Washington Times - Business

• Mattel plans to raise prices on some toys to offset tariff costs

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 48

  Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels cars and other popular toys, said Monday that it would have to raise prices for some products...

• Ann Telnaes, who quit Washington Post in protest, wins Pulitzer for 'fearlessness' in commentary

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 74

  A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest early this year after editors killed her sketch criticizing the Post...

• Florida jury awards man $3M for defective airbag that caused serious injury during crash

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 42

  A South Florida jury has awarded $3 million to a man who was severely injured by a defective airbag in a 2020 crash.

• D.C. mayor proposes repealing tipped-wage increases to save city's restaurant scene

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 46

  D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed Monday a repeal of the District's new minimum wage law for tipped workers, which she said is suffocating the...

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• Federal investigators say a utility wasn't marked before a deadly natural gas explosion in Missouri

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 65

  A deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas...

• OpenAI reverses course and says its nonprofit will continue to control its business

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 55

  After months spent pursuing a plan to convert itself into a for-profit business, OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will...

• Army pausing helicopter flights near Washington airport after close calls

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 65

  The Army is pausing helicopter flights near a Washington airport after two commercial planes had to abort landings last week because of an Army...

• 'Build, baby, build': Burgum warns that more data centers needed to win technological arms race

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 60

  Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is pushing for the construction of new data centers to fuel the nation's artificial intelligence ambitions in...

• An overwhelming majority of Americans don't want Trump tax cuts to expire

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 44

  A majority of Americans don't support raising taxes, according to a new poll, which also bodes well for support of President Trump's plans to cut...

• OpenAI reverses course and says its nonprofit will continue to control its business

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 42

  After months spent pursuing a plan to convert itself into a for-profit business, OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will...

• Trump has booted 11,000 IRS employees so far, and counting

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 24

  President Trump has given buyouts or tried to terminate employment of more than 11,000 people at the IRS, with a disproportionate share of those...

• Trump's economy is one big power play, not just the pieces, Bessent says urging investor patience

  6-5-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 44

  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told investors Monday that President Trump's economic agenda is "more than the sum of its parts," pointing to...