This is about more than mifepristone.

A referendum emphasized how many residents had come to regard the scooters as dangerous nuisances with little environmental benefit. Other cities were closely watching the vote.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent and face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive platforms.

The US is fighting a modern pandemic with a 1990s-sized workforce.

California will not do business with Walgreens Boots Alliance, Governor Gavin Newsom said in a tweet, days after the pharmacy chain said it will not dispense abortion pills in some Republican states.

The Commerce Department has been raising eyebrows with the requirements in its subsidy program for microchip manufacturers.

The Biden administration is working to prevent Chinese apps from gathering Americans’ data.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department is opening the application process for computer chip manufacturers to access $39 billion in government support to build new factories and expand production.

Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as “milk” can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released Wednesday. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don’t pretend to be from dairy animals – and that U.S.

President Biden's student debt relief proposal created a storm of controversy. That is not surprising, since it was a transparent (and apparently successful) attempt to buy the votes of an important Democratic constituency, even though it created a target-rich environment for critics. It is sharply pro-rich at the expense of those far poorer, from a party pretending to stand for the opposite. It

The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.

Peninsula Township created a new ordinance after facing a lawsuit from 11 wineries. But farmers say it could negatively impact them, devaluing their property as farmland.

A new federal law requiring that sesame be listed as an allergen on food labels is having unintended consequences — increasing the number of products with the ingredient. Food industry experts said the requirements are so stringent that many manufacturers, especially bakers, find it simpler and less expensive to add sesame to a product — and to label it — than to try to keep it away from other foods or equipment with sesame.

The entertainment group has been quietly scanning faces since at least 2018.

But the new businesses will have to compete with everyone who’s already selling pot.

Michigan won five multi-billion-dollar electric vehicle projects this year with the help of $2 billion in economic incentives.

His deal with Adidas was valued at $1.5 billion, but his fortune fell to an estimated $400 million after the retailer cut ties with him, per Forbes.

“Obviously, we’ll have to comply.”

U.S. President Joe Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to sell 15 million barrels of crude oil from the nation's emergency supply and begin refilling the reserve as he tries to dampen high gasoline prices ahead of midterm elections on Nov. 8.

Brouhaha over raunchy behavior by a so-called charity vendor continues.

A new report says that one reason has to do with white people's perceptions that they're losing financial dominance as people of color are making gains.

Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.

More than $5 million in TANF funds went toward a volleyball-stadium project Brett wanted Favre and $1.1 million went to Favre himself.

The restaurant industry is fighting hard against a labor bill making its way through the California legislature.

A Lebanese judge reportedly dropped the charges against the man.

Politicians blame “corporate greed” for the formula shortage. But it’s their own destructive policies that are to blame. ————To make sure you see the new w...

We map the state of global democracy, as the Democracy Index hits its lowest point since the inception of the index in 2006.

MADRID (AP) — Bars and restaurants in Spain will be obliged to offer “doggybags” free of charge to clients to take home the food they have not eaten under a new law aimed at reducing food waste. Under the new bill passed by the Spanish government Tuesday, businesses in the food chain will have to draw up plans to try to reduce the amount of food wasted or else face possible fines.

MAPLETON — Wineries in Peninsula Township no longer have to follow numerous zoning restrictions a U.S. District Court judge ruled to be illegal or unconstitutional.