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The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., was taken into custody, local authorities said.

Wal-Mart's sales and profits took hits last year as the company closed stores, raised wages, cut prices and sweated out a warm December. But those same factors helped workers and shoppers.

Wal-Mart and Gap joined a Bangladesh factory safety group and were immediately criticized for not joining a more stringent pact made up of mostly European retailers. Wal-Mart says the agreement requires the inspection of all subcontractor factories within a year.

Over the strong objections of Wal-Mart, the City Council in Washington D.C. has approved a bill that would require some large retailers to pay workers a minimum of $12.50 an hour. The city's minimum wage is $8.25. Wal-Mart has threatened to scrap plans to open three stores in the city if the measure is signed by the mayor and becomes law.

Eleven people were stabbed at a Walmart in Traverse City on Saturday — with six in critical condition — in what a Michigan sheriff said appeared to be a random act.

Evidence shows dominant insurers hold down hospital prices. Big insurers seeking to get bigger want to take that idea to the extreme. Hospitals and doctors object.

The dog was waiting for its owners to return from the store, and the steering column was damaged in a way that made it easy for the dog to put the vehicle in drive.

Lawsuit alleges Walmart and the payments platform Branch Messenger cost delivery drivers millions of dollars in fees, opening deposit accounts without consent and requiring their use to get paid.

The world's largest retailer says it won't be able to absorb all the costs from higher tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China. Already in April, shoppers began tightening their budgets as retail spending did not grow much compared to March.

Bernie Sanders made a proposal on behalf of Walmart workers to the company's shareholders, another example of a tactic gaining steam this cycle: calling out big businesses on the campaign trail.