Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits posted the smallest weekly decline since March after coronavirus cases surged and reopenings paused or reversed across the South and West.

Initial jobless claims in regular state programs totaled 1.3 million in the week ended July 11, down 10,000 from the prior period, Labor Department figures showed ...Read more

Chuck Hattemer broke his lease in San Jose for temporary and remote shelter during the pandemic.

Hattemer, the co-founder of property management startup Onerent, returned to his parents in San Diego for a rent-free stay.

Last month, Hattemer and his girlfriend, Michelle Lovato, drove to Seattle to live with an aunt and uncle for a few more ...Read more

When you choose a tree, you are making a decision that will have consequences for decades. That tiny sugar maple you just planted will be towering over your house when you're long gone. That cottonwood you just planted will grow rapidly to an impressive size, but will break easily in a storm; it's also a messy tree, leaving a lot of seeds in ...Read more

A security incident involving some of the most prominent business and political leaders on Twitter duped people into sending at least $120,000 worth of Bitcoin to an anonymous online wallet, and more than half of that total has already been spirited to other accounts, according to a Bitcoin-tracing company.

The person or people behind the scam ...Read more

Credit is due once again to the Trump administration for its steadfastness in the face of real-world crises that could derail its long-term project of relentlessly doing exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.

Case in point: The administration just doubled down on its intention to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients.

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MINNEAPOLIS -- U.S. Bancorp has put aside another $1.7 billion to cover potential loan defaults, another sign that the nation's biggest banks expect to see significant economic shocks in the months ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The nation's fifth-largest bank's increase to its provision for credit losses in the second quarter comes on ...Read more

Tesla, which earlier re-opened its Fremont electric car factory in defiance of a coronavirus health order, has had more than 130 employees test positive for the deadly virus, according to a blog claiming to have received company information.

"An internal data leak shows that Tesla is seeing a spike in COVID-19 'exposure,' primarily at its ...Read more

CHICAGO -- GoHealth, an online health insurance marketplace, raised $914 million through an initial public offering Tuesday, but shares of the Chicago-based company fell 7.3% on Wednesday's first day of trading.

The company will use the funds raised through the IPO to expand, said Brandon Cruz, co-founder and chief strategy officer.

The ...Read more

DETROIT -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will change its name to "Stellantis" after the merger with Peugeot S.A. is complete next year, the companies announced Wednesday.

This is a "major step" as the automakers move toward completing their 50:50 marriage outlined in a December 18, 2019 agreement, according to a news release from FCA. Everything is...Read more

In most cases, those discounts are now in the rear-view mirror, meaning our rates are back to pre-pandemic levels.

And now comes the prospect of some insurance companies recouping their losses by raising rates for the second half of the year.

David Martin, 69, suspects this happened to him when he received a bill from Allstate the other day ...Read more

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will develop and produce TV shows with CBS Television Studios, home of "CSI" and "S.W.A.T.," under a new partnership meant to bring more Black stories to television in the U.S.

The two organizations will create a team to collaborate on scripted, unscripted and documentary work, the ...Read more

NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service debuted nationwide Wednesday, betting that weary consumers will tolerate a few commercials in exchange for a low-priced offering that includes news, sports and thousands of hours of TV shows.

The gambit sets the NBCUniversal's service apart from streaming giants Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+. ...Read more

SEATTLE -- In the last five months, Amazon job listings decreased about 19% globally, but still number more than 30,000. In the company's headquarters city of Seattle, listings are off 36%.

Amazon has more openings in Seattle -- about 7,300 -- than any other single location, down from about 11,500 in early February.

That was before the ...Read more

Food inflation has arrived, according to newly released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that means slimmer profits for many already-ailing restaurants even as diners pay more for meals.

Full-service restaurant prices rose a record 0.9% in June from a month earlier. At the same time, home cooking grew costlier: Grocery prices rose ...Read more

Two years ago, a number of L.A.'s leading tech investors gathered for a swanky party to launch a program called PledgeLA. Its purpose: to change the mostly white, mostly male face of the tech industry in Southern California.

With support from the mayor's office and the deep pockets and local connections of the Annenberg Foundation, PledgeLA has...Read more