ST. LOUIS — German life sciences giant Bayer is plotting its next moves after a big loss last month when the Missouri Supreme Court declined to reconsider a $611 million Roundup verdict against the company.

Its options could include stopping production of glyphosate, the active ingredient found in the Roundup weedkiller. Brian Leake, ...Read more

The Los Angeles Times Media Group, which includes the 144-year-old newspaper, a digital production studio and a gaming company, is moving forward to make shares in the combined entity available to the public, the company announced Thursday.

The company plans a round of private placement financing aimed at attracting large investors, private ...Read more

Billionaire Larry Ellison ponied up the money for his family to acquire the controlling stake in Paramount two months ago, and the tech titan would need to write another huge check should Paramount buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

So, in Hollywood circles, the question has been: How involved is the elder Ellison in Paramount's strategy and ...Read more

The U.S. rushed to stabilize Argentina’s economy on Thursday, offering $20 billion in financing and carrying out a rare intervention in currency markets to prop up the peso after weeks of sharp declines.

Washington has finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Foreign countries are seeking to capitalize on President Donald Trump’s new fee hike on applications for H-1B visas, a move some experts say could have a detrimental impact on the United States.

Canada, Germany and China are among the countries that have publicly signaled intent to attract to their country’s tech industries ...Read more

A cruise ship crew member who planted a hidden camera to watch a young girl undress in her cabin may have spied on over 900 passengers, a class action lawsuit alleges.

Lawyers who filed the civil lawsuit in a Miami federal court last October want each of those people to be able to hold the company accountable and receive damages. But Royal ...Read more

Shoppers in California plan to splurge this coming holiday season, but not because they are confident about the future. They are worried about inflation and figure it’s better to buy now than pay more later.

At least that’s the takeaway from a new report from accounting firm KPMG that shows that consumers on the West Coast are more ...Read more

Back in the days when the dot-com frenzy was nearing its peak and I was covering high-tech full-time for this newspaper, scarcely a week passed without someone showing up in our newsroom offering a demonstration of a new consumer gizmo.

Almost always these machines and the services they supported provoked yawns. As the Book of Ecclesiastes ...Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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