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FILE - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan delivers a speech during the Computex 2025 exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)
Around The Nation August 20, 2025

Trump administration eyes 10% stake in Intel amid US chip push

The Trump administration is negotiating a 10% stake in Intel by converting CHIPS Act grants. The move deepens U.S. government involvement in semiconductors as Trump pressures chipmakers to boost domestic production.

FILE - Shoppers walk in the lot of a Lowe's home improvement store in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Around The Nation August 20, 2025

Lowe’s to buy Foundation Building Materials for $8.8 billion

Lowe’s is acquiring Foundation Building Materials for $8.8 billion, strengthening its push into the professional builder market as it battles Home Depot.

FILE - A Target sign is shown on a store in Upper Saint Clair, Pa., on Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
Around The Nation August 20, 2025

Target taps longtime executive as new CEO amid sales slump

Target names 20-year veteran Michael Fiddelke as CEO, succeeding Brian Cornell, as the retailer faces weak sales, messy stores and rising competition.

Home Depot Q2 sales rise but miss Wall Street forecast
Around The Nation August 19, 2025

Home Depot Q2 sales rise but miss Wall Street forecast

Home Depot’s sales improved during its fiscal second quarter as consumers remained focused on smaller projects amid cost concerns and economic uncertainty, but its performance missed Wall Street’s expectations. The Atlanta-based company also said shoppers should expect modest price increases in some categories as a result of rising tariff costs, though they won’t be broad-based. [...]

Nexstar Media Group buying Tegna in deal worth $6.2 billion
Top Stories August 19, 2025

Nexstar Media Group buying Tegna in deal worth $6.2 billion

Nexstar Media Group is buying Tysons-based broadcast rival Tegna for $6.2 billion, which will help strengthen its local news offerings. The transaction, if approved, will bring together two major players in U.S. television and the country’s local news landscape. Nexstar oversees more than 200 owned and partner stations in 116 markets nationwide today and also […]

Traders Jonathan Mueller, left, and Michael Capolino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Money August 18, 2025

Wall Street holds near its record heights

Stocks hovered near record highs Monday as investors awaited Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech and key earnings from Walmart, Target and Home Depot.

FILE - Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary speaks during a news conference at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Around The Nation August 18, 2025

FDA’s new expert panels are rife with financial conflicts and fringe views

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is using informal expert panels on antidepressants, menopause drugs and talc, raising conflict-of-interest concerns.

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, moderates the "Perspectives on National Security" panel on Oct. 16, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Around The Nation August 18, 2025

Cable’s MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of corporate divorce from NBC

MSNBC will rebrand as MS NOW, or My Source News Opinion World, dropping NBC ties and peacock logo as it charts an independent course.

Trader Leon Montana works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Money August 13, 2025

Wall Street drifts around its records following a worldwide rally

U.S. stocks hover near records as Fed rate cut hopes grow; S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq rise, global markets rally, and bond yields fall.

FILE- In this April 21, 2008 file photo, Hanes underwear is seen on display at a store in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, file)
Around The Nation August 13, 2025

Canada’s Gildan Activewear is buying HanesBrands for $2.2 billion

Gildan Activewear is acquiring HanesBrands for $2.2B, gaining brands like Hanes and Maidenform as the apparel maker faces years of declining sales.

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Fortune 500 retailer CarMax lays off 350 employees

Goochland County-based Fortune 500 used car retailer CarMax is laying off about 350 employees nation[...]

Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House on Oct. 23, 2025, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Two Virginia companies donate to White House ballroom project

Altria Group and Booz Allen Hamilton donating to President Donald Trump’s roughly $300 million Whi[...]

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Virginia Supreme Court hears $2B trade secrets case

McLean-based software company Appian argued it should receive the record-breaking $2.04 billion jury[...]

Amazon to pay $2.5B in FTC Prime membership settlement

Amazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs as spending on artificial intelligence accelerates

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as it reduces bureaucracy and boosts investment in artif[...]

Disney to build its 7th theme park, this one in the United Arab Emirates

Booz Allen Hamilton announces new round of layoffs

Booz Allen Hamilton is initiating another round of layoffs amid declining revenues in its most recen[...]

The 2025 Virginia Black Business Leaders Awards: The Achievers

Townes-Whitley out as SAIC’s CEO after two years

Toni Townes-Whitley is out as CEO of Fortune 500 government contractor Science Applications Internat[...]

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Botetourt hires new economic development director

30/10/2025

Paul Phillips will retire from Freedom First at the end of 2026. Photo courtesy Freedom First Credit Union

Freedom First credit union CEO to retire in 2026

29/10/2025

Former Western Virginia acting U.S. attorney resigns, enters private practice

Former Western Virginia acting U.S. attorney resigns, enters private practice

17/10/2025

Regions

Digital Gateway opponents score legal win

Digital Gateway opponents score legal win

A Virginia judge voided the rezoning for the $500M Prince William Digital Gateway project, siding wi[...]

Federal funding repeals could halt rural broadband expansion

Federal funding repeals could halt rural broadband expansion

The much-heralded broadband expansion efforts in Southwest Virginia may not come to fruition after a[...]

Danville invests $3 million to prep Coleman site

Danville invests $3 million to prep Coleman site

In July, Danville City Council members OK’d an infusion of funding for 158 acres on Gypsum Roa[...]

Data centers stir debate in Frederick

Data centers stir debate in Frederick

After rejecting two major data centers, Frederick County supervisors back a fact sheet to study impa[...]


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