United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said the union and major Detroit automakers are still far apart on a new labor contract, threatening to strike select plants at each company, and possibly adding others. While a...
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz is stepping down from the company’s board effective Wednesday, the company said. Schultz, who bought Starbucks from its original owners in 1987, built the company into a global coffee powerhouse with more...
good 4 us: Olivia Rodrigo will sell a limited number of $20 tickets to her upcoming GUTS Tour, as the latest pop star taking a stand against skyrocketing ticket prices on official and resale platforms. But concertgoers might have...
New York City’s onetime top building-safety official was arrested Wednesday on charges that he accepted cash, baseball tickets, a painting, a discounted luxury apartment and other bribes from at least five associates, repaying them with political favors and access...
In 2020, scientists around the world banded together to develop and test a highly effective vaccine against a daunting new virus, turning the tide in the global COVID-19 pandemic and saving untold lives. Yet in the...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions as to whether the U.S. military needs to be more explicit in future contracts that...
A tortilla chip maker’s decision to pull its extremely spicy product sold as a “One Chip Challenge” from store shelves following the death of a Massachusetts teen has renewed attention on the popularity — and risks — of similar dares marketed...
Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates and will likely cut them by roughly one percentage point next year, according to chief economists at some of North...
Most fast food workers in California would get a $20 minimum wage next year — a nearly $5 per hour raise — under a deal announced Monday between labor unions and the industry that will avoid a costly referendum...
While Elon Musk recently launched an A.I. startup to compete against OpenAI, not that long ago he cofounded the now-famous company—maker of A.I. chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4—and helped it in significant ways. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...
