This month marked the 50th anniversary of the so-called "other 9/11" — the military coup in Chile, led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, that ended in the death of the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.

The milestone has spurred difficult retrospectives, commemorations and reexaminations of the ensuing decades of violent dictatorial...Read more

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.

Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air....Read more

For U.S. corn farmers, the rise of green jet fuel is their best hope of staving off an existential threat.

With battery-powered cars poised to slash gasoline demand by 2040, corn-ethanol makers need to find new markets, and fast. After all, roughly 40% of the country’s output of the grain is used to make the biofuel that’s blended into ...Read more

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan stopped short of explicitly calling for a breakup of Amazon.com Inc., but said that her agency would ask a judge to halt the company’s “illegal conduct” if its antitrust suit succeeds.

In her first public comments after the FTC filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of monopolizing online marketplace ...Read more

Losses from retail crime ticked up in 2022, causing many retailers across the country to change the way they do business, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the National Retail Federation.

"Retailers are seeing unprecedented levels of theft coupled with rampant crime in their stores, and the situation is only becoming more dire," ...Read more

Apple Inc.’s lucrative agreement to use Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the default search engine for the iPhone includes a provision that the two tech giants will “support and defend” the deal against government scrutiny, a top Apple executive said at an antitrust trial.

Their longtime contract was renegotiated in 2016 to include the ...Read more

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk blasted the United Auto Workers Tuesday, saying the union’s demands would “drive GM, Ford and Chrysler bankrupt in the fast lane.”

President Joe Biden endorsed the UAW’s demand for a major wage increase during a visit to a picket line at a General Motors Co. plant in suburban Detroit earlier...Read more

The director of California's new Division of Petroleum Market Oversight has raised some questions about the surge in gasoline prices that has socked drivers across the state.

In a four-page letter sent Friday to Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders in Sacramento, Tai Milder pointed to the rising cost of crude oil but said, "Those increases...Read more

The split of automated teller and financial technology company NCR is expected next month, and both new entities will continue to operate out of Atlanta.

NCR, one of Atlanta’s largest public businesses and long-rumored as a potential acquisition target, has said dividing the businesses will spur further value for shareholders. The company ...Read more

Lawsuits filed against some of the biggest names on the Las Vegas Strip allege the gaming companies failed to protect customer data during recent cyberattacks.

Five class-action lawsuits filed in Nevada District Court last week say that Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International failed to protect the personal identifiable information ...Read more

Hollywood breathed a collective sigh of relief Sunday night when the Writers Guild of America and the major studios announced a tentative deal for a new contract.

The nearly five-month strike — among the longest in the union's history — secured what the guild described as significant wins for writers, but also had a devastating effect on ...Read more

Uber took another leap forward in its plan to pull more taxis onto its platform, announcing a partnership on Tuesday with Los Angeles Yellow Cab and other taxi fleets in Southern California.

The deal gives six taxi fleets operating in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties access to trip referrals from Uber.

Uber, soon after it was ...Read more

Has the tech industry, and the preponderance of tech workers, had a positive or negative impact on Seattle?

There's a wide range of feelings among city residents, but overall, it seems most folks think it's been positive. A Seattle Times/Suffolk University poll this year found 67% of Seattleites think the tech industry has generally improved ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gatlyn Ligon was just a teenager when she took a special charter flight that was flown by an all-female Delta Air Lines crew who aimed to inspire girls to consider a career in aviation.

Now, just eight years later at the age of 25, Ligon is a Delta pilot flying the Airbus A320.

“I love flying,” Ligon said. She started taking ...Read more

UPS said Tuesday it plans to hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers for the peak holiday shipping season this year.

The volume of packages UPS delivers on a daily basis can nearly double during the holiday season, driving the need to ramp up staffing significantly.

The company plan to hire full-time and part-time drivers and package handlers ...Read more

One automaker is looming larger than any other in the investigation of electric vehicles flowing into the European Union from China: Tesla Inc.

During the evidence-gathering that precipitated this month’s surprise announcement of an EU anti-subsidy probe into Chinese EVs, the U.S. carmaker was among the companies found to have likely ...Read more

The reigning title holder for world’s most powerful rocket saw action on both its center core and its two solid rocket boosters this month, with pieces for the Artemis II launch coming together as NASA aims to send humans on a trip around the moon next year.

Arriving by train to Florida on Monday were all 10 segments for the two side boosters...Read more

The historic, 146-day writers' strike finally appears to be over. Details are scarce, but the Writers Guild of America sounds triumphant: It's calling the deal "exceptional" and heralding gains in just about every arena. And though there are many reasons that the union ultimately won out — smart organizing and a memeable picket line, strong ...Read more

U.S. consumer confidence slumped to a four-month low in September, dampened by a deteriorating outlook for the economy and labor market.

The Conference Board’s index declined to 103 this month from an upwardly revised 108.7 in August, data out Tuesday showed. The figure fell short of the median estimate of 105.5 in a Bloomberg survey of ...Read more