Live Nation, the ticketing giant that reached a tentative settlement with the Department of Justice last week, remains under fire.

A coalition of more than 30 states that had joined the original lawsuit filed in 2024 is refusing to accept the $200 million settlement, causing the trial to resume this week in Manhattan's Federal Court.

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A large health system in Northern California plans to acquire Allina Health, one of the state’s largest operators of hospitals and clinics.

The deal announced Tuesday, March 17, with Sacramento-based nonprofit Sutter Health would create health systems with a combined 39 hospital campuses and hundreds of outpatient care locations across ...Read more

When Carrie Odell, 49, reflects on her mother's generation, she's certain that people at the time didn't discuss perimenopause — the dreaded years in almost every woman's life leading to the end of her menstrual periods, or menopause.

Hot flashes, brain fog, mood fluctuations, insomnia: all aches and pains taken in stride for much of history ...Read more

Starbucks may be eyeing significantly more office space in Tennessee than it has previously acknowledged.

The Seattle-based coffee giant is reportedly considering 250,000 square feet of office space, or enough for up to 2,000 employees, in Nashville, according to a story last week in CoStar News, a real estate journal.

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Harry Reid International Airport’s Transportation Security Administration agents, who haven’t been paid in a month because of the partial government shutdown, can file for state unemployment insurance benefits.

But TSA agents would have to pay back any benefits they receive once they are reimbursed their back pay. The agents, who handle ...Read more

About 700 workers temporarily laid off at a Tennessee factory owned by General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution will return to build batteries for data centers instead of electric vehicles, the companies said Tuesday.

Ultium Cells, a partnership between GM and LGES, furloughed the workers in January at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, plant after ...Read more

Amazon is offering one-hour deliveries to hundreds of U.S. cities and towns, including parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

The e-commerce giant said that it is also offering three-hour deliveries in more than 2,000 cities and towns. It plans to expand these options to more places in the coming months, the company said in a blog post ...Read more

Walt Disney Co.'s incoming president and chief creative officer, Dana Walden, has unveiled her leadership team, which includes several familiar faces from the company's film, television and marketing units.

Walden will become Disney's first female president on Wednesday. She will report to Josh D'Amaro, who will succeed Bob Iger as Disney's ...Read more

The online service Grammarly originated in 2009 as a suite of tools to help ferret out plagiarism in schoolwork or help students hone their grammar and spelling. Eventually it incorporated artificial intelligence bots as sources of its writing assistance.

In August 2025, however, the firm stepped way over the line of what is — or should be �...Read more

Apprenticeship opportunities in Minnesota are booming as high schools, two-year colleges and employers embrace the value of workers earning a solid wage while simultaneously training for a career.

The number of state-registered apprenticeships hit a new high in 2025, with 12,220 in Minnesota spread across 166 programs, according to the U.S. ...Read more

More voters who are registered as Republicans have left the state of California between the last two presidential elections (2020 and 2024) than Democrats, according to a new study.

Between that timeframe, approximately 39 percent of those leaving the state registered to vote were registered as Republican (compared to 25 percent Democrat), and ...Read more

The U.S. war with Iran is wreaking havoc on the global fertilizer market and stressing Minnesota corn farmers who are already managing tense balance sheets.

Corn prices remain much lower than 2022’s peak of roughly $348 per ton because of big harvests and lower demand. Meanwhile, the price of a widely used fertilizer, one of farmers’ main ...Read more

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — Burnet Wohlford’s family built Escondido’s water supply.

More than a century ago, his great-grandfather, Alvin, directed water to the area from the San Luis Rey River along a rock and brush canal. It’s a legacy built into the landscape, the dammed reservoir northeast of town bearing the family’s name.

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Until two years ago, Oakland, California, father of five Jose Peña could tote a 60-pound slab of countertop with ease. Now, a walk down the block with his kids leaves him gasping for breath and reaching for his oxygen tank.

The aggressive, incurable disease, silicosis, that doctors believe he acquired from cutting, shaping and polishing quartz...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has unveiled a share repurchase program — but it differs from General Motors Co.'s buyback efforts in a big way.

The Dearborn automaker on Friday announced a plan to buy up to 31.7 million common shares of Ford stock. It's an anti-dilutive measure that seeks to minimize impact on its share price from the company's grant of ...Read more

After Cuba’s deputy prime minister said Monday Cubans in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own businesses on the island, one of Miami’s Cuban U.S. House members said anyone who intends to invest with the regime before political change “is insane.”

“If you’re insane, go ahead and invest in Cuba,” said Rep. Carlos Gimé...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, addressing crowds at the company’s biggest annual event, unveiled a variety of new products while predicting that its flagship AI processors would help generate $1 trillion in sales through 2027.

During a 2 1/2-hour keynote address, Huang announced plans to push deeper into central ...Read more

Terra Energy Center is pouring $1 billion into a deal for a planned coal project in Alaska, marking the first investment in new U.S. coal power in more than a decade.

The in-principal agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Power Systems for an order of power-plant boilers was described in a U.S. Interior Department fact sheet Monday. The ...Read more

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is proposing more extensive flight reductions at Chicago O’Hare International Airport than first anticipated, which would force American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. to adjust previously planned expansions at the busy aviation hub.

The FAA, in a new notice on Monday, sought to...Read more

After decades of being stripped of many of their rights for leaving the country, Cubans living in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own private businesses on the island, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald.

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga told NBC News Monday morning that �...Read more