Federal investigators found evidence of a bird strike during a harrowing Ryanair Boeing 737-8 flight in Greece last month that saw one passenger temporarily hanging out of a broken window.

In a preliminary report released Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said it found evidence of bird remains, including feathers, in several ...Read more

Citing Hollywood's already struggling production economy, two influential industry unions have jointly called on Paramount Skydance Chairman David Ellison and California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle their antitrust fight.

The Directors Guild of America and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — which represent a ...Read more

California regulators have approved the sale of Cox Communications to cable giant Charter Communications — the final hurdle in a marathon review to clear the $34.5 billion cable consolidation.

With Thursday’s sign-off by the California Public Utilities Commission, the mammoth merger is expected to close next week.

The deal will make ...Read more

Baltimore City is suing prediction-market companies Kalshi and Polymarket, accusing them of using a legal loophole to offer sports betting in Maryland without complying with state gambling laws.

The lawsuit asks a judge to stop the companies from accepting transactions from city residents and to order civil penalties, restitution for customers ...Read more

Kalshi, the online prediction market, must stop most operations in Washington by the middle of next week, a King County judge ordered Thursday, finding that the company is running a gambling operation that is illegal under state laws.

Attorney General Nick Brown had sued Kalshi in March, accusing the company of violating Washington’s ...Read more

The median price for a luxury home in Las Vegas has increased almost 60 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new report.

According to May statistics from Realtor.com, the median price for a luxury home in the Las Vegas Valley (within the top 10th percentile of all sales) was $752,891 in December 2019. By the same month in...Read more

Mary and Kari Cosentino didn’t have a typical San Jose childhood.

While other children were taking out the trash or washing the dishes, they were knee-deep in mud moving irrigation pipes along the sections of their small family orchard or getting their hands covered in the sugary guts of fruit as they packed peaches.

“You’re sticky and ...Read more

A Tesla Model 3 hit a cement pole after the rearview camera failed. The driver of a Ford pickup scraped a light post in reverse. A Toyota minivan’s backup display showed old images instead of live ones.

These are among the roughly 2,000 complaints consumers have lodged with U.S. auto safety regulators describing problems with glitchy rearview...Read more

More than 500 people have lost their jobs in the latest round of layoffs in Southern California, from FedEx and others.

The latest government filings show that Staples and LAZ Parking were also among the companies cutting positions.

FedEx layoffs continue to hit California workers; this time, the carrier will close two facilities in Palm ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. said it'll end production of Lincoln vehicles in China for the U.S. market as a part of plans to grow the manufacturing of the luxury brand here starting in 2030.

Lincoln has built the Nautilus SUV in China since 2024 when it moved production to its joint venture with China Changan Automobile Group Co. Ltd. from Canada. It's the ...Read more

The Seattle City Council voted to ban most types of rental fees this week — a move welcomed by tenants' advocates, who argue that tacked-on charges make housing more expensive and obscure its true costs to renters.

The bill requires landlords to disclose all mandatory and optional fees upfront in home listings or ads. The ordinance will take ...Read more

A $42 billion auction of 10-year U.S. Treasuries resulted in the highest yield for the benchmark securities since 2007, luring decent appetite from investors who’ve been demanding more compensation to finance the U.S. government.

The yield at Wednesday’s sale came in at 4.683%, the most since the global financial crisis, and just above the ...Read more

It’s peak driving season in the U.S., and gasoline and diesel prices have never been this expensive this late in the year.

Gas and diesel prices are at a record seasonal high, according to data from the American Automobile Association. Drivers are paying an average of $4 a gallon for gas and $5.40 a gallon for diesel in the second week of ...Read more

Despite the economic angst and billionaire exodus, California has been recording some of the highest income growth in the country.

Surprisingly, a recent survey of metropolitan areas showed that Silicon Valley didn't lead the state, but Anaheim, Irvine and Santa Ana were near the top.

A study by financial advising company SmartAsset of the 94 ...Read more

Ultra-tight supplies of gasoline and jet fuel in Southern California will likely get some much-needed relief after a trio of companies announced plans Tuesday to move forward on a major pipeline project designed to send refined fuel to the West.

Phillips 66, Kinder Morgan and HF Sinclair made a final investment decision to proceed with the ...Read more

Home insurance rates in Nevada have risen close to a quarter since 2023 up until the end of last year, according to a new report.

Data from Insurify, an online insurance comparison platform, showed that the average price for home insurance in 2023 was $1,407, then jumped to $1,672 two years later. This year, according to the review, home ...Read more

Torri McNichols wasted no time using her $200 in free slot play at Treasure Island after signing up for a new rewards card Tuesday. She quickly headed toward a Dragon Link machine not far from the Treasury Club hotel-casino rewards desk, inserted a $20 bill, loaded up the free play and hit the button for a max bet.

“Why not bet big?” the ...Read more