Wells Fargo agrees to pay $385M to settle car loan lawsuit
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay at least $385 million to settle a California lawsuit alleging it signed up thousands of auto loan customers for costly car insurance without their consent, resulting in many having their vehicles repossessed.
Free traders no more? GOP warms up to Trump's use of tariffs
With President Donald Trump threatening to slap tariffs on goods from Mexico, his transformation of Republican Party trade policy is nearly complete.
DuPont loses appeal bid to keep Chemours lawsuit secret
A judge has denied the DuPont Co.'s request to approve an appeal to Delaware's Supreme Court of an order directing the unsealing of a complaint filed against the company by chemical manufacturer Chemours.
New Mexico governor says no to high-level nuclear waste
New Mexico's governor said Friday she's opposed to plans by a New Jersey-based company to build a multibillion-dollar facility in her state to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors around the U.S. In a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the interim storage of high-level radioactive waste poses significant and unacceptable risks to residents, the environment and the region's economy.
Correction: Election Security-North Carolina story
More than two years after voter check-in software failed on Election Day in a North Carolina county, federal authorities will finally conduct a forensic analysis of electronic poll books to see if Russian military hackers who targeted the software provider may have tampered with registration information to disrupt voting.
Police use of DNA leads to backlash, changes to big database
After California detectives used a popular online DNA database to track down a suspect in the decades-old Golden State Killer slayings, other police agencies quickly adopted the same technique.
Business Highlights
___ US stock market notches best week since late November NEW YORK — Wall Street turned the page on a painful May in the stock market by notching its best week since late November.
Why Trump's trade wars are pressuring both economy and Fed
A sharp pullback in U.S. hiring for May intensified fears that the economy has weakened and that many employers have grown nervous, in part from President Donald Trump's escalating trade wars.
Animal rights group releases longer video showing farm abuse
An animal rights group has released a longer video showing workers kicking and throwing young calves at a northwestern Indiana dairy farm that's an agritourism destination.
US stock market notches best week since late November
U.S. stocks moved broadly higher for a fourth consecutive day as investors look to start June with a strong weekly gain after a downturn in May.
How major US stock indexes fared Friday
Stocks closed broadly higher Friday as investors bet that a report showing the U.S. added fewer jobs than expected last month increases the odds that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in coming months.
US warns Turkey it may lose jets for buying Russian system
The Pentagon has notified Turkey that it is canceling its purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the Turkish government goes ahead with the purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
Caesars and Vail rise while Guess and DocuSign slip
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: Caesars Entertainment Corp., up 35 cents to $9.48
GOP officials rehash old fight against Volkswagen union vote
Top Tennessee Republicans are predicting economic harm if workers at Volkswagen's car assembly plant in Chattanooga vote to unionize.
Markets Right Now: Stocks rise as rate cut looks more likely
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Boeing wanted to wait 3 years to fix safety alert on 737 Max
Two key legislators want answers from Boeing and federal regulators about why the company waited more than a year to disclose that a safety alert in its 737 Max plane wasn't working properly.
Undone by Brexit, May steps down as Conservative leader
Britain's upstart Brexit Party has failed in its first attempt to win a seat in Britain's Parliament, narrowly losing to the left-of-center Labour Party in a special election.
Court lifts injunction blocking Keystone XL oil pipeline
An appeals court has lifted a judge's injunction that blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
FDA: 'Influencers' promoted vaping without suitable warnings
U.S. regulators moved to discipline vaping companies for inappropriately promoting their flavored nicotine formulas through so-called influencers on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
Schools reckon with social stress: 'I'm on my phone so much'
High school biology teacher Kelly Chavis knew smartphones were a distraction in her class.













