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Midnight train from Georgia: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle in the shutdown
ABOARD THE CRESCENT (AP) — There’s something melodic about watching the sun rise over a rural stillness broken only by the rhythms of steel wheels on tracks. Or so we tell ourselves.
In this case, being aboard a train at all owed more to politics than poetry.
Congress and Donald Trump were mired in their latest b ... (full story)
Irrational Finance
Q. What's behavioral economics? -- A.M., Brooklyn, New York
A. It's an academic field combining psychology and economics in order to explain how people make financial decisions -- often not in rational ways.
For example, many people would drive a distance to save $10 on a $20 purchase but wouldn't do so to save $10 on a $1,0 ... (full story)
Once a luxury for moms, doula care is going mainstream
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Shaquoiya Stewart held one of her 6-month-old twins on her lap while Shanille Bowens held the other. As the women caught up and the babies stared at each other quietly, Bowens came around to the key question she asks all the mothers she works for: “Do you think there’s anything you need more s ... (full story)
Local
Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth
MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on March 19, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was seen from hundreds of miles away.
The meteoroid broke apart around 9 a.m. March 17 ove ... (full story)
A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
But the law has spurred a bottleneck for affordable housing.
Nearly everything from HVACs and lighting to sink hooks and ceiling fans in affordable housing projects that get federal do ... (full story)
What to know about the safety system that failed to prevent the deadly runway collision at LaGuardia
The systems in place at New York's LaGuardia Airport to prevent ground collisions failed to keep an Air Canada jet from smashing into a fire truck that had just pulled out on the runway as the plane was landing.
The National Transportation Safety Board will determine what went wrong before March 22’s crash that killed both ... (full story)
State
Founder of 'orgasmic meditation’ company gets 9 years in prison in forced labor conspiracy
NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” was sentenced March 30 to nine years in federal prison for a scheme that a judge said exploited vulnerable women and coerced them into performing sex acts with the company's clients and investors.
Nico ... (full story)
A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons
The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.
Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dicti ... (full story)
How one family's bipolar disorder experience led to more than $1 billion for the Broad Institute
NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stanley considers himself fortunate among bipolar disorder patients. He eventually responded to the right drug cocktail after self-described “full-brained mania” almost 40 years ago left him naked in a New York City deli, convinced electricity coursed through the floor.
Others face a longer ... (full story)
Electric bikes can be fast and dangerous. Here's how to stay safe
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The 14-year-old was riding an electric bicycle at an estimated 25 mph when he slammed into Janet Stotko during her evening walk, leaving her unconscious and bleeding on a sidewalk in her Minnesota neighborhood.
The 2024 crash nearly killed Stotko, who was raced to a hospital with severe brain injur ... (full story)