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At a reception attended by several university presidents in Manhattan, Arizona State President Michael Crowe was asked to ponder a not-too-distant future in which Sun Devils football and basketball players receive a cut from the billions of dollars their sports generate in media rights deals. "I don't support that. And so are we preparing for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Clean-energy projects in seven states have been selected by the Biden administration for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel, a component of President Joe Biden's agenda to slow climate change. His goal is to establish seven regional hydrogen hubs to help replace fossil fuels such as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Measures of inflation in September showed that the pace of price increases is still grinding lower, though at a slow and uneven pace. Consumer prices increased 0.4 percent from August to September, below the previous month's 0.6 percent pace. Last week's report from the Labor Department also showed that year-over-year inflation in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As soon as the federal pandemic relief started arriving at America's schools, so did the relentless calls. Tech companies by the dozens wanted a chance to prove their software was what schools needed, adding that they wouldn't take a dime from district budgets: Schools could use their new federal money. As a [...]
WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — On the picket lines at a Ford factory west of Detroit, many striking workers don't think the electric vehicle revolution is coming for their jobs — at least not in the near future. Just in case, though, they're backing United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain's quest to unionize EV battery factories [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers added 336,000 jobs in September, the largest monthly rise since January, according to a new report from the Labor Department. Last month’s job growth jumped from a 227,000 increase in August, which was revised higher. The economy has now added an average of 266,000 jobs a month for the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy spent years raising mountains of Republican campaign cash, flying around the country to recruit top candidates in key districts and building political relationships as he worked his way toward becoming speaker of the House. Now that he's been ousted from the post after less than nine months, some in the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A few years back, Joseph Stramondo was a last-minute replacement as a conference speaker in Salt Lake City. He went online and made a reservation for a room accessible for people with disabilities. "I figured, 'OK, I should be set,'" Stramondo said. When he checked in, however, the room he was given [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who have spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers, as it scrambles to reverse years of enlistment shortfalls. A major part of the overhaul is the formation of a new professional [...]
Hours before devastating fires scorched the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Kyle Ellison labored to save his rental house in Kula, a rural mountain town 24 miles away, from a different blaze. As high winds whipped burning trees and grass, Ellison and his landlord struggled with plummeting water pressure. Ellison had to wait for [...]