The ride-hailing giant’s background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.

For several months, we have been investigating sexual violence during Uber and Lyft rides, which is far more pervasive than publicly disclosed. Now, we need your help.

Our reporter, Emily Steel, found that in many states, Uber’s guidelines allow people with serious criminal convictions to drive, as long as those convictions are more than seven years old. Some of those drivers have gone on to sexually assault or harass passengers.

A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

Newport Beach-based Olen Properties paid top dollar among 2025 multifamily sales in Metro Atlanta for an Alpharetta apartment complex.
Olen purchased Magnolia at Milton, an upscale apartment complex at 13125 Morris Road, for $179.7M from Sherman Oaks, California-based IMT Residential, according to tax records filed in the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority database. 
Magnolia’s purchase price is some $29M more than the two previous top apartment sales in Metro Atlanta: Bell Partners’ acquisition of Rock Springs Village in Druid Hills in November and Cortland’s purchase of Cortland at Buckhead Village from Adam Neumann’s Flow earlier this year. Each of those properties traded for $150M,…

Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.

A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin.

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” took in $88 million over the weekend, a sizable No. 1 total that nonetheless fell 34 percent behind the opening for its franchise predecessor.

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.

Two high-profile crashes and a Trump administration crackdown have brought worry, and wariness, to the community.