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Troubling News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in eight months last week but remain historically low despite growing uncertainty about how tariffs could impact the broader economy. New applications for jobless benefits rose by 8,000 to 247,000 for the ...

A Helping Hand

Pictured is St Susan’s Executive Director Cherie Rowland and owner of Chautauqua Comics, Al Steffens. Chautauqua Comics’s Free Comic Book Day event on May 3 raised $675 for St Susan’s Soup Kitchen, from 425 people who attended the event. According to St Susan’s staff, this donation will ...

US Mint Moves Forward With Plans To Kill The Penny

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says making cents doesn’t make sense anymore. The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday. This move comes as the cost of making ...

Target Sales Drop In First Quarter

NEW YORK — Target’s challenge to revive sales and its status as a cheap chic retailer just got more complicated. The discounter announced on Wednesday that sales fell more than expected in the first quarter, and the retailer warned they will slip for all of 2025 year as its customers, ...