It’d be reasonable to think Washington’s space economy has a lot riding on Boeing’s Starliner, the spacecraft that left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station and headed back to Earth with an empty cabin Friday.

The astronauts were scheduled to return on Starliner in June after a week on the ISS, but thruster failures ...Read more

Artificial intelligence-powered photographic inspections, 3D-printed tools and augmented-reality training headsets are part of Ford Motor Co.'s strategy to improve vehicle quality, something that has continued to plague its financial results.

The Dearborn automaker in the second quarter was slammed with a more than 5% decline year-over-year in ...Read more

In 2020, there were 1,108 data compromises. By 2023, the number of compromises reached 3,205, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit based in El Cajon, California.

The most recent high-profile breach: An estimated 2.9 billion Social Security records, or 272 million unique Social Security numbers, were stolen from a Florida...Read more

The Walt Disney Co.'s proposal for a partial, temporary detente as the blackout of its channels on DirecTV and U-Verse stretches into its 10th day has devolved into another round of bickering.

Early Tuesday, Disney offered to restore the ABC network to DirecTV, U-Verse and DirecTV Stream customers for tonight's highly anticipated debate between...Read more

With local news struggling to survive, a collective of Los Angeles media executives and philanthropists launched an ambitious nonprofit group Tuesday to bolster L.A. County's local news ecosystem, support small independent media and build public trust in media.

The new organization, Los Angeles Local News Initiative, has raised almost $15 ...Read more

After operating for decades, the Millstone nuclear power plant is seeking “final closure” of three hazardous waste storage and management units in Waterford, Connecticut.

Dominion Energy, which owns Millstone, needs approval from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for the plan that covers three separate buildings at...Read more

After an overwhelmingly negative reaction to a deal struck by Boeing and Machinists union leaders, union leader Jon Holden said Monday he expects rank-and-file members will reject the contract and strike late this week.

“The response from people is it’s not good enough,” Machinist union district 751 president Holden said in an exclusive ...Read more

A proposal by City Council members to raise the minimum wages of workers at large hotels and Los Angeles International Airport in the run-up to the 2028 Summer Olympics has received a boost from a new city report.

The report, released Thursday by the city's chief legislative analyst, Sharon Tso, concludes that the proposed gradual pay increase ...Read more

Q: My Jeep was in my garage for 8 months without being started. Of course, the battery died. I am due for a state inspection sticker soon. A mechanic said there is nothing to test because the dead battery erased all info. I was told I need to drive it for 100 miles to get new data for testing. What should I do before I bring it into the station?...Read more

The Art Institute announced a transformative $75 million gift Tuesday to construct a new gallery building and begin an ambitious reshaping of its sprawling campus in the heart of downtown Chicago’s lakefront.

The lions will remain at their post in front of the historic 131-year-old main building along South Michigan Avenue, but their ...Read more

Are sports simulators, pickleball courts and kombucha on tap enough to lure employees back to their cubicles?

Nope. Not according to Megan Mackinson, anyhow. And she should know. She’s the Chicago-based national lead for workplace strategy for global real estate services firm JLL. It’s her job to help building owners fill their spaces and ...Read more

Reporting on the announcement Sunday that Boeing Co. had reached a landmark contract agreement with its largest union tended to focus on its economic components, such as wage increases of 25% to 33% over four years, a reduction in employee costs for healthcare and improvements in retirement benefits.

Rather less attention was paid to the ...Read more

Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill and Google lost its challenge over a €2.4 billion fine for abusing its market power, in a double boost to the European Union’s crackdown on Big Tech.

The EU’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law ...Read more

Sandy Springs-based UPS is laying off more of its employees, after earlier this year announcing it was cutting 12,000 jobs in its management ranks.

The company did not specify how many employees are losing their jobs in the latest round of cuts, but said Monday evening the layoffs are part of ongoing efforts since the January announcement of ...Read more

RIVER ROUGE, Michigan — Sarah Messa, plant manager at USG, stood confidently in her safety vest, glasses and earplugs as she guided a recent tour of the facility, which has stood since the 1920s.

“We have a lot of 'old building, old structure with new technology' thing going,” she said, pointing at the facility that produces cement board....Read more

An injured Minnesota FedEx driver says she was placed on unpaid medical leave and later fired without being offered accommodations to return to work, despite her requests.

Now the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing the delivery giant on behalf of Wendy Gulley and other drivers around the country, alleging FedEx violated the ...Read more

Activist investor Starboard Value is challenging the ownership structure of media empire News Corp., arguing that its dual-class share arrangement gives outsize say to the Murdoch family and amplifies members' complicated interpersonal dynamics.

The hedge fund said it has submitted a proposal to eliminate the dual-class share structure of the ...Read more

Walt Ehmer, the president and CEO of Waffle House has died, the company confirmed Sunday.

Ehmer, 58, died Friday following a long illness, Waffle House wrote in a statement. The company said it would share more details in the coming days and that he would be “greatly missed.”

“For now, we know all of you join us in extending our deepest ...Read more

It’s the perennial question among stock investors: which is better — growth investing or value investing? Recently, there’s been little contest. Growth stocks, such as Apple and Nvidia, have handily outperformed value names. But it’s not always that way, and many investors think value will once again have its day — although they’ve ...Read more