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‘Great Immigrants, Great Americans’

Business News July 3, 2026

This year’s class of “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” includes Citi CEO Jane Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza, and fashion designer Gabriela Hearst. The newly renamed Andrew Carnegie Foundation announced the honorees Tuesday as immigration advocates expressed concern about the future of U.S. immigration policy following last week’s Supreme Court rulings. Foundation President Dame Louise Richardson said the awards, launched in 2006, have never been meant to be political. Earlier this month, the foundation changed its name from the ...

Fourth of July weekend events in Valley

On the record: Lowellville Board of Education meeting

Local News July 3, 2026

Lowellville WHAT: Board of education meeting Tuesday PRESENT: Gerald Dubos, Jennifer Johnson, Joseph Sturm, Brian Wharry and Stephanie Yon The board: ● Voted to place a 4.0-mill, five-year renewal for permanent improvements on the November ballot. ● Approved financial reports, list of bills and expenses paid, and payroll for May. ● Approved fiscal year 2027 appropriations and certificate of resources available. ● Accepted a donation of $500 for the Lowellville football program from Mangine Development, LLC. ● Approved the renewal of the commercial property, ...

Downtown Youngstown events postponed

US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact

National News July 2, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest – and vice versa. Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle. It adds up. The United States trades $1.9 trillion a year — $5 billion a day — worth of goods and services with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico. They have supplanted China to become America’s top two trading partners. So the stakes are high when it comes to fiddling with the rules that govern trade between the three countries. And after ...

Changes to student loans are in effect. Here’s what to know

National News July 2, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Changes to federal student loans expected to affect millions of borrowers are taking effect July 1. A part of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” these changes mean the end of some payment plans and new limits for graduate loans. Along with the end of the ...