UnitedHealth Group has quietly but significantly scaled back its MedExpress urgent care business, with just 19 locations operating across the country — down from more than 150 locations in 2022.

The move was not formally announced as word spread in October of divestitures in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Executives alluded to the pullback ...Read more

The creator economy is one of the biggest developments of the digital age.

Over the past decade, advertisers have funneled billions of dollars into paying social media users with large followings to promote anything from beauty products to new albums. Goldman Sachs predicts the sector will be worth nearly half a trillion by 2027.

Atlanta ...Read more

Maxwell Brodie vividly recalls the destructive wildfire he experienced as a kid growing up in the interior of British Columbia.

One night in 2003, lightning struck a tree at around 4 a.m., sparking a massive blaze that scorched Okanagan Mountain Park. Winds picked up, the skies turned orange and more than 30,000 people evacuated from his ...Read more

Automotive product legend Hal Sperlich passed away Monday at 95, but his memory lives on in the millions of pony cars and minivans that ply our highways.

Sperlich was known as the father of two American icons, the Ford Mustang and Chrysler minivan. Colleagues remember him as one of the most significant product developers of his generation.

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In the hours immediately after his swearing-in, President Donald Trump said Monday he will enact steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting next month and moved through executive orders to reassess trade with other foreign nations.

Trump told reporters tariffs of 25% would be enacted against Mexico and Canada starting Feb. 1, saying the ...Read more

About 18,000 Costco workers will go on strike beginning Feb. 1 if their union doesn’t reach a deal with the warehouse retailer, the union announced Sunday.

The Teamsters represent Costco workers in 56 warehouses across five states, CNN reported. The 18,000-person strike would represent about 8% of Costco’s nationwide workforce.

A contract ...Read more

Cargill will pay $32.5 million to settle claims the company conspired with other poultry producers to fix the price of turkey and overcharge customers.

The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based agribusiness is the nation’s third-largest turkey purveyor, after Butterball and Jennie-O, according to WATT Poultry, a trade publication. Cargill controls ...Read more

In the hours immediately after his swearing-in, President Donald Trump said Monday he will enact steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting next month and moved through executive orders to reassess trade with other foreign nations.

Trump told reporters tariffs of 25% would be enacted against Mexico and Canada starting Feb. 1, saying the ...Read more

Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of red dye No. 3 from the country’s food supply, citing studies that have found the dye to cause cancer in rats.

Often called erythrosine or FD&C Red No. 3 or Red 3, red dye No. 3 was barred from use in cosmetics over three decades ago.

The move was praised by many of ...Read more

Netflix gained a record number of subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, further solidifying its dominance in the streaming market and capping the company's biggest year yet.

The company added 19 million paid subscribers, bringing its total base to 302 million customers globally in the fourth quarter. Hits such as the second season of ...Read more

Since elementary school, Aidan Boyd has learned about how climate change will reshape Colorado’s future — how aridification will dry streams and summers will become increasingly hot.

Now 24, he hopes that training to be an electrician will help him be part of the solution to the environmental challenges that he believes are the most ...Read more

David and Peggy Blue were dumbfounded when they were notified last month that their home insurance would not be renewed because of a tall sycamore tree that overhangs their Altadena house. Their appeals for reconsideration were fruitless, leading the former San Diegans on a nerve-racking quest for a new policy.

Carrier after carrier rejected ...Read more

Ten years after being laid off from Disney, Leo Perrero still views a visa program for skilled international workers as deeply flawed, blaming it for disrupting his information technology career and putting him in the unsettling position of having to train his foreign replacement.

“The whole thing is just a terrible scam on Americans,” said...Read more

With President Donald Trump back in the White House for a second term, Americans can expect to see major tax-law changes in the years ahead.

During his first stint in office, Trump massively overhauled the tax code by passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. Now, many of those tax provisions are set to expire at the end of 2025, ...Read more

President Donald Trump pledged in his inauguration speech to swiftly roll back what he has labeled the "electric vehicle mandate," or federal regulations that would've required increasingly strict vehicle emissions standards over the coming years.

Trump claimed the coming executive order — expected to be signed later Monday as part of a ...Read more

Craig Watts, who once made a career of raising hundreds of thousands of chickens in North Carolina, knows the torment and the crushing financial stress that can come with the job.

In the 1990s, he needed $400,000 in loans to build four chicken houses on his Robeson County farm. A decade later, Watts spent $100,000 to upgrade the houses, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If you’ve lost your home or business in this month’s wildfires, you can receive substantial relief on your property taxes now and in the future — whether you decide to rebuild or move.

You will be able to reduce what you owe immediately and defer payment. Ultimately, you can retain the taxable value of your house prior to ...Read more

Insurance leaders say that inflation has fueled the rising costs of coverage paid by Florida policyholders in recent years.

But an analysis by the South Florida Sun Sentinel shows that insurance premiums have increased significantly more than the rate of inflation, and experts cite a range of possible reasons why, including steep increases in ...Read more