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Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging retailers to stop "Grinch bots" that use sophisticated software to buy out the most popular toys of the season and sell them for a hefty markup on third-party sites.

The Buy Nothing Project encourages people to share without money changing hands. In five years it has spread around the world on Facebook with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.

More and more companies are pledging to cut carbon emissions. Many say they'll buy carbon offsets that save forests, but counting how much carbon is actually saved is fuzzy math.

Is Black Friday no longer a thing? Bloomberg retail columnist Shelly Banjo talks about Black Friday results and how shopping trends are changing.

What does it mean to be enrolled in Obamacare? The administration says nearly 27,000 people signed up for coverage through HealthCare.gov in the first month. But that number includes people who picked a plan but haven't made a payment yet. The insurance industry says someone is enrolled only after the first premium payment. Using that standard, the enrollment numbers would be even lower. But the law's defenders say it's unrealistic to expect enrollees to pay three months before their coverage begins.

Toy mogul Isaac Larian — whose L.O.L. Surprise was a huge hit in 2017 — has launched a $1 billion GoFundMe campaign to save the bankrupt retailer. "I will make Toys R Us a fun place again," he vows.

U.S. employers added just 245,000 jobs last month as the runaway pandemic continued to weigh on hiring. The unemployment rate fell to 6.7% from 6.9% in October.

Apple TV+ launches Friday, setting off a new round of competing streaming services, with Disney+ on Nov. 12 and HBO Max in May 2020.

The latest emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate show communications with a vast web of influential figures in politics, academia, business and more, even after he registered as a sex offender.

Many of those waiting to immigrate to the United States legally are hoping to join relatives already in America. But the system is so overwhelmed that some families, like the Lobos of the Philippines, end up being divided for years while they wait for visas to become available.