After sweeping store closures around the country last month, Starbucks will lay off 369 employees in Washington, according to a state filing.

A notice filed with Washington state's Employment Security Department on Friday shows the Seattle-based coffee giant's Washington layoffs will be effective Dec. 5.

Closure is the reason for the layoffs, ...Read more

Johnson & Johnson was told by a California jury to pay $966 million to the family of a deceased woman who blamed her cancer on life-long use of the company’s baby powder in the largest verdict for a single user in the 15-year litigation.

The Los Angeles state court jury late Monday found J&J liable for Mae Moore’s mesothelioma — a cancer...Read more

Tesla investors and consumers were disappointed after the company unveiled its long-awaited, less expensive versions of the Model 3 and Model Y.

Intended to help Tesla reach a broader customer base and shed its reputation as a company that caters only to the wealthy, the new models are still not affordable enough and unlikely to trigger a ...Read more

Spirit Airlines has reduced destinations and furloughed flight attendants, many in South Florida. Now it’s cutting the number of airplanes it flies in its ongoing quest to survive.

The Florida-based carrier wants to void lease agreements for 87 airplanes, Spirit said in a request last week with a federal bankruptcy court in New York. The ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. said it's working to minimize manufacturing disruptions after a fire took out a New York plant that supplies roughly 40% of the aluminum sheet used in the auto industry.

Aluminum makes up the bodies of the Automaker's F-Series trucks, the country's best-selling vehicles that drive the company's earnings. A late-night fire on Sept...Read more

A massive new tribal casino — big enough to rival the largest casinos in Las Vegas — is scheduled to open its doors next month in the Central Valley.

The Hard Rock Casino Tejon, which is set to open Nov. 13, will be the first full-scale casino in Kern County. The property is owned by the Tejon Indian Tribe and will be managed by Hard Rock ...Read more

LEESBURG, Virginia — Ten years after unveiling a prototype, a key public-private research effort is taking a major leap toward getting its advanced alcohol detection technology into the hands of the country's top auto manufacturers.

"We've converted a wild, audacious idea that everybody thought would fail — people laughed us out of the room...Read more

Every year, Ventura County, California, resident Carlos Soto buys a Liverpool Football Club jersey for his son to celebrate the start of the soccer season. This year it was delivered with an additional bill of $107.

"The UPS guy said he couldn't release it unless I paid more," said Soto, who owns the Historia Bakery Cafe in Thousand Oaks. "...Read more

A 10-second bit by ABC comedian Jimmy Kimmel plunged Walt Disney Co. into a full-blown crisis that rippled across America.

President Trump, the Federal Communications Commission chief and others were angered last month over Kimmel’s remarks about the Charlie Kirk shooting, which they said had suggested the suspect was a “Make America Great ...Read more

The Hollywood Burbank Airport's air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned and flights were delayed Monday afternoon due to staffing shortages amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.

The FAA anticipates that the airport's air traffic control tower will be without staff until 10 p.m., according ...Read more

Tesla Inc. plans to unveil a cheaper version of the Model Y on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter, following through on assurances it will have a more affordable vehicle to counter the loss of U.S. incentives for electric vehicles.

The new base Model Y is what Tesla started teasing in social media posts over the weekend, said...Read more

OpenAI bestowed its blessings and backing on another tech company Monday, inking a deal with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, instantly making it one of the hot companies investors hope will be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom.

The shares of AMD soared more than 30% after the company behind ChatGPT said it plans to take up ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States will levy 25% tariffs on imports of medium and heavy-duty trucks beginning Nov. 1, President Donald Trump announced in a Monday social media post.

The tariffs follow an investigation initiated in April by the U.S. Commerce Department about the national security effects of truck imports. The levies would be ...Read more

A coalition of groups sued the Donald Trump administration Monday for terminating $7 billion in grants this summer for free rooftop solar programs aimed at lower-income residents in Georgia and other states.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island against the Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, ...Read more

Los Angeles Police Department officers raided the warehouse of the famous sneaker retailer CoolKicks and detained its employees, accusing the company of buying stolen shoes.

The company is well-known among sneakerheads across the country for its viral short videos, in which its internet-famous sneaker-authenticator Rami Almordaah evaluates, ...Read more

PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Accessing software talent was behind the decision of Rivian Automotive Inc. to move its headquarters from here to California, and that software now is what's contributing to more affordable vehicles, market appeal and at least one multi-billion-dollar deal with a legacy competitor, CEO RJ Scaringe said Monday.

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Pilots in India are calling for inspections of Boeing’s 787 planes after a backup power system deployed on a recent Air India flight, a sign there may have been a problem with the plane’s hydraulic or electric systems.

The backup power system — called the ram air turbine, or RAT — is the same one that deployed just before an Air India ...Read more

For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the dot-com craze of the late 1990s that ended in a spectacular crash and a wave of bankruptcies.

Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced chips and data centers, not just ...Read more