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The US could see shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike drags on 10/01/2024 06:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday, picketing near ports all along the East Coast. Workers outside the Port of Philadelp Frank Fritz of the reality TV Show 'American Pickers' dies at 60 10/01/2024 05:41pm • Frank Fritz, part of a two-man team who drove around the U.S. looking for antiques and collectibles to buy and resell on the reality show “American Pickers,” has died. He died Monday night at a hospice facility in Davenport, Iowa, said Annette Oberlander, a longtime friend. She said he was 60, Is the food in the fridge still good? California wants to end the guessing game 10/01/2024 05:30pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California wants to help end the everyday household debate over whether the food in the fridge is still good to eat. Food labels that say “sell by” or “best before” are misleading because they have no universal meaning under current laws. Now California wants to After Helene's destruction, a mountain town reliant on fall tourism wonders what's next 10/01/2024 04:42pm • BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Freddie Pell helps lift a vintage wooden chair off the sidewalk and back inside his art gallery. It's starting to rain in downtown Boone, and he doesn't want it to get soaked — again. Inside, vast muddy puddles spread across the room as workers use mops to push the water out Historic ship could soon become the world's largest artificial reef 10/01/2024 04:34pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A historic ocean liner that once ferried immigrants, Hollywood stars and heads of state may soon find its final resting place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, after a Florida county inked a tentative deal to turn the ship into the world’s largest artificial reef. The Days after Hurricane Helene, a powerless mess remains in the Southeast 10/01/2024 04:23pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Sherry Brown has gotten nearly the entire miserable Hurricane Helene experience at her home. She's out of power and water. There is a tree on her roof and her SUV. She is converting power from the alternator in her car to keep just enough juice for her refrigerator so she can k Marketing plans are key for small businesses ahead of a tough holiday shopping season 10/01/2024 01:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays are the busiest time of year for many small retailers and other businesses. But the holidays this year could be particularly challenging. Although inflation has retreated, small businesses are still dealing with high costs and consumers have been tightening the purse s A tiny tribe is getting pushback for betting big on a $600M casino in California's wine country 10/01/2024 01:47pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino and tap into the gaming market enjoyed by so many other tribes that earn millions of dollars annually. The Koi Nation's chances of owning a Las Vegas-style casino seeme Port strikes extend a new era of American labor activism 10/01/2024 10:43am • The U.S. dockworkers who went on strike early Tuesday are just the latest unionized group to back their demands for better contracts by walking off the job to illustrate their value to both the national economy, and their employers' bottom line. Unions representing auto workers, actors, hotel house Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir 'Be Ready When the Luck Happens' 10/01/2024 10:27am • NEW YORK (AP) — Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. It was the late 1960s and she was a newlywed in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She and her soldier-husband, Jeffrey, Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages 10/01/2024 05:43am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks. The contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of 'You give me hope': Montgomery Co. man repairs hundreds of old bikes to donate 10/01/2024 03:52am • A 74-year-old man in Montgomery County, Maryland, takes old, unwanted bikes that have been collecting dust and refurbishes them in his backyard. Then, he gives them away to refugees, immigrants or others in need of some wheels. Over the past couple of years, Manuel Vera has given away 700 old Satellite service DirecTV buys rival Dish as it fights the onslaught of streaming services 09/30/2024 12:36pm • DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant. DirecTV said Monday that it will acquire Dish TV and Sling TV from its owner EchoStar in a debt exchange transaction that include An Israeli airstrike hits central Beirut for the first time in nearly a year of conflict 09/30/2024 06:50am • JERUSALEM (AP) — The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict struck an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people, as Hezbollah sustained heavy blows to its command structure, including the ki Brian Williams is set to anchor election night coverage on Prime Video. Is Amazon getting into live news? 09/29/2024 09:40pm • New York (CNN) — Amazon attracts millions of live viewers for Thursday Night Football games. The company also carries A-list concert performances and a seemingly endless number of shopping live-streams. Up next: One special night of news coverage.The former NBC News and MSNBC anchor Brian Wi