12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1068+ words) WASHINGTON — Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market. A…...

17+ hour, 5+ min ago   (415+ words) “Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World” By Jennifer de Mooy; University of Minnesota Press, 2026; 200 pages; $19.95 paperback. As de Mooy points out, peatlands have not always been appreciated. In America, they were long considered to be wastelands that…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (828+ words) NEW YORK — Oil prices keep climbing as the war with Iran keeps clogging the global flow of crude, and they leaped Thursday to their highest levels since before the summer. That worsened worries about inflation and cranked up pressure within…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (624+ words) Anchorage Daily News Opinion: How the University of Alaska Anchorage is helping shape the state’s AI future In Alaska, innovation and ingenuity are not just ideals; they are cornerstones of what makes thriving in the Last Frontier possible. With…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (783+ words) The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door. Over the…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (367+ words) A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms. KFF Health News first reported that…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (555+ words) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely won’t come down until after U.S. midterm elections. Oil prices on Wednesday jumped more than 3%, pushing international Brent crude past the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (141+ words) Bank of America recently “unenrolled” cardholders from automatic payments, including me. I never signed anything. I never clicked anything. Just — poof — a payment on my Alaska Airlines Visa was not drawn when it was supposed to be. I was fortunate…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (627+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would most likely…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (515+ words) NEW YORK — The price of oil surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time since July after attacks on oil facilities and ships in the Middle East threatened to debilitate an already weakened supply chain. Brent crude, the international standard, jumped…...