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FILE - People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, June 30, 2023, in Washington.

‘With this new administration, the dream is gone’: Those hoping for loan forgiveness in limbo

FILE - People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, June 30, 2023, in Washington.

November 10, 2024, 2:16pm Business

Savannah Britt owes about $27,000 on loans she took out to attend Rutgers University, a debt she was hoping to see reduced by President Joe Biden’s student loan-forgiveness efforts. Read story

FILE - Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York.

Elon Musk went all-in to elect Trump. What a second Trump presidency could mean for big tech

FILE - Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York.

November 10, 2024, 6:05am Business

On election night, as Republican Donald Trump inched closer to reclaiming the U.S. presidency, some tech executives and venture capitalists rejoiced. Read story

President Donald Trump, left, welcomes members of his American Technology Council, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s return could be bad for WA trade and workers, good for tech

President Donald Trump, left, welcomes members of his American Technology Council, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

November 10, 2024, 6:02am Business

For some Washington business leaders, Donald Trump’s return to the White House revives hopes of fresh cuts to corporate taxes and a host of regulations. Read story

A person walks near Amazon office buildings near 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street on Jan. 17, 2023, in Seattle.

Amazon employees challenge 5-day-a-week office return

A person walks near Amazon office buildings near 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street on Jan. 17, 2023, in Seattle.

November 10, 2024, 6:01am Business

More than 500 employees from Amazon’s cloud-computing division have asked the company to reconsider its five-day in-office mandate set to take effect in January. Read story

Apple Park&rsquo;s spaceship campus is seen from this drone view in Sunnyvale, California, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.

Apple illegally threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

Apple Park&rsquo;s spaceship campus is seen from this drone view in Sunnyvale, California, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.

November 10, 2024, 6:00am Business

One Apple employee was allegedly threatened with unspecified reprisals if they talked about their performance bonus. Another was purportedly ordered to delete a post on social media about how to continue working remotely at the company. One was allegedly told to stop talking about pay on internal messaging systems and… Read story

FILE - A self-driving tractor trailer maneuvers around a test track in Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 14, 2024. The truck is owned by Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation Inc. (AP Photo/Gene J.

Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready

FILE - A self-driving tractor trailer maneuvers around a test track in Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 14, 2024. The truck is owned by Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation Inc. (AP Photo/Gene J.

November 10, 2024, 5:43am Business

Early one morning last year, as state Rep. Josh Bray left his small town of Mount Vernon in southeastern Kentucky to make his way to the Capitol in Frankfort, he decided to count how many drivers he saw texting or distracted by something else. Read story

To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

November 10, 2024, 5:34am Business

Over her 25 years living in a quiet suburban mobile home park, Kristi Peterman got to know the neighbors directly next door and a few across the street. Read story

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign.

The world promised to tame methane. Emissions are still rising

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign.

November 10, 2024, 5:31am Business

Sitting in his cramped office in Paris, Manfredi Caltagirone admits that one of the world’s highest-profile efforts to cut methane emissions so far isn’t stopping the gas from escaping and warming the atmosphere. Read story