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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the «Terminator» star and former Republican governor of California, endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday as the only way to «turn the page» on Donald Trump's divisiveness. The former bodybuilder, 77, said that while he had issues with both major parties, Trump's rhetoric calling the United States «a trash can for the world» had made him «furious.» With just days until the November 5 election, Schwarzenegger becomes the latest of dozens of prominent former Republican officials — including former vice president Dick Cheney — to endorse the Democratic candidate for president over Trump.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Starbucks is stepping up efforts to enforce its return-to-office mandate with a warning: Comply with the policy or risk termination. The company will be instituting an “accountability process" in January to ensure corporate employees comply with requirements to work in the office three days a week, according to an internal message obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire

A federal appeals court says the National Labor Relations Board was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options

Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in one of two lawsuits filed Monday of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York City hotel room in 2005.The second lawsuit accuses the jailed hip-hop mogul of similarly assaulting a 17-year-old would-be contestant on the reality television series Making the Band in 2008.The lawsuits filed in state Supreme Court in New York are the latest in a wave of lawsuits in which accusers allege they were sexually assaulted by Combs at parties and meetings over the last two decades.Combs’ lawyers denied the two new claims Monday and accused the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, who also represents accusers in earlier lawsuits, of seeking publicity.“Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process,” an emailed statement said.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger inherited a troubled company that had lost its edge in manufacturing skills and had ceded to rivals the hugely lucrative markets for chips used in mobile phones and artificial intelligence. 1968 — Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel, helping reshape California's Santa Clara Valley from fruit orchards into the Silicon Valley tech hub. 1971 — Intel introduces the 4004, the world's first commercially made programmable microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors. These were among the first chips that could be programmed to perform specific functions, unlike previous processors that were hardwired only for a certain task — a turning point in the history of the semiconductor industry that laid the groundwork for the development of CPUs.

Former President Trump addresses questions from Georgia women voters during an exclusive town hall on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’

McDonald's says testing has ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E

The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh straight year to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines

President Joe Biden has slammed Elon Musk for hypocrisy on immigration after a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked illegally in the United States

Washington Post reported on Saturday that South African-born billionaire businessman Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States during a brief period in the 1990s while building a startup company. The news outlet reported that Musk arrived in Palo Alto, California, in 1995 to attend Stanford University but never enrolled in his graduate studies program there. Instead, he developed software company Zip2, which sold in 1999 for around $300 million, according to the outlet. Two immigration law experts quoted by the Post said Musk would have needed to be enrolled in a full course of study in order to maintain a valid work authorization as a student.

Alex Buljan, a White House replica in Hillsborough, California, sold for $23 million just in time for the presidential election. The approximately 24,400-square-foot house outside of San Francisco, dubbed the Western White House, sold for $38.9 million in June 2023, as quoted in a report by The Wall Street Journal. Mehrdad Elie, a real estate investor, and his wife, Neda Elie, were the sellers. In 2022, they paid $15 million for the property. A request for comment on the sale was not answered by the Elies.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott details the states stock exchange venture to rival Wall Street, the impact of the immigration crisis on jobs and his vow to eliminate Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the state.

richest cat, with a whopping net worth of $100 million (approximately Rs 839,000 crores), according to her Cats.com. But how did Nala is so rich? Read on to find about the world's richest cat.

A California-based produce company is the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E

Union Pacific’s third-quarter profit grew 9% as West Coast imports surged and drove the railroad’s total volume up 6%

The unions representing more than 7,000 CVS workers in Southern California have reached a tentative agreement on a contract

Bahnsen Group managing partner David Bahnsen discusses market volatility and analyzes the real estate market on The Big Money Show.

For very good reasons, most banks discourage people from talking about politics on the trading floor or in the office.  Even more than sports, religion or Bitcoin, it’s an area where really destructive bad blood can be created in a very short space of time.  Jamie Dimon knows this as well as anyone, having had to quickly apologize for making some ill-considered remarks about the Chinese Communist Party in his time.  So it’s unsurprising that, despite his normal willingness to talk about issues of the day, he has a firm policy of never endorsing Presidential candidates.

Walmart has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California officials that alleged the retail giant illegally dumped hazardous waste