LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that grocery stories and air conditioning companies will be allowed to keep using high-polluting refrigerants for longer than they would have under a law he signed during his first administration.

“This was a tremendous burden, a tremendous cost,” said Trump, surrounded in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The leading killer of gray whales is not natural causes, disease or predators but human-made ship strikes.

Last year, 21 gray whales were found dead around San Francisco Bay and 40% of those were from ship collisions. This year, seven whales have already died during whale season, which peaks this month. As climate change alters ...Read more

In recent years, at least two dozen local and state governments have sued petroleum companies to recover the billions in costs they have incurred responding to and rebuilding after flooding, storms and wildfires – all of which have been worsened by changes to the climate resulting from burning fossil fuels.

Most of these lawsuits, ...Read more

Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky defended his company’s use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, saying U.S. lawmakers who worry Chinese firms can access Americans’ user data are “misunderstanding” the technology.

Airbnb is not a customer of Alibaba or other Chinese companies, he said in a Bloomberg TV interview on...Read more

President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that will allow water managers to build a $2 billion pipeline under a national conservation area.

The Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Water Pipeline Act was championed in Congress by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Rep. Dina Titus, both Democrats. Ultimately, the pipeline will meet ...Read more

Two California companies at the front of the global race to bring battery-powered air taxis to the public are trying to trip each other up in court.

While Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation are based within an hour of each other in Northern California, they are bitter rivals, each hoping their own small electric vertical take-off and landing ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence.

The company notified workers around the world Wednesday morning, starting with employees across Asia, who got the note at 4 a.m. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Traffic has been down across the restaurant industry over the past few years, but you wouldn’t know it by the crowds at the annual National Restaurant Association show at McCormick Place this week.

The four-day event through Tuesday featured packed exhibition halls, overflowing parking garages and aisles jammed with some 53,000 ...Read more

A visitor has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Disneyland for allegedly failing to properly disclose the use of facial-recognition technology at park and collecting sensitive data on guests.

Summer Christine Duffield of Riverside County, California, filed the lawsuit after a May 10 visit to Disneyland and sister park California Adventure, ...Read more

For decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has relied on an independent scientific program to answer two basic questions when chemicals come up for review: Does the chemical pose a threat to human health? If so, how much exposure is necessary before it becomes a problem?

The scientists involved in that program, known as the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of NASA's most valuable assets is a Southern Californian.

Following the space agency's successful Artemis II mission around the moon last month, Victor Glover — who grew up primarily in the Inland Empire and has spent much of his career at Southern California's many military and aerospace hubs — is now the only pilot to ...Read more

This week a reader wrote in, “I am 74 and was always on top of most electronics as they evolved, but I have to say the rapid changes are hard to keep up with, and I find myself relying on a couple of my younger, more in-tune adult children when it gets to be too much!

"One of my major problems and 'strategies' has been to keep it simple ...Read more

Cosori’s NutriLens smart nutrition scale and its Iconic 6.5-quart stainless-steel smart air fryer are kitchen game changers.

Testing these over several weeks of home-cooked meals—led by my wife—delivered impressive results. For example, in the past, we’ve made chicken Parmesan in a few different air fryers, and some turned out great; ...Read more

For years, I’ve searched for one headset to rule them all, a set of cans that offers great sound quality, robust features and universal compatibility. Several devices have come close but fallen short in one area or another. A headset that could do everything seemed like a pipedream until SteelSeries came along with the Arctis Nova Pro Omni. ...Read more

U.S. regulators are pausing some cyber-related examinations of the largest banks, giving the lenders more breathing room as the firms dig into the risks exposed by Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model.

The Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency want to give banks time to bolster their systems against cyber threats ...Read more

Formula 1 auto racing is one of the most energy-intensive and logistically complex sports on the planet. The events involve cars, of course, but also long-haul freight, international travel, temporary event infrastructure, and a global calendar that keeps people and equipment moving almost constantly.

Motorsports companies are not ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After a hit to the blue crab population last year, the numbers have grown by over 100 million in 2026.

The blue crab population is estimated at 349 million in the Chesapeake Bay, compared to the 238 million last year, according to results from this winter’s annual dredge survey of the waterway.

Blue crab populations are highly ...Read more