The number of Americans on benefit rolls climbed to a more than three-year high, while first-time applications for U.S. unemployment insurance edged slightly higher.

Continuing claims, a proxy for people who are already receiving benefits and still can’t find a job, jumped to 1.9 million in the week ended Jan. 11, the highest since November ...Read more

The Edge-class party won’t be done with the debut of Celebrity Xcel later this year as a sixth ship in the popular class was just ordered by Celebrity Cruises’ parent company Royal Caribbean Group.

The agreement contingent on financing was announced Tuesday with French shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique, calling for a sister vessel to be ...Read more

Erewhon, the luxury supermarket chain that turned grocery shopping into a hyper-trendy Los Angeles lifestyle, is ramping up its pace of expansion.

The company will move into three new cities in 2025: Manhattan Beach, West Hollywood and Glendale.

It's the most store openings in a single year since owners Tony and Josephine Antoci bought Erewhon...Read more

DILWORTH, Minnesota – Glen Hjelle’s farm outside Elbow Lake in western Minnesota sits a long way from the White House.

But as a young man, he remembers how then-President Jimmy Carter’s embargo of the Soviet Union rattled wheat markets like nothing he’d see for the coming decades.

That is, until the presidency of Donald Trump.

“I’...Read more

CNN is cutting 6% of its workforce as the news organization tries to reinvent itself for TV's digital future.

Facing an exodus of viewers and a systemic decline in pay TV subscriptions, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned news channel said Thursday it will cut 200 employees from the TV side of the business while investing in the digital operation....Read more

The shimmering office towers of the downtown Los Angeles skyline conceal a hard truth — much of the space is empty.

In the years since the pandemic, which upended workplace norms and evaporated demand for office space, landlords downtown have watched in frustration as the value of their office buildings has plummeted. More than a few have ...Read more

Buying a home in South Florida this year is likely to be easier to navigate than last year, real estate experts say.

Realtors are offering insights on why the market may be more appealing to many buyers in 2025.

“Last year, a lot of people were afraid to do things,” said Kay Conageski, a Realtor with the Keyes Company, a real estate ...Read more

As Greater Hartford faces an incredible demand for affordable housing and long-term rentals, the high number of listings on Airbnb shows plenty of open properties or rentals available.

But according to experts, those Airbnb properties are contributing to the declining supply of long-term rentals.

A consumer affairs study from last year marked ...Read more

Jimmy Fallon was less than eager to try Progresso’s chicken noodle soup-flavored hard candies, or “soup drops,” which General Mills released earlier this month.

“I tried it,” “The Tonight Show” host said last week, “and it sucks.”

Pun intended or not, that seems to be the point of this publicity stunt: attention, at any cost,...Read more

Kirk Hendrick, the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board for the last two years, has resigned and will leave the position at the end of the 2025 legislative session.

Hendrick made the announcement Wednesday after meeting recently with Gov. Joe Lombardo.

An exact date for Hendrick’s departure hasn’t been determined, but Nevada ...Read more

Apple has suffered a major blow in a massive unequal-pay lawsuit launched against the company after a female employee allegedly found on an office printer a male colleague’s tax form suggesting men at the Cupertino firm were paid more than women for the same jobs. A judge on Friday shot down the iPhone maker’s bid to kill the legal action.

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Struggling with declining revenue in its groundbreaking nonprofit radio/newspaper model, Chicago Public Media is offering voluntary buyouts for Chicago Sun-Times journalists and business employees at WBEZ.

The WBEZ newsroom will not be affected by the buyout announcement Wednesday, but more cuts could be on the way.

In a memo shared with ...Read more

Less than a week after a highly contagious strain of bird flu was found in a Georgia commercial poultry facility for the first time, a second and even larger flock nearby has tested positive for the virus, state agriculture officials said Wednesday.

The virus, the H5N1 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, has ravaged wild birds, ...Read more

With the strides Colorado has made in adopting electric vehicles, state officials believe it’s “full speed ahead” on realizing state goals even if federal incentives are rolled back.

Colorado edged out California in the third quarter of 2024 to take the nation’s top spot for market share of new electric vehicles. A report said electric ...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday announced that OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank are partnering on a venture to direct more than $100 billion toward computing infrastructure that will power artificial intelligence in the United States.

"It will ensure the future of technology," Trump said at a news conference at the White House, where he was joined by ...Read more

A top Stellantis NV executive told employees Wednesday that the automaker will build the next-generation Dodge Durango SUV in Detroit and a midsize pickup truck at the currently closed assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois.

Both of those manufacturing sites had been mentioned in the company's 2023 contract with the United Auto Workers, but the ...Read more