Business

How a protracted UAW strike could impact what people pay for new and used cars

5:06am September 20, 2023

The UAW strike has shut down plants making some popular vehicles. But the long-term consequences on car prices depend on how broad and prolonged the strike becomes.

Morning news brief

5:06am September 20, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland will appear before the House Judiciary Committee. The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady. The UAW strike may affect new and used car prices.

Pedestrians pass a Starbucks in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York on June 13.

National

Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims

5:00am September 20, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

This week a federal judge in Manhattan allowed a case to move forward against Starbucks over claims its fruit-based drinks were lacking fruit.

National

Grocery delivery app Instacart goes public

6:17pm September 19, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

Instacart is going public with actual profit to show for itself. But a lot of it has to do with the company's growing foray into digital advertising, not the basics of its operations.

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Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama Norma Rae.

Arts

Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

4:26pm September 19, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.

United Auto Workers members attend a solidarity rally as the UAW strikes the Big Three automakers on September 15, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan.

UAW has a unique strike strategy. It keeps Detroit Big 3 automakers guessing

4:12pm September 19, 2023

by Andrea Hsu

For the first time, the UAW is on strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers at once. Workers at three plants have been called out so far, with more to follow Friday if there's no progress on a deal.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at an event in Washington on September 15.

Trump to skip second GOP debate and head to Detroit to court autoworkers instead

12:28pm September 19, 2023

Former President Donald Trump won't be at the second Republican debate, unsurprisingly. His counter-programming this time involves union autoworkers, engaged in a strike against Detroit automakers.

Working from home is so 2020. The next big trend may be working from the gym

8:47am September 19, 2023

Some people now want work to come with a workout. A man in Fairfax, Va., works two days a week at a co-working space in a rock climbing gym. The gym's marking director says it promotes productivity.

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Joe Armstrong, the owner of WJBE, is shown outside the station. A Federal Communications Commission judge rejected an effort by the agency to strip the license of WJBE 99.7 FM/1040 AM — whose call letters pay tribute to the original WJBE's owner, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown — Knoxville's only Black-owned radio station.

FCC judge rules that Knoxville's only Black-owned radio station can keep its license

7:38pm September 18, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Since 2022, WJBE has battled with the FCC over its owner, Joe Armstrong, being able to own a radio station following his conviction in 2016 for making a false statement on his tax return.

National

Locals push back against plans to build a tech utopia in Solano County, Calif.

4:59pm September 18, 2023

by Bobby Allyn

For years, a secretive group has been purchasing land in Solano County, Calif., to create a utopian city for the tech elite. Locals are telling the techies to take their plan someplace else.