Economy

Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured

2:26pm April 25, 2025

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers

11:16am April 25, 2025

Makers of our food and home essentials, including Pepsi and Procter & Gamble, are cutting their financial forecasts for the year and predicting lower sales or profits than before.

Home sales just posted their biggest monthly fall since 2022

2:09pm April 24, 2025

More inventory hitting the market was expected to drive sales. Instead, existing home sales suggest a continued slump in the housing market, with mortgage rates hurting affordability.

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Fyre Festival's embattled founder is selling the brand: 'It's time to pass the torch'

12:23pm April 24, 2025

Billy McFarland says he will sell the brand "to an operator that can fully realize its vision." The news comes days after the postponement of Fyre Festival 2, which was scheduled for late May.

Bill Gates Comments on Court of Appeals Ruling

Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial

5:01am April 24, 2025

A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government's antitrust case against Google. A judge is hearing arguments to decide the penalties to levy against the search giant.

Oil companies expected a big business boom under Trump. Now they're worried

5:00am April 24, 2025

by Kirk Siegler

Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

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A small U.S. town grew a big company. Can it weather the tariff blizzard?

5:00am April 24, 2025

A rural Minnesota town is home to the biggest tech giant you've never heard of. Now it's riding out an unprecedented kind of storm.

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Economy

U.S. shrimpers hope tariffs will help their industry survive

4:27am April 24, 2025

U.S. shrimpers are happy about more tariffs because they've long been competing with cheaper imports. That may bring an era of cheap shrimp to an end.

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A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

7:07pm April 23, 2025

A dozen states have sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade to stop its tariff policy, challenging Trump's claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound As Patients Face Shortages

Eli Lilly sues companies selling alternative versions of its weight loss drug

5:55pm April 23, 2025

The drug company Eli Lilly is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling copies made by compounding pharmacies of its drug Zepbound.