SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Citing gasoline prices that are as much as 30 cents a gallon higher than those in other states, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday asked the state attorney general to investigate whether California's leading oil and gas suppliers are involved in price-fixing or other unfair practices.

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WASHINGTON -- Several prominent Minnesota businesses are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Trump administration plan to allow deportation of residents brought into the country illegally as children.

Best Buy, Target, Ecolab, Cargill, UnitedHealth Group and C.H. Robinson are among thousands of American companies signed on individually or ...Read more

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg continued with his recent public openness campaign on Monday when he reiterated what he said was the social-media giant's commitment to free expression amid criticism about his company's role in political campaigns.

"I get that a lot of people are angry at us," Zuckerberg said in an interview with NBC ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Several prominent Minnesota businesses are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Trump administration plan to allow deportation of residents brought into the country illegally as children.

Best Buy, Target, Ecolab, Cargill, UnitedHealth Group and C.H. Robinson are among thousands of American companies signed on individually or ...Read more

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- SkyWater Technology Inc., the biggest maker of semiconductors in Minnesota, is adding a third clean room that will allow it to build smaller chips and ones designed for outer space.

Construction just started at the factory in Bloomington, just a few blocks from the Mall of America, on the addition. "It's exciting to be ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Earlier this year, 11 members of Amazon's so-called "S Team" -- senior leaders who report directly to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos -- started writing checks to a group of Seattle City Council candidates and a political-action committee. For most of the executives, it marked their first donations to Seattle council races.

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Adulting can be one long financial trial by fire. Staying on track with student loan repayment, navigating the dos and don'ts of building the almighty credit score, somehow finding the cash flow to start saving for retirement, all while making rent.

Add one more item and all the others get easier: negotiating your salary. The more you make ...Read more

In your 20s, retirement is a distant four or five decades down the road. Why worry? You're hustling to make the rent, or save up for a security deposit so you can move on from your parent's home. And maybe there's a student loan to repay.

But two facts should persuade you to be the oddball among your friends who actually starts saving early for...Read more

NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc. discovered four separate misinformation networks -- three tied to Iran and one to Russia -- that the social network said it shut down as part of an ongoing effort to counter "foreign influence campaigns."

Facebook said that the "coordinated inauthentic behavior" took aim at the U.S., North Africa and Latin America and ...Read more

DETROIT -- No one is breathing easy yet.

Because more UAW strikes remain in the realm of possibility in coming weeks.

As General Motors waits to see whether 46,000 factory workers will vote in these next few days to approve a tentative contract agreement with the UAW and end a strike entering its sixth week, labor experts and a source with ...Read more

DETROIT -- Many labor experts and union leaders say the UAW got a good deal from General Motors and expect union members to ratify it.

In the meantime, about 46,000 workers will remain on strike while they learn about the tentative agreement and vote through next week.

"It's a good agreement," one UAW local leader said last week. "No, they ...Read more

It's been 32 years since the popularity of wine coolers peaked. Zima's day in the sun was a quarter of a century ago. The website that popularized "icing" -- a drinking game that involved getting down on one knee and chugging a bottle of Smirnoff Ice -- doesn't even exist anymore.

Now the question is whether White Claw, the current smash in ...Read more

Two days after the publication of a 2016 instant message chat between two senior pilots on the 737 Max program drew outraged condemnation from members of Congress, airline pilot unions and outside experts, Boeing said Sunday the pilot text exchange had been widely misinterpreted.

In the chat conversation on Nov. 15, 2016, made public Friday by ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The box office was dominated by villains and sequels as Disney and Buena Vista's "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" toppled "Joker" from the top spot after two weekends of dominance.

The $185 million film, which stars Angelina Jolie as the titular "Sleeping Beauty" sorceress, opened with a disappointing $36 million, well below ...Read more

A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker was arrested by federal prosecutors over allegations of insider trading, according to court records unsealed on Friday.

Bryan Cohen, a vice president, leaked nonpublic information for almost three years as part of an international insider trading scheme that led to $2.6 million in illicit gains, ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Johnson & Johnson is recalling one lot of its Johnson's Baby Powder after tiny amounts of asbestos contamination were found in samples from a single bottle purchased online.

J&J is voluntarily recalling the lot, #22318RB, which consists of 33,000 bottles, and is encouraging people who bought the product to discontinue use. The ...Read more