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Energy Department offers $1.6 billion loan guarantee to upgrade transmission lines across Midwest
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Energy said recently it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation's largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy.
AEP Transmission will upgr ... (full story)
Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger spar over abortion in Virginia
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Rae Pickett stepped onto Richell Hines' front stoop wearing a pink T-shirt that foretold the case she hoped to make to Virginia voters as she knocked on doors on a sunny Saturday in early October.
"Abortion is on the ballot," it read.
Hines answered Pickett's knock on her Petersburg, Vi ... (full story)
How a family-owned costume shop is keeping tariffs from making Halloween a nightmare
NEW YORK (AP) — With Halloween on the horizon, Chicago Costume is stuffed. Packaged costumes, including superheros and Japanese animation characters in both kid and adult sizes, dangle near colorful wigs and bottles of fake blood. Downstairs, vintage clothes from the 1970s beg for one more boogie night.
The frightening pos ... (full story)
Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026
COLUMBUS (AP) — At a five-star resort tucked in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the cryptocurrency industry was celebrating a historic start to the year on Capitol Hill. Its priorities were sailing through Congress with unusual speed and one senator did not hesitate to say why.
Sen. Tim Scott, chairman of the Senat ... (full story)
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust.
Their work was credited with helping economists better understa ... (full story)