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An Amazon driver delivers packages in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images When Brandon Fishman ran a discount on his vitamin-infused coffee for Target‘s weeklong deals event, he wasn’t worried about how it would affect his business on Amazon. He certainly didn’t expect his sales there

US actor Alec Baldwin participates in a pretrial hearing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 8, 2024.  Ross D. Franklin | AFP | Getty Images A New Mexico judge on Friday dismissed the criminal involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on the third day of the actor’s trial, after ruling that prosecutors improperly kept

Wells Fargo on Friday reported a 9% decline in net interest income, even though its second-quarter earnings and revenue exceeded Wall Street expectations. Here’s what the bank did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.33 versus $1.29 cents expected Revenue: $20.69 billion versus $20.29 billion

President Joe Biden on Thursday said that nothing would make him reconsider his decision to remain in the 2024 presidential election contest unless polling data showed “there’s no way you can win.” “No one’s saying that,” Biden said in a stage whisper during a news conference in Washington, D.C. “No poll says that.” Biden’s statement

The monthly inflation rate dipped in June for the first time in more than four years, providing further cover for the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates later this year. The consumer price index, a broad measure of costs for goods and services across the U.S. economy, declined 0.1% from May, putting the 12-month

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testifies during a hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, May 15, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission is planning to sue three large U.S. health companies over their practices as middlemen who negotiate prices for medications such

People walk through a Manhattan mall on July 05, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — The number of global millionaires is set to keep rising over the next five years — with the U.K. a stark outlier, according to the 2024 Global Wealth Report from

President Joe Biden returns to the White House, July 7, 2024. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey on Tuesday became the latest Democratic lawmaker to publicly urge President Joe Biden to end his reelection bid and allow a new nominee to compete against former President Donald Trump. “When I think

Josh Silverman, CEO of Etsy. Adam Jeffery | CNBC When Etsy launched almost two decades ago, the site attracted artisans and craft makers, who finally had a place online where they could sell their niche products and reach a large audience. But in recent years, Etsy has found itself overrun with mass-produced, generic items from

The Republican Party’s platform committee on Monday adopted a plank drafted by aides to Donald Trump, whose new language softens the GOP’s prior stances on marriage and abortion while rattling off a series of utopian economic promises. Among those are vows to “end inflation,” make the U.S. a “manufacturing superpower” and deliver “large tax cuts

Rescuers work at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019. Mulugeta Ayene | Reuters Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud tied to the fatal 737 Max crashes, a decision that brands the U.S. aerospace giant a felon

Two Democrats with a powerful network of friends are circulating a proposal for President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 race and launch an expedited Democratic primary to choose a new nominee before the August convention. Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who previously served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations,

The U.S. economy again added slightly more jobs than expected in June though the unemployment rate increased, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 206,000 for the month, better than the 200,000 Dow Jones forecast though less than the downwardly revised gain of 218,000 in May, which was cut sharply from the initial

President Joe Biden speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at Sherman Middle School on July 05, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin.  Scott Olson | Getty Images President Joe Biden did not assuage Democratic anxieties about his 2024 reelection bid against former President Donald Trump during a highly-anticipated ABC News interview on Friday night, his first

Elon Musk attends “Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk” during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 – Day Three in Cannes, France, on June 19, 2024. Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Tesla’s stock price rose enough on Friday to wipe out its loss for the year

US President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 5, 2024. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden insisted Friday that his damaging debate performance against former President Donald Trump was just a “bad night,” and not an indication of a more serious health condition. “I was

A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023.  George Frey | Reuters Novo Nordisk investors appeared unperturbed Thursday by a critical Harvard report that linked weight loss drugs to a rare eye condition. Semaglutide, which is present in weight loss drugs including Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic

Patrick Bertoletti, Geoffrey Esper and other contestants compete in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York City, U.S., July 4, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Reuters There’s a new top dog in the frankfurter eating world. Patrick Bertoletti won Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, the

Job seekers attends the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair held at the Amerant Bank Arena on June 26, 2024 in Sunrise, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images With signs building that the labor market is at least slowing if not something worse, the June nonfarm payrolls report takes on added significance. Payroll gains so far

A Boeing 767 passenger aircraft of Delta Air Lines arrives from Dublin at JFK International Airport in New York as the Manhattan skyline looms in the background on Feb. 7, 2024. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Delta Air Lines pulled some meal options from dozens of international flights on Wednesday hours after the