Federal nutrition guidelines likely won’t warn Americans off “ultra-processed” foods after a committee said there’s no clear definition and more study is needed — a win for Minnesota companies like General Mills and Post Consumer Brands, who argued ultra-processed guidelines would be overly broad and include potentially healthy food. ...Read more

Gig workers for companies such as Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, and Gopuff don’t get health insurance or other expensive workers benefits. The new Trump administration isn’t expected to change that.

Drivers have found some other ways to boost their income:

Delaware-based Carvertise is recruiting drivers who pick up passengers or deliver food to ...Read more

Investors have purchased approximately 131,710 homes in the Las Vegas Valley since the start of 2000, according to data obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The valley posted the biggest increase of investor home purchases in the nation in the third quarter compared to the same quarter last year, at 27.6 percent, Redfin’s economic ...Read more

Smartphone-empowered Americans are using less cash, and automatic-teller machine (ATM) use has dropped steadily since peaking around 2015, according to the Federal Reserve.

“Since COVID, volumes at ATMs have declined by about 10%-20%,” Brinks, the armored-car company whose clients include banks, told bankers in a report earlier this year. ...Read more

DETROIT — General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra acknowledged Wednesday that higher tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada under the incoming Trump administration "could have a very substantial impact" on the automaker.

But she added that President-elect Donald Trump's recent statements calling for 25% tariffs on goods imported from the two ...Read more

California’s electric vehicle ambitions are facing a reality check.

Sales growth has stalled as potential buyers balk at high sticker prices and unreliable public charging. The EV market will take an additional hit if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on vows to scuttle federal EV tax credit subsidies for buyers and slap tariffs on...Read more

WASHINGTON — The nation's top automotive lobbying group on Wednesday encouraged states to retreat from pledges to adopt California's influential, strictest-in-the-nation tailpipe emission regulations.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents all major U.S. automakers except for Tesla Inc., said in an open memo that "it's gonna...Read more

WASHINGTON — California’s economic future is full of “many new unknowns” thanks to uncertainty about the incoming Trump administration, a new UCLA Anderson state economic forecast said Wednesday.

While the state’s economy looks healthy, “uncertainty with respect to the current forecast is elevated,” the forecast said.

The ...Read more

The Boeing Co. has been contracted to construct F-15 fighter aircraft to be sold to Japan, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

The contract awards the aviation giant $450.5 million and comes from the Air Force. It covers the acquisition of radars, self-protection systems and mission computer units.

The work will be done in the St...Read more

What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday, they were partners. On Wednesday, they were angry divorcees.

Albertsons called off its proposed sale to Kroger and sued the rival grocer for billions of dollars the morning after a federal judge in Portland blocked the merger. The deal would have combined the nation’s largest and second-largest ...Read more

U.S. consumer prices rose at a firm pace in November that was in line with expectations, solidifying expectations for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next week.

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

DETROIT — General Motors Co.'s move Tuesday to halt funding for its Cruise LLC robotaxi program makes way for Silicon Valley rivals to take a firmer hold of the potentially multi-billion-dollar business. But experts say bowing out is the right choice for the embattled Cruise.

The decision to instead focus on providing autonomous technology in...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. is asking online shoppers to provide information about product testimonials they’ve posted on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, suggesting the e-commerce giant is more aggressively targeting paid reviews that merchants can use to gain a competitive edge.

In a questionnaire sent to a reviewer and seen by Bloomberg, a member of the...Read more

We all just want our stuff to work, right?

Since most of us have abandoned landlines, our cell phones are our lifelines and the main way we communicate with each other and stay informed.

One of my bigger fears is my phone or laptop running out of power just when I need it most, so I’m an “overcharger.”

My phone transitions from one ...Read more

Huawei Technologies Co.’s latest flagship smartphone is powered by a chip little different from the one that set off alarm bells in Washington a year ago, signaling a slowdown in the Chinese company’s tech advances.

The newly introduced Mate 70 Pro Plus phone runs on a processor built with the same 7-nanometer technology used in its Mate 60...Read more

Meal kit company HelloFresh is under investigation by federal regulators for alleged child labor violations at an Aurora, Illinois, food production and distribution facility.

ABC News first reported on the investigation, citing immigrant rights advocate Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, who told the news source that at least six...Read more

A judge blocked Kroger Co.’s $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos., finding the takeover would lessen competition for U.S. grocery shoppers, in a ruling that marks a likely death knell for the deal.

In a decision filed in Oregon federal court Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson found in favor of the U.S. Federal Trade ...Read more

Kroger's plans to buy its grocery rival Albertsons hit a major roadblock Tuesday, when a federal judge put a halt to the deal, which would be the largest supermarket merger in U.S. history.

The decision is a blow to Albertsons and Kroger, which announced plans for the $24.6-billion acquisition of its rival in 2022.

The Federal Trade ...Read more

Boeing has resumed production of the 737 Max in Renton after a Machinists strike left its factories in the Puget Sound region idle from September to mid-November.

The company expects to resume production of the 767 and 777/777X planes in Everett in the days ahead, Boeing said Tuesday in a monthly announcement detailing orders and deliveries of ...Read more