WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris ' campaign is actively warning business leaders that Donald Trump has a pattern of disregard for democracy and the rule of law that would threaten U.S. economic growth — a closing argument designed to show the possible consequences for companies and workers if he returns to the White House.

2. Members of Congress call on companies to retain DEI programs as court cases grind on - Friday, October 11, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democrats in Congress appealed to the largest U.S. companies Tuesday to hold onto their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying such efforts give everyone a fair chance at achieving the American dream.

3. Trump favors huge new tariffs. What are they, and how do they work? - Friday, September 27, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.

The former president and current Republican nominee asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare.

4. In dueling speeches, Harris is to make her capitalist pitch while Trump pushes deeper into populism - Friday, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Derided by Donald Trump as a "communist," Kamala Harris is playing up her street cred as a capitalist.

Attacked by Harris as a rich kid who got $400 million from his father on a "silver platter," Trump is leaning into his raw populism.

5. Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs - Friday, September 20, 2024

SMITHTON, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump sat in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania on Monday, asking questions of farmers and offering jokes but, in a rarity for his campaign events, mostly listening.

The bombastic former president was unusually restrained at an event about China's influence on the U.S. economy, a roundtable during which farmers and manufacturers expressed concerns about losing their way of life. Behind Trump were large green tractors and a sign declaring "Protect our food from China."

6. Civil rights groups call on major corporations to stick with DEI programs - Friday, September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A broad group of civil rights organizations called on the CEOs and board members of major companies Thursday to maintain their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come under attack online and in lawsuits.

7. Fearless Fund drops grant program for Black women business owners in lawsuit settlement - Friday, September 6, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A venture capital firm has closed down a grant contest for Black women business owners as part of a settlement agreement with a conservative group that had filed a lawsuit alleging the program was discriminatory, both sides announced Wednesday.

8. Lowe's changes some DEI policies amid legal attacks on diversity programs and activist pressure - Friday, August 23, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement chain Lowe's is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of several other companies that altered their programs since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions or after facing a conservative backlash online.

9. Conservatives use shooting at Trump rally to attack DEI efforts at Secret Service - Friday, July 19, 2024

As Congressional members on both sides of the aisle grilled U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Monday on how a gunman was able to fire shots at former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt, several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and the agency's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as among the reasons for the security failure.

10. John Deere ends support of 'social or cultural awareness' events, distances from inclusion efforts - Friday, July 19, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor "social or cultural awareness" events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures after being targeted by conservative backlash.

11. Jacobs moves to Dickinson Wright - Friday, August 18, 2023

Sharon O. “Sheri” Jacobs has joined Dickinson Wright in the firm’s Nashville office as of counsel.

Jacobs represents companies, local governments and nonprofit organizations with regard to administrative, regulatory, environmental, zoning, land use and municipal matters. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers and received an AV-Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

12. 2 rivals from factory floors facing off in race to lead UAW - Friday, February 3, 2023

DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the 373,000 members of the United Auto Workers, a union that helps set standards for wages across the nation's manufacturing sector.

13. CES reveals innovations, from tractors to dog talk - Friday, January 13, 2023

If you’re a gadget lover at heart, hearing the letters CES strung together transports you to the biggest and baddest new technology around … the stuff you put in your house that can cost more than your house.

14. John Deere, farm group reach deal on fixing equipment - Friday, January 6, 2023

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Equipment manufacturer John Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation have signed a memorandum of understanding that ensures farmers and ranchers have the right to repair their own farm equipment.

15. CES 2023: Companies tout environmental tech innovations - Friday, January 6, 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of electric vehicles and smart products at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this year. This particular version of the familiar houseplant was bioengineered to remove 30 times the amount of indoor air pollutants of a typical house plant, according to Neoplants, the Paris-based company that created it.

16. CES 2023: Tech world to gather and show off gadgets - Friday, December 30, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — CES, the annual tech industry event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is returning to Las Vegas this week with the hope that it looks more like it did before the coronavirus pandemic.

17. To preserve jobs, UAW head says battery plants must be union - Friday, July 22, 2022

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — If the United Auto Workers union can't organize workers at new electric-vehicle battery factories that will supply Detroit's three automakers, the union's future would be in serious doubt.

18. Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Head to a farm - Friday, March 11, 2022

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For years Americans have been told autonomous technology was improving and that driverless vehicles were just around the corner.

Finally they're here, but to catch a glimpse of them, you'll need to go to a farm rather than look along city streets.

19. Not all Western companies sever ties to Russia over Ukraine - Friday, March 11, 2022

A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia, even as hundreds have announced plans to curtail ties.

Burger King restaurants are open, Eli Lilly is supplying drugs, and PepsiCo is selling milk and baby food, but no more soda.

20. Deere workers approve 3rd contract offer, will end strike - Friday, November 19, 2021

DETROIT (AP) — Deere & Co. workers approved a new contract Wednesday that will deliver 10% raises immediately and end a monthlong strike for more than 10,000 employees.

21. US industrial production rebounded 1.6% in October - Friday, November 12, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production rebounded in October as automakers, stung by supply chain problems, posted strong increases and the adverse effects from a hurricane that struck the nation's energy complex in the Gulf of Mexico faded.

22. Farmers, John Deere suppliers worry about strike's impact - Friday, October 15, 2021

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Farmers and Deere & Co. suppliers are worried about what the strike at the tractor maker's factories will mean for their livelihoods.

23. Deere & Co. workers go on strike after rejecting contract - Friday, October 15, 2021

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike Thursday after "the company failed to present an agreement that met our members' demands and needs," the United Auto Workers union said in statement.

24. White House competition council seeks lower consumer prices - Friday, September 10, 2021

A new White House council on U.S. economic conditions plans to hold its first meeting Friday, with participants to highlight at least 18 actions taken to help consumers and potentially lower prices.

25. Spread the word: Party’s winding down for short-term rentals - Friday, September 10, 2021

News has never traveled faster than it does today, but the latest news concerning the short-term rental situation in Nashville seems to have exited the information highway.

Short-term rentals (STRs) began to boom in Nashville in 2015, some eight years after the company Airbnb was founded and began to gain momentum in the “It City,” which also has become known as “The Bachelorette Party Capital of the World.”

26. Without 'right to repair,' businesses lose time and money - Friday, August 6, 2021

As software and other technologies get infused in more and more products, manufacturers are increasingly making those products difficult to repair, potentially costing business owners time and money.

27. Factory boss defiant as sanctions bite in China's Xinjiang - Friday, May 21, 2021

AKSU, China (AP) — A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking a toll on China's cotton industry, but it's unclear if the pressure will compel the government or companies to change their ways.

28. Hagerty fills Senate team with 13 ex-Trump admin staffers - Friday, January 29, 2021

NASHVILLE (AP) — Freshman Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty has picked more than a dozen former members of the Trump administration to join his Washington office, including a chief of staff who also worked for former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and former Sen. Bob Corker.

29. Analysis: Trump abdicating in the job he fought to retain - Friday, January 8, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's days in office are numbered. But he's already stopped doing much of his job.

In the last three weeks, a bomb went off in a major city and the president said nothing about it. The coronavirus surged to horrifying new levels of illness and death in the U.S. without Trump acknowledging the awful milestones. A violent mob incited by the president's own words chanted for Mike Pence's lynching at the U.S. Capitol and Trump made no effort to reach out to his vice president.

30. Trump's silent public outing belies White House in tumult - Friday, November 6, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump spent 10 minutes in public honoring America's war veterans — a veneer of normalcy for a White House that's frozen by a defeated president mulling his options, mostly forgoing the mechanics of governing and blocking his inevitable successor.

31. On virus, Trump and health advisers go their separate ways - Friday, October 30, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — A multi-state coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between President Donald Trump's bullish embrace of a return to normalcy and urgent public warnings from the government's top health officials.

32. DC faults White House over Rose Garden event, urges testing - Friday, October 9, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary step, the Washington, D.C., Department of Health has released an open letter appealing to all White House staff and anyone who attended a Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden to seek medical advice and take a COVID-19 test.

33. White House virus testing couldn't protect Trump - Friday, October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — His press secretary once described President Donald Trump as the "most tested man in America" when it came to COVID-19. And variations on that message were the White House ready response any time critics questioned the president's lax approach to following guidelines for avoiding the novel coronavirus.

34. Trump's whirlwind week, disdain for masks, ended with COVID - Friday, October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The scene at the White House a week ago was one of normalcy in these most abnormal times: a crowd of revelers gathered in the Rose Garden, a band playing, the mingling of the elite, good cheer everywhere, handshakes and hugs left and right.

35. Barrett opposed 'abortion on demand,' raising doubts on Roe - Friday, October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a 2006 newspaper ad sponsored by an anti-abortion group in which she said she opposed "abortion on demand" and defended "the right to life from fertilization to the end of natural life."

36. Climate change largely missing from campaign as fires rage - Friday, September 11, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Historic fires are raging across the western United States ahead of what scientists say is the typical peak of wildfire season. Hurricane Laura devastated parts of the Gulf Coast last month, while swaths of Iowa are recovering from a derecho that brought hurricane force winds to the Midwest.

37. Dems say Trump's payroll tax break weakens Social Security - Friday, August 7, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's move to defer Social Security payroll taxes could be taking him into treacherous political territory.

His directive — aimed at boosting an economy shaken by the coronavirus pandemic — doesn't affect retirement benefits but impacts how they're paid for. Democrats seized on it Monday as a signal that Trump would cut the social safety net and break a promise he made as a candidate in 2016 not to touch Social Security and Medicare. Some nonpartisan experts also expressed concerns.

38. Four more years? Trump struggles to outline second term plan - Friday, July 10, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is adamant that he wants another four years in office. It's less clear what he would do with them.

The Republican president repeatedly assailed Democratic rival Joe Biden during a rambling, hourlong Rose Garden news conference Tuesday that doubled as a reelection rally. But he offered few clues about what he would do if he remains in the White House. He similarly stammered through an interview last month when pressed by a friendly TV host to talk about what a second term would look like.

39. PGA Tour, Memorial scrap plans to have limited spectators - Friday, July 3, 2020

The PGA Tour and the Memorial scrapped state-approved plans to have limited spectators next week because of what it described as rapidly changing dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Memorial, hosted by Jack Nicklaus on his Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, was in line to be the first tournament with spectators since golf resumed its schedule on June 11 in Texas.

40. With a jab at Trump, Pelosi unveils new 'Obamacare' bill - Friday, June 19, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flicking a dismissive jab at President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a plan Wednesday to expand the Obama-era health law, even as Trump's administration is about to file arguments in a Supreme Court case to strike down "Obamacare."

41. Trump continues to claim broad powers he doesn't have - Friday, May 29, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can "override" governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the "absolute authority" to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it's too soon.

42. Trump continues to claim broad powers he doesn't have - Friday, May 22, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can "override" governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the "absolute authority" to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it's too soon.

43. Trump says he's not extending social distancing guidelines - Friday, April 24, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire Thursday, and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, predicted that by July the country will be "really rocking again."

44. Turn out the lights, the party’s over - Friday, April 3, 2020

He’s seen fire and he’s seen rain, but his violinist and accompanying vocalist, Andrea Zonn, says James Taylor never thought that he’d see a time when a virus from China would wipe out his spring and, likely, summer schedules.

45. Country singer Joe Diffie tests positive for coronavirus - Friday, March 27, 2020

NASHVILLE (AP) — A publicist for Joe Diffie says the country singer has tested positive for COVID-19.

Scott Adkins released a statement to The Associated Press from Diffie that said he is under the care of medical professionals and is receiving treatment.

46. Setbacks for Trump's drive to lower prescription drug costs - Friday, July 12, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — After two setbacks this week, President Donald Trump is now focusing his drive to curb drug costs on congressional efforts aimed at helping people on Medicare and younger generations covered by workplace plans.

47. No end seen to struggle as Mississippi flood enters month 4 - Friday, May 24, 2019

HOLLY BLUFF, Miss. (AP) — Larry Walls should have been out working in his fields last week. Instead, his John Deere tractor is parked on high ground, just beyond the reach of the ever-encroaching floodwaters in the southern Mississippi Delta.

48. Nashville transit decision guide - Friday, April 20, 2018

Ralph Schulz got stuck in traffic. It was on a Thursday, around 1 p.m., and he says it took him 23 minutes to drive along Broadway for two blocks, between Third and Fifth avenues.

There were no accidents or special events. But there were delivery trucks, a pedal tavern, a John Deere tractor pulling a cart and other cars.

49. Construction workers hold all the cards in this building boom - Friday, February 23, 2018

Wondering why the contractor you hired to work on your house never showed up or why your car keeps hitting potholes on Interstate 440 and other roads across Nashville?

The answer is visible above the city’s skyline, where cranes loom over high-rise buildings that seem to be going up in every direction.

50. Mt. Juliet orchard owners giving up their slice of Eden - Friday, July 15, 2016

MT. JULIET – Bouncing the decade-old John Deere Gator through the golden-delicious orchard – the pastoral locale for so many autumn memories with my kids (when they were kids) – driver and orchard-master Tommy Breeden jostles us around trees, over uneven ground and beneath low-hanging fruit.

51. Stocks edge lower again, weighed down by the energy sector - Friday, February 19, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Friday as the price of oil retreated and pulled energy company shares down, but the market remains on track for its best week of the year. Retail stocks are sliding further after a disappointing report from department store operator Nordstrom.

52. US companies eager to embrace Cuba face hurdles - Friday, December 19, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cargill aims to sell more corn and soybeans. MasterCard covets another site for Americans to swipe credit cards. Marriott sees beachfront property that needs hotels.

And outside Orlando, Florida, Danny Howell just knows there would be demand for his classic Chevrolet parts.

53. Thoma promoted to CFO by Aegis Sciences Corp. - Friday, March 28, 2014

Aegis Sciences Corporation, a forensic toxicology and health care sciences company, has promoted Keri Thoma to chief financial officer. She will oversee all strategic financial initiatives.

54. Restaurants help drive East Nashville resurgence - Friday, August 9, 2013

“People pass each other smiling,” says East Nashville resident Jason Facio while riding his bike through the neighborhood.

“I moved here in 2001, and can’t imagine being anywhere else, especially when you’re talking about eating out.

55. Aegis Sciences promotes 4 to vice president - Friday, July 12, 2013

Aegis Sciences Corporation, a provider of forensic toxicology and health care sciences laboratories, has promoted four leaders to vice president:

56. Great courses a short drive (3-iron?) away - Friday, February 15, 2013

So you really like to play golf, but – as much as you love ’em – you need a break from The Hermitage’s Presidential course and Gaylord Springs.

Where do Nashville folks go when they want to get in their cars and get away for a day or two to play golf outside Music City?

57. Record Powerball result of changes to boost sales - Friday, November 23, 2012

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The historic Powerball jackpot boosted to $500 million on Tuesday was all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this year to build jackpots faster, drive sales and generate more money for states that run the game.

58. English as a butchered language - Friday, February 11, 2011

True story. It happened in front of me.

The defendant, Ms. Martinez, who had recently moved to the United States from Argentina, was charged with failure to yield in connection with a motor vehicle accident.