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Seattle will soon ban the controversial rent-setting platform RealPage and similar services, becoming the latest local government to take aim at a technology that critics say helps drive up housing costs.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Art dealer Martin Akinseye travels to Africa at least four times each year to meet with artisans and buy art at fairs and festivals. He has a trip planned to Ghana and Liberia in September.

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ST. LOUIS — A growing number of civic and business groups are highlighting the metropolitan area’s stagnant population as an urgent problem, and they’re pushing the region’s planning organization to do something ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding an artificial intelligence coding assistant to to ease the work of developers, aiming to catch up with rival products such as OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code.

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In a high-stakes gamble, Wall Street hedge funds are offering to buy claims that insurers may have against Southern California Edison if the utility is found liable for causing the devastating Eaton fire in Altadena.

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How much does a bottle of water cost? At a Las Vegas Strip hotel minibar: $26.

A Las Vegas visitor wrote into blog View from the Wing to share a water bottle from the minibar at the Aria was $26.

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CHICAGO — An effort to require Chicago businesses to install surveillance cameras started with a City Council majority but is now seeing its support wither.

West Side Ald. Emma Mitts, 37th, had sign-on from 28 aldermen ...Read more

If you think you are eligible for Social Security benefits, you have every right to file a claim for those benefits. This is a message I've delivered before in this column. But recent emails tell me it's time to send the ...Read more

In-N-Out Burger has filed a lawsuit against a YouTube personality for allegedly impersonating a company employee, filming customers without their consent and posting videos sharing false and misleading information about ...Read more

U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly declined in June, underscoring lingering anxiety about the potential impacts on the economy and job market from higher U.S. import duties.

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Illinois has a shortage of about 142,000 housing units and must build 227,000 in the next five years to keep pace with demand, a number that would require recent annual production rates to double, according to a new ...Read more

CareerBuilder + Monster, a firm that brought together early trailblazers in online job recruiting, filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware as business continues to shrivel.

The company said Tuesday it started a ...Read more

Elena Morales, the president of SMT Automation, had been preparing for a big year at the tiny Michigan maker of manufacturing machinery.

Morales had purchased a new building and hired staff in anticipation of installing ...Read more

You may have seen an eye-opening statement recently from the Trump White House crowing about its success in pushing up "blue-collar wage growth."

The statement was headlined: "Blue-Collar Wage Growth Sees Largest ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In Society Hill, Angela Tate makes an extra $200 a week on average, on top of her full-time job.

Across the river in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, Katie Repko brings in about $500 to $700 a month while ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hours after the surprise raid this month at Buona Forchetta, an Italian restaurant in the city's South Park neighborhood, where masked and armed U.S. immigration agents handcuffed employees and eventually ...Read more

The hair care manufacturer John Paul Mitchell Systems has become one of the latest companies to relocate its headquarters from California to Texas.

The company behind brands including Tea Tree and Clean Beauty is moving ...Read more

Stellantis NV's new CEO officially began his new role Monday by making limited changes to the transatlantic automaker's senior leadership and indicating a significant shift stateside in the company's center of gravity.

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U.S. auto safety regulators are looking into incidents where Tesla Inc.’s self-driving robotaxis appeared to violate traffic laws during the company’s first day offering paid rides in Austin.

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BOSTON — Critics of a proposed Boston zoning plan are fuming over new regulations that they say will “Manhattanize” the city’s historic downtown with shadow-casting 700-foot skyscrapers.

Downtown Boston ...Read more