Erica Werner

• Tech Policy

The law, sure to face a court challenge, imposes fines of $10,000 per day on any mobile app store making the app available, but would not fine individual users.

• Economic Policy

The 10 affected companies cannot market or distribute the merchandise in the U.S., and retailers who sell them risk an enforcement action.

• 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.