Chris Isidore

The price of diesel, the workhorse fuel that powers the world economy, topped $6 a gallon on Friday for the first time ever.

Linda French was hoping to visit her elderly brother, who is recovering from hip surgery, and her little great-nieces and nephews in New York this summer. But stubbornly high gas prices left her unable to afford to drive hundreds of miles from her Jonesborough, Tennessee home. Meanwhile, flying is also out of reach — the flight she took in March more than doubled in price just a few months later.

Nothing is more important to Tesla than its ambitious plan for self-driving “robotaxis.” But even as it hosts an event for its Cybercab service Thursday, it still has a long way to catch up to the competition in an industry where few have made any money at all.

Inexpensive new cars are becoming tougher and tougher to find

There’s a lawsuit alleging that the company that bought the fuel for Freedom Fuel Network did not pay for $4 million worth of gasoline it purchased from a supplier last month.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says there need to be significant limits placed on artificial intelligence or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good.

It’s still August. Temperatures are in the 90s for much of the country. But Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte is back in stores.

The Los Angeles Lakers, the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, a chunk of the New York Yankees. Teams are turning over at a rapid pace, driving the values to stratospheric heights.

President Donald Trump’s threat of 50% auto tariffs on all imports from Canada is just the latest action to rattle an industry that’s endured shifting trade rules since he returned to office.

Higher gas prices cut into Americans’ overall spending, leading to the slowest sales growth at Walmart’s US stores since the earliest months of the pandemic.