Business

An advanced automated factory floor featuring robotic arms and AI-integrated assembly lines for semiconductor and aerospace parts.

Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy factories and rebuild them with AI, and the move could quietly reshape American manufacturing faster than anyone expected

March 23, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A variety of Walmart Great Value brand grocery products, including milk, cereal, and snacks, displayed on a wooden table.

What Walmart sells as ‘Great Value’ isn’t always what shoppers think: famous food brands are hiding behind the retailer’s cheapest labels, and almost no one notices on the shelf

March 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A close-up of red and green salsa containers at a Los Tacos No. 1 self-service condiment bar in New York City.

A man demanded $100,000 after trying an extremely spicy sauce at a New York taqueria, but a judge dismissed the case and turned the city’s hottest condiment into a legal warning

March 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Thai customs officials inspecting shipping containers filled with illegal electronic circuit boards and scrap metal at Laem Chabang port.

Thailand discovered 284 tons of U.S. electronic waste hidden behind false labels and is now returning the toxic shipment across the Pacific under international law

March 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A rusted pipe marking an abandoned coal exploration borehole in a dry Queensland cattle field.

Thousands of abandoned coal mines in Australia are once again raising concerns about potential methane leaks

March 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
An image of the Netflix logo alongside filmmaker Ben Affleck, representing the acquisition of his AI technology company, InterPositive.

Ben Affleck takes an unexpected step and puts artificial intelligence at the center of Netflix

March 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Jimmy Rush, age 80, and his 99-year-old father, Jim, enjoying a meal together at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, Alabama.

A 99-year-old father and his 80-year-old son finally fulfill an impossible promise, and the result moves everyone

March 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The exterior storefront of a Sportsman's Warehouse retail location with customers walking toward the entrance.

Another major sporting goods chain is entering a delicate phase in 2026, and the signs are already there: annual sales of around $1.209 billion, net debt of close to $90 million, inventory reduction, and intense pressure in a sector where Bob’s, Moosejaw, Next Adventure, and other companies have already fallen

March 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at a technology conference about the future of the artificial intelligence workforce.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, warns: “Success is no longer found in college”

March 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM
The U.S. Small Business Administration headquarters building in Washington, D.C., where officials are investigating billions in pandemic loan fraud.

The SBA uncovers $8.6 billion in fraud related to pandemic loans, with two states at the center of the scandal

March 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A Costco customer service desk where an employee is carefully reviewing a member's return receipt alongside a shopping cart of merchandise.

Costco quietly tightens its return policy, and many members realize it when it’s too late

March 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A Walmart self-checkout area with several closed lanes and an employee monitoring the active registers to prevent shoplifting.

Walmart confirms its strategy of freezing self-checkout lanes to curb theft, and customers are already noticing

March 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A row of used vehicles parked at a CarMax dealership lot.

The largest used car dealer agrees to pay $15,000 for each illegal seizure, and the blow could be huge

March 11, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A winning Arizona Lottery ticket lying on a Circle K convenience store checkout counter next to a cash register.

A Circle K employee bought a winning ticket worth $12.8 million at his own store, and now a judge will decide who gets the money

March 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A row of newly installed solar photovoltaic panels at a Cuban municipal clinic, providing decentralized power during national grid outages.

Cuba’s solar push is now a survival plan for homes, clinics, and local business

March 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A retired man sitting alone in a quiet living room, reflecting on the transition from a busy career to a sedentary lifestyle.

Texas Roadhouse reminds staff to keep it sharp as customer dress code talk surfaces

March 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A wide shot of the Kansas Flint Hills showing the transition from native tallgrass prairie to invasive eastern red cedar trees.

Kansas is losing its grasslands and the fallout could reach your grocery bill

March 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Aerial view of the Interoceanic Corridor rail tracks and container port facilities in Salina Cruz, Mexico.

Mexico activates its “land channel” and promises a plan to compete with Panama, which is already taking shape with a 303 km route to transport containers from the Pacific to the Gulf on the same day

March 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A conceptual map of the Sila Atlantik high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable route from Morocco to Germany along the Atlantic coast.

Germany is looking to the Sahara to power its electricity grid with a 4,800 km submarine cable that will bring light from the desert, and the plan is so ambitious that it is already causing concern across half of Europe

March 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An aerial view of 1,500 workers and 23 excavators performing an overnight railway junction upgrade at Longyan Station.

China builds a high-speed railway line in 9 hours with 1,500 workers: a 7-hour journey is reduced to 90 minutes

March 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM