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Prime Power, USACE, keeps Fort Hamilton’s lights on enabling Installation mission readiness amid energy crisis
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 20, 2025
FORT HAMILTON, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES 08.20.2025 U.S. ARMY GARRISON FORT HAMILTON, NY – Following a summer of unreliable power due to a degraded substation that provides power to the Fort Hamilton Army Base, NY, and the summer’s extreme heat...
Wait, What’s This About a Radioactive-Shrimp Recall?
New York Mag
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August 20, 2025
Photo: Juanmonino/Getty Images Add this to the list of things you didn’t know you needed to worry about: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat certain frozen shrimp from Walmart due to potential radioactive...
Majority Of American Farms Are Family Farms
PNW AG Network - Washington
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August 20, 2025
According to data released Tuesday, 95% of all U.S. farms are considered family farms. That comes out to 1.9 million farms. Tthe 2022 Census of Agriculture Farm Typology report primarily focuses on the “family farm,” defined as any farm where the...
Hassett likely to be Trump's pick for Fed chief, though Warsh is more qualified, CNBC survey finds
CNBC
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August 20, 2025
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump will tap his top economic advisor...
TelevisaUnivision’s Tim Natividad on Elevating Hispanic Media: ‘We Represent a 360-Degree Solution for Brands’
Beet.TV - New York
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August 20, 2025
CANNES – As brands seek more meaningful ways to engage with diverse audiences, TelevisaUnivision’s new U.S. advertising chief Tim Natividad says there is significant untapped potential in the Hispanic media market, and the tools to reach it have...
Japan automakers start to pass on Trump tariff costs to US consumers
Nikkei Asia
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Automobiles Auto export prices rise for first time in six months as companies change tack Passenger cars waiting to be shipped to North America. Japanese automakers until recently absorbed the tariffs to keep U.S. retail prices steady. (Photo by...
Iowa State University, industry partners to elevate biobased product testing
KCRG - Iowa
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August 20, 2025
AMES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa State University is working with a U.S. Defense Department-backed organization to develop facilities that could make the university and its community a national destination for biobased product testing....
Target’s CEO plans to step down after struggling to turn around weak sales
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania
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NEW YORK — Target CEO Brian Cornell, who helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more competitive retail landscape since the COVID pandemic, plans to step down Feb. 1. Minneapolis-based Target Corp. said...
Hagerty tours Cleveland's Duracell plant as 50% steel tariff kicks in
Cleveland Daily Banner - Tennessee
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Cleveland Mayor Kevin Brooks and Bradley County Mayor D. Gary Davis met with U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) at Cleveland’s Duracell plant on Tuesday, to discuss the potential effects a steel tariff will have on plant operations. The visit...
Trump thinks owning a piece of Intel would be a good deal for the US. Here's what to know (Business)
Castanet Kamloops
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August 20, 2025
Photo: AP Photo/Terry Chea An Intel sign is shown at the chipmaker's global headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. President Donald Trump wants the U.S. government to own a piece of Intel, less than two weeks after demanding...
After India-Russia, Apple ignores Trump's threat, takes BIG decision linked to India, will manufacture…, in…
India.com
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August 20, 2025
Home Business After India-Russia, Apple ignores Trump’s threat, takes BIG decision linked to India, will manufacture…, in… Despite Donald Trump’s warning over Russian oil India still buys it from the latter, similarly one big decision is taken by...
Letter to DOJ: Break Google’s ad tech monopoly and request restitution to news publishers for lost revenue
Dalton Daily Citizen - Georgia
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August 20, 2025
Published 8:30 am Wednesday, August 20, 2025 The Center for Journalism & Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, alongside Public Knowledge and Rebuild Local News, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) urging...
Penfed Credit Union Introduces Mobile Cash Deposit At Participating Retail Stores
MENAFN
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August 20, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "PenFed is excited to offer our 2.9 million members the convenience of banking where they shop in tens of thousands of retail locations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands," said PenFed Chief Marketing...
Lawsuit against U.S. Bank tests California privacy laws
American Banker - New York
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August 20, 2025
A recent lawsuit against U.S. Bank highlights the legal gray area banks enter when they engage in internet data collection practices, particularly concerning third-party trackers, and especially when operating in California. The case, which...
Online Shopping, But Harder: Morgan’s Retail Bets Big on an AI Retail Store with No Inventory
SoyaCincau
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August 20, 2025
Back in 2016, Amazon debuted its “Just Walk Out” cashierless stores, promising to reinvent grocery shopping. No queues, no cashiers, just sensors and AI tracking what you took off the shelves. But nearly a decade later, Amazon has quietly scaled...
Opinion: Republicans and Democrats must agree: Americans deserve price transparency in health care
STAT - Massachusetts
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August 20, 2025
Reducing America’s outrageous health care costs is a top bipartisan priority of this Congress. The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a new bipartisan bill I introduced with Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), can reverse runaway health expenditures...
The $42 Billion Broadband Problem: Why America's Internet Fix May Be Missing the Point
International Business Times
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August 20, 2025
In 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with a bold promise: bring high-speed internet to every American household. At the heart of that promise was BEAD, the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deploym ent program, a $42.45...
Iconic restaurant makes controversial logo change after 48 years – and it’s forcing fans to boycott
The U.S. Sun
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August 20, 2025
AN iconic American restaurant is switching up its image, making a controversial logo change after nearly five decades. As Cracker Barrel rolls out its newest trademark design after 48 years, fans are not happy and are even threatening to never eat...
McDonald's To Make Major Change to Combo Meal Price
Newsweek
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August 20, 2025
McDonald's is set to make a major change to its combo meals—by lowering the price. Newsweek has reached out to McDonald's via email for comment. Why It Matters McDonald's, which is celebrating the 70th anniversary of it's first franchised...
Dayforce, led by Toronto’s David Ossip, confirms privatization talks with Thoma Bravo
The Globe and Mail
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August 20, 2025
Toronto entrepreneur David Ossip transformed one of America’s oldest technology companies, Ceridian Corp., from an underperforming, debt-laden equity-owned enterprise based in Minneapolis into a leading enterprise software vendor that was largely...