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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the nearly 30 years that Justice Stephen Breyer has spent on the Supreme Court, it has been conservative, then more conservative and now much more conservative. The court's rapid rightward shift in recent years was a change for the liberal jurist, who early in his career sat with the same group [...]
Democrats stung by a series of election year failures to deliver legislative wins for their most loyal voters hope they'll be buoyed by the prospect that President Joe Biden will name the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer's pending retirement couldn't have come at a better time for a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Spc. Javzailia Pineiro joined New York's National Guard in late 2019, and started work as a truck driver just as the pandemic was starting to hit. For months she drove around the state, spending long days delivering masks, water, food and other supplies. It was grueling work. Yet she has already [...]
Fresh from tech week and dress rehearsal, members of Stage Right Theatrics await their cues for performances tomorrow through the weekend as the sixth annual Conservative Theatre Festival takes the stage. The Columbus-based theater company is scheduled to premiere four original plays, each with a traditionalist point of view, at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Count 30-year-old Ethan Miller among that subset of Americans who were actually eager to file their taxes once income tax filing season opened Monday. The financial planner, who lives in Silver Spring, Md., was looking forward to claiming the new deductions that will come from buying a home. He also wanted to [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn't feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it's an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea. He lives in the same nearly century-old house, grows veggies in the family [...]
In a year greatly influenced by factors created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-hot central Ohio housing market had a record-setting year, with more homes sold than in any previous year and at prices higher than ever before. Home sales were up 9.1 percent with 36,489 homes sold, topping a record set just a year [...]
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Construction of new homes across the country rose for the third consecutive month in December and data released Wednesday suggests that the frantic pace of building will continue this year. The December increase puts home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.7 million units, the Commerce Department reported [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — In just two weeks, the cost of pecans for the pies at Peggy Jean's Pies in Columbia, Mo., has surged nearly 40 percent, perplexing co-owner Rebecca Miller and adding to the cost of doing business. Miller will soon have to bump up the price of her Southern Pecan, Chocolate Bourbon Pecan, [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For the first time in half a year, families on Friday went without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit — a program that was intended to be part of President Joe Biden's legacy but has emerged instead as a flash point over who is worthy of government support. Retiree [...]