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Ticker: Apple beats out earnings estimates

Apple has posted strong quarterly earnings, beating out Wall Street expectations. The January-March results show continued momentum in iPhone sales. CEO Tim Cook said it was the company’s best March quarter ever, with double-digit growth across every geographic segment. Amtrak may make it easier to take guns on board Amtrak is considering allowing people to store guns in lockboxes on most of its trains, which critics say would weaken security measures that instead should be strengthened in light of the shooting at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association ...

Giant opens today

A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 7:30 a.m. today, Friday, May 1, at the Saxton Giant. The store, formerly Saxton Market, will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. The store has been remodeled and will include a market-feel produce department, meat and seafood, deli with pre-sliced meats and cheese plus deli salads, dairy and a bakery featuring self-serve donuts. The store will also feature a larger hot food program, including self-serve rotisserie chicken and the addition of self-checkouts. Giant Direct is also available, which gives customers the opportunity to ...

Giant releases community impact report

CARLISLE Giant releases community impact report The Giant Company, known locally as Giant and Martin’s released its fifth annual community impact report, highlighting its 2025 corporate social responsibility initiatives centered around areas where the company can make the greatest impact: eliminating hunger, changing children’s lives, healing the planet, promoting wellbeing and fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging. Highlights of the 2025 impact report include: ö Through its partnership with Feeding America, 10.5 million meals were donated to help eliminate ...

Trump Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh approved by Senate committee

WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee voted on party lines Wednesday to approve Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve to replace Jerome Powell, a longtime target of President Donald Trump's insults for not cutting borrowing costs as far as the president wanted. The vote ...

Ticker: US to issue passports with Trump’s picture

The State Department says it’s preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday and featuring a picture of President Donald Trump. He would be the first living president to be featured in the travel document. Starbucks: Gas prices aren’t dampening sales Starbucks said Tuesday that customers are responding to improved service in its stores, which saw better-than-expected sales in the company’s fiscal second quarter. The Seattle coffee giant said global same-store sales for the January-March period rose 6.2%. In the U.S., ...

Trump pursues new import taxes

When the Supreme Court killed his favorite tariffs in February, President Donald Trump promptly rolled out temporary import taxes to replace them. But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months. Now the administration is scrambling to put more durable tariffs in place to keep revenue flowing into the U.S. Treasury and to shore up the president’s protectionist wall around the American economy. Starting this week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will begin hearings in two investigations that are expected to lead to a new round of U.S. tariffs — taxes paid by ...