By JAMES POLLARD NEW YORK (AP) — Technology drove the personal wealth behind many philanthropists atop the list of last year’s biggest American donors. But Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are fairly unusual in their … Continued
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, TRAVIS LOLLER and M.K. WILDEMAN The worst water Colt Smith has seen in 14 years with Utah’s Division of Drinking Water was at a mobile home park, where residents had been drinking it for years before state … Continued
By Henry Payne, The Detroit News There’s never a dull moment in the U.S. market as automakers hustle to divine consumer trends, navigate federal regulations, juggle tariff-driven plant production, and dodge activist Molotov cocktails. Related Articles Average long-term US mortgage … Continued
Adams’ Charter Revision Commission has proposed measures to accelerate affordable housing production in the parts of the city that have produced the least, a move that has drawn criticism from councilmembers and community boards. Mayor Eric Adams at the groundbreaking … Continued
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and DIARLEI RODRIGUES PORCIUNCULA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian José Natal da Silva often tends to his modest coffee plantation in the interior of Rio de Janeiro state in the middle of the night, sacrificing sleep to fend … Continued
I’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. The bottom line is—we Texans keep doing the same … Continued