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BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) – Over the past year, inflation in the United States has tumbled from 9% all the way to 3%, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years. Now […]

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) – Trucking company Yellow Corp. has declared bankruptcy after years of financial struggles and growing debt, marking a significant shift for the U.S. transportation industry and shippers nationwide. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which was filed […]

BY GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A final North Carolina state budget won’t be enacted until September, the House’s top leader said Monday. That could scuttle efforts by Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration for Medicaid expansion to begin in early […]

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER Officials in the city of Lebanon worried that the amount of state money distributed from Tennessee agencies based on 2020 census figures wasn’t keeping pace with their explosive growth. So they reached out to the U.S. Census Bureau […]

BY GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop, a vocal member of the Freedom Caucus that’s become a foil to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, announced on Thursday that he would run for state attorney general next […]

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) – Drivers are in for another headache at the pump as U.S. gas prices continue to rise. The national average for gas prices stood at about $3.78 a gallon on Tuesday – about 25 cents […]

BY SEUNG MIN KIM, WILL WEISSERT, AND STEVE PEOPLES WASHINGTON (AP) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, facing heavy criticism for defending “anti-woke” teaching in Florida, this week teed up an unusual proposal to the nation’s first Black vice president: Come debate […]

BY MARC LEVY Rhonda Hicks could have kept working into her 60s. She loved teaching and her students in Philadelphia’s public schools. As a Black woman, she took pride in being a role model for many children of color. However other […]

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) – Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades. The rating […]