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Japan’s Nissan tests driverless vehicles in city streets filled with cars and people

March 10, 2025, 8:11am Business

The van makes its way slowly but surely through the city streets, braking gently when a car swerves into its lane. But its steering wheel is turning on its own, and there’s no one in the driver’s seat. Read story

Chelan cherries hang on a tree in 2015 at Lyall Farms in Mattawa.

‘A nightmare for our farmers.’ Eastern WA growers could take big hits from tariffs

Chelan cherries hang on a tree in 2015 at Lyall Farms in Mattawa.

March 10, 2025, 6:00am Business

Washington is one of the nation's top agriculture producers, led by Eastern Washington's robust farming industry. Read story

Rancher Rachel Gray moves cattle between pens for calving at her family’s Little Timber Farm in Blackduck, Minnesota, on Feb. 21.

After a decade, beef farmers finally having a good year

Rancher Rachel Gray moves cattle between pens for calving at her family’s Little Timber Farm in Blackduck, Minnesota, on Feb. 21.

March 10, 2025, 6:00am Business

In Minnesota’s north country, a former kindergarten teacher-turned-rancher carefully walks forward on muddy, thawing ground toward a knot of dark heifers. They stare with curious white faces. One high-ended cow trots away awkwardly, a classic signal that she’ll soon be calving. Read story

Bankrate: What is a rug pull?

March 10, 2025, 5:24am Business

A rug pull is a scam where a cryptocurrency or NFT developer hypes a project to attract investor money, only to suddenly shut down or disappear, taking investor assets with them. The name comes from the idiom “to pull the rug out” from under someone, leaving the victim off-balance and… Read story

NASA, SpaceX say launch is on track for Wednesday

March 9, 2025, 2:17pm Business

The rocket launch taking Spokane astronaut Anne McClain and her fellow crew members to the International Space Station is moving forward as scheduled, pending the resolution of some technical issues, officials say. Read story

President Donald Trump waves before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Washington.

Trump downplays business concerns

President Donald Trump waves before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Washington.

March 9, 2025, 1:21pm Business

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices, and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. Read story

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens as Trump prepares to sign an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington.

Economic policy uncertainty index signals possible U.S. recession

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listens as Trump prepares to sign an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington.

March 9, 2025, 1:21pm Business

With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries that President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it. Read story

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019.

China learned lessons from Trump’s first trade war

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019.

March 9, 2025, 1:21pm Business

The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump last week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely to make a similar call soon. Read story