From the White House to the campaign trail for the Democratic presidential nomination, politicians have found a popular punching bag in Amazon, accusing the retail giant of paying subsistence wages to warehouse workers while dodging taxes. That’s one reason why Amazon has aggressively courted members of Congress to walk the floors of its vast warehouses.

As anti-government protests in Hong Kong intensified this month, KPMG issued a directive to its employees in the city: Don’t speak on behalf of the company in public. It went on to say that the firm supports China’s policy for governing Hong Kong.

U.S. home sales increased 2.5% in July, a sign that lower mortgage rates have produced a spurt of home-buying.

U.S. stocks marched broadly higher in midday trading Wednesday as investors welcomed a batch of strong earnings reports from several big retailers.

Journalists are defending a small Oregon newspaper after a county attorney asked the sheriff to investigate whether a reporter broke the law by trying to get comments from a government official on a weekend.

The U.S. job market isn’t quite as strong as originally believed – with revised figures showing that the economy had 501,000 fewer total jobs this March than initially reported.

As department stores watch their customers flock to secondhand stores, some are trying to bring them back by partnering with online resale sites.

Sneaker giant Nike will sell New York City-branded merchandise under a two-year licensing agreement.

The toy maker said Tuesday that all its packaging for new products will be mostly plastic free by the end of 2022. It plans to stop using plastic bags, elastic bands and the shrink wrap that’s usually found around Monopoly, Scrabble and other board games.

Boeing said Tuesday it will begin hiring a few hundred temporary employees at Moses Lake to work on the grounded 737 Max fleet and prepare the planes for return to service once regulators give clearance for the jets to fly again.

Airlines expect record crowds over the week-long Labor Day period, continuing a rise in travel that has boosted the airlines’ profits all year.

The company will introduce a small selection of shows and then expand its catalog more frequently over several months, people familiar with the matter said. A free trial is likely as Apple builds up its library.

In yet another example of a beloved Northwest retailer trying to turn itself around, Eddie Bauer will shutter a call center near Columbus, Ohio, and eliminate 111 jobs there in October.

Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street Tuesday after another slide in bond yields and a mixed batch of corporate earnings weighed on the market.

Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network from gathering information about you on outside websites and apps.

In just over two months, Nordstrom executives and other luminaries will descend on midtown Manhattan to christen one of the largest, most ambitious projects in the company’s 118-year history – a seven-story women’s store on West 57th Street, in the heart of one of America’s most important markets for high-end shopping.

CEO pay in the past four decades has grown 940.3% while the pay of an average worker increased 11.9% over the same time period.

Target is making its biggest play in grocery in years with the launch of a new flagship private-label food brand that will completely replace Target’s Archer Farms and Simply Balanced lines and will partially swap out Market Pantry.

A union will get to press its claims that Boeing illegally fired workers at a plant in South Carolina because they backed the union.