A few recent Ford Motor Co. patents have raised concerns on social media around privacy and control of property as debate about a government “kill switch” and regulation meant to combat drunken driving get focus this election season.

The patents that creators on social media have highlighted deal with technology that records biometrics ...Read more

A semiconductor wafer manufacturer near Bay City, Michigan, once visited and touted by former President Joe Biden, will wind down its operations and close "based on market conditions," according to a spokesman for SK Siltron.

About 140 employees at the site were informed Thursday of the decision and that the effective end date of their ...Read more

Paramount Skydance's top antitrust attorney told a judge Friday that David Ellison's company would voluntarily delay its proposed $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery at least until mid-August amid a legal challenge brought by 12 state attorneys general.

The states, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, have asked a judge to ...Read more

Beyond the Plant Protein Co., formerly Beyond Meat, is trying to channel its plant-protein expertise into new products to attract new customers.

In March, the El Segundo, California-based company decided to drop "meat" from its name to expand into other plant-based protein products. Earlier this year, Beyond launched a sparkling protein ...Read more

Boeing Co. regained the authority to issue airworthiness certificates for its 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner jets prior to delivery, powers that U.S. aviation regulators had revoked after a series of manufacturing lapses.

Friday’s decision by the Federal Aviation Administration follows months of data and safety reviews demonstrating consistent ...Read more

Following months of rising costs, inflation saw the biggest single-month drop in six years in June thanks to cheaper clothes, medical care and transportation, coupled with rapidly falling energy prices.

Across the board, consumer costs decreased 0.4% last month after rising 0.5% in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest ...Read more

Netflix stock opened down more than 12% on Friday morning to $65.87 a share, before recovering in midday trading to just over $69, a decline of more than 7%.

The decline follows the streamer’s second quarter earnings report Thursday, which renewed concerns among investors and analysts about the streamer’s future growth.

The Los Gatos, ...Read more

International Business Machines Corp.’s warning this week that its sales are falling well short of expectations highlights a growing divide between artificial intelligence winners and everyone else in the tech universe.

On Tuesday, IBM said it failed to predict that its customers would shift their spending away from the company’s products ...Read more

Employers are bracing for what could be the highest rise in health insurance premiums in 16 years in 2027, driving up the average cost of family coverage in California to more than $30,000 — the price of a new compact car.

Health insurance companies expect the cost of medical services and prescription drugs to soar by 9% in 2027, according to...Read more

With convertible weather upon us, the 2026 Mercedes Maybach SL680 is rolling into Grasso’s Garage.

Exceeding all expectations, the Maybach’s singular exotic design is specifically fit for the upper echelon, turning heads on every corner as the new trend-setter in town.

The Maybach is powered by a 4.0-liter V-8 bi-turbo engine with 577 ...Read more

HELL, Michigan — ZOT! Like a greased jellybean, my Mercedes CLA 350 sedan shot onto I-75. Past a line of traffic. Headed to the moon.

Quiet as a mouse.

Nine years after the Tesla Model 3 sedan became an overnight sensation and ushered in a new age of performance electric vehicles, it’s, well ... playing second fiddle to the Model Y. Model ...Read more

For BMW, the X5 has become something akin to the Porsche 911. You don't redesign it so much as renegotiate with its history. Every generation has to look unmistakably like an X5 while convincing buyers they've never seen one before.

Max Missoni knows this. The Austrian designer, whose résumé includes Volkswagen, Volvo, and Polestar, arrived ...Read more

U.S. regulators are set to tie lettuce from Taco Bell to a parasite outbreak that’s sickened thousands in Michigan and nearby states, according to people familiar with the matter.

Taco Bell said it has voluntarily removed lettuce from a supplier and will replace the ingredient within 24 hours at restaurants in affected states. The supplier’...Read more

Baltimore City leaders are set to begin what could become one of the most significant tax debates in decades: whether Maryland’s largest city should pursue the state’s first split-rate property tax system in an effort to combat vacant properties, discourage speculation and spur investment.

A bill introduced Monday by City Councilman Zac ...Read more

A neurosurgeon was recently paid $4,485 to remove a brain tumor, but the doctor’s surgical assistant received a fee from Minnesota’s UnitedHealthcare that was more than 10 times larger — $55,000.

The reason?

Arbitration rulings under the federal No Surprises Act, which protects patients from high out-of-network bills, are socking health ...Read more

Despite skipping over his annual donation to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett downplayed Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates’ relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a mistake he might have made himself.

“While it’s distasteful, while he made mistakes, I made mistakes, hiring all kinds of people, or choosing friends, and then ...Read more

A newly surfaced recording of a personal phone call between United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and the union's court-appointed monitor discussing the Israel-Hamas war sheds new light on the fraught relationship between the two men that Fain claims fueled the watchdog's investigations into him.

The 11-minute recording obtained by The ...Read more

It is hard to keep a good convention down.

One year after Hollywood’s largest studios stayed away from Comic-Con International, they are back in force next week. The biggest of them all, Marvel Studios, will return to the 6,500-seat Hall H, as will HBO with its latest superhero show and dozens of other studios with star-studded casts.

Comic-...Read more

A ballot measure that would overhaul one of California’s most powerful and controversial environmental laws has a commanding lead less than three months before voters begin casting ballots in the statewide November election.

Proposition 45, which would make substantial changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, has the support 73% ...Read more