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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for the plenary session of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2024.

Affluent Americans are driving US economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for the plenary session of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2024.

April 29, 2024, 7:48am Business

Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Read story

From Left, Boeing Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour; Ed Pierson, Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a Former Boeing Engineer; Joe Jacobsen, Aerospace Engineer and Technical Advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former FAA Engineer; and Shawn Pruchnicki, Ph.D, Professional Practice Assistant Professor for Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University are sworn in before they testify at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine Boeing&rsquo;s broken safety culture on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Washington.

Congress has a lot to say about Boeing’s troubles. But what will it do?

From Left, Boeing Quality Engineer Sam Salehpour; Ed Pierson, Executive Director of The Foundation for Aviation Safety and a Former Boeing Engineer; Joe Jacobsen, Aerospace Engineer and Technical Advisor to the Foundation for Aviation Safety and a former FAA Engineer; and Shawn Pruchnicki, Ph.D, Professional Practice Assistant Professor for Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University are sworn in before they testify at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine Boeing&rsquo;s broken safety culture on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Washington.

April 29, 2024, 7:45am Business

Dueling Senate hearings earlier this month focused on Boeing’s safety culture, with whistleblower testimony that lawmakers called troubling as they pledged to further address the company’s problems. Read story

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of &ldquo;The Rachel Maddow Show,&rdquo; moderates a panel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 16, 2017. In the past few weeks, NBC reversed a decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a political contributor following a revolt by some of its best-known personalities, including Maddow, and others.

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of &ldquo;The Rachel Maddow Show,&rdquo; moderates a panel at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 16, 2017. In the past few weeks, NBC reversed a decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a political contributor following a revolt by some of its best-known personalities, including Maddow, and others.

April 29, 2024, 6:02am Business

This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Read story

A farmworker picks pears at Rowe Farms outside of Yakima on a day when temperatures reached over 100 degrees, Aug. 16, 2023.

WA farmers brace for summer drought on heels of harvest shortfalls

A farmworker picks pears at Rowe Farms outside of Yakima on a day when temperatures reached over 100 degrees, Aug. 16, 2023.

April 29, 2024, 6:02am Business

Andy Juris, a dryland wheat and alfalfa grower in Bickleton, in Klickitat County, knows precisely how much fertilizer to put on different areas of his farm. Read story

Software developer Lisa Mabley works from her home office on Monday April 15, 2024, in Minneapolis. Mabley was laid off from her job a year ago and applied to 300 places before finding a new job. Demand for tech workers rose during the digital transportation revolution. Now, those workers are being laid off or can&rsquo;t find employment.

After hiring bonanza, tech workers now grapple with layoffs and disillusionment

Software developer Lisa Mabley works from her home office on Monday April 15, 2024, in Minneapolis. Mabley was laid off from her job a year ago and applied to 300 places before finding a new job. Demand for tech workers rose during the digital transportation revolution. Now, those workers are being laid off or can&rsquo;t find employment.

April 29, 2024, 6:00am Business Updated 15 hours ago

Lisa Mabley was laid off a year ago from her job as a software engineer at a Twin Cities software company. Over the course of five months, she sent her résumé to nearly 300 companies. Read story

Toyota seeks to capitalize on U.S. rules favoring local output.

Toyota is investing $1.4 billion to build another all-electric SUV in US

Toyota seeks to capitalize on U.S. rules favoring local output.

April 29, 2024, 5:53am Business

Toyota Motor Corp. is moving ahead with plans to manufacture and sell more electric vehicles in the U.S. by investing $1.4 billion at a plant in Indiana, the Japanese carmaker’s second such announcement this year. Read story

FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden&#039;s administration has delayed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a decision that is certain to infuriate anti-smoking advocates but could avoid angering Black voters ahead of November elections.

Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden&#039;s administration has delayed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a decision that is certain to infuriate anti-smoking advocates but could avoid angering Black voters ahead of November elections.

April 28, 2024, 3:35pm Business

President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November. Read story

Disneyland Resort Cast Members, Courtney Griffith, left, hugs Angela Nichols after a news conference in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Workers who help bring Disneyland&#039;s beloved characters to life said Wednesday they collected enough signatures to support their push for a union.

California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role

Disneyland Resort Cast Members, Courtney Griffith, left, hugs Angela Nichols after a news conference in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Workers who help bring Disneyland&#039;s beloved characters to life said Wednesday they collected enough signatures to support their push for a union.

April 28, 2024, 12:28pm Business

During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job to help him earn a living. Read story