October 14, 2024, 11:29am Business
Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. Read story
October 14, 2024, 11:28am Business
Bath & Body Works is apologizing for selling a candle with packaging that some people said looked like Ku Klux Klan hoods. Read story
October 14, 2024, 7:41am Business
The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and exploitative institutions do not generate sustainable growth. Read story
October 14, 2024, 7:41am Business
The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion. Read story
October 14, 2024, 7:37am Business
The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown. Read story
October 14, 2024, 7:34am Business
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is using GoFundMe to rally its network of deep-pocketed backers and everyday donors around the survivors of his July assassination attempt and Hurricane Helene’s destruction, bucking more traditional avenues of emergency relief. Read story
October 14, 2024, 6:02am Business
Homebuyers in Seattle, Silicon Valley and the nation’s other priciest markets are seeing more properties hit the market as mortgage rates finally start trending lower. Read story
October 14, 2024, 6:00am Business
Alaska geologist Mark Myers hopes that underground reserves of hydrogen could fuel a new state energy industry. Read story
