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Apple’s most profitable product could finally be getting a much-needed change.

Americans increased their spending last month after taking a breather in January, while inflation was a mixed bag, new Commerce Department data showed Friday.

How Outback lost the steak wars to Texas Roadhouse and LongHorn

In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Until they didn’t.

Investors are increasingly calling for Musk to shift focus back to Tesla as the company faces a brand crisis.

The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House.

Two Federal Trade Commission members who were fired this month have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing on Thursday that the decision violated a long-established legal precedent preventing political firings.

The Trump administration’s culling of government programs and agencies has resulted in an unprecedented wave of federal workers joining the ranks of job seekers — and new data shows a spike in job applications from agencies impacted by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has delayed its release indefinitely. The AI features Apple has rolled out, including text message summaries, are comically unhelpful.

President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the auto tariffs he is about to impose will lead automakers to shift their car production, and their supply chains, to American factories. But it’s not that easy. Not by a long shot.

Get ready to pay more for your next car. Auto prices in the United States will start to rise very soon – perhaps within the next few weeks.

In the world of electric vehicles (EV), a Chinese car maker has gotten the upper hand over Tesla in just a few years. And it seems to be just getting started.

Dark pronouncements by Republicans about a “communist agenda” espoused by public media were intercut with lighter references to “Sesame Street” and “Curious George.”

Gold isn’t the only metal smashing through record high prices.

President Donald Trump is set to announce at 4 p.m. Wednesday tariffs on cars shipped to the United States, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

If you ever wanted to get as drunk as Pam Beesley at a Chili’s in Scranton, that dream is finally becoming a reality.

Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.

Student loan delinquencies are poised to hit record highs, and more than 9 million borrowers could see their credit scores tank in the first quarter of this year, according to new data released Wednesday.

For Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other House Republicans, today’s DOGE subcommittee hearing is about tarnishing PBS and NPR with accusations of bias and targeting them for defunding.

After GameStop closed about a quarter of its locations within the past year, shuttering 1,000 stores across the world, the company said it’s not close to done. And as the struggling company closes stores, it will invest cash in cryptocurrencies.

One in four US businesses has scaled back their hiring plans because of the turmoil unleashed by President Donald Trump’s trade war, according to a survey of chief financial officers released Wednesday.

Bonus season on Wall Street runs through March, and based on estimates released Wednesday morning, it has been a lucrative start to spring for the more than 200,000 people working in the securities industry.

Vietnam will cut its tariffs on several US products including liquified natural gas (LNG) and cars, and moved to approve Starlink services, as the country tries to avoid being hit with US tariffs because of its large bilateral trade surplus.

There are three letters keeping Tesla bulls up at night: BYD.

One of the international broadcasters targeted for termination by President Donald Trump has been granted a reprieve by a federal judge.

President Donald Trump’s tariff ambitions have been a tough sell. They’ve put investors in a tizzy, sending financial markets spiraling; cost him the support of many members of his own voter base; and angered CEOs.

If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now.

As we all live more of our lives online, it’s important to understand who might have access to our conversations and internet searches – and to understand how to maintain privacy in an increasingly connected world.

The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be?

America’s economic mood continues to deteriorate as President Donald Trump carries on with his sweeping economic agenda.

Many 23andMe customers signed up to the genetic testing service in hopes of learning fun or interesting information about their past. But consumer advocates are now urging those users to request the deletion of their accounts and data from the site, to prevent their genetic information from ending up in unexpected hands.

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.

China’s BYD recorded revenues of 777 billion yuan ($107 billion) for 2024, surging ahead Elon Musk’s Tesla in annual sales amid intensifying competition in the global market for clean-energy cars.

Spinning bright red handkerchiefs and dancing in step to folk music, more than a dozen human-like robots took to China’s biggest stage in January, making a splashy debut at the annual Lunar New Year gala.

Samsung Electronics co-CEO Han Jong-Hee has died, a spokesperson for the South Korean tech giant said on Tuesday. He was 63.

Massachusetts regulators are investigating Robinhood over launching a prediction markets hub, a way of letting users bet on its platform.

After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela.

For more than a month, President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes will go into effect. But as he has demonstrated many times before, Trump once again appears to be offering a lot of hype and little action.

Incidents of vandalism against Teslas have risen along with anger against CEO Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has led efforts to drastically slash the federal government’s workforce.

Britain’s Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe’s busiest airport on Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure that cost airlines tens of millions of pounds and stranded thousands of passengers.

Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No.

China is prepared for “possible unexpected shocks,” Premier Li Qiang told a gathering of global executives in Beijing, where he urged them to “resist protectionism” and defend globalization.

Gene testing firm 23andMe said on Sunday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to facilitate its sale, after years of struggling to find a sustainable business model.

Disney’s “Snow White,” a big-budget live-action retelling of the classic fairytale, opened to a sleepy $43 million at the domestic box office this weekend amid a slew of controversies.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems.

It’s not even April, yet 2025 already has been a lot. Like, a lot.

The demonstrations want people to “sell your Teslas” and “dump your stock,” as a way of reprimanding Musk, who owns a sizable stake in the electric vehicle maker.

Some winemakers and grape growers view Trump’s tariffs are cautiously optimistic the tariffs could revive interest in California-made wines, while others worry tariffs threaten to upend a fragile industry.

A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.