Appeals judges rule against fund used to provide phone services for rural and low-income people

NEW ORLEANS — Calling it a “misbegotten tax,” a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled…

BMW recalls over 291,000 SUVs because interior cargo rails can detach in crash, raising injury risk

FILE – A long row of unsold 2021 X3 sports-utility vehicles sits at a BMW dealership…

Strike at plant that makes truck seats forces production stoppage for Missouri General Motors

Production has halted at a Missouri General Motors plant that manufactures trucks and vans, the result…

Stock market today: Big Tech slumps after profits from Alphabet and Tesla fail to impress

NEW YORK — Drops for Big Tech are dragging U.S. stock indexes lower on Wednesday after…

Disney reaches tentative agreement with California theme park workers

FILE – The Disneyland Resort entrance is seen, March 9, 2021, in Anaheim, Calif. Disney has…

CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage

CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad…

US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law

The Treasury Department is ordering the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian…

With US vehicle prices averaging near $50K, General Motors sees 2nd-quarter profits rise 15%

DETROIT — U.S. customers who bought a new General Motors vehicle last quarter paid an average…

New Mexico village battered by wildfires in June now digging out from another round of flooding

RUIDOSO, N.M. — A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and…

Safety regulators are investigating another low flight by a Southwest jet, this time in Florida

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as…