Keeping up with America

U.S. authorities on Thursday expanded slots to seek asylum at land crossings with Mexico through a mobile app for the second time in less than a month, seeking to dispel doubts it isn’t a viable option.

Four days before part of an Iowa apartment building collapsed, an engineering firm warned that it appeared at risk of crumbling.

Baltimore couple team up to save life of fellow passenger on Southwest flight.

A teenager from Florida has won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States.

A litter of six red wolf pups, a highly endangered species, was born at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota, the zoo announced Thursday.

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For much of the past decade, Western companies have sought an alternative to China to manufacture goods—a shift executives call “China plus one.” Increasingly, the strategy looks more like China plus many.

A meeting of foreign ministers of the Brics group of nations in South Africa has called for a rebalancing of the global order away from Western nations.

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Even dollar stores are hurting as consumers get more cautious

How to Navigate the Bizarro Economy | Kevin T. Dugan, NY Mag. It’s reasonable to be worried about a recession. Banks have been failing, offices are closing, and it’s not like anything has been getting cheaper. Still, you have people like Neel Kashkari, the CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, saying that the economy is fine, that no downturn is on the horizon. It is all very confusing.

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