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General Motors Co. topped crosstown rival Ford Motor Co. to take the No. 2 spot in U.S. electric vehicle sales for the first five months of 2025.

The Detroit automaker announced 62,000 EVs sold this year through May. ...Read more

For years, Snap has envisioned a future where people wear glasses to view and interact with computer-generated images without having to scroll through their smartphones.

The Santa Monica, California-based tech company ...Read more

Rideshare companies like Lyft and Uber could soon be forced to pay Chicago drivers more if an ordinance up for debate Thursday moves ahead, a change the companies say would cause the cost of rides to skyrocket for ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers ended their spring legislative session without finding a way to plug the gaping $771 million budget gap facing the Chicago region’s mass transit systems next year.

Thousands of jobs hang ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan's U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin stood out last month as the only Senate Democrat to join Republicans in voting to kill California’s influential, nation-leading electric vehicle sales rules.

Her break ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the immigration sweeps in Southern California intensify, some patterns appear to be emerging about federal targets.

While some sweeps appear to be centered at certain workplaces, others seem to be ...Read more

President Trump promised a new “golden age” for America, but it’s been anything but that for Los Angeles, with its dependence on trade and immigrant labor — two backbones of the region’s economy.

First, the ...Read more

Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay Comcast Corp. an additional $438.7 million to finalize the Mouse House purchase of streaming service Hulu.

Disney in December 2023 initially paid Comcast $8.6 billion for NBCUniversal's ...Read more

Linda Peterson spent years working in salons where she didn’t feel valued.

So when she set out to open her own salon, she knew it had to be different, starting with a big break room where employees could gather to ...Read more

After financing more than 1,000 loans to some of the Philadelphia area’s smallest businesses, Lynne Cutler is leaving the top job at the Women’s Opportunities Resource Center. She founded WORC 32 years ago and now ...Read more

DETROIT — When Michelle Alston’s son asked if four of his Job Corps classmates could stay with them because they had nowhere else to go, she didn’t hesitate. She learned that students had been sleeping in two cars ...Read more

First Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks upended America’s financial-services industry with an innovative Silicon Valley startup called PayPal that rocketed to dominance as the internet took hold.

Now the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A tourist from Hawaii is suing an off-Strip casino-hotel for negligence after he says he was trapped in an elevator.

Wilson Camagan is suing The Orleans Hotel and Casino, as well as elevator company TK ...Read more

The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer.

A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native animal that can grow ...Read more

Apple Inc. unveiled a new operating system interface called Liquid Glass at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, an event that focused heavily on aesthetics and design elements rather than software breakthroughs.

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If you’ve been watching mortgage rates hover near 7% this year, you’re probably feeling frustrated.

The dream of homeownership feels more expensive than ever. And for many prospective buyers, purchasing when rates are...Read more

President Donald Trump said his tariff policy is expected to drive more business to U.S. manufacturing plants.

But many Minnesota factory heads have yet to see it, and instead are juggling budgets as orders dry up while ...Read more

As the Trump administration pursued a massive downsizing this year, the Bay Area lost more federal jobs than any other part of California, according to seasonally adjusted numbers compiled by Beacon Economics and the state...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Beyond immediate needs tied to shelter and safety, preservation experts and local officials say they’ve heard a common refrain in the aftermath of last month’s deadly tornado that ravaged parts of St. ...Read more

“Focus on facts, not emotions.”

I wrote that once, but I’ve come to realize that sometimes saving money is as much about contending with your emotions as it is about budgeting. Here’s what I mean.

I usually ...Read more