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Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rebounded slightly after falling in the previous week to near the lowest levels in decades, signaling layoffs remain muted despite recent job-cut announcements.

Initial claims ...Read more

After months of allowing customers to openly carry guns in its Florida stores, Publix appears to have changed its policy.

After Florida law changed last fall, Publix opted to allow customers to open carry, while other ...Read more

Homeowners associations across Minnesota will see their powers diminished under a far-reaching “HOA Bill of Rights” approved by state lawmakers this week.

The bipartisan measure that runs more than 50 pages is aimed ...Read more

Here's the name for an economic phenomenon that consumers are going to be hearing a lot more in the coming weeks and months:

It's the rocket-and-feathers hypothesis, which concerns why gasoline prices rise so quickly (i.e...Read more

Brazilian prosecutors have accused Minnesota-based Cargill of failing to address “serious human rights violations” in its soybean supply chain that runs deep into the South American country.

In a civil lawsuit filed ...Read more

Blame Alexander Graham Bell.

Before the Bellster invented the telephone, it was widely accepted that getting a co-worker to respond to you required patience. You also needed a loud voice, since the only way to ...Read more

Shortly after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro took office in 2023, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. sensed a new opportunity.

For several years after a costly chemical spill in Montgomery County, Merck had tried ...Read more

President Trump recently bashed State Farm on social media, saying the insurer's treatment of residents whose homes burned in the January 2025 wildfires had been "absolutely horrible."

A month later, the Department of ...Read more

Some iPhone users could be eligible to collect up to $95 per device as part of a settlement over allegations that Apple misled consumers about the abilities of its artificial intelligence-powered features.

This week, ...Read more

Fuel costs for U.S. airlines increased by more than 56% in March from the month before, according to data from the federal government, shedding light on how the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is affecting the sector. ...Read more

Warner Bros. Discovery's impending sale has rattled Hollywood — and the company's balance sheet as the auction's high costs increasingly come into focus.

The New York-based media company released its first-quarter ...Read more

Bay Area air regulators have touted sweeping new rules that ban the installation of natural gas-powered water heaters and furnaces as a way to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions.

But with polls showing Americans’ ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved a $20 million grant benefiting one of her campaign donors, and a prominent businessman tied to the project told the House speaker there will be "no negotiations" ...Read more

U.S. companies boosted payrolls in April by the most in over a year, the latest evidence of stabilization in the labor market.

Private-sector payrolls rose 109,000 in April after a revised 61,000 advance in the prior ...Read more

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said it's slashing roughly 14% of its workforce, or about 700 workers, partly because artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people work.

"The biggest risk now is not taking action....Read more

A Missouri appellate court has upheld a $495 million verdict against Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories in a case over whether its formula for premature infants caused a girl to become seriously ill.

The decision is the ...Read more

AI isn’t ready to replace your fund manager — and the public experiments testing it are showing why.

Across a series of new trading contests between the world’s leading AI models, the verdict so far is unflattering....Read more

SAN DIEGO — For years, Qualcomm and Apple were the hottest couple in tech.

Qualcomm’s chips crammed high-speed internet and desktop computing into a device that fits in your pocket. Minting billions, their partnership...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Li Gordon-Washington, 25, was at 15th and Locust Streets when an Uber autonomous delivery bot bumped into her from behind.

“I didn’t see it coming,” said Gordon-Washington, who kicked it in a knee-...Read more