Erica Werner

• Economic Policy

BMW this week issued a “Do Not Drive” warning for 90,000 vehicles built from 2000 to 2006. That came after federal regulators last week announced another recall for more than 230,000 Ford Rangers built from 2004 to 2006.

• Economy

The layoffs come on the heels of new rounds of job cuts at Facebook’s parent company Meta and at Whole Foods

• Economic Policy

Blocks from homeless communities, dozens of homes owned by the state highway authority are trapped in legal limbo and red tape

• Economic Policy

Montana’s legislature gave final approval on Friday to the nation’s first complete ban on TikTok operating in a state, sending a bill to the governor that would forbid sales of the app and bar it from operating in Montana.

• Economic Policy

State officials thought funding would last months for a home-buying program to provide qualified applicants with money for 20 percent down payments.

• Economic Policy

SF is one of several cities trying to revitalize their downtowns by turning abandoned offices into homes, a nice idea that is tricky in practice.

• Economic Policy

Economists at Stanford, University of Southern California, Columbia and Northwestern found that because of rising interest rates hurting the value of certain assets such as bonds, U.S. banks hold $2 trillion less in assets than they appear to have on paper.

• Tech

The video sharing service said it weighed the “continued risk of real-world violence” and Trump’s entrance into the 2024 presidential election.

• Tech

Google had sought to move the litigation over its advertising business to New York, where related cases pending against the company have been consolidated.