TOKYO (AP) — Toyota this week reported a 7 percent year-on-year drop in profit for April-September as President Donald Trump’s tariffs impacted Japanese automakers. Net profit for the April-September period at Toyota Motor Corp. totaled $11.5 billion, down from $12.4 billion a year earlier. Yet the maker of the Camry sedan and Lexus luxury models [...]
Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger’s seat. Fueled by Google’s Gemini AI technology, the world’s most popular navigation app will become a more conversational companion as part of a redesign announced this week. The hands-free experience is meant to turn Google Maps into something more like [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Steel this week detailed its billion-dollar, multiyear growth plan with new owner Nippon Steel that includes modernizing the century-old steelmaker. The announcement comes just five months after Nippon Steel finalized an “historic partnership” with the Pittsburgh steelmaker in a deal worth nearly $15 billion. That deal included a “golden share” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chrysler is recalling more than 320,000 Jeep plug-in hybrid vehicles due to a faulty battery that can fail and lead to a fire, federal traffic safety regulators said. Chrysler, which is owned by Netherlands-based Stellantis, is aware of 19 reports and one injury potentially related to the issue. Owners of the vehicles, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and private investors are partnering with two rare-earth startups in a $1.4 billion deal to scale up the nation’s access to materials and technology that analysts say is crucial for producing an array of high-tech goods and military equipment. The investment in Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies is the [...]
McDonald’s sales got a lift from Snack Wraps and other value-oriented products in the third quarter, but McDonald’s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski warned that consumers in the United States and other top international markets remain under economic pressure, a problem he thinks will persist well into 2026. Restaurant sales in the United States received [...]
Pizza Hut could soon be up for sale. Yum Brands, Pizza Hut’s parent company, earlier this week said that it’s conducting a formal review of options for the brand, including a possible sale. The chain has struggled to compete in a crowded pizza market. Yum CEO Chris Turner said Pizza Hut has many strengths, including [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal appeals court judges in Manhattan reacted skeptically this week when a lawyer for once high-flying cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried argued that his fraud conviction was unfair and should be overturned. The attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, told a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the judge at [...]
The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election, but analysts say Republicans are still ahead in the fight. The unusual mid-decade redistricting fray began in the summer when President Donald Trump urged Republican-led states to reshape their [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration says it will be initiating formal meetings with Native American tribes in the Southwest as it considers revoking a 20-year ban on oil and gas development across of hundreds of square miles of federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Bureau of Land Management made the [...]