WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going all-in on calling out "shrinkflation."
The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There's suddenly fewer pretzels in the bag, less toothpaste in the tube and ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fractious three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions.
Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia, which has the highest rate of adult cigarette use in the nation, could become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present under a bill that won final legislative passage Thursday.
The Republican-dominated House of Delegates passed ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in West Virginia and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract Thursday.
The announcement came a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice's administration has been characterized by flat budgets and record surpluses that helped cut the state's income tax last year.
Now, the state could face collateral damage: a possible $465 million clawback of pandemic aid by ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in February, adding a surprising 275,000 jobs and again showcasing the U.S. economy's resilience in the face of high interest rates.
Last month's job growth marked an ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State of the Union address is one of the durable set pieces of the presidency, a forum that almost always favors the speaker in a one-way conversation with millions of Americans.
Most of the speeches are ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer
Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year's fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge ruled.
The decision issued Wednesday threw out the railroad's claim that the companies that made chemicals that ...
By BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump each won the White House by razor-thin margins in key states.
Now, with a reprise of their bitter 2020 campaign all but officially set after Super Tuesday, the two campaigns are unveiling their ...
By PATRICK ORSAGOS and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHITEHALL, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio lawmakers are looking to ease a looming financial burden on law enforcement agencies in their state that will have to replace marijuana-sniffing dogs after voters approved a plan last year to ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Two Jewish students filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accusing the university of allowing antisemitism on campus that has resulted in them being intimidated, harassed and assaulted.
The ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia, which has the highest rate of adult cigarette use in the nation, could become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present under a bill that won final legislative passage Thursday.
The ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in West Virginia and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract Thursday.
The announcement came a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 92.
She died in Atlanta on Thursday, according to family members who issued a statement through the A.D. King Foundation.
Naomi King ...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America "springs forward" Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health.
Darker mornings and more evening light ...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An Army soldier has been arrested on accusations of selling sensitive information related to U.S. military capabilities, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
Sgt. Korbein Schultz, who is also an intelligence analyst, ...
By HOLLY RAMER and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about evidence of a brain injury in an Army reservist who killed 18 people last year in Maine's deadliest mass ...
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks.
The ski ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday played a recording of a desperate 911 call by the father of a Michigan school shooter as they tried to show jurors how he quickly determined that the teen might be the killer.
"I have a missing gun at my house. ...