The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Boeing’s acquisition of supplier Spirit AeroSystems, clearing the way for the merger to move forward.

Boeing’s $4.7 billion acquisition of Spirit has been pending since June 2024, when the manufacturer announced it would fold the troubled supplier back into its company after spinning Spirit out 20 ...Read more

The Texas company that owns the battery storage plant at Moss Landing, California, that burned in a spectacular fire in January, raising questions nationwide about the safety of the fast-growing renewable energy technology, has withdrawn plans to build a similarly-sized battery storage plant in the adjacent county.

Vistra, based in Dallas, has ...Read more

Panda Express has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it failed to train its employees on how to handle its soda machines.

The parent company of the Rosemead-based fast-casual Chinese American food chain had to pay a penalty for failing to educate its employees on handling carbon dioxide used for carbonated fountain beverage ...Read more

The electric vehicle maker Rivian is recalling nearly 35,000 delivery vans amid concern their seat belts could fail to restrain the driver during an accident, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The recall affects 34,824 commercial electric vans used by Amazon and other companies to deliver goods. The issue with the...Read more

Bruce Dold, who rose from suburban reporter to editor and publisher during his prodigious four-decade career at the Chicago Tribune, had only a handful of bylines after his name took its place on the masthead.

But the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist left an indelible mark on the newspaper and the city, tackling the issues of the day, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave Detroit and the U.S. auto industry center stage on Wednesday as he announced relaxed fuel economy standards for the more than 15 million new cars and trucks sold in the country every year.

The plan, if finalized, would slash fuel economy requirements through the 2031 model year, to about a fleetwide ...Read more

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok will invest more than 200 billion reais ($37.7 billion) to build a data center in Brazil, marking its first project in Latin America.

TikTok will partner with data center developer Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, one of Brazil’s leading renewable energy providers, in a data center in the northeastern state of Ceara, ...Read more

California's economy has split between higher-growth areas such as Los Angeles benefiting from venture capital spending — and other areas hard hit by tariffs, uncertainty and the government crackdown on immigrant labor.

That's the finding of the winter UCLA Anderson Forecast released Wednesday, which predicts the state's economy as a whole ...Read more

If two-day or even same-day delivery is too slow for you, a new feature from Amazon might have you covered.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant on Monday launched Amazon Now, a delivery offering with a promise to deliver groceries and other household items in 30 minutes or less.

The program, touted by Amazon as ultrafast delivery, is the latest...Read more

Paramount is raising the stakes in its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, upping its offer for the assets with backing from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, including Saudi Arabia, while rival Comcast has proposed creating a new entertainment entity.

Instead of offering cash, Comcast has proposed combining NBCUniversal with HBO and the ...Read more

Nearly a year after Philadelphia Whole Foods workers voted to form a union, becoming the first group in the grocery chain to do so, their union’s ability to move forward and negotiate a contract is locked in a procedural standstill.

The Monday before Thanksgiving, workers and supporters gathered outside the Pennsylvania Avenue store, holding ...Read more

It might seem like they are cropping up everywhere, but Michigan is behind its neighboring Great Lakes states in developing data centers.

The development boom is much more dramatic in Illinois and Ohio, two states that account for half of all operational data facilities in the eight Great Lakes states and more than 60% of the data centers under...Read more

From the recommendations on a store’s app to the prices flashing on digital shelf labels, artificial intelligence now shapes what shoppers see, what they buy and how products reach the shelves.

Until recently, most of it has happened behind the scenes. But retailers, including Target, are rolling out features that interact more directly with ...Read more

Jenny Boyter’s stash is dwindling.

The Atlanta resident has just one 12-pack left of Tab — a diet soda that Coca-Cola canceled five years ago.

Even so, during a November interview at her home, Boyter gleefully popped the top on a can. It expired in 2021.

“It’s fizzy and everything,” Boyter, a retired school principal, said as she ...Read more

Everyone needs a plan for when the power goes out.

Portable power stations can help you keep the lights on and the coffee brewed in an emergency.

My mom lives outside Houston, and when there’s a hurricane in the Gulf, she wheels out her power station and plugs in her lamp and coffee maker and her weather radio.

Here are three power stations...Read more

WASHINGTON — Waymo's decision to deploy its ride-hailing service in the Motor City has been an exciting development for some, and an unnerving one to Metro Detroiters worried about the safety of self-driving cars.

Waymo LLC, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has already launched in several other major U.S. cities, including ...Read more

Elizabeth Holmes, serving a lengthy prison sentence for fraud, claimed Tuesday on social media that one of the most-damaging pieces of evidence against her — that she appropriated drug-companies’ logos and affixed them to internal Theranos reports to deceive investors — was a “false claim” and “(expletive) thrown against the wall” ...Read more

A self-driving Waymo taxi hit a dog in San Francisco, reigniting a heated debate over autonomous vehicle safety just weeks after one killed a popular neighborhood cat.

On Sunday, around 8 p.m. in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood, a Waymo carrying passengers ran over a small, unleashed dog, the company confirmed.

The dog's ...Read more

The Trump administration is poised to undo Biden-era fuel efficiency standards it blames for driving up the cost of new cars, according to people familiar with the matter.

Executives from Detroit’s major automakers, including Stellantis NV Chief Executive Officer Antonio Filosa, are slated to attend a White House announcement of proposed fuel...Read more