August 17, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World
Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn’t take much to get grammar nerds fired up. Read story
August 17, 2024, 6:04am Business
Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Read story
August 17, 2024, 6:04am Business
In Georgia, the heart of the U.S. green manufacturing boom, a new electric vehicle gigafactory is nearing completion. Spanning 3,000 acres, the plant is expected to create 8,500 new jobs. Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped incentives from President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which together… Read story
August 17, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World
It was strange and surprising when Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas in July, but the story of how he got there is now growing into a scandal that threatens top figures in Mexico’s ruling party. Read story
August 16, 2024, 7:41pm Nation & World
An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic breakdown. Lawyers for the victims say Dimitrios Pagourtzis gave his parents many signs that he… Read story
August 16, 2024, 6:44pm Nation & World
The company whose data breach potentially exposed every American’s Social Security number to identity thieves finally has acknowledged the data theft — and said hackers obtained even more sensitive information than previously reported. Read story
August 16, 2024, 6:42pm Nation & World
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills that aims to crack down on smash-and-grab robberies and property crimes, making it easier to go after repeat shoplifters and auto thieves and increase penalties for those running professional reselling schemes. Read story
August 16, 2024, 5:41pm Nation & World
A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges she orchestrated a brazen scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale, the Justice Department said Friday. Read story
August 16, 2024, 4:43pm Nation & World
A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and eventually into the town of Sudzha, where Associated Press journalists traveled Friday on a Ukrainian government-organized trip. Read story
August 16, 2024, 3:41pm Nation & World
Woodland Park Zoo will move its baby gorilla to a different facility with a new family after he had difficulties bonding with his mother, the zoo announced. Read story