In an effort to stem the unrelenting surge in gasoline prices, Gov. Gavin Newsom has instructed state officials to switch to the lower-priced winter blend of fuel one month earlier than normal.

Fuel analysts say the winter blend is generally about 30 cents a gallon cheaper than the summer mixture.

Although it takes weeks for major price ...Read more

DETROIT — The U.S. economy is facing persistent inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and a surge in investment tied to artificial intelligence, Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said Tuesday.

Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club at The Masonic, Barr said the U.S. economy has shown resilience through a series of disruptions, with real ...Read more

Kaiser Permanente will layoff 147 business and administrative employees across California in November, the health giant said.

The job cuts include 16 different Kaiser locations in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside and Alameda counties, according to a state employment report.

The biggest reductions: 20 positions at an administrative ...Read more

Boeing Co. beat Northrop Grumman Corp to produce the Navy’s next Top Gun fighter jet, the stealthy and still classified F/A-XX, the Pentagon announced today.

The award was the second major fighter jet program Boeing won this year. It beat Lockheed Martin Corp. in March for the Air Force’s stealth F-47, an award President Donald Trump ...Read more

Six years after COVID-19 transformed the way Americans work, the pendulum is swinging back toward the office.

The pandemic forced companies to send employees home almost overnight, transforming remote work from a perk enjoyed by a handful of workers into a necessity for much of the white-collar workforce.

As the health threat from COVID-19 has...Read more

President Donald Trump shot down the idea of new federal regulations on artificial intelligence after meeting at the White House with top industry executives amid growing global concerns over threats posed by the technology.

In lieu of new rules, Trump and the executives agreed on a framework where they would partner with outside auditors to ...Read more

The mothers of two Chester, Pennsylvania, kids who were struck and killed by a train in 2023 are accusing their former attorneys of botching their wrongful death lawsuit against Amtrak.

Jahaad Atkinson, 9, and Ah’Yir Womack, 12, were walking on the railroad tracks and hit by a southbound Acela train. Amtrak operators knew people had been on ...Read more

Consumer Reports said it no longer recommends any brand of e-scooter, citing higher top speeds for the popular vehicles and a sharp nationwide increase in rider injuries.

In 2017, about 10,500 people were injured on e-scooters, and by 2024 there were nearly 80,000 injuries — a jump of 662%, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...Read more

The minimum wage in Seattle will rise to $22.14 per hour at the start of next year, the Office of Labor Standards announced Monday.

That's an increase of 3.9% from the current minimum wage of $21.30.

The city's minimum wage ordinance requires the minimum wage to be raised annually to reflect local inflation.

Today's announcement means that ...Read more

Artificial intelligence industry leaders including Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang are descending on Washington for meetings with President Donald Trump to discuss growing global concerns over threats posed by the technology.

Trump was set to welcome the executives for a lunch Tuesday at the ...Read more

Delivery trucks hired by Amazon, the e-commerce giant, racked up more than 14,000 tickets between 2021 and 2025 for parking, red-light and speed-camera violations in NYC, according to an analysis of public data by the labor coalition Alliance for a Greater New York.

According to the data, from July 2021 through June 2025 — four city fiscal ...Read more

DETROIT — General Motors Co. President Mark Reuss said Tuesday, Sept. 29 that the Detroit automaker remains committed to electric vehicles, even as strict Biden-era environmental rules pushing the industry toward electrification are repealed by the Trump administration.

GM is playing the "long game," Reuss said at the Automotive News Congress...Read more

In parts of a Zeekr factory in northeastern China, luxury electric vehicles are pieced together by hundreds of robots in the dark: If there's no need for human workers, there's no need to keep the lights on.

Experts say no fully "lights-out" mass-vehicle plants exist yet, but that could change soon, exerting enormous pressure on legacy ...Read more

New iPhone day is a recognized holiday at my house. I like to take the day off (or at least work from home) and wait for the delivery.

Apple made some big news with the iPhones it introduced at its event in early September.

Everyone knew the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max would be announced, but Apple also introduced the iPhone Duo, which is their ...Read more

The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, Bain & Co. said.

Existing consumer and enterprise AI services may generate as much as $1.8 trillion of that sum, leaving $4.2 trillion in new revenue that needs to be created, the consulting ...Read more

Paramount Skydance and the state attorneys general are defending their proposed settlement in the face of skeptical questions from Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, arguing that the judge overseeing the case should approve the agreement without the deeper review the senator has requested.

Booker, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary ...Read more

The California attorney general will help oversee healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente's medical arbitration system to ensure it operates fairly under legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed late Sunday.

Patients, their families and lawyers have complained that Kaiser's private and confidential system of handling medical malpractice complaints is ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed wildfire insurance reforms, but vetoed bills cracking down on claims-handling practices that drew complaints from January 2025 fire victims.

Over the weekend, Newsom signed the Disaster Recovery Reform Act by Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, sponsored by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, as well as a bill by ...Read more

The City Council has issued a rare subpoena to compel testimony from Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a hearing it is planning on the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Other AI firms, including Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as Google and Meta, have signaled they intend to send representatives to testify before the Council at an Oct. 5 hearing. The ...Read more

Remember when you could get a mortgage for 2.5%?

Those days seem almost as distant as dial-up internet and $1 gallons of gasoline.

Americans are living in an economy where everything is expensive — and the latest quarter-point interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve will make the cost of borrowing money higher too.

“The U.S. is a ...Read more