In a world where car design is increasingly held hostage by angry, dissonant design language, Aston Martin is an abiding reminder that the finest cars are timelessly beautiful, exquisitely crafted and intelligently engineered. The thought occurred as I approached this week’s test car, a 2026 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster sheathed in carbon-...Read more

Needing no introduction, Toyota has done one heck of a job recently in the SUV and truck market. Providing an array of vehicles to consumers has been its strong suit, along with unmatched reliability, dependability and usability. With GMC and other manufacturers expanding their off-road lineups, the 2025 Toyota Tacoma Trailhunter is a strong ...Read more

Costco Wholesale Corp. posted better-than-expected earnings in the third quarter, a sign that the nation’s largest club chain is flexing its scale and devoted following to navigate tariffs and economic turbulence.

The retailer said it generated earnings per share of $4.28 for the quarter ended May 11, above what Wall Street analysts were ...Read more

At a time of great uncertainty for the automotive industry, one thing is certain: Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., says he plans to stay in his role for "a while."

"Everybody has a sell-by date," Ford told reporters after a panel at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference. "But I also feel like, in many ways, I...Read more

FRANKLIN, Michigan — With its raccoon-like black details, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT is instantly recognizable as a new, 2025 off-road trim for the brand’s electric hatchback. It sports a black mask, black wheels, black wheel arches etched with “digital camouflage” graphic, and black mirrors. XRT for Xtra Raccoon Trim.

But what many ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss its criminal case against Boeing Co. over two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets more than six years ago, despite objections of family members of some crash victims.

The request, disclosed Thursday in a court filing, is part of a proposed settlement prosecutors reached with ...Read more

Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace have given a name to the future medium-lift rocket they plan to build: Eclipse.

The two companies are already partnered to help shepherd a new version of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, which has not flown since 2023 when the company used the last of its supply of Russian-made engines for the rocket�...Read more

ATLANTA — Business owners who have been caught in the crossfire of the Trump administration’s trade war welcomed a court ruling this week to block many of the president’s new tariffs.

Their relief lasted about 24 hours. On Thursday, a federal appeals court reinstated them, at least temporarily, leaving many business leaders uncertain ...Read more

Stock market investors don't have much to cheer about in the second Trump term, except perhaps for a new and almost flawless trading strategy — the TACO trade.

The acronym, coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out." ("Acronyms are very powerful, especially when they remind people of ...Read more

Federal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez traveled to Los Angeles this week to sound an alarm that attacks on the media by President Trump and his lieutenants could fray the fabric of the 1st Amendment.

Gomez's appearance Wednesday at Cal State L.A. was designed to take feedback from community members about the changed media atmosphere ...Read more

Las Vegas’ jobless rate has improved over the past several months but remains one of the highest in the nation among big metro areas, new data shows.

The Las Vegas area’s unemployment rate was 5.2 percent last month, compared with 3.9 percent nationally, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The ...Read more

When Google made its $1 billion pledge to address the Bay Area’s housing shortage in 2019, the plan hinged on the company expanding its office presence in Silicon Valley.

The majority of the housing pledge wasn’t cash — though there was some of that — but land. Specifically, $750 million worth of suburban office parks the company ...Read more

The firestorms that swept through Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other communities Jan. 7 not only devastated thousands of homeowners but highlighted a giant problem: the growth of the state's insurer of last resort. The California FAIR Plan Assn. offers policies that cover less, but typically are expensive.

Now, California home insurers are ...Read more

Microsoft sees artificial intelligence transforming the internet as fundamentally as mobile phones have over the past two decades. But the technology's limitations could curb Microsoft's grand vision.

Generative AI — which creates content based on a user's request — burst into the zeitgeist in late 2022 when Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched...Read more

Victoria’s Secret & Co. kept mum on Wednesday as a prolonged “security incident” kept its website dark for a third straight day, flummoxing customers and investors alike and pushing the stock price down 7%.

The retailer also ceased some office operations and told employees to steer clear of company technology as some email passwords ...Read more

After Tennant figured out how to keep its plants open during the pandemic, it had a second problem to solve.

The company’s designers aren’t all in the same place. Neither are its customers, and sharing pen-and-paper designs isn’t easy on a video call.

Video game technology gave the company a way to move forward over Zoom, and it worked ...Read more

Target’s latest quarterly profits would have been much worse if it had not received $593 million in settlements from an antitrust lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard that was filed a dozen years ago.

“When you look at the numbers, the profits don’t look too bad,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail. “If you take...Read more

Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the board of San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic.

Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion after its most recent funding round in March, is known for its AI chatbot model Claude.

"Anthropic is very optimistic about the AI benefits for humanity, but is also very aware of the economic...Read more

I’ve turned into one of those people who wear earbuds all day at work.

We don’t have traditional phones at my office. We use Microsoft Teams as our voice phones, so when the phone rings, I usually answer it on my computer.

And because I work with three other people in one big room, we all use headphones.

I have been wearing Apple’s ...Read more