Nearly 1,000 United Auto Workers members arrive in downtown Detroit next week to chart the future of one the nation’s largest and most influential unions and nominate candidates for leadership elections later this year — including challengers to President Shawn Fain.

Beyond the leadership nominations, several big policy debates are brewing ...Read more

One year after an Air India Boeing 787 plane crashed just seconds after takeoff, hitting a nearby medical building and killing 260 people, investigators still have few answers about what went wrong.

India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said Friday it is continuing to analyze evidence and will seek additional evaluations and ...Read more

Roku Inc., the streaming video platform, is in talks to sell itself, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The San Jose, California-based company has been in discussions with at least one US media company about a potential combination, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.

Roku’s shares rose as ...Read more

In New York City, the heart of financial capitalism, there were plenty of signs of excitement about SpaceX’s IPO, which set off a feeding frenzy on Wall Street and turned Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire.

In front of the Park Avenue headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the underwriters of the stock sale, though, some ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department cleared the way for Paramount Skydance’s $111-billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery — a major milestone that moves David Ellison closer to his goal.

After a weeks long review, Justice Department antitrust regulators on Friday concluded the combination would not violate federal anti-competition laws. Approval...Read more

SpaceX, the once fledgling aerospace company that Elon Musk predicted had a slim chance of survival, reached new heights on Friday with an historic initial public offering.

Shares of SpaceX, trading under the ticker SPCX, closed the day at $160.95, 19% above the offering price, transforming it into one of the world’s valuable companies with a...Read more

American Airlines is returning to Haiti.

The U.S. carrier, which had stopped flying to Haiti more than a year ago, will resume daily nonstop service between Miami and Cap-Haitien, beginning Nov. 1, the airline announced Friday.

American had served Haiti for more than 50 years before pausing daily operations into Port-au-Prince and then ...Read more

Gary Gensler, overseer of Wall Street for significant parts of the last two decades, has a message for anyone arguing sports betting is a matter for federal financial regulators: They’re wrong.

After seeing prediction market giant Kalshi and the federal agency he once ran, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, argue that sports bets are ...Read more

As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones.

A new survey of individuals using AI found it made them more productive, saving each roughly 11 hours per week. But at the same time, the workers on average have to spend more than six hours "botsitting,...Read more

Proclaimed in early advertisements as “The Big Honda,” Accord joined the Civic and eventually became America’s best-selling car. A Honda leader once described it as “the rice in our meal.”

Fifty years on, crossovers surpass sedans for dominance in American driveways, but a fresh new hybrid by 2030 may elevate this sedan’s standing....Read more

Shares of SpaceX rose 18% above their IPO price Friday in morning trading on the Nasdaq, as Elon Musk’s rocket company made its public debut.

The company sold 555 million shares at $135 and raised $75 billion from institutional and retail investors in its initial public offering.

Shares, under the ticker SPCX, opened at $150 and rose to ...Read more

The next contribution to a Pennsylvania child’s college fund may not come from a grandparent’s birthday card. It could come from a cryptocurrency wallet.

Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Thursday that the state’s PA 529 College and Career Savings Program and PA ABLE Savings Program will begin accepting contributions through ...Read more

PARK CITY, Utah — The view of snow-dusted, 11,750-foot Mt. Timpanogos from the trails of Wasatch National Park in the Wasatch Mountains is breathtaking. It’s a trail for hardcore, compact off-roaders — Jeep Wranglers, Ford Broncos, Chevy Colorado ZR2s. If you’re into electric vehicles, few dare venture there.

Say hello to the rugged, ...Read more

MEMPHIS, Michigan — Tesla wowed the automotive word in January with news it was abandoning its Model S/X models and putting the pedal to the metal on robots. Robot rideshare cars. Humanoid robots. Humanoid robots driving robot cars. Bots bots bots.

Happily, there are still manual driver’s toys out there to cope with the dystopian robot ...Read more

The 2026 Genesis G90 sedan rolls into a world that has collectively lost its mind, swapping full-size luxury sedans for SUVs that are basically suburban treehouses on wheels. These things are tall, cavernous and about as ubiquitous as Starbucks. And yet here comes the G90, sporting four doors, a trunk and enough leather to upholster a small ...Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox division is reportedly planning layoffs as new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma plans a “reset” for the beleaguered gaming business.

Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, first reported Wednesday that Xbox was planning “major job cuts” within the division in early July after Microsoft’s fiscal year ends on June 30. The same day,...Read more

The app-based cash advance business Brigit is in the state’s crosshairs over small loans that officials say carry super-sized interest rates of more than 700% in some cases.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued the company on Wednesday, saying the loans violate the state’s caps on interest rates and carry terms that are not clearly...Read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed eliminating a rule that aims to ensure investors get better prices for their transactions.

The current version of the so-called trade-through rule has been in place since 2005. It prohibits exchanges, alternative trading systems and wholesalers like Citadel Securities or Virtu Financial Inc. from...Read more

A recent committee hearing in Sacramento about gasoline prices offered more specifics about something many California drivers know all too well — that prices vary widely from one gas station to the next.

It’s not unusual to see striking differences, even when the stations are practically, or literally, right around the corner from each ...Read more