JOSH FUNK

AP Business Writer
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, takes questions at a town hall in Fort Madison, Iowa, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Hannah Fingerhut)
Iowa relies on exports and its senior senator opposes tariffs. Trump is pressuring both
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to cost Iowa farmers their biggest market for the hundreds of millions of bushels of soybeans they grow every year. And it’s put Sen.
 
In this undated image provided by Brett Kenzy, rancher Brett Kenzy stands next to the calf he helped deliver and its mom not long after the birth on his ranch near Gregory, S.D. (Brett Kenzy via AP)
Ranchers hope Trump’s tariffs boost demand for cattle but some fear market uncertainty
Ranchers hope President Donald Trump’s tariffs will make imported beef expensive enough that Americans will turn to cattle raised at home for all their hamburger and steaks.
 
A carton of eggs sit on a counter in the kitchen inside of 5 Rabanitos restaurant in Chicago, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter
U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
 
The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline continues its troubled history
The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old pipeline.
 
Bryant Kagay, part owner of Kagay farms in Amity, Missouri, works on equipment to get ready for planting his crops this year while worrying about the effects of President Donald Trump's tariffs, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
Farmers fear tariffs could cost them one of their biggest markets in China
Heading into this year, most U.S. farmers were hoping to break even or maybe record a small profit. But now they are faced with losing the biggest export market for many of their crops after China retaliated against President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
 
Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Air traffic controllers to get more support after a fight and latest near miss at Washington airport
Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional supervision after a fight in the tower and another alarming near miss two months after a midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people.
 
Portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before burn in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Trial will determine who will pay $600 million settlement in disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment
Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
 
Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, center, stands next to map showing flight restrictions as the Senate Transportation Subcommittee holds a hearing to examine the preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board on the Jan. 29, 2024, midair collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
FAA acknowledges it must do better after deadly DC air collision
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has told Congress that the agency must do more to ensure flying remains safe after a midair collision over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.
 
Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
What we know about the deadly air crash between a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter
A congressional hearing has reinforced the idea that the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft could have been prevented.
 
Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
NTSB chairwoman says reviewing the data after midair crash may prevent the next aviation accident
The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes.
 
A Red Star hen, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, stands on eggs inside her coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but US remains hesitant
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $5 a dozen.
 
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, accompanied by investigator in charge Brice Banning, left, speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died in midair crash
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people are recommending a ban on some helicopter flights.
 
Martin Larsen transfers corn from his combine to a delivery truck, Oct. 18, 2024, in Oronoco, Minn. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)
‘Bear with me,’ Trump says as both farmers and consumers brace for tariff effects
Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliation to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars if they stay in place a while.
 
Egg cartons for sale are displayed at a grocery store, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 in Grosse Pointe, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Are egg producers inflating prices during the bird flu outbreak to boost profits?
Egg producers blame the ongoing bird flu outbreak for driving prices up to record highs. But some believe giant companies are taking advantage of their market dominance to profit handsomely at the expense of egg buyers.
 
In this July 28, 2012 file photo, chicken eggs are transported by conveyor belt from the production side to the packaging side at a farm in Cortland, Ind. (Aaron Piper/The Tribune via AP, File)
Egg prices could jump 41% this year, USDA says, as Trump’s bird flu plan is unveiled
The Trump administration believes a renewed emphasis on biosecurity can help in the battle against bird flu and ease egg prices. The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices are going to get much worse this year.
 
Shareholder Tina Schmidt of Cozad, Neb., wears a shirt with Warren Buffett's portrait in the style of an Andy Warhol painting at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on May 4, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)
Warren Buffett offers lessons on investing in his annual Berkshire Hathaway letter
Billionaire Warren Buffett is viewed as one of the world’s greatest investors, so his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are always read closely for lessons.
 
The Squishmallows booth sells toys modeled after Warren Buffett, pictured, and Charlie Munger in the exhibit hall for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)
Warren Buffett offers Donald Trump some advice while celebrating Berkshire Hathaway’s success
Warren Buffett is celebrating the successes of Berkshire Hathaway’s companies last year and in the 60 years since he took over a struggling New England textile company and began converting it into a massive conglomerate.
 
This image taken from video released by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, shows the crashed plane of Delta flight 4819 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Mississauga, Ontario, on Tuesday, Feb. 18. (Transportation Safety Board of Canada via AP)
Plane that flipped over in Canada highlights some of the dangers of holding kids on your lap
A crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight in Toronto has highlighted the potential dangers of flying with a young child on an adult’s lap. The plane flipped over this week, which would have made holding onto a baby extremely difficult.
 
A worker grabs a chicken to slaughter inside a poultry store in New York, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
Agriculture Department tries to rehire fired workers tied to bird flu response
The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.
 
Salvage crews work near the wreckage site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
A timeline of the January air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001
The Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger airplane over the Potomac River in Washington killed 67 people. That makes it the deadliest plane crash in the country since 2001.
 
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference at NTSB headquarters Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction from tower, NTSB says
 
Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
What is known about the deadly January air crash between a passenger jet and US Army helicopter
An American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided on Jan. 29 as the plane prepared to land at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Both plunged into the Potomac River, killing the 67 people aboard.
 
Red Star hens, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, walk around outside their coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem? Nevada takes a crack at it
Record high egg prices prompted Nevada lawmakers to unanimously back suspending their cage-free egg law, but the six other states with similar laws in effect have shown no sign of dropping them even if it might help lower grocery bills.
 
Cartons of eggs sit inside cooler at Norma's Sweets Bakery Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)
US eggs prices hit a record high of $4.95 and are likely to keep climbing
Egg prices have reached a record high in the U.S. The consumer price index released on Wednesday confirmed what consumers, bakers and food companies already knew: an ongoing bird flu outbreak that began in 2022 are making eggs terribly expensive right now.
 
Egg cartons for sale are displayed at a grocery store, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 in Grosse Pointe, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
As egg prices continue to soar, grocers like Trader Joe’s limit how many cartons customers can buy
Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Now they are sometimes hard to find. And even when stores do have eggs, consumers might face limits on how many they can buy.
 
A boat on the Potomac River, cruises past emergency response vehicles seen staging at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, in the early morning hour, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, as seen from across the river near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Recent aviation disasters and close calls stoke fears about the safety of flying
All the recent aviation disasters and close calls definitely have people worried about the safety of flying. The midair collision that killed 67 near Washington D.C. was the worst of the recent disasters and near misses.
 
Footage from a security camera at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., shows an American Airlines jet colliding with an Army helicopter during landing, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via AP)
Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying
Recent aviation disasters and close calls definitely have people worried about the safety of flying.
 
Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC
President Donald Trump says he thinks last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter wouldn’t have happened if the U.S. had a more modern air traffic control computer system.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, left, looks on as Vice President JD Vance speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department as he visits East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Rebecca Droke/Pool Photo via AP)
Lawsuit blames deaths on Ohio train derailment as Vance says US needs ‘to do better on rail safety’
A new lawsuit alleges for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment. It was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
 
Norfolk Southern locomotives are moved through the Conway Terminal in Conway, Pa., June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
Norfolk Southern CEO optimistic about 2025 after solid fourth quarter
Norfolk Southern’s solid fourth quarter — combined with the optimism the railroad is hearing from their customers and support they’re getting from Washington D.C. — has the CEO feeling optimistic about 2025.
 
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