U.S. employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose, pointing to lingering fragility in a labor market that was thought to be stabilizing.

Nonfarm payrolls fell 92,000 last month, one of the largest declines since the pandemic, after a strong start to the year. While some of the downside was expected in advance, like...Read more

A lawsuit alleging hundreds of thousands of homebuyers overpaid because Detroit-based Rocket Companies' mortgage unit colluded with real estate agents highlights decades-old affordable housing issues and the role of federal watchdogs under President Donald Trump.

Plaintiffs' attorneys in a January lawsuit describe the alleged deal between ...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s CEO and his wife have donated to Pope Leo XIV a secretly built, customized 2026 Ford Explorer hybrid SUV built in the pope's native Chicago.

Jim and Lia Farley gifted the vehicle in the presence of the Pontiff during a ceremony that took place on Feb. 28, marking the first time a Ford CEO has had an audience with the pope at ...Read more

It's becoming clearer with every passing day that the only people making a serious effort to come to grips with the implications of artificial intelligence for society aren't legislators, or business leaders, or AI promoters themselves. They're judges.

Indeed, in recent weeks, judges in two federal cases have drawn a line that seems to have ...Read more

Laid-off tech worker Joseph Tinner has spent almost a year hunting for a job. It has been a depressing crash course on the sea change in Silicon Valley.

The former product instructor from the San Francisco Bay Area has ridden the tech wave throughout his career, easily jumping from Verizon to Fitbit to Workday. Since losing his job early last ...Read more

Marian Houk was rehabbing from a major spinal surgery in 2022 when her physical therapist at UCHealth in Aurora, Colorado, recommended she try electrical stimulation to manage the pain.

Like many providers around the country, UCHealth sent Houk to Zynex Inc., an Englewood, Colorado-based medical device company that manufactures and sells ...Read more

Welcome to the age of AI hacking, in which the right prompts make amateurs into master hackers.

A group of cybercriminals recently used off-the-shelf artificial intelligence chatbots to steal data on nearly 200 million taxpayers. The bots provided the code and ready-to-execute plans to bypass firewalls.

Although they were explicitly programmed...Read more

LAGUNA BEACH, California — The Subaru Outback SUV is an icon. Now it has an electric sibling.

While the 2026 Outback has zigged to a square, truck-like ute design, the 2026 Trailseeker has zagged to Outback’s traditional wagon wardrobe with a side of off-road cladding and an infusion of high tech. I slipped into the driver seat, toggled the...Read more

Ford Motor Co. is supercharging its F-150 and Mustang offerings for customers.

The Blue Oval joined the aftermarket horsepower wars this week by offering a factory-installed Whipple Supercharger Kit for purchase with a new pickup or muscle car.

That means a whopping power boost for the F-150’s 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 engine from 400 horsepower ...Read more

The days of trucks being designed specifically for work and off-road use are virtually gone, as the truck market has shifted toward comfort and family-friendly vehicles fit for everyday driving.

As a full-four door with a CrewMax cab, the 2026 Toyota Tundra is a space machine that delivers storage and utility to consumers. Its ability to move ...Read more

When was it decided that buttons in a car were old-fashioned? Surely it was some young punk designer in a black turtleneck who made the call. So, he took them out. All of them. And stuffed everything onto a screen the size of a small television. Naturally, the accountants applauded. No buttons to manufacture? This saves money. High fives all ...Read more

Seattle’s law regulating when delivery drivers may be deactivated from platforms such as Uber and Instacart will remain in place after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ assertions it infringed on their First Amendment rights and was overly vague.

The split ruling from the three-judge panel likely means the law is ...Read more

Chet Edinger had already bought most of the fertilizer for his corn and soybean farm last year, but on Monday morning, with war breaking out in the Middle East, he rushed to secure a last few truckloads of urea for the tens of thousands of acres he cultivates near Mitchell, South Dakota.

“We grabbed what we needed,” he said by phone. It ...Read more

He's a cute little fella, decked out in his reflective vest, hard hat and work boots, with his big eyes and a fixed grin.

Meet "Coalie," who joins the army of official and semiofficial mascots making government and commercial pitches go down easier for you and me, like Smokey the Bear, McGruff the Crime Dog and Franklin the Fair Housing Fox.

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With Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. expected to saddle the combined company with $79 billion in debt, Paramount executives are looking to do away with redundant assets including real estate — and there is a lot of that.

Chief in the public's imagination are their historic studios in Burbank and Hollywood, where legendary ...Read more

Trader Joe’s, Ralphs and others have recalled some frozen food products amid concerns they may be contaminated with glass.

The recalls come weeks after Monrovia, California-based Trader Joe’s recalled batches of its private-label chicken fried rice with best-by dates between Sept. 8 and Nov. 17 due to glass.

Trader Joe’s on Tuesday ...Read more

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. visa system for highly skilled immigrants is about to get its first major test.

The annual lottery for H-1Bs, the most popular visa for white-collar professionals looking to build a career in the U.S., gets underway with new rules this month. For the first time, successful sponsors for ...Read more

U.S. homebuyers had to act fast last week to nab the first sub-6% mortgage rates in more than three years. Now they’re up, and the new conflict in the Middle East threatens to nudge them higher.

The average for 30-year, fixed loans climbed to 6% from 5.98% last week, which was the lowest point since September 2022, data from Freddie Mac ...Read more

Anthropic PBC’s clash with the Pentagon is drawing fresh attention to a lightly regulated practice: the U.S. government’s purchase of commercially available information, such as browsing histories and location data, and the growing use of artificial intelligence to analyze it at scale.

U.S. agencies, including the Defense Department, have ...Read more