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Business

Mozambique embraces a $6 billion electricity project, southern Africa's biggest in 50 years

SIDUAVA, Mozambique (AP) — Hermínio Guambe used to cut hair in a tiny barbershop with no electricity in his village outside Mozambique's capital. The arrival of power changed everything.
The 48-year-old now uses hair dryers. The village pharmacy stocks vital medicines requiring refrigeration. More jobs were created ... (full story)

Averaging down

Q: One of my stocks has been falling. Should I buy more of the now lower-priced shares? -- C.J., Dallas
A: If you do, you'll be "averaging down," meaning you reduce the average price you paid for your shares by buying additional ones at lower prices. That can work well sometimes -- perhaps in a big market pullback (whe ... (full story)

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI compa ... (full story)

Local

Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won't solve America's wildfire problem

(THE CONVERSATION) The western United States is facing another destructive wildfire season, with more acres burned in Colorado alone in 2025 than in the past four years combined. If global warming continues on its current trajectory, the amount of forest area burned each year could double or even triple by midcentury.
In other w ... (full story)

Colorado has one of the nation's highest suicide rates − an ER doctor explains how to bring it down

(THE CONVERSATION) Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, at 20.9 per 100,000 in 2023. Of the state's 940 gun deaths that year, nearly 72% were by suicide.
Nationally, firearms are the leading cause of death for American youth ages 1 to 17. More than 1 in 4 youth firearm deaths nationwide are due to suicide ... (full story)

State

Several of Trump's immigration policies have faced lawsuits, court rulings

President Donald Trump has promised to remove millions of people from the United States in the largest deportation program in American history. But his immigration agenda is facing various tests in the U.S. courts.
For example, a federal appeals court ruled recently that the Trump administration cannot use an 18th-century wartim ... (full story)

Thousands of Ohio students left without a school bus ride as private school transport expands

COLUMBUS (AP) — A scramble is underway for some Ohio families over a staple of the back-to-school season: rides on the big, yellow school bus.
Public school districts canceled bus transportation for thousands of high schoolers again this year while in some cases still busing students to private and charter schools to avoid ... (full story)