Whether you love DEI, despise it or view it with uninterest, there's no question that President Trump's relentless assault on the principle threw a ticking bomb into the upper echelons of corporate and institutional managements.

Businesses, universities, law firms and nonprofits felt themselves bound to consider how bucking Trump's anti-DEI ...Read more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The eighth-generation Lexus ES is one of the oldest models in the lineup of Toyota Motor Corp.’s luxury brand. For 2026, the sedan adopts one of the newest innovations in the industry: the multi-energy platform.

Using a common vehicle architecture, the ES offers customers a choice of all-electric and gas-electric ...Read more

Labor unions understand artificial intelligence isn't going anywhere.

The battle for them thus becomes ensuring that their members have a seat at the table to determine how that technology is implemented in their workplace and perhaps even find a way to benefit from it, as some forecast layoffs and major shifts in employment and economic ...Read more

The little Los Angeles shop was a destination for Hello Kitty fans for decades when it decided to dive into a massive new wave of e-commerce — peddling its products live on TikTok.

The first floor of the JapanLA store in Fairfax is full of stuffed toys. It houses shelf after shelf of cute Japanese characters such as My Melody, Totoro and ...Read more

CARNATION, Washington — Far from the refrigerated meat sections of Seattle's grocery stores, two dozen beef cattle relaxed in the afternoon drizzle falling on Carnation Farms' grassy fields.

Livestock manager Alex Hagiepetros, 37, rattled off facts about the cows: Some are Belted Kingshire cattle, and others are Angus-Shorthorn crosses. They ...Read more

Rising costs for health insurance premiums offered to Starbucks workers are sparking tension.

With the fiscal year set to kick off for the Seattle-based coffee giant next month, benefits enrollment recently opened, and some workers have been caught off guard with nearly double the price tag for health insurance and lower share of employer ...Read more

Qualcomm on Tuesday struck a $60 billion deal with Amazon for the San Diego company’s AI data center chips, with Amazon also picking up the right to buy $4 billion of its stock.

“We used to be a smartphone company,” Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkhiwala said at the Goldman Sachs investors summit in San Francisco, outlining the company’s...Read more

The agriculture industry’s fight against the glassy-winged sharpshooter received a modest influx of cash from the California Legislature following the end of its 2026 session.

The Legislature directed the California Department of Food and Agriculture to provide $10 million to county agricultural commissioners from the agency’s existing ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hundreds of residents from Bridgeport, Chinatown and Armour Square gathered at Rate Field Tuesday morning to protest plans by Amtrak and billionaire Justin Ishbia to establish a giant railroad maintenance facility nearby and possibly move the White Sox out of the team’s longtime home on the South Side.

Ald. Nicole Lee, 11th, said ...Read more

CHICAGO — Latin American-born Cook County, Illinois, residents’ spending cratered as they stayed in their homes during Operation Midway Blitz because they were afraid of getting arrested by ICE agents, costing the local economy more than $1 billion and local governments more than $100 million in sales taxes, according to a new report on the ...Read more

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sharply criticized Ford Motor Co's connections with Chinese companies — labeling those ties as "not a sustainable strategy for the United States" — in a letter sent to CEO Jim Farley on Tuesday.

"While DOT recognizes the intense competitive pressures of the global market," the Duffy letter said, "the...Read more

Boeing delivered 51 airplanes in August, keeping 737 Max deliveries in line with previous months but recording a sharp drop in deliveries for the 787 Dreamliner.

Of the 51 planes, 41 were 737 Maxes, compared with 39 Max deliveries in July and 42 in June. In August 2025, Boeing delivered 42 Max planes.

Last month, Boeing delivered just four 787...Read more

Former bikini baristas at five coffee stands in the Puget Sound region say they were paid below minimum wage and forced to turn over earnings to keep up with strict sales standards. Now, a judge has awarded them more than $1.8 million.

The King County Superior Court judge’s order on Aug. 28 follows a yearslong legal battle over pay violations...Read more

The Seattle Times Co. has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, in the latest move by media companies to call out artificial intelligence players’ alleged copyright violations.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court, The Seattle Times, joined by Newsday, accused OpenAI of using the outlets’ published work to train large language models, also known...Read more

The Toledo Blade, long a leading news source in northwest Ohio and parts of southeast Michigan, is set to close at the end of this year if its owners can't find a buyer.

An executive with owner Block Communications informed staff in an email Tuesday morning about the plan to explore a sale and, if that fails, publish a final edition on Dec. 31,...Read more

California’s new, first-of-its-kind “DROP” program enabling residents to have personal information deleted by data brokers depends on companies that have frequently failed to follow privacy law already on the books, new research from Stanford University suggests.

More than 600 companies have registered with the state as data brokers under...Read more

Retail employees in Los Angeles working irregular schedules, called in for shifts with just a few hours' notice, got some relief years ago in the form of a city law requiring large retailers to give them notice of their schedules at least two weeks in advance.

Now, that 2024 law could be expanded to encompass the city's fast-food industry, ...Read more

A Manhattan judge overseeing a major copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI received dueling summary judgment motions Friday, with news organizations including the Daily News and The New York Times calling on the court to reject a key pillar of the tech behemoths’ defense to the claim that they are pirating original ...Read more

PayPal, the digital payments company, is laying off 251 employees at its San José headquarters in another round of layoffs, according to a recent government filing.

The cuts are a part of a multiyear restructuring plan led by CEO Enrique Lores to turn around the company's performance and cut costs while investing more in AI integration.

The ...Read more