Mortgage rates moved slightly higher this week but have remained relatively steady in recent weeks, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said on Thursday. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average interest rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.49%, up from last week’s reading…

Costco has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that one of the products it sells contains “dangerous” levels of heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and cadmium. The lawsuit centers on Orgain protein powders, including the Vanilla Bean and Creamy Chocolate Fudge varieties, which are marketed in stores and…

A California city is weighing a ban on drive-throughs after some residents expressed concern that a proposed In-N-Out could hurt air quality, worsen traffic and create safety issues for pedestrians and cyclists. The City Council in Culver City, California, passed a 45-day moratorium last month to prohibit permits for new…

President Trump gave three brilliant speeches over July 4th weekend. First at the freedom and faith convention, then at Mount Rushmore, and then on July 4th on the National Mall at Washington D.C. He emphasized two large-scale thoughts. First, America’s greatness both past, present and future. And second, godless communism…

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra detailed the company’s new $250 billion U.S. investment as the chip-making giant responds to surging demand for memory storage in the age of artificial intelligence. The Boise-based technology company announced Thursday the billion-dollar investment will help Micron’s long-term objective of producing 40% of its DRAM chips…

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a new enterprise offering called ChatGPT Work, which is designed to leverage the popular chatbot to carry out and automate workplace tasks across a variety of applications and files. ChatGPT Work is powered by OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5.6, and is capable of…

More than 2.5 million bottles of a prescription steroid eye medication are being recalled nationwide after the Food and Drug Administration classified the action as a Class II recall over concerns about foreign material found in the product. Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. voluntarily recalled 2,530,182 bottles of prednisolone acetate ophthalmic suspension…

Kia is issuing a new recall of more than 460,000 vehicles over a fire risk after an earlier recall affecting the same vehicles failed to resolve the problem, according to federal regulators. The recall affects 462,869 Kia Telluride vehicles from the model years 2020-2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…

President Donald Trump is returning from the annual NATO summit in Turkey having secured several deals involving allies investing in U.S. defense companies and moving to expand production in Europe. The White House on Thursday released a fact sheet outlining $3 billion in deals and joint ventures involving U.S. defense…

San Francisco pet owners are set to lose access to one of the pet care industry’s biggest brands with the upcoming closure of the city’s lone PetSmart location. PetSmart’s store located in the City Center shopping center on Geary Blvd. is set to close on July 19, according to a…