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It's a year of rapid change, except when it comes to Trump's approval numbers, AP-NORC...
The most recent AP-NORC poll, from July, puts Trump at 40% approval. While that is not a meaningful change from March, there is some evidence that Trump's support may be softening, at least on the margins. The July poll showed a slight decrease in...
TCS to cut workforce by 2%, affecting more than 12,000 jobs
IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services will reduce its workforce by 2% in its 2026 financial year, primarily affecting middle and senior management, the company said on Sunday, July 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters IT services provider...
Women’s rugby is booming, but safety relies on borrowed assumptions from the men’s game
Rugby union, commonly known as just rugby, is a fast-paced and physical team sport. More girls and women in Canada and around the world are playing it now than ever before. As of 2021, women’s rugby reached a record 2.7 million players globally, a...

America's growing copper crisis finds a promising solution in Arizona's backyard
Ivanhoe Electric CEO Taylor Melvin on the company's Santa Cruz Project in Casa Grande, Arizona. The United States has a copper problem. Simply put, the U.S. uses a lot of it and there aren’t enough American mines to pull it out of the ground fast...

JOBS IN South Carolina: “We know that our future Scouts are sitting in kindergarten right now.”
BY: JESSICA HOLDMAN - JULY 25, 2025 10:18 AM COLUMBIA — Inside the new training center for people hoping to land a job at Scout Motors in South Carolina, stations outfitted with meters and switchboards woven with red and blue wires stand at the...

Two local athletes will represent the U.S. at world championships
Tucked away in the mountains at 9,000 feet, Telluride is known for its steep trails and technical ridgelines, forming an ideal training ground for runners competing at the highest level of trail running, especially when world championships will be...

How The War In Ukraine Revealed The Attack Helicopter's Vulnerability In Modern Warfare
The famed AH-64E Apache, prominent in the U.S. fleet, is a force to be reckoned with. The U.K. Ministry of Defense deems it "the most advanced Attack Helicopter in the world," but like its rotor-whiring kin, it has a challenging future ahead in a...

Venezuelan youth baseball team denied travel visas to U.S. for tournament
A Venezuelan youth baseball team will not participate in the Senior League World Series because it was denied travel visas to the U.S., Little League International said Friday. The team, Cacique Mara, reached the championship round of the...

Democrat Roy Cooper will seek U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Tillis
Roy Cooper will lead the Democrats’ effort to win a U.S. Senate election in North Carolina for the first time since 2008. The 68-year-old former two-term governor, four-term attorney general and 14-year state lawmaker indicated Saturday night he...

The six burning questions everyone is asking financial advisers right now… and their expert answers: From inheritance to pensions, what you MUST know to avoid Rachel Reeves's looming tax raids
The threat of a tax raid looms large over Britons who have diligently saved and invested to build their wealth. With speculation mounting daily as to what tax rises could arrive in Rachel Reeves’s autumn Budget, it’s no wonder the nation’s...
The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling tracker shows that overall views of President Donald Trump’s job performance have been steady over the past few months.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Hildenbrand has noticed prices continue to rise this year, even with President Donald Trump in the White House. He doesn’t blame Trump, his choice for president in 2024, but says Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats who...

First responders did their job. Elected officials must do theirs | Letters
No more excuses Commentators describe the Guadalupe River flood as “unprecedented.” That's not factual. There are similar rainfall events that occurred in Central Texas, including at least 30 inches of rain that fell Oct. 17-18, 1998 southeast of...

Shoring up Ohio’s rickety jobless fund requires a return to more cordial, productive times: editorial
Ohio’s financially shaky unemployment compensation system, which dates to 1936, desperately needs financial reinforcement. That’s a problem in an increasingly truculent Statehouse, where the issue was once addressed in a nonpartisan manner....

Increase this week in Trump's Mexico tariffs could strain Texas economy
Importers and exporters based in Texas have so far avoided the harshest effects of the trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from a host of countries, but they could be in for a rude awakening this week. Mexico, which is...

Trump's cruelest immigration crackdown policies came from Australia
Barely a week into his first term as president in 2017, Donald Trump found inspiration in an unlikely moment: a combative phone call he held with one of America’s closest allies. In his first-ever conversation as president with Australia’s...

Will AI take your job? No - But positions for people with AI skills are growing rapidly, according to analysis
As uncertainity grows regarding weather the AI might displace human workers from current professions, the truth is quite the opposite. AI is not getting rid of jobs at scale, but it is creating new paths and opportunities for people with the right...

She's trying to open a birth center near a maternity desert. It's not easy
Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia heat, Katie Chubb gestures to the place where she's been trying to open a birth center for six years. "We'd have parking along the road," she says, describing her vision for a place...

ʻEkupuʻu again soar through skies above fields of Kuaihelani after 80 years
Kuaihelani at the far northern end of the Hawaiian archipelago — in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — is once again home to a small endangered native Hawaiian avian species that hasn’t been back for 80 years. ʻEkupuʻu — the Laysan finch — for...

In 2020, a man killed this judge’s son. He was coming for her
The nation’s judges are facing an unprecedented threat — at least that’s what U.S. District Judge Esther Salas argues. She would know: Five years ago, she was targeted by an assassin. And still, she thinks the problem is getting worse. The U.S....

Kelly's legacy tied to Elon MuskMark R. Joslyn
Mark R. Joslyn The Biden administration's initial push for electric vehicles (EVs), fueled by the Inflation Reduction Act, saw significant growth in EV sales and investments in related industries. The future of large-scale EV projects, such as the...