Ford Motor Co. is investigating an incident in which a vulgar anti-return-to-office message was displayed on Thursday in Dearborn corporate buildings.

A photo of the face of CEO Jim Farley with a red prohibition symbol over it appeared on monitors in conference rooms around 9 a.m. that soon were taken down, according to photos shared on social ...Read more

OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup.

Current and former OpenAI employees sold about $6.6 billion of stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The Boeing Co. said Thursday it would expand its push for replacement workers and boost recruitment efforts as its unionized workforce continued to strike.

Dan Gillian, the aerospace giant's top St. Louis executive, said in a letter to employees that the two-month standoff could go on for weeks or months longer "in light of the ...Read more

YouTube TV and NBCUniversal announced a new distribution agreement Thursday, averting a blackout that could have interrupted programming routines for millions of customers.

The previous pact expired earlier this week, but both companies agreed to keep talking. They were motivated to clinch a deal without provoking the ire of YouTube TV’s base...Read more

The “Make America Healthy Again” movement and American agriculture have been on a collision course this year, and at the center is a fight over commonly used pesticides.

This May, a MAHA Commission led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named some pesticides as potentially problematic, citing studies that link ...Read more

The federal government has shut down as of 12:01 a.m. Wednesday and federal workers are among the first to bear the brunt.

The current shutdown could look different from those of the past. President Donald Trump’s administration has directed federal agencies to prepare layoff plans separate from the temporary furloughs that typically take ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego home prices were down annually for a second month as the region fell in a closely watched real estate index.

The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price decreased 0.66% annually in July, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released this week. Prices were down year-over-year by 0.61% the previous ...Read more

CHICAGO — Most patients don’t expect to be sent to a vending machine immediately after a doctor’s appointment or a hospital stay.

But there are two new vending machines that dole out prescription medications — not snacks — at Advocate Trinity Hospital in Calumet Heights and Advocate Medical Group’s Imani Village clinic in Chicago's ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose has elected to purchase a prime downtown property once slated for a major tech campus, which could potentially aid the city’s vision of expanding its convention center and developing a sports and entertainment district.

The City Council has approved the $13.5 million acquisition of 447 S. Almaden Blvd – a 3.56-...Read more

Technology shares rallied, defying weakness in other parts of the stock market, after an OpenAI share sale valued the artificial intelligence company at $500 billion.

The Nasdaq 100 Index added 0.3% at 12:59 p.m. in New York in its fourth consecutive day of gains. The S&P 500 Information Technology Index rallied 0.7%, while the broader S&P 500...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Solcana Fitness owner Hannah Wydeven, like many fellow business owners along East Lake Street in Minneapolis, has for months picked up dirty needles, human waste and litter from her property.

The disruption from a private homeless encampment near Lake and 28th Ave. came to a crescendo with a shootout on Sept. 15 that killed one ...Read more

In the midst of the Seattle-area housing shortage, hundreds of thousands of vacant rooms in big houses sit untapped as many homeowners are either reluctant to have a housemate or unsure about how to go about it.

Larry Crites is a longtime rental property owner living in Seattle.

He used to rent out the upstairs section of his first house. But ...Read more

Brenda Beeson loves her house. It’s where she woke up next to her husband each morning and rushed her daughter out to school. She never thought the house in South King County, Washington, once so full of life, could feel as empty as it does now.

Ever since her husband unexpectedly died in 2018 and her daughter moved out, four of the home’s ...Read more

Beginning Wednesday, United Airlines will operate out of five additional gates at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. American Airlines will lose four.

The shift in gates is the result of a “use it or lose it” provision in a lease agreement the airlines signed with the city in 2018. Under the agreement, gates at the airport are ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom called Tuesday for a report that will study whether to limit the liabilities of California's investor-owned utilities if they're found to have caused wildfires — as well as to possibly establish a state-supported property insurance fund.

The executive order is more broadly intended to come up with ideas on how to reduce the ...Read more

Chicago may be a “hellhole” according to President Donald Trump, but the city by the lake proved a pretty attractive destination for visitors over the summer, generating records for hotel occupancy and revenue.

From June through August, hotels in Chicago’s Central Business District booked nearly 3.6 million room nights, a 4.3% gain over ...Read more