President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to levy hefty tariffs on imports is expected to result in retaliation that hits farmers hard, repeating events of his first term, when Washington spent tens of billions of dollars to ease the pain on the agriculture sector.

Trump has proposed a blanket 10% to 20% tariff on all goods imports, a 60% or ...Read more

Elon Musk is easily the world’s wealthiest man, with a net worth topping $300 billion.

But even he stands to make more money from his association with the federal government after placing a winning bet on Donald Trump’s election to the presidency.

“It’s going to be a golden era for Musk with Trump in the White House,” Wedbush ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Superheroes and animation packed a punch for Walt Disney Co. as "Deadpool & Wolverine" and "Inside Out 2" propelled the company's film studio to one of its best fiscal quarters.

The Burbank media giant reported Thursday that its entertainment business took in $10.8 billion in revenue during its fiscal fourth quarter, an increase...Read more

Stellantis NV's luxury brand Maserati has made several major leadership changes in recent weeks amid plummeting sales this year.

Last month, Stellantis named Santo Ficili as the new CEO for the upscale Italian brand, replacing Davide Grasso. Ficili, who previously oversaw the overall Italian market for Stellantis, also now leads the automaker's...Read more

A Chipotle shareholder is suing the company over a skimpy-portions uproar that allegedly ruined their investment.

Revelations of Chipotle’s inconsistent portion sizes that rocked social media in July and August sparked a “precipitous decline” in the fast food chain’s stock, causing “significant losses and damages,” according to a ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. will pay the second-largest civil penalty in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's history after the Dearborn automaker failed to comply with federal recall requirements, according to a new release from the agency.

The three-year consent order agreed to by Ford and the NHTSA includes a civil penalty of up to $165 ...Read more

Donald J. Trump’s second presidency may significantly alter health care and public health in Minnesota, especially if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets the opportunity to bring his vaccine skepticism to federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Trump’s pledge to let Kennedy “go wild” on those agencies drew ...Read more

Ballard, Washington, renters Anurag Kamasamudram and Mayuri Gupta started their home search casually this fall. They hoped to get a feel for the market, “window shopping” before they hired an agent and started searching more seriously in the spring.

But the couple quickly ran into problems. Agents representing home sellers seemed hesitant ...Read more

The South Bay region of Los Angeles County is in for a large-scale transformation near the Port of Los Angeles as Phillips 66 shuts down its sprawling refineries and makes way for developers to reimagine the prime real estate.

Potential replacements for the century-old refinery complex covering 650 acres include housing and last-mile ...Read more

Folks who are looking to rent a home now have more negotiating power, especially heading into the end of the year.

The rental market is typically slower in the fall, but it has slowed beyond what’s expected. An influx of new apartments in Philadelphia and across the country has controlled rent increases and forced landlords to work harder to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Swedish streaming audio giant Spotify is courting more video creators, podcasters and influencers in an effort to step up its competition with popular digital platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

The Stockholm-based company on Wednesday hosted creators at its office in Downtown L.A.'s Arts District, where executives ...Read more

Delta Air Lines acknowledged this week that information from its internal directory was leaked in a data breach of a third party, but said it did not include any sensitive employee information.

The data included “things like names, contact information and office location,” but no sensitive personal data, according to the Atlanta-based ...Read more

The Art Institute of Chicago has named tech billionaire and Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky as its new board chairman, putting the serial entrepreneur in charge of overseeing the museum, the school and an ambitious plan to usher in an era of new development at the historic South Michigan Avenue campus.

Lefkofsky, 55, who joined the Art ...Read more

Mandatory “captive audience” meetings in which companies argue against unionization are illegal, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a case involving Amazon.com Inc., prohibiting one of employers’ most potent weapons against labor organizing campaigns.

Requiring workers to attend anti-union gatherings violates federal labor law ...Read more

The snap judgment among legal experts was that a federal judge's dismissal on Nov. 7 of a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the leader in advanced chatbots, will short-circuit an ever-growing effort by artists and writers to keep AI firms from stealing their content.

There's no question that the ruling handed down Thursday by Judge...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. will face a somewhat scaled-back antitrust trial over its alleged dominance of social networking after a federal judge threw out some allegations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, but the heart of the case remains.

In a brief order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington said he was narrowing one ...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. has launched an online storefront designed to compete with Temu, the low-cost shopping app that gained traction with shoppers who trade longer shipping times for rock-bottom prices.

Amazon describes Haul, which is available in a beta version for shoppers who use the company’s smartphone app or mobile browsers, as an “...Read more