(Associated Press) A big postal rate increase over the summer hasn’t stopped catalog retailers from stuffing mailboxes this holiday season.
The U.S. Postal Service says more than 300 million catalogs flooded into people’s mailboxes last month, and the overall number of catalogs has grown 12% over last year, officials said.
The...
The company working to build a mine in southeast Nebraska to extract a rare element used to make steel lighter and stronger said Tuesday that it may also be able to produce some of the key ingredients needed to make the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and other...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) North Dakota U.S. Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer and other U.S. senators are asking President Joe Biden to halt a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for truck drivers crossing the U.S.--Canadian border.
Biden's mandate would affect all essential, nonresident workers crossing the U.S. borders by land.
Unless...
Large retailers are calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make it tougher for criminals to sell goods stolen from smash-and-grab robberies anonymously through online retailers, said the Washington Post.
“In a letter signed by the chief executives of 20 retailers---including Best Buy, Target, Nordstrom, Home Depot and Dollar...
Pro-union activists pounced to attack coffee franchise Starbucks after the company appeared to have successfully staved off a challenge over a New York store's recent vote to unionize.
Although one store did vote to do so, and appears poised to move forward on those plans, a second Buffalo location had...
Ports in the state of South Carolina once again broke a monthly record for container traffic in November, the South Carolina Ports Association reported.
South Carolina imports are up over 21% from last year, and the state's ports have broken monthly records for nine straight months.
According to South Carolina Ports...
Inflation in the US surged in November to 6.8% year-over-year, higher than expected and the largest in nearly 40 years, setting politicians and economist on edge that they are behind the inflation curve.
The result could be an economy that struggles to gain traction before next year's midterm elections.
Recently we...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Democrats have argued that the tax reforms implemented through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) only benefited the rich, and that the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) will help middle-and working-class Americans the most.
But several nonpartisan groups found that the TCJA reduced...
President Joe Biden attempted to soften the blow delivered by the Department of Labor's bleak November Jobs Report, claiming in prepared remarks that "America is back to work and our jobs recovery is going very strong."
"Americans, on average, have more in their pockets today . . . than they did...
(Headline USA) The leftist-loving public image Starbucks has carefully cultivated is taking a hit as it fights an expanded effort to unionize its stores, even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee-chain's locations in Buffalo, New York.
Union organizers from three additional Buffalo-area stores appeared before the...
(Headline USA) Even Christmas trees aren’t immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation plaguing the Joe Biden economy.
Some have argued that Democrat policies are largely to blame. That includes the increased energy costs as the Biden administration wages war on fossil fuels, as well as the devaluation of the...
(Headline USA) Already antsy about newest coronavirus variant, Wall Street's losses deepened on Tuesday after the head of the Federal Reserve said it will consider shutting off its support for financial markets sooner than expected.
The S&P 500 was 1.3% lower in afternoon trading after Fed Chair Jerome Powell told...