• Japan's SoftBank plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects, Trump says

    Japan's SoftBank plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects, Trump says

    Dec 16, 2024 03:43 PM EDT

    Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese company best known for producing Apple iPhones, won Trump's praise after announcing plans in 2017 to build a $10 billion complex that would employ 13,000 people in a small town just south of Milwaukee. But Foxconn's investment has been scaled back to ...

  • Severe winter storms wallop the U.S. with snow, ice and a tornado in California

    Severe winter storms wallop the U.S. with snow, ice and a tornado in California

    Dec 15, 2024 05:16 PM EDT

    ... night for elevations above 8,000 feet (about 2,400 meters) around Tahoe. Interstate 80 was closed along an 80-mile (130-kilometer) stretch from Applegate, California, to the Nevada line just west of Reno on Saturday. The California Highway Patrol reopened the road in the afternoon for passenger vehicles ...

  • Investor explains why he thinks TikTok will be safer with U.S. ownership

    Investor explains why he thinks TikTok will be safer with U.S. ownership

    Dec 13, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    Congressional lawmakers told Apple and Google to be ready to remove TikTok from U.S. app stores on Jan. 19. The app is used by 170 million Americans and lawmakers argue the Chinese government’s relationship with TikTok's parent company threatens data privacy and national security. Geoff Bennett discussed ...

  • The end of the Eras tour marks a bittersweet moment for Taylor Swift fans

    The end of the Eras tour marks a bittersweet moment for Taylor Swift fans

    Dec 09, 2024 02:31 PM EDT

    ... WATCH: How Taylor Swift created an economic juggernaut with her Eras Tour Throughout the tour, Swift was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Apple Music named her its artist of the year and Spotify revealed she was 2023’s most streamed artist globally. She dropped a box office ...

  • Medical care for transgender minors at stake in Supreme Court case

    Medical care for transgender minors at stake in Supreme Court case

    Dec 02, 2024 07:22 PM EDT

    ... life. If the medication is stopped, some physical changes remain. Testosterone generally leads to permanent voice-lowering, facial hair and development of the Adam’s apple. Estrogen can lead to permanent breast development. Research on long-term hormone use in transgender adults has found potential health risks including a modest ...

  • Love it or hate it, pumpkin spice is everywhere this time of year. How did it take over?

    Love it or hate it, pumpkin spice is everywhere this time of year. How did it take over?

    Nov 28, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    Hadar Cohen Aviram: This is about two teaspoons total. Paul Solman: But, nowadays, just churn the spice with butter and smear it on anything, crostini, say. Hadar Cohen Aviram: I'm going to put a slice of green apple, you can use any apple you want, one piece of prosciutto ...

  • Big balloons, wet weather and 21 protesters arrested at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Big balloons, wet weather and 21 protesters arrested at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Nov 28, 2024 02:23 PM EDT

    ... The latest edition of the annual holiday tradition featured new Spider-Man and Minnie Mouse balloons, zoo and pasta-themed floats, an ode to Big Apple coffee and bagels, performances from Jennifer Hudson, Idina Menzel and Kylie Minogue, and more. The lineup was a far cry from the parade's ...

  • How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists

    How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists

    Nov 26, 2024 11:25 PM EDT

    ... after the long dark winter. Jeffrey Brown:  In fact, many were scenes of recent horror, now of newly planted samplings, as in Alfred Sisley's Apple Trees in Flower. Kimberly Jones:  It's a site that has suffered, that has gone through its own trauma. And the fact you have ...

  • 'Whose side are you on?' Sen. Brown says Democrats must focus on working class to win

    'Whose side are you on?' Sen. Brown says Democrats must focus on working class to win

    Nov 21, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... about NAFTA. I grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, where I went to school with the sons and daughters -- name of my junior -- I was Johnny Appleseed Junior High with the sons and daughters of machinists and electricians and steelworkers and autoworkers and rubber workers. And those jobs first went south ...

  • Feds push Google to sell Chrome browser to break search monopoly

    Feds push Google to sell Chrome browser to break search monopoly

    Nov 21, 2024 11:30 PM EDT

    ... asked a judge to force Google to divest from its Android mobile operating system. It also wants the company to stop paying phone makers like Apple to keep Google Search the default on their devices. Google, for its part, called the DOJ's approach unprecedented government overreach and said it ...