A year-and-a-half since Trump took office and escalated deportation tactics, Latino business owners are struggling. Plus: Canadian GDP, a Fed speech, and a Route 66 space cowboy.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh gave remarks at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on Friday morning. The speech seemed to signal that the Fed will have to raise rates.
In Latino communities across LA, Houston, and Chicago, business owners say fear of immigration enforcement is keeping customers home and threatening their livelihoods.
Best Buy announced this week that it’s raising its outlook for the fiscal year. This follows a second quarter that saw the retailer’s comparable sales increase 4.1%.
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States are spending rural health dollars on tech startups, betting that untested companies will succeed where doctors have vanished and hospitals have collapsed.
The federal government’s Rural Health Transformation Program epitomizes the administration’s strategy of moving fast and experimenting with untested technology.
NFL players want to play on real grass. The World Cup proved it’s possible. Plus: Nvidia earnings expectations, a historic Route 66 hotel, and more AI taxes.
The U.S. tax code gives artificial intelligence and automation a built-in financial edge over workers. Some experts say a "robot tax" could level the playing field.
Seven stadiums that normally use artificial turf switched to grass for World Cup matches this summer, but have now reverted to turf for the NFL season. The issue could factor into upcoming union negotiations.
Dawn Federico of the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, talks about how she came to own the iconic motel, and what goes into maintaining a historic buidling.
Fresh data on orders for new semi-trucks, trains and planes in July showed a 2.3% increase from the previous month. That follows two previous monthly decreases.
Core PCE, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, hit an annual rate of 3.3% today. But there’s not that much the Fed can do when there are so many factors outside of its control.
Arizona sold its Capitol after the Great Recession to buy time for a temporary consumption tax. Could that same approach help offset AI-driven job tax revenue losses?
The U.S. says our forces in the Middle East have been keeping oil traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, but independent trackers can't account for all of it.
Dick’s Sporting Goods, which acquired Foot Locker last year, lowered its outlook for the shoe store, citing “challenging conditions in the athletic footwear marketplace.”
In Akron, Ohio — once the tire capital of the world — the collapse of the rubber industry offers a stark preview of what AI-driven job losses could mean for government tax revenue.
Meta has partnered with pop culture figures like Kylie Jenner and Teyana Taylor to promote their smart glasses. Journalist Carrie Battan says the Jenner campaign only raised more concerns about privacy and misuse.
Last Friday, the federal government put out a plan forcing some states to cut back on water from the Colorado River. By Monday, the state of Nevada filed a lawsuit describing the cuts as an unfair burden.
Jessie Dean, owner of the Asheville Tea Company in Asheville, North Carolina, has big plans to move to a new location under the cloud of U.S.-Canada tariffs.
If AI replaces jobs, what happens to our labor-heavy tax structure? Plus: Trouble in drought management, monetary policy crumbs, and long-term Hurricane Helene recovery.
In Akron, Ohio — once the tire capital of the world — the collapse of the rubber industry offers a stark preview of what AI-driven job losses could mean for government tax revenue.
For one weekend a year, the shores of Lake Erie in Conneaut, Ohio turn into the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in 1944. It’s the largest WWII reenactment in the U.S., and costs hardly anything to put on.
The state's Delete Act was supposed to give Californians a one-stop-shop to request their online information be deleted. But only a minority of registered data brokers are abiding by those laws, says Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered AI.
As tensions between the U.S. and Canada grow, their energy interdependence looms large. Plus: Walmart price cuts, Mexican “beef on the hoof,” and lawn surveillance.
Canada sends about 90% of its oil exports to the U.S., roughly 4 million barrels per day. But growing frustrations between the two countries have given our northern neighbors motivation to build new energy relationships.
That sentence structure is what once made William Shakespeare's writing great. But, chatbots tend to style outputted words as "it's not X, it's Y" to sound nuanced, says Will Oremus, writer at The Atlantic.
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