PHILADELPHIA — Across the river from Philadelphia, a second public media TV station will go dark after Republicans and the Trump administration stripped federal funding from NPR and PBS.

New Jersey PBS, the state’s only public television station, will shutter next year after suffering “very significant” budget cuts implemented by the ...Read more

St. Paul’s popular El Burrito Mercado grocery and restaurant is a family business now run by the second and third generations. The owners worry their fourth generation may not succeed them.

The 46-year-old business is financially squeezed by soaring inflation and anxiety among its Latino customers about immigration crackdowns.

“Even ...Read more

One of the major reasons why AI data centers are sucking up so much power is the need to cool processors that run very hot. But Microsoft Corp. is trying out a possible solution: sending fluid directly through tiny channels etched into the chips.

The technology is called microfluidics, and it’s being used in prototype systems in test ...Read more

Home Depot is rolling out a new project planning tool in its latest effort to win more business from professional contractors.

The Vinings-based home improvement retailer said Tuesday it has launched a free digital platform to help builders and other tradespeople plan, manage and execute complex projects.

It comes as the company competes for ...Read more

NEW YORK — September a year ago, Arian Simone said she made a vow.

Simone made that promise the day she settled the landmark racial discrimination lawsuit that made her and her Atlanta-based venture capital firm Fearless Fund the first targets in the fight against corporate diversity, equity and inclusion.

A conservative group had sued ...Read more

The night before the Trump administration began enforcing a 25% tariff on Canadian imports, Chicago-based GI Stone had 13 trucks at the U.S. border, each loaded down with specialized granite set for installation in the Obama Presidential Center under construction in Jackson Park.

Only eight trucks made it through before the tariffs took effect ...Read more

Roughly 1-in-5 California households have housing expenses gobbling up more than half of their incomes.

My trusty spreadsheet identified numerous affordability challenges by analyzing 2024 Census Bureau housing data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These latest figures detail swings in who’s renting and who owns, how much they ...Read more

Nvidia plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT maker a huge war chest to build data centers with the chip maker’s chips.

OpenAI will gain access to millions of Nvidia chips in the coming years.

“Everything starts with compute,” Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said in a joint news release. “Compute ...Read more

Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.

Keller’s husband is Zach Keller, legislative director for Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana. Last year, when the pair became new — ...Read more

When it comes to her kids’ Halloween costumes, Devon Weaver has learned to take a laid-back approach.

“Costumes don’t have to be stressful,” said Weaver, a 45-year-old content creator who runs several blogs, including Mamacheaps.com, from her Hilltown, Bucks County, home. “You can always repurpose things: Sports uniforms, dance ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hiring managers in key Minnesota job sectors, from health care to industrial research, say the state’s already tight labor pool could be further constrained by the new $100,000 fee on new visa applications for highly skilled workers.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order meant to reduce companies’ ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the outlooks for the labor market and inflation face risks, reiterating his view that policymakers likely have a difficult road ahead as they weigh further interest-rate cuts.

“Near-term risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside — a challenging situation,” ...Read more

CHICAGO — Members of the union representing Museum of Science and Industry workers voted to authorize a strike, although it was unclear if or when a walkout would take place.

At a Tuesday morning news conference outside the Hyde Park institution, members of the union said they voted to strike because museum management has not given employees ...Read more

A chef from California’s Central Coast who had two strokes while traveling internationally on American Airlines was awarded more than $9 million after a federal jury concluded employees failed to follow their own protocols to help him.

In November 2021, Jesus Plasencia, a chef from Watsonville who was 67 at the time, was traveling with his ...Read more

According to President Donald Trump, in economic terms you never had it so good.

“The economy is back on track,” the White House proclaimed last week, asserting that, among other metrics, “retail sales are booming” and inflation is falling.

These claims, however, seem to be more aspirational than real — at least that’s what the raw...Read more

A jury will decide whether Amazon duped millions of customers into signing up for Prime memberships, in a case that kicked off this week in federal court in Seattle.

The case, filed by the Federal Trade Commission in 2023, is focused on one of the pillars of Amazon's e-commerce business.

Amazon's Prime membership, first introduced in 2005 and ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support new data centers and other artificial intelligence infrastructure, a blockbuster deal that underscores booming demand for AI tools like ChatGPT and the computing power needed to make them run.

The companies announced the agreement Monday, saying they’d signed a letter of ...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, U.S. labor board attorneys told a judge Monday.

“Amazon structured its logistics network to maintain all the benefits of control while denying any responsibility as an employer,” Sanam Yasseri, a lawyer for the general counsel...Read more

President Donald Trump’s new sky-high visa fees have shaken Silicon Valley’s tech giants as they contemplate a surge in the cost of hiring global talent and a new tactic the White House can use to keep Silicon Valley in line.

The tech industry was already navigating an economy with higher and unpredictable tariffs, when last week the Trump ...Read more