In a major boon for San Diego County’s still rebounding cruise industry, Disney Cruise Line has inked a lucrative deal with the Port of San Diego that promises to deliver more than 1 million passengers over the next four years.

While Disney has been sailing out of San Diego since 2012, this latest agreement represents a huge commitment on the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ahead of a key U.S.-China meeting, several efforts are brewing on Capitol Hill to urge President Donald Trump to bar Chinese automakers from accessing the U.S. market.

One of those efforts, led by U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, entered the public eye Tuesday as she announced a letter from 73 House Democrats on the topic some two weeks...Read more

The internet is blowing up over the first change to Costco’s $1.50 hot dog combo in 40 years. But don’t worry — the Issaquah, Washington-based big-box store isn’t budging on the price.

Shoppers who need respite from the chaos of the Costco checkout area can now opt for a 16.9-ounce bottle of Kirkland Signature water instead of a ...Read more

Wednesday will be a busy day on Wall Street.

Just after the closing bell at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, four tech industry titans — Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Google parent Alphabet — will report financial results for the first three months of the year. Though the companies each have different sets of revenue sources, sales growth among the cloud...Read more

T-Mobile is teaming up with controversial billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink to launch a new business broadband network.

Dubbed SuperBroadband, the business internet option pairs T-Mobile's 5G Advanced network with Starlink, lauded as having "the world’s largest low-Earth orbit satellite fleet," per a news release Tuesday.

The partnership ...Read more

Paramount Skydance has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to exceed foreign ownership rules for U.S. media companies to pave the way for its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

David Ellison's media company is expecting to receive $24 billion from three Middle Eastern royal families, who would become part owners of the ...Read more

Here are a couple of rules for anyone thinking of investing in cryptocurrencies, courtesy of one of the biggest crypto tycoons on the planet:

First, don't believe what crypto firms tell you about the security of your investments.

Second: Be wary — very wary — of investing with a crypto firm associated with the Trump family.

These warnings...Read more

A Californian drone manufacturer plans to pour billions of dollars into the defense technology industry, which is booming in the state.

The San Mateo-based company, Skydio, will invest $3.5 billion in domestic manufacturing over the next five years, the company announced Friday.

Defense technology operations, along with aerospace and ...Read more

Michigan health and safety regulators inspected Stellantis NV's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, earlier this year after getting a report that "dozens" of employees in the tower part of the building were suffering from various ailments after returning to the office, records show.

Reported health issues included nose bleeds, migraines, ...Read more

General Motors Co. expects about $500 million in refunds for import taxes paid last year because of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike a pillar of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff policies.

The Detroit automaker reported its projected refund Tuesday along with its profits from the first three months of the year.

The automaker'...Read more

WESTLAKE, California — The electric Chevrolet Bolt was born in 2016 with high expectations, put out to pasture in 2023, and given a second chance for the 2027 model year.

Its rebirth is a microcosm of Detroit electric vehicle learnings over the last 10 years. From its new battery to its new charging port, hands-free driving system and new ...Read more

Lightship, a startup that makes futuristic-looking electric recreational vehicles, is more than doubling its manufacturing space in Broomfield and expects to more than quadruple its production capacity.

Lightship, founded in 2020, started commercial production of its all-electric travel trailer in 2025. The company is expanding its ...Read more

As a fledgling researcher in U.S., Zhang Li was struck by the efficiency of extracting human tissue in the morning and mining it for data the same afternoon.

Such a streamlined process had been missing from his years of training as a bio data scientist in China. Inspired, he returned home to Beijing to join the Chinese Institute for Brain ...Read more

Mike Baker often calls up a dashboard on his computer and sees nothing but green gauges: No big customer service problems evident.

Then the chief operating officer walks down the hall at UnitedHealthcare’s Minnetonka, Minnesota, headquarters and finds all sorts of red: trouble spots highlighted on a wall of screens wider than two cars and ...Read more

Those sweet buy-one, get-one-free sales at Safeway and Albertsons grocery stores may not be the deals you thought they were, according to a new suit by Washington state's attorney general.

From 2019 to 2024, Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, owner of Safeway and Haggen, routinely raised prices on products leading up to “buy one, get one free” ...Read more

China has sought for years to exert influence over business deals beyond its home turf. Still, its decision to press Meta Platforms Inc. to unwind a $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus marks a step unlike anything it’s tried before.

The country’s powerful state planner decreed Monday that the deal must be canceled — four months ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court gave Bayer AG a mixed reception on its bid to stop tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming its Roundup herbicide should have been labeled as a cancer risk.

Hearing arguments in Washington Monday, the justices weighed a $1.25 million jury verdict won by a Missouri man who blamed Roundup for his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The ...Read more

Rivian Automotive Inc.’s top executive earned a whopping $402.6 million for 2025 after the electric-vehicle maker approved a moonshot compensation package that could pay out billions of dollars in the coming years.

Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe’s compensation included $373.5 million in option awards, more than $26.6 million in stock ...Read more

Around 2 a.m. on the late February day the U.S. went to war with Iran, a soybean and corn farmer in St. James, Minnesota, texted his local fuel supplier, who then scrambled to purchase diesel for the upcoming season.

The Middle East conflict was going to balloon diesel fuel and fertilizer prices. And for Minnesota farmers already dealing with ...Read more

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman apologized to a Canadian community for failing to alert police about a mass shooting suspect's conversations with its chatbot.

Authorities said Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, killed eight people including schoolchildren in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, before taking her own life in February.

"I am deeply sorry ...Read more