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Real estate Q&A: How can I get my neighbor to keep it down during 5 a.m. workouts?

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Q: I live in an apartment, and my upstairs neighbor gets up to work out every day at 5 a.m. He’s often loud, dropping the weights and waking me up. I’m kind of at my wits’ end. I really don’t want to have to report him to the community, but I also need to get some sleep. What can I do? — Adrian

A: Living in an apartment comes with its...Read more

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Delta sees improved travel demand, revenue in third quarter

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Travel demand and revenue continued to improve for Delta Air Lines in the third quarter of 2025 after a slump earlier this year, according to the company’s financial results released Thursday.

CEO Ed Bastian said in an interview that the results lay the groundwork for a fourth quarter he expects “to be at or better than” any fourth ...Read more

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Why not vaccinate Minnesota turkeys for bird flu? It could start a trade fight

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Avian flu flared up in Minnesota poultry operations last month after a nearly eight-month reprieve, forcing farmers to depopulate eight turkey barns.

A vaccine exists for this highly pathogenic avian influenza, which could be used against the nearly four-year outbreak that has wiped out 9.2 million birds in Minnesota alone.

But if American ...Read more

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Almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles. Here's why

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Los Angeles developer Cliff Goldstein just completed a plush new apartment complex on the Westside, but that's the last one he's going to build for the foreseeable future.

Even though demand for housing in the region is red hot, many people who build apartments for a living have paused putting shovels in the ground because, they say, it's just ...Read more

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Weight loss patients fret over FDA limits on off-brand drugs

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As the Food and Drug Administration clamps down on off-brand weight loss medications, Seattle-area residents are stocking up on supplies and fretting about the future of their treatment.

Over the past few years, demand for blockbuster medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound skyrocketed. These drugs are typically prescribed to address a ...Read more

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Resident assistants at Temple vote to unionize

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Resident assistants and peer mentors at Temple University have voted to unionize, joining a wave of student-worker organizing on local college and university campuses.

In a four-hour, paper-ballot vote held Tuesday, 97 of the 126 bargaining group members participated, and all of them voted in favor of joining the Office and Professional ...Read more

Household-battery startup raises $1 billion for expansion

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Household-battery startup Base Power Inc. raised $1 billion to expand its energy-storage business and build a manufacturing plant in Texas.

The Series C funding round led by venture capital firm Addition included other existing investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter, the company said in a statement ...Read more

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Google wants right to bundle Gemini AI app with Maps, YouTube

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Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to retain the right to bundle its popular mapping and video apps with its Gemini AI service, a lawyer for the company told a federal judge Wednesday, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal that would bar the practice.

“There’s no notion that Google has to date gained monopoly or market power” in the ...Read more

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Florida allows open carry of guns, so Publix will too, workers say

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Publix, one of Florida’s most popular grocery chains, is now allowing customers across the state to openly carry guns due to a recent court ruling, employees say.

Florida began allowing open carry on Sept. 25 after an appeals court overturned the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, deeming it unconstitutional. Under the law, businesses...Read more

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Analyst estimates up to $1B Ford earnings hit from aluminum plant fire

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Ford Motor Co. could face as much as a $1 billion earnings hit from the shutdown of an aluminum plant in New York after a fire last month, an Evercore ISI analyst said in a Wednesday investor note.

The Sept. 16 incident at Novelis Inc.'s Oswego, New York, plant is expected to take much of the plant down until the first quarter of 2026. It ...Read more

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Florida allows open carry of guns, so Publix will too, workers say

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Publix, one of Florida’s most popular grocery chains, is now allowing customers across the state to openly carry guns due to a recent court ruling, employees say.

Florida began allowing open carry on Sept. 25 after an appeals court overturned the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, deeming it unconstitutional. Under the law, businesses...Read more

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Stellantis CEO shakes up senior leadership team in turnaround effort

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Stellantis NV's CEO Antonio Filosa shook up his senior leadership team on Wednesday as he appointed new heads of Europe and South America, a new global manufacturing chief, and made several other personnel moves.

Filosa, who took the top role of the transatlantic automaker in June, has been working to reverse a recent trend of declining sales ...Read more

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Minneapolis Fed's Neel Kashkari: Fed cuts might not lead to lower mortgage rates

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American consumers are waiting for the Federal Reserve to cut rates so they can buy or sell their homes, but Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Tuesday that the long-awaited mortgage rate drop might not materialize.

There’s only so much money to go around, Kashkari said, and the amount of cash flowing into AI — though it’s ...Read more

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To treat a common bladder condition, Medtronic implant goes under the skin near the ankle

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To make life easier for people with a common bladder condition, Medtronic is digging in far away from urinary tract.

Treatment for urinary urge incontinence can require pads, absorbent underwear and medications that come with bothersome side effects. The Minnesota-run medtech firm’s tiny new implant, designed to help patients forget about ...Read more

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GM cuts short EV tax credit extension scheme

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General Motors Co. no longer will apply for federal electric vehicle tax credits as part of a scheme to extend savings to customers after Congress and President Donald Trump axed the government incentive program in September, the Detroit automaker confirmed Wednesday.

The company will continue to offer about $6,000 in savings on EV leases ...Read more

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Trump mulls canceling $1B in grants for GM, Stellantis projects

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump could soon move to cancel more than $1 billion in federal grants for General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV and $800 million total in Michigan, according to a Trump administration planning document obtained by The Detroit News.

The largest Michigan grant in question is a $500 million award for GM to convert ...Read more

GM sees manganese as a winning path in battery race with China

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DETROIT — General Motors Co.'s global battery leader detailed plans to introduce the first electric vehicle powered by a lithium manganese-rich battery in 2028, an example of automakers' strategy to leapfrog EV powerhouse China with new technologies.

GM plans to unveil an LMR truck shortly after beginning manganese-rich battery production at ...Read more

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'People are going to die': Idahoans fear spike in insurance costs

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At 59, Susan Wood, a longtime Boise, Idaho, resident, was too young to qualify for Medicare when she retired in July. So she signed up for a marketplace plan under the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.

But in the months since, the federal government’s proposed changes to health insurance have threatened to upend her planning — ...Read more

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Chatbot dreams generate AI nightmares for Bay Area lawyers

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A Palo Alto, California, lawyer with nearly a half-century of experience admitted to an Oakland federal judge this summer that legal cases he referenced in an important court filing didn’t actually exist and appeared to be products of artificial intelligence “hallucinations.”

Jack Russo, in a court filing, described the apparent AI ...Read more

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Staffing issues cause ground delay at O'Hare amid government shutdown

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The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground delay at O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday due to staffing issues as a federal government shutdown nears the end of its first week.

Delays at O’Hare, which were expected to average 41 minutes, come as flight disruptions have spread to airports across the country. According to the FAA...Read more