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Early evening shot of Spokane River with waterfall.

How Spokane tourism grew into a $1.5 billion industry in 2023

Early evening shot of Spokane River with waterfall.

May 26, 2024, 6:02am Business

Since earthlings were confined to their homes during the coronavirus pandemic, Spokane county tourism has never been better. Read story

People celebrate after the United Auto Workers (UAW) received enough votes to form a union at a UAW vote watch party on April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

As a key labor union pushes into the South, red states push back

People celebrate after the United Auto Workers (UAW) received enough votes to form a union at a UAW vote watch party on April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Business

Just days before workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama began voting last week on whether to unionize, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a new law that would claw back state incentives from companies that voluntarily recognize labor unions. Read story

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Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

(AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn)

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Business

Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. At the Central Intelligence Agency, basic artificial intelligence – machine learning and algorithms – has long served that mission. Now, generative AI is joining the effort. Read story

FILE - Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in the House of Representatives chamber in the State Capitol, Jan. 17, 2023, in Denver. State lawmakers&rsquo; first attempts at curtailing discrimination in artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role American&rsquo;s lives are floundering across the country. Only Colorado&rsquo;s bill has been signed by the governor Polis.

Attempts to regulate AI’s hidden hand in Americans’ lives flounder in U.S. statehouses

FILE - Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in the House of Representatives chamber in the State Capitol, Jan. 17, 2023, in Denver. State lawmakers&rsquo; first attempts at curtailing discrimination in artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role American&rsquo;s lives are floundering across the country. Only Colorado&rsquo;s bill has been signed by the governor Polis.

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Business

The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide. Read story

Anita Hill arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission wants to change how workers report sexual harassment

Anita Hill arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.

May 26, 2024, 6:00am Business

In the wake of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape trial, a survey of nearly 10,000 workers by the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission revealed a sobering result: Few people believed perpetrators would ever be held accountable. Read story

FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. A New York bankruptcy judge rejected Giuliani&rsquo;s request to pursue an appeal of a $148 million defamation judgment for spreading lies about the the 2020 election and said he was &ldquo;disturbed&rdquo; by the lack of progress in the five-month-old case on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

Rudy Giuliani peddles self-named coffee amid legal woes, financial struggles

FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. A New York bankruptcy judge rejected Giuliani&rsquo;s request to pursue an appeal of a $148 million defamation judgment for spreading lies about the the 2020 election and said he was &ldquo;disturbed&rdquo; by the lack of progress in the five-month-old case on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

May 26, 2024, 5:55am Business

Rudy Giuliani has brewed up a new business — and the reactions from social media are pouring in. Read story

FILE - Shoppers exit a Walmart store, Feb. 21, 2024, in Englewood, Colo. Walmart on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant&rsquo;s campus offices.

Walmart chops 500-plus jobs at two Bay Area tech hubs as layoffs widen

FILE - Shoppers exit a Walmart store, Feb. 21, 2024, in Englewood, Colo. Walmart on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant&rsquo;s campus offices.

May 26, 2024, 5:26am Business

Walmart has decided to slash well over 500 jobs at two of the retail behemoth’s tech hubs in the Bay Area, offering fresh evidence the wrenching reductions in the technology sector still afflict the region. Read story

It takes more money to be middle class

May 25, 2024, 6:15am Business

The household income required to be considered middle class in the United States varies depending on where you live. In California, the price is high. Read story