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How a family-owned costume shop is keeping tariffs from making Halloween a nightmare
NEW YORK (AP) — With Halloween on the horizon, Chicago Costume is stuffed. Packaged costumes, including superheros and Japanese animation characters in both kid and adult sizes, dangle near colorful wigs and bottles of fake blood. Downstairs, vintage clothes from the 1970s beg for one more boogie night.
The frightening pos ... (full story)
Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It's ready for a repeat in 2026
COLUMBUS (AP) — At a five-star resort tucked in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the cryptocurrency industry was celebrating a historic start to the year on Capitol Hill. Its priorities were sailing through Congress with unusual speed and one senator did not hesitate to say why.
Sen. Tim Scott, chairman of the Senat ... (full story)
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust.
Their work was credited with helping economists better understa ... (full story)
Most states with National Guard troops in DC plan to withdraw this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the states contributing National Guard troops to President Donald Trump's federal law enforcement initiative in Washington have set target dates for their withdrawal later this fall, state officials told The Associated Press.
The dates, in late October and November, could be extended, and i ... (full story)
Pittsburghers preserving pawpaw trees, some hope it will lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies
On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba. The American pawpaw.
The deciduous tree bears North America's largest native fruit, and, as Marsden explained, supports the zebra swallowtail butterfly — a species that has all but disappeared ... (full story)