California accused Meta on Tuesday of studying “vulnerabilities in teens’ brains” to hook children on Facebook and Instagram, then concealing the harm, in opening statements of a potentially transformative federal trial in Oakland.

Meta countered that it has recognized the risks of social media, researched user safety and developed tools ...Read more

The Nevada Gaming Control Board is seeking $120,000 a day in fines against prediction market Kalshi, alleging the company failed to comply with a judge’s order to stop offering sports, election and entertainment event contracts in Nevada by an Aug. 12 deadline.

The board made the allegation in a late Friday court filing in Carson City after ...Read more

Rents are dropping across the Las Vegas Valley, according to a new report from Zumper.

One-bedroom apartment rents dropped 18.8% in July year over year, the biggest drop in the valley, in Winchester, which includes the north end of the Strip and to the east, according to the apartment rental platform.

The second biggest decline was in North ...Read more

Victoria Hinks tried taking her 16-year-old daughter’s phone away time and again as the San Rafael, California, girl became consumed by social media feeds that Hinks said repeatedly served her posts about anorexia and self-harm. And every time her daughter would fight back — even sneaking into her parents’ room to nab her phone and get ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration is downplaying expectations for a last-minute deal with Canada to avert fresh tariffs set to take effect Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said.

The U.S. has signaled privately that the chances of a deal on Tuesday are a coin flip or worse, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity ...Read more

Three workers were repairing a machine inside Stellantis NV's Dundee Engine Plant early on April 7, 2025, when two of them stepped away for a break, leaving their third colleague to toil away on the large industrial washer alone.

When one worker returned from the restroom minutes later, he found Ronald Adams trapped, his body pinned between a ...Read more

California just became the first state in the nation to require that replacement car tires be as energy-efficient as new ones, a move the state says will save drivers a billion dollars annually while reducing gasoline and electricity demand.

“This is a time where there’s great economic pressure on a lot of working people across the country,...Read more

California launched a salacious opening to its hotly anticipated multistate lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday morning, detailing the tech titan's focus on its preteen users in language that could have been lifted from Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita."

"You're going hear how Meta desperately tried to hold on to those kids, how it wanted them so badly, ...Read more

Boeing had hoped for smooth negotiations with its white-collar union members, aiming to avoid the type of tense impasse that resulted in financially crippling strikes in the past.

But after an early endorsement of Boeing's final contract offer from the union's negotiating team last month, there are indications of trouble ahead, as the deadline ...Read more

OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, is rolling out an experience for teens that includes safety and learning features.

The global introduction of "ChatGPT for Teens" comes as OpenAI and other tech companies face lawsuits that allege AI chatbots are harming young people by providing information used to plan mass ...Read more

Costco is partnering with a nonprofit to launch its own brand of Medicare.

The Issaquah, Washington-based warehouse chain has agreed to work with a California-based nonprofit insurer called SCAN to offer a Medicare Advantage plan that includes a suite of senior-focused insurance products.

For Costco, the move means breaking into a Medicare ...Read more

A months-long worker lockout at one of Cargill’s largest meatpacking facilities will end after union workers Monday ratified a new contract that will increase wages.

The Minnesota-based company stopped operations at its Fort Morgan, Colorado, facility in May after pay negotiations between the global food company and Teamsters members reached ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson faced boos from a crowd of anti-data center activists on the South Side Saturday after not disavowing the massive “Quantum Shore” development, even as he said it will not include a data center.

Fresh off an executive order more strictly regulating the construction of data centers in Chicago, Johnson ...Read more

SEATTLE — By the end of the summer, Seattle-area Meta employees may notice a shift in their daily routines — a change that will take place right underneath their noses.

The tech giant with offices in Seattle, Redmond and Bellevue is swapping its food provider from locally owned Lavish Roots Catering and Hospitality to Sodexo, a global food ...Read more

Uber and Lyft drivers in California are a step closer to unionizing after state regulators confirmed the budding union had gained enough support to be certified.

Rideshare drivers have been fighting for a union for more than a decade to have more say in their pay, working conditions and benefits.

The California Public Employment Relations ...Read more

With less than 36 hours to go before new U.S. tariffs on Canada are set to kick in, automotive sector rules are proving to be a major obstacle in negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter.

Canada has pushed to reduce the tariff rate on autos to 10% or expand an exemption that currently applies to U.S. parts in vehicles, ...Read more

Consumers from the Los Angeles region who order through Grubhub will soon have some of their orders delivered by four-wheeled robots.

Serve Robotics, which operates 500 robots across 40 neighborhoods in Los Angeles, has partnered with food marketplace Grubhub. Through this partnership, robot delivery is now available to nearly 200 local ...Read more

Most British businesses say artificial intelligence has created new roles, according to a survey that suggests firms are moving beyond experimentation and starting to reshape hiring around the technology.

The Lloyds Business Barometer found a quarter of UK employers are increasingly hiring candidates with AI skills, while a fifth are creating ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed to court Tuesday for a high-stakes showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users.

In a case that carries enormous risk for one of the world’s most valuable tech companies, the top legal ...Read more

A CD ladder spreads your savings across multiple certificates of deposit (CDs) with staggered maturity dates, so you capture the higher rates of longer-term CDs while still getting access to part of your money every six to 12 months. It’s a solution to the classic CD dilemma of choosing between better rates and flexibility.

That said, top ...Read more