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President-elect Donald Trump is planning to release an executive order elevating crypto as a policy priority and giving industry insiders a voice within his administration, according to people familiar with the plans.

Wall Street traders know what to expect from Donald Trump’s White House return: policy shifts rolled out in late night social-media posts, threats to trading partners, and plenty of market volatility.

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is seeking to win over loyalty program customers from British Airways who are disgruntled about recent changes that have made it more expensive to earn or retain top-tier status.

In its early days, the quirky tech startup known as Google adopted a visionary corporate credo: “Don’t be evil.” That later evolved into the motto: “Do the right thing,” reflecting the idealistic ambitions of the company’s founders that its technology could be a force for good. 

Apple is temporarily disabling a feature of its marquee Apple Intelligence software that botched summaries of news headlines.

Heavy promotion and sales drew people into Target stores over the holidays, boosting comparable sales by 2% as people bought apparel and toys to put under the tree, the retailer said Thursday.

Nintendo announced the successor to the second-most-popular game console in the United States, and it’s called the Switch 2.

Felipe Ortega has spent 38 years — more than half of his life — working at Gladstones in Pacific Palisades. He started as a busboy and worked his way to bartender and maintenance worker. But for the foreseeable future, the 64-year-old is out of a job. A week after flames damaged the restaurant and destroyed huge swaths of the oceanside area, Gladstones remained shuttered and inaccessible to the public as the Palisades fire continued to rage.

Although Hollywood production rallied in the last three months of 2024, it was not enough to turn around last year's industry-wide slump, according to a new report.

Albertsons is laying off corporate and division support employees around the country, a spokesperson for the company told the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday. Store employees are not impacted by the cuts, the spokesperson said in a statement.

U.S. consumer prices rose in December by less than forecast, a welcome stepdown that helped arrest a deep selloff in bond markets and reinvigorate bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates sooner than previously thought.

Three of California's largest home insurance companies declined nearly half of their claims in 2023, well above the national average, according to a ratings agency report reviewed by The Times.

U.S. health officials banned the artificial food coloring Red No. 3, which has been linked to cancer and is currently in scores of products from candy to cold medicine.

The building at the center of the local winning bid to establish a Tech Hub, started as an eastward expansion of Boeing that took advantage of another influential perk: the Lilac City being home to a rather influential politician at the time.  

Donald Trump’s inauguration promises to usher in an era of upheaval in global commerce, forcing governments around the world to scramble in preparation for a tariff onslaught even before he’s back in the White House.

Asian, Black and Hispanic small-business owners pay higher interest rates on loans than their white counterparts, a new University of Washington report found.

Rashida Jones is ending her run as president of MSNBC after four years. Jones is leaving two months after the progressive news channel's parent company Comcast announced it will spin MSNBC off into a new company with most of its other cable networks. She informed staff of her decision Tuesday morning. .

The investigation into South Korea’s recent deadly plane crash has underscored a shortcoming first identified more than two decades ago – that older aircraft lack the technology to keep the cockpit voice recorder working when the main power sources fail.