The U.S. war with Iran is wreaking havoc on the global fertilizer market and stressing Minnesota corn farmers who are already managing tense balance sheets.

Corn prices remain much lower than 2022’s peak of roughly $348 per ton because of big harvests and lower demand. Meanwhile, the price of a widely used fertilizer, one of farmers’ main ...Read more

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — Burnet Wohlford’s family built Escondido’s water supply.

More than a century ago, his great-grandfather, Alvin, directed water to the area from the San Luis Rey River along a rock and brush canal. It’s a legacy built into the landscape, the dammed reservoir northeast of town bearing the family’s name.

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Until two years ago, Oakland, California, father of five Jose Peña could tote a 60-pound slab of countertop with ease. Now, a walk down the block with his kids leaves him gasping for breath and reaching for his oxygen tank.

The aggressive, incurable disease, silicosis, that doctors believe he acquired from cutting, shaping and polishing quartz...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has unveiled a share repurchase program — but it differs from General Motors Co.'s buyback efforts in a big way.

The Dearborn automaker on Friday announced a plan to buy up to 31.7 million common shares of Ford stock. It's an anti-dilutive measure that seeks to minimize impact on its share price from the company's grant of ...Read more

After Cuba’s deputy prime minister said Monday Cubans in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own businesses on the island, one of Miami’s Cuban U.S. House members said anyone who intends to invest with the regime before political change “is insane.”

“If you’re insane, go ahead and invest in Cuba,” said Rep. Carlos Gimé...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, addressing crowds at the company’s biggest annual event, unveiled a variety of new products while predicting that its flagship AI processors would help generate $1 trillion in sales through 2027.

During a 2 1/2-hour keynote address, Huang announced plans to push deeper into central ...Read more

Terra Energy Center is pouring $1 billion into a deal for a planned coal project in Alaska, marking the first investment in new U.S. coal power in more than a decade.

The in-principal agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Power Systems for an order of power-plant boilers was described in a U.S. Interior Department fact sheet Monday. The ...Read more

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is proposing more extensive flight reductions at Chicago O’Hare International Airport than first anticipated, which would force American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. to adjust previously planned expansions at the busy aviation hub.

The FAA, in a new notice on Monday, sought to...Read more

After decades of being stripped of many of their rights for leaving the country, Cubans living in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own private businesses on the island, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald.

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga told NBC News Monday morning that �...Read more

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick said he moved to Texas in December, adding to the list of billionaires who have left California ahead of a proposed wealth tax.

In an interview on tech talk show TBPN, Kalanick said he moved to Texas on December 18. He didn’t explain the reasoning behind the move, but suggested he was motivated to do it before ...Read more

Honda Motor Co. invested too much and too late into a short-lived electric vehicle boom, and now finds itself saddled with an aging line-up and questions about its future as an automaker.

The Japanese company stunned investors by dropping a ¥2.5 trillion ($15.7 billion) impairment charge bomb last week stemming largely from its ill-timed bet ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to artificial intelligence infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group NV as it spends aggressively to compete with the industry’s top frontier models.

Nebius, a so-called neocloud that operates data centers and has a strategic partnership with Nvidia ...Read more

GREELEY, Colorado — Thousands of workers at the JBS meatpacking plant walked off the job Monday morning for what’s planned to be a two-week strike as they seek a new contract with higher pay and better workplace protections.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union representing 3,800 JBS workers in Greeley, has been negotiating...Read more

A new Ford Motor Co. notice is recalling tens of thousands of vehicles like the Explorer, Maverick, Bronco and Mustang for an issue with its EcoBoost engines that can result in a loss of power.

The recall affects 47,804 vehicles in the United States and its territories with 1.5-, 2.0- or 2.3-liter engines and also includes Escapes, Rangers and ...Read more

Cubans living in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own private businesses on the island, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald.

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga told NBC News on Monday morning that “Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies”...Read more

LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — Weekends used to start in Manuel Tejeda-Mendez’ barber chair, customers stopping in for an after-work haircut before heading out to enjoy their Friday night.

The weekly ritual brought those customers to Long Prairie’s Central Avenue, the main street in this rural Minnesota town. Along that corridor are about a dozen ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It has been nearly three years since Hollywood writers went on a historic strike that lasted 148 days and ushered in an extraordinary period of labor unrest that virtually shut down the film and TV business.

Now, writers are poised to commence another round of bargaining with the major studios on a new three-year film and TV ...Read more

CHICAGO — Five years after it began flying out of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Southwest Airlines said Friday it will discontinue service from the airport later this year.

“Operating at Chicago O’Hare continues to be challenging, and we are confident we can serve Chicagoland through Chicago Midway,” a Southwest Airlines ...Read more

The city of Chicago is asking the federal government to reconsider plans to reduce flights at O’Hare International Airport, deeming those plans “regressive.”

Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration said flight cuts were necessary at O’Hare, citing planned schedules this summer that “will exceed the airport’s capacity.”

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U.S. auto lobbyists urged the Trump administration to keep Chinese carmakers out of the American market, sounding an alarm about the threats posed ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China’s efforts to “dominate” the global auto industry and gain access to the U.S. “pose a direct threat...Read more