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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers. Analysts say it’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual impact of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some [...]
Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong, but she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, [...]
A new federal rule proposed earlier this week would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of the operator’s sight without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process. The federal government had already approved 657 waivers to allow companies such as Amazon and major utilities to do this in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is proposing a requirement that applicants for business and tourist visas post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many. In a notice in the Federal Register this week, the department said it would start a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling. Now, Texas Republicans want to break that tradition — and other states could follow suit. Democrats in Texas’ House left the state to prevent the vote on a redistricting plan that would [...]
MINNEAPOLIS — In a period when retail beef prices are at an all-time high and consumers are still willing to pay, South Dakota rancher Calli Williams would love to cash in. Yet it’s not so simple. Williams and her husband, Tate, raise about 70 cow-calf pairs near Letcher in southeastern South Dakota, roughly 18 miles [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy expanded at a 3 percent annual pace from April through June, bouncing back from a first-quarter drop. Still, analysts say details of the report suggest that consumers and businesses are wary about the economic uncertainty arising from President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. “Headline numbers are hiding the economy’s true [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. As a college student, she dropped out because she couldn’t afford tuition. In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that shrunk her salary to $34,000 a year. This summer, however, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — When Amrita Bhasin, 24, learned that South Korean products might be subject to a new American import tax, she decided to stock up on Korean brand sheet masks she uses a few times a week. “I did a recent haul to stockpile,” she said. “I bought 50 in bulk, which should [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a trade framework with Japan, placing a 15 percent tax on goods imported from that nation. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that the United States “will continue to always [...]