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Farmers, business owners, fire survivors face uncertainty after $100B in disaster relief flounders
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — American farmers, small business owners and wildfire survivors are among those who will suffer if Congress cannot agree on a new spending bill after President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan that included more than $100 billion in disaster aid.
A mayor in Hawaii is watching cl ... (full story)
Rising butter prices give European consumers and bakers a bad taste
PARIS (AP) — Pastry chef Arnaud Delmontel rolls out dough for croissants and pains au chocolat that later emerge golden and fragrant from the oven in his Paris patisserie.
The price for the butter so essential to the pastries has shot up in recent months, by 25% since September alone, Delmontel says. But he is refusing to ... (full story)
Priced for perfection
Q: I recently read that a certain stock is "priced for perfection." What does that mean? -- S.C., Warsaw, Indiana
A: It means that due to investor enthusiasm, the stock's price has been bid up so high that the valuation for the company assumes it will execute its strategy perfectly, leaving no room for error.
Opin ... (full story)
Local
Detroit's reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report
(THE CONVERSATION) The work of crafting reparations at the municipal level is fierce.
Detroiters know. In November 2021, residents voted to create a reparations committee that would make recommendations for housing and economic development programs to address historical discrimination against Black residents.
Three years hav ... (full story)
Language AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
(THE CONVERSATION) I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning as the director of the Advancing Human and Machine Reasoning lab at the University of South Florida. I am also commercializing this research in an AI startup that provides a vulnerability scanner for language mo ... (full story)
State
White House starts scrapping pending regulations, including student debt cancellation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is abandoning his effort to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first step in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.
The White House expects to pull back u ... (full story)
In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change
EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) — As a boy, when the water was low Talbert Cypress from the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida rummaged through the Everglades' forests, swam in its swampy ponds and fished in its canals.
But the vast wetlands near Miami have radically changed since Cypress was younger. Now 42 and tribal council c ... (full story)