ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The newest addition to the Minnesota Wild lineup took laps around the ice at an empty Xcel Energy Center on Monday morning, prepping for an NHL debut at the season opener Thursday.

The newcomer is more than 6 feet tall, built like a truck, with a name familiar to hockey fans: Zamboni.

Like its predecessors, this Zamboni...Read more

The redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester brings to mind my single friend Kathy, who works for Catholic Social Services. For many years, she drove solo in an oversized canary yellow Plymouth Belvedere station wagon. Is it any wonder that she now pilots a Subaru Forester? While not the Spartan suburban dream promised by Plymouth, the Forester possesses...Read more

Which of California's economic initiatives droves conservatives batty the most? No question: It's the state's $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, which went into effect April 1.

For months before the wage increase, conservative pundits and economists filled the airwaves and newspaper columns with predictions that it would produce an ...Read more

As a rapidly increasing number of California dairy farms suffer outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu, industry experts say it remains unclear just how the disease may affect the nation’s milk supply or pricing.

As of Oct. 9, the nation’s largest milk producing state had reported 93 H5N1 outbreaks in dairy herds — nearly doubling in the span of a ...Read more

Stellantis NV on Thursday announced a leadership overhaul amid recent financial and sales struggles, including new chief operating officers for North America and Europe and a new chief financial officer, among other moves.

For North America, Stellantis said current Jeep CEO Antonio Filosa will add chief operating officer for the region to his ...Read more

Johnson & Johnson did not wrongly manipulate bankruptcy rules when it filed an insolvency case in Texas and not its home state of New Jersey, a federal judge ruled, increasing the odds the consumer health giant can settle claims its baby powder gave women cancer.

Judge Christopher Lopez said Thursday he’ll keep a J&J subsidiary in his Houston...Read more

MiMedx, a Marietta, Georgia, biomedical company that makes skin grafts and other treatments, is entangled in contentious legal battles with filings in recent weeks by a federal government agency in one court and 10 former employees in another.

Near the center of both conflicts is a new wound treatment it calls Axiofill, which the Food and Drug ...Read more

New research published Thursday found Atlanta is the best city for Black people who want to get on the housing ladder. But it also reinforced findings on the gulf between white and Black homeownership in the US.

The report published by Columbia, Miss.-based Mortgage Research Center suggests the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta area is the most ...Read more

McDonald's is putting Beyond Meat's plant-based chicken McNuggets on its French menu, marking an expansion of the El Segundo company's European business.

The Veggie McPlant Nuggets, made from wheat and pea proteins, will be served at all of McDonald's 1,560 restaurants in France on a permanent basis, the fast food company said this week.

"With...Read more

Delta Air Lines’ July meltdown triggered by the CrowdStrike outage took a chunk out of the carrier’s third quarter results, but Delta still managed to post a $1.27 billion profit during a busy summer season.

In the July-September quarter, Delta brought in $15.7 billion in revenue, up 1% from the third quarter last year. Delta’s third ...Read more

In 1927, 44 homeowners living on West Penn Street in Germantown, Pennsylvania, got together to write a rule for who could and couldn’t buy or rent their properties. They excluded everyone “other than those of the Caucasian race.”

And then they went even further.

If anyone of any other race occupied any of the properties, the covenant ...Read more

Q: We are new to Florida and dealing with our first major storm. Many people are telling us how to prepare, but not the realities of dealing with damage to our new home, should it occur. What do we do if something happens? — Justin

A: Natural disasters can occur no matter where someone lives. For some people, it could be a hurricane; for ...Read more

Applications for US unemployment benefits rose last week to a more than one-year high, reflecting notable increases in Michigan and states hit by Hurricane Helene.

Initial claims increased by 33,000 to 258,000 in the week ended Oct. 5, surpassing all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. On an unadjusted basis, more than half of the ...Read more

Google’s antitrust problems are coming home to roost.

While the company has beat back European antitrust interventions by paying 6.5 billion euros ($7.1 billion), U.S. enforcers are now flexing their muscles — and the most painful part for the Alphabet Inc. unit won’t be monetary fines, but blows to core businesses that bring in big ...Read more

Underlying U.S. inflation rose more than forecast in September, representing a pause in the recent progress toward moderating price pressures.

The so-called core consumer price index — which excludes food and energy costs — increased 0.3% for a second month, disrupting a string of lower readings, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showed ...Read more

SAN JOSE, California — The Bay Area’s three primary office markets, haunted by empty buildings, have reached forbidding new milestones of record-high vacancy levels, according to a grim new report.

Silicon Valley, which roughly equates to Santa Clara County; downtown Oakland; and San Francisco all hit record-high office vacancy rates in the...Read more

Jane Fonda is a powerful, passionate climate advocate. She’s gotten arrested protesting at the U.S. Capitol, raised money to defeat a Big Oil ballot measure in California and written a book about activism. She lives her values.

So I was disappointed by some of the anti-nuclear arguments Fonda made in a recent opinion piece.

Writing for the ...Read more

Environmental groups are worried about possible pollution impacts as Hurricane Milton is likely to pass directly over Bone Valley, Florida, the heart of the state's phosphate mining and production.

According to a Tampa Bay Times analysis, 22 of Florida’s 25 phosphate waste piles are located in Hurricane Milton’s projected path over Manatee,...Read more