Orders for long-lasting U.S. factory goods rose at a healthy pace last month, though the increase was mostly driven by a surge in aircraft demand. The Commerce Department said Thursday that orders increased 4.5 percent in August, the most in ...
Read More »EPA announces cleanup plan for troubled landfill
Some of the illegally dumped nuclear waste buried near a long-smoldering underground fire at a Missouri landfill will be dug up and the rest will be capped under a federal plan announced Thursday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s remedy comes ...
Read More »More corporate giants warn tariffs will mean price hikes
From Ford to Walmart to Procter & Gamble, a growing number of iconic American companies are warning that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports are raising their costs and prices. Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford, the second-largest U.S.-based automaker, ...
Read More »St. Louis alderwoman sues city regarding tear gas at protest
A St. Louis official who joined protests after a white police officer was acquitted of murder last year in the shooting of a black man is suing police response to the demonstrations. Democratic Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green alleges in the ...
Read More »Congress could negate stronger state efforts on privacy
Congress wants to pass national rules governing how companies can use consumers’ data — though a major goal might simply be to block states from enacting stronger protections on their own. It will be tricky to reconcile the concerns of ...
Read More »Bump stocks: What’s changed since Las Vegas shooting
The gunman in the Las Vegas mass shooting was armed with 23 AR-style weapons, 14 of them fitted with “bump stocks” that allowed them to mimic fully automatic fire. The devices were little-known before they were used in the Oct. ...
Read More »AP: Despite shootings, states return to familiar patterns
Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a working group to explore possible reforms to state gun laws. A Republican, Kasich wanted to be sure the panel’s members clearly supported the ...
Read More »Are they ready? Kavanaugh, Ford prep for high-stakes hearing
On Thursday morning, a psychology professor from California is expected to sit before lawmakers to accuse a Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault — while all of Washington, and much of the nation, watches it live. It’s a high-stakes, high-drama ...
Read More »GOP picks female prosecutor to question Kavanaugh, accuser
Senate Republicans are bringing in Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to handle questioning about allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, describing her as tough, experienced and, above all, objective. Mitchell, a Republican, is expected to question both ...
Read More »Paper: Screenshots show Greitens staff used Confide
Screenshots of text messages show former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ staff used a message-deleting app on their state-issued phones to discuss government business with each other and people outside the governor’s office, according to a published report. The Kansas City ...
Read More »Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison in sex-assault case
His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. The punishment all but completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall for the ...
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