If the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reclassified marijuana as a less dangerous drug, it wouldn't eliminate the conflicts between the feds and states such as California that have legalized many uses of the substance.

But it would bring one significant shift that could give California's licensed pot companies a badly needed boost: a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission wants feedback on how it can better protect domestic violence survivors from stalking and abuse carried out through internet-connected technology in cars.

The public comment window is open through May 23, and responses are starting to come in.

“We need to collaborate with law enforcement ...Read more

Global film and TV production was down 7% during the first quarter of 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a Wednesday report by film and TV tracking company ProdPro that illustrates Hollywood's slow return to work in the wake of the writers' and actors' strikes.

ProdPro, a relatively new firm that follows film and TV production ...Read more

It didn't take long for Harshraj Ghai to respond to the impact of California's new $20 an hour minimum wage for his 3,700 fast-food employees.

Ghai and his family operate 180 Burger Kings, Taco Bells and Popeyes chicken restaurants across the state, and one of the first things they did after the law took effect April 1 was to start capping ...Read more

On a recent cloudless spring day on the outskirts of Gilroy, California, Christian Martorella accelerated an 18-wheeler past budding orchards. But instead of the roar of a diesel engine, the cab filled with the gentle hum of an electric motor.

After driving diesel trucks for 10 years, Martorella initially eyed electric trucks skeptically. Now, ...Read more

You wanna see her move? I think that’s the fun part.

The room is thick with anticipation and fabricated skulls.

She’s gonna wake up. Give her a second.

Matt McMullen eyes his creation as her eyes flutter open in return, her gaze settling upon all the disembodied faces and mechanical mandibles surrounding her in this workshop where fake ...Read more

It is high school (and college) graduation time and that usually means some gift-giving.

I’ve got a few gift ideas for your graduates that will be welcomed whether they’re headed off to college or still trying to figure out what’s next.

Here are three gadgets, and oddly, two of them are named Flow.

Tribit Stormbox Flow

I think ...Read more

Tesla Inc. eliminated almost its entire Supercharger organization, which has built a vast network of public charging stations that virtually every major automaker is in the process of tapping into in the US.

The decision to cut the nearly 500-person group, including its senior director, Rebecca Tinucci, was made by Chief Executive Officer Elon ...Read more

Around 2 million New Yorkers living in stabilized apartments will likely see their rents climb for the third year in a row, after the board tasked with setting rates okayed a range of possible hikes at a raucous preliminary vote on Tuesday — as tenants and their board representatives walked out in protest.

The rest of the Rent Guidelines ...Read more

Eight newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming the technology giants illegally harvested millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge “generative” artificial intelligence products including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.

While the newspapers’ publishers have spent billions of dollars to ...Read more

Amazon reported $10.4 billion in profit for the first three months of the year, marking another quarter of growth that surpassed the start of 2023.

In its first-quarter financial results, released Tuesday afternoon, Amazon reported $143 billion in revenue, $10.4 billion in profit and 98 cents earnings per diluted share. In the same time period ...Read more

Ecolab is offloading its global medical solutions business, selling its surgical unit to Medline Industries for just under $1 billion.

The St. Paul based provider of water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services earned announced the $950 million deal with the Illinois-based private company Tuesday morning. Medline is one of the...Read more

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, was sentenced in Seattle on Tuesday to four months in prison for failing to prevent money laundering on the exchange.

Both Zhao, who is known as CZ, and Binance pleaded guilty last year to failing to implement anti-money-laundering ...Read more

Michigan’s electric-vehicle fast-charging infrastructure grew slightly faster than the nation overall last year, according to a new report by East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group.

In 2023, the state's number of public DC fast-charging stations increased about 52%. Nationwide, the number of public DC fast charging stations increased by ...Read more

Cherie Grzech, a longtime Washington executive for Fox News, has been named president and managing editor of news and politics for Nexstar's cable channel NewsNation.

The Chicago-based channel announced Tuesday that Grzech will oversee its news coverage and political programming, which now includes a Washington-based Sunday roundtable show. She...Read more

Stellantis NV on Tuesday said its first-quarter revenue fell 12% to $44.7 billion (41.7 billion euro) compared to last year as the company transitions to a number of next-generation vehicles that will be built on new platforms.

Vehicle shipments worldwide were down 10%, to 1.3 million, compared to the same three-month period a year ago.

For ...Read more