With its manufacturing practices under scrutiny, its machinists on strike and losses piling up, Boeing is said to be considering selling parts of its fabled space business. But few industry analysts think Boeing will put its extensive El Segundo satellite operations on the table. New Boeing Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said during a recent earnings…
A McDonald’s restaurant in El Sobrante, California, on Oct. 23, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images After a tough year for the restaurant industry, executives can’t wait for 2025 to start. “I don’t know about you guys, but I’m ready for ’24 to be behind us, and I think ’25 is going…
On the corner of a busy intersection in Culver City, an oversize inflatable witch and racks of costumes draw in customers to Robinson Beautilities. Inside, overflowing bins of accessories sit among packaged costumes and novelty items. Although the shop’s costume rental service is open year-round, business triples in October, co-owner Dan Levin said. For many…
At least 90 people have been infected with E. coli in a multistate outbreak that health officials say likely stems from onions served on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders and could see the fast food chain taken to court. At least 27 people have been hospitalized, two have developed dangerous kidney complications and one person in Colorado…
Los Angeles County has filed a lawsuit against the world’s largest beverage companies — Coca-Cola and PepsiCo — claiming that the soda and drink makers lied to the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling and, as a result, left county residents and ecosystems choking in discarded plastic. The suit is the latest in a…
President-elect Donald Trump’s full-throated support for oil and gas drilling might be expected to send a chill through the electric vehicle industry were it not for a wild card in his fledgling administration: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk. Trump has long railed against EV mandates and subsidies. Then came August, when Musk endorsed Trump and…
The most valuable piece of memorabilia from the Dodgers’ World Series championship run is easily identified. It’s the baseball struck by Freddie Freeman that landed in the right-field pavilion in the 10th inning of Game 1, the first walk-off grand slam in fall classic history. Auction experts estimate it would fetch more than $2 million,…
NBCUniversal parent Comcast Corp. is considering spinning off its cable networks into a separate company as the media giant continues to grapple with massive changes in the overall linear television business. Folding the cable networks into their own company owned by Comcast shareholders could “position them to take advantage of opportunities in the changing media…
Dodgers fans were ready to celebrate the second Walker Buehler struck out Alex Verdugo for the final out of the World Series, They were also ready to spend — and they did so more than any other fan base of a title-winning team in at least 10 years. After clinching their eighth World Series title…
Undercover filming of a sales pitch by a Hii Com representative An undercover investigation into the alleged mis-selling of phone contracts has revealed questionable sales practices, prompting calls for stronger regulation. The BBC has spoken to 12 small businesses who say they were misled. “I feel sick every time I think about it,” says Paul…
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