US Business

Chicken processor Pilgrim’s Pride said it has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve price-fixing charges, and will pay a fine of $110.5 million.

Apple will stop including chargers with the new iPhone 12 models. That’s good news. Time to invest in a single charger that can power up a phone faster—and even handle all your gadgets at once.

The coffee chain said it would mandate antibias training for executives and link their compensation to increasing minority representation in its workforce, becoming the latest company to set fresh diversity goals.

AMC Entertainment Holdings may be out of cash by the end of the year if it doesn’t raise additional funds or if attendance doesn’t improve from current lows during the coronavirus pandemic, the company said.

Columnist Joanna Stern put the four new iPhone 12 models side by side with three older models still on sale, and cut through the confusion to help consumers decide which one to choose.

As production resumes during the pandemic, fear of contagion is changing everything about making television. Producers are avoiding scenes with crowds, guest stars or intimacy between characters, wherever possible. “Are we crazy to be doing this?”

Johnson & Johnson hopes to know within days whether it can resume testing its Covid-19 vaccine, although executives said they know little about the illness that prompted a pause in the clinical trials.

The aerospace giant said that it didn’t win any new orders in September and delivered only 11 aircraft, weighed by the continued grounding of the MAX, weak demand for its wide-body planes and production problems affecting its 787 Dreamliner.

The company says an independent committee is reviewing the subject’s illness, and it will review the medical information before deciding whether to restart the studies.

The changes aim to give priority to Disney’s streaming video businesses, creating new units that will produce content for digital and traditional platforms, in a shift echoing similar moves by other entertainment giants.