U.S. consumer spending rose in September by a solid, inflation-adjusted 0.3 percent, led by increased spending on health care services and motor vehicles. The Commerce Department also said Monday that the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation returned to the ...
Read More »FBI had plenty of clues on pipe-bomb suspect
In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub where he’d found work as a DJ. As he entertained ...
Read More »Sessions allies hope White House allows graceful exit
Sensing that Jeff Sessions’ days at the Justice Department may be numbered, some of his supporters want the White House to allow for a graceful exit for an attorney general they believe has dutifully carried out the administration’s agenda even ...
Read More »Pot, property values focus of Colorado trial
A federal trial in Colorado could have far-reaching effects on the United States’ budding marijuana industry if a jury sides with a couple who say having a cannabis business as a neighbor hurts their property’s value. The trial starting Monday ...
Read More »Before shooting, anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise
Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students’ notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation. The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday is being ...
Read More »Ballot proposal may alleviate bingo-worker shortage
Missouri’s multimillion-dollar bingo game industry has been in steady decline, however, it could find relief under a ballot proposal that aims to alleviate the shortage of workers. The Amendment 4 proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot would remove language from ...
Read More »Pipe bomb scare raises new questions about mail safety
The wave of pipe bombs addressed to prominent Democrats has raised fresh questions about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service and private delivery companies to intercept explosives and other dangerous items. Biohazard detection, X-rays and other technologies have had ...
Read More »As risks outweigh growth, Wall Street looks for value
As stocks hit record after record in the past decade, investors didn’t much care if a stock was cheap or expensive. What mattered most was: Is it growing quickly? If the answer was yes, the stock was in high demand, ...
Read More »In North Dakota, tribes scramble to clear voter-ID hurdle
Locating a house isn’t easy on the isolated and impoverished Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota, and that’s making it more difficult for residents and their counterparts on other reservations in the state to vote this election. To ...
Read More »US economy grew at strong 3.5 percent rate in Q3
The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter as the strongest burst of consumer spending in nearly four years helped offset a sharp drag from trade. The Commerce Department said Friday that ...
Read More »Missouri among states with liberal ballot measures
Marijuana legalization. An increase in the minimum wage. Expansion of Medicaid. Come Election Day, voters in a batch of Republican-dominated states will weigh in on these and other liberal or centrist proposals that reached the ballot after bypassing state legislatures. ...
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