Two years ago, voters rejected a quarter-cent sales-tax increase sought by the Champaign County Board to fund public-safety measures. Seeking to determine if voters had softened at all on the question ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average entered correction territory Friday after five straight weeks of losses, as investors worry the Iran war could lead to a long-term disruption of Persian Gulf energy ...

The world has noticed the Los Angeles Lakers streaking behind the steady hand of superstar point guard Luka Doncic. Doncic, 27, is having another career-year and continues to assemble his best stretch ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks deepened their drops Friday as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years. The S&P 500 fell 1.7% to close its worst ...

March 26 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab shares dropped 7% on Thursday after two verdicts holding it liable for harm to young users sparked fears the social media giant may have to ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. This matters because with the rapid growth of the aging ...

Newly released census data shows that from June 2024 to July 2025, the number of new residents who were international immigrants dropped by 70 percent compared to a year before. By Winnie Hu and Jeff ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) looks caught between fear and opportunity following a sharp pullback. Investors are worried the company's AI spending could pressure profits, but if Azure, Copilot, and cloud ...

U.S. stocks surged Monday, after President Donald Trump announced that he was postponing all military strikes on Iranian power plants for a five-day period. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A cautious relief flowed through financial markets ...

SAN DIEGO - After Kansas men’s basketball fell to Arkansas in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament, I wrote that the Jayhawks were left with “unanswerable questions” from a season that began ...