Los Angeles County launched a probe into Farmers Insurance Company's handling of claims by policyholders impacted by last year's devastating Eaton and Palisades wildfires, after a growing number of residents complained of delays, denials and underpayments.

In a letter sent to Farmers on Wednesday, the county's lawyers said if the company is ...Read more

MONTROSE, Colorado — Efforts to revive the country’s domestic lumber industry may have come too late to save Montrose Forest Products, Colorado’s largest lumber mill.

Owner Neiman Enterprises informed the mill’s 90 employees on Tuesday that operations would wind down once its remaining timber supply runs out in the next few weeks.

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A new grain transloading facility at the Port of Baltimore is expected to simplify exports for Maryland farmers by allowing soybeans, corn, wheat and other grains to be loaded directly at the port before being shipped overseas.

The four-acre facility at the Seagirt Marine Terminal includes three silos with a combined capacity of 60,000 bushels ...Read more

U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into a single petition concerning the 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine in a 2017 Ford Edge, alleging coolant intrusion into the motor resulted in a significant loss of power.

The Office of Defects Investigation has opened the case on whether to grant or deny the petition for a more thorough probe into the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. government is spending over a billion dollars to recruit hundreds of thousands of workers it estimates will be needed in Philadelphia and other shipbuilding centers to expand the Navy and compete with lower-cost Chinese yards, as President Donald Trump proposes. The campaign includes “Build Submarines” ads on social...Read more

One rule I've developed in years of writing about financial scandals is that, as bad as a scheme appears at first, it's more likely than not that the facts will turn out to be nastier than they appeared at first.

Case in point: The scandal swirling around the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association and their billionaire ...Read more

The co-owner of Ingebretsen’s Scandinavian Gifts and Foods in Minneapolis stopped taking a salary for a nearly a year and cut her inventory of imported Norwegian sweaters after tariffs and other costs increased by more than she could afford.

A New Hope, Minnesota, manufacturer laid off five workers when hit with higher costs of necessary ...Read more

Boeing continues to look toward the future, most recently by assigning a new vice president to help lead the “industrial blueprint” for Boeing’s next new commercial plane.

Stephanie Pope, CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, announced three leadership changes Wednesday, according to an internal email shared with The Seattle ...Read more

After an Amazon Prime Air-branded plane crash killed five people this weekend in Miami, a victim's wife has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Amazon as well as the plane's operator, 21 Air.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Miami-Dade County, accused Amazon, 21 Air and the two pilots of failing to prevent what it deemed an avoidable accident...Read more

Citadel Securities told regulators that prediction market contracts linked to publicly traded companies should be overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission instead of the agency that has taken responsibility for them so far, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The firm wrote in a letter Wednesday that contracts tied to “key ...Read more

Huawei Technologies Co. is finally on trial in New York in a criminal case brought during the first Trump administration that’s among the most ambitious prosecutions the U.S. government has ever pursued against a Chinese company.

The showdown kicked off Wednesday with opening statements and is set to play out for months in federal court in ...Read more

Apple Inc. unveiled the company’s first foldable smartphone during a wide-ranging event Wednesday, betting that a new category can energize growth for its biggest-selling lineup.

The device, called the iPhone Duo, will improve on rivals’ foldable models, newly appointed Chief Executive Officer John Ternus said, mocking competing handsets ...Read more

The cargo plane that careened off a runway on Sunday in Miami, killing five people and injuring five others, was emblazoned with Amazon’s Prime Air logo. But the e-commerce giant wasn’t operating the flight.

While Amazon is cooperating with aviation safety investigators working to determine what led the plane to overrun the runway, crashing...Read more

Nearly 3 million people opened accounts at TreasuryDirect.gov to buy Series I U.S. savings bonds when the rates — based on inflation — made headlines in 2022. Millions more savers have created TreasuryDirect accounts to purchase Treasury bills at the weekly auctions — especially during periods when T-bill rates are higher than bank CDs.

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Whether you love DEI, despise it or view it with uninterest, there's no question that President Trump's relentless assault on the principle threw a ticking bomb into the upper echelons of corporate and institutional managements.

Businesses, universities, law firms and nonprofits felt themselves bound to consider how bucking Trump's anti-DEI ...Read more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The eighth-generation Lexus ES is one of the oldest models in the lineup of Toyota Motor Corp.’s luxury brand. For 2026, the sedan adopts one of the newest innovations in the industry: the multi-energy platform.

Using a common vehicle architecture, the ES offers customers a choice of all-electric and gas-electric ...Read more

Labor unions understand artificial intelligence isn't going anywhere.

The battle for them thus becomes ensuring that their members have a seat at the table to determine how that technology is implemented in their workplace and perhaps even find a way to benefit from it, as some forecast layoffs and major shifts in employment and economic ...Read more

The little Los Angeles shop was a destination for Hello Kitty fans for decades when it decided to dive into a massive new wave of e-commerce — peddling its products live on TikTok.

The first floor of the JapanLA store in Fairfax is full of stuffed toys. It houses shelf after shelf of cute Japanese characters such as My Melody, Totoro and ...Read more