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Meta Platforms agreed to make major changes to Facebook and Instagram and pay up to $18 billion to resolve claims by most U.S. states that it designed those platforms to addict children and misled consumers about their safety.

Canada hit back on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. annual imports and rolled out aid for businesses and workers, matching Washington's latest duties dollar-for-dollar.

Uber Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new safety feature that lets parents or guardians view a video livestream of their teenager’s ride. 

For nearly 16 years, Wendy Johnson has tried to build an Iowa farm that could survive the kinds of economic shocks that drove farmers out of business when she was growing up in the 1980s.

The tariff train derailed again this past weekend as officials from Canada and the U.S. spoke of economic war as duties on Canadian goods jumped to 50% for some products with threats a larger range of goods coming on January 1.

It was a television show tailor-made for Los Angeles: a highly anticipated Netflix crime drama about a team of ex-special forces operators who outsource their skills to criminals in the city.

A national coalition made up of millions of teachers, school staff and other union members has launched a boycott against Target in protest of the retailer’s decision not to publicly denounce the surge of immigration enforcement officers in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in coordination with the AFL-CIO, announced the campaign in recent days. 

California Attorney General Rob Bonta abruptly pulled out of a planned mediation session Monday to seek a resolution to the antitrust lawsuit that has stalled Paramount Skydance’s blockbuster $111-billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to raise U.S. tariffs on all cars, trucks and automotive parts from Canada to 50% starting January 1, 2027, escalating a trade fight after negotiations collapsed last week.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on Monday, dragged by technology stocks, while investors assessed the potential fallout from the U.S. pledge of an "economic D-Day" against Iran and looked ahead to Nvidia's earnings and a key inflation report later this week.

As the saying goes, nothing in life is free. Despite the name, you don’t escape the 2% to 5% cost of refinancing a mortgage with a no-closing-cost refinance. While you don’t have to pay the costs upfront, your lender just moves those costs elsewhere: a higher interest rate, a higher loan balance or both.

The Campbell’s Company (Nasdaq: CPB) fell to a 23-year low this spring in response to disappointing financial performances and a reduction in projections. But it’s shaping up to be a compelling high-yield dividend stock for ultra-long-term value investors.

Millennium Northwest began demolition of buildings on four parcels of downtown land at Browne Street and Main Avenue.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has escalated one of its investigations into General Motors vehicles for engine failure risks to include newer-model years amid consumer complaints. 

WASHINGTON – TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400-million settlement to resolve the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations the short-video app violated children’s online privacy.