Business

• L.A. hotels fight ballot measure requiring them to give vacant rooms to homeless

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 28

  Los Angeles hotels provided rooms to thousands of homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic as part of Project Roomkey, but innkeepers are...

• Powerball jackpot back up to $672 million, the 10th-largest winning sum in lottery's history

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 38

  Just two months after a $1.08 billion ticket hit to win in California, the Powerball jackpot has ballooned back up to $672 million for Wednesday's...

• Bluesky networking site gains thousands of users after Musk says X users will pay

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 27

  The decentralized social media network Bluesky signed up thousands of users after X owner Elon Musk said he is moving toward requiring all users to...

• England's National Health Service operates on holiday-level staffing as doctors' strike escalates

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 43

  Britain's state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England on Wednesday as doctors in the early stages of their careers...

• 
• Biden's Democratic allies intensify pressure for asylum-seekers to get work permits

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 44

  As more than 100,000 migrants arrived in New York City over the past year after crossing the border from Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy...

• California truck drivers ask Gov. Newsom to sign job-saving bill as self-driving big rigs are tested

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 29

  California lawmakers, union leaders and truck drivers are trying to steer Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom toward signing into law a proposal that...

• Freedom Caucus blocks defense spending bill, vexes Speaker McCarthy

  20-9-2023 Business Washington Times - Business 28

  A group of House Republicans scuttled a vote to advance the annual defense spending bill on Tuesday, delivering another setback for Speaker Kevin...

• US judge orders Netflix to face defamation lawsuit by Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein

  20-9-2023 Business NY Post - Business 29

  US District Judge Kevin Castel said Fairstein plausibly alleged that Netflix, director Ava DuVernay and writer-producer Attica Locke acted with...

• DOJ expands probe into Elon Musk, Tesla over secret glass house project: report

  20-9-2023 Business NY Post - Business 43

  Musk on Wednesday denounced the Justice Department, writing: "This would be next-level absurd. I'm not building a house of any kind anywhere."

• Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast canceled as Sony lays off staffers

  20-9-2023 Business NY Post - Business 18

  "High Low with EmRata," which premiered less than one year ago, has been cancelled the same week Sony Group laid off a "significant percentage" of...

• NJ’s American Dream Mall saw losses quadruple in 2022 on sluggish traffic

  20-9-2023 Business NY Post - Business 41

  The American Dream Mall suffered an eye-watering $245 million loss last year as expenses nearly doubled, to $428 million, in 2022.

• Florida GOPer pushes child labor laws change that could see kids working night shift

  20-9-2023 Business NY Post - Business 24

  House Republican Linda Chaney's proposed bill would allow minors aged 16 and 17 to work before 6 a.m. and after 11 p.m., and for more than 30 hours...