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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 [...]
The number of homes for sale in central Ohio is the highest it’s been in nearly a decade, according to a new report from Columbus Realtors. Housing inventory in central Ohio is up 20.8 percent from a year ago and 8.7 percent just from June to July. Last month there were 5,638 single-family homes and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week confirmed the federal government is vying for a 10 percent stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers. The ambitions that Lutnick confirmed in a televised interview with CNBC came [...]
Home Depot’s sales improved during its fiscal second quarter as consumers remained focused on smaller projects amid cost concerns and economic uncertainty, but its performance missed Wall Street’s expectations. The retailer stood by its prior forecast for revenue and profit over the full year. Revenue for the three months ended Aug. 3 climbed to $45.28 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered U.S. Postal Service mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding. In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in a major tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and [...]
A new report from the state Department of Development shows that Ohio attracted nearly 242 million tourist visits in 2024, up 3.5 million from the year before. Across Ohio, visitor activity generated $57 billion in economic impact last year, up from $56 billion the previous year, and $4.7 billion in state and local tax revenues, [...]
Homeowners are cashing in on years of home equity gains, even as mortgage rates remain elevated. The trend sent cash-out home refinancing activity to a nearly three-year high in the April-June quarter, according to data from home loan data tracker ICE Mortgage Technology. In a cash-out refinance, a homeowner takes out a loan for more [...]
Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. The long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States, however. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved commercial home deliveries with drones, the service mostly has been confined [...]