The U.S. government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas Corp., Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada.

The U.S. will take a 5% stake in the Vancouver-based company, as well as a 5% stake in the company’s mining project of the largest ...Read more

When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp. product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce giant was preparing to take its consumer gadget line upscale.

Panay pushed back on the idea during an all-hands meeting with thousands of engineers from the Alexa, Echo and Fire TV ...Read more

Responding to the Trump administration‘s hampering of federal regulators, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill greatly expanding California’s power over workplace disputes and union elections.

The legislation, Assembly Bill 288, gives the state authority to step in and oversee union elections, charges of workplace retaliation and ...Read more

In the latest salvo between Hollywood and artificial intelligence companies, tech start-up Character.AI has removed many Disney characters from its chatbot platform after the Burbank entertainment giant sent the firm a cease-and-desist letter, alleging copyright infringement.

Chatbots on the Character.AI platform impersonated well-known Disney ...Read more

Nintendo of America will advance to the next level with a leadership change after its president and chief operating officer, Doug Bowser, retires at the end of the year.

Nintendo of America, the Redmond, Washington-based subsidiary of Japanese video game company Nintendo, will promote two insiders to take the helm. Satoru Shibata will be CEO, ...Read more

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Zillow and Redfin for allegedly conspiring to eliminate competition for rental housing listings.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the FTC claims the real estate giants violated federal antitrust laws by entering into an illegal agreement to...Read more

The city of Los Angeles is exploring what would happen if the minimum wage of workers on residential construction projects was raised to more than $32 an hour.

At Tuesday morning's city council meeting, councilmembers Curren Price and Hugo Soto-Martinez introduced a motion to have the city commission a study on the effects of establishing a $32...Read more

Lockheed Martin Marietta has been a fixture in Cobb County, Georgia, for more than seven decades. And that hasn’t been by accident.

As American military needs have changed, so have the defense and aerospace contractor’s manufacturing lines and workforce training to make sure that the site and its 5,600-member team remain prepared for what�...Read more

The White House came to farmers’ rescue during President Donald Trump’s first trade war.

This second time around: A bailout isn’t so simple.

That’s because this summer, Trump’s big tax and spending bill drained the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a $30 billion financing arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to instead...Read more

SAVANNAH, Georgia ― The tariff drag on Georgia’s ports was fleeting.

Container traffic through the Port of Savannah returned at near-record volumes in August, topping 500,000 units for the fourth time in the last six months. August was the third-best month in the port’s history as trade bounced back from a “freight air pocket” tied to...Read more

One of the perks of driving an electric vehicle in California is about to go away.

The state’s Clean Air Vehicle Decal program that allows drivers of zero-emissions vehicles to drive alone in the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane expires, effective at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

With rush-hour traffic jams and clogged freeways a fact of life in ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group’s incredible fall this year looks less and less like a temporary problem.

In the nearly six months since the stock of the Minnesota-based health care company crashed, it has become clearer to big investors that a fundamental change happened to it.

With the third quarter ending Tuesday, we’ll soon see new results from ...Read more

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley on Tuesday said he wouldn't be surprised if electric vehicle sales in the United States fall by half after the expiration of the federal tax credit for plug-in vehicles.

Tuesday is the last day consumers could take advantage of the up-to-$7,500 tax credit, though Ford and General Motors Co. have found a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The EV tax credit dies today. But its story doesn't necessarily end here.

The $7,500 federal incentive, which had two main iterations over an almost 17-year run, was designed to encourage the production and purchase of electric vehicles in the United States. It expires after the calendar flips past Tuesday thanks to legislation ...Read more

Spotify's longtime Chief Executive Daniel Ek said Tuesday that he is stepping down from his position next year and will become executive chairman.

Ek co-founded the Swedish audio company in 2006 and has served as CEO since the beginning.

His vision was to find a way to fight against music piracy by offering a platform where consumers could pay...Read more

It’s been a little over two months since Comic-Con took over San Diego, but fans are already planning for the 2026 edition.

Badge sales for returning attendees go on sale Saturday, Oct. 4 for Comic-Con 2026, which will take place at the San Diego Convention Center and neighboring hotels July 23 to July 26, with a preview night on July 22.

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Boeing designers have begun work on a new commercial jet to replace its venerable Renton, Washington-built 737 model, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.

Citing anonymous sources, The Journal reported Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg met earlier this year with officials from engine-maker Rolls-Royce to discuss a new engine for a potential new...Read more

UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis Public Schools and the city of St. Paul have all fallen victim to hackers who make a living through theft and extortion.

People like Alex Johnson, a security system manager at Minneapolis-based Ascent Solutions, earn theirs by acting as the first line of defense between those online criminals and Minnesota ...Read more

Last weekend, after years of financial turmoil and weeks of Total Inventory Blowouts, the last locations of Seattle's 135-year-old Bartell Drugs rang up their final sales.

Three stores — in Kirkland, Mill Creek and Gig Harbor, Washington — were all that remained after Rite Aid, which bought the 67-store chain in 2020, went bankrupt and ...Read more

In a sprawling lab in Evanston, Illinois, Michaël Elbaz watched a tiny mouse scamper across its cage. The Northwestern University postdoctoral researcher has spent hundreds of hours monitoring the animals — tracing the intricate interplay of neuronal activity and decision-making processes.

“You could spend your whole life trying to ...Read more