After Spirit Airlines collapse, budget fliers face a summer of pricier tickets

After Spirit Airlines collapse, budget fliers face a summer of pricier tickets

Days after Spirit Airlines shut down in the middle of the night, a lawyer for the defunct budget carrier stood before a bankruptcy judge and apologized to the price-conscious customers … Read more

Tom Steyer tries to sell voters on his own personal change

Tom Steyer tries to sell voters on his own personal change

Tom Steyer is trying to sell himself to voters as an agent of change. He has vowed to take on entrenched political and economic forces to create affordable housing, make … Read more

Julie Burton creates glass jewelry, ceramics by hand in her L.A. ADU

Julie Burton creates glass jewelry, ceramics by hand in her L.A. ADU

Just about every corner of Julie Burton’s Silver Lake studio is filled with sparkling glass jewelry — some real, some symbolic — and whimsical ceramic figures inspired by Midcentury Modern … Read more

Inside the AI compute crunch driving Google researchers to quit

Inside the AI compute crunch driving Google researchers to quit

In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, … Read more

Potential 2028 presidential candidates gather in L.A. for Democratic fundraiser

Potential 2028 presidential candidates gather in L.A. for Democratic fundraiser

Prominent Democratic governors, some considering 2028 presidential bids, gathered Thursday in Los Angeles for a high-dollar fundraiser. Tickets to attend the event cost up to $100,000, according to an invitation. … Read more

Big lenders finally swallow huge losses on distressed commercial real estate

Big lenders finally swallow huge losses on distressed commercial real estate

Commercial real estate lenders are done pretending. After years of waiting and hoping that the market would improve, they’re selling off debt on struggling US assets, sometimes writing down as … Read more

Trump moves to dismiss $10B suit over leak of tax returns after reports of a resolution

Trump moves to dismiss B suit over leak of tax returns after reports of a resolution

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns after reports that his administration was poised … Read more