Is the food in the fridge still good? California wants to end the guessing game

Is the food in the fridge still good? California wants to end the guessing game

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California wants to help end the everyday household debate over whether the food in the fridge is still good to eat. Food labels that say “sell by” or “best before” are misleading because they have no universal meaning under current laws. Now California wants to crack down on such practices, bidding to … Read more

500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize

500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize

Demonstrators protest outside a closed Starbucks Corp. location at 505 Union Station in Seattle, Washington, US, on Saturday, July 16, 2022.  David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Baristas at a Starbucks in Bellingham, Washington, became the 500th store to join the Starbucks Workers United union on Monday. Since the first location voted to unionize … Read more

PepsiCo to buy Siete Foods for $1.2 billion

PepsiCo to buy Siete Foods for .2 billion

Siete Foods Tortilla Chips Courtesy: Siete Foods PepsiCo said Tuesday that it’s buying Mexican American food company Siete Foods for $1.2 billion, marking the company’s first food acquisition in roughly five years. Like many food companies, Pepsi has been trying to shift its portfolio to include healthier options in recent years, usually through acquisitions. Recent … Read more

Nissan Is So Screwed, Man

Nissan Is So Screwed, Man

Folks, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Nissan is in some deep shit right now, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get better anytime soon. Late last week, the Japanese automaker put out some very disappointing global sales numbers, and now some are worried it’ll once again fall … Read more

Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’

Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’

NEW YORK — Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. It was the late 1960s and she was a newlywed in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She and her soldier-husband, Jeffrey, would often pass a small private … Read more

Nike (NKE) earnings Q1 2025

Nike (NKE) earnings Q1 2025

An employee carries shoe boxes at the Footlocker retail store in the Barton Creek Square Mall on August 28, 2024 in Austin, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images Nike will report quarterly earnings Tuesday as investors brace for another set of less-than-stellar results. The company announced in September that CEO John Donahoe would be stepping … Read more

GM reports 2.2% decrease in third-quarter sales, but EVs make gains

GM reports 2.2% decrease in third-quarter sales, but EVs make gains

GM’s 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV during a media launch event for the vehicle in Detroit, May 16, 2024. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT — Increases in sales of electric vehicles and small crossovers helped General Motors report slightly better-than-expected sales during the third quarter. The Detroit automaker reported a 2.2% drop in third-quarter sales compared … Read more

A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta’s suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert

A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta’s suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert

ATLANTA — Residents east of Atlanta were again warned to take shelter where they are on Tuesday if a chemical cloud moves over their neighborhood, as winds shifted the plume from a fire at a chemical plant. A shelter-in-place order had just ended Monday evening for more than 90,000 people closest to the chemical plant … Read more

DreamWorks Animation at 30: Painting a bright path forward with ‘The Wild Robot’

DreamWorks Animation at 30: Painting a bright path forward with ‘The Wild Robot’

Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked “The Wild Robot.” Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, the man behind beloved animated features from “Lilo & Stitch” to “How to … Read more

Impulse space startup raises $150 million, led by Founders Fund

Impulse space startup raises 0 million, led by Founders Fund

An Impulse employee works on assembling a Mira vehicle. Impulse Space Los Angeles-based space startup Impulse, which is led by renowned rocket specialist Tom Mueller, has raised $150 million in a new fundraising round led by venture capital firm Founders Fund. Impulse is scaling a product line of orbital transfer vehicles — colloquially known as … Read more