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How businesses strategically funnel cash toward political causes, what they hope to gain, and what they might be risking. Plus, the trucking industry braces for the impact of the dockworkers strike, and an antitrust case against Amazon moves forward.

Dockworkers from East and Gulf Coast ports enter the second day of a strike, with tensions centered around wages and automation. Plus, crude oil prices rise slightly amid escalating violence in the Middle East, and new car sales stall in response to high prices and interest rates.

From the BBC World Service: The San José is being hailed as the most valuable shipwreck in the world — it's a Spanish galleon which sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago. Now there’s a legal battle over who has a claim to the treasure, which is valued at £18 billion. Plus, global oil prices rise amid increasing tension in the Middle East.

We explore an existential threat in the Pacific Ocean.

Pam Smith, head of the nonpartisan group Verified Voting, explains that the practice of hand counting has waned because of the disruptions and delays it imposes on the effort to determine election results.

Immigration data is key to understanding the labor market.

Today: What's behind the longshoremen's strike and how truckers will take a hit. Also: Swedish candy goes viral.

"Megalopolis" is the latest original film — one that’s not a sequel or remake — to struggle to attract audiences to the theater.

The strike is impacting shipments of things like fresh food, cars and machinery.

From the BBC World Service: Garment workers in Bangladesh are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.