Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration over its rollback of vehicle fuel efficiency standards, saying the move will increase gasoline consumption and boost prices at the pump for U.S. motorists. “It is unlawful for Trump to turn back the clock on fuel-efficient cars, forcing drivers to waste more money on…
Washington — This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will take place at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., instead of at the Kennedy Center, a spokesperson for the institution said Friday. The announcement comes as the Kennedy Center’s main building is currently closed for what the Trump administration has described as safety assessments, and as…
Employers across the U.S. added 29,000 jobs in September, below economists’ forecasts and signaling that some businesses are holding off on hiring amid headwinds such as surging energy prices and higher inflation. Economists had forecast the economy would add 90,000 new jobs last month, according to financial data firm FactSet. The unemployment rate stood at…
Layoffs in the U.S. have fallen to a four-year low, while employers’ hiring plans are up 3% this year, according to new labor data. Employers have announced 573,195 job cuts through September this year, a nearly 40% decline from the first nine months of 2025, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said on Thursday. On a monthly basis,…
Faced with recent questions about the privacy costs of its technology, the surveillance camera startup Flock Safety and its CEO have deployed a tidy statistic to tout its benefits. “Last year we helped clear just over a million crimes in America,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a March 2026 podcast interview. “Over a million…
Lori Covelli, 53, an unemployed social worker in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who last year was collecting $760 per month in food stamps, recently lost all her benefits after failing to find a job and running afoul of the program’s work requirements. She had hoped to regain that aid on her 54th birthday, when she would age…
OpenAI unveiled a personal AI agent at its annual developer conference on Tuesday, joining a growing number of companies promising to make consumers’ lives easier with virtual assistants. The company’s new AI agents, called “dots,” will help perform workplace and other tasks such as scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements, budgeting, debugging computer systems and writing…
Twelve years after the disappearance of dozens of Mexican students from a rural university, allegedly at the hands of drug traffickers and police, authorities said Monday they had identified 17 new suspects. Thousands of people attended an annual march on Saturday in Mexico City to demand justice for 43 young men who were studying to…
Washington — U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between…
42m ago U.S. and Iran expected to continue talking this week through mediators, official tells Reuters The U.S. and Iran are expected to have separate talks with mediators on Monday or Tuesday, an official with knowledge of the negotiations told the Reuters news agency. With Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the U.S., as…
