ECONOMY

Walmart customers will be able to place an order by simply saying it out loud, using either the voice-activated speaker Google Home (left) or the Google Assistant app.

Economy

Walmart, Google Join Forces In Online Fight Against Amazon

2:14pm August 23, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The world's largest retailer will hawk its products on Google Express for the first time, in a play to get a bigger chunk of the growing voice-enabled shopping market currently dominated by Amazon.

With her Instagram response, Louise Linton, at a 2014 Grey Goose promotional event in Scotland, has opened the door for a discussion on a progressive tax system.

Louise Linton Said She 'Sacrifices' More Than Other Taxpayers. It's Not That Simple

7:10pm August 22, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Linton, an actress and the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, touched off an Internet firestorm with a condescending Tuesday Instagram post.

In Alaska, One Man Fights To Save Oil Fund As Reserves Dry Up

4:39pm August 22, 2017

by Jennifer Pemberton

For 40 years, Alaska has been putting its oil money into a giant savings account. But now the oil — and the money — are drying up.

Body Of Army Ranger Sgt. Joshua Rodgers Killed In Afghanistan Arrives Back In U.S. At Dover Air Force Base

How Will America's Longest War End?

3:18pm August 22, 2017

It's been 16 years since the war in Afghanistan started.

The Sugar Story: A Spoonful Of Addiction Makes The Profits Go Up?

3:18pm August 22, 2017

Americans are facing down a decades-long sugar habit.

List Of Charities Shunning Trump's Mar-A-Lago Resort Keeps Growing

8:07pm August 21, 2017

by Greg Allen

Many of the groups cited controversy about recent comments by President Trump that "both sides were to blame" for the violence that occurred during a white supremacists' rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Yuliana Rocha Zamarripa's workers' comp claim for a serious knee injury at work prompted her arrest. She was shuffled from county to immigration jails for a year and blames the sexual abuse of her daughter on her inability to protect her at home.

They Got Hurt At Work — Then They Got Deported

11:12pm August 16, 2017

A joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica shows how a loophole in Florida law has led to the arrest and even deportation of undocumented immigrants after they suffer legitimate injuries on the job.

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President Trump, seen here boarding Air Force One on Monday, has new criticism for business leaders who are leaving his manufacturing council.

More Business Leaders Leave Trump's Manufacturing Council

2:09pm August 16, 2017

by Bill Chappell

"Racism and murder are unequivocally reprehensible and are not morally equivalent to anything else that happened in Charlottesville," says Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (left) shakes hands with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, accompanied by Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo, after they spoke at a news conference Wednesday at the start of NAFT

At NAFTA Kickoff, U.S., Mexico And Canada Already Show Signs Of Disagreement

1:46pm August 16, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

While ministers from Canada and Mexico praised NAFTA, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer emphasized the negative and said the deal "needs major improvement."

Negotiations Begin On Trump's Campaign Promise To Rework NAFTA

8:46am August 16, 2017

Ailsa Chang talks to Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers Union, about President Trump's promise to fix NAFTA. The 23-year-old deal is being reworked with Canada and Mexico.

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