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A pair of traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, July 22, 2024. U.S.

Stock market today: A wipeout on Wall Street sends the S&P 500 down by 2.3% as Big Tech skids

A pair of traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, July 22, 2024. U.S.

July 24, 2024, 2:23pm Business Updated 2 days ago

A wipeout on Wednesday sent U.S. stock indexes to their worst losses since 2022 after profit reports from Tesla and Alphabet helped suck momentum from Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology. Read story

FILE - A Meta Portal Go is displayed during a preview of the Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., on May 4, 2022. 4. A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams.

Meta takes down thousands of Facebook accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria

FILE - A Meta Portal Go is displayed during a preview of the Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., on May 4, 2022. 4. A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams.

July 24, 2024, 10:08am Business Updated 2 days ago

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers. Read story

FILE - The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that it&rsquo;s ordering eight companies that offer &ldquo;surveillance pricing&rdquo; to turn in information about their practices, as the agency investigates potential impacts on privacy and consumer protection.

FTC orders 8 companies to provide information on ‘surveillance pricing’ practices

FILE - The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that it&rsquo;s ordering eight companies that offer &ldquo;surveillance pricing&rdquo; to turn in information about their practices, as the agency investigates potential impacts on privacy and consumer protection.

July 24, 2024, 7:50am Business

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered information from eight companies that the agency says offer products and services that use personal data to set prices based on a shopper’s individual characteristics. Read story

Customers wait in line at a departure area for Spirit Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday, July 19, 2024, after a faulty CrowdStrike update caused a major internet outage for computers running Microsoft Windows.

CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage

Customers wait in line at a departure area for Spirit Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday, July 19, 2024, after a faulty CrowdStrike update caused a major internet outage for computers running Microsoft Windows.

July 24, 2024, 7:48am Business Updated 2 days ago

Crowdstrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. Read story

FILE - This image taken with a drone shows the continuing cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train on Feb. 9, 2023, that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Amit Bose, the head of the Federal Railroad Administration, plans to testify at a House hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that railroad safety has stagnated over the last decade and more needs to be done. But it&rsquo;s not clear if Republicans will support any rail safety reforms even after the disastrous East Palestine derailment that prompted the hearing. (AP Photo/Gene J.

Rushed railcar inspections and ‘stagnated’ safety record reinforce concerns after fiery Ohio crash

FILE - This image taken with a drone shows the continuing cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train on Feb. 9, 2023, that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Amit Bose, the head of the Federal Railroad Administration, plans to testify at a House hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that railroad safety has stagnated over the last decade and more needs to be done. But it&rsquo;s not clear if Republicans will support any rail safety reforms even after the disastrous East Palestine derailment that prompted the hearing. (AP Photo/Gene J.

July 24, 2024, 7:46am Business

Major freight railroads are rushing railcar inspections, reinforcing known safety concerns raised by unions for years, but at a House hearing Tuesday they’ll present new evidence from federal inspectors that railcar checks are routinely less than two minutes per car. Read story

Benson Wanjala talks about the health of his soil at his farm in Machakos, Kenya, Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame

Benson Wanjala talks about the health of his soil at his farm in Machakos, Kenya, Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

July 24, 2024, 7:46am Business

When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled to 30. He says his once fertile soil has become a nearly lifeless field that no longer earns… Read story

FILE - People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month.

Russian-linked cybercampaigns put a bull’s-eye on France. Their focus? The Olympics and elections

FILE - People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month.

July 24, 2024, 7:44am Business

Photos of blood-red hands on a Holocaust memorial. Caskets at the Eiffel Tower. A fake French military recruitment drive calling for soldiers in Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific territory, population 15,000. Read story

Intalco Aluminum agrees to $5.25 million penalty for hazardous pollution violations at Ferndale

July 24, 2024, 7:39am Business

Intalco Aluminum, the company that operated the shuttered aluminum smelter in Ferndale, has agreed to pay $5.25 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read story