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Cody McDavis' life changed forever with a few strokes of a pen. McDavis grew up in a single-parent home in which his mother worked three jobs to afford life's essentials. There was zero chance of paying for college if not for a basketball scholarship to Northern Colorado. "The assumption was if I didn't get a [...]
ROME — Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at $65 million, that were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations. U.S. Ambassador Jack Markell, Matthew Bogdanos, the [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Cars, trucks and SUVs keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much, according to analysts. S&P Global Mobility, which tracks state vehicle registration data nationwide, said that the average vehicle age grew about two months [...]
WASHINGTON — Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement. Those are some of the highlights of a survey of more than a million federal workers. In a city that revolves around the federal [...]
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of Wayfarers Chapel, an iconic Southern California church that was designed by one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s sons and built among soaring redwoods and sweeping Pacific Ocean views. The earth beneath the chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes is moving [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal energy regulators last week approved a long-awaited rule to make it easier to transmit renewable energy such as wind and solar power to the electric grid. The rule, under development for two years, is aimed at boosting the nation's aging power grid to meet surging demand fueled by data centers,  the [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. The governor, however, needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet specific criteria. The AI software must be patented, "designated as qualified anti-terrorism [...]
NEW YORK — Brenda Edwards considers the four bedroom ranch-style house where she has lived for 20 years her forever home. It's where the 70-year-old retired nurse and her 79-year-old husband want to stay as their mobility becomes more limited. So she hired an interior designer for $20,000 and spent another $95,000 to retrofit their [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeowners have been spending more on home renovations in recent years, as high interest rates and stubbornly high inflation drove up costs for everything from flooring to refrigerators. The home improvement spree got particularly heated early in the pandemic, when Americans invested to make their homes better suited for remote work [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of guns stolen from cars has tripled during the last decade, making cars the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives separately has said that theft is a significant [...]