DETROIT -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles won final approvals Tuesday for its new Jeep plant project in Detroit as well as work at four other industrial sites in the region.

First, Detroit City Council approved a series of land swaps and other steps for the creation of the new Jeep plant near Mack and St. Jean on the east side. Shortly afterward, ...Read more

CHICAGO -- McDonald's has responded to mounting complaints about sexual harassment with employee training programs and a new anonymous reporting hotline.

The Chicago-based fast food chain sent a letter Monday to Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth detailing its efforts, in response to a letter Duckworth sent the company in December ...Read more

DETROIT -- President Donald Trump's ongoing threat to boost tariffs to 25% on vehicles and auto parts imported into the United States might do what's intended: create a few hundred more jobs in Michigan.

Or it might do the exact opposite: force a local auto parts supplier to cut hundreds of jobs.

That looming uncertainty is what local business...Read more

In April, Sprint CEO Michel Combes essentially threatened regulators that unless the merger between his company and T-Mobile is approved, job cuts would follow. These would include layoffs at Sprint's headquarters in suburban Kansas City.

No, not employment reductions that would be the inevitable result of the combination, but cuts because the ...Read more

DETROIT -- General Motors' app-based car sharing service known as Maven is exiting some markets after nearly three years of expansion.

Maven's move to leave or reduce its services in some of the 24 markets it's in globally started earlier in May and will take a few months to complete.

"This is not an announcement, just the course of business,"...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration held off on blacklisting Huawei Technologies Co. out of concern the move could disrupt trade negotiations with China and only took action after the last round of talks hit an impasse, according to people familiar with the matter.

Plans to target the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker over security ...Read more

Elon Musk's growth story is looking more like a fable as Tesla Inc. enters survival mode.

Just over two weeks ago, Musk boasted to stock analysts and big investors that the company was on course to reach half a trillion dollars in market value. Since then, Tesla's stock price has dropped 19.5%, vaporizing $8.8 billion in market value. The ...Read more

NEW YORK -- For Columbia Sportswear Co., President Donald Trump's escalating trade war has snatched away the most finite resource of all: time.

Although the outdoor-gear maker was largely spared financial pain in the first tariff rounds, the dispute has still sucked up hours and resources that it hadn't planned for. Budget meetings and strategy...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Scammers aren't dumb -- they stick with what works. It's always interesting, though, when a classic ruse gets dressed up in new clothes.

In this case, we're looking at a variation on a well-traveled bogus-check scam, rejiggered to attract people open to pimping their rides for advertising purposes.

Pay attention to how this ...Read more

BENGALURU, India -- The world's largest election has become something of a test case in how technology giants handle fake news after years of scandal. It's not working out so well.

India has as many as 900 million voters in an election that culminates this week, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling coalition headed for apparent victory. ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Amazon is preparing to do something it's never done before: disclose its companywide greenhouse gas emissions.

The commerce giant has an extensive list of renewable energy and sustainability programs underway, but in this fundamental area, it has been a laggard. Other top technology companies and retailers, including Walmart and ...Read more

BEIJING -- Life without Google is normal in China. About 1.4 billion Chinese people wake up each day to check WeChat instead of Gmail, navigate with Baidu instead of Google Maps, and watch videos on Youku instead of YouTube.

But will the rest of the world want to buy phones that use only these Chinese alternatives?

Under a Trump administration...Read more

While Boeing's push to lift the grounding of the 737 Max is making headlines, federal prosecutors have been quietly gathering information to determine if criminal conduct contributed to two deadly crashes of the troubled jetliner.

The prosecutors have been tight-lipped about the investigation, which only became known when they began issuing ...Read more

On this side, art dealer and former Goldman Sachs executive Robert Mnuchin, who just spent $91 million of a client's money on a stainless steel statuette of a rabbit.

On that side, billionaire private equity investor Robert F. Smith, who just announced to the graduating class of nearly 400 at the historically black Morehouse College that he ...Read more

Efforts to rein in government use of facial recognition have a big couple of weeks ahead, days after San Francisco approved a first-of-its-kind ban on use of the technology by police and other city agencies.

Across the bay, Oakland is expected to consider a similar ban for the city's agencies, possibly next week. Up north, Amazon investors will...Read more

Repairing America's infrastructure may be the one thing Congress can agree on.

So let's look at different ways investors can take advantage of possible government-sponsored funding for infrastructure, whether through paving roads, building bridges, imposing tolls, dredging rivers, creating logistics, and even operating computer server farms.

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