Petco, the San Diego-based animal goods and services brand, announced this week it will shift from selling rabbits to putting them up for adoption.

Petco was not selling rabbits on a wide scale, but it had launched a pilot in which it put “fewer than 50 rabbits” up for sale at certain of its stores across the U.S. This move brings the ...Read more

State Farm is projecting that by 2028, the number of policies it issues in California will drop by 1 million, as the insurance giant grapples with financial distress and pulls back from the Golden State.

According to a filing submitted to the California Department of Insurance on Sept. 10, the insurer’s policies for property insurance, which ...Read more

A Chicago exotic dance club failed to protect dancers from “dangerous, harassing, and sometimes violent” behavior from customers, retaliated against a dancer who reported the harassment to her supervisor and discriminated against Black dancers by pushing them into less lucrative shifts, a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment ...Read more

Actors Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, a comedy duo who also run a cannabis company, sued a California public health agency over new rules that would ban certain hemp products.

“This draconian regulation alone will essentially devastate an emerging industry that consists largely of small business owners. It’s akin to requiring candy to stop ...Read more

Television station group owner E.W. Scripps is shutting down its 24-hour news channel on Nov. 15, another sign of a contraction in the TV news industry.

E.W. Scripps Chief Executive Adam Symson informed staff Friday of the closure of the channel known as Scripps News. More than 200 jobs will be eliminated, according to his memo.

Scripps News ...Read more

Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards is investigating Amazon Logistics — the company’s vast network of delivery services — for alleged violations of labor laws, including the city’s ordinance requiring paid sick time for gig workers that went into effect this year.

The investigation appears focused on Amazon’s Flex drivers, who ...Read more

In the latest video of GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance to go viral but not in a good way, he's seen standing in front of a grocery display of eggs and blaming Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for driving the cost of this staple up to $4 per dozen.

That's "thanks to Kamala Harris' inflationary policies," Vance states. "It...Read more

As it has been awhile since we reviewed an Acura vehicle in Grasso’s Garage, we made room in our busy schedule to test-drive the Acura MDX Type-S. It was more than worth the wait.

First, power at the driver’s command is considerable, as Acura sticks with what works best: the 355 horsepower 3.0-liter direct injection turbo 6-cylinder engine....Read more

Walt Disney Co. has initiated a fresh round of layoffs, with corporate employees emerging as the latest victims of the Burbank media and entertainment giant's ongoing $7.5-billion cost-cutting operation.

This week, Disney is in the process of eliminating roughly 300 jobs, according to Deadline. In a statement provided Thursday to The Lose ...Read more

A possible dockworkers' strike on the East and Gulf coasts as early as Tuesday means more business for Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, but it also means Santa Claus may take it on the chin along with millions of American consumers.

A strike would cause billions of dollars in economic damage and force shippers to divert more products to land ...Read more

Among storefronts and bustling customers at the Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles, a sleek black-and-white aircraft sat motionless on a podium.

Shoppers turned their heads as they passed by to get a better look, some using their phones to take photos. The all-electric aircraft could revolutionize city transportation and offer an escape from L....Read more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — If I lived here in America’s Music City, I would buy a manual 2025 Honda Civic Si, move south of the city and take the twisted, vacant Natchez Trace Highway into work every day. SPORT mode. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Shift to 4th. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Downshift to 3rd with rev match. BWAP! Back on the throttle. BWAAAUUWWWWW! Glorious.

If...Read more

The battery-electric 2025 Polestar 3 is the Swedish brand’s first SUV, one that tips its stylistic hat to the Volvo XC40, albeit one that’s been squashed and lengthened. Lower and sportier in style than its Scandinavian cousin, it’s a long overdue stablemate to the somewhat stodgier Polestar 2, and one meant to take on such formidable ...Read more

It’s Friday night of a football weekend in Happy Valley.

Every bar in the college town is packed, with some lines snaking around the block. As they wait, jacketless bar-goers huddle together, shivering in the crisp autumn air, while Penn State alumni who have fallen out of practice with late-night revelry stifle yawns.

It’s an experience ...Read more

Forty years ago, a Canadian banking giant bought Harris Bank for $547 million, taking over the storied Chicago institution and staking its ground in the fertile financial soil of the Midwest.

BMO, formerly the Bank of Montreal, has since created its own Chicago history, growing to become the 10th largest bank in the U.S., now headquartered in a...Read more

SEATTLE — The National Transportation Safety Board issued urgent safety recommendations Thursday to Boeing and the FAA about the risk of a 737 rudder malfunction because of a manufacturing fault in a component.

The Federal Aviation Administration said United was the only U.S. airline flying planes with the manufacturing defect in the rudder ...Read more

U.S. pending home sales ticked up in August from a record low, as falling mortgage rates encouraged some buyers to dip a toe into the market.

A measure of contract signings for previously owned homes climbed 0.6% to 70.6 last month, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors Thursday. That came in below the median ...Read more

OpenAI is discussing giving Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman a 7% equity stake in the company and restructuring to become a for-profit business, people familiar with the matter said, a major shift that would mark the first time Altman is granted ownership in the artificial intelligence startup.

The company is considering becoming a public ...Read more