Companies are giving more consideration to opportunities outside the U.S. because of policy upheaval under the Trump administration, said McKinsey & Co. Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels.

Business leaders are concerned about being “vulnerable” to tariffs and other shifts to US economic and geopolitical positions, Sternfels said Tuesday...Read more

Ford Motor Co. has ordered its dealers not to deliver more than 320,000 all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUVs over an issue that can cause lockouts and entrapment.

The Dearborn automaker is recalling approximately 207,181 model year 2021-2025 Mustang Mach-Es in the United States and another 120,000 internationally. In a notice of the safety recall ...Read more

The hospitality union that won a major increase in the minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers is escalating its fight with a hotel and airline industry group, which recently launched a campaign to repeal the wage hike.

Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and restaurant workers, filed paperwork Monday for a pair of ballot...Read more

The Trump administration is discussing policies that would make it harder and more expensive for pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to patients, in a move that could disrupt more than $10 billion in annual ad spending.

Although the U.S. is the only place, besides New Zealand, where pharma companies can directly advertise, banning ...Read more

Waymo, the autonomous taxi company that's offered rides in Los Angeles since November, is expanding its service area in the city.

Starting Wednesday, the driverless taxis will roam more than 120 square miles of Los Angeles County, stretching from Santa Monica to downtown and from West Hollywood to Inglewood. The expanded service area will ...Read more

Tesla Inc. swept the top four slots of Cars.com's 2025 American-Made Index, and Jeep parent Stellantis NV and General Motors Co. contributed just three vehicles — with Ford Motor Co. completely absent from the top 20.

Publication of the list from the automotive online marketplace comes amid scrutiny by the Trump administration of the ...Read more

LE MANS, France — For 15 years, Cadillac has been assembling the pieces to reassert itself as the Standard of the World. A cornerstone of that plan has been to take on its international competition in their backyards, at the track, on the world’s biggest stages.

From the 24 Hours of Le Mans to Paris to Miami, that vision has bloomed in 2025...Read more

PORT TOWNSEND, Washington — Above the ruckus of the ferry's car deck, the chattering of passengers pressed up against windows and the thrum of engines, Adam Knutsen watched the sea unfold from a place few ever get to stand.

The "bridge," where the ferry's captain and other high-ranking officers are stationed, was quiet. Windows stretched ...Read more

Hope Anderson tracks her job search in a spreadsheet, highlighting the rejections in red.

After more than six months and 40-plus applications, she’s seeing nothing but red.

“I knew it was going to be hard, and I knew it was going to be a lot of work,” said the 21-year-old Eden Prairie, Minnesota, resident, who graduated from Iowa State ...Read more

Le BOURGET, France — Moses Lake, Washington, will be the test site for a new hybrid-electric plane as part of an experiment that aims to make aircraft cleaner and more fuel efficient.

RTX, an aerospace conglomerate that includes engine maker Pratt & Whitney and aerospace and defense suppliers Collins Aerospace and Raytheon, has been ...Read more

BALTIMORE — An industry group asked a federal judge Monday to order Maryland regulators to treat businesses selling hemp products like CBD and delta-8 as though they held recreational cannabis licenses from the state.

The sweeping request claims that the state is using new cannabis laws to push unlicensed hemp businesses out of the legal ...Read more

The Detroit News will begin operating independently at year’s end following the conclusion of its 36-year partnership with the Detroit Free Press, The News announced Monday.

The move will allow The News to operate more closely with its sister papers in Detroit’s suburbs, including The Oakland Press, the (Royal Oak) Daily Tribune, the Macomb...Read more

Stephanie Pope, Boeing’s Seattle-based head of commercial airplanes, rushed to get to India after Thursday’s deadly 787 crash in northwestern city of Ahmedabad.

In a message to a Boeing customer, Pope said she planned to travel to support Air India, the airline operating the London-bound plane that crashed into a medical hostel shortly ...Read more

In his second lawsuit targeting social media giants, Baltimore lawyer and real estate firm co-owner Barry Glazer is suing Meta and Google over social-media-based networks that sell unauthorized access to vacant properties.

In the proposed class-action complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court for Maryland, Glazer and his Century 21 ...Read more

One company offers Bay Area employers artificial intelligence that filters potential hires by combing through 10,000 public online sources looking for references to violence or illegal drugs. Another uses the technology to scan workers’ office emails for signs of dissatisfaction or burnout. Others offer AI analysis of workers’ every online ...Read more

CHICAGO — A contentious push to force Uber and Lyft to pay Chicago rideshare drivers more is settled for now after Uber and the unions behind the effort reached a labor peace deal.

The Illinois Drivers Alliance, anchored by the Service Employees International Union Local 1 and the International Association of Machinists Mechanics Union Local ...Read more

Hollywood's workforce just needed to "survive 'til '25." That was last year's hopeful mantra for entertainment industry pros battered by layoffs and limited film and TV production.

But now as the year approaches its halfway point, a bleaker saying seems apt: "Exist 'til '26."

Rosy projections of a robust recovery this year have not ...Read more

If you’re worried about owing gift taxes if you give money or property away, keep this in mind: Very few taxpayers end up on the hook for this particular tax.

There are two reasons why.

The first is that you can give away up to $19,000 in 2025 (it was $18,000 in 2024) per person — to as many people as you want, according to the IRS. And if...Read more