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Jamie Caffrey is the owner of 2014 VW Jetta TDI Sportwagen that is part of the buyback program and is still waiting on his money.

Some VW customers are still waiting for their buybacks, 4 months after court approval

June 5, 2018 at 8:59 p.m.

Some Volkswagen owners say they're still waiting to complete their buybacks, almost four months after a judge approved a settlement for 2-liter diesel vehicles that were part of the automaker's...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Two New York men charged in alleged Ponzi scheme for ‘Hamilton’ tickets

August 21, 2019 at 9:54 p.m.

Two New York men have been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in what the agency described as a "Hamilton" ticket-resale...

The SpaceX launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida was damaged after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded in September.

SpaceX says failure of helium storage tank caused September rocket explosion

August 21, 2019 at 9:32 p.m.

Four months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX has determined that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid...

Holiday shoppers at the Citadel Outlets in Los Angeles, Calif., on Black Friday.

Mobile shopping is quick and convenient. So why hasn’t it killed Black Friday yet?

March 29, 2019 at 10:13 a.m.

Two years ago on Black Friday, Justin Blankenship and his wife woke up at 4 a.m. to drive to Bed Bath & Beyond. Being first in the line, they assumed,...

President-elect Donald Trump gives a speech next to Vice President-elect Mike Pence on election night.

Donald Trump’s views on business issues, in his own words

June 9, 2018 at 3:14 a.m.

Donald Trump built his campaign on his experience in the business world, framing his outsider candidacy as the antidote needed to cure what he described as an ailing economy. But...

A pedestrian walks past a Wells Fargo branch in Oakland.

Wells Fargo will pay $50 million to settle allegations it overcharged homeowners for appraisals

March 29, 2019 at 5:48 a.m.

Wells Fargo & Co. reached a $50-million settlement this week with homeowners who alleged that the bank marked up home appraisal fees for borrowers who defaulted on their residential loans....

New rules on small drones kick in today: What you need to know

August 21, 2019 at 7:53 p.m.

For companies that want to use small drones, a new era began Monday. That’s when rules kicked in that free them from having to request special permission from the federal...

Tesla said to be under investigation by SEC for failing to disclose fatal crash

August 21, 2019 at 7:08 p.m.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating Tesla Motor Co. for possibly breaking securities law by failing to disclose that one of its drivers had died while using the...

Patrick Soon-Shiong hugs Kobe Bryant before a Lakers game against the Toronto Raptors in 2013. Soon-Shiong owns a minority stake in the team.

Is billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Tribune Publishing’s white knight?

June 10, 2018 at 2:48 p.m.

Patrick Soon-Shiong has developed a reputation for big ideas. His boldest mission is to fix the healthcare system and turn cancer into a treatable condition using super computers, genomics and...

The final frontier: cheap space travel

June 24, 2019 at 1:56 a.m.

Coming on the heels of a couple of revolutionary rocket landings by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., was abuzz last week with talk...

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