After Britt Baker graduated from Harvard Business School in 2016, her friends back in California begged for a souvenir: the best investment advice she'd learned.

Baker, 37, indulged them, starting out of her Fairfax, California, living room a finance club that eventually became her present-day financial education startup, Dow Janes — which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hims & Hers, the high-flying telehealth company that rapidly ascended from a buzzy startup selling Viagra to a multibillion-dollar business with a Super Bowl ad, had a hard week.

The San Francisco company's shares took a dive June 23 after its partnership with Novo Nordisk crumbled. The Danish drugmaker abruptly ended its ...Read more

Ram is adding two more entry-level models to its pickup lineup as the brand tries to recapture more of the highly profitable U.S. truck market.

The Stellantis NV brand said orders are open for two cheaper options in its heavy-duty sport truck lineup: the 2500 Black Express and the 2500 Warlock. The Express will start at $53,735, while the ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major copyright case involving Georgia-based Cox Communications and major record labels that could have profound implications for trademarked works, liability for infringement, as well as internet access.

At issue is a 2018 lawsuit filed by Sony and other record labels asserting Cox should be held ...Read more

Last year, regulators approved a request by Blue Shield of California, the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.

The Oakland-based nonprofit got the go-ahead from the Department of Managed Health Care, or DMHC, to create an entity called Ascendiun Inc., which is now the out-of-...Read more

It’s a widely held belief among economists that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will boost inflation notably over the next few months. But muted price increases so far have called that assumption into question, emboldening the White House and opening up divisions at the Federal Reserve.

Anticipation of firmer inflation has kept the U.S. ...Read more

Q: I have a 2024 Audi A3 that uses regular gas. When I bought a 2025 A3, I was surprised that it recommended premium gas. Same car except the 2025 has all-wheel-drive. Would it be detrimental to the engine if I used regular or mid-level? I want to save a few cents, but not if it will cause engine dysfunction in the future. What do you ...Read more

Lafayette, Colorado’s mayor, JD Mangat, can’t afford a house in the city he leads.

On a salary as a middle school social studies teacher, home prices in the Boulder County city of 30,000 are out of reach for the 29-year-old Lafayette native.

“I live at home with my parents,” he said. “None of my friends growing up still live in ...Read more

Two more property insurers have been approved to serve Florida’s beleaguered homeowner market, the state Office of Insurance Regulation announced.

The office on Friday identified the two new companies in a news release as Incline National Insurance Company, headquartered in Texas, and Florida Insurance and Reinsurance Company, a Florida-...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will review whether Enbridge Energy properly removed a case to federal court that was filed against it by the state of Michigan.

Enbridge's appeal seeks a federal court venue for a years-long fight over the future of the Line 5 oil pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac. The case was listed Monday as one of several the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Minnesota agriculture group says the Trump administration’s canceling of so-called DEI grants in farm country broke the law and imperiled a food network initiative’s future, in a federal lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia.

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis joined other farm sector non-...Read more

For a U.S. citizen arriving in Atlanta these days, there’s a world in which you might not even need to pull out your passport.

The process of a Customs and Border Protection officer manually reviewing American passports at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been replaced with tablets that capture a passenger’s image and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets including the Daily News suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement.

The new ruling, issued Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, denied the company’s objection to ...Read more

Proposed legislation in Congress to sell off Bureau of Land Management property would include thousands of acres in Washington.

However, with restrictions on what the land can be used for and which parcels can be sold, people in the state's real estate business doubt there’ll be many buyers for the land if the bill passes.

Earlier versions ...Read more

Wall Street traders dodged a flurry of tariff headlines to drive stocks to all-time highs, capping a week that saw a cooling in Middle East risks and signs the U.S. economy is holding up amid subdued inflation. A rally in Treasuries stalled. The dollar advanced.

A surge in equities after April’s tariff-fueled meltdown drove the S&P 500 to its...Read more

Two years after Nvidia Corp. made history by becoming the first chipmaker to achieve a $1 trillion market capitalization, an even more remarkable milestone is within its grasp: becoming the first company to reach $4 trillion.

After the emergence of China’s DeepSeek sent the stock plunging earlier this year and stoked concerns that outlays on ...Read more

To judge from the reaction among the AI crowd, a federal judge's Monday ruling in a copyright infringement case was a clear win for all the AI firms that use published material to "train" their chatbots.

"We are pleased that the Court recognized that using works to train (large language models) was transformative — spectacularly so," ...Read more

A proposal to pause a planned tax hike on retail cannabis has set off alarm bells among child safety advocates whose substance use prevention and treatment work depends on funds generated by sales of cannabis products. Industry members say the move, which lawmakers in Sacramento are considering, is necessary to keep struggling retailers afloat. ...Read more

Modern-day culture seems to reward flashiness, crudeness and design vulgarity over taste, refinement and elegance, something that can be seen in the vehicles we choose to drive. Never mind that most buyers never use their SUV’s capabilities. One supposes they like their size, step-in height and station wagon-like utility. But taste? They are ...Read more

Sure, you can find a more comfortable midsize truck, one that’s easier to drive — and costs less, too.

But the 2025 Jeep Gladiator pickup — essentially a rugged Wrangler with a cargo bed — is all about off-road capability. It offers four advanced 4x4 systems, steep approach and breakover angles (44.7 and 26 degrees) for the big bumps, ...Read more