After six years and multiple rulings, the case between Apple and North Carolina video game developer Epic Games is heading to the nation’s highest court. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear Apple’s appeal over how a lower court enforced an earlier antitrust decision that went against the California tech giant.

What the ...Read more

A new recall from Ford Motor Co. is affecting hundreds of thousands of pickups and SUVs over concerns about potential damage to the vehicles' parking system, and it could be months before a remedy is available.

The recall affects certain 2018-2021 Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, 2020-2021 Explorer and Lincoln Aviators and 2021 F-150...Read more

Anthropic teamed up with California to get more state workers to use its artificial intelligence assistant Claude as part of an effort to leverage technology to make the government more efficient.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who announced the partnership on Monday, said state agencies will be able to access Claude at a 50% discount. Free training and ...Read more

The Food and Drug Administration authorized Philip Morris International Inc. to market its Zyn nicotine pouches as less harmful than cigarettes, the first time the category has received the distinction.

The company is allowed to say that 20 variants of the pouches pose less risk than the combustible alternatives for a litany of diseases ...Read more

Britain's culture minister may challenge Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — presenting a potential speed bump to David Ellison's plan to wrap up his $111 billion deal by September.

Earlier this month, Paramount secured the U.S. Justice Department's blessing to buy the Warner assets, which include CNN, HBO, Cartoon ...Read more

Riverside, California-based radio station KGGI has lost its last local on-air hosts.

Longtime radio personalities Evelyn Erives, Nick Nack and Garrison King were all cut from the Inland Empire station last week as part of iHeartMedia's latest round of national layoffs. In an internal memo, the media giant said it would restructure its radio ...Read more

As the battle between Bally’s and the city heats up over the advent of video gaming terminals, the casino company has enlisted an unlikely ally — former Mayor Lori Lightfoot — whose administration chose the Rhode Island-based company to build Chicago’s first casino.

Bally’s has hired Lightfoot’s law firm, RKF Global, to navigate the...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- With SpaceX’s historic initial public offering minting a small army of new millionaires overnight, the Southern California housing market is bracing for a big wave of buyers looking to upgrade their digs or perhaps snag a second home, potentially driving up prices in some in-demand neighborhoods.

Shares of SpaceX started ...Read more

KEEGO HARBOR, Mich. — As tariffs and inflation squeeze Michigan companies, some under-the-radar businesses are thriving because they never needed imports in the first place.

From thrift stores to consignment boutiques to salvage lumber yards, these reuse and resale retailers have, in some cases, benefited from the tariffs President Donald ...Read more

The blockbuster success of weight-loss drugs is fueling a wave of giving that’s boosting Christian ministries across the U.S. and Canada.

Eli Lilly & Co.’s largest shareholder, the independent Lilly Endowment, gave nearly $1.3 billion to religious causes in 2025, much of it specifically to Christian groups, according to its annual report ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- A buzz and a red light on the panel alerts Lee Bowser that his elevator is being summoned.

Bowser closes the inner brass gate, careful not to pinch a finger. He turns a large crank slightly to the right — about the 1 o’clock position— and the outer door rumbles shut.

He then pulls it to the 3 o’clock spot, and the cab ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm agreed to acquire AI software startup Modular in an all-stock deal valued at $3.92 billion, the San Diego chipmaker said Wednesday during its Investor Day, as it works to expand beyond smartphone chips into data center and AI markets.

Equity holders of Modular will receive up to 19.2 million newly issued Qualcomm common ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — In lieu of statewide regulations, a growing number of Illinois cities and counties are telling data centers to come back later or adhere to new regulations.

In Aurora, what began as a 180-day moratorium ended with city officials bringing the regulatory hammer down on data centers after many community members complained ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Job cuts for the Bay Area tech industry so far in 2026 have greatly outstripped last year’s pace, a gap that has widened in the wake of fresh layoffs for the region’s critical yet unsteady tech sector.

The latest layoffs are poised to erase 600 Bay Area tech jobs, WARN notices posted by the state Employment Development ...Read more

Corn tumbled as traders looked past potential crop stress from the building heat dome to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report due Tuesday that’s expected to show the largest American stockpile since 1988.

The agency is set to publish quarterly stocks data along with annual acreage data showing how much U.S. farmers were able to plant in ...Read more

This is the summer of the mega-IPO, a flood of new stock listings after years of drought.

Mine is not a personal finance column, but there’s never been a moment quite like this. The opportunity to invest at a relatively early stage of an industry, artificial intelligence in this case, doesn’t come often.

And the dollars these companies are...Read more

Microsoft Corp. shares are heading for their worst month in years as investors continue to fret about how the software giant will fare in a world marked by artificial intelligence.

The stock at one point fell more than 20% in June, which would have represented its worst monthly showing since December 2000, although a two-day gain has helped it ...Read more