Oil tycoon and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens died on Wednesday at his home in Dallas. He was 91. Family and friends surrounded him at his death, which occurred by natural causes, his spokesman Jay Rosser said.

Attorneys general from every state are working with 12 major telecom companies to tackle a truly bipartisan issue: the nuisance of robocalls. The number of automated phone calls in the United States rose to 48 billion in 2018, and the Federal Communications Commission receives more than 200,000 complaints per year about unwanted calls.

New York City’s higher minimum wage is hurting some of those it was meant to help. Small businesses suffering from having to pay employees $15 an hour, which went into effect Dec. 31, are cutting work shifts and limiting overtime to compensate. Susannah Koteen, owner of Lido Restaurant in Harlem, told The Wall Street Journal, “You can only cut back so many people before the service starts to suffer.”

Food tampering gained national attention this summer when a video of a girl opening and licking a tub of ice cream and putting it back in the grocery store freezer went viral. Now a US Foods survey says some food delivery workers are guilty of sampling their customer’s food. More than a quarter of the workers surveyed—from Uber Eats, Grub Hub, Door Dash, and Postmates—admitted they had helped themselves to a delivery order.

The credit reporting bureau Equifax has agreed to pay $700 million and potentially more to the U.S. government and to states over a 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and private information of nearly 150 million Americans. Under the settlement, Equifax will initially pay nearly $400 million into a special fund to cover costs related to potential identity theft and other damages. The company’s total payout could dramatically increase from there, potentially into the billions.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday that the nation’s employers added 224,000 jobs in the month of June, despite concerns about a slower economy after a disappointing report in May. The increase beat projections by Bloomberg economists, who had predicted a 160,000 job gain.

Lee Iacocca, the former CEO of Chrysler who pulled the struggling company back from the brink of failure, has died. He was 94. Two former Chrysler executives who worked with Iacocca said a close associate of the family told them Tuesday of his death at his home in Bel Air, Calif. Iacocca had battled Parkinson’s disease in recent years, but former Chrysler company spokesman Bud Liebler said he didn’t know what caused his death.