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Jennifer Morgan, aircraft maintenance inspector, posed for a photo on top of a plane in Hangar 5 at the Southwest Airlines Headquarters in Dallas on April 14, 2023.

Women are less than 3% of aviation maintenance technicians. Why?

June 3, 2024, 6:00am Business

Jennifer Morgan’s day at work at Southwest Airlines includes strapping herself to a harness and standing on top of a Boeing 737. Read story

Los Angeles loses ground to rivals in film and TV employment but remains the biggest player

June 3, 2024, 6:00am Business

Los Angeles’ portion of the domestic film and TV economy shrank last year amid devastating industry struggles, but it remains by far the most powerful entertainment player in the United States. Read story

This image from video provided by Abdul Nasser Saleh shows him in his bedroom aboard the cargo ship Al-Maha at the seaport of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in January 2024. Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea.

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor’s plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment

June 3, 2024, 6:00am Business

Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. Read story

New nonprofit helps farmworker with idea for cherry picking harness

June 3, 2024, 5:06am Business

Luis Alejandro Barrera has spent most of the past six years working on orchards in Washington. He comes from Nayarit, on Mexico’s west coast, and works nine-month contracts at cherry and apple orchards. Read story

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams leave the operations and checkout building for a trip to launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The two astronauts are scheduled to liftoff later today on the Boeing Starliner capsule for a trip to the international space station. .

Boeing’s first astronaut flight called off at the last minute in latest setback

June 2, 2024, 2:17pm Business

Last-minute computer trouble nixed Saturday’s launch attempt for Boeing’s first astronaut flight, the latest in a string of delays over the years. Read story

Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

FILE - President Joe Biden is photographed by participants after delivering a speech commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, in Washington.

June 2, 2024, 12:43pm Business

The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way. Read story

Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach

The battery of a BYD Seagull electric vehicle as seen at the Caresoft Global facility Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Livonia, Mich. Caresoft President Terry Woychowski, a former engineer at General Motors, said the Seagull represents a "clarion call" for the U.S. auto industry.

June 2, 2024, 11:55am Business

Donald Trump says the Biden administration's policy to promote electric vehicles is a “radical plan” that would kill the economy in automaking states. Republican allies in the petroleum industry have spent millions on ads that say President Joe Biden's tax credit for EV buyers will cost Americans their freedom. Read story