U.S. stocks reversed losses in late afternoon trading on Friday as markets cap off a bumpy week following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision on Wednesday and further pressure in the banking sector. The S&P 500 (^GSPC), which fell as much as 1% in early Friday trading, the most in […]
Month: March 2023
(RNS) — For the most part, religious Americans say their LGBTQ neighbors should be free of discrimination when they are at work, in public or at home. This is true even among groups that oppose same-sex marriage. One place they disagree is over whether businesses — such as cake bakers […]
Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies. “What […]
President Biden’s secretary of education released a letter calling for the end of all corporal punishment in U.S. schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent the “dear colleague” letter to governors, chief state school officers and other school leaders nationwide on Friday calling for the end of all corporal […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent and face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive platforms. Two laws signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox […]
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders gathered Friday to gauge the risk of a banking crisis developing from recent global financial turbulence and hitting the economy even harder than the energy crunch tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The deliberations by EU government heads in Brussels follow U.S. regulators shutting down […]