DETROIT — Advocates, along with actress and activist Jane Fonda, held a Friday press conference calling for a raised minimum wage for all Michigan workers nearly a year after state lawmakers approved a compromise minimum wage law.

The event, held by the national group One Fair Wage, took place at Yum Village, an Afro-Caribbean restaurant in ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and phone features.

Affected employees will be notified of the layoffs starting Tuesday morning, according to an internal post from Chief ...Read more

Despite a year of trade volatility and unprecedented tariffs, the Port of Long Beach handled a record amount of cargo in 2025 and expects growth to accelerate.

Under the leadership of a new chief executive, Noel Hacegaba, the second-busiest port in the U.S. plans to invest to be ready to double the cargo it processes by 2050. That's also the ...Read more

When McDonald’s brought back its cult-favorite McRib to Chicago and a handful of other markets for a limited run in November, it set off a media frenzy and a mad dash to the Golden Arches for fans of the sporadic sandwich.

But the return of the McRib also precipitated a class action lawsuit alleging that the sandwich – so beloved it has a ...Read more

CHICAGO — An amendment to Senate appropriations legislation filed Monday by U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth would reverse proposed federal funding cuts to the Chicago Harbor Lock, the mechanism through which boats travel to sail between Lake Michigan and the Chicago River.

President Donald Trump proposed a funding cut of more than...Read more

Boeing booked more orders in 2025 than its European rival, but Airbus continued to produce more planes than Boeing for the seventh year in a row.

Boeing had one of its most successful years since 2018, before two fatal 737 MAX crashes, the COVID-19 pandemic and, in 2024, a midair blowout and two-month Machinists strike upended the manufacturer�...Read more

North Chicago-based AbbVie has become the latest drugmaker to reach a deal with the Trump administration on drug prices in exchange for being exempted from tariffs and future price mandates, the company announced Monday evening.

Under the voluntary agreement, AbbVie will offer “low prices” in Medicaid, a state and federally funded health ...Read more

The new year promises an array of new vehicles, beginning with the 2026 Detroit Auto Show that opens Wednesday with a roar.

Literally.

Unshackled by government carbon dioxide regulations, expect the roar of new gas-powered V-8 engines to shake Motown asphalt. Ram’s reborn earth-pawing, 777-horsepower Ram 1500 TRX supertruck debuted on Jan. 1...Read more

Even in this era of Real Housewives and celebrity boxing on Netflix, you haven’t seen a real fight until you’ve watched weather nerds battling over a botched forecast.

Take the Christmas Eve Windstorm That Never Happened.

Most of us in Western Washington were glad the gale-force winds predicted for Dec. 24 didn’t show up.

Not so the ...Read more

It stands to reason that the easier it is to fund gambling at a casino, the more revenue the casino can generate through patron play.

That’s the basis for Koin, a Las Vegas-based digital payment company that provides digital wallets for players that can easily be funded by banks, debit or credit cards, Paypal, Venmo, Apple Pay or Google Play....Read more

Wall Street homebuyers rattled by President Donald Trump’s broadside are plotting their own proposals to defuse the risk of getting shut out of the housing market.

“If the administration were to sit down with a group of us we could put a we could put a proposal — we could put a project — together,” Pretium Co-President Stephen Scherr ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. has appointed a former top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump to a newly created senior management role focused on partnering with governments and investors on AI.

Dina Powell McCormick, a former Goldman Sachs executive, is joining the company this week as president and vice chairman. She’s part of a new team of ...Read more

Moderna Inc.’s chairman says the Trump administration’s vaccine policy changes are part of a broader attack on science that may have only just begun.

“Today it may be childhood vaccines or mRNA, but tomorrow it’s everything,” Noubar Afeyan said in an interview Monday on the sidelines of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San ...Read more

Illinois is giving residents more time to shop for health insurance on the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange, as Congress continues to tussle over whether to extend subsidies that reduce the cost of coverage.

Illinois will now give residents until Jan. 31 to choose health insurance plans on the state’s new Affordable Care Act exchange, ...Read more

After the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, Candace Nelson reevaluated her career. She had just been laid off from a boutique investment banking firm in San Francisco's tech startup scene, and realized she wanted a change.

From her home, she launched a custom cake service that soon morphed into an idea for a cupcake-focused bakery. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Automaker Volkswagen AG said in a public filing last week that President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian automotive goods violate binding trade agreements he approved during his first term.

The German company made the claim in a comment submitted Wednesday to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative office, which was ...Read more

Mattel is releasing its first autistic Barbie doll.

Created in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), the toy launched Monday is meant to represent children with autism spectrum disorder and how they experience the world.

The doll joins the Barbie Fashionistas line, which features more than 175 looks across various skin ...Read more

DETROIT — General Motors Co. leveraged the automaker's more than 120-year heritage and its success during Detroit's Golden Age to design the company's new global headquarters at the Hudson's Detroit complex downtown that opened Monday.

Nods to GM's past are hidden throughout the company's roughly 200,000-square-foot space: fabric from the ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group Inc. used “aggressive strategies” to maximize diagnoses and boost payments for patients on private Medicare health plans, a new Senate report found, adding to pressure on the largest US health insurer.

The health-care conglomerate has a “robust” workforce — augmented by artificial intelligence — to capture ...Read more