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NEW ULM, Minnesota – Leaders in this southern Minnesota city, famous for its German heritage, have adopted a new philosophy to combat its housing crisis: saying “ja.”

Over the past few months, the City Council in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The remaking of North Michigan Avenue will take another step forward next year with the opening of a new two-story Chase/J.P. Morgan banking center in a former clothing store across from the Water Tower.

The ...Read more

Two top trans-Atlantic shippers are moving their cargoes to Philadelphia-area terminals, boosting longshore and trucking jobs, and ending Baltimore port calls as work drags on replacing the Key Bridge whose collapse 21 ...Read more

Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes, a pioneer in mass-market e-bikes, filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this week as it continues to look for a buyer amid falling sales and massive debt.

Court documents show the 18-year-...Read more

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the company behind Truth Social, is getting into nuclear fusion.

The company said Thursday it will merge with TAE Technologies Inc., a closely held fusion developer founded in 1998, ...Read more

Average rents in San Diego County have fallen for six straight months and have reached a milestone not seen since in 15 years.

Rents are down 0.3% year-over-year to an average $2,520 per month in early December, said real...Read more

May I tell you about my diet?

It's simple, really. I eat Keto on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I eat Paleo on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. On Sunday, I don't eat anything at all. Because I drink a gut-healthy mixture...Read more

Picture this: A sandy, 25-mile stretch of beach, just a three-hour drive from Miami but devoid of grocery stores or gas stations, restaurants, bars or hotels. Instead, sea turtles nest on the beach, their hatchlings’ ...Read more

U.S. stocks sank for a fourth straight day as weakness in AI-related stocks outweighed investor optimism about the potential for additional interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.

The S&P 500 Index dropped 1.2% ...Read more

A pair of blue and yellow earplugs dangle on Jose's neck while waiting for work as a day laborer out of the Home Depot in Cypress Park.

They've been a necessity for laborers in the area since late November, when Home ...Read more

In a move that significantly expands its footprint in the mortgage servicing landscape, Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it would acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. in an ...Read more

The architect behind Delta Air Lines’ global network and its push to be a “premium” airline is retiring.

Delta’s president of nearly a decade, Glen Hauenstein, is stepping down Feb. 28, the company announced ...Read more

JBS needed workers.

It was 2023, and the meat-processing giant headquartered in Greeley had just endured a tumultuous stretch.

The plant became one of Colorado’s hotspots during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the virus ...Read more

Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future.

Two robots picked up T-shirts with orange-tipped claws, then neatly folded and piled them. A cute companion robot with ...Read more

Hormel is essentially synonymous with pork, namely sizzling breakfast meats and the infamous canned ham Spam.

The Austin, Minnesota-based Fortune 500 company has only broadened its protein offerings in recent years, ...Read more

Major U.S. retailers, including Walmart and Minneapolis-based Target, have been hit with warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for continuing to sell baby formula that was recalled amid a widespread ...Read more

Tesla Inc.’s car sales in California are poised to be suspended for 30 days over marketing practices that allegedly mislead consumers about the automated-driving capabilities of its vehicles.

The California Department ...Read more

Warner Bros. Discovery has sharply rejected Paramount’s hostile offer, alleging the $108-billion deal carries substantial risks because the Larry Ellison family has failed to put real money behind its bid for Warner’s ...Read more

I continually remind my readers that they shouldn't worry too much when they read or hear reports of Social Security's imminent collapse. Once Congress works up the nerve to deal with the issue (and once the American ...Read more