The Weinstein Company lives to fight another day. An investor group reached a last-minute deal to buy its assets, just days after the company had filed for bankruptcy. The deal is worth $500 million, and leading the sale is President Obama's former head of the Small Business Administration, Maria Contreras Sweet. The sale had previously been held up after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil suit against the Weinstein company.
REI is adding its name to the growing list of companies changing course because of the Parkland shooting.
The outdoor retailer is ending its relationship with Vista Outdoor. Vista owns a number of different brands that REI sells in its stores, such as Camelbak and Bell, but it also owns Savage Arms, a company that makes guns. After learning that Vista Outdoor would not make a statement about its gun policy, REI announced it would stop working with Vista.
Fox will finally air its "If I Did It" interview with OJ Simpson, more than a decade after taping it. The previously scrapped piece was taped in 2006 while Simpson was promoting a book detailing how he would have committed the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The Brown and Goldman families are now granting the network permission to air it, since Simpson won't profit off it in any way.
Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for five years over allegations that a surveillance system it used incorrectly identified potential shoplifters, especially Black, Latino, Asian or female shoppers.
The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots says it reached a new contract agreement in principle with the airline following three years of negotiations.
U.S. Bank has been hit with a $36 million fine for freezing debit cards that distributed unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
Construction of new homes rose by double digits in November, according to data from the Commerce Department.
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Stocks opened lower after the opening bell and on track for its first decline in 10 days after a recent winning streak.
Tesla drivers in the U.S. were in more accidents than drivers of any other car brand this year, according to a study.
The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs.
Monsanto was ordered to pay $857 million to students and parent volunteers at a Washington school.
A federal judge has struck down hundreds of lawsuits filed against the makers of Tylenol and generic acetaminophen.
