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Founders of Black-owned brands adapt their hopes and business plans for a post-DEI era
NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founders of a company that makes lip products for darker skin tones no longer hope to get their line into Target. A brother and sister who make jigsaw puzzles celebrating Black subjects wonder if they need to offer "neutral" images like landscapes to keep growing.
Pound Cake and Puzzles of ... (full story)
Are you a successor beneficiary? Navigating old & new RMD rules
If you inherited an IRA within the last few years, you've been dealing with dramatically new beneficiary rules adopted under SECURE Acts 1.0 and 2.0.
Here is something to think about: What happens when you, the beneficiary, pass away? What rules apply to a "successor beneficiary," someone who inherits the IRA from you ... (full story)
3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis
DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes, the marijuana cousin — to make building blocks for walls.
It's a response to the country's short ... (full story)
Local
National monuments have grown and shrunk under US presidents for over a century thanks to one law: The Antiquities Act
(THE CONVERSATION) America's public lands, from its majestic national parks to its vast national forests, are at the heart of the country's identity.
They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the West. Some are crisscrossed by hiking trails and used by hunters and fishermen. Ranchers graze cattle on others. ... (full story)
Sudan's civil war: What military advances mean, and where the country could be heading next
(THE CONVERSATION) A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the African nation's yearslong civil war could be at a crucial turning point.
Even if it were to end tomorrow, the bloody conflict would have left the Sudanese people scarred by violence that has killed tens of thousands and dis ... (full story)
State
Spiritual adviser to man executed by firing squad: 'We're more than the worst thing we've done.'
(RNS) — When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend's parents, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United States had been carried out by a firing squad.
United Methodist minister Hillary Taylor, Sigmon's spiritual adviser since 2020 ... (full story)
5th District appellate panel upholds fentanyl conviction
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel recently affirmed a trial court’s conviction of a Newark man on a fentanyl-related drug charge despite the offender’s argument that the lower court should not have allowed him to argue on his own behalf.
The 3-0 appellate panel was not persuaded by 59-year-old Billy Lee’s ... (full story)
High Court takes up phone, internet subsidy for rural areas
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power.
The justices are reviewing an appellate ruling that struck ... (full story)