LOS ANGELES -- The Pixar superhero movie "Incredibles 2" made 14 years of anticipation worth the wait for Disney, as the follow-up to 2004's "The Incredibles" smashed the record for highest animation debut of all time with an estimated $180 million in ticket sales for the U.S. and Canada, according to the measurement firm ComScore.

"Pixar has ...Read more

LONDON –– Iran says Venezuela and Iraq will join it in blocking a proposal to increase oil production that's backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia when OPEC and its allies meet in Vienna this week.

"Three OPEC founders are going to stop it," Iran's representative to the bloc, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, said Sunday. "If the Kingdom of Saudi ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--The Los Angeles Times rose to prominence under the leadership of a bellicose, union-busting Civil War colonel who kept an arsenal of shotguns in the newsroom in case of labor strife and drove through the city with a custom horn that looked like a cannon mounted to his hood.

For more than a century, starting in 1882, Harrison Gray ...Read more

The Murder Museum bragged about selling two rocks snatched from the scene of Florida's worst school shooting.

"Sold! Two rocks taken from the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. $85 shipped," read a post on its Facebook page, which also included a photo of the killer.

It isn't the only dealer of morbid merchandise known as "...Read more

LOS ANGELES –– Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Monday will take control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, two historic newspapers rooted in Southern California civic life for more than 135 years and now must adapt for the digital age.

Soon-Shiong is spending $500 million to acquire the Times and Union-Tribune, ...Read more

A demand by China that all air carriers worldwide refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau on online maps and drop-down menus as Chinese territories -- not as independent regions -- is being ignored by the U.S.'s biggest airlines.

The order from Beijing came in May, and dozens of foreign-based carriers have already fallen in line.

The Associated ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is betting that Beijing will blink first in the showdown over tariffs. Such an outcome is far from assured -- and it could also take a while.

Trump said Friday that the U.S. will impose duties on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports, with the first tariffs to cover $34 billion worth of goods and take effect ...Read more

A new California rule saying that state rebates for electric cars can go only to manufacturers certified as being "fair and responsible" in their treatment of workers has put Tesla, the state's only major EV maker, in a tough position.

On the one hand, Tesla says, "we strive to be a fair and just company," that it complies with all California ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's vision of autonomous vehicles that would zip back and forth at more than 100 mph in tunnels between Chicago's Loop and O'Hare International Airport has drawn both interest and skepticism from transportation and engineering experts.

"We're scratching our heads as to whether this is truly ready...Read more

DETROIT -- Trying to sum up the significance of Ford's plans for the Michigan Central Station, a quote by Winston Churchill seems apt.

"Now, this is not the end," Churchill said of an early Allied victory in World War II. "It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

That's what Ford taking on the old...Read more

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Just this month, in Ann Arbor, Mich., a driverless van began shuttling students and staff the one-mile round trip between a research complex and a distant parking lot and bus stop.

In Las Vegas, an autonomous van launched last year, taking curious passengers on a three-block loop between a downtown retail park and Las Vegas ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Alan Greenspan famously said he'd mastered the art of mumbling "with great incoherence" as Federal Reserve chairman. Jerome Powell is attempting the opposite approach.

"Because monetary policy affects everyone, I want to start with a plain English summary of how the economy is doing, what my colleagues and I at the Federal Reserve ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration, rekindling its simmering trade war with China, issued a list of $50 billion of Chinese imports Friday that would be subject to hefty tariffs.

The White House did not say precisely when the taxes on some 1,100 goods would take effect, but President Donald Trump has given the green light for the duties to ...Read more

Time Warner Inc. is no more.

Late Thursday, AT&T Inc. announced that it completed its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., just two days after a federal judge in Washington gave the deal the green light. AT&T wasted little time consolidating its hard-fought prize -- a blockbuster purchase that instantly transforms the phone company into...Read more

Q: We have a 2015 Hyundai Sonata Limited. It wasn't long after we purchased it, it developed the following problem: When I wanted to go into smart cruise control, it would refuse and indicate that SCC (smart cruise control) conditions are not met. The difficult part of this is that this would happen intermittently. The dealership checked it out ...Read more