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Walmart and Sam’s Club kick off annual campaign to address hunger in Ozarks

Walmart and Sam’s Club will help Ozarks Food Harvest address hunger in the Ozarks this spring through the 11th annual Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign. “Families across the Ozarks continue to face a perfect storm of increased childcare, housing and food costs,” said Bart Brown, president/CEO of Ozarks Food Harvest. “That’s why we’re grateful for […]

India’s mammoth elections kick off as Modi seeks third term in power

Voters in India began heading to the polls on Friday in the first phase of a massive election lasting six weeks, with seats in India’s lower house of parliament and another term for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at stake. The latest opinion polls put Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) far in the […]

Stock rebound falters as Netflix set to kick off Big Tech earnings

US stocks were mixed on Thursday as investors braced for Netflix (NFLX) to kick earnings season into high gear. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell about 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) hovered just above the flat line after closing lower in the prior session. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) slipped 0.3%, extending tech’s recent […]

Techs lead slide as banks kick off earnings season

Stocks stumbled on Friday as techs lost their winning ways, with investors looking for inspiration in the big bank results rolling in to kick off earnings season. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite () slid 0.9%, while the S&P 500 () shed 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average () fell 0.6%, or more than 200 points. Stocks […]

Techs lead slide in US futures as banks kick off earnings season

US stock futures stumbled on Friday as techs lost their winning ways, with investors looking for inspiration in the big bank results rolling in to kick off earnings season. Futures on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) slid 0.5%, while S&P 500 (^GSPC) futures shed 0.4%. Contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 0.3%. […]

April Agriplex events kick off next week

Mar. 30—April means special events are in store at the North Alabama Agriplex, which is gearing up for its annual Spring Online Auction set to take place from April 11-14. With a trove of locally supplied items and unique services and experiences on tap, the auction helps fund Agriplex projects while giving bidders a chance […]

Foreigners should not be able to influence Ohio elections. Bill would kick them out.

Ken Blackwell is a former Ohio secretary of state. Jason Snead is executive director of Honest Elections Project Action, a Washington-based conservative organization that advocates for voting law restrictions. Ohioans deserve elections that are free of foreign influence. But right now, foreign nationals like billionaire activist Hansjörg Wyss are exploiting a tangled web of liberal […]