Category Archives: WPTF News
NC-based Honeywell, one of the few remaining US industrial conglomerates, will split into three companies
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Honeywell, one of the last remaining U.S. industrial conglomerates, will split into three independent companies, following in the footsteps of manufacturing gian...
Feb 06, 2025
Edwards and Rudd walked away from NASCAR and never looked back. Their reunion is at the Hall of Fame
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap in their respective NASCAR careers. Edwards only entered the elite Cup Series in 2004 - ...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump blames 'obsolete' US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an "obsolete" computer system used by U.S....
Feb 06, 2025
Irv Gotti, music executive who created Murder Inc. Records, dies at 54
NEW YORK (AP) - Irv Gotti, a music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists such as Ashanti and Ja Rule, has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, which wa...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump urges Americans to 'bring God back into our lives' in National Prayer Breakfast speech
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had "changed" after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as h...
Feb 06, 2025
Trump's administration is pulling almost all USAID workers off the job worldwide
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job...
Feb 05, 2025
New NC facility part of Toyota's EV and battery push in China and U.S.
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) - Toyota is developing and making electric vehicles and EV batteries in China, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday, under a new partnership with the Sh...
Feb 05, 2025
US Postal Service flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlier
By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) - The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong. The post office announce...
Feb 05, 2025
Senate confirms Pam Bondi as US attorney general, putting Trump ally at Justice Department's helm
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the he...
Feb 04, 2025
American bald eagles are having a moment, ecologically and culturally
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) - Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle - the national bird of the United States, often s...
Feb 03, 2025