HARRISBURG, PA — A battle for budget dollars is brewing in Pennsylvania, and this time, the spotlight is on the people who care for the state’s most vulnerable: its home care workers. After a contentious budget process that left the vast majority of these essential workers out of a significant pay increase, advocates are sounding…
A State United in Grief: West Virginia Honors National Guard Heroes Shot in Washington The heart of West Virginia is heavy this week as communities come together to mourn and honor two of their own, National Guard members who were brutally attacked while on duty in Washington, D.C. The tragic ambush, which occurred just blocks…
Chewy Continues to Outperform: Why Analysts Are Bullish on the Pet Supply Giant Chewy Continues to Outperform: Why Analysts Are Bullish on the Pet Supply Giant The U.S. pet care industry is a massive and ever-expanding universe, projected to be valued at an impressive $157 billion in 2025, with forecasts suggesting it could balloon to…
The iPhone is, quite literally, still having its moment. Reports from Apple’s latest financial disclosure show that the world’s most famous smartphone just powered the company to a massive, record-shattering quarter, blowing past Wall Street’s expectations. The figures for Apple’s fiscal first quarter of 2026, which covers the crucial holiday shopping season that ended in…
AI Industry Shake-Up: The $2.2 Billion Firm That Just Called Time on Data-Labeling For years, a hidden workforce quietly powered the artificial intelligence boom, painstakingly tagging images, transcribing audio, and labeling data points to teach machines how to “see” and “think.” This was the core business of data-labeling companies. Now, the CEO of a prominent…
Brace for Snow: Winter Weather Advisory Issued Ahead of Weekend Storm The first significant snow event of the late-fall season is officially on the way, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Winter Weather Advisory for a large swath of the Upper Midwest, including the busy Twin Cities metropolitan area, as a long-duration storm…
The financial picture for Hancock County Schools just got a lot clearer, and unfortunately, it’s not a pretty one. The West Virginia Board of Education has taken the extraordinary step of formally intervening in the northern panhandle school district, citing a severe financial crisis that posed an immediate threat to keeping the lights on—and, crucially,…
The New Great Game: US Pushes Tech and Transparency at APEC to Counter China’s Influence The global competition between the United States and China is now playing out not just on trade floors and military bases, but in the realm of artificial intelligence and deep-sea fisheries. This geopolitical rivalry took center stage at recent Asia…
The Senate is officially down one long-time bachelor. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has married his fiancée, Alexis Lewis, in not one, but two private and deeply personal ceremonies that spanned two cities important to the couple’s lives. The news, which the couple announced via a joint social media post on Sunday, came as a…
$681 Million Powerball Rolls Over: Check Your Tickets for Tennessee’s Latest Winning Numbers Another day has dawned in Tennessee, and lottery players across the state are waking up to check their tickets after a huge night of multi-state drawings. The grand prize for Wednesday, November 26, was one of the largest in recent memory, making…