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Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation

April 27, 2024, 5:43am Business

Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation. Read story

The LA Fitness in Hazel Dell (The Columbian files)

Pool at LA Fitness in Hazel Dell reopens after repairs made

The LA Fitness in Hazel Dell (The Columbian files)

April 26, 2024, 7:41pm Business Updated 11 hours ago

Patrons of LA Fitness’ Hazel Dell location can finally celebrate the long-awaited reopening of the gym’s pool. Staff at the facility confirmed the pool reopened Tuesday. Read story

Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation, other abuses under new rule

April 26, 2024, 2:40pm Business

Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday. Read story

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in New York.

Stock market today: Alphabet and Microsoft push Wall Street to its first winning week in a month

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in New York.

April 26, 2024, 1:05pm Business

The best week for U.S. stocks since November closed out with more gains thanks to Alphabet and Microsoft on Friday. Read story

FILE - The Internal Revenue Service 1040 tax form for 2022 is seen on April 17, 2023. The IRS said Friday, April 26, 2024, more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program. It says the program&#039;s users claimed more than $90 million in refunds, saving roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have spent with commercial tax preparation companies.

140,000 people did their taxes with the free IRS direct file pilot. But program’s future is unclear

FILE - The Internal Revenue Service 1040 tax form for 2022 is seen on April 17, 2023. The IRS said Friday, April 26, 2024, more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program. It says the program&#039;s users claimed more than $90 million in refunds, saving roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have spent with commercial tax preparation companies.

April 26, 2024, 11:43am Business

The IRS said Friday that more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program and participants saved roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have otherwise spent with commercial tax preparation companies. Read story

FLE - A group of women who have spoken out about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein&rsquo;s sexual misconduct and who refer to themselves as the &ldquo;Silence Breakers,&rdquo; face the media during a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Los Angeles. New York&rsquo;s highest court on Thursday, April 25, 2024, has overturned Harvey Weinstein&rsquo;s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial.

#MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein’s conviction is overturned

FLE - A group of women who have spoken out about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein&rsquo;s sexual misconduct and who refer to themselves as the &ldquo;Silence Breakers,&rdquo; face the media during a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Los Angeles. New York&rsquo;s highest court on Thursday, April 25, 2024, has overturned Harvey Weinstein&rsquo;s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial.

April 26, 2024, 11:30am Business

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. Read story

Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say

April 26, 2024, 8:19am Business

The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. Read story

A clearance sign is displayed at a retail clothing store in Downers Grove, Ill., Monday, April 1, 2024. On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Commerce Department issues its March report on consumer spending. (AP Photo/Nam Y.

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month

A clearance sign is displayed at a retail clothing store in Downers Grove, Ill., Monday, April 1, 2024. On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Commerce Department issues its March report on consumer spending. (AP Photo/Nam Y.

April 26, 2024, 7:57am Business

A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Read story