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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans increased their purchases at retailers last month — for clothing, dining out, online goods and other sectors. Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.7 percent in July from June, according to the Commerce Department’s report released earlier this week. The gain followed a revised 0.3 percent gain the previous month, according [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — For Jake Welch, getting dressed is one big math problem. The 36-year-old brand director for an advertising firm calculates the cost-per-wear of his wardrobe by highlighting 200 items in a spreadsheet — excluding underwear and socks — and meticulously listing the price he paid for each of them as well as [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators last week approved an expansion that will allow two rival robotaxi services to operate throughout San Francisco at all hours, despite safety worries spurred by recurring problems with unexpected stops and other erratic behavior that resulted in unmanned vehicles blocking traffic, including emergency vehicles. The state’s Public Utilities Commission [...]
Waves of severe thunderstorms across the country during the first half of this year led to $34 billion in insured losses, an unprecedented level of financial damage in such a short time, according to Swiss Re Group, as climate change contributes to the frequency and severity of violent meteorological events. Damages from convective storms in [...]
Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is far lower than previous spikes. For the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past year, inflation has tumbled from 9 percent all the way to 3 percent, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years. Now comes the hard part. Squeezing out the last bit of excess inflation and reducing it to the Federal Reserve's [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The federal government's most ambitious plan ever to slash greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces skepticism both about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough. The Environmental Protection Agency in April announced new strict emissions limits that the agency says are vital to slowing climate change. The EPA [...]
COLUMBUS — A hastily called summer special election over a Republican-pushed measure that would make it harder for Ohio voters to pass future constitutional amendments, including one on the November ballot to guarantee abortion rights, has driven off-the-charts early turnout before today’s final day of voting. Early turnout has been so heavy that some election [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hearings about the potential for railroad crashes to trigger even larger disasters. Both parties agreed that a legislative response was needed. Yet six months after life was upended in East Palestine, little [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Drivers are in for another headache at the pump as gas prices around the nation continue to rise. The national average for gas prices stood at about $3.78 a gallon earlier this week — about 25 cents higher than that seen one month ago, according to motor club AAA. While today’s [...]