DEARBORN, Michigan — When economic indicators flash warnings, companies often look to cut costs even in places like advertising, but Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday launched a new global marketing strategy with the tagline: "Ready Set Ford."

U.S. sales at the automaker are up 6.6% year-to-date. That followed summer promotions meant to offer ...Read more

Uber Technologies Inc. customers will be able to book Blade’s helicopter and seaplane services directly within the Uber app as early as next year, as part of an expansion of the ride-hailing company’s partnership with Joby Aviation Inc.

Blade’s passenger business, which Joby acquired in August, currently operates routes in the New York ...Read more

Fallout from last week’s unprecedented immigration raid at a Georgia battery plant run by two South Korean firms is reverberating across the industry, highlighting risks to the billions of dollars the Asian nation has invested in America’s clean energy push.

Construction has now been disrupted at multiple LG Energy Solution Ltd. sites ...Read more

The Trump administration has been slashing green energy incentives, freezing the construction of wind farms and ordering coal-burning power plants to keep running longer than planned. And yet, more American homes and businesses are getting their power from renewable sources than ever before — and in greater amounts.

In June, almost one-...Read more

Fans of rocky road ice cream can rejoice because the flavor — chocolate ice cream swirled with nuts and marshmallows — will be available in Girl Scout cookie form next year.

Girl Scouts of the USA announced Tuesday that "Exploremores," a sandwich cookie inspired by the popular ice cream variety, will join the organization's cookie lineup ...Read more

Pinstripes, the Northbrook, Illinois-based bowling and restaurant chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid mounting debt and an inflation-driven downturn in the so-called “eatertainment” business.

The publicly traded company, which owes $143 million in secured debt, abruptly closed 10 of its 18 locations Monday and will ...Read more

At least 50 shipping containers slipped off a vessel at the Port of Long Beach, California, on Tuesday morning, leaving officials scrambling to determine what happened.

Port spokesperson Art Marroquin said the ship, the Mississippi, was berthed at Terminal G just before 9 a.m. when the containers mysteriously fell overboard into the water.

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SEOUL — The immigration raid that snatched up hundreds of South Koreans last week sent a disconcerting message to companies in South Korea and elsewhere: America wants your investment, but don’t expect special treatment.

Images of employees being shackled and detained like criminals have outraged many South Koreans. The fallout is already ...Read more

When Hyundai Motor Group announced its sprawling electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia, in 2022, it set ambitious timelines to get the multibillion-dollar factory and all its components up and running.

The vehicle assembly lines have been humming since last October. The adjacent battery factory, a joint venture between Hyundai and ...Read more

U.S. job growth was far less robust in the year through March than previously reported, adding to mounting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.

The number of workers on payrolls will likely be revised down by a record 911,000, or 0.6%, according to the government’s preliminary benchmark revision out Tuesday. The final ...Read more

Microsoft will require employees to work in the office three days per week next year, a major shift for one of the tech giants that had been more friendly to remote work.

The policy will begin at the end of February for workers living within 50 miles of a Microsoft office in the Puget Sound region, Microsoft's chief human resources officer, Amy...Read more

YAKIMA, Washington — Late August marked the start of the Yakima Valley's six-week blitz to harvest fields of hop plants bound for breweries.

With the citric scent of Centennial hops hanging in the air, Jessica Riel, a fourth-generation farmer at Double ‘R’ Hop Ranches, looked on as her employees unloaded long bines — stems similar to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Exposing years-old concerns about California's resilience to wildfires, a government whistleblower and other witnesses in a recent state trial alleged that cleanup operations after some of the largest fires in state history were plagued by mismanagement and overspending — and that toxic contamination was at times left behind in...Read more

Americans’ confidence in landing a job if they lose their current one dropped sharply last month, according to a report that especially doesn’t bode well for Las Vegas in a key way.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released survey results Monday showing that if workers lost their job, the perceived probability of finding a new one fell ...Read more

Q: I recently took my 2019 CR-V for an oil change. I received the safety check notations, which included the transmission and differential fluid change notice.

Does it need to be done at the dealership? I recently saw an Instagram reel where the mechanic suggested that because the driver had not used Honda specific fluid, he may have ...Read more

The closely watched Murdoch succession drama has ended with a $3.3-billion settlement that gives Lachlan Murdoch control of the family's influential media assets, including Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Fox Corp. on Monday announced the "mutual resolution" of the legal wrangling that had clouded the future direction ...Read more

Rivian has laid off about 200 employees as the electric vehicle maker prepares for a U.S. economy with fewer incentives to go green.

The electric truck and sport-utility vehicle manufacturer is preparing for a challenging year in which it plans to launch a more affordable model even as it gets more expensive to buy an EV.

A spokesperson at the...Read more

Ford Motor Co. is shifting funds from its electric vehicle division, and the beneficiary is its cash-cow Ford Pro commercial vehicle and Super Duty truck business.

A bumpier-than-expected adoption curve of electric vehicles — because of their cost and availability of charging infrastructure, as well as a regulatory rollback — has resulted ...Read more