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Tesla Inc. ceded the title of world’s top seller of electric cars to China’s BYD Co., squandering a lead the Elon Musk-led company built as it popularized plug-in vehicles over the past decade.

The U.S. automaker ...Read more

Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user requests.

Users used prompts such as ...Read more

Holiday spending was expected to be tempered this year but the latest data shows Americans aren’t slowing down, even with growing debt.

The National Retail Federation said nearly 203 million U.S. shoppers went to retail...Read more

Ford Motor Co. ended a record-breaking recall year with 152 notices to consumers in 2025 concerning safety issues or product defects requiring repair. But executives say quality costs are improving.

The Dearborn, Michigan...Read more

New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill to prohibit households from being denied housing because they use public assistance.

The legislation, which lawmakers passed on Dec. 18, makes explicit that the state’s anti-...Read more

The 2026 Mercedes-Maybach SL680 Monogram Series is what happens when Mercedes decides that the real problem with excessive luxury is that it hasn’t yet been ironic enough.

Maybach has been the department responsible for...Read more

We’re entering 2026 with a bang in our reviews.

Grasso’s Garage welcomes back Aston Martin with its brand-familiar Vantage Roadster, the two-seater dream machine packed with style, design and plenty of power. The ...Read more

In an echoing studio in Long Beach, California, an ambitious team of designers is trying to reinvent how electric vehicles are made.

Slate Auto has assembled a team of EV engineers from Tesla, Rivian and elsewhere to ...Read more

No major U.S. metro is affordable enough for the middle class, but the Twin Cities is one of the most accessible options.

According to a December report from the Brookings Institution, more than 75% of middle-class ...Read more

The year 2025 was a pathbreaking one for the auto industry.

That was not wholly unexpected following the triumph of now-President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But the speed and scale of changes were perhaps unlike ...Read more

You're one of the lucky ones. You have a job. You also have a worry. Will the job you have at the start of 2026 be the job you have at the end of 2026?

Considering the challenges to your career trajectory from expected ...Read more

It was just a couple of years ago that the minimum wage landscape in California reached a major milestone — fast food workers would begin earning $20 an hour, a monumental boost in pay over the state’s then hourly rate...Read more

New Jersey’s minimum wage will increase on Thursday.

The new rate of $15.92 an hour is a $0.43 increase from the previous standard, which was set in 2025.

“Eight years ago, Governor Murphy pledged a stronger, fairer ...Read more

Inside a single-story brick building in Sorrento Mesa is a small lab sprinkled with beakers, test tubes and incubators that is worth billions of dollars.

This is where Cidara, a small San Diego pharmaceutical company, ...Read more

Mayor Brandon Scott announced Tuesday that the City of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against digital lender Dave Inc., accusing the company of luring cash-strapped residents into high-cost, short-term loans through ...Read more

BAY LAKE, Florida — A Walt Disney World cast member was injured blocking the massive boulder prop from hitting the audience Tuesday at the Indiana Jones attraction at Hollywood Studios.

Disney confirmed the employee was...Read more

If you picture a first-time homebuyer in the Seattle area, you probably wouldn’t think of 24-year-old Edwin Nino Delgado with his hip-hop posters taped to the wall of his $770,000 Lake City triplex.

He’s nowhere near ...Read more

Just because you can buy a home, should you?

It seems like a no-brainer when home prices soar year after year. But experts say first-time homebuyers need to consider factors beyond pure capital before jumping into the ...Read more