Pittsburgh may be a sports town, but the grocery market is a league to watch in its own right.

Among the recent highlights:

Ohio-based Kroger announced Wednesday that it plans to acquire Pittsburgh’s longtime grocery leader Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion.

Wegmans is entering Western Pennsylvania for the first time in the next year or so. ...Read more

Minnesota’s first new mine in half a century is just weeks away from its expected opening on what may be one of the last great ore deposits on the Iron Range.

The site, concealed beneath work vehicles and a forest floor, is aflutter with activity. About 1,500 contractors are passing through a security checkpoint each day to meet the deadline,...Read more

Workers at Doherty Staffing Solutions were perplexed when strangers started calling the office in response to recruitment texts — texts the firm never sent.

The Minneapolis-based staffing agency soon pieced together what was happening: Fraudsters, posing as Doherty recruiters, were sending fake job ads to individuals in an attempt to extract ...Read more

While AI is often cited as one of the reasons for mass layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, for fast-growing companies it also seems to be creating new jobs in many companies, according to a study published Tuesday from financial services company Ramp and employment database Revelio Labs.

"Our early result is that it looks like firms are ...Read more

When billionaire Tilman Fertitta offered $17.6 billion to take Caesars Entertainment private, industry observers viewed it as a bold move by a longtime casino operator seeking control of one of gaming’s largest companies.

Less than one week later, another billionaire made an even bigger bet.

Media mogul Barry Diller’s People Inc. proposed ...Read more

San Jose, California, avoided a potential multimillion-dollar budget hit last week after a San Francisco judge struck down new state regulations that would have strictly limited blackjack-style games at cardrooms across California.

Superior Court Judge Richard Darwin ruled this week that the state Bureau of Gambling Control, a division of ...Read more

President Donald Trump praised Walmart Inc. for lowering prices on some products on Monday and urged other retailers to follow suit, touting the move as a boon to US consumers.

“I have just been informed that one of the biggest, best, and smartest Retailers in America, Walmart, will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s ...Read more

The Trump administration’s plan to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been complicated by two government departments vying to run it, alongside questions about which has the legal authority to do so.

President Donald Trump ordered the reserve to be created last year as part of his promise to turn America into the “crypto capital of the ...Read more

Toyota Motor Corp. is moving production of its popular Tacoma midsize truck from a plant in Mexico to San Antonio as part of a $3.6 billion investment in the Texas facility.

The Japanese carmaker will build a second production line in San Antonio, where it currently makes full-size pickups and SUVs, and add some 2,000 new jobs by 2030, it said ...Read more

Christopher Bejnar has spent the last couple of months combing through the fine print of exchange-traded funds, emailing financial advisers and moving money into European stocks — all to keep SpaceX out of his $1 million portfolio.

As Elon Musk’s newest public company heads into Nasdaq’s stock indexes this week, the 46-year-old software ...Read more

Reddit Inc. is battling a new kind of spam: stealth marketing content created by brands that want to get mentioned by popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini.

OpenAI and Alphabet Inc., whose AI tools formulate responses and recommendations by drawing on vast amounts of internet information, have content deals with ...Read more

Xbox is hitting the reset button.

Microsoft 's video game division plans to eliminate 3,200 jobs, or around 20% of its staff over the next year, as part of a sweeping reorganization to revive the company's lagging games division.

The cuts are driven by an increasingly challenging gaming landscape, said Xbox's CEO Asha Sharma in a note to staff...Read more

In a bid to become Britain's largest commercial broadcaster, Comcast's Sky pay-TV business on Monday unveiled a $2.1 billion deal to buy ITV Media and Entertainment.

ITV is a television powerhouse in Britain, with "Love Island," "Midsomer Murders," and the hugely popular FIFA World Cup. It operates a robust TV production studio and free-to-air ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly a year after the expiration of a $7,500 federal tax incentive for new electric vehicles, California is stepping in to try to motivate buyers to go electric.

Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated $135 million in his new state budget to provide incentives for new and used EVs. Participating automakers will match the funds.

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Johnny Beig may have played in a semiprofessional cricket league in Australia, but this summer he's a big fan of soccer in the United States.

It's not just because he's rooting for the World Cup team, though.

Last year, Beig's Beverly Hills-based company, Dioz Group, won a $2.5 million contract with On Location, FIFA's hospitality partner, to ...Read more

Few investments have divided investors as sharply as cryptocurrency.

To some, it’s the future of finance and a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build wealth. To others, it’s a speculative asset that has yet to earn a place in a long-term retirement portfolio.

Now, Pennsylvania has added a new wrinkle to the debate.

The state recently ...Read more

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and the federal watchdog overseeing the union got into an extraordinary exchange two years ago in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war — a meeting that Fain now claims led to the monitor launching an investigation into him.

The expletive-laden discussion from February 2024 — details of which have never ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that he was not aware of the extent of his digital asset holdings but said there was nothing illegal about his involvement, following disclosures about his family companies’ crypto windfall.

Trump reported earlier this week earning at least $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related ...Read more

Those with a watchful eye and a social media presence may notice there’s been a consistent yet unassuming character in their feeds: Costco.

A Costco waffle-cone cake, for example, is turning heads across digital channels. The sponge cake, meant to replicate the waffle-cone ice cream flavor, with chocolate and caramel swirls and mini ice cream...Read more

If you see a Starbucks barista filming while making your drink, don’t assume they’re goofing off. Starbucks could be paying them to make a TikTok.

Starbucks baristas have posted content on social media for years, showing off experimental recipes, making “ASMR” videos featuring the sounds of making drinks, and lip syncing to popular ...Read more