Income inequality dipped, fewer people moved to a different home and the share of Asian and Hispanic residents increased in the United States last year, according to figures released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those year-to-year changes from 2023 to 2024 were captured in the bureau’s data from the American Community Survey, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation rose last month as the prices of gas, groceries and air fares jumped, according to a new federal government report. Consumer prices increased 2.9 percent in August from a year earlier, the Labor Department said, up from 2.7 percent the previous month and the biggest increase since January. Excluding the volatile [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials are vowing a crackdown on deceptive drug ads, but the effort is likely to face multiple headwinds, including pushback from the pharmaceutical industry and layoffs among regulators tasked with leading the effort. President Donald Trump last week signed a memo that directs [...]
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned her colleagues last week that a bill heading to the House floor that would regulate college sports would solidify an unsustainable and growing gap between the nation’s biggest athletic conferences and everyone else. In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, where Cantwell, D-Wash., is the ranking member, she [...]
Sandwich maker Potbelly is being acquired by the gas station and convenience store chain RaceTrac for $566 million. Potbelly, which was founded in Chicago in 1977, has 445 restaurants across the country. The company said the deal with RaceTrac will help it reach its goal of quadrupling in size to 2,000 locations. Potbelly stores are [...]
BENSENVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents seized hundreds of thousands of illegal vaping products in raids across the country last week as the Trump administration moved to crack down on devices that are regularly used by teens in the United States after being smuggled in from China. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Health and Human Services [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — West Nile virus infections are intense so far this year, with case counts running 40 percent higher than normal, health officials say. More than 770 cases, including about 490 severe cases, were reported as of early September, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted last week. About 550 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jobless claim applications jumped to their highest level in almost four years, the latest sign that the labor market is softening. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the week ending Sept. 6 rose 27,000 to 263,000, the Labor Department reported. That’s the most filings since the week of Oct. [...]
The Columbus Metropolitan Library has announced plans to sell a parcel of vacant land just north of its Shepard Branch at 850 N. Nelson Road to Homeport, a local, non-profit affordable housing developer, for $480,000. Library officials said the profit from the sale will be added to Metropolitan Library’s capital projects fund. “We believe this [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Producer prices fell unexpectedly last month, dropping 0.1 percent from July, according to a new federal government report. The Labor Department earlier this week reported that its producer price index — which captures inflation in the supply chain before it hits consumers — showed that wholesale inflation decelerated in August after advancing [...]