Starbucks was attemping a dramatic move toward racial reconciliation Tuesday as it closed 8,000 stores across the nation for an afternoon of anti-bias training. Up to 180,000 employees at Starbucks stores and at its headquarters are receiving training from a “tool kit”…
President Trump signed a memorandum Thursday that aims to streamline federal regulations governing the growing and economically important activity private firms are conducting in Earth’s lower orbit. The goal is to treat space like other platforms — such as the internet, highways…
21st Century Fox has named its first woman CEO, Suzanne Scott, to oversee the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Scott, who has been with Fox News since its inception in October 1996, had been serving as the president of programming…
Were politics or ideological differences behind the Small Business Administration’s removal of outreach web pages to the LGBT community after President Trump took office? Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Yvette Clarke, New Yorkers who serve on the House Committee on Small Business, wrote…
Apple’s stock rose 13-percent this month, thanks to a better than expected earnings report. It’s market value increased even more after Warren Buffet announced he bought 75 million additional Apple shares in the first quarter. Apple is once again closing in on…
Gina Stokes says she will keep fighting for her family’s dairy farm, where the cows have names, not numbers, and the land tugs at her heart. “There is no better place to raise my family,” Stokes said about her farm, near Omro,…
HomeServe USA, a provider of home emergency repair solutions, officially opened its new 45,000-square foot Customer Center of Excellence in Chattanooga on Wednesday. HomeServe USA CEO John Kitzie was joined by Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe, Chattanooga…
Wells Fargo’s financial relationship with gunmakers and the National Rifle Association has cost the bank its mortgage business with a major U.S. union. The American Federation of Teachers notified the San Francisco-based financial giant Thursday that it is dropping the bank as a recommended…
For starters, it’s unseemly for a president to be attacking an American company, especially when he appears to be seeking to damage the company and its stock price. Trump’s attacks on Amazon are also tied to The Washington Post, which Amazon CEO Jeff…
MasterCard customers won’t need to search for a pen anymore when they make purchases with the credit card. The credit card giant MasterCard is making it official, eliminating the need to sign for purchases made on the card at retail, as of…
