House Bill 2382 would increase the state cigarette tax by $2 a pack to $5.025 per pack. Action: Passed out the House Finance Committee on Feb. 4. OLYMPIA – Smokers in Washington may soon face a sharp ...

While national inflation is slowing, Florida residents are still seeing high grocery prices. Egg prices have fallen significantly, but costs for items like coffee and beef have risen sharply. Florida ...

Two San Francisco-based AI rivals — Anthropic and OpenAI, the makers of the widely used large language models Claude and ChatGPT, respectively — both announced major pushes into healthcare in the days ...

Eight years ago, I wrote an article for Slate arguing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was an out-of-control agency that had become a “sinister” and “draconian” force “harassing and detaining ...

The minimum wage went up in 19 states on Jan. 1, including South Dakota, where it's now set at $11.85 an hour. The federal minimum wage – $7.25 an hour – hasn't changed for more than a decade, but ...

SEOUL, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics plans to double this year the number of its mobile devices with "Galaxy AI" features largely powered by Google's Gemini, its co-CEO said, which would give ...

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As part of that promise, AMD announced a new line of AI processors as the ...

Honda is recalling more than 70,000 US vehicles over a loss of brake function, which could increase the risk of a crash or injury, auto safety regulators said Wednesday. The recall includes certain ...

Alabama is the top state with the largest decline in filings for unemployment claims. WalletHub created its rankings of states assessing changes in unemployment claims for specific weeks. Americans ...