haired, blue-eyed actor [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to increase the number of people trained to spot problems with railroad bridges, but the railroad operators themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential. Currently, there are seven Federal Railroad [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. The decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies a decade after a merger of the brands created one of the biggest food manufacturers on the planet. One of the companies, currently called Global Taste Elevation Co., will include brands such as Heinz, Philadelphia cream cheese and Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kraft Heinz [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Every time he rushed out on a fire call, East Providence Lt. Thomas Votta knew he put himself at risk for cancer. There are potential carcinogens in the smoke billowing out of a house fire, but also risks from wearing his chemically-treated gear. Last month, the Rhode Island fire department [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy rebounded this spring from a first-quarter downturn, according to new federal government figures. In an upgrade from its first estimate in July, the Commerce Department last week said that the country’s gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 3.3 percent annual [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs. An executive order signed last month eliminates a widely used customs exemption for international shipments worth [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Commuters and students in Philadelphia woke up earlier than usual on Monday to navigate service reductions that the region’s public transit agency has called more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the country. The cuts took effect as the school year began in the nation’s sixth-most populous [...]
Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroad operators have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call program designed to reduce rail hazards and prevent accidents. Two railroad companies — BNSF and Norfolk Southern — launched partial trials, but [...]