Mail-order weed? You betcha! With marijuana legalization across Canada on the horizon, the industry is shaping up to look different from the way it does in nine U.S. states that have legalized adult recreational use of the drug. Age limits, ...
Read More »Why many Americans aren’t benefiting from robust US economy
“The economy,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell declared this month, “is doing very well.” And it is. Steady hiring has shrunk unemployment to 3.8 percent — the lowest since the 1960’s. Consumers are spending. Taxes are down. Inflation is tame. ...
Read More »Automakers improve quality to record level in annual survey
A survey of new-vehicle buyers finds that car and truck quality hit a record high this year as automakers started to clear up bugs with infotainment systems. The annual survey by J.D. Power finds that buyers reported a record-low 93 ...
Read More »Burger King says sorry for Russian World Cup pregnancy ad
Burger King says it’s sorry for offering a lifetime supply of Whoppers to Russian women who get pregnant from World Cup players. Critics assailed the offer, announced on Russian social media, as sexist and demeaning. The announcement was removed Tuesday ...
Read More »Lawyer: Texts show Greitens’ staffers’ use of secretive app
An attorney suing former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and his staffers says recently uncovered texts show two former employees used a message-deleting app to communicate about state policy. Screenshots show former deputy legislative directors Brad Green and Jeff Earl texted ...
Read More »McCaskill’s husband invested $1M in offshore hedge fund
Four years after Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill co-sponsored legislation targeting tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, her husband began investing in a hedge fund registered in the Caribbean nation — an investment that has paid off handsomely. The Kansas ...
Read More »Alexa, I can trust you with my checkbook, right?
Hey Alexa, what’s my bank-account balance? Big banks and financial companies have started to offer banking through virtual assistants — Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s Assistant — in a way that will allow customers to check their balances, pay ...
Read More »AP Explains: US has split up families throughout its history
Some critics of the forced separation of Latino children from their migrant parents say the practice is unprecedented. It’s not, however, the first time the U.S. government has split up families, detained children or allowed others to do so. Throughout ...
Read More »Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who ...
Read More »Administration doesn’t have a plan to reunite families
Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border since the implementation of a zero-tolerance policy in which anyone caught entering the U.S. illegally ...
Read More »Fed chair signals gradual rate hikes in tame inflation era
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed will likely keep raising short-term interest rates at a gradual pace, partly because there are few signs, so far, that the ultra-low U.S. unemployment rate is pushing up inflation. In a speech ...
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