In a fourth-quarter earnings call a week ago, Target executives acknowledged the retailer had lost a bit of its “magic” that once retained loyal customers and enticed new ones.

The Minneapolis-based company vowed to conjure more customers at its annual investors day last week, pledging to grow sales by $15 billion in five years. And it made...Read more

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with a sprawling antitrust probe of Microsoft Corp. that was opened in the waning days of the Biden Administration, signaling that Donald Trump’s new FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson is going to prioritize scrutiny of tech giants.

FTC staff in recent weeks have continued to work on the investigation,...Read more

San Diego-based canned tuna giant Bumble Bee Seafoods has known for years that fishing vessels in its supply fleet used forced labor but failed to stop the practice, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Diego federal court that’s believed to be the first ever to allege human trafficking against a U.S. seafood company.

The plaintiffs,...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said it'll reconsider the greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions regulations instituted by the Biden administration that are a key provision behind what President Donald Trump has called an electric vehicle "mandate."

“The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory ...Read more

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that more than 1,600 sexual assault cases against Uber will be allowed to continue before a single San Francisco judge, a move with far-reaching implications for the ride-hailing app and its cohort in Silicon Valley.

The decision issued Monday upholds an earlier ruling by a council of federal judges ...Read more

U.S. egg prices are finally showing signs of relief after a nearly 60% surge over the past year has made shoppers reluctant to buy.

Egg prices jumped 10% on a seasonally adjusted basis in February from the previous month, bucking an overall trend of slowing food inflation, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report Wednesday. The ...Read more

DENVER — Pat Nottingham, the local market manager for Milestone Brands, was proudly promoting Dulce Vida Organic Tequila and Empress 1908 Gin at the Colorado Restaurant and Bar Show at the Colorado Convention Center on Tuesday.

His mood took a turn when asked about the possibility that the on-again and off-again 25% tariff the U.S. has ...Read more

CHICAGO — Nearly three years after the first Starbucks baristas in Chicago unionized, 11 workers and supporters were arrested by Chicago police after staging a sit-in inside one of the first union Starbucks cafes in the city on Tuesday.

Starbucks workers said they wanted to put pressure on the Seattle-based coffee giant to finalize a contract...Read more

The Los Angeles Civil Rights Department is investigating claims that big banks are continuing to show bias against Armenian customers.

Two years ago, Citibank agreed to pay $25.9 million to settle federal claims that it discriminated against customers with Armenian surnames. But the Los Angeles Civil Rights Department says the problem has ...Read more

A German labor union warned Tuesday that Ford Motor Co.'s German subsidiary could face insolvency following an announcement of financial investment if economic conditions in Europe don't improve.

The move is a "dirty trick" by management to pave the way for job cuts, according to a news release issued by David Lüdtke and Frank Koch, IG Metall ...Read more

The first vacant lot in Altadena, California, went up for sale in late January. The listing promised "great opportunity to build" after the Eaton fire destroyed the home previously on the site.

A few weeks later came half a dozen more listings. Now the floodgates appear open.

"There is so many to choose from," said Jeremy Hardy, a real estate ...Read more

SAN JOSE, California — The Bay Area tech sector soared for three years in the wake of a global pandemic, but the industry’s jobs boom has since nosedived into a bust.

“In the last half of 2020, and throughout 2021 and the first part of 2022, the major Bay Area technology firms went on wild hiring sprees that were never sustainable,” ...Read more

Uber has just been sued by a Butts County mother who says its driver picked up her 14-year-old daughter alone from a deserted gas station at 1:40 a.m. and drove her more than 30 miles to the Jonesboro home of a man who drugged and repeatedly raped her over four days.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Gwinnett County State Court, aims to hold the ...Read more

Boeing delivered 44 airplanes in February, remaining steady with its January delivery rate and outpacing the first two months of 2024.

This time last year, Boeing was reeling from a midair blowout on a 737 Max 9 that led the company to slow production across the board as it took stock of its quality and safety practices. It has spent the year ...Read more

U.S. stocks buckled again after Donald Trump’s latest trade-war salvo against Canada, with the S&P 500’s three-week rout now at 10% and megacap technology resuming a selloff that’s wiped out trillions in value.

The S&P 500 lost another 1.5% Tuesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 1.7%. Selling was broad, with more than 400 S&...Read more

SAN JOSE, California — It’s no secret that the skills and labor of workers from other countries helps fuel Silicon Valley’s innovation, but a new report has put a number to it: 66% of technology workers in the region are foreign born, according to the 2025 Silicon Valley Index produced by think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

“I ...Read more

Twenty-five years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for the hit movie “Erin Brockovich.” She portrayed the real-life single mother of three who, as a paralegal, spearheaded a major lawsuit against PG&E for its years of polluting water supplies in the small Mojave Desert town of Hinkley, California, which residents said caused cancers and other...Read more

Manufacturers in Georgia are launching an effort to change perceptions about their sector among students and other young people, with an eye on attracting their future workforce.

The Georgia Association of Manufacturers is launching a $1 million, four-year effort for a digital platform envisioned as similar to a LinkedIn for manufacturers in ...Read more

Stellantis NV employs about 50,000 fewer people worldwide than it did just over four years ago when the automaker came together with the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and French rival Groupe PSA, newly-released corporate filings show.

That 17% headcount reduction came as the automaker sought cost savings from the deal that created the ...Read more

Will artificial intelligence take my job? This question is really starting to preoccupy me and millions of other white-collar workers. There’s even a word for it — FOBO, or fear of becoming obsolete — and, regrettably, our apprehension isn’t entirely unfounded.

While I’m not counseling panic, I do think knowledge workers — a catch-...Read more