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Caterpillar Says Tariffs Mean It Will Have To Raise Prices

NPR

Published July 30, 2018 at 11:33 AM CDT

The equipment manufacturer Caterpillar reported record profits per share in the second quarter, but the company also said it will have to raise prices because of new tariffs.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson discusses the latest with CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger (@jillonmoney), host of “Jill on Money” and the podcast “Better Off.”

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More than 80 dogs rescued from filthy Kansas City, Kansas, home are now safe, officials say

Cassandra Isobelle Flores

On Aug. 15, Kansas City, Kansas, Animal Services responded to a hoarding case in the city’s Northwest neighborhood with over 80 dogs on the property. The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department say the investigation is ongoing.
How Kansas became one of the new breeding grounds for a bright yellow warbler

Rachel Schnelle

The prothonotary warbler population in Kansas is growing as the birds stop to breed before heading south. Researchers are using electronic trackers to study their movements.
HPPR News

Kansas City's suburbs could decide the fate of the Kansas Republican supermajority

Grace Hills

Of the seven races a Democratic campaigning organization has targeted to hold or flip in Kansas, six are in the Kansas City area.
Sundown spectacle: Thousands of purple martins fill Wichita's skies during their annual migration

Suzanne Perez

As part of their annual migration to South America, purple martins from across the region are putting on a nightly show just north of the Wichita airport control tower, gathering to roost in a cluster of trees.
HPPR News

CoreCivic just sold its Kansas immigration detention center to the federal government

Zach Boblitt

The federal government's purchase of the CoreCivic-operated ICE detention center in Leavenworth is raising questions about whether the city will maintain the same level of oversight it established before the facility reopened.