Q: Can my neighbor point cameras into my courtyard that capture all my comings and goings? —Rachel

A: Privacy concerns can arise no matter where someone lives. Sometimes it is a nosy neighbor; other times it involves a business with security cameras or drones flying overhead.

While laws vary depending on where you live, the general ...Read more

Paramount suffered a blow in a Delaware courtroom Thursday as a judge refused to expedite its lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery seeking information about internal deliberations and a financial analysis.

Reuters reported that Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn of the Delaware Chancery Court said during a hearing that Paramount had failed to ...Read more

A video circulating on social media shows federal immigration officers putting a worker into a gray pickup truck in a parking lot behind General Mills’ Chanhassen manufacturing facility in the second week of January.

The 27-second clip with no audio demonstrates Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s growing presence at Minnesota’s ...Read more

Donald Trump’s return to the White House unleashed a market rally, dealmaking went into overdrive, and bankers embraced all things Trump to rake in the big money.

The new year is offering Wall Street enough reason to worry that the party could be cut short.

The top U.S. banks are trotting out results this week that back up the big run-up in...Read more

More than a decade before a deadly crash last year, Boeing warned MD-11 operators that a part securing the cargo plane’s engines to their wings had failed four times, while insisting it did not pose a safety risk.

Now that piece is the focus of an investigation into the UPS Flight 2976 disaster in Kentucky.

In a memo Wednesday, the National ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is directing his city agencies to work toward cutting down fees and fines for small businesses.

Small businesses in New York are required to fork up cash for, among many other things, the ability to serve ice cream and install fridges.

The executive order, signed by Mamdani on Wednesday, calls on the Deputy ...Read more

Social media giant Meta said it's cutting more than 1,000 workers and closing several content studios as it focuses its efforts on artificial intelligence-powered wearables such as smart glasses.

The reductions are within Meta's Reality Labs division where employees work on the metaverse, digital spaces where people socialize, work, learn and ...Read more

DETROIT — Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday that the artificial intelligence powering self-driving vehicles is now "safer" for passengers than human hands behind the wheel, and he predicted more Americans will become one-car families as the technology is widely adopted.

Buttigieg made the prediction during a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order Wednesday against General Motors Co. that will ban the company from disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for five years.

The agency said in a news release that GM "collected, used, and sold consumers’ precise geolocation data...Read more

Maryland and other states have settled with Capital One for $425 million after the bank was found to have used deceptive practices and misleading language for its 360 Savings accounts, according to the Office of the Maryland Attorney General.

The $425 million settlement is a revised agreement stemming from a complaint about Capital One’s 360 ...Read more

Verizon customers experienced a mobile service outage across the nation on Wednesday.

More than 180,000 unconfirmed reports were made to Downdetector, peaking in the early afternoon. The hotspot map showed most of the reports coming from New York City, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

The network status section of the Verizon website appeared to ...Read more

Apple Inc. announced a new subscription bundle of creative apps called Creator Studio, an attempt to give its photo- and video-editing software fresh momentum in the face of intensifying competition.

The bundle, announced Tuesday, includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro, among others, and will be available Jan. 28 for $12.99 per ...Read more

Who's going to pay for the artificial intelligence boom?

As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, especially in communities where data centers pop up.

Microsoft says it will pay its own way.

The Redmond-based tech giant on Tuesday ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed indifference toward the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, portending a lengthy renegotiation of the U.S.’s largest free-trade pact.

Trump on Tuesday said there’s “no real advantage” to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he signed in 2020 and is subject to a review this year. He ...Read more

Glenn Kelman is stepping down after more than 20 years of serving as Redfin’s CEO.

“I gave it my all! Leaving was my decision. I love my colleagues. We saved consumers a billion dollars in commissions. I hope to use all that I learned to do something as good as Redfin, in a different field,” Kelman wrote in a LinkedIn post Tuesday.

His ...Read more

A Starbucks employee has been fired after the Los Angeles County sheriff raised concerns about a disposable coffee cup with a hand-drawn pig on it was served to one of the department's deputies.

The deputy who received the drawing said in a post on his private Instagram account that he had stopped at a Starbucks location in Norwalk to get some ...Read more

DETROIT — Off-roading is a strategic bet for Ford Motor Co. to boost sales and attract younger buyers, even as forecasts predict vehicle affordability concerns could shrink the U.S. market this year.

Off-road performance trims like Raptor and Tremor account for more than 20% of Ford's U.S. mix, up from 7% pre-pandemic. The industry-wide $7 ...Read more

Macy’s announced it is closing its longest-operating store in San Diego County, its anchor department store in La Mesa’s Grossmont Center.

The closure is one of two planned for California and 14 planned across the country in 2026, as part of a continued restructuring that the company, founded in 1858, has dubbed its Bold New Chapter.

Its ...Read more

DETROIT — Just before President Donald Trump hit the stage Tuesday at MotorCity Casino to promote his economic policies, a trio of economic and business leaders sat in the same theater and expressed a lukewarm — and at times pessimistic — view on the trajectory of Michigan's economy.

"There's so much uncertainty, and that's the key word,"...Read more