Business

Walmart Tests Personal Shopping Services

8:15am December 28, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

Walmart is hiring for a New York City-based "highly personalized shopping experience" run by the former co-founder of Rent the Runway. The company wants to expand beyond its traditional customer base.

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Power Outage At Disneyland Shuts Down Several Attractions

6:21am December 28, 2017

Those stuck on the "It's a small world" ride were very unlucky. A generator kicked in and the ride's notoriously grating music played for 30 minutes. Power was restored to the park a short time later.

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Mexican Peso Falls To Its Lowest Level Since March

6:06am December 28, 2017

by Carrie Kahn

Mexican consumers are feeling the pinch as the national currency continues to struggle against the dollar. Worries over the U.S. corporate tax cut seem to have dealt the latest blow to the currency.

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Two birds covered in oil sit on a rock near Refugio State Beach in Goleta, Calif., in 2015 after an oil spill from an abandoned pipeline spread over the beach. The Department of the Interior says it will no longer criminally prosecute energy companies tha

Accidentally Killing Birds Isn't A Crime, Says Trump Administration

7:03pm December 27, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

A legal memo from the Department of the Interior declares that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act applies only to purposeful actions that kill migratory birds.

President Trump talks with journalists at the White House after signing the tax overhaul into law on Friday.

The Tax Law's New Way Of Measuring Inflation Could Take A Toll On Taxpayers

5:29pm December 27, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

The tax overhaul uses an alternative measure of inflation that will show less upward pressure on prices. That means tax brackets will adjust upward less often, making many people pay more.

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Economy

Our Indicators Of The Year

4:02pm December 27, 2017

Despite all the protectionist rhetoric, global trade grew really quickly this year. Also: a crazy, 80-year ride from sun god to TMI.

Some homeowners across the country are rushing to pay their 2018 property taxes well before the due date because the new Republican tax law overhaul could affect how much they are allowed to deduct next year.

National

Why Some Homeowners Are Scrambling To Prepay Their 2018 Property Taxes

3:50pm December 27, 2017

by Jeff Brady

The tax overhaul President Trump signed into law last week limits the amount of state and local taxes deducted on people's federal returns next year.

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National

Tesla Will Build An Electric Pickup Truck, Elon Musk Promises

2:18pm December 27, 2017

by Bill Chappell

In the sort of tease at which he is an expert in delivering to Tesla's faithful, Musk said the truck could be bigger than Ford's F-150, "to account for a really gamechanging (I think) feature."

Episode 544: The M&M Anomaly

1:37pm December 27, 2017

by David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum noticed that a pack of Milk Chocolate M&M's weighs 1.69 ounces, but a pack of Peanut Butter M&M's weighs 1.63 ounces. He had to know why. But the confectionery world has its secrets.

An image from a report by the State Water Board shows the area of the headwaters of Strawberry Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest. The board says Nestle lacks the permits it needs to extract all of the water it's been taking from the area.

California Says Nestle Lacks Permits To Extract Millions Of Gallons Of Water

12:14pm December 27, 2017

by Bill Chappell

California regulators say Nestle lacks the legal permits for millions of gallons of water it extracts from the San Bernardino National Forest and sells under the Arrowhead brand.