SAN DIEGO — Some automobiles, like Ferrari, have names that inspire lust and envy. Others, like Yugo or Cimarron, make you chuckle. Others, like the Honda Accord, inspire adoration. Then there are names that bring blank stares. They are typically alphanumeric and unrelated to the vehicle to which they are attached.

That’s not the case with ...Read more

It had 205 horsepower, ran 0-60 mph in 7 seconds, and topped out at 140 mph, but cleared a track for the 1,064 horsepower 2025 Corvette ZR1. The fourth-generation “C4” Corvette that debuted for 1984 was the model’s first new design since 1968 and first complete re-engineering since 1963. Like today’s mid-engine Vette, it was a revolution...Read more

Jay O’Brien, a real estate broker in Liberty, was a technology fan of Elon Musk’s years before the world’s richest man turned Twitter into X, and under President Donald Trump, became both the reviled and admired federal-program-slashing leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.

So, in November 2019, when Musk, as the owner...Read more

Several economic forecasts for 2025 have been scaled down in recent weeks as a new presidential administration has made many changes in two months.

Measures of business and consumer confidence have decreased under threats of tariffs and large swaths of the federal workforce have faced layoffs. Another concern is the plan for mass deportations, ...Read more

PONTIAC, Michigan — When the auto industry zagged toward electric SUVs, Volvo zigged to an X60 plug-in hybrid station wagon.

Sleek looks, hatchback utility, electric smoothness, no range anxiety.

After plugging into the 220-volt charger in my garage for four hours, the V60’s battery was fully charged to 40 miles — enough to get my daily ...Read more

A federal judge in New York said he denied Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s attempt to throw out the Justice Department’s antitrust case seeking to break off Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. after the companies merged more than 15 years ago.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramaian told lawyers for the government and company in a hearing ...Read more

Despite not having launched anything in more than five months, United Launch Alliance still expects to fly around 12 missions this year. But it’s still waiting on the Space Force to certify its new Vulcan rocket for national security launches.

Vulcan flew twice in 2024, but the second mission had a rough ride to space. Just after launch, one ...Read more

It was only three weeks ago that exuberance over Donald Trump’s blueprint for the economy had vaulted U.S. stocks to a record high. Today, with concern mounting over the goals and impact of his trade war, the S&P 500 tumbled into its first 10% correction in almost two years.

Volatility surged anew across asset classes Thursday, extending a ...Read more

Canadian power provide B.C. Hydro is striking back against President Trump’s wealthiest surrogate Elon Musk by making Tesla chargers ineligible for EV rebates in British Columbia.

Citizens in the province who purchase electric vehicle chargers for their homes are eligible for a $350 rebate unless those units were made by Musk’s company, B.C...Read more

Comcast Corp. and NBCUniversal have secured U.S. rights to broadcast the Olympics Games through 2036 with a $3-billion arrangement.

The new deal, which kicks in this year, solidifies Comcast's longstanding partnership with the International Olympic Committee and gives the Philadelphia media giant expanded digital rights for its broadcast and ...Read more

Few objects symbolize the pandemic as well as the N95.

Impossible to find until they were ubiquitous, the double-strapped respirator stamped with all those letters and numbers confined many faces in pursuit of COVID-19 protection.

N95s are still the gold standard for respiratory safety, but you’re more likely to find them on a construction ...Read more

When a string of hurricanes ravaged the East Coast this past fall and a cluster of wildfires burned the Los Angeles area in January, tens of thousands of displaced people suddenly needed shelter.

A Twin Cities-made website specializing in mid-term rentals — stays of longer than a vacation but not more than a year — hopes to help these ...Read more

When President Trump returned to the White House, tech executives from Apple, OpenAI, Oracle and other companies pledged to create thousands of jobs, fuel innovation and invest billions of dollars in the United States.

But technology stocks have been on a bumpy ride this year as trade disputes and the future of artificial intelligence have ...Read more

In late February, rumors that the federal government was planning a massive immigration enforcement sweep in Los Angeles County swirled.

And Travis Gemoets' phone was ringing off the hook. The attorney at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, a firm that represents hundreds of hotels across Southern California, said he received about a dozen calls ...Read more

Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits were little changed last week, remaining roughly in line with pre-pandemic levels.

Initial claims decreased by 2,000 to 220,000 in the week ended March 8. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 225,000 applications.

Continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Cody Draper stood outside his Boise Bench warehouse on a cold February afternoon and watched as a crane truck, flooding the area with the smell of diesel, lifted a house into the sky.

Workers carefully placed the home out of the way, then slid green straps over a second home to lift. Those homes, says Draper, could be a ...Read more

Gail Slater, the new head of antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Justice Department, plans to hire veterans of previous administrations under Barack Obama and Donald Trump to help her oversee cases and investigations in tech, healthcare, finance and other sectors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Slater, who was sworn in Wednesday as...Read more

Not long ago, dentists were about as welcome as a toothache at shopping centers.

Landlords preferred more conventional retailers in their malls, relegating dentists to out-of-the-way locations if they would lease space to them at all.

Now they are prominent tenants in many shopping centers as part of a growing trend of medical-retail or "...Read more