When it comes to the current state of automotive evolution, we live in an era when SUVs reproduce like rabbits with financing. Into this overcrowded habitat steps the 2026 Mazda CX-30, showing up like a car that was raised to write thank-you notes. It makes a sincere effort to be interesting, mildly mischievous, and never the reason you stare ...Read more

MEMPHIS, Michigan — You think minivans are uncool?

I emerged from a game of Padel into a black Michigan night. With my arms full of a tennis bag and water bottle, I walked up to my red 2026 Chrysler Pacifica minivan tester and swung my foot under the rear door.

Open sesame!

The door automatically slid sideways, exposing the cavernous ...Read more

Grasso’s Garage has reviewed more than 375 vehicles and driven more brands and models than could park on most city blocks. And by now, regular readers will know that a few brands and models have emerged as favorites. This week, I'd like to indulge my long-lasting love for the station wagon. Recently we reviewed the 2025 Volvo V60 PHEV, which ...Read more

Trump administration officials vowed to keep U.S. coal power plants operating, casting it as an imperative to meet surging electricity demand and drive a revival of the nation’s industrial base.

“The goal is 100% open,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “That’s the standard we’re operating against.”

Burgum’s comment came ...Read more

Microsoft is recommending several policies to local lawmakers in an effort to help speed up housing development in Washington state.

In a playbook the company released Thursday are four proposals that Microsoft says are “concrete, evidence-based actions that state and local leaders” can take to close the housing gap.

—Unlock land: ...Read more

Bally’s Chicago may not be opening its new permanent casino this year after all.

With its already extended temporary license to operate at Medinah Temple set to expire in September and construction of the new casino complex racing the clock, state Rep. Kam Buckner introduced a bill Thursday to add up to another 12 months to the temporary ...Read more

A U.S. judge ruled Equinor ASA can resume building its multibillion-dollar wind project near New York, marking the second time this week a federal court has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a halt on offshore developments.

Equinor’s Empire Wind project would likely suffer “imminent irreparable harm” from further delays ...Read more

A Seattle-based law firm is accusing Starbucks of having an unethical supply chain and alleging that its decaffeinated coffee contains harmful chemicals.

Hagens Berman filed the proposed class-action lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on behalf of plaintiffs Jennifer Williams, of Washington, and ...Read more

Q: Can my neighbor point cameras into my courtyard that capture all my comings and goings? —Rachel

A: Privacy concerns can arise no matter where someone lives. Sometimes it is a nosy neighbor; other times it involves a business with security cameras or drones flying overhead.

While laws vary depending on where you live, the general ...Read more

Paramount suffered a blow in a Delaware courtroom Thursday as a judge refused to expedite its lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery seeking information about internal deliberations and a financial analysis.

Reuters reported that Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn of the Delaware Chancery Court said during a hearing that Paramount had failed to ...Read more

A video circulating on social media shows federal immigration officers putting a worker into a gray pickup truck in a parking lot behind General Mills’ Chanhassen manufacturing facility in the second week of January.

The 27-second clip with no audio demonstrates Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s growing presence at Minnesota’s ...Read more

Donald Trump’s return to the White House unleashed a market rally, dealmaking went into overdrive, and bankers embraced all things Trump to rake in the big money.

The new year is offering Wall Street enough reason to worry that the party could be cut short.

The top U.S. banks are trotting out results this week that back up the big run-up in...Read more

More than a decade before a deadly crash last year, Boeing warned MD-11 operators that a part securing the cargo plane’s engines to their wings had failed four times, while insisting it did not pose a safety risk.

Now that piece is the focus of an investigation into the UPS Flight 2976 disaster in Kentucky.

In a memo Wednesday, the National ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is directing his city agencies to work toward cutting down fees and fines for small businesses.

Small businesses in New York are required to fork up cash for, among many other things, the ability to serve ice cream and install fridges.

The executive order, signed by Mamdani on Wednesday, calls on the Deputy ...Read more

Social media giant Meta said it's cutting more than 1,000 workers and closing several content studios as it focuses its efforts on artificial intelligence-powered wearables such as smart glasses.

The reductions are within Meta's Reality Labs division where employees work on the metaverse, digital spaces where people socialize, work, learn and ...Read more

DETROIT — Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday that the artificial intelligence powering self-driving vehicles is now "safer" for passengers than human hands behind the wheel, and he predicted more Americans will become one-car families as the technology is widely adopted.

Buttigieg made the prediction during a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order Wednesday against General Motors Co. that will ban the company from disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for five years.

The agency said in a news release that GM "collected, used, and sold consumers’ precise geolocation data...Read more

Maryland and other states have settled with Capital One for $425 million after the bank was found to have used deceptive practices and misleading language for its 360 Savings accounts, according to the Office of the Maryland Attorney General.

The $425 million settlement is a revised agreement stemming from a complaint about Capital One’s 360 ...Read more

Verizon customers experienced a mobile service outage across the nation on Wednesday.

More than 180,000 unconfirmed reports were made to Downdetector, peaking in the early afternoon. The hotspot map showed most of the reports coming from New York City, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

The network status section of the Verizon website appeared to ...Read more